Depth of field and motion blur

Do you turn DOF, blur and shit like that off when given a chance?
Do you prefer sharp and realistic picture or accentuated and artistic one?

Sharp and realistic. DoF and blur can be good if used sparingly but sadly neither devs nor the people who make ENBs understand subtlety.

Sharp and realistic, also what game?

I absolutely can't stand motion blur for some reason. Like I prefer motion without it, but I first and foremost turn it off because it looks violently unpleasant to me, almost as bad as chromatic aberration. Depth of field, on the other hand, I can't say I mind too much.

I prefer fog of war.

Those are cancer.
If you play games with those on, you are cancer.
Any game with those on by default are cancer.

I turn off motion blur immediately. There's already way too much motion blur from LCDs, why would I want more? It makes no sense unless running at or below 30fps anyway. I try to turn off chromatic aberration as that's a defect I spend a lot of time trying to remove in my photos and has no place anywhere. DoF is stupid outside of things like a sniper scope as the game doesn't know what my eyes are looking at and thus cannot do the effect correctly. And I get rid of FXAA and other post-processing "AA" blur algorithms as fast as I can as they make everything look smeared and shit, probably because all they do is 'intelligently' smear.

Black Desert.
It's not very good game though, it only has nice graphics.


Holy shit, those I absolutely despise.
But with DoF and motion blur I can deal, at least when they're subtle.


That's gameplay mechanic, not visual effect.

nah, turn off all that shit, majority of games don't even use it properly. but once you turn it off you realize how shitty the game looks with low res textures and geometry.

Depth of field has uses: indicating scale and focus. It's bad when it's misused, just like most cinematography elements. DOF is almost always abused in videogames because developers spend so long figuring out what they can throw in they don't stop to think whether they should.

Having poor focus of the surroundings in shots of wide vistas is just absurdly bad. You'd fire a photographer or camera man if he couldn't do those types of shots right.