The game is just lacks color and setting shouldn't be an excuse for making fictional game not have any color.
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Games need to be colorful. I can't tell you how much more I enjoy Skyrim after getting an ENB (realism preset). Truth is, it's harder to catch bugs and texture glitches when there are only a handful of colors. I think that's why so many developers resort to it. I can get trying to create atmosphere, but IMO it's much more effective to do that through the story and dialogue than through volumetric fog and dim lights.