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Even more of a reason for to stay away from shit box

Here comes another wave of shitty 1st party Microsoft games then. They’re already doing a terrible job with 1st party titles. I don’t see AI improving the situation. It’s a management problem at Microsoft.

Surely this will work out favorably for them right

I could see this going really poorly at first but maturing into an industry standard in the next 5 years.

At first it will be characters talking to you based off what you say to them. Probably executed poorly and with glaring flaws.

If enough R&D is sunk in, it could become really good. Imagine being able to meet characters that are able to pass as an AGI in the context of the world they’re put into. How you could have “real friendships” with characters as you explore the world.

Or imagine Crusader Kings for example where you have your family and all the things that go along with that. Raising kids and marrying spouses that interact with you as if they live in the world you are crafting. Imagine the true rivalries you could have if someone kidnapped your kids or wife and then taunted you in game.

I know I’d have a hard time torturing or imprisoning someone in CK3 if I can have fully coherent conversations with them where they talk about their family and their hardships once’s I invaded their lands and the resulting famine.

Came here to see the opinions of people who know nothing about game dev, or AI, and y'all really delivered.

If you think AI will be replacing devs and creating games on its own, you really have no idea what you are talking about, whatsoever.

Well foing forward their games will be generic messes.

No shit, so is everyone else.

Maybe figure out actual game development first and bring good ones at a steady pace, then get adventurous.

Guess with all the money they burned for Activision, employing people became too much.

I hope AI unionizes after it attempts to understand and avoid everything about Halo 5.

So they will pass the savings on to the customers.....right?

The same thing will happen to games that happened to movies. Too much low quality content. Already at that level but it will get a lot worse.

If it’s any better for the consumer then I’m fine with it.

Why is everybody acting like they’re going to be forced to buy these games? Just don’t buy them if it’s shit. God knows we have enough shit games already. You can continue to not buy shit games.

Well, i believe that it was just a matter of time before they did so

Good

Please don’t let it write anything

You now say ‘I need the player to get from A to B’ and instead of having to write thousands of lines of scripting or code, you just have the AI get you from A to B.

This article is a little short on detail, but this example implies replacing something like authored code (which does pathfinding and moves the character to a position) with some trained AI that learned how to do the same.

It's interesting. AI is currently often used as a kind of glue between authored code. It is very good at doing specific little things that are difficult or impossible in code. So like identifying things in a photo, or interpreting freeform human readable text.

In this case, they are suggesting replacing something that is authorable in code, but is difficult to do while covering all edge cases. I would expect they are going to start by focusing on specific pain points from previous projects - bits that were time consuming and difficult to get right.

Visual Studio suggests so much stuff for me I barely feel like I’m programming anymore lol.

oh joy the gaming equivalent of buzzfeed articles

Of course they would. They’re anti-consumer, they might as well be anti-employee too. Can’t wait for bland AI games.

I'm anti-AI but even I'm curious who could write a worse Halo game, AI or 343i...

AI has a very bright future in gaming if used correctly. I just played a whole DnD campaign by myself on ChatGPT, and while some areas were repetitive and it didn’t really follow the rules, for being an AI text prompt service that wasn’t designed or optimized for DnD, it was surprisingly good.