Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. There's no Destiny-like seamless matchmaking and no Left 4 Dead style good-enough bot AI. But not really. The player never quite experiences these ideas in the game itself.

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Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 246

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

still feels good streamlined hacking = no contrived hacking minigame, just hold down F for ~7 seconds guard placement when unalerted, they follow hand placed patrols / schedules, always the same every loop once alerted, they take cover and flank etc. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight.

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Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 130

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

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Fantasy AAA Concepts Games 52

Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. Cutscenes in an MMO? In the Sword Art Online: Progressive novels, certain plotlines are punctuated by forced events which are effectively cutscene events.

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Art Games Fighting Technology 52

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The scripting on WoC made for better combat too, because you weren’t stuck with just the built-in combat AI for your enemies. AI had more sophisticated combat tactics, because designers could add fresh behaviors to the monsters. Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths. A bit of ACTS scripting from LegendMUD.

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Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 59