I think I used it in Horizon Zero Dawn once just to test it out but not really my kind of thing.
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Do you actually use Photo Mode...?
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Yes, a ton nowadays for the games that support it. With most platforms having access to screenshot functionality, I like to document my journey through the experiences I play. Every now and then look I back at the games I've played and go through the screenshot, and hud-less screenshots just tend to look so much better, not to mention the ability to frame shots well with the camera controls.
The only one I've used even a bit was the one in Super Mario Odyssey, that was fun to mess around with due to all the weird captures.
Elite Dangerous is great. Has quite a nice photo mode too.Yes.
Photomode let me take this earlier...
Oh yes I do use it and I hope it'll be implemented in the majority of upcoming games - particularly open-worldy ones.
Loved this feature especially in HZD and GOW, hoping there will be a decent one in KH3 too!
Loved this feature especially in HZD and GOW, hoping there will be a decent one in KH3 too!
I have over 3000 screenshots in inFAMOUS Second Son thanks to it, and about the same in God of War. I think I'm somewhere in the 2000's with Spider-Man. So yes, I definitely use Photo Mode. It is, in my opinion, one of the best little new things this generation. It's a lot of fun and adds a whole lot of playtime for me and many others. The developers enjoy seeing people taking screenshots as well, so it's really a win-win. It also helps me appreciate the models even more. Take God of War and Spider-Man for example. I never would've been able to see all the tiny little scratches on the metal of Kratos' armors or Spidey's Iron-Spider armor without it. They could have not done that at all and those models would have still looked amazing but they did and it's a shame to think that some of these works go unappreciated (or at least not as much) without Photo Mode so I'm grateful for it.
I use photo mode mainly as a complement to in-game features.
A couple of great uses for a photo mode:
- Take a pic of a treasure map so that you don't have to go into your inventory to switch to it instantly.
- Inspect a player and take a pic of their gear in order to remember what stats, gear, items or colors you want to buy/find.
- Take a pic of player names so that they don't get lost if you want to message them, report them or whatever.
- Take a pic of map locations and clues to either use yourself or send to your friends to help them navigate.
- Take a pic of passwords and key phrases so that you don't have to remember them when you find the specific lock or NPC that you are trying to get past.
- Take a pic of important dialogue clues that are used to solve riddles or puzzles.
- Take a pic of important tutorial texts that might get lost in complex menus.
A couple of great uses for a photo mode:
- Take a pic of a treasure map so that you don't have to go into your inventory to switch to it instantly.
- Inspect a player and take a pic of their gear in order to remember what stats, gear, items or colors you want to buy/find.
- Take a pic of player names so that they don't get lost if you want to message them, report them or whatever.
- Take a pic of map locations and clues to either use yourself or send to your friends to help them navigate.
- Take a pic of passwords and key phrases so that you don't have to remember them when you find the specific lock or NPC that you are trying to get past.
- Take a pic of important dialogue clues that are used to solve riddles or puzzles.
- Take a pic of important tutorial texts that might get lost in complex menus.
I typically like photo modes. I used the one in Mario Odyssey a lot. And I dabbled with Spider-Man and Uncharted 4.
What's nuts is that Smash Ultimate has a legit photo mode as opposed to the game just freezing when you pause, but I really haven't dabbled in it at all.
What's nuts is that Smash Ultimate has a legit photo mode as opposed to the game just freezing when you pause, but I really haven't dabbled in it at all.
It's certainly a cool feature theoretically but I've only messed with God Of War's for about a minute, got impatient to get back to playing and forgot about it to be honest.
Thought I'd use it but nothing so far.
Thought I'd use it but nothing so far.
I post my shots on twitter (@lenteludo)and my avatar refers to game photos. I like photography in real life and photo modes in games just give you a lot of freedom. I especially like Drive Club's photo mode, because they have incorporated more realistic motion/shutter speed effects into it (and it's fun to watch the picture render).
I've dabbled, but at the end of the day I realize I'll never look at them again lol.
I take photos on Switch (using the button) in hopes that one day Nintendo will let us use our photos as home screen wallpaper.
I take photos on Switch (using the button) in hopes that one day Nintendo will let us use our photos as home screen wallpaper.
I have so much fun in Photo Mode. I sometimes get lost for 10-15 minutes at a time trying to get a good shot and/or treatment.
Games will keep including them because, with social media integration, they're basically free marketing, even if it's goofy stuff like bugs.
Games will keep including them because, with social media integration, they're basically free marketing, even if it's goofy stuff like bugs.
Nope. I do not have a creative photogenic eye at all, and anything in game I see that's worth taking photos of, someone else has beaten me to the punch 18,000 times. I'm glad it's there to see others photos, but it's not something I care to use.
Sometimes in Forza Horizon, but very often in RDR2... Although it's not a true photo mode, but I love that you can toggle the UI off, and I do it all the time...at least once a play session to nab some epic vista or shot.
I enjoy occasionally taking pictures of SFV with a hacked-in "photomode" but for some reason I don't really use the actual photomodes made for other games. I did take a bunch of pictures of RDR2, but no photomode there, just gameplay stuff. I guess when I'm actually playing a game I don't like to be distracted much (I have to setup SFV expressly for taking pictures when I do).
Nope, never. I also pretty much never take screenshot besides first savage and extreme raid kills in FFXIV.
Screenshots (= pressing the screenshot button) ? A lot, I filled the Switch limit (1000 ?) just between BotW and XB2 : /
Proper photo mode (= dedicated interface in the game) ? Only once, and coincidentally yesterday while playing Horizon Zero Dawn, what a gorgeous game.
Proper photo mode (= dedicated interface in the game) ? Only once, and coincidentally yesterday while playing Horizon Zero Dawn, what a gorgeous game.
What I did was just make another Flickr account with another email address, that's all you need. Another option that should potentially work well is using a regular art sharing site like Deviantart.com for example. You can upload traditional art as well as photography there, without limit, without image quality loss and you can hotlink images easily from there.
Seems to work fine:
On most platforms I'll do it for thumbnails and streaming title cards, but I do find myself using them for fun in Nintendo's stuff. No real reason why I don't bother with the others in that context, but I guess a large part of it is that I find the art style in Nintendo games to be pretty damn charming.