Most annoying AI in a game
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Escort missions. We're trying to escape from this place, yet you insist on walking every fucking second unless you see something that doesn't want you to escape. In which case you decide to run at it and get it pissed at you, so I have to save your dumb ass. And when they're dead you insist on running BACK TO WHERE YOU WERE WHEN YOU SPOTTED THEM SO YOU CAN KEEP WALKING!!! Oh, and did I mention that you aren't satisfied with the escort until we've gone halfway across the fucking region???
Also, I just love how the guards in Oblivion instantly know that YOU are the one who killed the other guard. Who was out in the middle of nowhere. With absolutely no witnesses, not even a butterfly. WHEN I 1-SHOTTED HIM WITH A SNEAK ATTACK AND 100% CHAMELEON!!!
Also, I just love how the guards in Oblivion instantly know that YOU are the one who killed the other guard. Who was out in the middle of nowhere. With absolutely no witnesses, not even a butterfly. WHEN I 1-SHOTTED HIM WITH A SNEAK ATTACK AND 100% CHAMELEON!!!
Hardly; the same instinct would have moths fly into a naturally-occuring fire, and it isn't our fault that their method of navigation is based on light intensity and nothing else.FalloutJack said:
Most AI glitches are typically errors in the world surrounding the AI versus the rules it's programmed to operate under. The moth's instinct to fly towards bright light even if it dies in the process is an apt demonstration of the complete inflexibility of a hardwired instinct, and one that will be familiar to any gamer since we've all seen armoured space marines slamming their heads into walls they think they should be able to walk through.
An individual moth's instincts aren't subject to evolution; learning is something that happens in the individual's lifetime, and no individual moth will ever go from a state of following the brightest thing in the sky to identifying the moon based on more complex rules. This is like saying there may eventually be a sequel that fixes the dodgy AI; maybe, but that doesn't change what it's doing now.FalloutJack said:
You probably are. RE5 was an epic fail for me and all of my friends because it was only fun if you play in the same room together. The AI was terrible on Single player, and some people are even worse playing online. The fact is, I died more because of Sheva's mistakes than any of the other threats in the game. Especially when she used the valuable First Aid Sprays on me when I wasn't hurt that bad.LordCuthberton said:
The only way I could forgive RE5 would be if Capcom included a button for slapping her ***** ass every time she does something stupid. They could even let you combo it by smacking her ass, uppercutting her, or pressing X for her to make you a sandwich.
Maybe then... I could forgive RE5 and the $60 I wasted.
Oh, for crying out loud... You MUST be a programmer to be taking a position like this and fighting it down to the raw skin of your teeth. Well, in order, then...Evil Tim said:
{1} It IS our fault because we don't question how a species evolved as right or wrong, whereas the lantern is an artificial thing.
{2} The faults of programming are the faults of the one writing it.
{3} There is a keen difference between light and solid walls and how they should ever be responded to.
{4} I don't do individuals and that's not what I was talking about anyway, so nevermind your analogies.
{5} Could you please try to be more concise?
So? We do things that benefit us. We require light to navigate, so we create light. The moth's program is inflexible, so it destroys itself due to the new light source. The problem is that the moth's programming is too simplistic for them to adapt to a situation where additional strong light sources are present; the existence of a species that creates strong light to see by just demonstrates this.FalloutJack said:
Then you might consider the faults of natural reflex to be fundamental to the organisms themselves.FalloutJack said:
Not really; from the perspective of instinct / program, all that matters is what the response applied to a given thing is. A fly doesn't know what a pane of glass is any more than a game AI knows what a poorly-programmed wall is; their programming tells them that there should be nothing there, so they collide with it repeatedly.FalloutJack said:
We're straying from topic here with that line of discussion and it's getting to the point where either we agree to disagree or one of us has to die in a knife-fight, because this is getting exactly nowhere and neither of us is going to be convinced. So, I'm going to end it now and if I hear a snide remark about it, I will be most offended.Evil Tim said:
Say good night, Evil Tim.
so i've basically gathered that the most unpopular AIs among players are: the Oblivion NPCs, Sheva, and the L4D2 AI allies. is there one that was repeatedly mentioned that i missed?
I'd say L4D2 has really annoying AI, i dont need to know every time you see stairs or have to reload
The AI in RE5 was just embarrassing. I've seen enemys get stuck behind fences but to just stop and spin is just strange. And your partner is pathetic excuse for a AI partner.
Ah. I assumed they just couldn't handle life, seeing people gunned down every second in the city and they commited suicide.Programmed_For_Damage said:
