honestly I think no mans sky would be one of the worst examples for what Im thinking of. it goes back to the bit about how a purely generated story would be pretty flat and that I suspect that to make npc’s distinct, there would need to be a good bit of existing character lore and unique dialogue for the AI to work with; most no mans sky NPCs are so similar to eachother that even with not-repeating dialogue, they’d still sound stale. I think you’d want something like skyrim, where the world is big and open but not so big and open that each character cant have a writer give them a little bit of backstory to build off of.
I don’t know if you’ve played much NMS over the years, but there’s a story and missions that are already written and fleshed out well enough. You can leave all that be. I’m not even speaking of NPCs doing new missions or fetch quests in it.
But when you go to a base in space or on planet, every NPC says the exact same thing in the same way to offer the exact same things up. In space they all offer up the same three options in the same way. The Pokemon style fights are the exact same with the same opponent play styles. Every shopkeeper in every galaxy says the same thing.
All of THAT is what would be nice to have colored up a bit with some ai. No plot points or fetch quests or story lines. Just give them something unique when you interact with any.
honestly I think no mans sky would be one of the worst examples for what Im thinking of. it goes back to the bit about how a purely generated story would be pretty flat and that I suspect that to make npc’s distinct, there would need to be a good bit of existing character lore and unique dialogue for the AI to work with; most no mans sky NPCs are so similar to eachother that even with not-repeating dialogue, they’d still sound stale. I think you’d want something like skyrim, where the world is big and open but not so big and open that each character cant have a writer give them a little bit of backstory to build off of.
I don’t mean THAT much ai.
I don’t know if you’ve played much NMS over the years, but there’s a story and missions that are already written and fleshed out well enough. You can leave all that be. I’m not even speaking of NPCs doing new missions or fetch quests in it.
But when you go to a base in space or on planet, every NPC says the exact same thing in the same way to offer the exact same things up. In space they all offer up the same three options in the same way. The Pokemon style fights are the exact same with the same opponent play styles. Every shopkeeper in every galaxy says the same thing.
All of THAT is what would be nice to have colored up a bit with some ai. No plot points or fetch quests or story lines. Just give them something unique when you interact with any.