Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game
0li0li@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Dreamrunners in DmC need to be opened up. They deny most moves unless you break their combos and don’t get greedy or they will counter hard. They feel scripted a bit tho.
F.E.A.R. soldiers are quite intelligent. They will flank, retreat, suppress and hide. Still the best NPC enemies if you ask me.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 17 hours ago
F.E.A.R. enemies are very good for their time period, but there’s also quite a lot of smoke and mirrors involved that make them appear much smarter than they actually are. The voice lines are a great example, making you think they’re actually much more coordinated and intelligent than they are. The combat arenas are also very deliberately designed in tandem with the AI, both to maximise the efficiency of the AI that exists, but also to give them a bunch of opportunities to do manoeuvres that were unusual for the time - again to further the illusion. Good examples are ledges they can jump over and windows they can smash. It’s a much less smart and dynamic AI than it appears, but these small interactions give the impression of a highly intelligent enemy that interacts with the environment a lot.
They still do do some cool things sometimes though, like retreat and close the door behind them and wait in ambush.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 16 hours ago
That’s all videogame “AI”, though. It’s all basic algorithms that provide an illusion.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 hours ago
Yes of course, I’m not suggesting any video game has any sentient actual intelligence. I’m just using the old terminology where “AI” means “whatever controls enemy and NPC behaviour in the game”.
My point is that even F.E.A.R.'s “Goal Oriented Action Planning” is much less sophisticated and complex than it first appears, thanks to excellent design and clever illusions.