Poll: worst AI moments in gaming(coughhalo3cough)

[AWC Viper]

i would have to say MOH pacific assult because your "allies" try to block your way, run in FRONT of a heavy machine gun your using and cant throw a grenade further than their balls

 

[gibboss28]

i wouldnt be sure wether or not its bad AI or it was doing this to take the piss but universe at war

I was playing a skirmish against the computer. i had destroyed its base when... nothing happened. i would have least thought it would say 'you have won' ..no it would seem that the computer had sent out an enemy unit somewhere...which i couldnt see on the map because it was the same colour as the minimap terrain...and the AI didnt think 'well my base is fucked so i might as well send this last unit to die' that would be too nice...wouldnt it?

 

[The Bandit]

I'm glad I get the honor of being the first to say this one:

Natalya from GoldenEye.

Me and my friends used to just sit back and watch her roll to dodge fire in the Jungle level, even though there were no enemies present. Then she had the suicidal habit of constantly standing in front of you as you fired at enemies.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Battlefield 2 or 2142 singleplayer.

 

[Knight Templar]

Don't put halo 3 in the topic heading.

Oblivion, some guy is taking me somewhere and gets stuck on....

Well I don't know what he got stuck on. A twig mabey?

 

[CatmanStu]

Without a shadow of a doubt it has to be Val, that bloody woman in FarCry. After getting herself captured, making you spend the next god knows how many hours crawling around on your stomach so you don't get turned into a colander by the tiny little dots with guns on the horizon, she then throws sarcastic insults at you and decides to join you in battle.

Now for the next three or four missions the carefully honed ability of distracting soldiers and taking them out silently with the MP5, the only useful weapon in the game (unless you have to fight a trigen), is absolutely sodding useless as she won't find cover. Just when you think that that is bad game design, you suddenly realise the enemy can't even see her. Then to make things even more preposterous if an enemy gets close enough to take out with the MP5 she start firing at him, and suddenly he can see her.

It's moments like this that you really empathise with the AVGN on one of his many tirades.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Don't put halo 3 in the topic heading.

Agreed.

Mass Effect has some really bad enemy AI. They run at you and fire from point blank most of the time. Great battle field stratedgy there guys.

Ally AI was really good for me though.

 

[The Wooster]

Guess the game.

"*****. Climb on the box!"
"Gobbledygook"
"On the box! On it! Get on the god damn box"
"(More gobbledygook)"
"ARGH!"

 

[Alias_Raz0r]

Im suprised no-ones mentioned Ao2
I get killed and im sitting on the floor waiting for him
He runs to press a button and i call him
So the dumb bastard runs back and for between me and the button

 

[The Wooster]

Im suprised no-ones mentioned Ao2
I get killed and im sitting on the floor waiting for him
He runs to press a button and i call him
So the dumb bastard runs back and for between me and the button

To be fair. I think the characters in Army of Two are actually supposed to be retarded. There's no other way to explain the dialogue.

 

[CyberAkuma]

I played recently The Matrix: Path of Neo and I can tell you that I've never ever wanted to shoot Morpheus and Trinity in the face that bad ever before in my life...

I hate the missions where you have to rescue some shpi captain from being filéd from Bullets and they just love to get themselves killed by 3 Agents...

Argh...

 

[kyouger]

The AI in CoD 4 NEVER advance. It's always up to me to clear the next room or lead them into battle. Thankfully it's never that much of a detriment to gameplay, unlike the pants on head retarted marines in Halo. Three games, and they still haven't gotten the Warthog control down.

 

[Random Argument Man]

I like it sometimes when my allies are idiots. They can serve as meatwalls.

 

[HeyZeus_Ezekiel_Jesus]

No, the worst AI is in Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing becuase there is no AI.

 

[PEWPEWGreenLaser]

So far, I think the worst AI I've run across has been my squadmates in GRAW2 and R6V2. Why do I single them out when so many other shooters have (arguably) worse AI? Simple. Ghost Recon and Rainbow 6 are supposed to be tactical shooters. How, pray tell, do you propose to make a tactical shooter when your squadmates can't maneuver their way out of a cardboard box? This sequence of events happened several times in both GRAW2 and R6V2...

"Go over there."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because."
"Is there something in your way?"
"Nope."
"Then get over there."
"No."
*sigh*

Also, my squadmates seem to have this idea that the best way to take cover is to, well... not take cover. As if their rugged good looks and studly five o'clock shadow is going to protect their face from molten hot slugs of led. What's worse, is that I get punished because they're fuck ups. "Mission failed. Asshole #2 has died."

 

[HeyZeus_Ezekiel_Jesus]

Squad based games always have the worst AI. Especially in games where your team mates never die.

 

[Novajam]

what do you think has been your worst npc partner ever?i would have to say in halo 3 when i was in a warthog,he drove me off a cliff.

That happened to me too. Except it was my co-op partner rather that the AI who took us on an impromptu base jump.

 

[Arcticflame]

How about oblivion..

The adoring fan.

The single reason why I pretty much have to be evil in that game.

 

[Limasol]

Which halo 3 did you play? Anyway....Dom in Gears of War purely for the final boss fight.