Makes you realise why so many people love them. If your capabilities are below average, being able to churn out 'product' of an average quality will feel like an improvement.
And a lot of people who think AI will liberate them don't understand this: good art is good not because the idea itself is good but its because of that plus refinery. In whatever, music, games, movie production, you do have to review and edit your shit a lot before it get good
They're fast tracking through the refinery process thinking it doesn't matter but that's where mid becomes good and good becomes great
LLMs the ones who do all the work in many of these "games," but obviously, if you can make the minimum effort, there are ways to get the most out of it, but unfortunately, they don't care about that.
We shouldn't be extremists; if a technology can achieve the bare minimum, then it can do more. The problem is that many people already settle for the bare minimum, since they know nothing about programming or game design.
That technology is literally stealing my job oportunities right now on tech fields because is cheaper that hiring an actual person. Sorry for sounding extremist but I don't like that a machine is stealing my job oportunities
Excuse me, I'm also part of the tech industry, why do you say that? There are several studies that show AI is much more expensive than humans, and news reports that prove it. Are you a frontend developer or something like that?
And he's supposedly done with Smash, and tragically I doubt they'll bring back the peak that was Kid Icarus because post-Iwata death Nintendo is scared of making games people want that aren't regularly scheduled new console releases, so he's just here for Kirby at this point.
They brought back Star Fox, made a new Donkey Kong game, a new Yoshi game, a new Tomadachi Life, and a new Rhythm Heaven. None of these are regular releases.
That's fair I guess, though I wouldn't count the """new""" Star Fox, personally. It's just Star Fox 64, again, which, itself, is a remake of Star Fox SNES. The last 3 games in the franchise have all been rehashes of 64. It's more than tiring at this point.
I wouldn't really count DK and Yoshi as those still fall under the "mario" banner. You're always guaranteed to get some Mario spinoffs of some kind with the IP's other characters. It's the other IPs that aren't Mario, Zelda, Metroid, or Kirby that have to beg and plead to be remembered, and even Metroid only recently came back from the void.
I'd somewhat give you Tomadachi Life, but I'd argue that it also falls under the "Mii" IP that Nintendo has kept alive and well since it was created on the Wii.
Rhythm Heaven, though, I can completely agree with you on. That's a very valid one to call out as an exception to what I said, but even then, that's the only real exception on the Switch 2 so far, and the Switch 1 didn't fare much better.
It can't even really copy ideas well. Would be like asking you to copy a style of writing in a language you don't speak. You could visually mimic the lettering and the phrasing, but nothing more in-depth than that.
Shigeru Miyamoto said the same thing in different words, but allso said that people should distinct creativity and doing the work, because people now confuse doing the work with creativity
I got nothing but love and respect for Sakurai, he is what game designers should aim to be, but there is a notable amount of irony of him talking about originality when he hasn't made an original game in well over 30 years. I fear this comment stems from ignorance of what AI is and how it can be used.
Wild take, it's a completely new and original take on the franchise that plays completely differently not just when compared to the rest of the franchise, but any videogame I've ever played. I can't name a single other hybrid on rails shooter/3rd person action game
Making a sequel that introduces new ideas and mechanics is not the same as making the same game over again. It does take creativity and originality to make a series to innovate with each entry and that’s what Sakurai does. Look at the last 5 Kirby games and tell me they aren’t completely different kinds of games.
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u/dumnezero 15h ago
LLMs are peak mediocrity