10 Pointless Details In Recent Video Games That’ll Blow Your Mind

3. Extreme Gun Detail - Escape From Tarkov

This one is so impressive, I feel a little bad calling it pointless. But given the game would be just as popular without it, I think we can get away with it.

Credit to one of our readers/viewers, Guilherme Pessin, for reminding us about this one in the comments of our video from last year highlighting games that have an insane level of detail.

2017 multiplayer FPS Escape From Tarkov may be made in Unity by an indie studio, but Battlestate Games proved you don’t have to have all the resources in the world to pour love and attention to detail into your game. In this case, the studio went to the effort of 3D-scanning gear and weapons down to the innards of each of the guns. This includes implementing an enormous amount of animations that include checking the chamber and bullets being ejected. The attention to detail extends to every combination of attachments and ammo, as well as the weight of different weapons.

The game would have been a perfectly good shooter without it, but the good will it earns from players to put effort into this stuff counts for a lot.