By saying that, you've defined away any aspect of horror games. Doom does try to impart a sense of dread. Some more than others (Doom 64, Doom 3) but there is, or was, an attempt.
That's fair, like I said there are games which stride the line between gameplay and spectacle. RE, Bloodborne, Nightmare creatures, Doom 64/3, eternal darkness sanitys requiem, don't starve, the forest and some others. But theyre not the bedrock of horror as an experience because as an experience it requires deprivation and it relies on spectacle. Its a genre of game which relies on a format of game, which is to say the linear rollercoaster ride format. A basic thing like a scare say requires scripting, requires manufacturing, it cannot be an organic interaction. That's the thing about "horror as a game" which is what horror games are supposed to be. Otherwise horror games are similar to adventure games in that they're as broad as required and lack distinguishing gameplay features.
The "smart" AI is merely the guy who did the AI and the guy who designed the level were desk buddies during development and had the mindset of having the AI move around and interact with room you find it in as best it can. Like kicking over a desk or throwing down a rack of shelves to provide makeshift cover, then if the player is too focused on one, another will move around to flank you or if they can't they'll try to retreat and flank, the game teaches early on that the AI are never alone and work together. They made the AI act as a mercenary force using basic squad tactics. In addition the AI had lots of audio call outs for what you're item you're specifically hiding behind and would communicate like a merc force would so it does sell a smarter AI. For the time it's incredible work but rather basic compared for today, makes it a much greater shame that no modern FPS tries to replicate it. The AI not the 90% office buildings and turrets
I'm talking about drivable cars. Multiple transportation types in general; hot air balloons (dlc), motorcycles, bikes, skateboards (generations expansion), witches brooms, hoverboards (into the future expansion), fairy wings (supernatural expansion), Dr Who phonebooth (supernatural), tractors (dlc), alien spaceships, company cars, subway train stations (late night expansion), etc. Every job had car pooling which was an interesting touch. Kids picked up for school buses every morning and dropped off at home in the evening by bus.
That has been since vanilla 1, how is that novel? 2 even had a helicopter and AL let you buy one. Some sims even fly to work when they're on certain careers.
That is also in 2 (came with Freetime), and sims can woohoo in all cars, not just the restorable one (the helicopter is also a woohoo place).
Again, this is also in 2, although in a slightly different way. A teenager can sneak out or ask for permission to go out at night, and if they pick the first option it's possible for the police to catch them and bring them back in their patrol car.
Yeah, the funny thing is that flanking/pincer moves aren't built into the AI at all. It's just a simple "move to cover" system. So there's like 3 spots of cover in front of you when you enter combat in an area but there's 4 enemies. 3 of the enemies take the cover spots in front of you while the 4th enemy has no cover spots left for him. However there's cover spot to the side of you. The enemy could just run towards it but it is told to minimize the time exposed, so it ends up taking a route around the level to get to the cover on your side.
Terry is always right
It is a remake of Nier Replicant/Gestalt and mostly no, Automata and Replicant are separated by thousands of years. You do have those Project Gestalt docs that do mess with the twist in Replicant, but since you already know humanity died, I don't think it's that big of an issue.
Others covered this a bit already, but some of the things the AI do aren't that clever, but are given the impression of being clever via the callout system, marketing, and reputation. It's still good, but the reputation is way overblown.
Other games have similar behaviour. A mod that replaced the Half-Life 2 Combine voices with plain English is great for this. They also try to flank, will call out locations, throw grenades when the player hides in cover. It gets little credit however because combine use surgery terms, like "clamp, cauterize, sterilize." When you kill a squad of combine quickly, the lone survivor with run away to cover, firing wildly while screaming "Outbreak outbreak outbreak!".
Poise didn't make it into DS2 either but it's easier to forget as the meta for most of its cycle was still guys in heavy armor stacking a stupid amount of defensive buffs. Remember helixodons? Stacking as much heavy armor as possible including the turtle knight chest piece, plus the mastodon halberd, helix halberd, and like six defensive buffs. If they were real Gamers, they had one of those invisible weapon wings or used hidden weapon. That playstyle eventually got nerfed to where you could only cast one body buff and one weapon buff, similar to DS1 but still didn't undo all of the defense gained from absurd leveling, enabled of course by soul memory being an abortion of a mechanic. I like how there are different types of self buff in ER that can stack but I don't like how unclear it is as to what's what.
That's part of the story telling of early silent hill games. You play as an average person who isn't going to know how to fight well. You are meant to run from enemies and not kill everything. It's a limitation used as a story device, because tank controls made combat janky anyway, like how the fog made things scarier, but was used because of draw distance initially. Basically turned lemons into lemonade.
The Half-Life 2 AI can be quite advanced. Here's a video showing how the AI will time their attacks to keep constant fire on the player.
One of my buddies that's a PvPtard has apparently been dumpstering melee tards in Elden Ring by doing this. He stacks every single defensive buff possible, including Ironjar Aromatic, but still wears cloth armor to bait melee tards to run in and trade with him while he just channels Rock Blaster.
Eternal Darkness, Alone in the Dark, any game based on Alien, Fatal Frame, Cry of Fear, Deadly Premonition, and Dead Space all come to mind.
Replicant and Gestalt were the original two, each were slightly different versions of the same game (technically a spinoff of Drakengard). 1.22 was a remake in Automata's engine for the 11th anniversary.
Yes that is what I said. It's a smokescreen story device, it's still corridor rollercoaster gameplay. It doesn't even have cod campaign levels of gameplay fidelity. That's not gameplay in the traditional sense, that's a storytelling gimmick. Ofc it's probably different down the line when you you get more weapons and the power level increases but things like system shock and dark souls do that better in comparison (static hub levels with branching paths which locks progress behind power levels). Silent hill is not completely linear but by nature horror games require linearity unless they're survival games otherwise you can't make them scary enough. The scary set pieces require linearity and require the player to be deprived of agency. Sometimes they can defy those expectations like with fear and alien isolation cause the ai is very good.
From what I understand, in Nier Reincarnation there are humans being stored
