This. There are very few non-hack uses of jump scares in media. Making you jump in response to sudden movement and loud noises isn’t scary, it’s simply startling. If you you could replace the thing doing the jump-scare with an adorable kitten and it would be just as effective, you’re a hack. Horror needs to be earned.

Jump scares are a cheap crutch. The game doesn’t need them.

VR shit talkers will never stop being utter assholes about it. I'm fine with reasonable doubt and criticism but there's a kind of person who seems to revel in it and in trolling anyone who even remotely says something supportive. Fuck em. I love my PSVR2. 

There are about 34M VR headsets out there and the market is projected to increase so I guess this company thought it made sense to make this type of game.

From the iguana’s perspective:

Here’s the thing A.I doomers don’t seem to grasp. Could you make a game using nothing but A.I and no human artists? Yes. Would it look as good as assets made by humans and thus justify not using any human artists? Fuck no!

The fact that people are people are accusing the game of using A.I image generation, not because they found examples of suspect artwork in the game, but rather, that the devs have talked about it and made an A.I themed game in the past, almost feels like a compliment towards A.I image generation. As though, it’s…

there’s legitimate use cases for AI tools that makes content creator’s lives easier... none of those use cases involve generative content, which in the Witcher’s case is beneath the brand. You can’t have consistent, crafted art directions and narratives without creative crafts people.

If something uses AI art and it needs someone to expose it, it always massively impacts my experience... Where are we gonna meet tomorrow to smash the looms?

Dark Souls. I lived through the 80s and 90s, I remember when they made games intentionally hard to prevent you from finishing them too quickly in order to compensate for the fact that EPROM chips had spiked in price.

Sorry, couldn’t hear you over here in my barren VR desert because I was too busy playing Asgards Wrath II, Arizona Sunshine II, Demeo, Dungeons of Eternity, Moss II, and Walkabout Golf, etc. And those are just games I’ve bought in the last 2 months without mentioning classics like Beatsaber, Pistol Whip, Superhot VR,…

You’re correct. Cameras did replace painters. And in doing so made what was once something only the purview of the excessively rich now open to the masses. Now painted portraits are a niche market only a few care about, photographic prints are cheaply available to the masses, and the common person carries a camera in…

>Thanks, the Luddites were cool and correct.

I can’t wait for us to get past this whole point. It isn’t going anywhere and won’t be regulated away. I still remember how up in arms everyone one was about how digital art was going to ruin the entire industry. A decade or two from now & an article like this will seem even sillier than it currently does. Adapt or…

I think that regular western studios are slowly discovering that almost everybody 40 years or younger grew up on a steady diet of cartoons (WB & Fox Kids as adolescents, and Adult Swim in their teens and 20's) and no long view animation as something that’s just for little kids and Japanese sex perverts.

And while…

Years later, Satsuma admitted that he preferred Pulgasari to Hollywood’s Godzilla, specifically the 1998 movie from director Roland Emmerich.

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I have a question for proponents of the ‘good guy with a gun theory’...Say you are the ‘good guy with a gun’. You roll up on some scene with someone shooting. Assuming this is a ‘bad guy’ (which maybe incorrect...see below), you pull out your gun to engage the person, but then another guy shows up with a gun. First,…

Where is that Good Guy With A Gun? I keep hearing so much about him, but he’s just never there when he’s “needed.”

There’s a pretty big difference between generating the entire image using A.I and only using A.I to add a few details. People have used Photoshop brushes for decades to make adding stuff like grass and leaves to pictures easier, this should be no more controversial.