I cannot do balders gate 3, or any rpg of that style. I suspect it’s to do with trying to roleplay a character while simultaneously viewing them in that top-down third person perspective. I can do X-COM, strategy, I can do roleplay in third person, but that particular combination just kills it for me. It’s bizarre.
Personal opinion here obviously: Mass effect, or at least the first one, was actually surprisingly well written and internally consistent. Kind of like a star trek lite. There was interspecies tension, people expressing feelings on the state of the universe, but also enough moustache twirling to keep it interesting as well. It struck a good balance between that and a decent looter shooter/RPG combo, at least for my tastes.
The later games lost a lot of that and overly relied on what the first game setup up without expanding much on it, but that first game was just chefs kiss.
Not saying you’re wrong or anything, more just this is what I personally get out of it.
Yeah, but unfortunately the people that are predisposed to fucking the children kind of seek the roles out. That or the amount of power it takes to poison some people is much lower than I thought, but I don’t want to consider that.
AI is fine, though a bit damaging purely from how people are treating it. We don’t have the systems to support the effect it’s having on society, though we can’t blame the entire downward economic trend on AI. It seems likely to crash, we know it’s eating up a shitzillion dollars and earning next to nothing in return.
I think people being essentially tricked into thinking llms are magic reasoning devices are going to be issues for a while. Llms might be a good start to a behaviour interface between humans and a real logic system, but as far as I’m aware we don’t have anything like that, and it’s a long ways off. Ethically, I’m not a fan of companies trawling the internet for data they can use to build hallucination machines. I’m also not a huge fan of people’s creative, language, and logic skills being influenced by something like chatgpt.
Where I hope it’ll go is it’ll have a big collapse. Then it might go into the background for a while, and return as something actually useful. The tech won’t ever go away, but neither has blockchain.
Kinda. I wanted to go into game dev, didn’t really exist as an industry in my country at the time. Had some artistic talent, had it stifled by my parents.
Ended up going into IT, those jobs have dried up in the last few years. Now I have three fields I’m good at but flairly unable to pursue.
Honestly I feel a bit beaten down over it.
That’s entirely fair. I think it suffers a lot from most of the interesting stuff getting hidden in the codex. I totally get your experience though, I’ve had a few games that have been good, but I’ve seen the concept done enough for it but to hook me in.