🧠 Is AI Going to Make Games Worse?

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Serious question.

Everyone’s excited about AI in game development.

  • AI-generated dialogue

  • AI-written quests

  • AI-generated textures

  • AI-assisted coding

  • AI voice replication

Studios say it will “increase efficiency.”

But here’s the uncomfortable thought:

What if “efficiency” just means
faster content, not better content?

Are we heading toward:

  • Procedurally generated but emotionally empty stories?

  • NPCs that talk more… but say less?

  • Worlds that are bigger… but feel hollow?

  • Games optimized for speed of production instead of depth?

AI can generate infinite content.

But can it generate intent?

:fire: Let’s pick a side:

:a_button_blood_type: AI will raise quality by freeing devs to focus on creativity

:b_button_blood_type: AI will flood the market with soulless games

🅲 AI is just a tool — bad games were always bad

đź…ł Publishers will use AI to cut costs, not improve quality

No neutral takes.

Is AI the next revolution in gaming
or the beginning of “assembly line” game design?

Discuss.

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I like what ai can do, but I don’t like what it’s doing. The ram and ssd AND gpu prices and shortage I mean.

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Options B and D are what I think is going to happen, there’s no way AI generated content will be as entertaining, engrossing, and fleshed out as human made content.

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Definitely B & D are more likely, but the AI bubble may burst one way or the other at the rate they are going. The fact that Nvidia technically cut corners with the 5070 with the claim that it matches the 4090 when the former just artificially inflates framerates. I can see it being a benefit if you’re coming from a much older GPU, but it still comes off disingenuous.

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I’d argue we were doing all of the above long before AI. Companies do love their reports and metrics to drive engagement. The fact that the bio-robots were human is coincidental.

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