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[saibot216]

Why is it that games used to be colorful and now they're all gun metal grey and dog turd brown?
Not including indie games of course because those always have good color.

[Inanimate]

This is sure to be a fruitful discussion.

[PleasingFungus]

It is because of the War.

Rationing is every citizen's duty.

[Aquin]

Haven't you heard?  REAL IS BROWN.

(also the bird is the word)

[slembcke]

I've heard this referred to as the "next gen" look several times. Bleach out the colors and make them shiny greyish or orange/brown with lots of bloom. I think the problem is that colorful games tend to make people think of kids games.

[Xion]

because it's realistic, don't you know? life looks like shit. look around. if it's too colorful you must be high or gay or wearing tinted shades like a cool ass on a hot day.





That is what I would say but I like cavalcade's answer more



in serious, I think it's just a fad

[phubans]

Because commercial games literally have no soul anymore. Art is a reflection of life. Look around you; the world is dying. The universe is collapsing in on itself. Everything will return to one once more. And once that gets boring, we'll blow ourself up into the illusion of separation once again. What else is there to do with infinity? 

[moi]

several reasons. Basically the shit brown is how the world really is. Photographs and old videogames tend to not display shit-brown effect (and indie games but that's because all they have are a couple huge pixels and a gimmick).
Photos and TVs don't demonstrate this effect most of the time because of colour distortion and bad cameras and the fact that cameras are actually tweaked to look good. Old games don't either because they don't have realistic lighting (or lighting at all).
If we were living with a blue sun , we would end up with shit-blue on all next gen games.

[ink.inc]

<insert obligatory nietzsche quote here>

[saibot216]

I miss color, though 

[PleasingFungus]

More seriously, this is the actual reason.

Technical constraints, not marketing ones.

now you know

[Montoli]

I assumed it was this.

[eva]

they just happen to take place in worlds where they are trying to create that feeling of isolation for them post apocalypse, its also an earthy color and lot of gams take place on earth... its also a very neutral color. n it also looks kool and cinematic

or it could be that the military based war gams happens to hav dirt, you kno.. with war happenin on dirt sometimes

anyway i dont see a problem with it. if brown is a problem then id have to complain about games being too colorful for no reason

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also i doubt it has to do with photo realism

[saibot216]

I assumed it was this.

LOL.

Once I graduate I WILL MAKE THE MOST COLORFUL GAMES YOU WILL EVER SEE!!!! YOUR EYES WILL ORGASM FROM ALL THE COLOR!!!!

[Türbo Bröther]

More colourful than Spheres Of Chaos? Impossible.

[saibot216]

Jesus tap dancing christ, not that... chaotically tie dye color crazy...

[Ben_Hurr]

Why is it that games used to be colorful and now they're all gun metal grey and dog turd brown?
Not including indie games of course because those always have good color.

So they can all look identical?
...at least that's the effect it has on me. 

[Türbo Bröther]

Games are grey and brown so that colour blind gamers won't feel left out. That or kids are too stupid and fat to count more than two colours.

[Pietepiet]

"All" games are gray and brown because you're playing the wrong fucking games.

[Alistair Aitcheson]

It's those new fangled 3D games. Before they used to ruse red/blue separation, now they use brown/brown.