This is probably the sickest game-demo I have seen in a long time😯! MS is launching their new PC with tons of AI (naturally). But this is GPT4o meaning instead of a boring text chatbot you can talk with it normally. For example when playing a game.

As if gaming wasn't casual enough 😅! Do you want this or not?

Edit: Google wants to show they too can do this. Here is Gemini 1.5 helping with Mario 64.

I find this super hard to judge. One thing that is tricky is short term vs long term. Short term if you spend a ton of money on the military industry productivity should go up and unemployment down. But long term it must be bad as they are not really producing anything of value for the population. But I dont really know what long term is in this context...

Brain drain seems like an even slower process though.

BTW I just tried the new AI feature in Edge (mark the text press alt+I to make AI rewrite your text):

Assessing the impact of military spending on an economy is indeed challenging, especially when considering short-term versus long-term effects. In the short term, significant investment in the military industry can boost productivity and reduce unemployment. However, in the long term, such spending may not yield tangible benefits for the population, as the industry does not produce consumer goods. Defining 'long term' in this context can be ambiguous.

Similarly, brain drain is a gradual process with its own set of complexities. It involves the emigration of skilled individuals from one country to another, which can have profound implications over time.

Damn that makes me sound way smarter 😂😅

Basically Naoe seems designed for those who want to play classic Assassin's Creed and Yasuke for those who want more of an action game set in Japan. I'm cool with that.

I think the ps4 gen was really strong, which makes it seem a bit worse than it is. But I agree they have done very little in terms of strong IPs or interesting spins on existing ones. Naughty Dog has not released a game at all. GoW Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West seems like more of the same from their Ps4 predecessors. Yeah it hasn't been great.

Actually there will be two main character, one who is Japanese by birth.

So Immortals flopped that hard 🤣

I think it will be better. Smaller developers will get increasingly more powerful tools. Just look at what Unteal engine is doing for animations in 3D. Then generative AI will help indie-devs with full voice acting, music etc.

What I’m saying is that I think we will get games of the scope of say Max Payne, or Prince of Persia (in 3d) made by really small teams.

That would be huge as we would get way more variety and genres that are not profitable in the AAA - space would get a resurgence.

That’s what I’m hoping anyway 😁!

I mean giving how much money they have poured into xbox it males sense to take a step back and restructure.

Super Mario World, my first game. And it was/is a blast 😁!

Assassin’s Creed: Been semi obsessed with this franchise, though it has disapointed me greatly.

Mass Effect 2: My first RPG (I know the purists will laugh). Made me play games like the Witcher 3 etc.

Portal 2: Intrduction to one of my favourite genres, first person puzzle games.

Yeah, I agree with that. It's no ones fault per se. It's "the invisible hand" in operation, I guess. I mean gamers want to get the maximum playing time for their money. So the companies try to supply that.

It's a downward spiral where companies are fighting increasingly desperately for peoples shrinking time.