Poll: I miss bots! T_T

[Kimarous]

Remember back in the day when online wasn't so mainstream? When it wasn't easy to gather all your friends together for a huge tournament? When you could compensate for this by adding... bots?

*sigh* I remember Perfect Dark, prepping a 10-to-1 deathmatch with nothing but Laptop Guns and Reavers. I remember Battlefield 1942, with AI hordes and allies all about, you as the sole human on the field.

And now... now look at it. Everything is online now. They just log in onto Live or PSN or whatever the hell the standard is for PC games. Nobody has need for bots nowadays... or so the market would think.

I'm sick of all these games where multiplayer has to have actual PLAYERS! Especially these infuriating titles that are more-or-less multiplayer only! I don't want to fight a bunch of strangers, or wait until my friends are online, and I ESPECIALLY don't want to wait forever and a day to enter a match, only to have the experience ruined by one guy with cruddy ping... or, god forbid, those damned hackers!

Bring back bots!

 

[Asturiel]

Bots are still here they are just waiting for the cue to murder us all.

 

[DuplicateValue]

You could just, you know, play the single player campaign.

Plenty of AI to be found there.

 

[David Bray]

I hate online gaming so i would love the return of bots. I suppose you have it slightly in Horde or Firefight and things of that type but i remember the legendary days of Timesplitter 2's bots where i learned their names by heart.

 

[seventy7l]

i like bots atleast they don't scream racist comments

 

[Cherry Cola]

One thing I hate:

Killzone 2 have bots, but no split-screen multiplayer

MW2 has split screen multiplayer but no bots

I just want to play against 36 bots with my friends, is that too much to ask?

There hasn't been a single FPS since Time Splitters 3 that has given me a satisfactory split-screen mode

 

[Composer]

tis more fun to hunt humans....they can reason and be unpredictable

 

[Blood Masque]

You make a great point. My boyfriend and I were talking about this the other day when we tried playing Uncharted 2's multiplayer co-op mission. It took forever with just two players, and he said, "It'd be easier if there was another player even if it was just a computer."

 

[sean.A7x]

Section 8 had bots which is good since no one played it after a few months and you can just have games complete with bots and i think you can on gears aswell

 

[Simalacrum]

Oh God, I miss the days when I had so much fun with the bots on Timesplitters 2...

That game was perfect and so were its bots!

 

[S.R.S.]

Man i would play for hours of killzone 1 with nothing but me, a friend and an army of helghast bots.

I miss that alot....

Aye, me too. Samething happened with KZ2 but they took the bots out with an update.

 

[Urgh76]

i would really enjoy to have bots. Especially for four swords!!! GRRR

 

[RatRace123]

I miss bots too, besides you could use bots to fill up the empty slots in multiplayer games, and possibly bolster multiplayer ranks. Imagine if every multiplayer game had MAG type battles.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Me and my friends were talking about this just the other day. We want to have bots like in Time Splitters: Future Perfect. With two people we could play badass games of capture the flag on that because of bots.

 

[Avatar Roku]

One thing I hate:

Killzone 2 have bots, but no split-screen multiplayer

MW2 has split screen multiplayer but no bots

I just want to play against 36 bots with my friends, is that too much to ask?

There hasn't been a single FPS since Time Splitters 3 that has given me a satisfactory split-screen mode

I can sort of understand the MW2 thing, that's sort of become standard, but how does the thing with Killzone 2 make any goddamned sense? Why would they include bots but not local multiplayer, that's just stupid!

Btw, side note, wasn't your 10,000th post today? How do you already have another hundred posts?

 

[fix-the-spade]

I miss bots too.

Two player BF1942, two teams of 31 bots and a human, it was like first person shooter RTS and it was awesome. Although the argument was always who got to be the allies and fly the B17, personally I preferred the bf109 for it's B17 wrecking capabilities.

Thems were the days.

Yes shooters do need more bots, TF2 is actually getting bots (the betas are available now, hit up the TF2 blog) although the timesacle for when they will be finished....

Battlefield games need bots to return in 64player maps, it's a pain in the ass trying to learn a new map whilst under attack from humans, especially humans in jets.

 

[Cherry Cola]

One thing I hate:

Killzone 2 have bots, but no split-screen multiplayer

MW2 has split screen multiplayer but no bots

I just want to play against 36 bots with my friends, is that too much to ask?

There hasn't been a single FPS since Time Splitters 3 that has given me a satisfactory split-screen mode

I can sort of understand the MW2 thing, that's sort of become standard, but how does the thing with Killzone 2 make any goddamned sense? Why would they include bots but not local multiplayer, that's just stupid!

Btw, side note, wasn't your 10,000th post today? How do you already have another hundred posts?

Skillz

 

[xyrafhoan]

Perfect Dark's selection of bots combined with the ability to give team mate bots tactics really gave some depth to the multiplayer. Some games still have bots but then they don't even have local multiplayer. I definitely miss em. Though I can't say I will ever miss the Dark Sim.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Skillz

Or forum games right?
I miss bots a lot. Timesplitters 2 and 3 on the Gamecube was such a blast with friends and bots

 

[Cherry Cola]

Skillz

Or forum games right?
I miss bots a lot. Timesplitters 2 and 3 on the Gamecube was such a blast with friends and bots

Nope.

Not forum games at all.