Hello there, fellow Gamers™! Do you like to see numbers go up so much you don’t pay attention to what those numbers do? Do you have a lot of disposable income and a voracious appetite for things you’re told are cutting edge? Are you a major shareholder at a tech company who we’re actually advertising to? Then have I got great news for you! We’ve been developing revolutionary new technology which uses the magic of Generative AI. We mean that literally, because as they say: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And we know this tech is too advanced for your dumb asses, because we don’t even understand it!
So what are we using this literal, actual, genuine magic to do? We take the most artistically interesting, highly detailed video game graphics...and just paint new ones over them! That’s right, no longer will you have to worry if a game’s art style is good or bad, because we’ll just replace them all with the same art style! What’s more it...hang on a minute. I’m getting some feedback on this parody bit...mm-hm...uh-huh...I see. Well then.
It appears this has already been done.
A reminder this is meant to just upscale something to higher resolution.
Not only has this already been done, but it’s been critiqued and parodied so much that I wouldn’t even be able to preach to the choir, because they’ve already gone deaf. No problem, I can find something else to satirize this year, let’s just take a look back through some other recent controversies. Let’s see, we have some games getting complaints for replacing content with generative AI...some game review sites getting complaints for replacing content with generative AI...and complaints about how gaming hardware is getting more expensive due to very stupid policies...and generative AI.
A pattern emerges.
