Agreed. The random NPCs shouldn’t just know everything about anything, but it would be amazing if I could ask more detailed questions about what they do know, like for example, asking for directions to something.
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Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 7 months agoits bad if its freeform ai driven. there just needs to be integration into the games save flags (aware of what happened so far in the game) as well as some restrictions on what they can say which will make it fine.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think that would actually be really cool. You’re walking through Whiterun and you hear some NPC saying “Did you hear, some guy just ate the soul of that dragon that attacked us.” “What? That’s ridiculous. Where are you hearing these dumb rumours?” “No, really, he killed the dragon then just sucked its soul right out.” etc. etc. An LLM could at least make a conversation like that sound semi-plausible, and it could go on as long as you are listening. Then as the game goes on the rumours just get more and more wild. “I heard he can transform himself into a dragon and breathe fire.” “Yeah, well I heard that he’s the god of all the dragons sent to Tamriel to help them kill us all.”