Oblivion but i restored Radiant AI Part 1

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Pssschht... I've got some skooma here!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzdhYhunbSJd9E

[@destubae3271]

So when you give autonomy to AI, they start committing crimes and killing the nearest living thing. That's terrifying

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Indeed. But for me, this is the future of games and roleplaying games. AI that is dynamicly doing things. The different thing about this is keeping quests working, they have to be dynamic too.

[@TheBreakingBenny]

And furthermore, City Watches can't arrest the NPCs because that choice "doesn't exist for their captives".

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Yeah.. lets freaking hope they implement this in tes6. Im mean come on. When the tech was already there in 2006.. it cant be too difficult in 2023 or when it come out.

[@TheBreakingBenny]

@@Imaginationcinematics .....Unless they give up on it because they already fucked stuff up with Skyrim and Fallout 76 (And don't forget about the controversies surrounding _that_ game. But I guess at the same time, all the people who fell for it afterwards got what they deserved??? Not all of them, but those who ignored the warning signs.)

[@destubae3271]

@@Imaginationcinematics Unfortunately, we're talking about double to AAA games here. Time constraints are always the main obstacle

[@Gr33n_gh05t]

"we never got it, like it was in Todd's mind" - Every Bethesda dev team

[@asdfg2560]

Gr33n_ Gh05t just like 10 times the details

[@Imaginationcinematics]

XD

[@Ma1q444]

That’s literally every game

[@araija8781]

“..figure it out in their own” *sets fucking dog on fire*

[@realbasherverse]

well I mean they did figure it out I guess

[@peacefulmountain9635]

Some people do that in real life.

[@TheBreakingBenny]

@@peacefulmountain9635 I'm sure there needs to be a personality, temper, and another value determining how likely the NPC is to throw a fit like that. Maybe someone who's as easy to piss off as GTA's Catalina?

[@JazzyWaffles]

Guard: *kills beggar, sees body* "Oh my goodness!"

[@Imaginationcinematics]

#classic

[@JazzyWaffles]

In hindsight this comment ended up being unintentionally relevant to now-current events. Oof.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

What do u mean by that? 😅

[@JazzyWaffles]

@@Imaginationcinematics A guard killing a poor civilian and then acting like they just came across the body. It's, uh... reminiscent of current events in the US. (Police brutality & lack of accountability.)

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Ah, since i come from germany i didnt hear the message, sounds horrible, but it suits the oblivion stupidity xD

[@daftmantis9027]

>Mythic Dawn robes >Akaviri Dai-katana True centrism

[@Imaginationcinematics]

:DD i think visually its a great combo.

[@qwopiretyu]

Hold on centrist? Mythic Dawn is a doomsday cult bent on undoing Lorkhans mistake of mortality. Akavir culture is about ascending past dragonhood to become immortal. They two sides of the same voldemort

[@Ma1q444]

Explain in terms

[@daftmantis9027]

maiq knows many terms@@Ma1q444

[@falingrrl]

@@qwopiretyuread another book

[@kazaakas]

Such a cool idea, but judging by the video it's no wonder they left it out. Seems like after the passing of enough time, most NPCs would end up dead.

[@cones914]

Infact that is literally why they didn't include the system.

[@KnoxCarbon]

They could've just put in a thing that said Guards can't murder NPCs and just arrest them instead.

[@ronswanson5974]

​@@KnoxCarbonthey actually did try that apparently. But the in game prisons kept on getting way to crowded and many NPCs would try to break out if they needed food or something

[@KnoxCarbon]

@@ronswanson5974 What's to stop them from making the AI not do that too? Deadlines? Too hard?

[@ronswanson5974]

@@KnoxCarbon deadlines yes. That as well as the fact the premise of the AI is that they were supposed to make their decisions. Even if they fixed some things. It still would choose to break out or fight it out anyways so it could save gold for the market later or something

[@jrssm]

3:21 “You’ve got a real bounce to your chest”

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Indeed

[@Shamsammy99]

he said step...

[@BeyondTheZenith]

@@Shamsammy99 somebody does not know about manslayer machinima

[@Shamsammy99]

@@BeyondTheZenith i dont, what is that

[@carlosmspk]

@@Shamsammy99 It's a dude who picks lines from oblivion (among other games) and edits them into, very often, sexual sentences. "You've got a real bounce to your chest" is one of them

[@itsclemtime2357]

In theory Radiant AI could solve a lot of things, if only Oblivion was delayed for a few years I think it could’ve been perfected.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

my words.

[@MrMentos876]

Yep, only problem is companies are always rushing art.

[@darylallen2485]

Skyrim?

[@johntrevy1]

You want to wait a few years just for an AI system to be improved?

[@Destroyer19941995]

@@johntrevy1 Art???????¿?

[@existenceisrelative]

I _lived_ in Cyrodiil in 2006-2008. Going back is always more like revisiting a memory than playing it again. But this... This makes me want to take another trip.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Good to hear, mods are listed in Part 2.

[@larrote6467]

translation: "i'm a grown child" I love videogames as well but damn some people are just sad...

[@existenceisrelative]

@@larrote6467 Aw. Did that make you feel better about yourself, buttercup? That's nice.

[@burgbass]

⁠​⁠@@larrote6467You’re right about that, some people are just sad. Like the ones bashing others for enjoying a different type of media.

[@Fusren]

I would be cool if you could actually report the theft to the patrolling Imperial Rider and have him run the thief down.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Indeed.

[@IndorilTheGreat]

No joke, I hoped that would be something I could do before the game was released.

[@kevlarchicken]

that guard on a one man war with poverty though

[@xGoGlobal]

That man was the BUM SLAYER

[@CharliReef]

The guard killing a guy, turning to see you standing right behind him, then kneeling by the body and acting like he has no idea what happened-

[@CharliReef]

Adventurer: *nudges a bottle* The entire province of Cyrodiil: *surprised Pikachu face*

[@DavidDavidson587]

2:51 That formula 1/indy car sound effect when the guard showed up had me laughing hard, lmao. That was nicely done.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Sounds great, good to hear 💜

[@CErra310]

I'm getting the suspicion that TES6 would profit heavily from stealing the "knockout" mechanic from Gothic.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Oh shit. Very interesting fact indeed! That would maybe solve some problems with radiant ai indeed. So for example making the npc's learn from an knockout to make them stop stealing for example.

[@CharliReef]

Everybody needs a copy of the Black Horse Courier

[@atheist101]

Didn't the original radiant ai turn the npc's into skooma addicts and then the guards would kill them all? I also seem to remember a problem with the animals getting into town and killing everyone. Not in the released game but before they had to dumb down the ai

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Bethesdas Original Radiant AI turned all into thiefs and they got killed by the guards. Atleast this is the story i know.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Dude... it would be so amazing when radiant AI would come back in tes6. A working and balanced one to say 😄

[@atheist101]

@@Imaginationcinematics what I heard was they turned into thiefs because they were all skooma addicts. That led to the guards killing everyone. Either way it's hilarious and kind of scary

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@atheist101 now that ur saying this. Yeah there might was something like this.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Yes. Proving that Bethesda are total fucking idiots.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Adding additional situational dialogue with AI would be cool. Imagine a fan remastered Oblivion. That would be a huge project. But sort of possible. Also have offenders taken to prison inatead of killed outright.

[@KasperMcKay]

If you haven't already, look up skyblivion

[@DarinM1967]

What mods did you use to restore some of the radiant ai? I'm not too much into upping the graphics, but more complex npc/monster behavior is something I'd love to add.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

as i mentioned below, i will bring out atleast one more part of this video-series where i reveal what kind of modifications i used.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Part 2 is online, i listed the mods in the description.

[@shenawy04]

"Your intelligence is being drained."

[@hallucy2215]

vague gay

[@19KDC93]

Todd Howard is not scripted.

[@sacredxgeometry]

The editing is weird, the presentation is strange....it makes the pace of the game appear much different than the original which does not work to its advantage. This Radiant AI seems INCREDIBLY buggy. It's like the AI is trying really hard to impress you with how much it can do, but it's not working, so it winds up looking like the AI is not really doing anything. I understand now why they made it the way they did without adding or restoring the original programming.

[@AWISECROW]

Bounty of 100 for moving a vase that isn't yours? I've gotten less for assault.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

:D

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Maybe i had some bounty before, dunno.

[@AWISECROW]

@@Imaginationcinematics =D Great video and modding btw

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Thank you kind human ♥

[@FreedomForAll2013]

If you want to know if you've truly restored it, the try and buy skioma from the dealer outside the imperial city

[@Imaginationcinematics]

and then?

[@FreedomForAll2013]

@@Imaginationcinematics well he shouldn't have any... The Addicts will always sell him out (buy it all up)

[@zacharykrawczyk3942]

Those guards went all Ronald Reagan on the poor again

[@WillToNihilsm]

Niceeee

[@masonwagner768]

Wait a minute.. I know that metal squeaking sound. 3:33 That is the same sound effect used for the swinging lamp in the Silent Hill PT demo

[@thedude8526]

Am I the only one who thinks the combat in Oblivion was infinitely more fun than Skyrim? I wish they kept the Radiant AI. Would have made this game even goofier.

[@theshyguitarist4536]

Fantastic idea. But somewhat flawed execution. This is why Bethesda diluted it down significantly before launch. It's a shame because I don't think it was worth scrapping all these elements for the sake of easing development hindrances. There were workarounds that (given time, developer competency, and financial investment) could have made one of the most dynamic games ever created. I'm no game developer, so take these suggestions with a grain of salt. A couple of ideas I would have bounced off the wall would have been: 1) Just let NPCs who commit crimes be willing to spend a day or 2 in a jail cell if they don't have the gold spare to pay the fine (might want to increase jail cell quantity whilst we're implementing this!). The player could still interact with them by visiting the prison if required. If the player really needed to interact with them outside of prison, then wait the required time until their release. 2) Mark some NPCs (mostly named Town/City NPCs, bandits and generic guards should be killable by anyone) as "semi-essential"; an additional assignation to the already pre-existing "essential" and "non-essential" NPCs in the game. So the semi-essential NPCs can be killed by the player character but not by another NPC, hence avoiding walking into towns littered with dead beggars and Skooma addicts. In fact, if I had my way there would be absolutely no essential NPCs (just like Morrowind or Fallout New Vegas), but the existence of these semi-essential tagged NPCs would be welcomed by me for the sake of immersion and no unavoidable game- breaking bugs due to AI unpredictability. And I'm sure cleverer people than me can think up some better ideas, or even ammend my own above if there are obvious issues I haven't considered.

[@marasmusine]

"I should presue". Take those robbers to court before you take them to court.

[@nickbooze9766]

Love Stone in Focus there at the end.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

💜

[@lsswappedcessna]

Bethesda was decades ahead of their time with Radiant AI. The only way I could think of to get a system like it to work without eventually breaking the game is to have a set of 'important' NPCs who are for the most part on a set schedule and have set activities but have some leeway on how they are able to go about their daily schedule, and are either unkillable until their quest is complete or until a certain requirement is met, or are only killable by the player, like how Skyrim worked but with a few tweaks. > For example, Delphine and Esbern would be killable once you get to the point that they ask you to kill Paarthurnax, as their usefulness to the character has ran its course and they are no longer required for the story to progress. > Another example would be the Imperial Legates and Stormcloak Officers at their respective camps. At the end of the Civil War, regardless of what side you choose, the second in command (either Galmar Stone-Fist or Legate Rikke) recommends raiding enemy camps and wiping them out. Problem is, the Legates and Officers at each camp are marked as essential (not Important, Important NPCs can be killed only by the player but they ARE killable), so despite the green light to go nuts and finish off the last remnants of either the Empire or the Stormcloaks in Skyrim, you simply can't do it without mods or console commands. There would also be a lot of expendable and respawnable NPCs with fully-radiant AI enabled, which would live, eat, sleep, rob, murder, go to jail, be released, walk out into the wilds to go hunting or to go to the next town over, and get killed by a bear or a random wandering bandit, also radiant AI enabled, and then respawn as someone else to rinse and repeat once again. Of course this was not possible on the PS3 and Xbox 360, nor would it have been possible on a 32-bit PC due to RAM limitations as well as processors and GPUs being not that great compared to what we have now. It would have also required stellar optimization and rigorous playtesting and bugfixing, neither of which Bethesda is particularly great at. However, it could in theory work in the modern day, given the AI is given some limitations to what it is allowed to do for important characters. There are a few mods for Skyrim that overhaul the AI. Specifically, ones like Immersive Citizens and AI Overhaul SSE. They can work together with patches, but if you have mods that change cities very much they may do some unusual things. For example, Immersive Citizens makes NPCs sit on the walls outside Whiterun. However, since I am using a mod that beefs up Whiterun's walls, they appear to just be sitting in the middle of the parapet, and if you look closely their legs are going through the floor. It's a very minor incompatibility that doesn't harm gameplay at all and only barely scratches immersion if you pay super close attention, but it's an incompatibility nonetheless.

[@eleanorburns8686]

I've definitely seen beggars try to steal in vanilla Oblivion, at least for the XBox 360. Possibly an update? While I was tailing some poor woman for the paranoid guy's quest in Skingrad, one of the local down-and-outs tried to pickpocket her repeatedly at lunchtime, causing her to yell blue murder (for all the guards cared).

[@chrisnewbury3793]

I'm pretty sure some of that is pre-scripted. Although even without the radiant ai the beggars will do things like pick up food you drop on the ground for them.

[@Nooneoneoneoeneone]

Unfortunately for that beggar the guards in oblivion have omnipotent ai

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Thumbs up, for The Elder Scrolls VI: GOBLIN! 09:10

[@JasonL_Hawaii]

Which graphical mod did you used for this gameplay video?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@JasonL_Hawaii Hello Jason, as many people ask.. the biggest impact on visuals i get, is from video editing. I also use OR.

[@maximumoverdrive3520]

It’d be cool if it could be tweaked to where if an Named NPC were to be killed by another NPC they’d respawn after a day or so, and a Thief would just be in Jail

[@sharp1491]

Holy shit, this is amazing

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Thank you! 👍 ❤

[@Imaginationcinematics]

It is indeed.

[@arlenka8550]

Elder Scrolls VI Goblin... Take notes Todd

[@Imaginationcinematics]

🤣🤣🤣

[@b1bek7]

ah yes why did they ever try to remove this

[@qwopiretyu]

Because in 06 game journos were still too stunted to successfully complete tutorials. Imagine this game breaking but not giving you the Morrowind "the thread of fate has been severed" message and ensuring you persist in the "doomed world you've created"

[@Tortue-et-Fitness]

Amazing work!

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Thank you! 👍

[@kitferg]

What are your specs?? How did you get better cities to run with actually decent framerate...

[@joao73438]

BETTER THAN CYBERPUNK

[@ML8443]

So somewhere in the world the gray fox is stealing a lot. Umbra is exploring?

[@haserrea]

some better direction and a little bit of more time in the oven to polish this and this could've made oblivion my favorite in the series

[@NotASpyReally]

4:54 "Oh my goodness. WHO DID THIS??"

[@Imaginationcinematics]

:DD

[@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad]

"It's you... Hi."

[@Ma1q444]

7:52 why do the orcs looks like that with that mod

[@rkcpek]

Did you add immersion mods? Things that would limit the abilities of Radiant AI NPC's to effectively match the player?

[@Ma1q444]

Radiant AI was amazing they should have never abandoned it

[@shadowgamer4plays744]

what graphics mods do you use?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Hello ShadowGamer 4 Plays, i use graphics extender´s like OR + video editing.

[@Masked_Official]

I dunno why people want over complicated combat systems. I always loved the basic fighting in Oblivion and Skyrim.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

I put more hours into Oblivion and Skyrim than most people, but after playing Elden Ring I don't want to go back to that basic combat. Elden Ring's system could use improvements, but it's still way better than anything TES.

[@Masked_Official]

@@chrisnewbury3793 Very true but complex doesn't mean better. I have all the dark souls games and Elden Ring and im also disabled. It is so fricken hard for me to beat a boss that I end up giving up. It doesn't mean its better or worse, it's whats best for me. Oblivion and Skyrim is more about the exploration and journey. It's about all the loot, the jank physics and such. Elden Ring looks absolutely stunning, as all the souls games are, but it's just not accessible to a lot of people. I don't want to try the same boss 50 times and get frustrated. Sometimes I want to roam around, see a goblin and launch him 50 yards away with my hammer.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

@@Masked_Official I get that. I love the combination of exploration and nightmarish bosses though. I even play in first-person with all manual targeting and no HUD. I'm just kind of a gaming masochist. But I also have the wander lust.

[@Masked_Official]

@@chrisnewbury3793 It's easy to enjoy something when you're skillful enough. Some of us wanna just have a "tough" fight that takes 1-2 attempts and a difficulty setting to cater for everyone, lol.

[@chrisnewbury3793]

@@Masked_Official Like I said I get it. There may be some mods to make life easier though if you really want to play it. It is a fantastic game, even if you just want to explore and avoid bosses.

[@joelmccuntysson338]

First time on the channel, thought damn you sound like Todd Howard.... Oh.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Good one xDD

[@joelmccuntysson338]

@@Imaginationcinematics I was genuinely confused. First time viewer lol

[@JanoschNr1]

The fellowship of the Gobblin

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Part 2 is online! 👍 ❤ Thank you for 5000 views!

[@BillionairesArentYourFriends]

So it was fine as long as NPCs could have gone to jail/paid a fine?

[@qwopiretyu]

Sort of. They set up infamy and fame and disposition and responsibility with bar fights in mind. So the patrons are always doing math on who to snitch on and who to fuck the police with

[@SombraEnMovimiento]

Love the video and the closing music. That's Apex Twin, right?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Yessir

[@Metalwrath2]

That formula 1 sound lol

[@Imaginationcinematics]

A little touch of funnyness xd

[@Metalwrath2]

@@Imaginationcinematics that sound made me laugh out loud

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@Metalwrath2 good the hear! 👍 ❤

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@Metalwrath2 laughing is very important in this time

[@Metalwrath2]

@@Imaginationcinematics It is indeed, hard times

[@Ренат-ц8ж]

Can i know what music was playing at the end of video? (9:51)

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Apex - Stone in Focus Your welcome.

[@Ренат-ц8ж]

@@Imaginationcinematics Thank you!

[@PhatBoyzClub]

Most impressive thing Iv seen in years, there is some sort Radiant ai behaviors in Skyrim but there are no published docs on what exactly they do. People have largely forgotten about ai in games and gone into scripted paths/cinematic. Watch dogs legion used sophisticated chain questing ai with voice modulation that nobody bothered to highlight in that almost every single person can become a chain quest trigger. The nemesis system is a more basic form of ai that exists in some form in Assasins Creed "I think"..its impossible to know since it seems devs have largely abandoned automated ai in games.

[@Loromir17]

I suspect the most impressive features of RadiantAI have been gutted from the engine by the time of Skyrim's release, considering the closest thing Skyrim has to it is the OrganicFactions mod - and that mod relies on few way more simplistic and determenistic systems as backbone than "When counter-value, Find closest item-type (in trade, pocket, container, interior, or exterior), Determine method to acquire the item, Acquire the item, Use the item, Reset counter"

[@ulliusrussus]

so smooth gameplay..how did you do that? The video is gorgeous

[@Imaginationcinematics]

what do u mean with that exactly?

[@ulliusrussus]

@@Imaginationcinematics camera is so smooth for a modded gameplay, i've never obtained such smoothness in my modded game

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@ulliusrussus thats actually funny because the framerate is suffering alot during gameplay. maybe the smoothness you see, is from the object based motion blur i added.

[@ulliusrussus]

@@Imaginationcinematics yes, motion blur made it really sweet looking even though i don't like motion blur but here it is radiant

[@StatsGam4er]

How do you get the motion blur effect ? What mods do you have ?

[@theeverchosen1504]

Aphex Twin on the outro

[@Imaginationcinematics]

It is.....

[@SnarlyTrain]

oh todd...

[@Funlife411]

Neat concept but this would suck because everyone would kill each other and all the quests would become uncompletalbe

[@xyonblade]

I love it

[@Herotruth]

can you put markers on your timeline for each attribute

[@humanbean3]

i played this game endlessly as a kid. i remember finding a piece of paper by doing something weird with a quest or something, and if u tried to read it or interact with it, it would crash your xbox and it would turn off

[@TimSchweizer]

The biggest portion of changes seems to stem from: www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/49610 right? ;-)

[@Imaginationcinematics]

it's 33,333 % i would say :D. Argh.. Just let me make part 2 where i reveal which mods i used, but since im to slow u will find the mods by ur own xD, i have much private stuff to do right now..

[@Imaginationcinematics]

But i'm rly looking forward to this one, this guy makes good stuff.

[@rocketwastaken]

0:12 Man got ratio'd

[@The_Gallowglass]

9:13 GOBLIVION

[@Imaginationcinematics]

😁😄

[@ericupchurch2967]

Where can I download?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Hello Eric.. The mods are listed in the description of the part 2 video. Thanks for the sub.

[@duartegoulao5875]

Whats your lighting mod?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

OR

[@Fr0st1989]

I love Oblivion lol

[@himynamelscolin]

Bro elder scrolls goblin was so fucking funny

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Im glad u liked it.

[@julessci2716]

How did you restored Radiand Ai? some mod?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

see part 2 bio for mods

[@swordofstabbingold]

How do I do this?

[@ForgetfulHatter]

oh yeah sure unshackle the AI, whats the worse that could happen? :P from what i heard they had to put AI blocks in place to stop bandits from looting dungeons for better equipment then storming storms. lol

[@White_Tiger93]

Are you one of Bethesda developer back then from Oblivion dev?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

No haha

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Thank you guys & girls for 10.000 views! 👍 ❤

[@DerHeff4]

You spelled pursue wrong

[@X9xx99]

AI in Bethesda games is heavily dumbed down. They could be way more intelligent in combat and anything else.

[@ulliusrussus]

What mods did u actually use?

[@ulliusrussus]

concerning radiant ai

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Im working on part 2 of this video series, in this part i will reveal which mods i used.

[@blindstudios1082]

Imagination any updates on part 2? I would like to use this mod for a play through 😁

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@ulliusrussus Part 2 is online.

[@punzer3738]

So... you made this yourself?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Hello Punzer37 I used various mods and video editing to show how oblivion could look with restored Radiant AI.

[@punzer3738]

@@Imaginationcinematics could you mind telling me some or all the mods?

[@Imaginationcinematics]

@@punzer3738 The mods i used u can see in Part 2's description :)

[@IGYETII]

Just like eso

[@Imaginationcinematics]

What do u mean exactlyy

[@IGYETII]

@@Imaginationcinematics people with pets going about random biz

[@Imaginationcinematics]

thats right

[@OlaftheGreat]

HOW MANY MODS

[@Imaginationcinematics]

TOOOO MUCH

[@TanitAkavirius]

Most of these changes make the game worse. There are good reasons they dropped them. guards killing npcs? random mob spawns killing npcs? Do you think there are too many npcs in towns?

[@fburnsDubstepEnderFox]

I knew NPCs couldn't be trusted... filthy n'wahs! 😂

[@Fr0st1989]

pursue*

[@Dafastso]

motion blur lol

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Yay

*I wouldn't say you "restored" anything. You added a few trivial mechanics to their AI, but you did nothing to fix the fundamental issues that came with vanilla RAI. If I take a broken car to a mechanic, I want him to fix what's broken, not give it a new paint job or add some shiny rims.*

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Hello Phil, As a creator, of course i used a more attentive title. But, giving the AI more freedom and a overall more dynamic appearance was the actual goal of Radiant AI back in the days. So "restoring" through Mods (as in the description mentoined) is the right wording.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

+ the goal wasnt to fix anything, because there wasnt anything broken. It's just that bethesda toned down the Radiant AI to preserve a better working game at the cost of dynamic interactions. So the goal of this video was indeed "restoring" some of the Radiant AI.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

But thanks for interacting with one of my videos! 👍

[@keysmash2b875]

@@Imaginationcinematics Bethesda toned down the radiant ai exactly for what you showed, guards killing npcs who steal. The fix is to allow the guard to take the npc to jail and to designated zones for that interaction in the jail.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Exactly, thats what i already said above. (xD)

[@yosharian]

I mean it's interesting but I don't know why you would do this for Oblivion which is the worst Elder Scrolls game. Why not spend the time improving Skyrim instead

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Because oblivion wasn't the worst, simple answer. Skyrim doesn't have dynamic AI at all, so it would be a pain in the ass to implement something like this. We can just hope bethesda go's back to radiant ai in tes 6..

[@yosharian]

@@Imaginationcinematics ah, I see.

[@Anonymous0C]

Wtf are you talking about? Skyrim is the most watered down of all the Elder Scrolls games. Daggerfall will always be my fave, but Oblivion comes in a close second.

[@yosharian]

@@Anonymous0C Oblivion is widely regarded as one of the worst Elder Scrolls games if not the worst, so I don't know why you're surprised. I suggested Skyrim because it's the most modern game and thus has the most thriving mod scene.

[@Imaginationcinematics]

We have to talk about the definition of good, bad or worse here. Skyrim was the most successfull elder scrolls game, yes. But regarding to roleplay, dynamic world and quest's (which are the keyelements of the elder scrolls since arena) skyrim is the worst elder scrolls because it's mechanics are downgraded to a minimum. Oblivion was important, because of the next generation tech in terms of graphics and ai. Quests were also a lot better and the overall world was more believable. Check out some videos from thecantina, he breaks it down perfectly.

[@itsOwO]

this is awful and fake asf

[@Imaginationcinematics]

Ok

[@smittywerbenjj1]

"your intelligence is being drained"

[@DEVL1N]

What visual mod do you use?

[@DEVL1N]

Graphics i mean