There are a few mods for Skyrim that adds LLM AI companions. So you can talk to them about whatever and they can talk back. The future of RPGs is going to be pretty sick.
Indie games like the one you mentioned are going to be able to explore some pretty cool concepts and really push the artform into amazing directions.
But being able to talk about anything and having the character actually do something based on the conversation are completely different things. Yeah you can convince a random npc to “join your quest”, but unless that was programmed into the game the dialouge and the actions of the npc will contradict each other (making a worse interaction).
NPC dialouge is purposefully limited to align with what the game is programmed to do, we’re still a ways away from really being able to leverage the advances in LLMs in video games (at least based on what I’ve seen).
There are a few mods for Skyrim that adds LLM AI companions. So you can talk to them about whatever and they can talk back. The future of RPGs is going to be pretty sick.
Indie games like the one you mentioned are going to be able to explore some pretty cool concepts and really push the artform into amazing directions.
But being able to talk about anything and having the character actually do something based on the conversation are completely different things. Yeah you can convince a random npc to “join your quest”, but unless that was programmed into the game the dialouge and the actions of the npc will contradict each other (making a worse interaction).
NPC dialouge is purposefully limited to align with what the game is programmed to do, we’re still a ways away from really being able to leverage the advances in LLMs in video games (at least based on what I’ve seen).