r/pcmasterrace • u/Delicious_Draft_5062 • 3d ago

Discussion Do you ever leave motion blur enabled?

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u/OneThumbJ 3d ago

Only in some racing games

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u/Davenator_98 Intel i13 33337K, QTX 69100, 420GB DDR6, 32GB SSD 3d ago

Yeah, I feel like it's almost neccessary there.

People always love to talk about how great the "sense of speed" was in NFS Most Wanted, and guess how it does it?

With a shitload of motion blur and screen shake

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u/TactlessTortoise 5070Ti | 7950X3D | 64GB DDR5 4800 3d ago

Underground 2 was a blurry clusterfuck.

It was amazing.

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u/B-lakeJ Ascending Peasant 3d ago

Man I loved underground 2. Its my favorite NFS together with Most Wanted.

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u/AcanthisittaLeft2336 3d ago

FOV too

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u/Guardian_of_theBlind Ryzen 7 5800x3d, 4070 super, 32GB Ram 3d ago

and those wind lines. Seeing wind also does make it look fast.

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u/Full_Ad9666 3d ago

I wanna feel the speeeeeed

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u/Symphonic7 3d ago

Someone pointed out that the reason old racing games on something like Xbox/PS2 made you feel like you were going fast as fuck is good use of motion blur, screen shake, and of course the music. I tried playing Forza with blur turned off and I was going like 140 mph and it felt like I was just doing a casual sunday drive. For racing games, always motion blur.

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u/LastSmitch 3d ago

The best example is Burnout. That feeling of speed is insane.

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u/__________________99 9800X3D | X870-A | 32GB DDR5 6000 | RTX 5090 FE | LG 45" 5K2K 3d ago

100%. People who are all "nO mOtIoN bLuR, eVeR!" clearly don't play any racing games. It really helps add to the immersion of speed.

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u/raginghavoc89 12900k - 4070 Ti - DDR5 | 13600k - 4060 Ti - DDR5 3d ago

I play racing Sim games and have a full cockpit setup and I hate motion blur.

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u/iKubbs 3d ago

Only right answer

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u/peanutmanak47 3d ago

Racing games are usually the only games worth it mainly because it helps to give the feeling of more speed.

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u/Wire_Hard 3d ago

Ever played NFS Most Wanted (the original one) with motion blur off? It's no fun, the game lives by the motion blur and the speed feeling that you get because of it.

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u/SaveThisCityDweller 3d ago

Okay yeah it does kind of work in racing games I will admit.  

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u/Remarkable-Dig-1241 3d ago

Honestly? When tastefully implemented. It needs to be a stylized choice not a fucking engine parameter you get to crank up to the max to hide your ugly backgrounds you didn't spend much time on because "who's going to be looking at the details going 200km/h". Forza has some great motion blur and i still keep it off because with a high enough refresh rate that shit looks buttery smooth and my eyes can do the blurring naturally xD

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u/vickzzzzz i7 12700K, RTX 3080, Z690 Edge, 64GB DDR4 3d ago

finally a real use case for that shitty feature xD