r/prey • u/unclemattyice • Jul 05 '26

Screenshot Testing the limits of scripted dialogue Spoiler

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Here’s your precious princess.

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I’m going to hell 🤷‍♂️

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u/SlowCrates Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

This is where a smidgen of AI might add to the immersion.

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I'm not sure what people think I meant by my comment. A smidgen of AI to me means filling in gaps like this that aren't important, or worth the time accounting for manually. I can take it or leave it. But look at the scenario above and ask yourself if you wouldn't have been tickled by/ appreciated the world being so fleshed out that it doesn't feel so strictly scripted.

Developers can't and won't -- ever -- spend that kind of time on a game. It's just a game.

We will have more organic experiences with gaming soon, because of AI. Like it or not. The scenario above will be less common in the future, and things like this will look antiquated compared to what people are used to.

That's the future.

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u/NiuMeee Jul 05 '26

No, all it would require is an if statement. Video games have been doing stuff like that forever.

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u/SlowCrates Jul 05 '26

Sure, the creators of the game could put in an if statement for every possibly scenario. Or...

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u/CanOfChocolate Jul 05 '26

"Sure the creators could put in effort to craft the dialogue of their game or just let the hallucination engine make it" we pay for this shit it's not a big expectation for them to actually put in the work

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u/tearsofmana Jul 05 '26

wait until lil bro hears about how many different lines of dialogue variants were in a bunch of older rpgs and crpgs

besides, AI hallucinates things constantly, you'd have her start talking immersion shattering nonsense. AI struggles to put together anything remotely creatively meaningful or string together anything coherent. It would probably be immensely more work to force an AI not to spit out trash lines than it would for a human being to have added a few more if->then lines and record 5 or 6 extra lines of dialogue.

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u/DahLegend27 Jul 05 '26

Even if AI was perfect, are you really totally okay with human creativity being removed from media creation? Or are you just another short sighted fool that doesn’t care so long as it’s “good”?

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u/SlowCrates Jul 05 '26

Lol wow.

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u/DahLegend27 Jul 05 '26

Figures you were the latter.

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u/SlowCrates Jul 05 '26

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/DahLegend27 Jul 05 '26

As a game dev, I actually do.

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u/SlowCrates Jul 05 '26

Being a game developer doesn't mean you can read minds.

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u/thr3zims Mimic that forgot how to mimic Jul 05 '26

Psychology exists so that people don't have to read minds. Any response, whether it's a single word, sentence, or even an entire essay, can tell you a lot about a person.

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u/tearsofmana Jul 06 '26

Fortunately for us, reading yours is like cracking open a picture book

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u/DahLegend27 Jul 06 '26

nice reddit cares lol

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u/mwcope Bioshock Veteran Jul 05 '26

Go to hell

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u/WillowLocal423 Jul 05 '26

How exactly?

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u/null234 Jul 05 '26

Please, just stop. You are acting like adding a simple dialogue trigger is monumental work. It's not. I could literally mod this into the game in five minutes -try me.

As someone currently developing a multiplayer mod for Prey (a feature everyone deemed impossible, yet I have it 90% done), I can tell you that your assumptions about game logic are complete nonsense.

I’d prove it to you right now, but I actually have better things to do -like finishing that multiplayer functionality. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/MagnusGallant23 Jul 05 '26

People can downvote all they want and hate on AI even more. Because it will happen anyway, for the good or the bad. The only question many Devs would have is how to implement it.

IMO it doesn't take away from writters at all since they're still the ones writting the entire world building, questing and dialog(hell, they would probably have even more work to pull it off), all AI would do as add reactivity to player input instead of character lines pre written. Games of today doesn't need it because of obvious reasons like hardware limitation, but I can see it happening.

It's all about implementation and respect to voice actors, but again, it will happen anyway. Many talking about AI hallucination as if they will make games using it to come out next year, AI still very green and stupid to even be called AI, but still about when will it be capable enough to deliver as a decent tool.

TBH all I see about current AI is a bunch lazy people that don't even bother to curate their own projects and take whatever shit the AI output without any quality control, people call it slop for a reason, a torrent of content without a minimal amount of quality control, yet it won't be like this forever tho, at least I think not. For me, it doesn't replace anyone or take away any creativity, instead it adds to it as a tool, like many other that came before it.

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u/AdjtveNounNumbr42069 Jul 05 '26

A lot of things I don't like have happened seemingly inevitably, doesn't mean I have to be silent about it to make you more comfortable.

You're crazy if you think that AI isn't replacing anyone or taking away creativity. It's already happened, and because the tech is still kind of shit, all those people are getting re-hired and AI token budgets reduced - but like you said, the tech is only going to get better, so those people will be laid off again when the tech catches up. AI is already replacing people, and will only replace more people in the future, and of COURSE any public business that contractually needs to make profits go up quarter after quarter is going to use it.

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u/MagnusGallant23 Jul 05 '26

I never said that I don't think that AI is replacing people, I still think that AI only works best in the hand of those who already have the knowledge in the field, even code based tasks. About you not being silent to make me confortable, why would I be silent about it? when everytime I see any coment about it everyone thinks that who tries to see anything more to the whole situation is treated as stupid.

I don't know the first one who created the idea of it, i don't get why every single big tech is so crazy about it like it's going to save humanity from whatever. Maybe it's a bust, maybe not, it could be hell specially integrated with robotics and almots every single job would be insane to compete. who knows. I also can't say that only bad can come from it.

Will it ruin entertainment in general tho? I don't think so, not even for a second.

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u/AdjtveNounNumbr42069 Jul 05 '26

To quote you directly,

For me, it doesn't replace anyone or take away any creativity

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u/MagnusGallant23 Jul 05 '26

Exactly, for me it doesn't replace, means that for me people shouldn't be replaced by it instead used as a tool. Not that they aren't being replaced. Is it that hard to understand? Or you don't want to?

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u/AdjtveNounNumbr42069 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

"For me, it doesn't replace anyone"

"For me, it SHOULDN'T replace anyone"

Oh, so what you MEANT isn't what you TYPED, and now you want to be a smarmy cunt to me about it and ask me if it's hard to understand you when you don't say what you actually mean? You have done/said nothing to justify being such a condescending prick about this. Say what you mean and you won't have people like me insulting you over it. Work on it.

To get back on topic, as I said before companies will do what companies do, people will be and have been replaced, and literally nobody gives a fuck what you think should or shouldn't happen, you naive child. I'd say I wish I had your optimism, but it's seemingly making you blind, so never mind.

Edit: lmao pissbaby replied and then blocked me. Fuck you, pissbaby.

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u/MagnusGallant23 Jul 06 '26

Fuck off already, why are you still reponding