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Developer of GTA 5 mod that lets you chat to AI NPCs says it’s been removed by Take-Two
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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With this and the Baldurs Gate 3 controversy it seems to only reinforce that todays AAA game development studios don't like being one-upped and having to deal with game features/functionality that they can't easily or are unwilling to recreate themselves.
The last thing they probably want is to be expected to have to add in NPCs that have a level of intelligence greater then a rock and can actually carry a basic conversation.
In other words, how dare you make a mod that makes the game do something we can't/won't do.
What happened with bulgur's gate? I didn't read that one.
Put simply, the game was released practically complete, with a minimal bugs, a deep level of game mechanics and long engaging story-line. It also came free of any micro-transactions and loot boxes. It is heavily praised by game reviewers, critics and fans alike.
Despite the success of BG3 the AAA game industry appeared to be threatened by it, and did their best to try and diminish its success and demand that consumers do not look at the game as a new standard in that game genre or AAA gaming in general.
In other words, where AAA games in recent times have been released incomplete, full of bugs, infected with parasitic micro-transactions, loot-boxes and other gambling mechanics and generally criticized, they had the audacity to call out a widely successful game release and call it an anomaly in the industry.
This is both shameful and ridiculous as to be fair BG3 represents how gaming used to be before the AAA gaming industry became corrupted by greed and the desire to create shallow products as a service other then avenues of entertainment.
Jeez, I got worried when I saw "bg3 controversy"
We live in a world where it's controversial to make a good and complete game. Ffs.
Exactly, I'm happy to see the reply.