While it makes sense to devote significant resources to immersion, sometimes developers end up investing frankly absurd amounts of time, energy, and effort into details that have likely gone completely unnoticed by the vast majority of gamers.
The interior of the modeled plumbing — The Division 2
Destructible environments have been a major technical advancement in gaming over the past 20 years, with pioneering games like Red Faction which allowed players to destroy much of the land for the first time.
But in general, when the appeal of the game is not primarily based on destructiveness, the possibilities are quite limited. A few particles and we talk about it more.
In The Division 2, Ubisoft took things really far by allowing players to shoot ceramic sinks and see thatphotorealistic plumbing has been lovingly modeled below.
This disconcertingly meticulous detail was discovered by the redditor tony alexander, confirming the efforts made by the developers to make the destructible elements as authentic as possible.
Horses have over 3,000 motion animations — Red Dead Redemption 2
When the game came out, the nags’ oscillating testicles had already caused a lot of talk. But these were only the tip of the iceberg that is the huge amount of energy invested in modeling the game’s mounts.
Anyone who has played the game remembers long rides gazing at the landscape, lulled by the dull hammering of hooves. We can say that Red Dead Redemption 2 is among the most detailed video games ever made, and it shows in particular in the efforts made by the developer to make sure to offer ultra-realistic equine companions.
The team began by filming real pictures of horses in Scotland for reference and then drew from it 3,000 distinct animations that the game could chain together on the fly to reflect the gait, speed, mood, and even the terrain the horse is moving through.
This allowed the horses in the game to be responsive and look organic, going so far as to integrate a self-preservation mechanism thanks to which he refuses to put himself in danger on your order. Furthermore, each of 19 horse breeds of the game has its own temperament, its own personality type, and even its own digestive cycle!
In the highest difficulty setting, Korean soldiers speak Korean — Crysis
It is undeniable that Crysis was an absolute technical benchmark when it was released in 2007 with its revolutionary — and super-greedy — graphics. Even the sturdiest rigs struggled to run it on the highest settings. But one of the most curious features of the game is a feature that has gone unnoticed by most gamers.
If you decide to play on the hardest difficulty level, Delta, the North Korean soldiers you encounter actually speak Korean with each otherwhile in all other difficulties they just shout broken English at the player.
If you don’t speak Korean, as is the case, one imagines, of the majority of players, impossible then to know what the soldiers are going to do and to develop a strategy.
A monster job for a detail that a minority of players have been able to experience.
The solar system is scientifically correct for 2185 — Mass Effect 2
Even though Mass Effect 2 is a fiction, therefore a speculative and fantastic vision of the future, his universe in 2185 is in fact thought out with a certain concern for realism.
Indeed, the beautiful solar system map of the game is a near-perfect representation of how the planets will likely be arranged in 2185. The redditor Sargent Lipton35 compared the game map with a scientifically accurate simulation of how the solar system was organized in 2185, and found that the planets were almost all aligned.
The only noticeable difference is Pluto’s incorrect location, but in reality its erratic orbit makes it incredibly difficult to guess where it will be in the distant future with any real accuracy.
One thing is certain: even if each of the games on this list can be criticized for one reason or another, the fact that they have small details that required additional work from the developers proves that these have a lot of love for their creations, and that can have a huge impact on the final product
Do you know of other games with crazy details that could have passed under our noses?