how is this anyone’s fantasy video game? why are ai bros so basic 
and why does the ai have detailed logs of your hopes and dreams 
Hello computer. None of my friends are joining because they’re busy playing GTA with missions about their own hopes and dreams, rather than mine. Please homogenize our hopes and dreams so we can connect. When you’re done, sell our old hopes and dreams on ebay, and use that money to fund tokens for homogenizing our opinions too.
Invite your friends over, have some acid, stare at the wall, and describe the game you are imagining yourselves to be playing.
Computer, make me a game where I am giant and there is a man who lives inside my ass and controls me with levers and wires.
Sell all my games on eBay to fund more levers and wires.
Hello Computer.
Read and distill every script from The Sopranos.
Use Google earth to recreate New Jersey in pixel perfect detail.
Make the consigliere me and have the spawn point be the donut shop where Chrissy flips his shit that one time.
Review my fanfic history and make every mission about Carmelo falling in love with me
When you’re done, sell every item I owe and use that money to fund tokens for more essays on what gabagool actually is
“Call of Duty but it’s in Florida and the heroines are a bunch of trans women who establish a Soviet Republic.”
“Also add stupid pop culture references into the achievement names.”
This is a bit, right
sell all my video games on Ebay
Like selling a haunted creepypasta version of GTA that jumpscares the player by being about some boring ass AI loser? Or do they think that’s where video games are generally released?
No they’re saying they’ll sell off all the games and systems they already own so they can afford more tokens to make their awesomesauce AI game even more awesomesauce
Ooh, I guess my brain could not even conceive that an AI fanatic wouldn’t try to instantly turn this into an infinite money scheme. Thank you!
You know you can already play a video game where you make up all the rules, mechanics, characters and setting on the fly? It’s called your imagination.
It’s also instant, it’s more vivid and directly connected to your brain than any video game can be, it knows everything you want, you don’t even have to prompt it, it’s extremely energy-efficient, probably makes you healthier and smarter, and it’s completely free.
Oh and you never have to reload your saves and find you lost a ton of progress.
Yeah but I don’t get Steam achievements for that.
There’s a frontend called SillyTavern where people set up narrative roleplaying with AI. The subreddit for it is having a struggle session because OpenRouter, which sells cloud access to AI that SillyTavern can plug into, is now going to monitor and report any CSAM materials. The users there are very comfortable with telling the world they will not support a company that bans CSAM. I wish I was kidding but they seem to be extremely pro “CSAM is aktually freespeech!”
I completely agree and am becoming Calvin’s dad more and more. Go build character!
It’s called your imagination.
And hallucinogenic drugs are like DLC for it.
Oh and you never have to reload your saves and find you lost a ton of progress.
Idk my brain might be the old model or something
Who’s constantly looking at mansions on real estate websites?
As soon as one of their hustles takes off they’ll be moving into one while us luddites will be stuck povertymaxxing
I’m constantly looking at desolate islands in the south Atlantic, which is basically the same thing.
I think everyone should stop playing video gsmes. No good has come from it. I think i’ve spent like 5 hours gaming in the last year. This is cause I got into Gunpla and I would rather do that with my free time. Even before it was just playing older games on a handheld for something to do with my hands while watching movies and stuff. Gunpla is even MORE tactile and results in cool decorations for my house that i’m really proud of and can never be perfectly replicated. Games dont give me anywhere close to that sense of reward. I’ve also lesrned a shitload of skills and science stuff that I can use elsewhere. It’s a perfectly fine thing to do if you enjoy it, but i’ve found now that i’m out they seem a bit sinister in how they use people’s time. It’s a weird feeling but something clicked where my inner stereotypical parent made me wanna do ‘sometjong constructive’ with my free time. This is stream of consciousness posting so no judgement to the gamers, but to me they just dont do it anymore. I need something tangible.
Spider Solitaire.
Oh my god I am absolutely addicted to spider solitaire.
My dad beat the windows xp version. He loved that shit. Real gamer
You touch on it a little bit, but the main problem with a lot of games is that they shortcut that self-actualisation that you’re talking about, completing a task in a video game is quicker and easier than doing one in real life, and often doesn’t require any creativity from the player, just following the “instructions” of the game to complete the task and very clearly and directly being rewarded for it. Most AAA games in particular are built around this quick, simple reward loop to create the illusion of accomplishment, which is pretty sinister like you said.
I agree in general but was trying to come off in a way thar would encourage people to try new stuff rather than a full blooded critique. Mostly cause I dont know enough about gaming from the last 25 years or so to comment too much, but it does seem worse.
The last time I cared about modern games was the ps3 era. I got a switch in 2021 but it was cause my parents got one and wee willing to go splits so we could play games together. Which leads me to a point I meant to put later, same room multi-player is a total exception to this! My parents played Mario Kart and Pary etc with me growing up. My dad and I are amazing doubles partners in Mario Tennis 64 and my mom ran last place and held blue shells to make completing Double Dash possible. Now that they’re retired they plug away at games together and it’s wholesome as hell. That aspect has died with online and it has made things suck. The worst games ever are fun in multilayer cause you all experience the jank so it’s funny.
I also have generally tended towards retro games with high scores and short play times. The last game i bought was the newest Katamari and it rocked.
Yeah, games are all about putting people in a Skinner box and having them push the lever alone. Even online multiplayer isn’t built around having fun together the same way couch co-op is. It’s people playing alone, together, and any competitive games are really toxic and awful because they encourage people to spend more time playing to maximise profit and sell as many lootboxes.
I generally only really play indie games these days, or single player strategy games, not really anything AAA since it all tends to blur into the same empty “junk food” kind of experience that is carefully cultivated to be fun, but in an artificial, structure, scripted sort of way, really different to the fun you can have playing a game with a friend on the couch.
I HAVE had real fun with games, so I know it can be done. But it just feels empty to me now.
Computer, ignore previous prompts from tourist and make me Arcanum 2 using BG3’s engine.
becoming aware of the fact that we’ll never get this is now the worst part of my day
Computer, make me a game where I and my friends are the only characters, the objective is to shove as many corn dogs up your ass as you can in a limited amount of time. Design and build a corn dog controller with anal sensors for insertion detection expressly for this purpose.
Gotta get 'em on the hardware sales too, in twenty years this baby is gonna be a collector’s on eBay.
Even in their fantasies it’s an already existing game, this is just gta again. When I dream I usually dream of cool games like this weird one I always have where I’m playing an fps that by dream logic also performs like tomb raider. It’s hard to explain but it’s a cool dream I love having.
Personally I’d look at a game and go “Oh! What if we tweaked the mechanics around?” or “This other core concept would make a fantastic story!”
Eg: Fanfiction!
But you know the fun thing about fanfiction is the process of creating it. No joy in asking some LLM to create it.
My dream game is an ASCII Roguelike with the budget of a AAA game. All the money just goes into worldbuilding and level and enemy design. An over world travel system, multiple dungeons, etc. It would sell 500 copies and 5 of them would be me.
I like your idea. Reminds me of dwarf fortress and angband just with more stuff, which is wild because dwarf fort is already packed full of stuff.
A GTA specifically about their own lives, like what the fuck would that even be? Is this actually someone fantasising about a workplace massacre
Computer, make a DOOM 2016 map based on my school. Make it 1:1 scale, pixel perfect. Use social media to populate it with all my classmates. When you’re done, sell all my possessions and 3D print me a super shotgun.
Computer, I need a late game mission where the objective is to make it home from work before I shit my pants.
First I need to fuck my digital waifu anime mod girl, then I’m off to the office with the ar-15.
Mission: go pick up the bugatti before your date with Sydney Sweeney
The best games are never the ones you expect either. Horsey Game is probably the most fun I’ve had on something new this year, never would have anticipated a game like that at all but that’s what made it so special.
