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OrangeCrush980 posted...

If any video game is The Last Jedi, it's Metroid: Other M

Nah, that's TLOU2
- Highly praised by critics and more mixed with fans
- Focused on next generation and killed the previous protagonist in ways fans didn't like
- Led to a culture war mess with an extremely vocal internet subset that hates it for being "too SJW"

Yesmar_ posted...

Is Cloud/Pikachu '02 the match with the biggest turnaround if held today?

DK/tommy vercetti would be pretty bad too. Also Zelda/Ezio would prob be even worse now.

LightningStrikes posted...

Time magazine would disagree with you!

I mean Sean Sherman is on the top 100 this year but not Steven Spielberg so Sean Sherman is now bigger than Spielberg?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=hayao%20miyazaki,hidetaka%20miyazaki

Hayao is just way more bigger even in the past 12 months. Game creators in general don't have that much name recognition especially someone as humble as Hidetaka.

"Hidetaka Miyazaki is bigger than Hayao Miyazaki"

Yeah I honestly can't tell insane Elden Ring fanboys apart from trolls pretending to be Elden Ring fanboys.

Leonhart4 posted...

But now my fear is that Ganondorf will have that run in the next contest (if it ever comes)...!

It's fine. The sprite round will kill him no matter how much manbundorf boosts.

It's pretty clear Nintendo marketing knows what it's doing. They could have dropped this trailer a year ago if they wanted, but why? Preorders are already breaking records so there's little benefit and only downside. Cyberpunk's a case study in what happens when you let a game get years long uncontrolled marketing hype.

For 5+ years now, there've been tons of rumors that Universal's planning on re-theming the Lost Continent at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure to a Zelda theme. Now, Universal just announced the final ride Poseidon's Fury will be permanently closed.

https://www.clickorlando.com/theme-parks/2023/04/11/universal-poseidons-fury-set-to-close-permanently/

Seems Universal's going all in on Nintendo IPs after the Mario movie destroyed the box office.

KamikazePotato posted...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/

Topic inspired by this article which is related to my field of work. I've really not been a fan of the AI art boom, so seeing AI also take strides into writing is...not fun either! I think the technology itself is very impressive but the implications it has for media as a whole is deeply worrying.

Pretty much most white collar jobs are at risk from AI. The only ones that are "somewhat safe" for now are the ones with significant in person human interaction or ones that are in highly regulated industries.

Skull and Bones

We'll know next week, but I suspect Zelda won't get another delay or at most a mild one.

MacArrowny posted...

It's interesting how much of a dead zone 2002-2014 are for strong games. It's likely that BotW, SSBU, Witcher 3, and Elden Ring would all beat everything released in that period. Maybe SMO too? Probably not FF7R, but even that would be high tier for the period...

The newer games look better because they haven't been put up against any old games outside that weird BotW/MM SFF match.

Elden Ring vs TotK who you take

For me,

High school - Moved far away for college so lost contact with 90% almost immediately. Only still friends with my high school best friend and we message every day but it takes some real work from both parties since we're so radically different people now.

College - Still as close as ever with 4 of my core friends thanks to gaming binding us across distance. Other friends slowly fell apart until they are almost strangers now.

Grad school - Felt more like coworkers than classmates from the start. I have one really close friend I message daily but everyone else has been reduced to "Linkedin friends" at best.

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

I feel Elden Ring is already about as strong as Smash Ultimate and God of War Ragnarok should be about equal in strength to God of War (2018) so the results should be somewhere in the ballpark of a 55-45 in Elden Ring's favor. But why do I have a feeling that Elden Ring is instead gonna do what Witcher 3 did to God of War in GotD2 than what Smash did in GotY.

ER absolutely destroyed HFW in the polls already so I can't see GoWR holding ER below 60%. Around 65-35 like the Witcher 3/GoW match sounds about right.

Time Square:
https://twitter.com/femceverywhere/status/1582474654618636288

Vegas:
https://twitter.com/Soulz0Soulz/status/1582418153316839428

Paris:
https://twitter.com/Qarathorne/status/1583730983756476416

London:
https://twitter.com/Thealex09/status/1582411022089846784

Surprisingly amount of marketing for a re-release of a remaster of a 6 year old PS3 JRPG. Guess Starfield being delayed means MS has nothing else to promote this holiday?

MacArrowny posted...

The paid ones are much better than the free ones, from what I've seen. And again, the ones that start free will get bought out anyway.

I mean, why don't corporations now use cheaper/free products instead of using Office/Photoshop/etc.? They go with the bigger product that has more features and better support even if it means paying out the ear.

Sure, they go with the bigger product. My whole post was addressing Lopen's idea that AI VA will be so expensive that it will somehow hamper the mass adoption of AI VA within the industry. The AI companies are racing to be the first to mass adoption and they will need to be cheaper than human VAs for the companies to switch.

Lopen posted...

Everything is cheap before the competitive market exists for it.

If you think this tech is going to be widespread and easy and everyone is just going to do it off of freeware licenses because we're in a pirate's utopia you're more naive than I am.

There's going to be some super overpriced proprietary way to do it well and that's going to be the standard that stomps the competition down.

I'm not following this argument at all. In reality, there's two variables: X, the quality threshold needed before it's "good enough" to replace human VAs and Y, the cost threshold needed before it's "cheap enough" to replace human VAs. It's just a race right now between a bunch of AI companies to cross X and Y first and secure widespread adoption and I don't see any reason why it can't be reached in the near future.

I'm not sure what some super overpriced proprietary way that stomps the competition has to do with anything. If some AI company creates some $1 million/year product that's extremely good, gaming companies will just shrug and go "oh cool product bro, we'll just stick with this cheaper one that's good enough for us". In reality, the AI company will probably offer a cheaper version of their high end product just so they don't immediately price out 99% of the market.

As for freeware licenses and all that, I don't think that's relevant. Even if the license is in the thousands per year, that's still cheaper than hiring VAs.

Lopen posted...

Eh I don't think so. Acting is the arts. For the same reason people still paint and we don't just have AI generated art everywhere. There is a certain thing that AI won't be able to replicate, or that purists won't want AI to replicate.

Also like VA aren't super highly paid-- it's not like its a cost cutting measure. Licensing the AI is probably gonna be pricey in its own right.

AI will cost money for licensing but it'll still be much cheaper than hiring VAs across many languages. Combined with advances in translation AI, we'll soon see games available in like 50+ languages, all fully dubbed. Only very few languages today justify the costs.

The other major benefit is that AI voice acting is much more flexible. To start with, you can dub procedurally generated text, which is impossible right now with human VAs. Something as simple as a user inputted name would be a problem with human VAs and companies right now have employed all sorts of ways to try to cover it up. With procedural text generation AI getting better and better, it's inevitable that AAA games will start heavily employing them and they'd have to use AI VAs.

I'm sure there will be some purists initially outraged by AAA games having AI VA, but people will get over it quickly if the AI quality is high enough and there will probably always be games featuring real VAs.

The real discussion should be the rise of AI voice acting. There's recently been significant leaps in AI technology that could soon render most VAs obsolete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQx4SyM_iH4

It's obviously not perfect right now and it's quite limited in scope, but I can already see smaller studios using them. Give it another 10 or 20 years and the tech could be good enough to replace humans entirely. From a company's point of view, AI's cheaper, more flexible, permanent and the company doesn't have to worry about the software unionizing or breaking NDA to launch a twitter boycott of your product, so it's a no-brainer when the tech reaches a certain point.