JimBurber's forum posts
Before the days of video games there was this thing called "getting together with your friends and playing games" - games like checkers, Monopoly, Risk, chess, poker, etcetra. When video games began, gaming was mostly a solitary affair - man vs. machine. Now with the advent of broadband being widely available to the masses, again we may have this concept of "getting together with your friends and playing games" extended to a wide variety of video games. It's just a natural evolution of the product.
It will still take years for artificial intelligence to come close to playing like a human does. No matter how great the programming is, it just can't imitate the unpredictable behaviour of a real human, nor can it interact with us like humans can. With the extreme cost of producing games it makes sense that developers would focus on a great multiplayer experience instead of pouring hours of work into creating artificial intelligence that is still ultimately artificial.
zidura
The first game EVER was multiplayer!!!! ever heard of PONG?!?!?!
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