Posted June 22, 2022
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I love NPC's in games, I don't know why but the less they matter and more interactivity they have with the game world the more I'm drawn to them. Like I cant say I'm a fan of Natalia style escort mission in golden eye but the more Barney style NpC's I run into in games the better.
My gamer journey started when my child ass received a N64, I'd owned and enjoyed a mega drive before this, but npc interaction wasn't really a thing. But duke nukem zero hour had those marines that helped you fight in the first 50 seconds clicked with me in a way I cant describe and I was bitterly disappointed to learn that past the first level there is no friendly A.I interactions. The world is not enough, and perfect dark really cemented my love for these friendly npc's willing to fight along side you. in the 2001 era I Gained access to a pc pc worthy of playing games and played half life and Deus ex. do I need to say more? The seminal games with rich and deep autonomist NPC interaction changed me on a level I don't have the articulation to express.
Now i love horror games but has always irked me that in most horror games there is so little npc interaction which is weird given some of the Great of the genre have a fair bit of Npc Interaction, Silent hill and Resident evil (especially the remake) have a ton of interactions, and I honestly find it heightens the horror, having been with a companion makes the loneliness off some sections even worse. Thing is horror games on a whole seem to be moving away from this , the dead space series had more npc going on in a Doomed ship that had been going tits up for a week or more than it did in a city that was just started its out break and more recently Resi village had some promising moments at the start but then wiped out the remainder of the village in the first 30 minutes. this isn't even even talking about the outlast style walking simulator horror games that have sprung up in the last decade. aside from a few standouts they just don't do it for me.
Not even sure why I'm posting this I don't know know if I'm looking for suggestions or just to get it off my chest all I know is some of my favourite horror Games like the suffering and alien isolation have a ton of these interactions and I wish there were more like it.
I love NPC's in games, I don't know why but the less they matter and more interactivity they have with the game world the more I'm drawn to them. Like I cant say I'm a fan of Natalia style escort mission in golden eye but the more Barney style NpC's I run into in games the better.
My gamer journey started when my child ass received a N64, I'd owned and enjoyed a mega drive before this, but npc interaction wasn't really a thing. But duke nukem zero hour had those marines that helped you fight in the first 50 seconds clicked with me in a way I cant describe and I was bitterly disappointed to learn that past the first level there is no friendly A.I interactions. The world is not enough, and perfect dark really cemented my love for these friendly npc's willing to fight along side you. in the 2001 era I Gained access to a pc pc worthy of playing games and played half life and Deus ex. do I need to say more? The seminal games with rich and deep autonomist NPC interaction changed me on a level I don't have the articulation to express.
Now i love horror games but has always irked me that in most horror games there is so little npc interaction which is weird given some of the Great of the genre have a fair bit of Npc Interaction, Silent hill and Resident evil (especially the remake) have a ton of interactions, and I honestly find it heightens the horror, having been with a companion makes the loneliness off some sections even worse. Thing is horror games on a whole seem to be moving away from this , the dead space series had more npc going on in a Doomed ship that had been going tits up for a week or more than it did in a city that was just started its out break and more recently Resi village had some promising moments at the start but then wiped out the remainder of the village in the first 30 minutes. this isn't even even talking about the outlast style walking simulator horror games that have sprung up in the last decade. aside from a few standouts they just don't do it for me.
Not even sure why I'm posting this I don't know know if I'm looking for suggestions or just to get it off my chest all I know is some of my favourite horror Games like the suffering and alien isolation have a ton of these interactions and I wish there were more like it.
