uh based on this i think “by 2025” & “critically acclaimed” are perhaps a little optimistic lol

It seems to me like the overtone window has massively shifted in favor of this.

@jgyou could you elaborate on why? haven’t kept up to date but I thought game developers + games media were pretty anti AI

@elf no reason. its a just a vibes based post. this market (and future ones) should never have even a higher % yes than the % (additive per year) of games released in a year which release to 'critical acclaim' to begin with. 23% of games, nowhere near that even, release to that level of praise, without even factoring in whether something like LIVE ai generated/LLM written dialogue is in it, AND it's good enough it overshadows people's preconceived biases about it.

@NoahRich I'm pretty sure you're wrong that this market should never exceed the percent of games released in a year which release to critical acclaim. For example if 90% of triple-a games use ai-generated dialogue because they are corporations that want to not pay voice actors and 10% of triple-a games are critically acclaimed, then the odds of one of those being critically acclaimed is much higher than 10% or the lower percent for games in general. These numbers are obviously made up, but the point still stands I think.

@bluerat if I'm understanding you correctly your point is simply that... big budget studio games have a higher chance of being critically acclaimed than non-big studio games, and therefore the odds should be much higher than the share that get xritically acclaimed across the industry.

idk maybe i could agree with that! but I do think the industry is shifting to not overly weigh big budget studio games as much anymore. maybe the shift is much slower than I am fantasizing about though. you make a fair point

@NoahRich no, that's not really my point, though I get how that's how you interpreted it, I phrased it badly, let me try again. My point was more that as more games with ai generated dialog are made, the higher above the percent of games that are critically acclaimed this market should go.

The criterion to make it into the "Critically acclaimed" category on Wikipedia is a Metascore of 90 or above. This makes "Walkabout Mini Golf" a classic game for 2023.

@jgyou Critically acclaimed because it used a new technology effectively. Rings a bell??

@jgyou Half-Life 3 Confirmed

@firstuserhere Don't underestimate the potential for an indie sleeper hit!

## Reasons to have AI-generated dialogue in a videogame:
- It's more dynamic and adaptable than a normal dialogue tree.
- Players might like screwing with it.
## Reasons not to have AI-generated dialogue in a videogame:
- Reasonably good LLMs don't run fast enough to be hosted locally, and people don't like online-only games.
- If you're using online hosting, you either have to pay another company to do it, which would make the future uncertain, or do it yourself, which is more overhead.
- No guarantee about how it will respond.
- You still have to put in the leg work to hook it up to the rest of the game systems, which does not have much prior work to build off of, and could turn out to be a highly complex task.
- You still have to pay writers to set up the context and world.
- You'll be paying for AI bandwidth until you shut down the servers, at which point that part of your game stops working, if not the entire thing.
- You'll be inviting ethical criticism for using an LLM in your game.

I put NO limit orders up if anyone is bullish

@Stralor I've put up YES limit orders around 50%

@jgyou nom nom nom thank you

@jgyou I've put up NO orders around 50% if you're interested

What is a high score?

@ErrorProne Per Wikipedia's page, 90 or higher.