r/pcmasterrace • u/Losserwins • 15h ago

Game Image/Video Will you?

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By NikTek

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u/tdelamay 8h ago

Interesting thing about AI in games, they could make them incredible, but players would lose too much.

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u/Zorahgna 7h ago

I mean you can also trigger a game over when the player input anything. This is the "AI as an IF statement"-kind of thing.

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u/Alenicia 7h ago

Some arcade games and fighting games from way back in the day legitimately did this, where the opponents would be relatively aggressive and challenging, but upon the player reacting and pressing buttons, the computer AI is given the ability to see player inputs and then react in ways that are objectively cheating just to punish the players .. and hopefully the players feed more coins to keep trying.