Yeah, you get to a point quick where you’re like “Ohhhh wait, this things dumb as fuck”
it’s like a mirrored intelligence test. How long will it take to figure this out? People worried about ChatGPT writing everybody’s work but you can identify the milquetoast sameness in AI summaries and writing from a mile away. Their AI art is distractingly bad. Their apps don’t work beyond some exceptionally narrow core use case and isn’t sustainable. It’s been literally years and these things have never not been true.
The problem is that reading comprehension skills for a lot of people are surprisingly bad.
I’ve been also wondering for some time if it would happen like with realistic games. After some time we start feeling that the original image has less quality than it felt at the beginning.
This. RDR2 is the perfect example of what it takes to make realism truly immersive and believable, taking millions of independent moving parts from snow-trudge-trails to horse-ball-inflation-mechanics. And even still the more you play the more all that detail and care and all the “wiring” neatly swept out of sight means less and less and it just becomes another video game. Makes you wonder if you really need all that when No Man’s Sky, the procedural cookie-cutter exploration sim that looks like a surrealist 60’s pulp sci fi cover has kept me hooked for 5x the playtime that RDR2 did.
On the flipside, I’ve noticed when playing retro pixel art games that after a few hours the graphics melt away and I’m also left with just the game.
The way I remember key moments in Secret of Mana isn’t like looking at screenshots of the game, it’s more like recalling visuals from a book. I think after a while the mind just starts to fill in the gaps; or in the case of realistic games like Rdr2, it tunes out the extra noise.
Oh, dude, I’ve been on a gameboy kick lately. 30 gb/gbc carts, 15 or so GBA, and about a dozen n64 carts with flash carts for all systems. Preaching to the choir there.
Ultima is a very “gameplay is everything” rpg. The 16x16 dungeon-crawler tiles and limited animation lend everything to theater of the mind. I’ve been thuroughly enjoying it.
Interesting, I can see where you are coming from for sure. Though I have to say I’m on the flip side I have about 600 hours in my last play through of RDR2 plus about another 200 hours from two different playthroughs.
I feel like I know Arthur Morgan, and that game kept me enamored for years. No Mans Sky on the other hand I can’t play for more than 15 or 30 minutes at a time. It feels gimmicky and pop sci but not in a way that truly print me in, but takes me out.
Totally depends on your expectations. It totally has its valid applications where it can be massively helpful.
It’s just enormously less useful/essential than marketing (or NVidias market value) suggests.
They’re underestimating really stupid people who think they’re actually really smart (perhaps the smartest, they got a degree in computer science, you see). Admitting that “AI” is dumb would be like admitting they’re not the genious they think they are, and that’s not gonna happen.
Phht, what do YOU know?! All AIs always tell me my questions are “excellent” or “greatly phrased” or totally “show deep insight”. You’re just jealous of my expertise and wit!
/s …obviously.
