^^^Everything having a glassy sheen is congruent with HD too, but I barely mind that at all, just noticed.......

I haven't read a lot of the thread, but I suspect that the lack of color in HD games comes from developers trying to produce games that look more "Realistic" and are "Gritty" ... Many of these games are probably drawing a lot of inspiration from movies like Aliens which (generally speaking) are very dark and don't offer much color.

Personally, if I was creating a game with these city scapes that had been destroyed generations before (like so many games seem to have) there would be lots of plant life taking over the city (including flowers of various colors) because it works as a decent metaphore, and creates an interesting juxtaposition.

LOL even vgcatz is even agreeing with me. Vgcatz was still not funny and entertaining though.

It's not an attempt to go more realistic, it' an attempt to go more cinematic. Many gritty (and come that aren't) movies use Bleach Bypassing to create a desaturated, bleak feel. These movies are often color coded, such that the light is hinted with green, or blue, or orange, or whathaveyou (though for a number of reasons those are the three easiest colors to tint light with). Saving Private Ryan, for example, or Black Hawk Down, for another, contain incredibly desaturated colors. Most war movies do. Thus war games trying to go for that cinematic style (and don't let game developers tell you they're all bout realism. Bullshit, when they say that they're almost always going for realism with a cinematic boost) are "gray" with a certain color to them. MGS4 looks to have it too, according to the footage I've seen.

 If I was someone who could post pictures, id go with one of those Halo pictures with the 50 different neon colored space marines shooting so many brightly colored weapons that it looks like a Neo Cons acid trip.

I think naznatips and jalsonmi have ended this thread.

Incidentally, Kotaku had an article about that recently:

http://kotaku.com/5010857/whatever-happened-to-color

i don't agree at all about all hd games having grey, or rather, dull colours.. however the ones that do completely ruin the beauty of the game for me.. if they can do the modeling and animations so well, at least hire someone with artistic capacity to add some colour to it

i thought you was asking "Why HD console games are SO GAY"

and yes, i think they are afraid to use colours, because it makes the game looks kiddy.

I haven't noticed any grays in my games, I've noticed alot of browns and greys, though.