u/AnhiArk

They can look stunning for sure, but the brightness is just so inconsistent. Some look way too dim for me, it makes my eyes strain to make out the details in darker scenes. I know they are mastered the same nits as SDR is supposed to be and this way the brightness is "right", but I like to increase the brightness in SDR as well. This is something that doesn't work in HDR because you will raise the blacks as well, and you get overblown highlights.

Reason I post is just a sanity check I guess. Pretty sure everything is configured right, and my setup can display bright scenes correctly (some movies, and things like Planet Earth 3 look gorgeous), but I'm tired of watching a dim movie now and then.

If I got this right, some HDR movies are mastered for 100 nits and others for 200. 100 is not bright enough for me.

Using a MSI MPG 341 CQR x36, set on TrueBlack 500

Edit: Thanks for the replies I guess, but no one talks about the brightness. Is it not true that half of the HDR movies are mastered at 100 paperwhite and the other at 200? 100 is really way too dim for me

They can look stunning for sure, but the brightness is just so inconsistent. Some look way too dim for me, it makes my eyes strain to make out the details in darker scenes. I know they are mastered the same nits as SDR is supposed to be and this way the brightness is "right", but I like to increase the brightness in SDR as well. This is something that doesn't work in HDR because you will raise the blacks as well, and you get overblown highlights.

Reason I post is just a sanity check I guess. Pretty sure everything is configured right, and my setup can display bright scenes correctly (some movies, and things like Planet Earth 3 look gorgeous), but I'm tired of watching a dim movie now and then.

Will keep using HDR for games, it's great when set up correctly and they have brightness sliders.

Am I alone in this?

Playing through Forbidden West for the first time, and in general I'm having a good time (I think some of the lesser things are that most of the side content feels more like filler then actual gameplay, I despise every variation of timed content, and I think they went overboard on the knockdowns) but one thing I really can not stand is the handholding.

Aloy will not be quiet during a puzzle, and blurt out the solution before you even get a chance to look around. If the test audience needed a step-by-step voiced over walkthrough to complete these puzzles, they might as well have removed them all together, because this is not gameplay. This is just busywork.

Reason I wrote this post and felt like ranting was because I just did that part were you have to put in a date, and you know its October, and then a NPC that tags along says "That's the 10th month of the year!" and I facepalmed so hard.

Another example:

"I killed that bandit leader. Maybe I should look what he was carrying"

loot bandit

"Hmm a key, maybe it opens something nearby"

walk towards a chest

"A chest! Maybe I can open it with that key I found earlier"

Ohh come on. I like Aloy and I like Ashly Burch but Aloy talks way too much.

Rant over. Thanks for reading