The history of gaming technology has been one long quest for total realism, but now [that] we're on the verge of it, I'm seeing that it's probably not worth the effort. The ultra-realistic games of recent years have been one long gritty depressing gray-a-thon after another. Sometimes realism is an acceptable sacrifice if it means I get to have some fun.
reality is depressing, if I would like to have my games ultra realistic I would just go outside? Yes it is less realistic. But I think we can chuck realism out the window since we are playing with a dragon transforming knight :p.
It's a real hassle trying to get good colors, brightness, contrast, and not have those settings ruin the overall gameplay experience. You don't want to play a game wearing sunglasses :p
I know

But then again you can't realy go out side and look at the sun without sunglasses. I'm just saying that it has to fit within the game, but also that vibrant colors aren't something to be afraid of
