This machine deserved so much better. It was supposed to be a lightweight headset, until Japanese liability laws became absolute, and it turned out misaligned images could make children crosseyed. Hence the battery-powered desk unit containing a piddly mobile CPU and a solid steel rail.
G-Zero alone would have been sick.
By design. That’s… that’s literally what these games are for. You’re supposed to be addicted and frustrated until you fork over real money.
All the mechanisms that games use to make your brain do the happy juice are kept behind the part where you pay real money over and over.
Should be simple to do better than the sound designers over at Riot
Your explicit argument is that “better” isn’t the standard, when it comes to cranking out textures or whatever. But suddenly when it’s your thing - there’s no possible way that passable results could work. Disruptive change won’t affect your profession, because good-enough audio never happens in video games, a medium obsessed with escalating… audio quality? No, right, graphics. The thing you figure AI will be awesome for, when someone needs two hundred variations, to-day. And when that demand becomes reasonable there’s no fucking way the studio will demand two thousand.
I mean, you clearly know more than me
‘You’re being a hypocrite, judged on your own statements, in this thread alone.’
‘YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME AT EVERYTHING?!?!?!’
Jesus.
I consider myself pretty positive about the potential for generative AI, especially in game development, and it’s still embarrassing watching you aggressively fail to handle polite criticism. You lurched in with ‘I bet people will downvote my lukewarm take!’ and then got big mad when that happened. Like it was a surprise.
This latest comment is an open wound of grievances which I, personally, didn’t say a god damned word about. You’re just showing your whole ass over… cut content? For some reason? Who asked. And you’re trying to turn measured pushback regarding your sweeping claims into some chest-beating dominance-game, where one of us has to go away humiliated and quintessentially stupid forever, instead of just saying - oh, guess that was a slight overreach, whoopsie daisy.
My condolences to anyone who works under you. However good you are at your job, the way you handle disagreement is demonstrably miserable. Please get better at it.
More importantly: don’t make games that rely on runaway success.
If your game is fun even if only a dozen people buy it, great! If it requires ten thousand global players right out the gate, and will cease to function once that number drops, you are fucked, by design.
If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t theft.
Ahhh, fuck. I didn’t know that’s where they found Doug Bowser.
But it’ll never apply to what you do, because you’re special and that’s different.
Nuance nuance nuance! Plagiarism machine. Zero cognitive dissonance.
Generated content is great, it lets you go home early and fuck your wife! But let me ask you, novice: would YOU ever play a game with generated content?
This whole industry makes impossible broken demands, isn’t it just the tits? We’d never make games under-budget if not for this tech that I myself said was useless shite until just now. There’s no way increased productivity will also be crunched to demand 2000 textures in this eighty-hour week.
Did Nintendo recently buy EA?
This is what I’m talking about: an unwillingness to see anything but finished products. Not developing the content in a big-ass game… just adding stuff to a big-ass game. Like BG3 begins fully-formed as the exact product you’ve already played.
Like it’d be awful if similar new games took less than six years, three hundred people, and one hundred million dollars.
Oh my god you’re still trying to have it both ways.
“They can” isn’t, but “they can’t” is.
Sure dude.
My apologies for remembering the words you wrote.
If you don’t like speculation, don’t say things like “there’s no reason they couldn’t become qualified.” Because that, in itself, is speculation. As surely as calling this situation “crazy” is commentary on whether it makes sense.
My guy, if remarking that it’s “crazy” isn’t commentary on whether it makes sense, what is it?
Distinction without difference.
Commenting on what they’re doing right now is not meaningfully different. This started with you second-guessing their commitment to cartridges.
Demonstrating some crazy idea always confuses people who expect a finished product. The fact this works at all is sci-fi witchcraft.
Video generators offer rendering without models, levels, textures, shaders-- anything. And they’ll do shocking photorealism as easily as cartoons. This one runs at interactive speeds. That’s fucking crazy! It’s only doing one part of one game that’d run on a potato, and it’s not doing it especially well, but holy shit, it’s doing it. Even if the context length stayed laughably short - this is an FMV you can walk around in. This is something artists could feed and prune and get real fuckin’ weird with, until it’s an inescapable dream sequence that looks like nothing we know how to render.
The most realistic near-term application of generative AI technology remains as coding assistants and perhaps rapid prototyping tools for developers, rather than a drop-in replacement for traditional game development pipelines.
Sure, let’s pretend text is all it can generate. Not textures, models, character designs, et very cetera. What possible use could people have for an army of robots if they only do a half-assed job?
They could.
They haven’t.
They won’t.
It has an SSD sized on the assumption that games go in the slot. It has an SSD that’s the price of a game, and will only hold a dozen. And they could probably get away with less, thanks to focusing on the negligible cost of a hole and some pins.
Nintendo is only now figuring out that Virtual Console purchases should be transferable… at all. They are not qualified to handle a digital-only console. I think the idea of deleting a game and re-downloading it, for free, was a recent surprise to some of these people. The same way Sony’s still trying to repeat the PS2, Nintendo’s been trying to repeat the Famicom Disk System.
When it’s other people’s work, well, people need a nuanced opinion about this nascent technological breakthrough.
When it’s your specific area of expertise, it’s “the plagiarism machine.”
You are Knoll’s law personified.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
Ban the entire business model.
Entertainment is a tool for emotional manipulation - usually toward enjoyment. Fiction seeks suspension of disbelief and attachment to completely artificial interests and goals. Charging actual currency for anything under that fiction is an abuse. It’s exploiting your brain’s fuzzy separation of wants. However much you desire a goal in soccer, it’s just a ball going through some posts. It has no economic utility. There is no exchange rate between score and hamburgers.
Maximizing that mistake is the entire driving force of this industry-swallowing abuse. It’s half of all revenue. Boycotts don’t work. It’s in $70, flagship-franchise, single-player games. It costs nothing to add, even in games you already bought. Only legislation will fix this.
Now the usual excuses.
‘Just don’t pay them.’ The entire game is expertly crafted to make you crave whatever they’re charging for. Games make you value arbitrary nonsense - that’s what makes them games. Gently convincing you over time is the developer’s job.
‘You want it for free!’ You want it ‘for free.’ I want people to buy games. Like how it worked for forty years straight.
‘But servers need money.’ This shit’s in World Of Warcraft - a subscription MMO. You think Blizzard is hurting?
‘But arcades–’ were renting someone else’s machine. Your own phone doesn’t get to charge you a quarter per minute.
‘But cosmetics–’ are still an engineered desire which can be denied until you pay more money.
‘But budgets–’ follow revenue, always always always. It has never been easier to make a game. Companies choose to spend millions because they expect to make billions.
‘Well it’s better value.’ This bullshit makes them more money… and they get the money from you… so this “free” bullshit costs you more money. You get it? In no reality should it be possible to pay the price of a whole-ass game for one imaginary hat.