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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.
Personal favorite of mine is "No one lives forever 2"
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 ...
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Puzzle Quest it gets all the best drops those fuckers
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spiderfill
AI Cheats!!@!
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loke662
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...
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umegastar
The AI fucking cheats in that game something fierce. I'm playing through it again on my iPad and FFFFUUU...
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virus
IT cheats like crazy sometimes :(
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MacemanInTW
Totally second. I died without going once a couple of.times. I was wtf, rage quit and then played Far C...
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yldragon
Like others have already stated, the computer is cheating fuck up.
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MechBFP
LOL @ all the "it cheats" posts. Here's a secret:
it doesn't cheat.
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yAak
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HL2
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warcrow
more like HL2 alpha
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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...
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David Craddock
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The Halo games have very good AI, discounting the Flood. Maybe play some Reach Firefight?
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gooblerampling
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I would if I owned a 360. I do hear good things about that games A.I.
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Strid3rtheGreat
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Halo series has the best enemy AI I've every seen. Play on legendary, and they're downright filthy.
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saunders45
Yeah, another vote for Halo series here.
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Johnny Law
Interesting article about Halo's AI: http://aigamedev.com/open/reviews/halo-ai/
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UselessHack
Yep, I agree
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Pettytheft
I also vote for halo.
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threeup
Yup, great AI in those games.
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thetangent
Yeah Halo. Either ODST or Reach in particular.
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marmite
F.E.A.R., even though you can start seeing how it's more excellent faking in a lot of cases rather than e...
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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
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SpaecKow
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FEAR AI wasn't that special. It would do the same things over and over if you replayed a section.
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sigpro
Not in my experience! What difficulty level did you play at?
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SpaecKow
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Perfect Dark.
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Snipergen
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Those Perfect Bots are redonkulus.
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yldragon
Dark bots were a cut above them! I remember a 1 hit kills pistol challenge versus a single dark bot. So...
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Chipwarrior
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Chessmaster.
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lechuck59
Checkmate
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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...
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Sludgehead
Technically it is cheating
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Pandilex
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Crysis? Stalker? Left 4 Dead's Director?
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GrimmyD
Guys run around in circles in crysis and are generally retarded IMO. L4d's ai director is okay, but the ...
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Wheatloaf
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crysis, haha no way
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Milleh
Crysis AI is really smart for the dynamic environment they're in. It was fun to do messed up things to se...
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Flyspeck :.
I thought the Crysis AI was pretty good at first, but then once I started getting ballsy and just running...
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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...
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DeBurgo
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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...
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Matt Burris
I found that the Far Cry AI would always get drawn to an explosion, so I'd have fun sniping a fuel barrel...
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the archvile
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Halo: CE on Legendary. /EOT
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Agrona
I know what you're saying, but there are major differences in their behavior between difficulties. On low...
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saunders45
While that is a method to make someone seem smarter, it's easily seen through if that's all you're doing....
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Rampancy
Far cry 1
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HisKillSkill
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original Half-Life!
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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...
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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...
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PlanetPerfecto
in that case Amnesia must have the best AI ever
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Hemtroll
I am in agreement with you, Perfecto. I also have very fond memories of HL and thought the militar guys w...
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excessus
my fondest memory from HL AI was a marine who after a skirmish shouted "YOU GOT NOTHING!", then tossed me...
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azuvatar
You can disagree but there are facts here. Just look at the facts and you can see who is right and wrong...
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Lucy Labia
I'd argue that most people naturally deconstruct that "raw experience". In fact it's kind of an unavoidab...
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DeBurgo
Scripting that simulates AI may get the job done well, but that doesn't mean it IS AI. AI in games prett...
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DinK
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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...
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BlackCat9
that's exactly my point and reason for mentioning the original. I think it's a compliment to the designer
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PlanetPerfecto
So the assassins are just Boo Diddley's that run away?
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Herman Toothrot
im gonna second this. regardless of whether it was scripted, it was still frighteningly effective.
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vitek r
I loved that. Tricks or not, it felt right. It was effective, esp for the time.
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zakazi
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You haven't played it recently have you? It was good for the time. It hasn't aged well.
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Arcanum
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I'll agree with that - I suppose I make too many assumptions about people understanding that "for it's ti
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PlanetPerfecto
Some people insist that Half-Life has great AI by modern standards, so yeah, you do have to specify. Als...
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Arcanum
Half-life may not have the most advanced AI yet invented, but I loved it. It was just good enough to make...
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Orange Pylon
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Sword of the Stars
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Link.
FUCK the AI in that game - it cheats. >:(
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thetangent
It's funny that while tons of work has been done in AI, to most players there has been very little change...
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SeaLlama
F.E.A.R., the AI was interesting and fun. Shame bout the sequel.
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megarust32
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Quake 2 because the strogg will duck under your rockets!
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braker
I have to admit, this amazed me when I got Quake 2.
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BlackCat9
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braker
There is no middle ground. You either have 5th grade A.I. or RC Pro-AM A.I.
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Wombat Woo
If we're talking consoles, then Halo without a doubt.
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hoov1185
Any monolith games
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stgdz
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daikatana
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Degenerate
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starting with your allies
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vezatron
I did get amazed when Superfly crouched and followed me into a vent; I was so accustomed to Half-Life, wh...
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the archvile
UT
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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 ...
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excessus
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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,...
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the archvile
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Isn't there a shacker who redid the q3 bots?
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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...
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the archvile
I'd love to hear a detailed answer to the op from him.
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Wheatloaf
Yes, I remember the Reapers... but I always thought Mr.Elusive's omicrons were best... IMHO.
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excessus
The reaper bots were ridiculously fun to play against.
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zakazi
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Most of my Quake memories involve Omicron bots. I liked the one dressed as Bill Gates.
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crummynz
hahahah yeah, good memory on that one
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Nitrium
I remember having a lot of fun with the Eraser Bot for quake2. As you the played the map, you dropped a ...
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blender81
Minecraft
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The Wilhelm Scream
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Farcry
I'm gonna shoot you in the face!!!
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sparkly
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Hey you, in the red shirt!!!
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quanta88
Ever manage to throw a grenade into a room with trigens without them seeing you? The result is
hilarious
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Arcanum
The "Resistance" series has pretty spectacular AI in my opinion. I found that the AI would pin me down an...
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Cateroth
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also honorable mention to Thief-Bot in Descent for being such a cunt.
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PlanetPerfecto
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I'd like to develop a Cunt-Bot.
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Dave-A
D-A, shall we join forces in hopes of making this a reality for our cunt-bot craving brothers the world o...
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PlanetPerfecto
Visit Japan. There's bound to be one roaming the streets.
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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...
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UtilityMaximizer
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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...
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PlanetPerfecto
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I didn't even enjoy killing him and getting my stuff back. I was just irritated.
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UtilityMaximizer
you know what was enjoyable? blowing the reactor core then turbo'ing back to mine exit and waiting to pum...
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PlanetPerfecto
Man, fuck that bot. Little bastard.
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JozhGoober
Ruined that series for me.
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cerealSAM2
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Halo 3, ODST, and Reach probably. FEAR 1 and 2 are also fantastic.
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BouillonCubes
I agree with all the Halo votes (on legendary of course), but as good as the enemy AI is, one thing they'...
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ughhhhhhh
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I made a tic tac toe game that you could not beat the AI on...
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TheNiXXeD
How was it at chess?
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thetangent
UT and UT2K4 for enemies. for Teammates I remember SWAT3 having some bad ass AI
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X-GOUKI
sc2 probably.
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twifosp
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Chessmaster
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gyokuro
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Gnu Go
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Herman Toothrot
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gnugo isn't very good :(
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GloriousCow
It's a hell of a lot better than me :( Also it makes decisions so much faster than me that it owns me ...
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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 ...
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chiisu81
I'd hardly consider Carmack an AI programmer. The man is a graphics programmer and he there he knows his...
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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...
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JuffoWup
I thinly you're on to something there. I can't remember any flaws in the Z AI.
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dafugg
system shock, DUH
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spaceless
One more vote for Halo
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shirif
I really like the enemy AI in the first 2 Brothers in Arms games. They would try to counter flanking move...
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silentbobuk
F.E.A.R 1 and 2 and Half Life
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MartyHowe
F.E.A.R. (first game, not the crappier sequel)...and possibly Left 4 Dead. :)
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wytefang
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Tank in L4D pisses me off
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dognose
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The director AI has probably scared the poop out of me more than any other AI.
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BlackCat9
It knows right when you will be the most fucked
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dognose
I really like the AI behaviors in the Halo games.
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kallanta
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Halo(series) *Its not that its AI adds an impossible challenge like most games, its that It works very w...
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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 ...
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mlev
Yea you can catch them individually not making the best tactical decisions, or even hiding on the wrong s...
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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...
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threeup
Yeah, what podung and threeup mentioned. It doesn't just go for Elites. Any enemy by itself can (most tim...
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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...
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dignan
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The ones I named after ex-girlfriends/wives, I could always manage to machine-gun inna face
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dognose
Hahaha
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PixelPie
Unreal Tournament
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hanged_man
Dark Engine AI (Thief / Thief 2 / System Shock 2) Simple, fun and effective (although completely pred...
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Tech T
quake 3 lololololol
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baconisgod
Does SHODAN count?
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swimteampie
PONG
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VegasX
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unreal used to have the best, don't know nowadays. best friendly AI is in Left4Dead though
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razorblade79
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyNS7ZdY1A
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pyide
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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.
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razorblade79
This, while yes L4D A.I. IS flawed it also IS a step forward. It offers a dynamic approach to a problem t...
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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....
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pyide
yeah there's always room for improvements. why don't they use most items for example? but imagine a bot f...
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razorblade79
Gears of War was the first game I played where the AI actually seemed to have some kind of logical proces...
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R@zzle
HL1, FEAR, X-Com: Apocalypse.
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Marrbe
Chessmaster. EOT
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Sludgehead
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I would say NOLF2 and the marines in Half Life.
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HL3dsx
I enjoyed fighting the marines in HL much much more than anything in HL2.
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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...
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ramshot
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Some of the most memorable encounters I had with AI were in the STALKER games, especially versus groups o...
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Poor Yurik
Yeah, the A.I in stalker is either incredibly good or incredibly bad depending on the playthrough. Most o...
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Hemotoxin
Mario Kart 64!
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Do_Or_Die
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Jagged Alliance 2 had a pretty fierce AI on hard.
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Lukiopimp
if you had the patience to watch the turns. I did, and am now missing two weeks of my life to little spri...
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Zolneirz
Halo Reach on Legendary.
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purekillforce
Chess (version big blue uses).
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mobab
FEAR: those clones were pretty decent at times with flanking and forcing me out of cover. Far Cry's AI wa...
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Thund3rball
I thought FEARS AI was pretty ace. Also, Halo Reachs AI is pretty good as well.
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VeshDrown
Half Life F.E.A.R. NOLF 2 Halo
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manlyman
I think its either halo reach or fear 1,2.
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giangfromvietnam