HollowNaught
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
Been playing through the adventure mode of MTG Forge
It’s a good time, but I dislike the layout of the world and how quests work. It’d feel so much better if the locations weren’t randomly splodged around the map and instead followed some structure
Similarly, quests are really jank. You’re punished for not taking them, but also punished for abandoning them. Early game they’re either insanely hard or require a huge amount of luck, late game it just feels like a list of random chores
Also it’s annoying to go to a town, rifle through all the shops for a few minutes, before heading on over to the next town. They should cut down the amount of shops per town (right now it’s 10+, each with 6 items to choose from), and just make it a menu to go between them, as the second it takes to load is quite jarring and the travel time when in the town is redundant
But I’m just being picky. Right now it’s a fun game if you’re already into mtg, but with those changes it’d be an amazing game in its own right
- Comment on Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week 4 days ago:
I hatwcwhen guess try to add too many characters
Earlier on, it felt like I could competently play all characters and, when i saw another in the field, knew what to expect from them
Now, I feel like constantly learning new characters is a chore at best
- Comment on Bunch of lads 6 days ago:
I thought this meme was just saying that you don’t need to be in the Epstein files to be a piece of shit, but no, they legitimately are defending them in the comments
- Comment on Title is rule 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Title is rule 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I made this when I was half asleep lol
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- Comment on 'More DLC = More FPS' — Monster Hunter Wilds Players Ask Capcom for Answers After Theory Suggests a Backend DLC Check Is Tanking Performance - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I played it at launch and couldn’t get above 26 fps on lowest settings. That’s with constant stutters btw
I’m not playing it until I can at least hit a consistent 30
- Comment on Guide - How to buy DDR5 in 2026 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 weeks ago:
When games have a designated button to show interactive elements in the environment
This just screams “we don’t know how to make an uncluttered game”
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 4 weeks ago:
Epic (ew)
Prime (ew)
- Comment on seven 5 weeks ago:
Feeling an eepy 6 rn
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 5 weeks ago:
That’s not what this was about?
They made an IP, a minor share holder used company funds to buy majority states in said company, then forced the guys who made the game out of the company. I’m not able to do investigative journalism in a comment, but there is still an ongoing legal case on this
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 5 weeks ago:
It was initially an artist-owned company, which had a hostile takeover against the wishes of said artists
Not sure how you’d define it as anything other than stole
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 1 month ago:
They made the IP and game, their parent company had a full change in leadership, they questioned what qas happening, and the new guys said “yoink” before kicking them out
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Monster Hunter generations ultimate
Loaded it (legally) onto my steam deck :3
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 1 month ago:
Ip was stolen by corporate suits
Pirating the game is the most moral thing you can do
- Comment on Day 526 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Merry smissmas!
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
You still have to tell UE to make them though
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
Thr way she graded the her was chefs kiss
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
…no they came from genAI?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
But fr tho I agree. Sure, there are sole lnobheads who clearly haven’t read the article, but the disparity between what you see here and the r-place is wonderful
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
Kind of defeats the purpose of a placeholder…
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
I hate when people try to shift the goalposts
These guys didn’t disclose the usage of AI when initially sold, and there’s nothing more to it than that
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
[if AI was] removed once discovered, I don’t see any problem
The problem was that it was sold to consumers at all without consent. You don’t get off scot free when you accidently leave some cocaine for the inlaws to find. There was malicious intent just by not disclosing its usage
OpenOrca
You bring this up and imply we’re agreeing here, but I find it odd that you immediately backtrack and say that AI usage in general, not OpenOrca usage, is a-okay. It’s entirely irrelevant what AI tool you use if this company didn’t
Can I blame someone for using placeholder texture [using] AI
Yes. A placeholder texture should be made to be obvious that it’s a placeholder. As soon as it doesn’t do that, it’s failed at its job. By using AI like this, you’re effectively making the QA’s job 10 times harder, as now they have to stare at every texture to make sure it’s not AI generated
left and right creating drama [about CO]
Yes. Because information came out on a large platform that allowed more people to hear about it compared to when it was initially released.
I actually played through Clair Obscur about two months ago and gave it a very hearty review on steam, but as soon as I heard that they used AI without disclosing it that changed into a very charged negative thumbs down. It’s very easy to pretend that people just hate things because they’re popular, you see it all the time with youtubers and movies after all. Unfortunately, there’s usually a very good reason that irks these people
The vast majority was made by hand, and the game is good
You seem to have missed my main point, and it’s not just here, either. You eluded to this frame of mind multiple times when writing these past two comments. My entire argument is that it was incredibly scummy to not disclose the usage of AI, robbing the buyer of any agency in the matter
Me responding to your other points is really just entertaining their idea, rather than engaging in a thoughtful discussion, as the only response you had for this main point was mainly along the lines of the above quote I’m responding to, which is really just moving goalposts
By acting like it doesn’t matter because everything else is good, you’re kind of weirdly conceding the point, as if it didn’t matter if they did it, then why shouldn’t they disclose it?
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 1 month ago:
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
And yet, as we seem to be skirting around my original point of, this wasn’t disclosed when sold
I’m against AI in video games, but what I dislike here is the action of deceit. Of not allowing buyers to make an informed choice
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
This entire comment is baffling to me, in all honesty
Maybe because all AI generated assets got removed?
Not before being unknowingly sold to the public
I think the whole anti-AI craze of late is more bullshit than sane arguments.
My problem with AI is its heavy usage of plagiarism and vast degree of power consumption, as well as the price hikes its caused for many computer parts
They where used by artists… not by executives seeking to make some more bucks
Whenever anything is attempting to make money, it should be put under the highest scrutiny. It does not matter who’s pushing it. Similarly, I find it odd that we’re assuming the inner workings of Clair Obscur’s workplace
You cannot expect someone to go through every single texture in a game… just to make sure [no AI] was forgotten
If you replaced AI here with anything defamatory, like pictures of penises placed by an enraged employee after being fired, then even having a few would be devastating on sales. The single fact that we’re okay with a few means that, over time, that bar will likely be pushed further down the road “oh, it’s just this one character that practically never shows up” “oh, it’s just the skyboxes, they’re basically not noticeable anyway” “who cares if the early access uses AI voices? They’ll be replaced eventually!”
people trying to get views by hating on something popular
I assure you, AI is not popular. Studies have shown that AI is causing people more concern than excitement Not the most reputable source, but oh well
Blue Prince does use AI assets No it didn’t
But guess what did? The Alters
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
To compare using AI to getting inspired by Picasso is wild
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
This is less like making a new cake from scratch after disposing of the previous one, and more like making a new cake using the same unwashed cake tin and utensils
No matter what, the AI replacements would have affected how the artists made the final products as, whether they liked it or not, they had a point of reference in the form of the AI texture
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
People are saying “it’s fine because it was used in the early stages of the game for placeholder art” but that’s kind of missing the point
The problem is that they used AI and didn’t disclose it, as well as releasing the game with AI textures still in it. Yes, these textures were quickly replaced, but it’s still very concerning they weren’t upfront on how they were using it in the game making process
