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Sony Could Soon Automatically Play Portions Of Games For You
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lmao, the npc directly asks for the controller like a big brother
Accessibility options shouldn't be patented or have limited rights for one company. Those should be open sourced for free use.
It's another option. An option that will be available for all games, for every player. Which is good.
And people who don't need it can ignore it. Win-win.
I doubt Sony will restrict it to PS only.
Patents do not mean anyone is working on this feature or it will ever happen. Patents do not mean anyone is working on this feature or it will ever happen. Patents do not mean anyone is working on this feature or it will ever happen. Patents do not mean anyone is working on this feature or it will ever happen.
Accessibility options are always a important, I would just promote great difficulty options, customizations and assistance for controls, as well as various levels of cheats; invulnerability, unlimited ammo, no carry limits, free upgrades, etc. be available in games. Those provide gameplay assistance while retaining player agency and control as much as possible. Automation could be one great additional tool/option for games where there aren't better options, but it shouldn't be patented for one company.
In the end it's just another option. And more options are great.
I'm not a fan of these patents. But as you can guess, one company will do it sooner or later. So Sony thought let's be the first one.
AI : I witnessed you struggle on the last puzzle, don't worry dipshit I'm assuming control to stop you from embarrassing yourself
A way to automatise grinding bs? Good, but how about not designing any grinding content in the first place? I sure would use this in BotW-style Zeldas though, considering how ridicilously grindy they have become. Just give me all those redundant resources you can gather instead of making me decide between using only the weakest clothing or grinding like a dummy to get them (I chose the weakest clothing, but what the fuck, Nintendo).
Options are great, and I could see myself using this kind of capability for grinding humanity from sewer rats in Dark Souls for example: "auto-play mode uses data from the user play model to automatically play the AGC for the user using a gameplay style that simulates a gameplay style of the user".
This is just the natural evolution of PS games spelling out puzzles step by step for you. And now when you spend too long looting instead of going to the impatient NPC rushing you, the game can take over and move things along.
This post can't stop me from being upset because I can't read!
No it isn't. It's a proposed bandaid for bad game design and bad accessibility features.
Yeah, it ended up being cute and useful feature.
(Except when failing enough to even cause its appearance a single time would mean it's impossible to get a full set of shiny stars on your save file).
Yes it i, what you like and what I like are probably not the same things.
I'm sure Gamers will hate this, but I guarantee this would be used by casual gamers who are struggling on a section of a game. Many games have a "story" difficulty already, I see this as the next step in that evolution.
The one thought I just had, which I hate but is/would probably be a reality… is they're doing this for people who need to "two-screen" all the time. As in people who use their phones while watching TV shows because they're so phone addicted.
This would allow you to still pay Sony for a game (instead of watching someone play it on YouTube where Sony gets no money), and you'll still get to play whatever parts you want, but when you want to just relax but still progress the story, you can basically turn it into a Let's Play.
Putting that scenario into words I could 100% see this being used by a ton of people if it came out tomorrow.
This would allow you to still pay Sony for a game (instead of watching someone play it on YouTube where Sony gets no money), and you'll still get to play whatever parts you want, but when you want to just relax but still progress the story, you can basically turn it into a Let's Play.
Putting that scenario into words I could 100% see this being used by a ton of people if it came out tomorrow.
You're probably right. I like games designed without junk I want to skip, and good accessibility options for those that need it.
You like a middleware solution to play the shit stuff for you.
No, it's a patent. 99% of the time nothing comes of them
The thing is, Rockstar basically already solved this problem in GTAV by letting you skip any individual segment in any mission.
I don't know why the article assumes this will ever become a thing just because it was patented. Let alone "soon".
Sure, but this could potentially be a neat override when such features are not provided by the game, though that assumes that this would work on a system-level and thus be compatible with any relevant game. I sure as hell would use it to help me glide along playthroughs where I encounter excessively difficult gameplay portions that I simply don't have the time for.
Would be very useful for the next Horizon game to save time collecting materials that shouldn't be such a waste of time
A company like From for example who refuse to have options themselves are surely not going want this.
The fact there's a term here for ANTICIPATED GRINDING CONTENT hurts my very soul
This was my first though when seeing the thread title, return of the super guide baby! The block of shame
Gentle reminder that Final Fantasy XII was designed around encounters which intelligently tested/challenged your gambit automation — despite the jokes about it playing itself, or whatever.
THIS "patent," a game autoplaying through the boring bits, seems a symptom of modern game padding.
THIS "patent," a game autoplaying through the boring bits, seems a symptom of modern game padding.
