A closer look
Game publisher Activision boldly bragged about the advanced "fish AI" during the 2013 reveal event for Call of Duty: Ghosts, promising that the aquatic creatures would realistically swim away from the player when approached. The internet immediately roasted them into oblivion because Super Mario 64 had successfully implemented the exact same fish avoidance behavior seventeen years earlier on far inferior hardware. When a multi-billion dollar studio tries to market incredibly basic coding mechanics as next-generation innovation, you know the creative well has completely dried up. It perfectly encapsulates the modern state of triple-A gaming, where executives care more about hyping up utterly useless graphical flourishes than writing a campaign story that actually makes a lick of logical sense!
