Unless you got tricked into getting the terrible switch version. Utter crap, I definitely regret backing the game. They had the gall to tell us the game would work on Wii U and Vita back then. In the end it was almost unplayable on the Switch.
I got a PC version long after that (only because it was cheap), and yeah, that one is good.
Consoles have had AMD chipsets for decades, and still do. Well, except the Switch.
Not sure if it is the first one, but seems a good candidate.
I know it’s a lot later, but I was amazed the first time I heard the in-game opening theme with lyrics in Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom, 1995). I had no idea it existed when I tried the fan-translated ROM, and I was like, wait, you can do that in a SNES game?
Sure it’s probably the main reason they needed a (comparatively) high capacity cartridge (6 whole megabytes!), but still, wow.
I think you’re underestimating how huge a dataset has to be to get a somehow decent AI output.
The effort to create those custom in-house datasets would never be worth the prospect of not needing artists anymore. There is a reason current AI is mostly trained with sources of dubious legitimity. They just need as much data as they can gather.
AI generation is only profitable if you conveniently ignore where your source material comes from.
I started to use the Japanese term “search action” rather than Metroidvania unironically, sue me.
Yeah, it sounds silly, but it’s descriptive and feels less limiting to me than “a game that looks like Super Metroid and Symphony of the Night”. I love those two, but lots of games do the big interconnected map with ability gates, and they’re not that close to them.
Some of those even don’t have a map made of blue rectangles! Only like 90% of them.
Really, if we can do with genre names that are not built like that in general, all the better. I’m not going to the library to read a FrankenDracula or a DuneFoundation or whatever.
It really is. I like no man’s sky, but most of it starts looking very familiar fast.
Only exception, I still get good surprises with random creatures. Sure, they’re all based on the same few structures, but once in awhile I get some perfect combination of funny, dorky and/or cool that I just can’t refuse as my new pet.
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