I feel like we need a catchy word for this “destroy creative works for tax purposes” thing that has become increasingly normal in the past few years. It’s hard to call it out right now in a way that gets people riled up about it, because it’s hard to explain to people what it even is. I think part of the reason why so many corpos have become okay with doing it is they realized people don’t understand it, and so must assume they are killing the thing for a good reason. I know I was perfectly willing to assume there was a good reason for this game getting delayed back when that was announced.
Damn, this makes me mad. Reading the news about this I assumed there was a good reason for this cancellation, but the devs were on track for a release. Fuck PDX. This shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
You’d need the conversations to be highly constrained in order to not break the game. Currently there are too many ways of “jailbreaking” LLMs. It was too much of a scope creep for a game which was already biting off a lot more than most studios could chew.
It’s a shame. But based on what I saw about it, it looked like maybe they had some delusions about using LLMs for character dialogue, which seems like an insanely complex feature to build into an already complex game.
Wow. After watching both, the one you posted makes me actually want to play the game. No Engrish, good music, good visuals, and an idea of what the game’s sense of humour is. The OP trailer looks awful by comparison. It’s just a couple of gameplay clips and some freeze frames of characters, and clearly Google translated captions.
I didn’t see any base-building in that trailer. The DF dev may have just been saying it’s an impressive simulation, not that it’s the same genre of game
I have done at least one full playthrough of Civ 6 from ancient era until somebody scored a victory. I did a couple other playthroughs that I ended early. Ultimately I just felt like the whole time I wanted to play Civ 5 more