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"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism

Rock, Paper, Shotgun 23 Dec 2025
... the wuxia-themed open-world RPG that plugged some of its minor NPCs into AI chatbots.
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Hidden files reveal Metroid Prime 4 originally had far more incidental dialogue between its controversial NPCs

Eurogamer 16 Dec 2025
Metroid Prime 4 fans have discovered a load of unused conversations between the game's controversial NPCs. Read more ... .
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Octopath Traveler 0's influence system is a bad deal for NPCs

Polygon 08 Dec 2025
And when I say “brutal,” I don’t mean the bazillion innocent NPCs ...
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Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI NPCs into giving away quest rewards

Polygon 04 Dec 2025
... chatbot NPCs to unlock quest rewards they haven't actually earned, according to PCGamesN.
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Elon Musk feels life is a simulation, avoids GTA because he hates killing NPCs

India Today 01 Dec 2025
Elon Musk feels life is a simulation avoids GTA because he hates killing NPCs ... .
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Where Winds Meet's side quests can be skipped by tricking the AI NPCs with infamous ...

Eurogamer 01 Dec 2025
Where Winds Meet players are tricking the game's AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards, simply by claiming they already have the answers to various side quests or riddles even when they don't. Read more ... .
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Where Winds Meet Players Figure Out How To Trick NPCs Into Giving Up Loot

Gamespot 01 Dec 2025
But these NPCs aren't necessarily smarter because they're AI. In fact, players have discovered some easy-to-exploit loopholes in the chat model that convinces NPCs to hand over their side-quest loot or money even when you haven't done anything at all.
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20 Missable NPCs That Give You Incredible Rewards

What Culture 28 Nov 2025
Video games feature NPCs of all shapes and sizes ... Some NPCs are deliberately made as missable as possible so that only select players can find them ... Such NPCs can reward you with unique items, extra missions, and even powerful upgrades ... 20 ... Next ....
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Humain Studios Spins Up 44,000 NPCs (Dell Technologies Inc)

Public Technologies 20 Nov 2025
) tl;dr.Humain Studios faced a 33-year bottleneck cleaning 44,000 scans from advanced 4D scanners ... [...]. This is an abstract of the document ... Disclaimer ... (noodl.
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Build Intelligent NPCs in Unity (Agora Inc)

Public Technologies 19 Nov 2025
Instead of pre-recording every possible response or building complex branching logic, you can create NPCs that actually understand what players say and respond naturally.
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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain explains the biggest RPG sins, including annoying NPCs, bad exposition, and ...

Games Radar 13 Nov 2025
"It's really long, throw in making it unskippable, and you have a lore dump nightmare," he states, outlining that these include expository NPCs and lecture NPCs - anyone you have to sit and listen to, basically.
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