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Was talking about a little gem called Star Ocean 2: The Second Story with some friends recently, and man...your party members could rumble. Especially if you put Bunny Shoes on the likes of Ashton and Bowman, Bowman would sometimes literally LEAP half the screen's length at the start of a battle to get to the enemy. Rena was quick and efficient on the healing and if there was a boss that you had to face alone, they pretty much got fucked with no vaseline if you had a good Claude/Dias/Bowman/Chisato/Ashton-in-no-particular-order-team on deck. Seeing all those battle skills pop up on the side of the screen and the sheer clusterfuck of metal tanging, battle cries and grunts, and critical hit sounds still happily resonates in my memories.

Another series that had some decent party A.I was the Tales series, for me it was Vesperia and Symphonia. Not as snappy and aggressive as Star Ocean 2 but they still got the job done.

 

[Soulflarz]

Not persona 3

 

[warheat1990]

.hack // G.U. series

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Xenoblade's party A.I. was pretty decent from what I remember.

 

[McSpidey]

I loved setting up my own party's AI in FFXII.

 

[Dark_castle]

Xenoblade's party A.I. was pretty decent from what I remember.

Melia though.

 

[warheat1990]

Not persona 3

It might not be the best AI in the game, but I was always wondering why did people make a thing about it, 99% of the time I knew what kind of spell they're going to use, if I don't like it, then I'll just press triangle and they will end up hitting with normal attack instead.

 

[Makoto Yuki]

Not persona 3

Dang it, too late. If, you used the tactics correctly, they were kinda better? Who am I kidding... play P3P if you want to control them...

Back on topic: I want to say FFXII's gambit system made the A.I. pretty damn good party members.

 

[chickdigger802]

not tales games.

everyone tells me to play them on hard or higher, but then i spend most of the time reviving the shit ai.

RUN AWAY FROM THE GUY IN OVERLIMIT

 

[Sub_Level]

Not Fallout New Vegas. Luckily there's a decent selection of manual orders you can give them.

 

[Finaika]

Dragon's Dogma

 

[KmA]

Dang it, too late. If, you used the tactics correctly, they were kinda better? Who am I kidding... play P3P if you want to control them...

Back on topic: I want to say FFXII's gambit system made the A.I. pretty damn good party members.

Hmmm as much as people always give flack to FFXIII for having an over-reliance on the auto-battle option, I still think FFXII was worse in this regard. Though the control over your party was pretty unprecedented, it felt automated to the point that I didn't really feel like I was playing the game myself (considering you could add gambits to your player character as well).

 

[sealrite]

Most of the Tales games are pretty good, especially (surprisingly?) Tales of Graces F.

 

[pretty done]

definitely not Ni No Kuni

 

[Conezays]

Xenoblade's party A.I. was pretty decent from what I remember.

Disagree personally, there were some specific late-game fights that I got screwed over repeatedly due to the A.I.

 

[Ezalc]

Xenoblade's was pretty cool for the most part. Don't think I ever had a problem. Also datReyntime.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

It might not be the best AI in the game, but I was always wondering why did people make a thing about it, 99% of the time I knew what kind of spell they're going to use, if I don't like it, then I'll just press triangle and they will end up hitting with normal attack instead.

Same thought here. The AI was pretty damn easy to work with.

 

[Dragon]

All I remember about Star ocean 2 was the godawful final boss. It took me weeks to beat it.

 

[Timeaisis]

Melia though.

Oh god, don't get me started.

I had to control her the entire fight with

Spoiler

Lorithia

because she would not ever do what she needed to do.

 

[Error]

Tales of Graces F AI is alright for some characters, but the AI can't use Hubert for shit.

I'm playing Star Ocean 4 and I'm finding the AI surprisingly decent for some of the characters, but after SO3 braindead AI I guess anything else would be an improvement.

the best AI has to be FFXII, though, you can 'program' it in very specific ways thanks to all the options the gambits give you. AI is absolute garbage in FFXIII IMO, specially when it comes to buffs and debuffs.

 

[CronoShot]

Not persona 3

 

[Ishida]

Xenoblade's party A.I. was pretty decent from what I remember.

Jesus Christ, no. The fight against

Spoiler

Lorithia

was a nightmare thanks to the brain dead AI.

I'd say Persona 4.

 

[Makoto Yuki]

Hmmm as much as people always give flack to FFXIII for having an over-reliance on the auto-battle option, I still think FFXII was worse in this regard. Though the control over your party was pretty unprecedented, it felt automated to the point that I didn't really feel like I was playing the game myself (considering you could add gambits to your player character as well).

Absolutely, but I see it as both a blessing and a curse.

On one hand you can create awesome gambit set ups and wreck shop just by running into mobs. Makes grinding and farming a breeze.

On the other hand the game plays itself, and it takes away from the satisfaction of choosing the right actions as needed.

 

[Memento_Mori15]

It might not be the best AI in the game, but I was always wondering why did people make a thing about it, 99% of the time I knew what kind of spell they're going to use, if I don't like it, then I'll just press triangle and they will end up hitting with normal attack instead.

I agree. I only died because it was my fault, not the AI.

Edit: NVM

 

["D"]

Hmmm as much as people always give flack to FFXIII for having an over-reliance on the auto-battle option, I still think FFXII was worse in this regard. Though the control over your party was pretty unprecedented, it felt automated to the point that I didn't really feel like I was playing the game myself (considering you could add gambits to your player character as well).

I didn't like that either. One of the reasons why I hadn't completely finished that game.

 

["D"]

All I remember about Star ocean 2 was the godawful final boss. It took me weeks to beat it.

Lol good ol' Indalecio. Thought he was bad, fight him WITHOUT his Limiter.

Spoiler

Or fight Gabriel Celeste/Iseria Queen. Have fun.

 

[PotionBleue]

Jesus Christ, no. The fight against

Spoiler

Lorithia

was a nightmare thanks to the brain dead AI.

You can give positioning orders to both AI members in order to get them out of the ether. I had no problem with that fight and never understood why people made such a big deal about it. I believe either they did not know how to use these orders well and/or they didn't bother controlling Melia themselves to make the fight shorter.

 

[Ishida]

You can give positioning orders to both AI members in order to get them out of the ether. I had no problem with that fight and never understood why people made such a big deal about it. I believe either they did not know how to use these orders well and/or they didn't bother controlling Melia themselves to make the fight shorter.

That's the problem, you actually have to keep telling them to stay away from the damn green goo that keeps draining their health.

 

[Ultratech]

I remember Soma Bringer having pretty good AI.

They were pretty good at using their Support Skills and keeping themselves alive (except against Epic bosses for obvious reasons).

One little quirk I often liked was that they'd run away from a fight in order to use an item and heal up when critically low on health, then rush right back in.

Of course, it's something of a precursor to Xenoblade and how its systems are handled in some ways.

Dang it, too late. If, you used the tactics correctly, they were kinda better? Who am I kidding... play P3P if you want to control them...

You're right.

If you bothered to set tactics for fights, the AI generally wouldn't give you issues.

I never ran into any major issues with it during my P3 playthrough.

 

[Makoto Yuki]

It might not be the best AI in the game, but I was always wondering why did people make a thing about it, 99% of the time I knew what kind of spell they're going to use, if I don't like it, then I'll just press triangle and they will end up hitting with normal attack instead.

I only died once or twice because of the AI, while frustrating at times, it really isn't as bad as people say. Like you say, I could have prevented some spells using "Rush." And the tactics menu is there to help make the AI more manageable. Ways around the imperfect A.I.

Then again, after playing P3P I don't think I would want to go back to complete A.I. control, Love the option of being able to control party members manually.

 

[Otakumegane]

Melia though.

Sharla was good, Reyn was good, Firoa and Dunban were meh, Riki was bad, Melia was so bad that people thought she was a garbage character and then they realized she was actually OP when you controlled her.

 

[Claude Kenni]

Always happy to see Star Ocean 2 love, my favorite game.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Melia though.

Sharla was good, Reyn was good, Firoa and Dunban were meh, Riki was bad, Melia was so bad that people thought she was a garbage character and then they realized she was actually OP when you controlled her.

Jesus Christ, no. The fight against

Spoiler

Lorithia

was a nightmare thanks to the brain dead AI.

Disagree personally, there were some specific late-game fights that I got screwed over repeatedly due to the A.I.

I never really had any A.I. problems with Melia since I usually just controlled her whenever I put her in my party. I never used Riki so no idea on that.

 

[DrForester]

.hack // G.U. series

I thought even the original .hack games had pretty solid AI.

 

[johnsmith]

Not persona 3

 

[Atlantis]

Actually think P3 had the best A.I. I've experienced in an RPG, but it's also probably the only turn-based game I've played with an A.I. party. ARPGs have a lot more stupid things for your A.I. characters to get into.

Tales of the Abyss's A.I. was good enough to stand still and chain cast spells, which is all you want from your party in that game, so that'd also make the list I suppose.

Special shout-out to Sarah's A.I. in SO4 though. Probably the only game where the healer's A.I. actually has them run into the farthest corner and just heal.

 

["D"]

Actually think P3 had the best A.I. I've experienced in an RPG, but it's also probably the only turn-based game I've played with an A.I. party. ARPGs have a lot more stupid things for your A.I. characters to get into.

Tales of the Abyss's A.I. was good enough to stand still and chain cast spells, which is all you want from your party in that game, so that'd also make the list I suppose.

Special shout-out to Sarah's A.I. in SO4 though. Probably the only game where the healer's A.I. actually has them run into the farthest corner and just heal.

Rena in SO2 was pretty good about staying out of the shit. If her spell proficiencies are high enough for high speed casting, its as if the absolute second its needed, its almost like she's like "i'm here daddy, I got you"

 

[koji kabuto]

I loved setting up my own party's AI in FFXII.

This +1

 

[Bornstellar]

Easily INIGO for Skyrim in terms of both combat and interesting things that he says.

This may be cheating since it's a mod.

 

[Byronic Hero]

God Eater Burst has some of the most helpful party members I've ever seen. They are quick to heal you, and will sometimes sacrifice their own well-being just to give you another shot at beating whatever monster you are up against.

 

[TriAceJP]

Final Fantasy XII.

I was the AI.

 

[Kuro]

The damn boat ai in the Asscreed4 minigame piss me off

 

[chickdigger802]

I loved setting up my own party's AI in FFXII.

does that even count as ai lol

but yeah thats fun. you don't even have to play the game if you do the gambits right.

 

[Night_Trekker]

Not the Tales games I've played.

In fact, I can't think of a single RPG that surprised me with great AI. That doesn't mean they don't exist or that I've never played any games with good AI, but nothing is coming to mind. Just examples of poor AI.

 

[sixghost]

Dragon's Dogma

Which part? My game was nothing but archers climbing on cyclopes instead of shooting them in the eye with bows, mages refusing to use the affinity that the boss was weak to, and dying all the time.

 

[BasilZero]

definitely not Ni No Kuni

This lmao

 

[Edgeward]

God Eater Burst has some of the most helpful party members I've ever seen. They are quick to heal you, and will sometimes sacrifice their own well-being just to give you another shot at beating whatever monster you are up against.

Yes, I agree.


Also Xenoblade is decent.

 

[Dice//]

definitely not Ni No Kuni

Spoiler

Old but whatever.

I don't care much about the AI in Tales games, but I'm just glad that healers are usually on the ball. So yay.

 

[Amauri14]

Dragon's Dogma

.

 

[Danne-Danger]

I'm playing Star Ocean 4 and I'm finding the AI surprisingly decent for some of the characters, but after SO3 braindead AI I guess anything else would be an improvement.

I thought SO3 had decent enough AI most of the time... if you set them up with skills they could use, and took control of the healing during more complicated fights. Though I guess most fights would be complicated for the AI on higher difficulties.