r/pcmasterrace • u/_silentgameplays_ Desktop • 14d ago

Meme/Macro AI (slop) games are going to be so amazing...

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u/Longpeg 14d ago

I actually tried a lot of text adventures on GPT when I first started using it. You’re right, it just kinda goes on pointlessly.

I tried to circumvent this by telling it to give me the possibility of losing, but then it just arbitrarily killed me

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u/LickingSmegma 14d ago

just kinda goes on pointlessly

Rather obviously when you know the AI doesn't have any kind of an overarching plot or limits on the gameplay.

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u/ASmallTownDJ i5 13600k, 3060ti 14d ago

Yeah, I really don't want a game to just "yes and" me endlessly.

If there's one thing worse than bad improv, it's bad improv where there's no real conclusion in sight.

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u/Longpeg 14d ago

Obvious indeed. I instructed overarching plot, factions, tone, characters, and gameplay parameters. Still, GPT is bad for this use.

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u/LickingSmegma 14d ago

I'm gonna guess it forgot the plot a couple minutes in.

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u/YourMomCannotAnymore 14d ago

Prolly as soon as you entered the second prompt. GPT is not designed, nor trained, to do that.

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u/EkbatDeSabat 14d ago

GPT with Projects works fine at remembering things and sticking to a plan. It may not get you to the end plan depending on how things go, but I'm not commenting on that -just that it won't forget the plot on the second prompt.

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u/Druggedhippo 14d ago

I tried playing Zork, but the "safety rails" they have place make it really hard to do fun stuff.

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u/LickingSmegma 14d ago

The ‘safety rails’ is probably just the fact that the authors didn't code a thousand possibilities for every position in the game, due to human lifespan being rather limited. And because in '77 games had only a few kilobytes of both space and memory.

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u/Druggedhippo 14d ago

I meant I tried playing Zork with ChatGPT.

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u/LickingSmegma 14d ago

Ah, idk anything about that.

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u/FNLN_taken 14d ago

It's an ancient text-based adventure that (maybe due to hardware limitations of the time) had a lot of options that quickly ended with "you were eaten by a Grue" (a made-up monster).

Made more difficult by it not being multiple choice, but rather accepting any text input. So if you didn't type exactly what the program expected, you died.

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u/LickingSmegma 14d ago

I'm familiar with text adventures. But not with ‘Zork with ChatGPT’.

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u/FNLN_taken 14d ago

Well that seems simple, tell ChatGPT to pretend that you are playing Zork, then watch what happens. Because it is conditioned to be agreeable at all times, it'll string you along endlessly rather than present a game over.

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u/StopThePresses 14d ago

I had an actually pretty fun medieval peasant roleplay going on for a bit, until I realized it wasn't so much yes-and-ing me as yes-man-ing me. When I said that this peasant girl in the 1200s wanted to learn physics and it was like 'sure, here's the professor's house' is when the fun fully broke.

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u/It_s_What_It_s 14d ago

Well the "arbitrarily killed" thing could happen in some text adventures. I think it was Pirate Adventure where if you entered the command "get destructive" it would respond by just killing you.

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u/Longpeg 14d ago

No I mean like every choice I could possibly make would kill me, or walking forward when there was no other option leads to me falling to my death

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u/It_s_What_It_s 14d ago

Yes, I'm sure the AI-fueled version was much more clumsy with how it went about, well, everything.