I just don’t get it - let’s spend so much money, development and hardware to render the most clean game possible, avoid aliasing and increase detail… And then let’s enable color distortion as if we were vieweing the game through a 1930’s cinema projector. Add in some film grain too! This saves me the effort of covering my monitor with dirt!
Make sure to make those options enabled by default on every game you release too!
It’s nice when you’re actually looking at, say, an LCD screen in the game. The best thing I can think of to use Chromatic Aberration correctly was Outlast. It was only used when looking at the camcorder screen and CRTs and such.
Basically any kind of effect to simulate looking through a camera lens, when you’re in a first person game, is not immersive. It’s dumb. My character’s eyes are not camera lenses. I could see you getting away with it in, like, Cyberpunk. Where your eyes could be lenses. But that’s it.