I think you just don't get it, and maybe this genre wouldn't be for you, which is fine. It's not about the devs bothering to write lines, it's about the devs enabling you to create your own world. I don't want some shitty NPCs slapped in there by a dev trying to hit a deadline. I want to experience my own story, freed from the shackles of the on-rails experience that game devs must currently provide.
> Have you actually tried asking ChatGPT to tell you a story?
What you're not getting is that the storytelling will be cooperative. You'll still be able to consume content to your heart's content. Some of that content will soon be people creating compelling stories in cooperation with LLMs. LLMs will also be great at storytelling too, but the best stories are ones that you can help write yourself.
Then why not write your own story? An LLM can't write your story for you. They're very bad writers. It can't even help much—its contributions are going to be dull and uninspired.
> the best stories are ones that you can help write yourself
If you're trying to co-create a story with someone in a play environment, the best analogy would be D&D or another role-playing game. And playing D&D with ChatGPT would be boring and unfun. It's just not a good storyteller. It's going to give you shit material. You'd be better-off cutting it out of the equation and just writing a story alone.
> LLMs will also be great at storytelling too
Will they? They're godawful at it right now, and they're not showing much sign of improving. Let's discuss the tech as it currently exists, rather than some speculative future version of it with imaginary capabilities.
> What you're not getting is that the storytelling will be cooperative.
No, I get that. But why would I want to cooperatively tell a story with a bad storyteller? I'd rather tell a story alone.
I think you just don't get it, and maybe this genre wouldn't be for you, which is fine. It's not about the devs bothering to write lines, it's about the devs enabling you to create your own world. I don't want some shitty NPCs slapped in there by a dev trying to hit a deadline. I want to experience my own story, freed from the shackles of the on-rails experience that game devs must currently provide.
> Have you actually tried asking ChatGPT to tell you a story?
What you're not getting is that the storytelling will be cooperative. You'll still be able to consume content to your heart's content. Some of that content will soon be people creating compelling stories in cooperation with LLMs. LLMs will also be great at storytelling too, but the best stories are ones that you can help write yourself.