- cross-posted to:
- microsoft@lemdro.id
- thevergenews@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- microsoft@lemdro.id
- thevergenews@sh.itjust.works
I wonder what else it can get wrong for only the cost of a few glaciers.
Can I steal this quote and pretend I came up with it?
You can claim the quote is Fair Use and that your shitty business model depends on it.
I tried playing it but it’s so incoherent (walls becoming paths, dead enemies randomly coming back to life, health pickups that do nothing, etc) that I’m not even sure this counts as a game. Typically a game has rules so that you can set how you play according to those rules. This is just poorly-generated trash, which I guess fits in with the rest of the hot garbage AI we’ve currently got.
But if it’s AI generated, who are they going to lay off after they release it?
Ted and Cheryl in accounting. I’m calling it now.
Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!
No no, I mean Ted Pendergast
Lmao
Nobody wants this
Maybe some want this, but nobody needs this.
Wait until Preston shows up with his AI generated radiant quests before you judge.
Copy+paste is still a pain in the ass in Microsoft Teams. Why don’t you work on that instead?
I can’t make a correct numbered list in Teams to save my life. I have to do it on word and then…copy paste
Teams is kind of awesome of what you want to do is exchange emojis and funny gifs with your co-workers. Not so much if you want to work.
I miss the days when applications were coded like applications, not like web sites. The ammount of clutter that goes behind the scenes to get a simple OK button on screen these days must be mind numbing.
I love how corporations anounce: we stole something and call it AI.
In this case, Microsoft does own the IP (it bought Bethesda after Bethesda bought id), so they definitely didn’t legally steal it.
They just reproduced it in the most uninteresting way possible.
Technically they stole from themselves because they didn’t transfer ownership from Bethesda to Microsoft. Those are still separate entities.
Hit detection doesn’t work, going into pure darkness makes the AI hallucinate to the point it distorts the map layout, npcs will teleport around ot just disappear… runs at like 640p at maybe 20 fps, textures are a blurred indistinct mess…
Oh and it requires basically a super computer to run this.
Brilliant.
Preservation!
How to actually do games preservation:
Reform IP laws.
Mandate open sourcing of hardware and software architectures after some period of time. 10 years? 5 years after no more of that hardware/software is sold? Yes texhnicalities are insanely complicated but you get the idea.
Oh, how about government funding for emulator development? We fund libraries that preserve books, and movies, and other stuff.
Every time I see this I think about opportunity costs. What got skipped in favor of this dubious effort?
Quality and security
Fucking stupid, this timeline sucks
Old school gamer here. Headline should definitely say Quake II.
There might not seem to be much difference to a casual observer, but from that standpoint there’s not much difference between either and any other FPS. Even Minecraft to some extent.
Speaking of which, the Minecraft equivalent to this had all the same problems outlined in other comments here. Interesting as a proof of concept, but there are almost certainly better ways of using AI.
I wonder why they didn’t do Quake 1 instead.
They tried but it kept creating clones of PacMan instead
We have Quake at home
i hope every tech company burns
But, we already have quake.
No.
Don’t want a friggin thing to do with it then.