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.

tbh i never had too bad an experience with halo 3. for all the accidents it made, there are plenty of places where i could forgive it

all time worst would have to be Medal of Honor: Frontline. Every NPC that was important to level progression would get stuck on something. bloody useless.

also, DOA 4, as in, sometimes, your only reason for victory after half an hour of pummeling the final boss is because your 360 has gotten bored of the whole thing and let you win. It more of a punishment for wanting to enjoy ones self than a victory

One that i thought was pretty funny is when i was playing RE4 and i was going through Salazar's maze and i walked up on one of the cages that the infected wolves are in and the door was wide open and the thing just sat there and growled at me after about 5 minutes of waiting to see if it would attack me i got tired of hearing it growl and sniped it

Half-Life 2. It seems like every NPC in your "squad" later in the game is out to block every damn doorway and stairwell. As if the overabundance of crates weren't enough. Hell, at least you can shoot the crates.

Any game in which the '1. Run into a room full of baddies. 2. Run out. 3. Shoot them as they come through the door single file, one after another' strategy works.

In other news, the thread title says poll... I feel cheated!

The worst is when the AI is actually important to gameplay. I mean, your AI friend on Lego Star Wars is about as useful as a blow up dartboard but it doesn't actually matter. The AI on Halo 3 admittedly can't drive for shit but that's just a commentary on how the soldiers fighting are too young to have taken their driving test.

mspencer82:
Half-Life 2. It seems like every NPC in your "squad" later in the game is out to block every damn doorway and stairwell. As if the overabundance of crates weren't enough. Hell, at least you can shoot the crates.

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health = 97%

"Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this"

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I agree with halo 3. only cause t i didn't get my promised "improved enemy ai"
Playing on legendary brutes would pop bubble sheilds, and stand next to
it instead of taking cover.

Oh, wait, partners, er sorry.
Still halo 3, the Driving and gunner npcs

and on the other end of the ai spectrum I have to say, the best npc ai in any game has to be your teamates in CoD4's campaine.

Frontlines: Fuels of war.

I'm not sure exactly what is happening in this game, I'm evidently not the squad commander as I can't order the little buggers around, but they will insist upon following me everywhere I go. Seeing as I can't kill them for fear of running out of respawns; I elected to ignore them, and leave them to their own devices. I'm now prone on top of a roof lining up a shot with some form of scoped weapon, deciding upon what order I should redecorate the building opposite with the brains of my enemy in order to cause as little commotion as possible. As I'm just about to pull the trigger, one of my colleagues sees fit to run in my way, attracting the fire of those I sought to decimate.

pha kin su pah:

mspencer82:
Half-Life 2. It seems like every NPC in your "squad" later in the game is out to block every damn doorway and stairwell. As if the overabundance of crates weren't enough. Hell, at least you can shoot the crates.

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health = 97%

"Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this"

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"Gordon reload!"...I'm using my crowbar

Worst NPC partner ever would have to be EVA in MGS3. Honestly, woman, do I really need to tell you to take cover when a patrol of armed Russians is coming towards us?

The Turok AI was pretty horrible, both friendly and enemies. I just really hated how your companion through the early levels, kept yelling at you constantly to follow him when you were merely a few paces behind him. Then he'd stop for you to catch up, and you'd walk past him and he'd still be stationary yelling at you to follow him. Then when you turn round to see what the hell is going on back there that's got him rooted to the spot, a velociraptor would proceed to examine the back of your shitty Mohawk haircut with the inside of it's mouth.

Gears isnt too bad. They seem like veterans after meeting some of the jerks online.

Your Squad in Medal of Honor: European Assault, who's hobbies seem to be running right in your sight when sniping Nazis.

Definitely Half-Life 2. Or one of the episodes. I don't know, I played them all together.

Every single friggin' time you get more than one thing following you. The antlions. I decide to run out from a corner to pwn a baddie or something, because the antlions can take about half a bullet before dying. I run out, for some reason, I want to run back behind cover! No! My antlion buddies are behind that cover, so I have to either push them back of blast them to hell to survive. Your squad, as someone else pointed out, is only good for blocking doorways, getting themselves blown up, or getting their faces blown off by a sniper. The snipers are fun to play with, though. I loved grabbing random objects and holding them out from behind cover. They just can't resist shooting every single physics object they can see.

Daikatana. End.

Well, I have played through HL2 more times than I can count, and I have never had the problem you guys are mentioning with the AI. Or maybe I'm just lucky. Well, worst AI? Probably Star Wars Battlefront. Look! I'm just going to stand here doing nothing! Hell, in the original there was a problem were something like 10% of AI spawns would not have AI, just sit there and do nothing.

The best use I've found for my HL2 squadmates is sending them into dark passages ahead of me to feed any lurking zombies so that I can blow the them away while they feast on the corpses of my team.

SOCOM's allied AI is horrendus. I got better in Combined Assault but the first three games had you wanting to frag your squad.

pha kin su pah:

mspencer82:
Half-Life 2. It seems like every NPC in your "squad" later in the game is out to block every damn doorway and stairwell. As if the overabundance of crates weren't enough. Hell, at least you can shoot the crates.

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health = 97%

"Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this","Gordon, have a medipac!", "Gordon, you look like you need this"

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Or

Health = 13%

Stand infront of medic.

'Excuse me Dr.Freeman'

BITCH, I'M HURT!

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

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?

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.

Battlefield 2 or 2142 singleplayer.

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?

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.

Knight Templar:
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.

Fire Daemon:

Knight Templar:
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.

Yeah Mass effect had some prety bad moments there, however I do find it hilarious disobeying orders from the computer, particularly in HL2, at the beginning(pretty much whenever you meet allies) they talk for a while and then tell you to get going (the guy who holds the door, Alyx, The chick hiding along the railway, the dude who fights the manhacks ect, ect) after they tell you to 'get going', they just stand there. They repeat a sequence of 3 lines every 10-20 seconds but the way they just stare at you particularly the guy holding the door against the combine is hilarious.

Guess the game.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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