Star field does this and it caught me complete off guard became I had used my real name.
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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I was just thinking earlier today, games could probably use AI to seamlessly work the player’s name into dialog. They would still hire voice actors, but insert whatever name the player chooses into the lines where it is mentioned. I feel like this isn’t too far away.
stephfinitely@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fallout 4 did as well, but it worked with a list of names that Codsworth could say. I’m assuming Starfield does something similar? Or is it a ton of NPCs that use the name?
stephfinitely@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk I didn’t pick a name, I just entered my name for my character. Then I was playing and Vasco just said my name. I literally stopped in my tracks and was like “what did you just say?”
474D@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, he called me Assface.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
To be fair, Vasco is a robot with a robotic / computer generated sounding voice. It’s still cool, but it wouldn’t take modern AI / neural network based processing to do that, any old text to speech engine could reproduce Vasco’s voice.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I thought they actually just recorded a ton of names for Fallout 4? I seem to recall hearing that they did something like 900+ different name recordings.
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They did the same thing. Probably using the same list with additions. Both games have a robot be the only character who says your name. I suppose that makes it less unbelievable if you notice the splices where they add your name to an otherwise unaltered line.
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s what I meant :) I just assumed they did the same thing for Starfield
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Dang, the future is here.
Yondan@feddit.de 11 months ago
I like the idea a lot. I can think of two problems that need to be solved for this:
- How do you pronounce the player’s name correctly?
- How do you prohibit abuse?
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
- Have them type it a second time phonetically, and let them test it
- If single-player? Don’t. If multiplayer? Yeah… that’d be a nightmare lmao
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Multiplayer doesn’t make a difference, at least not noticeably, as all those shenanigans can already be done by text. You’ll get reported and named “player345133” whether you misspell e.g. a forbidden slur or use a misspelling to get the slur’s pronunciation.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
But it’s harder to detect spoken slang when people make it talk in mixed accents and more, you would have to run a talk to text engine too many different times with different filters and parameters against many different languages’ lists of slang words with multiple recognizable pronunciations.
And then somebody names themselves ChatGPT and the French will laugh because that sounds like “cat farted” in their language
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I recently had this in a game. Just couldn’t say which one sadly… I was really suprised it said my (character’s) name. Damn…which game was it?
fry@fry.gs 11 months ago
Starfield does this to some degree: www.rockpapershotgun.com/starfield-names-list
MudMan@kbin.social 11 months ago
It does it if you have an anglo-sounding name, which is the problem with brute forcing this.
Generative AI would be a fun solution, but it currently seems like it'd trigger a lot of controversy, sadly.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use a piece of software called crew chief for sim racing, and it has what seems like infinite names for all different languages and regions.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Oh right. This nasty bugger was it.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I look forward to the expansion from this, even. Real dialogue between the players and the game. Writers and designers set parameters for each character, backstory, motives, personality, current goals, etc. And then instead of a simple 4-5 choices of pre-canned dialog, with pre-canned responses, the player can type (or even say) whatever they want, and the game can return a customized response appropriate for the character.
buran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
World of Warcraft would benefit from this. Local processing power is quite up to the task these days, and it’s jarring to see your name on the screen but the audio says “champion” or something similar.
Maybe in 11.0…