Arc Raiders is very good. The shitty voices genuinely bring down the experience in a completely needless way though, particularly when the voice work that’s in the game would amount to like 5 people in a sound booth for one day.
Even with all the anti-AI arguments this site usually has put to one side. No industry awards should not reward laziness, it would be bad for the industry to encourage a practice that is genuinely detrimental to quality in the industry. You can look at this purely from an industry focused self-interested viewpoint, it’s not good for the industry at all.
As a game Arc Raiders is great. No denying that. It does deserve the numbers it is currently achieving. But Embark need to move away from this AI voice shit. Even on the subreddit which is dominated by people who love the game you still see a roughly even split between idiots that say it doesn’t affect the game and people who agree that the AI voices are shitty.
This is a real shame because, aside from this decision, the game probably has the best sound design in the last 10 years, in particular the proximity chat feature is the best implemented proximity chat that has ever existed in a game, it goes so far as to add realistic environmental effects to the proximity voice, if you’re in an echo-ey hall the prox voice echoes just like your footsteps or shots will, it’s really neat.
Arc Raiders is very good. The shitty voices genuinely bring down the experience in a completely needless way though, particularly when the voice work that’s in the game would amount to like 5 people in a sound booth for one day.
Even with all the anti-AI arguments this site usually has put to one side. No industry awards should not reward laziness, it would be bad for the industry to encourage a practice that is genuinely detrimental to quality in the industry. You can look at this purely from an industry focused self-interested viewpoint, it’s not good for the industry at all.
As a game Arc Raiders is great. No denying that. It does deserve the numbers it is currently achieving. But Embark need to move away from this AI voice shit. Even on the subreddit which is dominated by people who love the game you still see a roughly even split between idiots that say it doesn’t affect the game and people who agree that the AI voices are shitty.
This is a real shame because, aside from this decision, the game probably has the best sound design in the last 10 years, in particular the proximity chat feature is the best implemented proximity chat that has ever existed in a game, it goes so far as to add realistic environmental effects to the proximity voice, if you’re in an echo-ey hall the prox voice echoes just like your footsteps or shots will, it’s really neat.