Motion blur and other anoying effects

[NeonSamurai]

Time for a little general rant (not aimed at a specific game but in general).

I don't know about the rest of you but motion blur effects and other effects in games drive me nuts. I see them as being utterly pointless.

For one thing my eyes are perfectly able to blur fast moving things on my monitor naturally. I don't need a game adding to it. Second its usually so seriously over done so that the entire world becomes an unrecognizable mess the moment you turn a corner, or spin the camera around.

This brings me to camera motion blur, where the view blurs when you move the camera. Does your vision ever blur when you turn your head? So why on earth are they making cameras blur. And with fast camera motion our eyes will blur the image naturaly.

I have to say im getting sick of all these gimick display effects which don't make the game look better or more real, but make it worse and ugly. The realy bad ones even make my eyes hurt or can give me a headache after a while. Worse stilll is those games where you can't even turn them off. On top of it these stupid effects waste computer resources and cost frame rate. I wish devs would stop bothering with this crap which doesnt make the game look better, but worse, and stop adding things that we already do naturaly.

Anyhow rant done