Artificial intelligence in games: Less of a priority than last gen?

[Non Sequor]

twesterm said:

Kenny said:

Operation Flashpoint (2001): When an unexpected roadblock is placed on a road, the AI character stops, and gets out to investigate.

Crysis (2007): When an unexpected roadblock is placed on a road, the AI character treats it like it wasn't there, and keeps pushing into the obstacle until it's out of the way, and drives on.

 

 

Everybody deals with their AI differently.  Operation Flashpoint deals with dynamic obstacle avoidance and Crysis apparently doesn't.

 

 

I get the impression that the quality of game AI generally just boils down to how much time the developers spend adding special cases.

 

The sad thing is that the quality of AI can't be shown with screenshots or short clips. If it could, every big budget game would have top notch AI.