We're all well aware that the angle we have on a movie's action is very much limited and doesn't show the real world where cameras, film crew and extras are waiting in the wings, but the same goes for games too. Whatever you aren't looking at might not be the same as when you are looking at it, as is perfectly evidenced by a mod created for The Witcher 3 which lets you see what the world looks like when you aren't looking at it.
It turns out that everyones' faces melt, for some reason.
The mod is one that re-enables the debug menu for the game, so what PCGamer did was take Geralt to the edge of a town and then fly back using the manual camera and what it found was pretty disturbing. Most of the characters' faces seem to render in a bizarre fashion,
Not everyone's faces seem to fall apart like the end of Last Crusade, but it does seem to do weird things to them like make their heads fall off, or drop into their mid-section and they certainly don't get up to much when Geralt isn't about to shame them with his raw, Witcher masculinity.
Lazy peasants.
