Hyper-realistic AI is the last unexplored boundary of complete immersion for gaming, along with flawless interactivity.

We all know video and sound quality in games gets better and better over the years, and always raise the bar for realism and immersion. Hyper-realistic AI would set a new standard of gaming. We'll no longer fight against somewhat brain dead enemies, instead we'll have the fight of our life!

Start with the broad, obvious questions.
-What drives each character's motivations?
-What resources are available to them to meet those ambitious goals?
-What Geologic, (or static) contexts define the very WILL or HINDRANCE to meet those motivational goals, and with what carrots and sticks?

A) Individual character- has his own levels of internal ambitions, how they come to pass depend on how "motivated" he is to pursue them.
B) External guide arrows, or forbidden walls are observed by the individual character and he examines them weighed against his own motivations.
C) Choices are made, but the act of choosing an action to touch the external world in one allowed way or the other unallowed way, is then LEARNED and refines the ease/withholding of this character's motivations.

AI in it's busiest analyzation, when you've mapped out it's forms and patterned behaviors, reveals a map for high-level programming which virtually mimics the ACTUAL AI struggles of quasi intelligence. Run the AI and find the patterns we can "borrow" and mimic further to show what an AI character in it's place WOULD HAVE DONE with refined scripting.

You go ahead an build your AI, the rest of us will happily build a thought delineating choice matrix.

Uncharted on Hard wasn't hard at all. But it was a good challenge. Where it really got good was the last boss fight. But I think a way to truly play a game is to first play it on hard. Best way to experience the game. Check out Half Life 2 on hard compared to normal or easy. Same goes for many other titles.

I think resistent fall of man has some of the best A.I.

One game with great AI was Soldier of Fortune 2.

My biggest complaint about next-gen games is the real-time shadowing. 95% of all next gen games on the 360 and PS3 have jagged and jittery shadowing. Also tearing, aliasing, framerates, and low-res textures/models are still quite apparent 2 years in.

if your video games are lame
and you're playing them all the same
come to n4god d-ammit
you won't regret it
because they'll tell you that you suck all the same

yeah i know i rhymed same with same

Devs want a pretty game not a smart one. And also why are most of these games in the same genre or why are most of these mediocre PC games coming out to consoles. (Bio, Call of Juarez etc.) Also why are most of these so called "next gen" games arent unique enough to warrant a purchase. In all actuality are only a handful of next gen games that are worth the money.

SMG
LoZ: TP
Uncharted
Mass Effect
Resistance
Warhawk
Oblivion
Gears of War

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau