I've never had any real issues with seeing in VoG on my 42" LCD. The first time, I was blind, but I adjusted the gamma up two notches and haven't had a problem since. You can be reductive about VoG, but it's a much more varied set of encounters and spaces than CE. You are the very first person I've heard say they prefer CE over VoG. Like I said, to each their own. As an exercise in design and gameplay, CE is much less interesting and fun to me than VoG. And I rarely encountered gamebreaking bugs in VoG, and when I did, I adjusted and kept playing.