Comment by chefandy

I’m specifically talking about non-text-based games. You’re still limited by the game assets, animations (including hair, clothes, weapon movements, etc,) environments, and characters that are the waypoints for the plot— so you’ve already got a finite number of possibilities. You can’t create a new class of weapon on the fly, or a new character, or new plot with current assets and maintaining story stability unless it’s really really restricted, right? So what do you get aside from variability in dialog that you can’t get from a random number generator? And when it comes down to it, does that unpredictability, and all of the effort it takes to wrangle it make the game better than having a professional writer make a handful of variations on a bunch of lines?

I can’t think of a scenario within the limitations of real games with visual assets that have progressive plots and characters for which that would yield a better game than having people craft it. Players are going to be no more tolerant of bugs, slowdowns, bad dialog, plot holes, misleading information, and annoyance just because an LLM is the source rather than substandard design or QA.

Maybe I’m not quite grasping what you’re proposing?