Who's your favorite video game AI character?

[DelirusRex]

Anymore, it's a staple of the Science Fiction genre of video games, the Artificial Intelligence that guides your protagonist character, or perhaps hinders them. From Halo's Cortana to Mass Effect's SAM, and the strange similarities between Destiny's Ghost and Warframe's Ordis.

Personally, I find Ordis from Warframe to be endlessly charming, but that may be his occasional violent outbursts that break out of his typical character. The little Ship Cephalon that sees you through from your awakening, the many hours of grinding and mutilating baddies has a special place in my heart. Cosmic radiation is a riot!

From the years of video games, science, fiction, and everything in between, which AI character has you won over?

 

[Volley]

SHODAN - Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network from System Shock and System Shock 2.

 

[I Will Haunt You]

EDI (Enhanced Defense Intelligence ) From rogue VI on Lunar Base to heavy metal sex bot who likes to date brittle boned bad boys, she has a level of true character development unlike any other.

 

[Volley]

EDI (Enhanced Defense Intelligence ) From rogue VI on Lunar Base to heavy metal sex bot who likes to date brittle boned bad boys, she has a level of true character development unlike any other.

That Rogue VI mission in the first Mass Effect was awesome, pretty cool how that ended up branching over to EDI for Mass Effect 2.

 

[I Will Haunt You]

That Rogue VI mission in the first Mass Effect was awesome, pretty cool how that ended up branching over to EDI for Mass Effect 2.

To be fair to EDI that VI was only a part of her code base. 👻

 

[JSimenhoff]

Wheatley from Portal 2, the most lovable villain in gaming history!

 

[I Will Haunt You]

Wheatley from Portal 2, the most lovable villain in gaming history!

Okay, I put a Wheatly SPAAAAACE! gif here, but it was reall big and really annoying so I deleted it.

Space!

 

[JSimenhoff]

Okay, I put a Wheatly SPAAAAACE! gif here, but it was reall big and really annoying so I deleted it.

Space!

Hypothetically, I would have very much enjoyed the very large Wheatley in space gif This video will have to do instead.

I think it plays in the post game credits so spoiler alert, I guess?

 

[Zloth]

HK-47 leaves them all in the dirt.

 

[I Will Haunt You]

HK-47 leaves them all in the dirt.

"Retraction: Did I say that out loud? I apologize, master. While you are a meatbag, I suppose I should not call you such."

 

[SHaines]

I think I'd have to go with Wheatley as well. I will add that I feel there is at least a dotted line between the current string of video game AI companions and the "narrator" from the original Zork. Instead of the AI character speaking with you, the game was having that relationship directly with the player, which felt even more immersive to me.

 

[I Will Haunt You]

the "narrator" from the original Zork. Instead of the AI character speaking with you, the game was having that relationship directly with the player

Yeah. The interpreter/narrator from Zork was pretty sweet. Almost like the Dungeon Master navigating you through the game rules and setting, mocking tone and all.

 

[Zloth]

Speaking of the old Infocom days... Floyd in Planetfall was one heck of an AI character. I think. What I did to him was... traumatizing so my memory is a bit fuzzy on the subject.

"Oh boy, are we going to do something dangerous now?"
-- Floyd, after the player saves the game

 

[I Will Haunt You]

Hypothetically, I would have very much enjoyed the very large Wheatley in space gif This video will have to do instead.

I think it plays in the post game credits so spoiler alert, I guess?

Space!

 

[interfusor]

My favorite will always be Shodan.

An AI who's not very well known is the one from Gunman Chronicles. She could control powerful robots if I recall, but damn I haven't played that in so long.

 

[bytetracker]

Eliza Cassan from the Deus Ex series. A newsreader AI designed to control public information and manipulate public opinion.

 

[MAHADI_RASHID]

My favourite character is cpt.Price from call of duty

 

[Rensje]

One very recent example of a fun AI character would be Journey to the Savage Planet's E.K.O. My girlfriend's been playing this game and I've laughed out loud multiple times just listening to it while I'm doing other things.

My personal pick is Cayde-6 from the Destiny franchise. He's a robot so he counts! The best missions in Destiny always involve Cayde-6 in some way, a particular highlight for me being the one in Destiny 2 where he gets stuck in a teleportation loop and you have to bail him out. This is also the mission where the game introduces Failsafe, yet another quippy ship AI. The gag here is that she has not one but two personalities, one of which is her evil twin! If you count Ghost, there's 4 comedy AI characters playing off of each other during this mission, and I think Bungie knew how stupid that was and just went with it.

Man, Destiny 2 was a blast before it went it free to play. I can't go back to it now but I had a great time playing it through with friends. The art direction on these games is just incredible. Around every corner is a new setpiece that made me go 'daaaamn'.

 

[Sarafan]

Deadalus from Deus Ex. A friendly, gone rogue AI which helps the main character. He also has an evil brother called Icarus. These two makes the game a lot more atmospheric. Can't imagine the game without them. In the end they merge into single AI called Helios.

 

[Lee_Bo]

I'm gonna show my age here but Duke Nukem!

Ok, not really AI, but still pretty cool.

 

[Pifanjr]

I prefer GLaDOS over Wheatley.

 

[Zloth]

Eliza Cassan from the Deus Ex series....

That was also one of the most awesome not-so-pop references I've seen in a video game.

 

[EazeeOne23]

Does Claptrap from Borderlands count? I love that little ****** xD

 

[randyl]

Mhenlo from Guild Wars 1. One the greatest healers of all time.

Sharwyn from Neverwinter Nights. The bard who saved my butt countless times.