Do you trust or use brightness adjusts in games?

"Move the slider until the object is barely visible."

In my experience, they almost always make the games look worse. Usually too bright. Whether it's HDR or standard colors. Makes you wonder if it really matches the developer's intended look.

Depends on the game. Games that are meant to be dark and dank, I'll be inclined to keep the brightness slightly below that visibility margin. When games are to be bright and with popping colors, I'll keep the brightness a bit higher.

Yea done it on Risen, the bloom is like someone rubbed their bits of carrot sick all over your screen.

Tried to do the same with Splinter Cell: Blacklists absolutely stupid disco light goggles, but Ubisoft thought it would be fun to annoy you.

I wouldn't say I trust or distrust them - but my experience has often been the opposite, that dark games feel a bit too dark and low contrast at default levels so I wind up futzing around a little bit. But yeah, either way (too bright or too dark) I guess it's usually after I get past that calibration screen that I do the real tuning

Oh, that's not what I meant. Was asking if you adjust it to the recommended levels. But if it leads to discussion, feel free to interpret the question the other way.

I lowered the brightness bar in RE4 HD all the way to the bottom (or left).

I like my TV being very bright and vibrant so I usually turn them up as high as possible before losing color saturation and starting to bleach. Although in games that are meant to be darker I usually keep around default.

I usually just skip it until I'm in game but more times then none the default brightness is fine.

Any game, I always bump the brightness to at least 65%.

It depends on the game like others have stated. Sometimes it makes the image too dark or the times too bright.

Truth be told, I rarely pay attention to the brightness settings in games, so I guess I don't mind the default settings for the most part. The only times I pay attention to brightness settings is when it's a mandatory step in starting a game.

Games that are supposed to be dark, like a horror game, are the ones I'm most likely to dial the brightness down from its default a bit.

I usually just stick with the default settings. They’re generally to my liking.

Same here. I rarely slide it to my fitting and just leave it be.

I usually leave the settings as they are since my monitor itself seems to be fairly accurately set up. If anything, I'll increase brightness because some devs do try to make games darker than they need to be for some kind of artistic interpretation of the scene, or atmosphere, but at the end of the day, just like bloom and motion blur settings, I'll pass on that and save myself the literal headache it brings. But for the most part, default seems about correct.

With these modern TVs that have exceptional dark and bright contrasts I usually just leave that at the default neutral because otherwise it will be too dark. Even HDR settings are hard to figure out, you just have to keep adjusting until it feels just right.

I do with HDR yeah, no major adjustements though.

But moving the brightness up/down a bit and adjusting contrast accordingly.

Deathloop for example had a really great brightness menu.

I usually use it, but I will adjust it by eye if it looks off during play.

I usually have the brightness on the default setting, lower it a bit sometimes. In order to lower the brightness "until the logo is barely visible" or whatver, I usually have to lower the slider to the lowest. Which is stupid dark and not intended by the developer. So no, I don't trust those guide thingys to get me a good brightness level. My own judgement is better.

I've never adjusted the brightness in a game. I always leave it at the default 50% setting.

Also depends on the TV. Black levels turn Grey on alot of TV if you turn the brightness up.

I usually leave it as is. If I follow the instructions it is usually all the way to the left and when I get in-game I can hardly see shit. Very hard to find a game where if you follow the instructions you get something actually better than just tinkering randomly to your liking.

One or two notches brighter than the recommended level always works well for me.

I spent about 3-5 minutes adjusting the brightness settings on RE8 village recently. I wanted to make sure the white and the dark balance looked good. The default settings were off.

My monitor is well calibrated, so i usually don't need to spend time on this.

Very rarely I usually go with default there's been a few occasions where I turn the brightness down though.