GamingLives' Deputy Editor explores his personal hatred for repetition in games and repeating the same game time and again, yet finding excuses to do so.
"I’ve never been one for 'repetitive' games, where you’re charged with doing roughly the same task over and over again until the credits roll, and you feel a bit better about the amount of moolah depleted from your Scrooge McDuckian money bin, but I don’t think my track record would support my case. I’ve played and finished titles like Red Alert, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and the first three Monkey Island games enough times that they’re approaching the point of losing all meaning – or they would be if I could ever imagine getting sick of the adventures of Threepwood et al."
When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.
same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it
Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …
Square Enix will announce a new title in the Life is Strange series on January 20 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:0 p.m. ET, the company teased.
Life is Strange: Reunion is the title that was recently leaked and it's supposed to have Max and Chloe back together. So they finally doing what should have been done nearly a decade ago.
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