Hi my best Virtual friends :P how is everyone? i like one day we meet each other face to face :P
Anyway I'm busy like always trying to learn and pass so many courses in little time, i don't have much time to play video games these days, life is good and normal, my mum had a surgery 2 weeks ago and it went well fortunately and eventually...
Castlevania Lord of Shadow first look:
I've bought Lord of Shadow 2 days ago, and it's pretty a decent game I've played 2 hours of it and i like it but it doesn't have that Hype like Darksider, Dante or GoW, but the graphic is amazing, the Combat system is great, the main story is just perfect but it looks like a sequel rather than a Original game, i mean I'm new at Castlevania and i don't know anything about its story but the game presentation looks like you must have known about the situation and characters before and that's the weak part of the game, and another weak part is everything happens so fast without introduction, in mission 4 at the beginning you are facing with a big monster! and another weak part which caught my eyes is that the game looks so clean and colorful, there is no blood and gore which it had contrast with the story cause the story is about wolfs and vampires..nonetheless the game is attractive and awesome and i like it and :)
Got Adobe CS5 Learning DVDs by Lynda University:
YaY I've got it finally and it's so huge! 210 hours DVDs! I'm learning how to work with Adobe After Effect, Adobe Photoshop and its Light Room and Elements, Adobe Soundbooth for Black Hole episode 2 :D
and i also got Digital Tutors Learning DVDs too it's not that great like CG-Academy but at least they are teaching how to use Mudbox :D
I must finish all of them before this summer, it's so enjoyable when you can create your own model, bring your imagination to the real world with these programs and so exciting indeed.
A Weird Girl:
2 Days ago i was going to my animating school which a girl came to me and asked me do you work here? i told her hmm...no? she said I'm not poor but i need $5 can you give me $5? then she said give me your phone number so that i call you and give you your money...bla bla it was obvious she was lying and i told her sorry bye :lol: she was ugly to be honest that's why i didn't gave her my phone number :P
Got an Offer:
A friend of my friend is going to make a video game, and they were looking for a 3D modeler for their game and my friend introduced me to him and that guy called me yesterday and he told me I'm going to make a game and make my own game engine!!! i told how you can make a game engine alone!!!! and i told him go and use Game Studio or Unity Engines they are great and easy to use..but he didn't agree with me and i told him okay i just wanted to show you the better way! and i asked him what's the story about anyway? and he said it's something like Fallout 3 and New Vegas :lol: and i liked it, i told him okay i will help you guys to make your video games and they will come next week to settle things for this game, i doubt they can make it but i will make some 3D models for them it can be a good practice and experience for me :).
The Future of A.I.in games:
Now welcome to the important part of my blog, if you haven't read this article, you better to read this! Game companies have been reached to a good point for Graphic, games like Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, Halo Reach...but what makes a game really new and enjoyable? i say all of them, Story, Game play, Graphic, Audio, but Gameplay is the most important part in my opinion.
I've played lots of First Person shooters, Games like Doom, Swat, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Halo, Bioshock, Riddick, Left 4 Dead, Battle Field, FEAR...and so on but most of them have pretty same NPC's and A.I. system, you just need to aim and shoot and this appears more on Call of Duty series the good example is Call of Duty Black Ops, I'm playing it and i have to say this game is just for making more money, this game has very annoying NPC's and very bad Physics, i really don't get it why it sells million copies!
Some game companies are trying to improve the game industry, they are trying to improve the video game's qualities while there are other game companies who are trying to make more money and really don't care about the future of game industry and of course there are other game companies who are making games just for entertainment...
We expect from the famous Game Companies to help and improve the game industry and game's qualities not releasing some trash for just making more money.
Halo:
"The Halo franchise is recognized as a leader in the field of game AI."
I don't know about other Halo games but I've finished Halo Reach on Legendary difficulty and i have to admit it has really good A.I. all of the NPC's were cleaver and fast it was so challenging to kill those NPC's indeed but when you let a NPC to Drive, it means you are dead :lol:
F.E.A.R:
"F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin made use of Monolith's goal-based action planner AI, which helped produce context-sensitive behaviors in the game."
Fear is one of the first games who introduce new A.I. system they define the environment to the NPC's to use it against the player!
Killzone 2:
"Killzone 2's lead AI programmer Remco Straatman believes the industry is still struggling to make NPCs as human as possible."
I don't have Play station 3, but by reading this article i understood how awesome NPC's this game has!
Farcry 2:
"Games like Far Cry 2 push the boundaries of game AI."
Far Cry 2 has a good physics it was enjoyable when you set fire to kill your enemies...
Now my suggestion and my Ideas for the Future of A.I. in Games:
If game companies want to have better A.I. they must use physics in their games, what do i mean by Physics:
Yes their games should have physics like Battle Field Bad Company 2 and other games like Red Faction, unfortunately in BC2 or Red Faction the NPC's don't use the environment against you, imagine a NPC which tries to break walls to reach you or tries to collapse the building to your head! lol
Another idea:
Guerrilla's A.I. Leader believes make NPCs as human as possible, i say why we don't use other creatures for our NPC's for example why we shouldn't make A.I. who act and think like a Dog for a Dog NPC? rather than human! or an A.I. Spider for a Spider NPC?....
anyway these are just my Ideas hope they at least use physics for the future of A.I. in games :P
Thanks for reading
-Makan