Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

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For other AI glitches, I believe that Amnesia does a very good job at making immersed players forget or not focus on them. [...]

During my own playthrough, I did not notice any AI glitches, and I like to think that it does not really happen that much either. If it does happen, I further like to think that players do not notice it so much since they should not be tempted to pay much visual attention to the gatherers either way. In my opinion, if noticing an AI glitch makes it considerably easier for them to complete the game, they were probably not all that immersed in the first place.

Yeah I agree. For the most part the monster AI is designed in a way that it works great if the player "plays along". Bugs and weirdnesses mostly appear when you start provoking them - for example stand on an object where they can't reach you or, as mentioned, hold stuff in front of your face. That's not normal "in character" player behaviour so I think it can be forgiven.

I've very much been reminded of this while palying Miasmata recently. In theory, the monster AI is kinda similar to Amnesias - If you run away it will catch you, if you hide it will go away after a while, etc... However there is one big difference that makes Amnesia's monster AI work and Miasmata's fail:

Amnesias Monsters come close to the player, but actively avoid finding him as long as he sits still and doesn't look at them. This creates tense moments after which you probably haven't even seen more than a glimpse of the monster and feel like you narrowly escaped.
In Miasmata on the other hand, the monster will walk right into you or camp outside your hiding place for hours, eventually forcing you to either confront it or take a leap of faith off a cliff. "Confronting" in this case meaning "pedal backwards to avoid its attack and laugh at its design and clumsy animations while all horror washes away". It really destroys what could have been a nice horror element. (The fact that it loves to attack you on the beach in broad daylight doesn't help the horror feeling either )