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[Anticitizen One]

Among the, lets face it, countless head scratcher moments from today's conference one thing that mystified me was when the Activision guy said "Yea so next gen we're gonna have more interactivity with the environment if your underwater and go up close to fish the fish will move out of the way!"

But aren't there like hundreds of games this gen that interactivity like that? I mean every bethesda games have animals and insects that move out of your way and i'm very confident fish getting out of the way is nothing new either.

 

[Guevara]

Pretty sure OoT had fish that avoided you.

 

[HotHamWater]

Dude you can lean as well. Truly a first for video games.

 

[cacildo]

XBOX FISH.... MOVE

 

[gryz]

didn't mario 64 have this feature?

Spoiler

I did think it was amazing in 1996 though

 

[greycolumbus]

It brought me back to Super Mario 64, at the very least.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

They've added fish AI. You just can't do that without the mystical power of Xbox One.

 

[Sethos]

Well, they need to sell next-gen to people and that's hard when we've reached the proverbial brick wall of being able to show vast improvements visually in a YouTube video. So you need to say fancy shit like "THE FISH MOVES" or "TREES BLOWING IN THE WIND, RAWR"

 

[Warm Machine]

No, and it was a terrible demonstration of what they were talking about.

 

[Billen]

A bit miffed that they didn't show real time weapon change.

 

[Iacobellis]

The new "realtime weapon change".

 

[2San]

It's a revolution for people who have done nothing more than rehash other peoples work I guess.

 

[linko9]

And let's not forget, climbing a short wall in Killzone could never be done on previous generations of consoles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlu3e9kdks

Truly some next-gen features we're seeing.

 

[Grampasso]

Endless Ocean anyone?

 

[commedieu]

I'm just glad that in 2013, I can finally customize a multiplayer character. Thank you COD for innovating this feature.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

The CoD showing at the end was just the icing on the cake for the whole presentation really. Terribad!

 

[DaBoss]

I was laughing out loud when I heard that. That was only amazing during the N64 generation.

 

[Willy Wanka]

Curvy guns.

 

[Majanew]

It's obviously very power hungry. That's why COD looked like current gen ass compared to the totally not CGi FM5/EA Sports footage. No fish.

 

[Hypron]

I love how they outright said "this time, we added an AI system".

 

[Darryl]

Pretty sure OoT had fish that avoided you.

yea i'm pretty sure i remember this in the fishing minigame. that's the earliest example i can think of

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

 

[MiniBossBattle]

If <Player> [Check sum 1.5 meters] <self> then [action]

 

[fabricated backlash]

Pretty sure OoT had fish that avoided you.

Yep.

holy crap... lol

 

[SkyOdin]

The entire CoD Ghost presentation felt like a comedy routine of some sort.

 

[BadAss2961]

Dude you can lean as well. Truly a first for video games.

Beat me to it.

 

[Yasae]

Expecting "next gen" from CoD is truly the height of lunacy. That game has stayed the same for an entire generation.

 

[Santiako]

If <Player> [offline] <self> then [turn off]

.

 

[140.85]

If <Player> [Check sum 1.5 meters] <self> then [action]

Seriously. How is this anything new?

 

[BlackGoku03]

I watched that part live and was thinking... "Really? That's one of the things you mention as a feature on a next-gen game?"

Silly.

 

[PhatSaqs]

lmao.

 

[soul creator]

this is what Chris Hecker was getting at when he made that Fair Use video.

It may still turn out to be an enjoyable game of course, but big budget AAA games in existing franchises/genres are simply not gonna have much "revolutionary" to talk about during a flashy conference.

 

[AnbaLeumas]

C'mon, guys. Hair on your arms is truly next gen.

 

[Ferrio]

Good. I'm tired of these games with fish in the way.

 

[eternalb]

Mario 64 already did this

http://youtu.be/vxKdRV1BiQ0?t=22s

 

[Lulubop]

"MW3 was state of the art".

 

[Muffdraul]

FINALLY. Fish refusing to get out of my way has been one of my biggest pet peeves for like the last four generations.

 

[Beermeister]

Dat AI.

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

No... Arm hair on a FPS is

 

[nhlducks35]

"We could've just done MW4, but no, we decided to take some risks"

Um...

 

[Broder Salsa]

Did you see that realistic CoD arm on that soldier?

 

[PapaJustify]

Was thinking the same... so lame.

And the mainstream press is even hyping up that shit... oh boy.

 

[Demon Ice]

Every single thing they touted as "new" or "next gen" has been available in games for the longest time. The ability to lean, slide to cover, mantle, fish getting out of the way, fluid dynamics...nothing new. Was laughable.

 

[SniperHunter]

Volumetric fish movement brah

 

[Papercuts]

Have you played CoD on veteran? That fish AI is clearly the most complex shit they've ever done.

 

[AAK]

It's pretty obvious current generation could have easily lasted another 3 years.

 

[udivision]

There is very little that "couldn't be done" on old consoles from what I've seen of next gen so far. Surprise surprise, it's all about how much better the graphics are, not really better ideas. Obviously, more powerful hardware and new kinds of hardware help deliver these better.

 

[toastyToast]

MOVE FISH

GET OUT THE WAY

 

[Stitch]

you can also leap over walls. truly a next gen game.

 

[BrightEyedPanic]

I kind of wanted to run into the fish.