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"He's cheating damn it!"

One thing I hate in games more than when some spotty 15 years old kid activates the infinite life cheat in an online game is when computer controlled players decide to do the same thing.

Take Mario Kart 64. After doing a HUGE cheat yourself, thus putting the rest of the pack a lap down, they somehow always managed to gain huge amounts of ground on you by the end of the race- how?

Now that is just plain annoying. But what's even worse is when the game developer makes their characters cheat to hide flaws in AI. So, for example, you could give them perfect shooting accuracy to make up for the fact they will randomly walk out from doorways rather than wait for you to blindly walk in!

You know, it never really strickes you how bad AI is until you do things you're not expected to do. So, instead of going out of the underground bunker, you instead run back inside it, and hide in a room. At which point a million guards all run to where you are, knowing your exact position! Complete nonsense!

In all honesty, the only game I've played in the last year that really does make the computer characters have their own intelligence, rather than giving them a load of preprogrammed scenarios, is Halo. The computer players will wait until you need to reload, they have an eliment of randomness to their attacks so they never do the same thing twice (even if you do), and they even (SHOCK) make mistakes as human players will. On harder settings they seem to act like more advanced human players- not just computer players with higher accuracy ratings!

But enough ranting about one game- why don't developers make great AI for their computer characters. Developers like Bungie and Halo put in months of effort, so why not many more?

Well, the answer is that if they keep supplying gamers with non-inteligent computer players, then gamers will just not know the difference. And it's true! Enemies now are no more advanced than they were in Goldeneye... and looking at the game, the enemies literally had no brains in that!

So, why code a great AI engine when you can just adapt a new one with a few more scenarios- how about having enemies beg for their lives every so often when you shoot the gun out of their hands? In the short term it sounds great, but in the long term it just means that the whole intelignece in games is being lost.

sonic

and what I'm doing isn't forbidden either.

If you don't want to read what I have said then don't look at the post.

you are allowed to stray from the point in topics not that it is forbidden. Because if everyone had to make a thread every time someone wanted to say something different then that would be spam

and have a look back down this topic and see how many things you've said that don't have a thing to do with the topic at all.

Well, Tony says one thing that was a bit irrelavent (ie "he has a point")

At least he doesn't wuote long messages to say this, or do it 2 times in as many minutes!

Sonic

i submit new information or details you just go


"there is nothing i would add to that which has not been already said"


^that is spam

And your friend Tony ain't spamming is he?

he has got a point

Afro, please stop spamming... it's just plain annoying...

You're quoting whole messages just to say "I agree" and not much more....

Sonic

AfroJoe wrote:
> Tony_Blair wrote:
> a la Perfect Dark?

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They weren't as smart as
> they could be in Perfect Dark.




pardon monseuir!!!!!!!!

Tony_Blair wrote:
> a la Perfect Dark?

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They weren't as smart as they could be in Perfect Dark.