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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

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400 points redbell | 1 comments | 06 Aug 23 15:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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neom ◴[06 Aug 23 17:07 UTC] No.37024152[source]▶
I'm not a gamer but I randomly stumbled across someone playing this on twitch couple days ago, gotta say my mind was pretty blown at how far video game graphics have come (granted the last thing I played was Quake/UT/HL back in the day). Some of the cut scenes are basically just amazing movies, but even the in game graphics are fantastic. Does anyone happen to know what game is considered the gold standard for gfx in vidya games is these days?
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1. macNchz ◴[06 Aug 23 20:26 UTC] No.37026277[source]▶
For me, having not really played many video games between ~2008 and 2020, Red Dead Redemption 2 has continued to really wow me.

It's is particularly impressive in both its breadth and depth: not only does it have huge beautiful landscapes in deserts, plains, mountains, forests, swamps, beaches, snow & rain, but also includes tiny details like being able to shoot out individual spokes of a wagon wheel, and the way the sun glows through the cartilage of characters ears.