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justdaveisfine@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I feel like I’m missing some context here. There’s a new Gen 10 Pokémon game that’s got AI slop?
Oh yeah, just look at the new starter trio AND the world you have to play in. It’s obviously AI-Generated. The devs stopped trying to make good games ever since the 3DS era. You think they WOULDN’T use the low-effort AI shortcuts?
In fact, the Pokemon Legends Z-A devs actually DID get exposed for using AI to write their songs, and they still got away with it (just like how they manage to get away with every other bad descision). They’ve used Generative-AI before, and they’re not gonna stop now.
Do you have any actual evidence, or are you just pointing fingers?
I actually don’t think they would use AI for creature design. That’s like, their whole shtick at this point (I certainly don’t think anybody’s buying the games for the story), and I think Nintendo is smart enough not to risk the most important aspect of their games. I don’t think the starters even look that bad (aside from the bird) nor AI generated (including the bird). That said, I don’t doubt they’d use AI in almost any other aspect of the game.
Admittedly I haven’t seen any news about the game in like 2 months though, so I could be missing something.
They did straight up steal one of the starters from Cassette Beasts, even down to the name lawl
Despite the both of them being Pomeranians, they don’t actually like anything alike. Which tells me they didn’t steal Cassette Beasts’ homework here. Pomeranians aren’t exactly unpopular dogs, so it’s not even a little surprising Pokemon (a game with several other dog breeds) is adding one. It’s also where the both of them derive their names.
Though Pombomb is a significantly better name than Pombon.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m assuming that it’s referring to pokemon champions being very broken on release and speculated to be vibe coded due to nature of some of the bugs. But it’s not exclusive to switch 2 as far as I know. So maybe it’s just putting the cart before the horse and assuming Gen 10 will be slop as well. I haven’t played Pokemon since the 3DS (and the last games were so boring that I couldn’t even finish them anyway)
LarryBetraitor@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
By Gen 10, I’m referring to Pokemon Winds & Waves for the Switch 2. Although, Pokemon Champions is also a diet version of Pokemon Showdown