Streaming in hundreds of assets as you walk around an open world does surely take a different pipeline, but as a show of computing competence it is staggering.

Streaming in hundreds of assets as you walk around an open world does surely take a different pipeline, but as a show of computing competence it is staggering. You should see how fast some of these truly massive games load nowadays. The fact that the notepad app takes forever to load when all it needs to load is the UI is just a sad state of affairs.