How do you feel about AI chatbot NPCs?

asf · Post by **asf** » February 2nd, 2026, 23:38

more slop

aimlesshealer · Post by **aimlesshealer** » February 3rd, 2026, 02:13

If the dialogue is not important enough to write then it's not important enough to read

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 3rd, 2026, 02:20

Arcanum has a bunch of macros in its dialogue system and one of them was the introduction macro, which made characters feel a lot more reactive. Going back to my prior post, it would be good for pre-generating that sort of dialogue that would otherwise take a significant amount of time to write to account for all the various scenarios, isn't particularly important, but yet adds a lot of flavor.

Tim Cain actually did a video on it:

Post by **J1M** » February 3rd, 2026, 03:00

aimlesshealer wrote: ↑ February 3rd, 2026, 02:13
If the dialogue is not important enough to write then it's not important enough to read

The AI will do a better job than the current writers...

Post by **ThulsaDoomer** » February 3rd, 2026, 03:38

Ironic that Skyrim, the game known for having terrible plot and worldbuilding with its entire modding community existing off the fumes of a better potential, is also the one to implement generative dialogue that also says about as much as the games narrative does, which is nothing at all.