Agnates said:

It's easy to make enemies super lethal, it doesn't require good AI to do that. Just give them perfect aiming and instant reaction time and you're done. Early fan made Counter-Strike bots did that for example. It's easier to do that instead of code delays in "reflexes" and error margins in shots and all that jazz that make them actually fun to fight. Also you'll notice bots in multiplayer type games tend to behave far differently to actual enemies in single player games. That's for the same and more reasons. Players don't behave in cinematic ways, they just exploit mechanics to the fullest. So enemies in single player campaigns don't try to emulate that in any way. They just try to fit in their surroundings, be stationary, have set patrols, squads, whatever else. Things no player would do. There have been pretty good bots that do try to emulate players though. Unreal Tournament 2004's bots were great. It was even fun to have deathmatch 1 on 1 duels with them in the harder difficulties, they genuinely helped you improve too. They knew how to navigate the maps well and used all sorts of tricks and knew how to wield the vastly different weapons, from point and shoot stuff, to weapons that required you to aim ahead due to the lower projectile speed. If 1000 enemies in your average FPS all were behaving like that it would be impossible to proceed and not make for very fun games. Of course it's not much fun when they exaggerate all those cinematic "human" flaws for the lowest common denominator of gamer either, but still...

He wasn't referring to things like reflexes and accuracy but enemy behaviour. I'm not saying he's wrong from a design perspective, just that he was BSing when it came to what was possible. However I haven't played UT 2004, so...

"If 1000 enemies in your average FPS all were behaving like that it would be impossible to proceed and not make for very fun games."

You're never actually against 1000 enemies at once, and it's quite possible to fight many good online players at once with no help. Level design would need to drastically change for it to work, though.

Worst Zelda character model, ever? Even compared to Tingle?

Played about half of Modern Warfare 3's campaign yesterday....its better than 2 but still, just the same thing basically all over again. I'm kind of disgusted that they haven't even attempted to change things up at all. If they put some effort into making it more open and less on-rails, and made the AI more Ghost Recon-ish, they could have an incredible campaign.

For now, Spec Ops and multi-player are still where its at in COD.

Fuck you GG, spoiler that shit!

edgecrusher said:

Does Zelda look better in motion? Because in pics it doesn't really impress that much.

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It looks great IMO, best looking zelda game yet.

It has a painted effect though, so close up it will look like someone painted the textures in blobs.