BombermanBoard

fireball87 · #2 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:44 am

The older bomberman games are better at that regard (super bomberman 3's ai wasn't good, but I wouldn't call it terrible), the newer ones play alot like the older ones. Chess is a bad example for two reasons, for one it's a game that is basically solved by just looking at every possible outcome and then choosing the move that provides sucks the least, for two the computer doesn't even do much work anymore due to the fact that the opening and endgame book are rapidly approaching each other. Bomberman AI is somewhat matches the first policy, only it's just brute forcing the quickest route of escape from bombs generally, or if it's even better plotting a route that will work and doesn't allow you to actually place a bomb that kills it (making near impossible to kill bots) but they all tend to be really bad at setting traps for human players, who tend to think of the problem in better. A bot that was practically unkillable is completely plausable, and to some extent alot of the bots are pretty rediculous to kill, as is a bot that is good at taking chances to force kills, a bot that plays almost like a easy/medium/good human, faults and all, while also plausable is probably not worth the time. Whether bomberman or chess... especially bomberman, playing against AI is a tremendous waste of time as far as the entertainment you get out of it whether the AI is good or not.