What Classic Games Have Great AI?
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This is just a discussion topic for fun. What classic games have the most interesting and complex AI? Many NES games had super simple enemy AI that is only able to follow a few basic conditional commands. By the time SNES and Genesis came around, fighting games had much more complex algorithms to follow.
My pick is Mortal Kombat 2 for the SNES. I sometimes have more trouble against those computer opponents than when I play against other people. It always seems to know when to block and exactly when to launch an uppercut.
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i prefer killer instinct in snes better ai for me
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@BeldarTheBrave I know the arcade version of mk2 was smart yet dumb. Smart in that it read and responded to your every input you did. Dumb for the same reason. It never thought On it’s own. As far as that translates to the snes version, I don’t know.
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i was playing ki back then i did not like mk the graphics/animation of ki were far superior
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I really enjoyed the AI in Destruction derby 2. Never a boring race like every race in Gran turismo (where each opponent follows the racing line and almost never diverts from it), but carnage everywhere. Drivers even had different personalities (more or less aggressive driving / skilled and awful driving).
For fighting games I'd say Street fighter III. No instant input reading, but fair matches. It never gets boring fighting the computer at the highest difficulty setting.
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@BeldarTheBrave Mortal Kombat 2 have one of the worse AI in my opinion. In MK2 the enemy have unfair advantage, because it reads every milliseconds the input of what you do and before you even finish your input it knows what is possible and reacts with best possible "answer". This was welcome in the arcades. Similar in the old multi player shooters against bots, where they always know your position. Just because its hard to beat does not make it a good AI algorithm. Although most Fighting games of that era was similar, but they made them easier to beat, because it is frustrating.
But I am a bit biased here, because I don't like the Mortal Kombat series. Outside of the US market (I speak for Germany) MK isn't that popular.
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