Leave my Eyes Alone 7! Terrible Graphics And Visuals
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2023
- WARNING: This video may cause seizures.
Many times, I hear people say that graphics don't matter and that only gameplay counts towards making a game great. I disagree with this.
There are some games out there with such graphical problems, it can seriously spoil the experience. Today, I'm taking a look at the games that will test the faith of even the most devout "gameplay whores". Wow, never thought I'd say that. Except for the other six previous times, of course.
Find out why you shouldn't trust the ground or the sky, how even the prettiest of movies can become the ugliest games or why shining a light into someone's eyes is a bad idea that some missed the memo for.
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I will never understand why old games like flashing graphics so much.
They all came out before that one episode of Pokemon that gave children seizures
CRT TVs displayed them differently. They were still seizure inducing, but they weren't as bad as they are with modern LCD/LED screens thanks to how field blanking and electron beam drawing on the phosphor worked.
Because the effects look cool.
Many older games are console versions of arcade games, which are designed to constantly flash big lights to draw attention. Also in the flight game that's one of the only ways to convey movement with that level of graphics.
@@VulpesHilarianus Really? I think they are much worse on a CRT since it can light up a dark room a LOT more than an LCD
Those music levels in Rayman are kinda like any super hard fight in a game. They're cool to look at, but actually controlling them will totally ruin you
Especially if they are the 8bit versions
Than again i think some of the invasion levels are worse in my opinion especially infiltration station
Well I just sweep through the stage endlessly to hear the 8 bit forms over and over while farming Lum lums
Unless you have experience with rhythm games that screw your vision a lot, like rhythm heaven, or... Not, idk
I would just skip to mario maker rhythm level if I can
12:42 As someone who had Toy Story for the Game Boy, the music is indeed garbage so you aren't missing out on anything
The Ristar Lava thing might be if you used to play the game on an old CRT/TV; it might have looked more subtle by the quality in the same way those weird water stripes in Sonic 1 look like that since the CRT quality would blend the pixels...making those look like a transparent waterfall instead.
Though it wouldn't be surprising if even with an CRT or CRT filter that amount of flashing still looks terrible
Also, so many old arcade light gun games suffer from flashing white at the screen every time you shoot :(
I think when it comes to the old Light Gun games it wasn't a matter of just style as much as functionality.
The flash was actually an ingenious way of simplifying the details on screen so the light gun could instantly detect the details of the shot as quickly as possible. Like a camera or the Wiimote if you were actually holding the infrared sensor instead of the controller.
Same thing might apply to the clouds in Outrun and others...
Edit: Also worth noting a lot of GB, GBC and GBA games used flickering for effects purpose because of the screen's natural Ghosting or Motion Blur. Trip World made sprites flicker when underwater to give the impression of the water overlaying them, Batman Return of the Joker used this on Stage 1 to make the water translucent and wave back and forth, Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge had the distant mountains in Sky Castle flickering to look like they were farther than they seem...
And in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow the flickering complements some effects, such as making the Giant Ghost soul look like it's properly overlaying Soma.
As for arcade rail shooters, flashing white was part of a mechanic to check whether the player scored a shot or not. IDR the specifics, but think of the NES Zapper
@@jettvalen7326 Basically, the screen blacks out (essentially a verification check to prevent the light bulb exploit) and flashes bright white squares on targets, all in a very small fraction of a second, hence the flash.
Also, true opacity wasn't a thing until the 32-bit era. Of the most popular image formats, only png has true opacity. Flashing was used to create the illusion (Except in Super Mario World where the tides had a transparent checkerboard across them)
@@WiimeiserOr very basic color math. Or even lookup tables.
6:08 Something I just noticed from this level is that the flaming oil drums is usually placed right next to the edge of the floor, so if you do want to ignore Squawks, you technically still had a good clue where to land.
EDIT: Btw, what's interesting about the 8-bit Music Level is that there's no checkpoint. So you have to start at the beginning of the level everytime you failed. Fortunately, if you do have the levels memories, it's as easy as pie.
I think Dishonoured 2's big problem is that it's always overexposed. There's no balance to the contrasting. Things lit with candles or gas lights are almost white while being surrounded in near absolute darkness, and things lit with electric lights or daylight are so washed out it becomes difficult to judge depth.
Yeah, after watching git's gameplay it's easy to see what the problem is. All the brights are too bright, and all the darks are too dark.
For those wondering, Star Fox 64's rainbow laser effect was changed to a purple-white gradient color instead.
'*EXPLOSIONS!* A film by Michael Bay!'
Real-life explosions can blind if you look at them (I guess that's why cool people don't), and it can be tricky to make a suitably dramatic explosion in a game without some eyestrain.
Obscured vision simply isn’t a fun game mechanic, at least in most circumstances. I don’t get why developers haven’t realized this yet.
I get the feeling with dishonored 2, tho idk how to explain it either
It's like one of those rooms, not too bright and not too dark, but the setting is enough to make you feel like forcing your eyes to see well
Its the shadow contrast. The shadows are way too dark in the bright enviroments. In most games, like in reality shadows are much less dark in the brighter places. The complexity of the scenes increases amount of different shadows that definitely should not be as dark as they are. The contrast makes your brain go haywire as it tries to make sense of the scene and it can't, so you get the feeling of being visually overwhelmed.
@21:51 Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is another "3D but plays in 2D" game. The camera has some attention put into it, and rarely swings back and forth too hard.
Omg that Toy Story port was a hate crime.
Something about the 90s Disney movie games and crappy ports on the Game Boy, lemme tell ya. Lion King was just as awful. DK Land did just fine with SNES-esque graphics on the Game Boy (mostly), so why not here? :v
I agree with Git: games made specifically with Game Boy limitations in mind looked great. Super Mario Land 2, Metroid 2, Pokemon in general, Link's Awakening and the Zelda Oracle of __ games... the list goes on.
@@raziyatheseeker Your second point is just the basic understanding really. In other word "work with what you have". Porting to gameboy is like asking to port switch game to 3ds.
Oh my god the blinking when turning on DKC drove me insane.
The Contra spinning sand made me motion sick, that is horrendous. My heart goes out to all the gamers who lost their meals to that level.
Also for the Dishonored 2 segment - I didn't notice any difference between the low and ultra quality comparisons, although I'm willing to concede that may be because my body was still recovering from the Contra nightmare. Yeesh.
Edit: If they make more Rayman music levels like that last one I will personally find the Ubisoft CEO just to throw up on his shoes.
I always led the laser in circles instead of hiding in the corner of the screen, so I didn’t understand what people were talking about until now. Ow!
Rayman Legends was a disappointing game to me not necessarily, because of the quantity (although that had it's factors), but more so variety. I love the game and all, but I can't help but feel things get a bit bland after awhile. The gameplay is so simple that I doubt they could've stretched it out any longer even if they tried!
It's got a shiny new coat and even more refined flow; however, it matters very little when levels, themes and characters all blend together.
Oh boy! I wonder what horrors await my eyes today!
I adamantly defend the visual effects of the Rayman Legends 8-bit music stages. They make the already-fun stages even more fun and I wish you could play the original songs with them. I _like_ that they force you to rely on learning the song and playing to the beat instead of the visuals. *That's the entire point of rhythm games!* I also personally don't find any of them to be eyesores at all. I think they all look cool. I love how they make the stages look like music videos and I object to the notion that they look "overly-edited." I _love_ how the final stage used all of them and quickly switched them up like that. It was just so damn _satisfying_ to beat the stage by forgoing what I see and focusing on the song and, again, I genuinely love how it looked.
Anyway, I thank you for putting the entirety of the stage in the video. It was a very nice trip down memory lane.
I genuinely didn't find them as hard as I though I would, because the music was a great indicator and the effects only got really obnoxious once a move was in motion or about to be.
Hard disagree.
100% agree!
Hard disagree - if you put visuals in a game, they better look good.
I had the same effect Dishonored 2 had on you with Crash 4. Something about how that game looked, while gorgeous, exhausted me.
That starfox laser boss teleports really similarly to the final boss from Kirby's Planet Robot...
i am lucky to be borderline immune to flashing lights
I have a suggestion for episode 8 - what about Saturn's Black Hole in Mega Man World 5? When he uses it he makes the screen go all star-power!
I don't know who you are, but you are my new favorite person because of the Age of Empires sound affect at the beginning
Ah yes, the 8-bit music levels. The worst of them is Orchestral Chaos. The static can make the level unbearable to watch, and it was so bad originally that it had to be _toned down_ in the Switch release. Despite that, the static still exists in Granny World Tour.
0n Dishonored 2... I think it might be the overuse of color contrast. Ultra-darks against ultra-brights.
I think the reason that Dishonored 2 and some other other games, that people mentioned in the comments are painfull not only beause of contrast and blur, but also because they are... very yellow, so to speak. Everyone knows that bright red is painfull to the eyes. But bright yellow is close in spectrum, about just as painfull to look at. I would think, this must be the main reason. Now that I think about it, I hated Test Drive Unlimited 2 compare to first one. Just from setting you can say, that first game (being set in Hawaii) has a lot of green. But second game (Ibiza island), is indeed very yellow. TDU2 also has Oahu from first game, but by then my whole mood was ruined.
for some reason grannies world tour 8-bit was EASIER for me than the orchestral chaos 8-bit, think it comes down to the effect annoying me more than the smorgasboard but no clue
A little bit unrelated, but I was born on April 3rd 1999 and had a brother who was about three years older than me, so our Window XP computer had an assortment of games ported from consoles from the mid to late 90s. The last time I saw a lot of these games was when I was like, four, in 2003. I have not touched nor seen any of the games since. I don't even know their fucking names, so I could never even hope to find them.
This is the first time in nearly 20 years that I've seen that Toy Story game, and like.. God, it's so surreal, suddenly remembering so many details about a game that you forgot you knew even existed. Honestly, for a while, I was somewhat convinced that the game I vaguely remembered DIDN'T exist, and I was just misremembering details of Toy Story 2 for the PS1, which was in a similar spot until I saw it again last year. This is even more surreal though, since I don't remember playing this one quite as much as I did TS2. Thanks for making me have an existential crisis, Git!
Was anyone else expecting The House of the Dead to appear on this?
4:14 You know that quote from Jurassic Park about could and should? THAT.
... What is WRONG with that Rayman level??? I stopped the series after Rayman 2, so I didn't expect to see... something like THAT... It gave me motion sickness just by looking at it in this video...
my smile disappeared when you said your opinion about rayman legends, but now i agree with you, that TV effect thing made me dizzy
i dont remember commenting this what the fuck
SMB3 Bob-Omb explosions
Actually yeah, holy crap. Those stars whizz by too fast. I get wanting to do something unique, but I'd take SMB2's cartoony "BOOM" over that. :v
That Grannies level gets absurd the longer you play it.
Ok, if you ever play Megaman X command mission, it is a good game, but every time someone gets hit, the screen flashes. I own the gamecube version, but the PS2 version doesn't flash. Yes, I checked a minute ago.
I don't mind brief screen flashes or colorful attacks, but I will point out the Volcano-themed levels in Super Monkey Ball 2, which have bright and busy backgrounds which make focusing on the rolling difficult.
I am so glad I never bought Rayman Legends now. What were they thinking!?
4:30 Please tell me i'm not the only one who sees the cars going backwards
That's how being fast works
I probably shouldn't have watched this video while really tired 😅. But I agree, I also get an uneasy feeling from Dungeon Crawlers, the feeling of being all alone, yet followed, claustrophobia...
Also, the graphics in Overlord give me neusea for some reason...
Dishonored 2 looks like when a little overboard with the daytime lighting. It’s like looking at phone at near full brightness.
Good news is I don't get seizures. Never had any, not even once in my life. Bad news is I can still get dizzy. Hell, my head was spinning just WATCHING this video😵💫
I actually played the game "Pandemonium 2" years ago, but only until the first boss. At the time, I didn't had a memory card for the psx
I get what you said about dishonored 2, i can't explain it as well but my issue is with the first Dead Island, for some reason after playing for 1 hour my eyes start feeling weird, but funny enough i never had another game make me feel like this
about Disohoned 2, do you try to use ReShade on it ? it may help, there a lot of filters to chose, i bet you eventually will find something
I legit thought Woody was Freddy Krueger at first in that game boy version you showed. Hmm maybe he is secretly his counterpart in the toy world... Or as Nintendo would have it possibly : P
I did not expect my gripe with Outrun Genesis that I suggested in your post three weeks ago to make it into the video. But I never got to the Ruins- sorry you had to get that far and get a headache.
Funny enough, the GBA versions of the DKC games make the game so bright that it makes the light wielding animal friend(s) practically useless for the dark levels.
Also, I’m glad I’m not the only one who absolutely despises Rayman Legends’ 8 bit music levels.
Also also, nice to see Pandemonium and it’s sequel get a mention on this channel.
Speaking of the Dishonored 2 thing.
I had problems like that with games like (unmodded) Fallout 4 and Dragon Age 2 and couldn’t play them for more than 40 minutes before my eyes wanted to jump out and run away.
I think it’s from the extreme contrast between super bright lights and super dark shadows together in close proximity. The ultra claustrophobic FOV in some games doesn’t help either...
I’m surprised you haven’t put the original Kirby super star boss defeat animation where the screen would violently flash red and white but like dkc and starfox 64, it was toned down in future rereleases and in ultra
There's an extra RC level in the Genesis version of Toy Story.
The pixelation effect in the Vita version of Rayman Legends is even stronger than on the other versions, I assume because of the lower resolution. I think it makes the Mariachi Madness way harder than it should be
Does the Switch Online version have that flash effect on Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2?
Since you mentioned Dishonored 2, can you please make a video about its endings, just like when you did a video about the 1st game and Daud DLC?
I don't know if anyone has had a similar experience with the Demon's Souls remake, but it always feels like the camera is pulled in way too close and doesn't give me a good view of the enemy I'm fighting. It's not quite "Leave my eyes alone!", but it was unpleasant to play and has me trying to figure out how to emulate the PS3 original to see if it's better or worse there.
Oh God, I HATE that torch flashing effect in DKC, that's HORRIBLE! As someone with photophobia (light sensitivity), I know how awful it is for a bright light to suddenly get shone right in the eyes.
I recently also watched all the Bomberman Boss Analysis & realised there's another form of Leave My Eyes Alone; Super Bomberman's Clown Mask & Mask Change, & that guy on Football Champ for the SNES (seen on Miscellaneous Mire of Madness #5 at ruclips.net/video/QTMkib6wrDE/видео.html) all cursed both my & whoisthisgit's eyes with their uncanny expressions.
Wonder if the flashing graphics in the Ristar fire section ended up being fixed in Sonic Mega Collection. I played Sonic Mega Collection years ago and never encountered that issue.
Bro i got a raging headache at the cloud one
this truly is an eye-burning experience
Worst part is is that squawk holding the torch comes back in dk64 and is slightly better but worse since the music pad didn’t work half the time
Instead of eye pain you have to listen to Squawks chirping every 5 seconds
@@robertanderson9447 lol ye
@@robertanderson9447 So... you're saying Squawks in DKC and DK64 is two halves of a whole flashbang
Squawks's flashlight has to be the worst of the bunch for me, but boy that Rayman effect manages to be both trippy and stupid to the max!
That new Battletoads reboot is so messy, In the heat of combat playing with other players you can easely break your focus, there is too much stuff going on the screen, my friends were tired to play that game for more than 2-3 levels, while we gladly played SoR4 for the 100th time.
wow, I didn't think there was any flashing/animation that could affect me. I even used to make gifs with patterns intended to screw people up (with ample warnings). But the lava in Ristar actually made me really nauseous, had to skip ahead 😮
You would absolutely LOATHE the ADOFAI and Rhythm Doctor custom level scenes, lol.
The Rayman one made me think my video on my phone got flipped upside down! But then I noticed your lum count was normal and went "what the fuck dude"
I don't know if you already covered it in this series, but the bosses in Contra: Hard Corps seriously fall under "seizure-inducing", even more so than the bombs in Contra 3. You see, every single boss has to rapidly flash through white and rainbow colors every time it gets hit...and in a game where you're firing at full speed at almost all times...well, just watch a video of a Contra Hard Corps boss rush and you'll understand.
Thankfully Konami apparently toned it down by making the flashing grayscale in the Switch and Steam ports.
id request cruelty squad, but i honestly think thats this series final boss.
That would actually make for a fun anti-piracy feature for games. Include something in a level (or levels) designed to be way too hard to look at without getting headaches or eye strain in the pirated copy. I think one of the GTA games did that by having the camera sway all around in the pirated version.
That toy story segment made me remember the toy story 3 game that i used to own on the Xbox 360. just checked steam and sure enough, its there. This doesnt have anything to do with the video really but thank you for reminding me about a game that was so important to me when i was younger. i still AM young, but nostaglia can still exist.
Never expected to see a first-person NES game.
Shadowgate and Uninvited are similar.
Star Luster too
9:48 incredibly based
Dungeon Magic reminds me of Eye of the Beholder. Even the font of the HP counter looks just like in the SNES version.
I absolutely agree, mate, they went Waaaay too far for Rayman Legends' music levels. Especially with that agonizing "TV white screen" effect, gosh, I hate it
Time for a headache!
Flashing objects is still really cool..tho most of the time the flashing ( for water, lava, sprites.etc.) is meant to be an easy way for developers to get around console limitations and to create a transparency effect , it looks really good on a crt screen but on an emulator being played on a flat screen? Yeah it's seizure inducing
As for Dishonored 2, I think everybody has quirks. Mine? I can't play LoZ:Wind Waker without getting migraines after 30-45min. I used to think it was because of cell shading, but... I was able to play Borderlands 2 and not have that problem at all.
8:25 ddlc reference
Man, honestly, the light flickering on the screen in the DKC games is a really cool detail. But it just...isn't good. In any way.
Also, interestingly enough your issue with rayman legends was my main issue with sonic generations. There's just not enough of it.
ayy, I have that Toy Story game, I actually replayed it fairly recently one day I was bored.
The music plays in my Game Boy Color, but the game was being kind to you by not working, it's basically 2 songs that get annoying fast + You got a friend in me, which plays on the story text dumps and sounds decent enough for GB standards.
The gameplay of that game feels so bad, the jumps are soooo slow, at least the game is short due to all the cut stages lmao.
I rented Pandemonium 2 out back in the day and stopped playing after about 30 mins because of how weird it was. It was a huge letdown from the original. Why they wanted to target the "haha weed is funny, 420 blaze it!" crowd back then with Pandemonium 2 I'll never know.
13:06 That happens to me too.
What about Minecraft nether rock let me see if that's in one of these videos yet oh God my eyes
I think the DK one is a neat effect in principle but it ends up being really annoying
Oh no.
that did hurt my eyes
Why do people keep saying the Genesis had awesome music and sound effects? Every time I see a video with Genesis games, they sound _terrible_ compared to SNES games, except for the very very cheap games made by those companies that just put out tons of shovelware (that were usually ported from other systems to begin with).
Because you have very abnormal and confusing taste compared to most other people.
This may be a surprise to you, but genesis music can actually sound great when someone knows how to use the soundchip, and you had Ristar in this video as a shining example on how good Genesis music can be. But apparently according to you with your generalization, all Genesis music is bad which includes Ristar.
Wonder how that could happen? Could it be you despise FM Synthesis sound so much that it can never sound good under any circumstances? Even the best use of it on the console?
The amount of slander towards the Genesis soundchip is pretty undeserved, and it shouldn’t really be compared to the SNES sound chip, because they are both very different beasts when it comes to sound, and both can sound great on their own accords. It can be used just as terribly as the SNES too, mostly because it’s harder to use, but that doesn’t make it in any way worse than SNES music overall.
It would be easier to put differences aside and actually enjoy both types of music, instead of using a black and white mentality against them.
@@Turbulation1 Tell you what, link me some of the best pieces in your opinion on the Genesis. It takes more than just one song, so I won't judge it based upon that one piece in this video, but the reason why I have such poor opinion of the Genesis sound system is because every time I see gameplay videos of Genesis games, the sound just.... doesn't sound that good. And yes, I fully agree, there are plenty of SNES games made by no-name or "cheap" dev companies that have terrible sound. So maybe that is the problem? I didn't own a Genesis until well after its lifespan when I picked one up for like $50 at an Elbo once and only played a little of it so my experiences are... limited.
Also, a lot of my experiences with the Genesis sound system is seeing people reviewing games that were released on both Genesis and SNES, and seeing the SNES version beat the Genesis hands-down in the sound department, like... not even close. But again, maybe the people who made the port don't know how to actually use Genesis hardware? /shrug. Need more examples of what people find "good".
And not liking chiptune? I love chiptune. dude, some of my favorite soundtracks are from the SNES.
My asosiated game with the title would be Shining force 1 in génesis.
ong contra 3 fave arcade game fr
"who would gnaw her arm off" But you're not a....ah nevermind
that line kinda confused me-
@@shroomy__rxcks same lol, i'm wondering if it was a typo or something cuz i remember whoisthisgit's voice being a dude's. unless this is like, a sex change type deal but that seems less likely lol
Maybe Whois identifies as a gal. Or maybe they just like using loads of information to confuse you and give conflicting info on just who Whois is.
Try Rayman M, that game has a super jerky camera that will destroy your eyes, especially in the battle modes.
Say what you will about the music levels in Rayman Legends, but at least they had amazing songs.
No.
@@yordansicyes
Mate your snark is top game
Rare's games give me the impression that the place was run by well-meaning-but-spiteful bastards. Apparently it's a British thing to double down on torturous things in media as a form of sadistic humor. "You don't like it, prat? Well, have some more!" I mean there's no way they didn't know some were deliberately skipping Squawks in DKC1 because of the turning light effect. That Glimmer in DKC2 is mandatory can't possibly be coincidence. Unless they really did assume people just missed Squawks's box in the low light. But they also tended to put deliberately shitty forced camera angles in parts of their 3D games as part of the challenge, and they made Battletoads, so…
And maybe the Dishonored II thing is the real reason you like fog: it relaxes the eyes. Maybe the issue is that the game's depending too much on sheer resolution to blur out distant objects, or maybe the visuals are hyper contrast-y all over with hardly any gradienting.
Finally somoene talks about the boring and awfull level of darkness in dk1 and 2
Luckly they are only 2 levels
Ow my eyes
Gex 3's Anime level is really bad with flashing lights, some of the worst I've seen.
I watched the video in 2x speed and made EVERYTHING worse.
14:58 looks like retro game jumpscare material, what's all with this pseudo 3d maze games? I've given up on em all. Shit like Goonies 2 and Friday 13th gives me headache all the time
0:52 they actually cloned after burner, geimos (japanese famicom original), and Space Carrier 💀the music ain't bad comparing to its nes counterpart games
20:41 might be at the wrong timestamp. But this really looks like Tomb Raider made in 2d
24:37 ubisoft seems never get rid of their Just Dance flashy colors design. Rayman got a potential to be lsd simulator 2
Who behind these games thought that this was a good idea????!
One idea for the Weakest characters ever would be Mario from Hotel Mario, def this Mario version sucks, it dies if all doors are open, you can't go further the floor or u'll fall down and die,his jumps are pathetic so he needs to go through elevators, at least that gives him invencibility for a short time right?? Well if u're talking about reg enemies, Koopaliings will enter the elevator push Mario into and swallow him ._. What a pathetic character he can''t fight bosses, holy crap and we're not counting about how nerfed were thw power ups
The bootleg of Toy Story (or toy sotry) on the NES is all-round better than that awful GB game