What's the point of motion blur?

>>384670450
To make a still image look like it's moving at very hihg speed.

make things seem fast

>>384670450
In video games? To help display motion/speed while running at a low framerate.

>>384670450
saves some performance

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>>384670450
Covering up your mistakes.

To mask how bad movement of the camera feels in PS4 games.

>Muh consoles.

Crysis introduced it

>>384670742
Man Crysis was such a great game even though it was pretty short and handholding

>>384670450
to hide the garbage performances of consoles and be more "cinematic"

motion blur is a way to make low frame rates less insufferable

It looks cool. If it's done properly.

>>384672578
It's just nausea-inducing.

>>384673232
That's what babies said about Quake the first time they played it. You're just weak.

>>384670450
To blur the motions of life so it'll all seem like it passed in a blink of an eye when you're on your deathbed

What's the point of lens flare?

>>384670742
Wasn't it in Vice City?

>>384673341
muh realism

>>384673376
But lens flare isn't a real thing that actually occurs in real life.

>>384673341
To make it more cinematic.

>>384670450
To make 30fps look smooth.

>>384673403
I always thought lens flare was considered a flaw in cinema that film makers saw as a hurdle to overcome.

>>384673640
Vidya devs aren't that smart to realise that though.

>>384673341
To keep JJ Abrams in work.

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Tell me, what looks better?
This...

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...or this?

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>>384673797
Top, but how about some comparisons where you move the camera around looking at stuff?

>>384670450
Your eyes have motion blur, so in theory you can disguise low frame rate with motion blur.
But in practice you still get some weird overlaps on your eyes and you can notice the motion blur is a fakery.

Also camera motion blur, specially in first person games is unrealistic, because your eyes combat the motion blur naturally by the means of object tracking and post processing, and well, if your eyes can't eliminate the blur that way, your brain will notice and shot all sorts of red alerts.

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>>384673708
And Gamers aren't smart enough to realize it can be used for style. Check out this watchtower spotlight. Its gaze looks a lot more menacing and ominous with lens flair.

>>384673887
depends if you focus.

>>384674220
If you don't focus or focus on a cursor on the middle of the screen, you get a satisfying result.
But as soon your eyes try to track something on screen, everything fucks up.

>>384673640
It looks neat, it has become an intentional stylistic choice in cinema as well