10 Coolest Video Game Features (That Are Utterly Pointless) - Commenter Edition

5. Water Puddles Evaporate Over Time - Horizon: Zero Dawn

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Guerrilla Games

Water puddles evaporate over time. That’s it. That’s the entry, but let’s get a little more into it because this is completely pointless and completely awesome.

It should come as no surprise that the game that features colonies of leaf-cutting ants on the trees is riddled with lovely little attention-to-detail features. One of these is evaporating water which, let's face it, in a game this big, you’re really not going to notice. You’d have to deliberately stand in one place for a long amount of time looking at a puddle in the sunlight to even know the game did this but it is an awesome quality of life addition to the game world.

Puddles in GTA 5 and Breath of the Wild do this too so there you go, evaporating water is the hot new thing in video game design.

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