I ran into this while taking geology courses at university, and the lack of attention to detail by the developers is frankly insulting.
EDIT: The red line is what the developers did. The green line is what they should have done for realism. Explanation in the comments.
My partner is a game designer and it’s something I laugh at all the time in games I see. I am like none of this geomorphology makes sense.
Someone gets it! My people lol
Bro, don’t even look at procedurally generated planets like Star Citizen omg. I cannot. The game is pretty but the planets make me want to throw a chair.