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[Larxia]

Lack of AO makes the images look flat.

It really depends how it's done, I understand what they mean because there have been tons of games with terrible ambient occlusion that just made all corners look dirty and weird. It's usually better these days but it's sometimes still wonky.

Like here for example, okay it looks flat without it, but the shadow also makes no sense:

Or the awful case of far cry 3 lol

I will personally probably keep AO in spider-man if it looks okay and maybe Bloom only in the "camera effects" if it's fine too.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

Lack of AO makes the images look flat.

I agree, but there's ambient occlusion and then there's video game ambient occlusion. Once developers actually get it right I'll keep it enabled otherwise it's getting disabled.

 

[Jim Ryan other Clone]

this is actually a real thing lol.
I had an LG G Flex as my main phone for a while back in the day. that was a curved display phone, and I once looked at it for an extended period of time (I think I had a text conversation with a friend that went on for a bit),
and a different friend just came over and shortly after handed me his phone to look at a TV he was interested in on Amazon I think.

and for the first 30 seconds or so that phone looked distorted to me like it was, like you said, a convexly curved screen. super weird experience.

I have this experience also... Our manager use curved screen and me flat. Sometimes I have to use his PC because it has some inaccessible files for us the peasants (who knows why)
When I go back to normal screen it seems like it's curved backwards for couple seconds, but there is no issues going from the flat to the curved.

 

[01011001]

I agree, but there's ambient occlusion and then there's video game ambient occlusion. Once developers actually get it right I'll keep it enabled otherwise it's getting disabled.

screen space effects in a nutshell