Generative AI could also provide more opportunities for players to go off-script and create their own stories if designers can craft environments that feel more alive and can react to players’ choi…
Yes it can. But we are still ways to go before it become a reality. The current AI is still missing the ‘intelligence’ and is no better than a a well designed predetermined script.
For every game that try to make good use of AI to improve on the player experience and immersion there will be hundreds, thousands more that do the exact opposite. Because that is capitalism for you. Just look at Upscaling/Frame generation.
Smart studios will keep their writers for the main NPCs and use AI for the random filler NPCs that wander around cities and the like. We’ll see how many studios are smart I guess.
Yes it can. But we are still ways to go before it become a reality. The current AI is still missing the ‘intelligence’ and is no better than a a well designed predetermined script.
For every game that try to make good use of AI to improve on the player experience and immersion there will be hundreds, thousands more that do the exact opposite. Because that is capitalism for you. Just look at Upscaling/Frame generation.
Smart studios will keep their writers for the main NPCs and use AI for the random filler NPCs that wander around cities and the like. We’ll see how many studios are smart I guess.