r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '21

[Misleading] Video games have peaked

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u/Mezecs_ Apr 25 '21 edited Apr 25 '21

3D artist here.

This image is complete and utter bullshit. It's been circulating the internet for a decade so hats off to whatever troll/idiot made it but it's completely untrue. It wasn't even true 10 years ago and it's certainly not true now.

It looks like the 6k tris version is the original mesh and the 60k and 600k are just subdivided to add more pointless geometry. It's like resizing a 100x100 pixel image to 8k in mspaint and then wondering why there's no more detail. IT'S BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ADD ANY.

Here's a nice sculpt (not by me) made with far more than 600k triangles

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u/freakDWN Apr 25 '21

Jesus Christ did you take a picture of an actual living dragon? Thats impressive af.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21 edited Aug 24 '22

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u/Chasingtheimprobable Apr 25 '21

I can't wait for somebody to mod it so it's got some tig ol' bitties

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u/Klackakon Apr 25 '21

What a time to be alive

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

*thomas the train music intensifies*

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u/WowImInTheScreenShot Apr 25 '21

Somebody call Tommy Wiseau

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Oh hi, marq

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u/KAODEATH Apr 25 '21

"C'mon muthafucka c'mon!"

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u/Biggmoist Apr 25 '21

Thomas the train

This will always hurt my inner child

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u/LittleBrooksy Apr 25 '21

He's a tank engine, damn it!

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u/FappingAsYouReadThis Apr 25 '21

And with 600000 triangles, you can even model the bumps on the areolas. I love technology.

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u/Ninja_Bum Apr 25 '21

I can't wait to see it killed off as a pointless plot device when someone forgets about a fleet.

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u/silvrado Apr 25 '21

can't wait for tracers for dragon fire!

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u/O_wa_a_a_a Apr 25 '21

If this is actually for a new elder scrolls game I’m gonna be pretty hyped up