As much as I hate Ai as a thing in our society, and wish it had just never become a thing, I really kind of enjoy Ai videos assets and images. It can definitely be done pretty well. I think the biggest problems in these Ai slop games when the writing and plot structure are all slop done by Ai. Also it seems like the structure of Ai games are simultaneously generic and a broken hot mess that are so illogical in structure.
I think that's more of a general "lazy people" problem and less of an "AI" problem.
As I said earlier in the thread: most of the VNs created by small indie developers are carbon copies of each other, they use HS or DAZ presets that are barely different from each other, they use asset packs for environments so you end up with dozens to hundreds of games that all have the exact same locations, they barely have what could be called "writing" and rely too much on "tropes" when it comes to both character design and dialogue...
The reality is most games suck because the people making them aren't talented and lack the creativity/vision to make something good. It's no different than sports, if 100 people all pick up the game of golf and you look at their progress 5 years later most of them are going to be very average, some will be below/above average, and a handful will be awful/amazing. That's just how it goes, and I agree AI doesn't HELP that when it enables more people to create things, but it doesn't fundamentally change anything either.
The way I look at it is this: sure, there might be even more crappy, low effort games, but those are easily spotted and avoided. However, there will ALSO be a handful of people (and I like to think I'm one of them) who didn't previously have the time, money or other resources to create their vision who with AI actually WILL be able to make amazing games.
I think that's a good trade even if it's only a handful of new excellent games that otherwise would never have been created.
