Submitted 15 hours ago by RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml to games@lemmy.world
Like changing attack in response to your actions.
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.
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.
That’s all videogame “AI”, though. It’s all basic algorithms that provide an illusion.
Presses F.
Nightmare fuel.
Press F to ~pay respects~ outrun the yeti.
Not an enemy, but Kaepora Gaebora (the owl) from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Feels like every time you talk with him and try to skip the dialog by mashing A, the question changes and you get stuck having to hear him repeat what he was saying.
Suddenly I hear the song
Haven’t played it much, but I’d assume there is some enemy in dwarf fortress with 30 years of development.
Dwarf Fortress is a boss fight of video games unto itself.
havent played prey but it has heaps of praise for its AI
the raider AI in fallout 4 is pretty good, they are kinda smart for some drugged out maniacs
Second this for Pray. It was quite the experience for me.
Before that I loved Half Life 2s AI.
HL2 was amazing. Playing Alyx as well gave me the creeps hiding from Combine. I loved it.
HL1 had AI that was so good for the late 90s it ruined games for me
I kinda feel halflife soldiers are pretty smart.
Not necessarily smart, but very aware: a lot of NPCs in Red Dead Redemption 2.
They’ll often comment about Aurther when his clothes are bloody, dirty, he has long facial hair, etc. One of the NPCs in your main camp will complain if you stay in the camp for a while.
It really makes the world feel alive.
One of the NPCs in your main camp will complain if you stay in the camp for a while.
This one annoyed me, to be honest. He’s like “Arthur, Arthur, you need to go out and earn some money for the camp!”, but when you look at the logbook most of the NPCs are bringing in about a dollar fifty per day in pocket watches and so on, whereas I’ve paid in over a thousand bucks in the past week and have singlehandedly bankrolled every single improvement to the camp since the game’s start. Ungrateful sons of bitches…
They’ll also come looking for you if you avoid the camp
I’m not sure if it is boss or not, but the xenomorph in Alien: Isolation has a great AI that does some wickedly mean things.
It’s AI is actually really interestingly implemented. In most games involving stealth the AI knows where you are but is programmed to ignore you if you’re crunched in bushes or something. But in alien isolation it genuinely doesn’t know where you are, there is a master control AI that does no way you are and it directs the xenomorph to your approximate location but then it has to use its AI to look for you.
I’m not quite sure what the advantage of doing it that way is but it’s certainly an interesting approach. Of course it’s not an original approach, left 4 dead did it decades ago but it is rarely done this way.
Left for dead […] decades ago
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Far Cry 2 gets an honorable mention for scary realistic flanking and rush mechanics. Shame Ubisoft lobotomized them for the sequels.
Not sure if you’d count it as a boss but the Alien in Alien Isolation is pretty good.
Two games I remember for having tons of interactions are Hitman (World of Assassination) and Breath of the Wild.
It’s all a lot of preprogrammed, precise reactions you can count on, but they’re built to let the player schedule out specific ways of outsmarting enemies, and they’re made to sometimes be overwhelming in a straight, brute force fight.
My favorite moment in Breath of the Wild was when I put a balloon on a piece of meat, blew it to the edge of a cliff, and all the Bokoblins saw it drop and followed it. Then I came out and blew them off the cliff.
The Executioners in Bloodborne. Fuckers.
Strelok from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Shadow of Chernobyl
The enemy behavior in FEAR was very good, especially in groups. They didn’t just attack bluntly from the front but also flanked you and other stuff.
Maybe the memory is some nostalgia, but it was really good at that time.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl all NPCs. The intelligence ranges from impressive squad tactics that intelligently flank and corner you or flush you out with grenades to a group of dudes in a huddle walking straight into a wall, though
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve nearly pissed myself because an enemy NPC crept up behind me and put a round in the back of my head while I was busy doing something else. I’m not sure which of the STALKER games has the best AI but it can get really clever. I’ve never played another game that has enemies that can spot you from a distance, recognise that you are an enemy and you that haven’t spotted them back, and then sneak up to you to assassinate you stealthily. You might’ve never even known they were there in the level with you until you’re staring at the game over screen.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
That’s of course why a lot of games don’t implement AI like that. It works for some genres but you wouldn’t want smart AI in Call Of Duty or Doom because it would ruin the immersion of you as a super soldier.