Preview X05 Oblivion hands-on at IGN and GameSpot

[Vault Dweller]

I think setting the dog on fire was cool. It wasn't how it was made to sound. The dog was being a nuisance, so it's owner cast a fire spell on it and burned it a little. It's not like he was really "set on fire." He only burned for a second and then ran off. It's a cool feature I think. She is a little mean disciplining the dog with magic, though.

Is it a feature you are planning to use a lot though? Would it improve your gameplay and add depth to it?

 

[truekaiser]

I think setting the dog on fire was cool. It wasn't how it was made to sound. The dog was being a nuisance, so it's owner cast a fire spell on it and burned it a little. It's not like he was really "set on fire." He only burned for a second and then ran off. It's a cool feature I think. She is a little mean disciplining the dog with magic, though.

Is it a feature you are planning to use a lot though? Would it improve your gameplay and add depth to it?

the only way i see it being a feature is if someone added a People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals guild.

on the gameplay note, i realy do hope the first dungeon does not give you your class based on your actions.

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

I think setting the dog on fire was cool. It wasn't how it was made to sound. The dog was being a nuisance, so it's owner cast a fire spell on it and burned it a little. It's not like he was really "set on fire." He only burned for a second and then ran off. It's a cool feature I think. She is a little mean disciplining the dog with magic, though.

It was there to get the audience to laugh, I don't see why people keep bringing it up.

 

[jiujitsu]

I think setting the dog on fire was cool. It wasn't how it was made to sound. The dog was being a nuisance, so it's owner cast a fire spell on it and burned it a little. It's not like he was really "set on fire." He only burned for a second and then ran off. It's a cool feature I think. She is a little mean disciplining the dog with magic, though.

Is it a feature you are planning to use a lot though? Would it improve your gameplay and add depth to it?

Hey, it's just a fun thing to see the game do. I would like to see the AI do various things like that. It would just make the game more alive and polished.

 

[Balor]

Hmm... NPCs setting their dogs on fire is polished?
Unless, indeed, it has to do with some sort of antigreen guild .
antigreen.org/bioreactor
:D

 

[Drakron]

It was there to get the audience to laugh, I don't see why people keep bringing it up.

It was a fluke on Bethsoft part when they programed the Radient AI of that NPC.

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

A fluke Todd played through countless times to have it happen like that when he played it live? Yeah. Everything in that video was planned and supposed to happen (MSFD, you can tell me if I'm wrong).

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

She was meant to look like a crack whore to show all the stupid things she could do for the audience. What I really want to see is a guy masturbate in his room then drink a tasty accuraccy potion because lets be frank thats what all villagers do.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

The demo is designed to show what RAI can do. Lighting dogs on fire is possible (with the right circumstances), but not likely.

 

[Tintin]

It was there to get the audience to laugh, I don't see why people keep bringing it up.

It was a fluke on Bethsoft part when they programed the Radient AI of that NPC.

Right, they had no idea it would happen, and when it happened during the preview, Todd gasped and motioned frightendly for someone to help him - but it was too late, the damage was done, the audience was now aware of the dog-burning secrets of Radiant AI which they would spread to the world. Soon, Oblivion would be named "TES4: DogBurning" by the press, and Bethesda as they knew it would perish.

They programmed that character specifically for that to happen during the preview just to exaggerate what kind of reaction capabilities NPC's have. MSFD already confirmed it won't happen regularily.

 

[Drakron]

Dont be a ass, duing one of NwN demos a deer followed the party into a cave ... it was not set either and BioWare quicky explained that creatures can move over areas (at least that deer did).

The whole thing was the NPC in Oblivion was supposed to cast spells and simply the fire spell was casted, it unlikely that would happen and so I call it a fluke ... not "Oblivion comedy central" since when you trying to push human-like AI you dont want it to show its still going to do some dumb things.

Heck I bet you are going to say next that the blue Screen of Death during Microsoft presentation of Windows XP was set up as well ...

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

Mr. Smileyface, tell this smart guy that it was a planned joke. For the love of god, before his damned brain explodes at the concept of it. Or shame me and say it wasn't. Please.

 

[Section8]

Drakron, I'd say the fact that there's is recorded VO to account for the act of setting her dog on fire is a pretty good indicator it was planned and not emergent.

 

[Twinfalls]

Beth stated in an interview somewhere that they set her variables to such a state that the outcome - flaming the dog, was practically guaranteed.

To me, it just looks scripted.

 

[NeutralMilkHotel]

It was pretty obvious to me as well.

 

[MrSmileyFaceDude]

Of course it's not a fluke. The whole lady in the bookstore part was a planned sequence of events designed to show some of the things you can do with Radiant AI. Some of it is scripts, some of it is a schedule of AI packages, some of it is autonomous behavior based on AI settings on the characters. It's a combination of lots of different aspects of RAI.

 

[jasondragon]

The demo is designed to show what RAI can do. Lighting dogs on fire is possible (with the right circumstances), but not likely.

What exactly are the right circumstances to light a dog on fire? Does the dog have to be bad?

 

[Drakron]

Of course it's not a fluke. The whole lady in the bookstore part was a planned sequence of events designed to show some of the things you can do with Radiant AI. Some of it is scripts, some of it is a schedule of AI packages, some of it is autonomous behavior based on AI settings on the characters. It's a combination of lots of different aspects of RAI.

So the idiot behavior was script, AI package or autonomous behavior?

 

[Micmu]

Here is a live footage of rat & zombie killing in Oblivion: http://rmjv.net/vi/oblivionx05gp1.wmv
Thanks to dino1980 @ TES boards. Probably it'll get illegalized, too.

Edit: MANA REGENERATES DURING COMBAT

 

[Avin]

how many dogs has bethesda burned to get that effect right?

 

[One Wolf]

not enough! the dog survived!

 

[Vault Dweller]

It's a part of the plot. The woman knows IT, so she tries to kill the dog to stop THE THING from taking over Tamriel. She put the dog on fire, but we all know you've gotta burn THE THING properly to kill it. So, now you must hunt it and all those people IT infested. I think the Emperor is infested, he didn't look very well.

 

[truekaiser]

It's a part of the plot. The woman knows IT, so she tries to kill the dog to stop THE THING from taking over Tamriel. She put the dog on fire, but we all know you've gotta burn THE THING properly to kill it. So, now you must hunt it and all those people IT infested. I think the Emperor is infested, he didn't look very well.

heh.
that wasn't a very good movie either

 

[Vault Dweller]

You didn't like The Thing? I think it's great (the story was cool too, written in 56, unless I'm mistaken). Well, what I liked the most was the fact that the alien was actually a very different life form (each cell is its own organism) and not just a scary bloodthirsty animal like in another movies.

 

[truekaiser]

You didn't like The Thing? I think it's great (the story was cool too, written in 56, unless I'm mistaken). Well, what I liked the most was the fact that the alien was actually a very different life form (each cell is its own organism) and not just a scary bloodthirsty animal like in another movies.

i didn't hate the movie, i just do not think it's good movie.
or maybe it's because i have watchd too many 'aliens = blood thirsty monsters' movies