These Are the Major Changes Video Game Dialogue Are Going Through

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Dialog in video games is a subject with my differing opinions. As graphics get more advanced and AAA studios implement more cut-scenes, some games have become days-long interactable movies with fully-fleshed characters that let you into their world with conversational interaction, monologues, thoughts or reading. But not everyone enjoys this. Yair Ben-Dor has more.

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00:00Dialogue in video games has become a subject with differing opinions.

00:05As graphics get more advanced and AAA studios implement more cutscenes, some games have

00:10become days-long interactable movies with fully fleshed characters that let you into

00:15their world with conversational interaction, monologues, thoughts, or reading.

00:20But not everyone enjoys this.

00:23According to Axios, players have increasingly bristled over talkative characters, pining

00:27for the days of silent protagonists, just as some studios are betting on buzzy AI tech

00:33to add even more dialogue to their games.

00:36Take Forspoken, for example, one of 2023's earliest big releases for PS5.

00:42Developer Square Enix recently updated the game with the ability to adjust how chatty the

00:47main protagonist is with her magical companion, after players spoke out about the encumbering

00:53amount of talking they had to listen to.

00:55Meanwhile, developer Ubisoft announced that it's using an AI ghostwriter tool to write

01:01dialogue for some of its games, with the aim of keeping NPCs individually interesting and

01:06realistic with less manual work.

01:09This isn't necessarily a good thing.

01:11Ubisoft and other studios implementing this kind of AI work may be putting both writers

01:15and actors out of a job.

01:18And the results may not be what they expect.

01:20What happens when you take the human element out of artistic storytelling?

01:24I guess it's only a matter of time until we find out.

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