sc94597 said:
Since there is no dictionary definiton that applies to image quality of video games and movies I can't appeal to that. However, I will say that the overwhelming majority of people when speaking of a video game, define image quality as the level of degredation in the image, caused by artifacts and resolution. That is how Digital Foundry uses it, that is how most people on gaming forums use it, and that is how developers use it. Often you see disusssion about the tradeoff between "image quality" and "other graphical features." There a plethora of articles about this. I can't think of a single other time I've seen it refer to all graphical features, as you seem to use it. |
That may be your experience, the majority of comments I've seen use Image Quality in reference to how the picture looks, that would include anything relates to the the visuals of a game.
I disagree regarding Digital Foundry's use of the term Image Quality, they use it as a blanket term to cover everything related to how the game ends up looking.
Anyway we can agree to disagree on this, I think Image Quality is a perfectly fitting term to describe the visuals of a game or version of a game on a particular platform & it's clear from the context in which I use it what my meaning is when I use it.