Women Drivers in GTA V

MilkmanDansays...

...not sure if serious...

One can find many clips from the game featuring this, uh, behavior by female AI NPCs. I've seen it myself while playing. I tend to think that it is 100% intentional, and therefore good AI, at least in terms of "working as intended".

To me, I find it hilarious, if not very PC. But considering how the GTA series is known for pushing (if not utterly destroying) the limits of PCness / good taste, I take that as further evidence that "bad" female driver AI is very very intentional.

CrushBugsaid:

Wat?

How about "Bad AI in GTA V"?

CrushBugsays...

Apologies. I have never played the GTA series games for very long. It just looked like bad AI and it was weird to go with the old trope of "women drivers".

MilkmanDansays...

No "apology" necessary -- I can definitely see how it would look like bad AI in a one-off context like this, I just wasn't sure if you were making a sarcastic dig at them or not (and it would be fine if you were, also).

There's actually an amazing level of depth in subtle details that get put into the GTA games. Some of them are immersion-enhancing things that you tend to only notice on a subconscious level, like "tick tick tick" sounds of car engines cooling after you shut them down. And some are little in-joke tropes like this.

Honestly, it seems like it would take a LOT of work to coordinate all of those details and references and keep them fairly internally consistent. On top of that effort, the payoff is arguably somewhat dubious in cost-benefit terms -- a few people with notice these things and find them a little bit funny, a few will notice them and be offended to varying degrees, and a bunch either won't notice at all or will chalk them up to AI / simulation glitches.

But I still think it is cool that Rockstar doesn't shy away from including this kind of stuff, and/or stuff that more blatantly pushes the limits.

CrushBugsaid:

Apologies. I have never played the GTA series games for very long. It just looked like bad AI and it was weird to go with the old trope of "women drivers".

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