lkjdsklf 4 days ago

I think the staleness comes from the fact that it’s the 60 billionth time you’ve done some “quest” to go gather some crap up or kill the same thing in a loop for an hour.

No amount of dialogue is going to save that.

The actual story dialogue is usually interesting enough already

krainboltgreene 5 days ago

Nah, they’ll still be stale. Many people play RPGs that haven’t changed in 30 years, so static isn’t an issue either.

  • thrown-0825 5 days ago

    And many people don’t, there are already skyrim mods for this so your point doesnt really hold water.

    • krainboltgreene 4 days ago

      It’s so funny to reference a game that has like 12 editions and is on every platform including a refrigerator and think “this game is missing something”

      By the way there are LLM dialog mods for Skyrim and everyone thinks they’re a joke because they suck.

    • nottorp 4 days ago

      However, no one has ever praised the Elder Scrolls storyline.

      They win by the sheer quantity and by giving you a lot of subsystems to play with.

      So LLM generated quest text probably feels it belongs here. It wouldn't, for example, in something with the Witcher 3 story quality.

      • thrown-0825 3 days ago

        except the hundreds of hours of youtube videos discussing the story of the franchise

suddenlybananas 4 days ago

Quality writing is what is most important in an RPG, something that LLMs are distinctly terrible at.