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A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 5 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

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[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 4 days ago (11 children)

I'd rather see the "bad" things than Ai.

Honestly if the rest of the game is good, I would rather have some napkin sketches, or a computer based paint software.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I wonder, what would be examples of games with badly done art that is overlooked because the game itself is good.

And I think stuff like Minecraft doesn't count, because with that style, the uglyness is a choice, not a result of not being able to make things look a certain way.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

"Sentinels of the Multiverse" is a fairly popular board game (within those circles) and it looks pretty rough. Pokemon S/V got rightfully dunked on for looking like shit but it still made a bunch of money. "The Case of the Golden Idol" is highly regarded. Runescape.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

No one really gave pokémon any s*** for the art. They gave s*** for the performance such as like the pop-in and reused assets.

But the actual art is fine. No one really had issue with that. It's pokémon for heaven's sakes. Not crisis.

That's why people got mad. It's basic 3D models in really simple backgrounds and it ran like s***. There's no reason for something that looks like pokémon to run poorly.

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