Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

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Another thing which is a running occurrence is that they NEVER LOOK UP! They could save themselves a lot of trouble if they did that in their relaxed mode.

Haha, yes! How often did I sit comfortably right above some silly guards head without him noticing! But then again it opens a lot of gameplay possibilities and rewarding moves. Like those inverted takedowns in Batman where you'd swoop down from our gargoyle, grab a guard and dangle him upside down before disappearing into the shadows again. I loved those ^^

Though this would make the monsters even more scary, because that would force the developer to rarely use monsters.

That's true. But clever developers don't need to be forced to do that
But that whole AI talk gives me an idea - imagine a perfect horror game in which there's only one enemy. And he's so intelligent that he comes up with ways to psychologically torture you on his own... so that not even the game developers themselves can predict what he'll come up with next. Kind of as if the evil AI in System Shock was a real, functioning AI with its own agenda... Of course that's absolutely impossible to achieve right now. But I hope it's what horror games will be like in 10 years or so (but considering that AI has barely improved in the last years while graphics have always gotten royal treatment... it's unlikely.)