If they couldn't be bothered with the basics, no way they put effort into anything else. If they couldn't be bothered to put in the time, neither will I.
Weirdly, I compare it with beers - the UK at least is pretty notorious for 'brewing under licence' rather than importing, so it's just a branding exercise rather than the claimed product.
If you're unwilling to go to the trouble of importing the real thing, why should I bother with a cheap copy?
That kills my interest in the devs and publisher. They MIGHT be able to talk their way out pf it, but they're negotiating with a hostile bastard at that point.
It's like slapping a giant "Asset Flip" brand on your game.
If you can't even be bothered to just pose your video game assets for a screenshot to create a banner or thumbnail image, than what else did you skimp on.
Strongest of agrees. I plumbed the entire Next Fest catalogue and added dozens of titles to my wish list, only to drop about two-thirds of them because they used generative AI. Sorry, but even smol beans using it with the best of intentions is making the problem worse. The line must be drawn here.
Not too long ago the "coming soon" section of the PlayStation store was a horror show. Just chock full of ai generated images of games and their sequels from "totally not the same company LLC"
I like posts like this, but I don't like that almost always people don't talk openly about what the game is. For example, I only know that Liar's Bar supposedly uses AI voice acting, and that miside most likely has AI illustrations inside the game
And it's always fun when people make accusations of its use that are probably false. (Seen so many people claim SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered used AI upsampling for the backgrounds, when that's... *spectacularly unlikely* comparing the original backgrounds to the remaster ones)
For what is wortht, it's an expansion rather than a game and it's an outsourced studio, the actual devs of Ark very quickly said they had nothing to do with aquatica (in a way that was rather neutral, aye, but it was clearly them saying "we have nothing to do with it")
When I do see AI shit, I just blacklist the entire company and dev studio. Not interested. If they tried it once, they're gonna try it again, or something equally noxious.
The thing that kills me is that they're not going to stop doing it. They're just going to keep barreling forward until it reaches a point where we either can't tell or are too tired to try.
AI-generated posters in Stellar Blade gave me a bit of an "....eh, fine. I guess" moment. But it was such a cherry on top of an already repetitive and hollow game that I put it down regardless.
Seeing AI generated content kills my interest in anything.
The worst part is that many people are being told by tech corporate shitheads that AI generated content increases interest and sales in games, videos, and more.
Its the reason non-AI stuff us AI photos and art for Youtube, Covers, and Ads.
Ya it'd be like you're enjoying a tasty soup, then your buddy tell you the they lick the spoons clean in the back.
Not only would it kill my mood in the moment but, I don't think I could every go to there again without being paranoid.
Wait, AI art is literally the endgame for the annoying people who scream that, "The curtain is just blue" it removes the intentionality from the art so it perfectly allows them to just not feel they're missing anything by only looking at the most surface level interpretations
Even something as simple and mundane as in game images, like a photo in a picture frame, is enough to make me not buy your game. It shows me that you the developer have no respect for artists.
Do you mean the studio has said it's AI? No, they have not. I'm just going on the fact that human beings don't have as many teeth as the nun on the far left, and that's too subdued a "surrealism" to make sense with the game's actual surrealisms. Also the skin textures don't match.
Been getting plenty of mobile game ads on YouTube, and while i know that most mobile games that spend money for YouTube ads are typically dogshit, it's the ones that use obvious AI voice overs that particularly turn me off
Comments
If you're unwilling to go to the trouble of importing the real thing, why should I bother with a cheap copy?
If you can't even be bothered to just pose your video game assets for a screenshot to create a banner or thumbnail image, than what else did you skimp on.
(not boosting this reply to spare my followers)
The worst part is that many people are being told by tech corporate shitheads that AI generated content increases interest and sales in games, videos, and more.
Its the reason non-AI stuff us AI photos and art for Youtube, Covers, and Ads.
Not only would it kill my mood in the moment but, I don't think I could every go to there again without being paranoid.
like, just... put the staff in outfits and take pictures to use. no AI slop AND it doubles as "oh haha look that's probably the developers" funny bit
Same goes for YouTube content.