[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;25008606]And they also swerve for no reason on to your lane where you are driving 100 mph.[/QUOTE]
Fucking taxis were the bane of my existence in GTA. They were rude, always turned into your lane, tried to fight you, etc. When I got the apc in BOGT I just went around ramming and blowing up as many as a could.
You know when you've played American Driving games to much when you drive on the wrong side of the road. (British)
[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;25008355]I just recently started playing some of the sandbox games I own, The Saboteur, Saints Row 2, Mafia 2 etc. One thing that all of sudden struck me was the lack of self preservation of other drivers.
Say you are driving down the road and you see a car coming straight at you, what do you do?
If you were an npc character you'd just keep driving on till that car, you spend so much money on, gets smashed by some dick head driving on the wrong side of the road.
I mean really, it can't be that hard to implement some kind of evasive manoeuvre for the other drivers on the road. Is it?
TL;DR why do NPC drivers don't move out of the way when I charge to them.[/QUOTE]
in saints row 2 the cars in the oncoming lane will move out of the way if you honk your horn. In Mafia 2 the cars in BOTH lanes will move out of the way if you honk your horn. Haven't played The Saboteur so I can't say anything about that.
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[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;25008548]GTA 4 kinda has realistic driving AI.
Cars will try to swerve out of your way if you're speeding at them, and one time I shot a car's tyre, the driver drove away at full speed, and not paying attention, tried to take a corner at full speed and swerved into a bus stop :v:
The only bad thing is that if you're waiting as a traffic light, EVERY car will try to pass you if you're stationary for more than a second.[/QUOTE]
In Mafia II they treat you like any other car in front of them and don't honk at you or anything if you follow the traffic laws.
it's even worse in games like driver where instead of driving away at 90 miles an hour like a sane person they GET OUT OF THE CAR AND RUN
[QUOTE=dookster;25010256]All NPCs drive on the wrong side of the road.
:iceburn:
(I'm not trying to start a flame war, just flaunting my British driving training like the bitch I am)[/QUOTE]
Then play the getaway /rime
The npc drivers in Prototype will reverse frantically and swerve away from you if you're charging at them, although they're fine if you leap 50 feet and land in front of them.
Uuugh I hate how anytime in GTA4 I am speeding down on bridges in my NRG 900 or whatever some asshole always changes lanes. When I am speeding down on bridges I stay on that line in the center so anytime some bitch changes lanes I crash into them.
[QUOTE=PaChIrA;25022082]Uuugh I hate how anytime in GTA4 I am speeding down on bridges in my NRG 900 or whatever some asshole always changes lanes. When I am speeding down on bridges I stay on that line in the center so anytime some bitch changes lanes I crash into them.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me how if you're driving a cop car and turn your siren on they either stop their car dead in their tracks on the middle of the road or drive like morons on the sidewalk and hit a pedestrian.
I loved how they didn't drive, though the traffic light was green. Also, fucking pedestrians, literally each crossroad there were a few cars stuck due to pedestrians blocking the way.
Also be careful when using the horn in Mafia 2, cars on the other side of the road like to act as if your car is a magnet...
[QUOTE=croguy;25022128]Reminds me how if you're driving a cop car and turn your siren on they either stop their car dead in their tracks on the middle of the road or drive like morons on the sidewalk and hit a pedestrian.[/QUOTE]
I really wish game could do more justice for the sirens. Instead of making other cars simply turn a little and stop, they would actually pull off to the side of the road. It seems virtually every time in GTA4 I would turn on the sirens, any cars infront of me would swerve a couple feet off to the right of the lane I'm driving on.
It's even worse when cars in oncoming traffic swerve into the wrong lane to yield. I keep hitting those guys head on.
Honk your horn.
[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;25009103]Would be cooler if they did this though
[img]http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/168287-1/Naked_pulled_cop_car.gif[/img]
Crazy Russians[/QUOTE]
They do this in GTA IV. The AI in that game are so fun to play with. I drove into one of those police barriers that block off the islands until you unlock them, flew over the officers by about 2m, and they start shooting me.
I love the AI in certain racing games the most. Other players online will honk their horn as they pass civilian drivers, causes them to change lanes into me.
In the first saints row, walking down the middle of the road made drivers either take off like a madman in sheer terror, slam on the brakes fifty feet in front of you, or swerve to avoid you and run over five people on the sidewalk before taking off full speed down the sidewalk dragging a hooker under the bumper and hitting half a dozen more people in the process.
What's even funnier was the constant attempts to dive out of the way by the pedestrians. I once tried driving the limit on the right side of the road, but two people screamed, one dove along the sidewalk and the other dove into the road and got slowwwwly run over by the car ahead of me. Another time, driving full speed, someone dove off the sidewalk at me and headbutted the side of the car.
I really don't appreciate the fact that you can't car-ride in GTAIV. Honestly, what the fuck? That's an example where the realism directly impedes the fun.
I have to admit that GTA IV has some pretty good A.I when it comes to driving, except on the bridges. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;25008548]
The only bad thing is that if you're waiting as a traffic light, EVERY car will try to pass you if you're stationary for more than a second.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379545/reacting/usb-traffic-lights.jpg[/img]
Best NPC drivers I have seen to date is Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City, with Ther Lost and Damned in and the Ballad of Gay Tony, those two games had the most realistic AI. The cops are the most aggressive I've seen in a game and if you start firing a gun, some peds will get out their cars and run, others will duck down behind the dashboard, then there will be some who duck down and speed past or make a U turn and speed away. I've even had one driver put his foot down and actually hit me with the car. If you ever chase someone whilst firing, they'll swerve around traffic take no entry roads, it's amazing what they've done in GTA, wish Mafia 2 was a bit more realistic.
Gta2 ftw.
[QUOTE=croguy;25022128]Reminds me how if you're driving a cop car and turn your siren on they either stop their car dead in their tracks on the middle of the road or drive like morons on the sidewalk and hit a pedestrian.[/QUOTE]
One I often see with sirens on is the attempt for a car to pull over right, hit a wall or other obstacle, and decide there's no room to pull over so they then turn out LEFT into the middle of the road.
:argh:
Also on every GTA game since 3, all sirens do for traffic in the opposing lane is make them stop where they are. No pulling over. They still do this in GTA4.
Also does anyone remember the ridiculous behaviour of NPC cars on highways that was in San Andreas? If you find a point where a highway joins with street roads, watch them. They drive at 40, 40, hit that join to the highway and boom - instant 110.
This makes me remember GTA 3 and Vice City, even if you drove normally the pedestrians would actually scream and jump out[B] in front of your car.[/B]
I like in Burnout Paradise where cars on both lanes will swerve out [b]in front of your car[/b] if you drive between two lanes.
Makes for Dwarf Fortress style fun in races
[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;25009103]Would be cooler if they did this though
[img]http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/168287-1/Naked_pulled_cop_car.gif[/img]
Crazy Russians[/QUOTE]
:doh:
[QUOTE=subenji99;25037455]
Also does anyone remember the ridiculous behaviour of NPC cars on highways that was in San Andreas? If you find a point where a highway joins with street roads, watch them. They drive at 40, 40, hit that join to the highway and boom - instant 110.[/QUOTE]
GTA SA was horrible for the highways. I would come up to a junction, look left and right, pull out and a truck going 110mph will spawn out of nowhere and take me out, and continue driving.
I remember in Crackdown there was a certain highway section in the game where you could make a huge pileup. And they'd just keep coming.
I'd shoot a tire off one of the cars and it would fly off the road, off the bridge and into the water.
First time playing Halo 2 (yea yea I play it, not a super fanboy though.) I saw that NPCs could drive warthogs now. So I hope in the gunner seat AND IT WAS HORRIBLE. He drove in circles at 40 miles an hour so I couldn't hit anything. I don't trust NPCs to drive anymore.
I hate how in mafia 2 they just carry on driving as if you're invisible. And sometimes they even speed up.
[QUOTE=nath2009uk;25039683]GTA SA was horrible for the highways. I would come up to a junction, look left and right, pull out and a truck going 110mph will spawn out of nowhere and take me out, and continue driving.[/QUOTE]
There was also a glitch with AMD dual cores that caused them to travel at ridiculous speeds, ramming the cars in front of them when they got to a light.
This thread makes me want to play GTA IV and SA again.
[QUOTE=jeimizu;25043661]There was also a glitch with AMD dual cores that caused them to travel at ridiculous speeds, ramming the cars in front of them when they got to a light.
This thread makes me want to play GTA IV and SA again.[/QUOTE]
Oh, so that's why a tractor is always driving faster than the race cars on all Las Venturas Ring Highway race missions!
I still had a video recording of me driving at ridiculously huge speeds through it, then having some of the slowest cars in the game speed past me like they had rocket strapped on them.
[QUOTE=shozamar;25021819]The npc drivers in Prototype will reverse frantically and swerve away from you if you're charging at them, although they're fine if you leap 50 feet and land in front of them.[/QUOTE]A lot of the npcs in that game were dumb.
"Did he just run up a 6 story building?"
"Heh, crazy kids nowadays."
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