Artificial Intelligence

[xcellerate]

Games where the AI is only there to look pretty upset me. MW2 is an example, you're pretty much a one man army. If you and a teammate run out from behind cover, all available enemies will target you over your teammate. I remember one time watching my teammates and the single remaining enemy 'battle it out', ie horribly shooting AROUND each other giving the illusion of helping. I sat there for about 30 seconds, nobody hit anybody, so finally I shot the guy twice and moved on. I mean...I know we are special forces but I didn't think we were special forces.

So many jungle games have horrible AI as well, far cry I'm looking at you. Why can't the developers have a function to determine player visibility from an enemy's perspective, if the player runs into the jungle and becomes less than 5% visible the enemy should start randomly firing into the area the player disappeared in. Then maybe have the AI walk into that area of the jungle. But instead they just replaced the AI's eyes with thermal imaging sniper scopes.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

Good:

Fear

Best AI I have ever seen in a first person shooter.

Also Unreal

Excellent for its time and still not that bad. Feign death was classic.

Killzone 2 also had very good AI.

Bad:

Cod 5 for goodness sake. All they had to do was stand there and shoot and they even managed to screw that up.

Ugly:

Anyone who tried to ghost Deus ex will think this. I got to the bit where you surrender and go to UNATCO and gave up because of how horrible the AI was. Terrible even by stealth games standard. That's how bad it is. Even combat AI is horrible.

 

[Gorgon]

Good AI:
FEAR and Original RIDICK game

Very GOOD AI:
Batman

Bad AI:
All other games LOL!

 

[Gargantou]

Good AI:
FEAR and Original RIDICK game

Very GOOD AI:
Batman

Bad AI:
All other games LOL!

Bad I:
Gorgon

Sorry love, I just couldn't resist!

AI in all videogames are bad tbh if you really want to get down to the nuts and bolts, it's just that some games are better at emulating intelligence than others. The term "Artificial Intelligence" is incorrectly used in videogames and what you see in most games is merely an illusion of intelligence as character NPCs aren't self-aware.

Correct, but does this really matter to the consumer?

If you can get an NPC that SEEMS to act like a human, but isn't self-aware, does it really matter?

Besides, personally I hope we stay the **** away from making a self-aware AI.

We all know it will just take over the world and try to mate with our women using weird cybernetic 'worm-like' things it creates in the basements of our houses!! I SAW IT IN A MOVIE!

 

[the cow says moo]

Bad AI:

Red Faction: Guerrilla
That was some piss poor AI.

 

[PorkPi]

Best AI:

Portal.

You deserve a medal!

 

[Saturos]

I see someone has been playing Mass Effect.

I was wondering if someone would find that little easter egg. :dork:

It's makes alot of sense though. It should officially become a real world term imo.


EDIT> "Virtual Intelligence" is now a real term because I said so.

If a scholar with a PhD in computer science disagrees with me, said doctorate degree would then become void.

 

[Saturos]

*user malfunction*