Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

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• jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.

  Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds like no one really tried. Like, sure, you’ll get bullshit occasionally, but in the code you know exactly what the NPC is doing, so crafting a prompt based on that is not really that hard and will work most of the time, especially for the simple NPCs.

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.

      A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.

      Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.

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• meejle@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here’s his YouTube video, if you’d rather go straight to the source: youtu.be/7AyEzA5ziE0

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• mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now if Nintendo released something like this I might actually enjoy the Animal Crossing series again. The dialogue in the newer games is so soulless and repetitive.

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  • EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can only stand to read the same joke about a sea bass so many times

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can tune a guitar but you can’t tune a guy naned sebastian

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• Highlandcow@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly I can’t lie that’s really cool

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You physically cannot lie? :P

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They said “honestly” didn’t they?

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