"Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. These two games feature the most scripted A.I. in the history of video games. And yet, I love the A.I. of both games. They're programmed to react differently to your different actions and while everything is pre-programmed and you'll learn just how scripted it is by the time you're about half-done with the game, there're so many different scripts to the A.I., that as predictable as they are, you'll en up having a lot of unique and unpredictable moments in those two games."
"Creatures is an artificial life program where the user ‘hatches’ small furry animals and teaches them how to behave. These “Norms” can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures.
It’s the first popular application of machine learning into an interactive simulation.
Neural networks are used by the creatures to learn what to do. The game is regarded as a breakthrough in alife research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment."
So I am sure that no matter at how good MGS 3 might get, given I am specifically putting attention to this aspect (and that I am not really interested in stunning graphics and such), at some point I will surely notice its scripted behaviour...
Thanks for the suggestion though, it might still be a good game to play. :)
Quoting from: http://voices.yahoo.com/what-good-ai-bad-ai-7633798.html
"Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. These two games feature the most scripted A.I. in the history of video games. And yet, I love the A.I. of both games. They're programmed to react differently to your different actions and while everything is pre-programmed and you'll learn just how scripted it is by the time you're about half-done with the game, there're so many different scripts to the A.I., that as predictable as they are, you'll en up having a lot of unique and unpredictable moments in those two games."
Compare that to "Creatures" for example.
Quoting from: http://aigamedev.com/open/highlights/top-ai-games/
"Creatures is an artificial life program where the user ‘hatches’ small furry animals and teaches them how to behave. These “Norms” can talk, feed themselves, and protect themselves against vicious creatures.
It’s the first popular application of machine learning into an interactive simulation.
Neural networks are used by the creatures to learn what to do. The game is regarded as a breakthrough in alife research, which aims to model the behavior of creatures interacting with their environment."
So I am sure that no matter at how good MGS 3 might get, given I am specifically putting attention to this aspect (and that I am not really interested in stunning graphics and such), at some point I will surely notice its scripted behaviour...
Thanks for the suggestion though, it might still be a good game to play. :)