Gamers want realism, but we also want enemy AI to respect our need for fun, meaning we don’t want our enemies to be super smart. We need our inept guards to eat discarded poisoned rice balls. We need our machine gun-toting soldiers to ignore a conspicuous cardboard box. Otherwise, the game wouldn’t be fun. A truly intelligent enemy NPC is not what we want. We don’t even want artificial intelligence. We want scripted behaviors based on shortcut heuristics with game balance--not realism--being the end goal.
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Hey future Caleb, do you still read print video games journalism in the future?I generally play video games as a female protagonist, when given the choice, and it wasn’t until a recent play session with a friend that I questioned whether or not that’s weird.
I’m playing Shadow of the Colossus, and I, like many of its players, have questions about the game’s theme, its purpose, its mystery. But lacking answers to those questions doesn’t make me love the game any less.
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Is it impossible to not cheat in a video game? Well, to answer that, we first have to agree on what “cheating” actually is. In this video I explore what constitutes cheating, whether cheating is even possible with single-player games, and if game developers themselves are even capable of defining what cheating is. Given that modern games allow--and actively encourage--players to bend the rules and change configurations, is cheating--outside the context of competitive play--an outdated concept? Let me know you thoughts in the comments below.