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Video games are filled with tricks to make things easier to render. Even though they are technically lies, I personally wouldn't call them lies since they are just ways of displaying something without having to do expensive computations.

now you gotta add a huge horrifying fish creature that eats you if you wander too far out and traumatizes the player for life

Coming up: "How games lie to you about air", followed by "Games lie to you about rocks" and "Games lie to you about humans". Can't wait.

To be fair, games are also lying to you about air.

literally NOTHING in a game is real, not just water, water is usually over-analyzed like this because it looks cool and for a long time it was always a "novelty" to have it done correctly.

Came for the water, stayed for the funny witch game development logs.

6:20 the main character of rdr2 is Arthur Morgan, Marston is after arthur dies and Arthur can swim on surface level for a while

7:03 "under water areas also create the expectation that there's something to do" So Fallout 4 with it's cut content of an underwater vault where you fight a kraken at the end. There was at least one person who spent several hours swimming through every inch of Fallout 4's waters to see if there were any secrets and found nothing. It's a travesty we didn't even get under water content in a DLC

Something I would like to see in a game is the wavelength of light being scattered as you get deeper

I don't care one iota. I don't want developers wasting half their resources making you water nuts happy.

Water in games are not real water because, water is from real life and not in games