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[Sly Boots]

No thanks. I'm happy to vote with my wallet and not support an organisation that has mandated AI use.

Contrary to that, the Hooded Horse CEO has come out and said none of the games they publish will use AI in any form, so it's certainly possible and I'll continue to support their games. Which, honestly, are far better than anything the triple-A's are producing these days.

[Rusty]

I concur with Wrath. The game itself won't have AI in it. We (at our work) just use it instead of googling stack overflow and/or creating some boilerplate code or unit tests etc. Basically the menial stuff everyone hates doing

[Lenny Solidus]

It was hard not to be pretty damn impressed if not even somewhat overwhelmed and joyous by how great they made Fable appear after waiting so long to see it in action finally. Every aspect you could hope for as a fan was right there note for note and better than ever. As for the AI implications, I can see exactly where Sly is coming from as it's from a company that wishes to abjectly force AI fucking sloperoo down our throats from every conceivable angle right now, and I could not be happier to read that it's currently not giving the companies whoring it out the returns they were expecting after going all in on it. These companies clearly never learn that when the people don't want something and outright reject it as such, they will stick to that premise to the bitter end.

What they showed of Fable again did impress me no end as rightly it should given the Playground Games involvement. Going to keep a keen eye on it for sure.

[Sly Boots]

So remember that game trailer at the end of the Game Awards that everyone was dunking on... well, the game just released and... things have turned a bit ugly:



5k reviews, 18% positive

[Wrathbone]

The reviews are not encouraging:

The map is the size of Latvia but you only have 3 players so most of your time is spent running around the map looking for something to kill.

[Hatredsheart]

[Animalmother]

Is this just the usual jump on the band wagon review bombing or is it genuinely bad (other than that possible graphics bug)?

[DjchunKfunK]

Is this just the usual jump on the band wagon review bombing or is it genuinely bad (other than that possible graphics bug)?

A little from column A, a little from column B. I was reading some of the Steam reviews earlier and it is a prime example of why Steam should have a middle ground between thumbs up and thumbs down. A fair few reviewers liked some of what they had played but also had issues with some parts of the game.