...
What?
The game is ugly on multiple levels.
The scenery is ugly, as it's supposed to be. I get this.
The washed out black that occurs on about 45% of my screen
in day is ugly and makes everything... ugly. There is not an in-game contrast setting, and contrast is the issue entirely. Brightness just washes the screen in a grey color, again, due to the contrast.
This is a deliberate design choice and it's really, really poor.
As a consumer, when I looked at the game both on the box and in screenshots, I did not see washed out blacks with no detail. I saw things more like this:
Instead, whenever I'm anywhere that isn't inside, I get terrible, terrible contrast rates that just make the game falsely gritty and incredibly ugly.
It's exactly like seeing a picture of a guitar, choosing to buy it, and then having this happen when you get it:
Just because I liked how it looked in the picture doesn't mean that faults like this are acceptable.