9th Generations games are starting to look too sharpened graphically.

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Leynos said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

We need a whole thread on graphics trends that were meant to be cutting-edge but in hindsight are awful.

Outside of Chromatic Aberration and Bloom Lighting (latter is dead thankfully) what else is there?

Film grain. - Just muddies the image.
Lens flare. - Unrealistic and often intrusive.
Ambient occlusion. - Gives assets a floaty look.
Motion Blur. - Exception is quality per-object motion blur done tastefully.
Morphological Anti-Aliasing. - Pixel shader based that blurs the edges of polygons. It's shit.