A few years from now, Lydia in Skyrim will have a fully consistent personality with dynamic dialogue and full contextual memories of all our adventures together in Skyrim.

A visual makeover is great but what happens when millions of people fall in love with virtual characters who seem to deserve that love?

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thunfischtoast 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Question is if we even want that. Video games often are escapism, we want an illusion of reality but not actual reality. I mean there definitely is a market for that, but I don't think it's for everyone.

	▲	bubblegumcrisis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was a comic book about comic books I read when I was young. I believe it was "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" - part of it dealt with what is gained and lost with realism. In a nutshell, (with my memory of 30-40 years), the more and more realistic a scene becomes, the less the brain applies it to ourself. It becomes this definite place, definite person, rather than ourself or our surroundings projected into other characters. All these scenes, that I guess are amazing, they all are creepy to me.

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yhjc2692 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That actually sounds implementable even now! Except the fully consistent personality part. And maybe that's a good thing. Falling in love with beings without physical presence sounds agonizing; probably better spent on real people.

	▲	kragen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I imagine you could implement the fully consistent personality by putting a recurring dream about the player, followed by waking up, in Lydia's context at startup.

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mmmpetrichor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

skyrim already has mods for AI chat with all of your followers. I haven't tried it but plenty of people use it, (in VR as well, of course).

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freecodeio 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

man it really shows some of you have ai psychosis, nobody in the gaming world wants that, that's some wizard level virginity low even for gamers