Really had fun with the first one, but the developer seems like he’s really into AI, and this steamheader just looks like horrible AI… Anyone has any opinion on it? :)
So I’m torn on this. The store art looks AI as fuck, but I don’t think the game assets do. Steam does require an AI disclosure on store pages, which this product lacks, but they could just be lying.
Dunno.
This is exactly where I am. I won’t support AI-shit, and it looks sooo AI. Yet, Grave Keeper 1 was fun af. :/
The game assets themselves seem fine, the voices seem sussy (playing on Xbox Series S) a bit text to speak but leaning AI (not standard). I will have to evaluate a bit further before deciding.
No idea on AI but I was against the publisher already. They’re past the point of venture capital, but years ago they already had an IPO worth millions and were still doing crowd-funding+EA+multi-account unpaid self-promotion.
There’s also the Hello Neighbor situation, and a decent amount of their other games on Steam have mixed reviews.
For AI, I did stumble across this:
At least one video game company has considered using large-language model AI to spy on its developers. The CEO of TinyBuild, which publishes Hello Neighbor 2 and Tinykin, discussed it during a recent talk at this month’s Develop:Brighton conference, explaining how ChatGPT could be used to try and monitor employees who are toxic, at risk of burning out, or simply talking about themselves too much.
That’s a hypothetical, but might tell on some mindset.
Generally i wouldnt punish a game or its dev for publisher behaviour
I’ve played an hour of the new one and it kinda sucks. I don’t like it, anyway. and I played a TON of GK1. I’m already looking forward to pirating the new hellraiser game because the CEO or CFO or whatever is a huge AI dickhead. The only other game i’m looking forward to is the Lego City Skylines. I hope they don’t screw that one up with AI.
