There are a lot of these "lone dev announces they're using AI" articles recently, and it's making me think. I have a lot more sympathy when it's something like "I didn't understand this programming thing and I couldn't find clear resources, so I asked ChatGPT for help to finally be able to do this project"... but in this case, it's just blatantly "I'm generating assets because I can't be bothered to work with anyone else". There's really no reason to ever use genAI, between the massive pile of legal and moral issues and the fact that there's no way it's difficult to find artists, musicians, etc. to help on a cool homebrew project like this. Look at the absolute deluge of people making YM2162 music on YouTube, and the wizardry that people like Savaged Regime can wring out of it! It's a tremendously flimsy excuse, and it's a shame that this whole thing is gonna leave a big stain on an otherwise cool achievement. All this dude is really doing is hurting himself.
@MG4M3R I understand what you're getting at, and I agree, but I don't think these are the best examples. "Splatterhouse" and "Manhunt" aren't words that inherently sound like something terrible--the former invokes a bloody haunted house attraction while the latter is just a term for a large-scale police operation to find someone. Whereas the title "Lady Stalker" can only be parsed properly if you already have the context of "Landstalker + Lady". Outside of that, "stalker" really only has one definition most people know, so it sounds weird.
Honestly, since I knew of the game through the intended context of "Landstalker spinoff", I never thought about how it's a weird phrase, but seeing it here in the article made me go "Wait, that sounds really sus".
A title should be indicative of what a game is, and if a lot of people are gonna hear it and think it's about stalking ladies, that's gonna be a problem for the people making it--that's just marketing.
@JJtheTexan I guess you have to define "NES"--it's still a console that plays exclusively NES games using NES peripherals; but that would imply any third-party console that replicates NES functionality and nothing more is an NES. But if you stipulate that it must have been made by Nintendo, then any console with mods would cease to be an NES. Pointless but fun to think about!
@tektite_captain You're really proving my point there, aren't you? Nobody has the right to decide what art is allowed to exist, and your attempt to discredit the argument by saying "it's just w*** material" just shows that's exactly what you're doing.
@Eocene84 For real! What the heck is wrong with some of the folks in these comments?
If you're taking joy out of someone else's misery, you need to get your head examined. Not to mention the idea of "it's okay and encouraged to destroy art that doesn't fit my standards of decency" is incredibly dangerous rhetoric. You already know who else thinks like that.
And hey, multiple people making those horrible comments have Zelda profile pics, so imagine if you will that you bought an incredibly rare and valuable piece of Zelda history and this happened to it, and then a bunch of chucklers came along to be like "Whoop, good thing nothing of value was lost. Just a generic action game, who cares?"
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Re: "No Emulation, No Compromise, No Comparison" - The $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims To Be A 1:1 Replica Of SNK's Classic Console
This sounds so cool I almost forgot who own SNK now.
Re: "I Know Some People Don't Like This" - Final Fight MD's Latest Project Uses GenAI
@h3s It's not my problem if you value art so little that you can't even fathom the importance of the human factor.
Re: "I Know Some People Don't Like This" - Final Fight MD's Latest Project Uses GenAI
There are a lot of these "lone dev announces they're using AI" articles recently, and it's making me think. I have a lot more sympathy when it's something like "I didn't understand this programming thing and I couldn't find clear resources, so I asked ChatGPT for help to finally be able to do this project"... but in this case, it's just blatantly "I'm generating assets because I can't be bothered to work with anyone else". There's really no reason to ever use genAI, between the massive pile of legal and moral issues and the fact that there's no way it's difficult to find artists, musicians, etc. to help on a cool homebrew project like this. Look at the absolute deluge of people making YM2162 music on YouTube, and the wizardry that people like Savaged Regime can wring out of it! It's a tremendously flimsy excuse, and it's a shame that this whole thing is gonna leave a big stain on an otherwise cool achievement. All this dude is really doing is hurting himself.
Re: 'Dragon Quest' And 'Shining' Legend Is Creating A Famicom RPG With Characters "Left Behind" By The Late Yoshitaka Tamaki
@MG4M3R I understand what you're getting at, and I agree, but I don't think these are the best examples. "Splatterhouse" and "Manhunt" aren't words that inherently sound like something terrible--the former invokes a bloody haunted house attraction while the latter is just a term for a large-scale police operation to find someone. Whereas the title "Lady Stalker" can only be parsed properly if you already have the context of "Landstalker + Lady". Outside of that, "stalker" really only has one definition most people know, so it sounds weird.
Honestly, since I knew of the game through the intended context of "Landstalker spinoff", I never thought about how it's a weird phrase, but seeing it here in the article made me go "Wait, that sounds really sus".
A title should be indicative of what a game is, and if a lot of people are gonna hear it and think it's about stalking ladies, that's gonna be a problem for the people making it--that's just marketing.
Re: "Is This My NES' Final Form?" - Retro Gamer Shows Off The Most Pimped-Out Nintendo Entertainment System You've Ever Seen
@JJtheTexan I guess you have to define "NES"--it's still a console that plays exclusively NES games using NES peripherals; but that would imply any third-party console that replicates NES functionality and nothing more is an NES. But if you stipulate that it must have been made by Nintendo, then any console with mods would cease to be an NES. Pointless but fun to think about!
Re: Raiden Fighters Remix Collection Branded "Absolutely Unacceptable" By Disgruntled Fans
So who did develop this collection? The article makes it sound like M2 did.
Re: "Literally Crying Right Now" - 50 Copies Of This Adult-Only Visual Novel Demo Exist, And One Just Got Destroyed In Transit
@tektite_captain You're really proving my point there, aren't you? Nobody has the right to decide what art is allowed to exist, and your attempt to discredit the argument by saying "it's just w*** material" just shows that's exactly what you're doing.
Re: "Literally Crying Right Now" - 50 Copies Of This Adult-Only Visual Novel Demo Exist, And One Just Got Destroyed In Transit
@Eocene84 For real! What the heck is wrong with some of the folks in these comments?
If you're taking joy out of someone else's misery, you need to get your head examined. Not to mention the idea of "it's okay and encouraged to destroy art that doesn't fit my standards of decency" is incredibly dangerous rhetoric. You already know who else thinks like that.
And hey, multiple people making those horrible comments have Zelda profile pics, so imagine if you will that you bought an incredibly rare and valuable piece of Zelda history and this happened to it, and then a bunch of chucklers came along to be like "Whoop, good thing nothing of value was lost. Just a generic action game, who cares?"