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    Which video game has the best enemy A.I.? I'm looking for a game new or old that has A.I. Smarter than a 5th grader.

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    Jan 12, 2011 5:01pm PST
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    Which video game has the best enemy A.I.? I'm looking for a game new or old that has A.I. Smarter than a ... : Strid3rtheGreat

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      Puzzle Quest it gets all the best drops those fuckers : spiderfill
      • AI Cheats!!@! : loke662This person is cool!
      • I don't think so, it gives me many 4 in a rows and combos where he could do better. and what he does w... : umegastar
      • The AI fucking cheats in that game something fierce. I'm playing through it again on my iPad and FFFFUUU... : virusThis person is cool!
      • IT cheats like crazy sometimes :( : MacemanInTW
      • Totally second. I died without going once a couple of.times. I was wtf, rage quit and then played Far C... : yldragon
      • Like others have already stated, the computer is cheating fuck up. : MechBFP
      • LOL @ all the "it cheats" posts. Here's a secret: it doesn't cheat. : yAakThis person is cool!
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      HL2 : warcrowThis person is cool!
      • more like HL2 alpha : hanged_man
      • Hell no, son. HL1's AI was better than HL2's. Maybe not on paper, as I'm sure the AI was supposed to be b... : David Craddock
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      The Halo games have very good AI, discounting the Flood. Maybe play some Reach Firefight? : gooblerampling
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        I would if I owned a 360. I do hear good things about that games A.I. : Strid3rtheGreat
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          Halo series has the best enemy AI I've every seen. Play on legendary, and they're downright filthy. : saunders45
          • Yeah, another vote for Halo series here. : Johnny LawThis person is cool!
          • Interesting article about Halo's AI: http://aigamedev.com/open/reviews/halo-ai/ : UselessHack
          • Yep, I agree : PettytheftThis person is cool!
      • I also vote for halo. : threeup
      • Yup, great AI in those games. : thetangentThis person is cool!
      • Yeah Halo. Either ODST or Reach in particular. : marmiteThis person is cool!
    • F.E.A.R., even though you can start seeing how it's more excellent faking in a lot of cases rather than e... : ColoradoCNC
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      I didn't notice the AI in NOLF being genius but it was good. Best AI though is prob FEAR or Far Cry : SpaecKowThis person is cool!
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        FEAR AI wasn't that special. It would do the same things over and over if you replayed a section. : sigproThis person is cool!
        • Not in my experience! What difficulty level did you play at? : SpaecKowThis person is cool!
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      Perfect Dark. : Snipergen
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        Those Perfect Bots are redonkulus. : yldragon
        • Dark bots were a cut above them! I remember a 1 hit kills pistol challenge versus a single dark bot. So... : Chipwarrior
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      Chessmaster. : lechuck59This person is cool!
      • Checkmate : Strid3rtheGreat
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        You beat me to it by like 12 hours. I don't know how anyone can dispute a chess engine as the absolute b... : SludgeheadThis person is cool!
        • Technically it is cheating : Pandilex
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      Crysis? Stalker? Left 4 Dead's Director? : GrimmyD
      • Guys run around in circles in crysis and are generally retarded IMO. L4d's ai director is okay, but the ... : Wheatloaf
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        crysis, haha no way : Milleh
        • Crysis AI is really smart for the dynamic environment they're in. It was fun to do messed up things to se... : Flyspeck :.
      • I thought the Crysis AI was pretty good at first, but then once I started getting ballsy and just running... : jeffcox111
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      it always feels like no matter how smart a game's ai is advertised to be, you can always catch it doing s... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
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        Yeah, everyone was goo-goo-ga-ga about Far Cry. Then I played it and near the start I climbed a watchtow... : Matt BurrisThis person is cool!
        • I found that the Far Cry AI would always get drawn to an explosion, so I'd have fun sniping a fuel barrel... : the archvileThis person is cool!
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      Halo: CE on Legendary. /EOT : saunders45
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        I remember a talk or article from the guys at Bungie and someone made the statement that during play test... : Agrona
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          I've beaten Halo: CE at least a dozen times on legendary. I don't think it's an increased HP amount at al... : saunders45
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            I've beaten Halo as well and I'm not convinced that there aren't just more of them, but I wasn't really t... : Agrona
            • I know what you're saying, but there are major differences in their behavior between difficulties. On low... : saunders45
        • While that is a method to make someone seem smarter, it's easily seen through if that's all you're doing.... : RampancyThis person is cool!
        • Far cry 1 : HisKillSkill
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      original Half-Life! : PlanetPerfecto
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        what no. I love HL a lot, possibly the best game ever. The AI wasn't good though. It was scripted the who... : shirif
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          see, that's where you and I disagree. speaking only for myself, the entire point of a successful A.I. imp... : PlanetPerfecto
          • in that case Amnesia must have the best AI ever : Hemtroll
          • I am in agreement with you, Perfecto. I also have very fond memories of HL and thought the militar guys w... : excessusThis person is cool!
          • my fondest memory from HL AI was a marine who after a skirmish shouted "YOU GOT NOTHING!", then tossed me... : azuvatarThis person is cool!
          • You can disagree but there are facts here. Just look at the facts and you can see who is right and wrong... : Lucy LabiaThis person is cool!
          • I'd argue that most people naturally deconstruct that "raw experience". In fact it's kind of an unavoidab... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
          • Scripting that simulates AI may get the job done well, but that doesn't mean it IS AI. AI in games prett... : DinKThis person is cool!
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        From what I've heard, a lot of the brilliant AI in Half-Life was due to simple tricks and well designed l... : BlackCat9This person is cool!
        • that's exactly my point and reason for mentioning the original. I think it's a compliment to the designer : PlanetPerfecto
        • So the assassins are just Boo Diddley's that run away? : Herman Toothrot
      • im gonna second this. regardless of whether it was scripted, it was still frighteningly effective. : vitek r
      • I loved that. Tricks or not, it felt right. It was effective, esp for the time. : zakazi
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        You haven't played it recently have you? It was good for the time. It hasn't aged well. : ArcanumThis person is cool!
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          I'll agree with that - I suppose I make too many assumptions about people understanding that "for it's ti : PlanetPerfecto
          • Some people insist that Half-Life has great AI by modern standards, so yeah, you do have to specify. Als... : ArcanumThis person is cool!
      • Half-life may not have the most advanced AI yet invented, but I loved it. It was just good enough to make... : Orange Pylon
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      Sword of the Stars : Link.
      • FUCK the AI in that game - it cheats. >:( : thetangentThis person is cool!
    • It's funny that while tons of work has been done in AI, to most players there has been very little change... : SeaLlamaThis person is cool!
    • F.E.A.R., the AI was interesting and fun. Shame bout the sequel. : megarust32This person is cool!
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      Quake 2 because the strogg will duck under your rockets! : brakerThis person is cool!
      • I have to admit, this amazed me when I got Quake 2. : BlackCat9This person is cool!
      • ok : brakerThis person is cool!
    • There is no middle ground. You either have 5th grade A.I. or RC Pro-AM A.I. : Wombat WooThis person is cool!
    • If we're talking consoles, then Halo without a doubt. : hoov1185
    • Any monolith games : stgdzThis person is cool!
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      daikatana : DegenerateThis person is cool!
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        starting with your allies : vezatronThis person is cool!
        • I did get amazed when Superfly crouched and followed me into a vent; I was so accustomed to Half-Life, wh... : the archvileThis person is cool!
    • UT : alexvj
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      First IA I got amazed with: Omicron bots, for Quake 1. For gods sake... those bots were able to play ANY ... : excessusThis person is cool!
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        Steve Polge made the Reaper Bot for Quake 1, and then joined Epic and did the AI in Unreal, UT99, UT2003,... : the archvileThis person is cool!
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          Isn't there a shacker who redid the q3 bots? : Wheatloaf
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            Yes, tedv, he made Brainworks. I still have it sitting around; I should fire up Q3 and play with those b... : the archvileThis person is cool!
            • I'd love to hear a detailed answer to the op from him. : Wheatloaf
        • Yes, I remember the Reapers... but I always thought Mr.Elusive's omicrons were best... IMHO. : excessusThis person is cool!
        • The reaper bots were ridiculously fun to play against. : zakazi
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        Most of my Quake memories involve Omicron bots. I liked the one dressed as Bill Gates. : crummynzThis person is cool!
        • hahahah yeah, good memory on that one : NitriumThis person is cool!
    • I remember having a lot of fun with the Eraser Bot for quake2. As you the played the map, you dropped a ... : blender81This person is cool!
    • Minecraft : The Wilhelm Scream
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      Farcry I'm gonna shoot you in the face!!! : sparklyThis person is cool!
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        Hey you, in the red shirt!!! : quanta88This person is cool!
        • Ever manage to throw a grenade into a room with trigens without them seeing you? The result is hilarious : ArcanumThis person is cool!
    • The "Resistance" series has pretty spectacular AI in my opinion. I found that the AI would pin me down an... : Cateroth
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      also honorable mention to Thief-Bot in Descent for being such a cunt. : PlanetPerfecto
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        I'd like to develop a Cunt-Bot. : Dave-A
        • D-A, shall we join forces in hopes of making this a reality for our cunt-bot craving brothers the world o... : PlanetPerfecto
        • Visit Japan. There's bound to be one roaming the streets. : Orange Pylon
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        Thief-Bot always seemed like an odd design choice to me. It seemed to be carefully designed to piss off a... : UtilityMaximizerThis person is cool!
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          True. It really did piss me the hell off. If that was the intent, they did a bloody good job. It was sati... : PlanetPerfecto
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            I didn't even enjoy killing him and getting my stuff back. I was just irritated. : UtilityMaximizerThis person is cool!
            • you know what was enjoyable? blowing the reactor core then turbo'ing back to mine exit and waiting to pum... : PlanetPerfecto
      • Man, fuck that bot. Little bastard. : JozhGoober
      • Ruined that series for me. : cerealSAM2This person is cool!
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      Halo 3, ODST, and Reach probably. FEAR 1 and 2 are also fantastic. : BouillonCubes
      • I agree with all the Halo votes (on legendary of course), but as good as the enemy AI is, one thing they'... : ughhhhhhh
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      I made a tic tac toe game that you could not beat the AI on... : TheNiXXeDThis person is cool!
      • How was it at chess? : thetangentThis person is cool!
    • UT and UT2K4 for enemies. for Teammates I remember SWAT3 having some bad ass AI : X-GOUKIThis person is cool!
    • sc2 probably. : twifosp
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      Chessmaster : gyokuro
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        Gnu Go : Herman Toothrot
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          gnugo isn't very good :( : GloriousCowThis person is cool!
          • It's a hell of a lot better than me :( Also it makes decisions so much faster than me that it owns me ... : Herman Toothrot
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      No game does. No-one can apparently get it right. Even fuckin Carmack had to fly in a European for Quake ... : chiisu81
      • I'd hardly consider Carmack an AI programmer. The man is a graphics programmer and he there he knows his... : Herman Toothrot
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      Z. Or maybe the gameplay itself was just too hard. Anytime I tried to take one factory, the ai would ta... : JuffoWupThis person is cool!
      • I thinly you're on to something there. I can't remember any flaws in the Z AI. : dafugg
    • system shock, DUH : spaceless
    • One more vote for Halo : shirif
    • I really like the enemy AI in the first 2 Brothers in Arms games. They would try to counter flanking move... : silentbobuk
    • F.E.A.R 1 and 2 and Half Life : MartyHowe
    • F.E.A.R. (first game, not the crappier sequel)...and possibly Left 4 Dead. :) : wytefangThis person is cool!
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      Tank in L4D pisses me off : dognoseThis person is cool!
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        The director AI has probably scared the poop out of me more than any other AI. : BlackCat9This person is cool!
        • It knows right when you will be the most fucked : dognoseThis person is cool!
    • I really like the AI behaviors in the Halo games. : kallantaThis person is cool!
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      Halo(series) *Its not that its AI adds an impossible challenge like most games, its that It works very w... : podung
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        Everyone keeps saying halo halo, but I really don't think even the legendary ai is all that great. There ... : mlev
        • Yea you can catch them individually not making the best tactical decisions, or even hiding on the wrong s... : podung
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          they have had a 'flee and regroup' mechanic, and are aggessive at points, flanking too. it isn't that t... : threeup
          • Yeah, what podung and threeup mentioned. It doesn't just go for Elites. Any enemy by itself can (most tim... : ughhhhhhh
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      Unreal series always had the best I've played. So many hours logged in the 1st game cuz I had a shitty c... : dignanThis person is cool!
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        The ones I named after ex-girlfriends/wives, I could always manage to machine-gun inna face : dognoseThis person is cool!
        • Hahaha : PixelPie
    • Unreal Tournament : hanged_man
    • Dark Engine AI (Thief / Thief 2 / System Shock 2) Simple, fun and effective (although completely pred... : Tech T
    • quake 3 lololololol : baconisgod
    • Does SHODAN count? : swimteampie
    • PONG : VegasX
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      unreal used to have the best, don't know nowadays. best friendly AI is in Left4Dead though : razorblade79This person is cool!
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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyNS7ZdY1A : pyideThis person is cool!
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          yeah they fuck up, so what. show me a better team ai in any other game.overall they are really good. : razorblade79This person is cool!
          • This, while yes L4D A.I. IS flawed it also IS a step forward. It offers a dynamic approach to a problem t... : Hemotoxin
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            I know it's a bad example, it just makes me laugh. I don't really know what's so great about them though.... : pyideThis person is cool!
            • yeah there's always room for improvements. why don't they use most items for example? but imagine a bot f... : razorblade79This person is cool!
    • Gears of War was the first game I played where the AI actually seemed to have some kind of logical proces... : R@zzle
    • HL1, FEAR, X-Com: Apocalypse. : Marrbe
    • Chessmaster. EOT : SludgeheadThis person is cool!
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      I would say NOLF2 and the marines in Half Life. : HL3dsx
      • I enjoyed fighting the marines in HL much much more than anything in HL2. : Chipwarrior
    • I'll go for Halo 3, simply because it made me go "well, I didn't expect that" more than any other game. T... : ramshot
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      Some of the most memorable encounters I had with AI were in the STALKER games, especially versus groups o... : Poor YurikThis person is cool!
      • Yeah, the A.I in stalker is either incredibly good or incredibly bad depending on the playthrough. Most o... : Hemotoxin
    • Mario Kart 64! : Do_Or_DieThis person is cool!
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      Jagged Alliance 2 had a pretty fierce AI on hard. : LukiopimpThis person is cool!
      • if you had the patience to watch the turns. I did, and am now missing two weeks of my life to little spri... : Zolneirz
    • Halo Reach on Legendary. : purekillforce
    • Chess (version big blue uses). : mobab
    • FEAR: those clones were pretty decent at times with flanking and forcing me out of cover. Far Cry's AI wa... : Thund3rball
    • I thought FEARS AI was pretty ace. Also, Halo Reachs AI is pretty good as well. : VeshDrown
    • Half Life F.E.A.R. NOLF 2 Halo : manlymanThis person is cool!
    • I think its either halo reach or fear 1,2. : giangfromvietnam