This is interview about new upcoming game Judas from creator of Bioshock series.
Truth to be told I expected capital G gamers whining about main character being a woman or POC characters, but not enough grime on futuristic space station full of robots - it’s something new🤔
I really love how relationships between boys are portrayed in FF XV and I believe this is main reason why it‘s my favorite game in the series, despite all its flaws. So ever since I finished it I am trying to find games where relationships between teammates feels as real and fluid, and not just main character and bunch of supporting NPCs.
There are plenty of games with amazing parent-child dynamics, or between lovers, but with relationships between friends - not so much! Maybe it’s just my experience, I definitely didn’t play every single game in existence)
From what I know only Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy come close, but I can’t name anything else.
Do you have any other examples?
Did you notice any printing issues with the book? Like faint pages, missing or misplaced pages, overwhelming amount of typos etc. I remember there was post about it some time ago, but I don’t know if this was common or just one unfortunate person.
Hi! I’m looking for some walking simulators with interesting story, where you investigating through environmental storytelling instead of straight forward narration.
I‘ve already played Night in the Woods, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, Vanishing Of Ethan Carter, Virginia, Dear Esther, Minute of Island, No Longer Home, Thank Goodness You Are Here!, Observer, Still Wakes The Deep and Harold Halibut.
Most of them are great games, but didn’t compare with Gone Home in environmental storytelling and just telling you story through dialog or narration. One which came closest is probably What Remains of Edith Finch.
So, I don’t know if such games even exist, but if you can recommend something I would be very grateful!
Why none of the characters are acting like human beings? Especially female cast! Am I missing something?
For context: FF VII Remake was my first FF game at the time. Since then I played several other games in the series and all of them have their problems, but none of them left as bad taste in my mouth Including OG FF VII. Maybe because it didn’t have voice over and it was easy to project intonation and emotions to the dialogue.
This is probably little bit of rant, but I am really curious to hear your thoughts on this subject.
Disclaimer: I am talking about the thing called “generative AI” here, and not LLM models used in software development or in media postproduction, obviously this is different things which have different implications.
What prompted me to this discussion is recent PlayStation post where they said that they use AI tools for their productions, such as “Mockingbird is an internal tool that generates facial animations from performance capture data in a fraction of the traditional time.
It was already adopted at Naughty Dog and San Diego Studio, including on shipped games. San Diego Studio just released MLB The Show 26.”
And I was waiting for new Naughty Dog game, but knowing that they used AI in facial animations really bothers me since this is one of their most prominent fields.
I tried to discuss this on subreddits for actual game only for my posts being shortly deleted.
One of the responses were:
“This is machine learning tool that they gave motion capture data too.
Machine learning has been used in games for decades about now that people dislike any mention of AI they throw all logic out the window when AI is being used.
Do you think Naughty Dog would just plug something into a system, generate it and then just leave it despite its quality? Out of everything we know of Naughty Dog you think thats something theyre capable of?”
And I‘m thinking that maybe I am overreacting. Maybe it doesn’t matter if game is good at the end.
Somewhat similar responses usually happened when people found AI generated assets in the games, like background artwork or flavor text - people jumping in defense of developers because ”it’s just background”, “it doesn’t matter”, “they don’t use AI in actual important parts of the game”.
It is mostly universal from my experience online that people have strong feelings about generative AI and it would be highly unpopular if game from reputable developer would openly use generative AI for its visuals, music or voice acting, but I feel like game studios are silently moving goalposts and testing the waters trying to learn when something is still OK with consumers and when it’s already too much.
They say that they won’t use AI for anything creative, but to enhance performance or quality of visuals, but I am just question when enhancing stops and it‘s actual generated content?
When all the talk started about AI replacing all creatives and corporations started to use generated assets in book illustrations, slop games started clogging digital stores etc I vowed never buy games using generated content even if it meant not to buy any game produced after 2025, but now I feel like companies doing anything to muddle the waters, pushing message that everyone using AI tools, or it‘s not for creative part but for code only, or we train models on our own content etc. And fans of this studios will buy these games anyway even if they think themselves to be “anti AI”.
What do you feel about it? Will you still buy games which fall on these border lines?