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> general story completely arbitrary

That's the exact promise. BotW has a main story, but it's not where the real fun is. The game devs will still write some overarching plot for people that want that, but you can just ignore that and live your own story.

There will also be a lot of fun in seeing how far you can stretch the original story to its breaking point, like how people enjoy breaking Skyrim with too many mods. Testing the limits is the fun. "What if I defeated Ganon by taming an army of crabs?"

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Breaking games with shitty mods can be fun in the sense of dicking around but it quickly gets boring and frankly seems completely unrelated to trying to make actual good experiences with an LLM.

BotW’s appeal is not the story. It’s definitely not the dialogue. It’s about exploring a carefully planned world full of goodies. Not a shitty LLM procedurally generated one that goes forever. And DEFINITELY not a run time generated one.

BotW suffers for the NPCs having no agency or dimension to them. Why can't I infiltrate the Yiga clan and bend them to my will to help me defeat Ganon? Why can't I teach the villagers in TotK how to fight and fend for themselves against the pirates? There's a whole world that just needs a spark of agency to really live.

I’m honestly just mad listening to these dumb fuck takes. I’m done. I’m tilted.

This is such a stupidly thought out vision. BotW is a beautiful game that emphasizes minimalism and simplicity and you’re wanting to cram shit like this in.

You can’t do those things because that’s not what the game is about. And if you could do those things, it would be a different fucking game, and the magicalness of the world and the ingenuity of its game mechanics would become nothing compared to your “limitless player narrative agency”

I think your takes suck and have no basis in the reality of plausible to implement technology but this one really crosses the line of just being irritating to imagine asking for. This is the polar opposite of BotW’s design thesis and I hate you for tainting it.

>This is the polar opposite of BotW’s design thesis and I hate you for tainting it.

LOL, calm down mate. Fwiw, I've read your back and forth with the GP and I'm much more excited with their vision than yours.

Anyone with any imagination can see that LLMs are the future of story telling.

You can rage all you want, but progress will march on without you.

Well that didn't take long.

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