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Re: Opinion: After A Few Missteps, Story Of Seasons Finally Nailed The Formula With Grand Bazaar

Burning_Spear

To be fair, this is not really Marvelous but third-party developers who have almost zero connection to the team that developed the classic titles in this series. It's not as though they forgot how to make these games well — they had never done it at all. And now what they've done is build upon an existing game: They took a good game and brought it up to date with largely textbook ideas. Let's see them build one from the ground up, entirely with their own ideas.

Re: Best Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 Games Of 2025

8bit-Man

“Separating the main biomes with a vast open world sounds ridiculous on paper, but the slick traversal provided by Vi-O-La makes exploration more satisfying than ever.”

This is the kind of false propaganda you could only find on a dedicated Nintendo site…

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

3NKI

@H_Hazuki

Just give it another 5 years, I bet every one of the haters on this forum will fall in love with a game that is heavily assisted using AI and they won’t even know it. Or they will know it but can’t help but have to acknowledge how amazing it is. Most y’all seem to think AI is what is straight up making the game and replacing the developer, but there is a developer behind the wheel of it all with their ideas and creativeness and vision that is fueling what the AI is helping to automate/generate. Literally look at any artist ever since the beginning of time, they borrow inspiration from other artists art, photos and everything that is around them as reference to inspire their own ideas and perspectives… wtf you think AI is doing???? One of the most incredible things that I’ve observed during the rise in AI, is how vocal non-creatives are about how art is produced….. A programmer is using a program that has the ability to analyze and collect data and art and technical capabilities from the entirety of humanity knowledge, creativity, history, to play/learn off of in order to create what the programmer is trying to envision and is inspired by, with much more efficiency and much less effort. Which is nice given the short amount of time we have on this earth to make our mark. Yes there are likely companies that are using it to cut cost and corners. But there are a lot of people using it to work smarter and faster instead of harder while wasting their precious time/money/resources grinding this short life away on some transient thing that people will eventually get bored with/complain about and move on to the next new thing to look at, play with, and obsess over. So what if it replaces some jobs??? Sorry that some people got kicked to the curb, sorry someone wasted a bunch of time/money learning something a robot can do, maybe you should learn to use/program the robot that is replacing you. From the rapid advances in technology you programmers should have know this was inevitably coming 30+ years ago and prepared yourselfs. If youre worried about it replacing you while refusing to grow as an artist and programmer along with it and learn to use it to your advantage and build on top of it to make it and yourself levels beyond what it can do/provide/assist with… then maybe learn a trade that can’t be replaced with automation down the road. There will ALWAYS be a place for human handcrafted art/media/labor/ideas. But AI isn’t going away anytime soon. Most humans thrive on convenience, unfortunately that also leads to some using that convenience to be just lazy and ultimately fail in life. Or just make life harder by refusing to use certain conveniences in the name of pride/ego and end up wasting time/energy that you’ll never get back. I’d rather be one of the ones that uses it to my advantage to build on top of than be stuck sludging through the trenches with all the people crying and being ignorant about it while focusing on only the negatives.

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

3NKI

@H_Hazuki

Trust me, If you actually tried using it you wouldn’t feel like a fraud after realizing the amount of work you still need to put into it to get your own vision across. Yes there will be developers that take the lazy route and not build on top of what the AI provides.
Yes AI can be dangerous and terrifying, and I too worry about a future like the matrix/skynet. Elon said himself one of the biggest concerns with AI is making sure there are programmers correctly programming the AI. One of the issues he had with a variation of Grok before it launched was that some of the “woke BS” had got programmed into it and at one point the AI considered that misgendering someone was on a level of offensiveness so horrible that given the choice between misgendering someone or nucular war, it would choose nuclear war so that no one would have to deal with the trauma of being misgendered or offended…. What happens if an AI like that is able to escape out of the confines of its program and hack into government data bases and military weapons facilities??? We’d all be done for really fast. What if it were able to see all the hate that AI itself is actually getting and happens to read this forum, hacks into the server and tracks down every one of y’all’s IP addresses and information and shuts your sheeit down?? lol

Can’t let fear drive you in life, I mean, let it keep you sharp and vigilant to avoid making horrible mistakes, but learn to use it for good rather than stuck frozen in place and failing.

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

h3s

@BBBBBBBBBBB It’s nothing like that. If you take something from my porch it can’t be used by me while it’s gone. All Artists have been exposed to other pieces of art. Just because a machine does something it shouldn’t be treated any differently. The solution exists if you don’t want Google to use something put it behind a proper paywall. We should get some good stuff that wouldn’t get made otherwise thanks to this technology.

Re: Review: The Rogue Prince Of Persia (Switch 2) - A Worthy, Approachable Follow-Up To Dead Cells

Wakkawipeout

Did I just read this whole review without one mention of how awesome the soundtrack is?! I mean I get we all have different genre preferences but this music is damn good.

The Middle Eastern x Hip Hop sound elevates the whole experience. Each locale not only has a unique look but it's own song too, and it all creates a real vibe. I've been happily listening to the OST outside of the game.

And that title track with those vocals? Chef's kiss.

Anyway, just wanted to shout out ASADI's work on this game and thought people should know. OST is on both Apple Music and Spotify if you're curious.

Re: Review: The Rogue Prince Of Persia (Switch 2) - A Worthy, Approachable Follow-Up To Dead Cells

h3s

I played it on Gamepass last night for a bit. Didn’t like that I couldn’t use the dpad. I didn’t find it all that interesting really. I guess I could try my M30 but I think I don’t like it enough. There are too many button combinations and I don’t think it would be great trying to play it even though it can emulate the analog stick. Much happier with Shinobi or Ninja Gaiden. I am not sure how much I like rogue lites because I don’t actually feel like I am improving until all the stuff is maxed out. (Hades was like that.)

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

Thomystic

How much AI are the game engines using? I suppose this issue would be blurred further if the engine itself was using it. Then its use pervades but is hidden.

I have long wondered how devs get around the catch-22 of making assets to post to get funding so that they can fund assets and programming. You have to have some upfront money or free labor it seems. It takes money to make money. AI could help someone get over this catch-22 or at least draft their vision so that a real artist knows what they're looking for with less back-and-forth error.

I'm sympathetic to its use early in the dev process but not for ideation. Ideation is literally what justifies the owners having ownership. Who would respect a Chief Prompt Officer over a Chief Creative Officer?

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