If for no other reason than NPC's not repeating the same dozen or so recorded voicelines AI would be a tremendous boon. It's probably going to be at least a decade until full AI integration where you can have a full botted conversation with literally every NPC you come across, in the mean time being able to write lots more dialog and have an AI read it would do wonders for immersion. I'm tired of the four choice dialog wheels, (yes, no, sarcastic, tell me more) I want to be able to role-play in a goddamn role-playing game.
With the speed that optimizations are happening on the software side combined with specialized hardware, I'll be more optimistic and give it 5 years tops before some AAA game has full AI conversations for every NPC. Indie games will be experimenting with the tech before that. The model will be running on your high-end local machine too, not from a remote API.
If for no other reason than NPC's not repeating the same dozen or so recorded voicelines AI would be a tremendous boon. It's probably going to be at least a decade until full AI integration where you can have a full botted conversation with literally every NPC you come across, in the mean time being able to write lots more dialog and have an AI read it would do wonders for immersion. I'm tired of the four choice dialog wheels, (yes, no, sarcastic, tell me more) I want to be able to role-play in a goddamn role-playing game.
These days it's more like: yes, yes, sarcastic yes, also yes but with more words
BG 4?
And the mod to remove it gets banned
Fuck integration. Live services are worse than Always Online copy protection.
Write a decent script, record voice lines. Don't cancel my game when the support runs out for a stupid gimmick.
With the speed that optimizations are happening on the software side combined with specialized hardware, I'll be more optimistic and give it 5 years tops before some AAA game has full AI conversations for every NPC. Indie games will be experimenting with the tech before that. The model will be running on your high-end local machine too, not from a remote API.