AI has had a pretty controversial role across the gaming industry as of the past couple of years including—but certainly not limited to—designing NPCs.
Recently, Ubisoft debuted uncanny AI-powered «neo NPCs», and to say I'm sceptical of the tech's actual uses is an understatement.
Streamer Blurbs, however, has finally gotten me on board with at least one: letting his chat inject the most cursed custom voice lines into the denizens of Skyrim like a bunch of smutty skinwalkers. «In around three hours from this post I will be debuting what is, without a doubt, the best thing I've ever concocted,» Blurbs writes on Twitter, like Daedelus showing a pair of wax wings to his son. «So—here's what we've done,» Blurbs proceeds to state on the mod's inaugural stream. «I have never made a game mod before.
I've ventured into the modding universe [where] chat can live-voice NPCs. It's gonna go horribly.» Strolling into Riverwood, here's the first five custom lines he encounters: So, pretty great right out the gate.
The mod works as follows: Any subscriber or VIP to his Twitch channel can create a 300-character message, then give said message a gender and a tone of voice before pressing enter.