When deciding whether to buy a game or not, one of the important elements for me and I am sure others, are the provided screenshots, especially when any video provided is just propaganda and not really enlightening.

Far too many games have way too many dark images, which I have never seen the point of ... you can't see anything.

EDIT - It is not that I don't see anything in those dark images, just that I don't see enough to make it worthwhile.

Of course we could download the images and use a viewer that allows quick adjustment of contrast and brightness to actually see something of the image. But HECK, that is a right pain in the arse, and the act of a desperate person.

GOG on the other hand, could provide a button on their screenshot viewing page, that would do the same thing.

Now how quick and easy and great would that be?

P.S. I am just so fed up at looking at pointless dark images. Just saying the game is dark, should suffice.

P.S.S. No, I don't want to adjust my PC brightness and Contrast or Color settings. They are already set to my preferences, as they would be for most people. The only proper solution for this is either at the GOG end or from publisher/devs just providing decent images in the first place.

It is possible to make a browser extension or userscript to adjust dark images in the browser itself... and it is even possible to do it with something like custom CSS using an extension like Stylus!

The key is the CSS filter property which allows you to use several filter functions like contrast, brightness etc.

For those who are geeky enough: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter

No problems here. Maybe your monitor is set too dark or with too little contrast? Some monitors have low contrast, which I think is bad for games and films.

Laptops, that tend to be moved around and thus be in different ligting conditions, have quick brightness setting but so does Windows 10. Something good with W10.

Like I said, I am happy with my settings, and are not about to change them, after spending time in the past getting them just right.

I am running a monitor off a Laptop.

Thanks DC, can you just whip me up something then ... or would you rather I leave it to GOG?


P.S. It is not that I don't see anything in those dark images, just that I don't see enough to make it worthwhile.

It is simple enough, just try fiddling with CSS with the filter property and brightness function, here is a simple example to get you started:

img {
filter: brightness(250%) !important;
}

It will increase the brightness of (almost) all images by 250%, I am attaching a screenshot of a game called AquaNox after the brightness has been increased in the browser itself.

Edit: I tried attaching the file but it doesn't work for some reason, here is a link to it.

Compare my screenshot with the original: Original

I use the Stylus extension to play with CSS in any web page.

Excellent bud, I will look into it tomorrow. or day after. busy tomorrow.

Ok bud, just tried that with Stylish, where I had it set for the following.

URL starting with - https://www.gog.com/game/

Works well. I can click the Stylish on or off button, to disable or enable in game pages.

EDIT
On advice, I uninstalled Stylish (it spies on you) and are using Stylus instead now.

Is your screen tilted/directed the right way? I ask as with my laptop if the screen is not tilted right the image can appear much too dark, and when i tilt it the right way the image becomes brighter.

I'm reminded of Thief where you were intended to play it in a DARK room at NIGHT or without any extra light in the area. Then you could actually see what was going on. If you didn't, you had to jack the Gamma WAY UP which over-saturated a lot of things.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But maybe some games you should only consider if you can play when you aren't going to be seeing the light of day for a while.

Certainly that is important, but as I said - I am running a monitor off a Laptop.
So angle is not an issue.
No doubt room lighting is to some degree, but honestly, some games just have really dark screenshots, and a still shot does not gain the benefit of movement etc.

Anyway, I can click a button now to see things just fine. Amazing what is sometimes hidden too. Of course, but my play environment is very different to my browse environment, and movement also gives other references etc to go by ... directional light changes etc.

In fact, I use a different, non web connected PC, and a different darker room altogether for playing games.

I also use a laptop sometimes and notice that if the lid is not open enough(or open too much) that the angle will make the image harder to see...just an observation.

And it's good to hear you solved it, at least.

Curious at certain angles it goes negative, like on other screens. But if you flip it over the angle allowed is considerably more generous for... some reason...

It would be.

But like I said, I am using a monitor (external regular PC one) plugged into my Laptop, and while not fully widescreen in this instance, it is still large - 21 inch.

There is little to no variance in visibility up or down or left or right, until you get to very extreme angles. It is pointed at my face in any case, and only a metre away at most, usually less.

Sounds nice.

Sounds good...enjoy your games at any rate and have a good day/night/evening.

@GameRager - You too. Thanks.