Lafiel on 08 June 2013
| ganoncrotch said: if you're considering a game with an offline campaign like Halo then nothing of the game like AI can ever take the cloud as a tool to use, simply because those with shit internet who just connect their Xbox once per day before using it so it will actually work will then disconnect to play their single player games, What do people think? those playing through a single player campaign offline will have enemy's without AI or backgrounds missing from their games since they are only going to be run from the cloud? The console might as well have "Blast Processing" across the hood of it like the megadrive for all the difference that Cloud will make to real in game features. |
Yea, AI integral to the gameplay shouldn't be offloaded to external servers.
Crowd-AI, like normal people in GTA-like titles, on the other hands could be made way more diverse/individual with that external processing. Yet, I think in a bubble around the player that would need to be handled locally again, so I'm not sure how much players would actually see from the additional processing that went into the npcs.
