- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Snarl P
I had to vote no because (no offense to the remarkable work Bungie is accomplishing with AI) BOTS ARE DUMB. Period. Granted, the AI enemies for the Halo 2 campaign mode are going to be remarkably intelligent for pieces of code, they will still just be pieces of code. I know that there are plenty of people who don't mind shooting at and getting shot at by mindless bots, and others also make very good points about bots making multiplayer more enjoyable in ther absence of other human players or Xbox Live. However, I've played Halo, both in multiplayer and campaign, for hundreds of hours by this point and I have never, ever, ever ever ever wanted there to be bots in the multiplayer for any reason. Bots at best are slightly annoying targets and at worst are the king programs of cheap. I have been pretty fortunate in being able to find people to play with and against for Halo, but I can say for certain that even if my multiplayer forays in Halo 2 were to be minimal (which is a laughable idea, but hey, I'm trying to illustrate my opinion here), I would rather play against a miniscule number of human players than have the same number of human players bolstered by any number of mute, irritating, wandering bots. Even with this opinion, the only reason I am adamantly against bots in multiplayer is because chances are that those bots would end up on Xbox Live games, and I do NOT want to pay good money to have what is likely to be the most enjoyable game I have yet played be tarnished by having to forage through Live games in search of purely human opponents. If it could be guaranteed that bots would NOT be allowed on Live, then I'd completely agree with bots for multiplayer. Unfortunately, I doubt that this is what would happen if bots were included in the multiplayer. And although several members of this board have stated that the majority of Halo players want bots, I have to disagree and say that it's a vocal minority of players who want bots, since I have (seriously, I'm not kidding here) yet to encounter any opinions outside this forum calling for bots in Halo 2. I know this post is just asking for some serious flame-age, but since the gaming world rarely proves to be ideal (although everything I've seen and read for Halo 2 is the most ideal stuff I've seen yet), I think that bots could be nice, but would almost certainly be a really horrible, bad, poopy idea.
That's it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SIR ARE THE MOST IDIOTIC PERSON I"VE EVER MET!!!!!!!!!!(sorry about caps I'm just upset.) *Brutally beats Snarl P almost to death and puts a bullet into his arse.) You shall feel my wrath........All night long!