Ah fuck, more generative AI!

“No, actually, you’re completely wrong!”

OK…? Then what is it?

“It’s generative AI.”

I don’t need to. You fail to see how completely irrelevant “how games used to be” is to the discussion of ethics in AI use. If you’re going to use that as some sort of excuse to give a pass on a studio, then you’re right; I don’t care what you think, and neither should anyone else, because it makes you part of the problem.

I frankly don’t really care if in the past there was no voice acting in games.

The point is, there is voice acting now, and if they’re going to add voice acting to their games they could have the decency of hiring actual voice actors. And if using AI is a must, they better make sure it’s used in a way that justifies it.

I was born in the early 90s, so I grew up with plenty of late 90s and early 2000s videogame jank. But I don’t see how that can be used as an excuse for corner-cutting practices today.

Less tell more show.

There are loads of technical issues with Palworld that put me off from buying it.

It has very little human voice acting. The vendors you interact with, which you’ll probably interact with the most, use sound-generated voice lines. And they have the flattest, blandest line deliveries.

It’s not like there are a lot of lines they say in the first place. For a studio that wants to shove AI into everything they’re not using it in any way that would justify AI. Like, there are no characters that call you by name, or generate responses based on your actions. They just have 5 or 6 voice lines each… Something you’d expect in a regular game!

On the other hand Arc Raiders is the only UE5 game that actually runs well, due to the studio completely reengineering it’s rendering pipeline. Basically they built their own version of UE5. Though I wonder how much vibe coding was used in the process. Perhaps the cracks will start showing eventually.

Ah… I’ve always pronounced it as re-agents. I’ve also spoken with several British people who pronounce it that way.

Their best use for AI was the deep learning algorithm they used for the drone’s movement system.

Everything else is…

I do wonder how much of their games are vibe-coded. But glad they’re seeing the light when it comes to VC.

Tried to launch the demo. Didn’t launch. Figured it had something to do with the anti-cheat.

Only reason I tried because my friend wanted to try it and thought it might be fun to try together. But he played like… One match… And was already tired of it.

Nothing of value was lost.

And how well do you think that’s going to work? Sounds like a shitty service maybe five people will subscribe to, and then it dies a year later.

We’ve had subscription services like this already. I don’t hear much of them anymore… Or at all… So I presume they’re all dead.

The only reason I got a Switch 2 is because a company selling them here in Denmark made a HUGE pricing error. So I got a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World together for just 99 DKK, or 15 USD.

I do once in a blue moon.

Morrowind, if you’re using OpenMW, also has multiplayer.

No, like a legit game engine that is advertised as “console ready”.

Well, you’ll be glad to hear that Toyota, yes, that Toyota, announced a new open source game engine, with deep integration of Blender 3D.

Obviously. And it’ll be just as broken. Show it’s technical age even more.

Stoat has no voice chat and streaming.

The problem with decentralised alternatives to Discord isn’t just the set up time.

Me and some of my friend group are pretty technical and we’re willing to jump through all the hoops and difficulties to make our own little cluster of federated self-hosted servers.

The problems start occurring when we actually look at what these open source alternatives are actually capable of. And… Uh… It looks bad. Voice chatting and streaming and text channels on the same client are an absolute must.

I prefer quality over quantity. Problem is we don’t have quality, even for games that take a long time.

Not even push to talk!? What the fuq?

No! How dare they add useful features! Why won’t give they give MY shitty online game store a chance by not providing customers with useful tools!? This is so unfair! I gotta sue them!

Have you considered self hosting Matrix?

But… But… They pinky promise it’s all secure, and that they won’t hold any of your data! You can’t trust a pinky promise? You monster!

This dumb shit isn’t acceptable, and if I see something like this I just don’t go to the website.

Shopping kart

Yes. The shopping kart feature. Something online stores and webshops came with when the Internet looked like MS Paint.

Somehow absent on a modern platform…

They’re doing that because they want their own walled garden.

As of late 2025, Just Eat now belongs to Prosus.

“Tiny best set go”

“Big collection”

• suspicious squint *

It’s a Hades rogue-like and a colony management game. But it’s not deep on either front.

The combat and rogue elements don’t come close to a dedicated rogue-like game as Hades.

The colony management doesnt come close to the depth of a dedicated management game.

It is centred around the novelty of a taboo: managing and dictating a cult. There are plenty of little things to do besides the two pillars of the game, but it doesn’t take long for you to have “seen it all”.

Mind you, this doesn’t mean the game isn’t fun. But it’s very light on its individual gameplay mechanics compared to dedicated games.

Sucks to be you.

I’m keeping it around because at some point in the future the Switch 2 will get hacked, and boy am I going to have some sailing to do.

RTS, RPG, Space Sims. Whatever Helldivers 2 is, maybe… I only played one game like that.

I got mine for 99 DKK including Mariokart because the shop selling it fucked up their discount. Best value I’ve ever gotten. XD

So are other MOBAs. Doesn’t stop them from being crap.

Hey, do you wanna bet that the people who can’t stop playing this are the same people who are generally stuck to MOBAs?

Hopefully not a fade-to-black this time. :V

And it still looks uninteresting.

Looking forward to how they’ll do that.

Visual Capitalist says they make all their own graphics (so not just grabbed from the Web) from a “veriaty of tools from Adobe Creative Cloud”.

Adobe has been making a huge push for so-called “AI tools” in their Creative Cloud service.

“Don’t worry about” is the primary reason to start worrying.

Seeing is believing.

Then don’t play my future games.