{"id":353842,"date":"2025-12-18T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:03:07","slug":"kingdom-come-deliverance-2-dev-says-ai-is-here-to-stay-but-not-everyone-agrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353842\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Dev Says AI Is Here To Stay But Not Everyone Agrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

After comments this week from Larian CEO Swen Vincke revealing that the Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 developer is using generative AI in its workflow<\/a> prompted a massive backlash on social media, several developers have been weighing in. While Vincke said most of Larian\u2019s workers were \u201cokay\u201d with how the team had integrated the technology, the public outcry from fans and developers<\/a> told a different story. The latest games industry veterans to weigh in include Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead Daniel V\u00e1vra and ex-Naughty Dog director Bruce Straley<\/a>, and both of them seem to think generative AI is here to stay in game development, though one of them is at least standing firm against the trend for now.<\/p>\n

V\u00e1vra posted a lengthy response to Vincke\u2019s statements on X<\/a>, saying that while he\u2019s \u201cno fan of of AI generated art,\u201d detractors need to \u201cface [the] reality\u201d that it\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n

You know what I hate most about making games? The fact that it takes 7 years and 300 people and tens of millions of dollars to make. And the fact that Tom had to spend 500 hours in the studio recording completely generic heckling and generic bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If AI can help me make an epic game in a year with a smaller team like in the old days, I\u2019m all for it. That game will still have an art director, writers, programmers, graphic designers, but they won\u2019t have to do the tiresome and boring tasks, they\u2019ll have to focus on the essentials.<\/p>\n

I have ideas for lots of games, but I\u2019m fifty years old and so far it\u2019s taken me seven years on average to make one game. If AI helps me realize those ideas faster, I\u2019m all for it.<\/p>\n

This AI hysteria is the same as when people were smashing steam engines in the 19th century. @LarAtLarian<\/a> said they were doing something that absolutely everyone else is doing and got an insanely crazy shitstorm. <\/p>\n

I’ve even seen someone accuse us of using AI in KCD2. I don’t\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/l7pNbTxeIT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daniel V\u00e1vra \u2694 (@DanielVavra) December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

V\u00e1vra goes on to raise a bunch of hypotheticals about being able to ask NPCs anything and the technology generating appropriate answers and so forth, as if human writers can\u2019t generate something more interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Straley, meanwhile, also believes that generative AI is here to stay, but says that he\u2019s taken a stance against it<\/a> at Wildflower Interactive, though he admits that he might not be able to do so forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need AI,\u201d Straley said in an interview with Kinda Funny. \u201cI really do think it\u2019s the demise of the human species. Our brain\u2026we need a frontal lobe. Hundreds of thousands of years of this supercomputer that\u2019s built, and they\u2019re making football fields and draining water supplies, etc. to try to replicate something that a human can already do. It just doesn\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is AI needed in gaming? Bruce Straley (Co-Director of TLOU) gives his thoughts. pic.twitter.com\/msJdOS9Rlm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kinda Funny (@KindaFunnyVids) December 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice to hear someone like Straley taking a stance against using generative AI, though it is disheartening to hear that he also thinks it\u2019s an inevitability that it will stay in the industry. V\u00e1vra says that \u201cabsolutely everyone else is\u201d using generative AI in some capacity in game development, and if that\u2019s true now, it doesn\u2019t have to be. You can want better for your creative medium than plagiarizing slop machines that leave talented people out of work. If believing that bad things don\u2019t have to happen is foolish, then I\u2019d rather be a fool than an AI shill. <\/p>\n