'Portopia,' an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.
of one of its most revered video games, "The Portopia Serial Murder Case." But don't get too excited. According to journalists and hundreds of angry gamers, it absolutely stinks — specifically because of the new AI.
On Steam, the game client of choice for PC Gamers, "Portopia" sits at an embarrassing "Very Negative" rating, with only 13 percent of the over 350 reviews being positive. That makes it the worst-rated Square Enix game on Steam by a considerable margin.
Among those text-based wrinkles that could use fixing: if you didn't type the exact command the developers intended, the game wouldn't understand what to do. With the remaster, Square Enix promised to fix that with a Natural Language Processing AI model that, in theory, would allow players to type out more complex commands without pedantic wording. In the video game conglomerate's, it would "allow computers to glean meaning from... the kind of language that we use in daily communication."
That might be true in other applications, but based on what people who have actually played the game have to say, the AI has actually made "Portopia"
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