>>717476425 (OP)
>>717477065
those of us who find images like this interesting only do so because of The Implication. and the implication is sadly false. once you can run this shit in real-time it will just be a bunch of geometry, it will not have all the Implied life, infrastructure, economy, industry, intelligence, data etc. inside of it. just dead geometry like any tech demo from yesteryear that could render "amazing terrain" while omitting issues such as collision or navigation since it's not a game. the challenge isn't to render a bunch of geometry. that's a solved problem. the challenge is fill a game world with life (as an umbrella term for all the things I listed above), and if anything the industry has peaked at that and is getting worse. various aspects peaked at different times but they all peaked. evidence: the best entry is rarely something recent and aside from GTA 6* there is no game even on the horizon that inspires anyone to HOPE that it might push any interesting boundary of gaming.
*GTA 5.1