They can’t handle a long conversation, that’s the problem. But no RPG I’ve ever played has very long conversations, especially not on one topic. The flow is generally opener -> pick a topic -> follow up questions (a few different that all land you back on the same “step”) -> conversation ender / go back to pick topic. Total sentences about one topic is generally no more than 10. And from the LLM standpoint it’d suffice if we kept the topic as one, joined, conversation and every distinct topic as their own instances. Thus we wouldn’t have time to dig to deep before the conversation ends and functionally resets.
But that, AI generated dynamic responses, wasn’t really what I meant. I more meant using player input in a dynamic fashion instead of selecting pre-baked sentences that your PC “says” without their own voice. So the flow would be that you typed or said “Hello there, can you tell me about the night the dragon attacked?” The AI would then interpret that text and match it to which Voice Actor recorded statement that best fit. So you’d get something like “Oh it was terrifying, the dragon burned down the church!” You’d get the same statement if you ask “whatever happened to that church over there?”
You’d also need recorded statements for rude remarks, aggression, that they don’t know (possibly with pointers towards NPC with more information) etc.
So you’re only replacing the dialog selector, not Voice Actors and you’re not voicing the protagonist.
Okay I kinda see what youre saying can’t say I would play a longer game with it as the main source of PC dialogue. But as a hybrid system that could be fun, like Fallout 1 and 2 having a typed question system alongside the normal dialogue. Hell you could probably add some fun shit into it for second time players IE calling the big bad evil guy out before he’s reveled.
Also if you want to mess around with a similar concept theres a game called facade which does something similar its just quite old at this point. Its from 2012 or some shit. Its also very very awkward given that its basically a social simulator with a married couple who are having a rough time.
Given how schizophrenic LLMs can be im gonna guess it wont get past the experimental phase. Its just too damned unstable at the best of times.
They can’t handle a long conversation, that’s the problem. But no RPG I’ve ever played has very long conversations, especially not on one topic. The flow is generally opener -> pick a topic -> follow up questions (a few different that all land you back on the same “step”) -> conversation ender / go back to pick topic. Total sentences about one topic is generally no more than 10. And from the LLM standpoint it’d suffice if we kept the topic as one, joined, conversation and every distinct topic as their own instances. Thus we wouldn’t have time to dig to deep before the conversation ends and functionally resets.
But that, AI generated dynamic responses, wasn’t really what I meant. I more meant using player input in a dynamic fashion instead of selecting pre-baked sentences that your PC “says” without their own voice. So the flow would be that you typed or said “Hello there, can you tell me about the night the dragon attacked?” The AI would then interpret that text and match it to which Voice Actor recorded statement that best fit. So you’d get something like “Oh it was terrifying, the dragon burned down the church!” You’d get the same statement if you ask “whatever happened to that church over there?”
You’d also need recorded statements for rude remarks, aggression, that they don’t know (possibly with pointers towards NPC with more information) etc.
So you’re only replacing the dialog selector, not Voice Actors and you’re not voicing the protagonist.
Okay I kinda see what youre saying can’t say I would play a longer game with it as the main source of PC dialogue. But as a hybrid system that could be fun, like Fallout 1 and 2 having a typed question system alongside the normal dialogue. Hell you could probably add some fun shit into it for second time players IE calling the big bad evil guy out before he’s reveled.
Also if you want to mess around with a similar concept theres a game called facade which does something similar its just quite old at this point. Its from 2012 or some shit. Its also very very awkward given that its basically a social simulator with a married couple who are having a rough time.