Vignette vs chromatic aberration - which is worse?
PC Gamer is running a tournament-style voting competition to determine which graphical effect is the most disliked in video games. The first round of voting, which received approximately 4,000 votes, narrowed the competition to four semifinalist effects: vignette, chromatic aberration, motion blur, and film grain.
Readers are now invited to vote to determine which two of these effects will advance to the finals. The author expresses confidence in predicting one finalist but remains uncertain about which other effect will make the final matchup.
The article includes visual comparisons demonstrating these effects in-game, with Cyberpunk 2077 used as an example to show how vignette (the darkening of screen edges to draw focus to the center) and chromatic aberration (a color distortion effect) appear during gameplay. The competition will conclude with a final vote to crown the most universally disliked graphical effect.