Herd Mentality - Crowd AI for games

I was recently having a conversation with someone and we got to talking about crowd AI in games. It raised some interesting ideas for me, and I decided to explore those a little.

Limited Imagination

It's nothing new to say that the Star Wars prequels harmed the series and the fictional universe as a whole.  Many people say that the original movies even seem to suffer from the damage that the prequels cause.  I have a theory about that, and I think it's also related to one of the big problems in video games today.