My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras I have *so* many thoughts on the implicit (and probably pretty explicit) human biases that lead to that transformation. Surely, nobody would write a female character for a game that doesn't look canonically sexually attractive to the male core audience, right.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@rygorous @aras oh, and looks so *in every situation*. Not that I don't know, RE might be an environment where most characters might not be having the best day of their lives.

[ascentress@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Came here to rant about the same thing. Just got off my second playthrough of Resident Evil Requiem, too -- just to find this crap on Nvidia's page.
It's completely dumbfounding. How could the entire chain of command sign off on this? (That's a rhetorical question. I know how, but still) 😭 🫠

[pythno@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras Definitely not just you. I find this to be pretty uncanny. And I also see the main problem in overriding artists' intent.

[tojiro@mastodon.social]

@aras The idea that they would label this as "DLSS 5" and not some separate thing feels like a form of branding malpractice on-par with discarding "Office" in favor of "Copilot"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aras I had seen this preview image on a few posts and I thought it was a joke, like the "hire fans" thing that "fixed" Aloy in HZD. I did not realize it was the actual NVIDIA promo. Wow this looks atrocious, literally like self-parody, I cannot believe they're bragging about this.

[sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras I for one am very excited for the renaissance of stylized 2D games that this going to trigger. Photorealism has never been something to strive for, and 3D is just one D too much anyway.

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras FFS

[mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sschoener @aras given re-stylising 2D animation is already entirely possible and I don't think I've seen a single meaningful use of that (other than upscaling some low-res anime!) I don't have the same excitement :(

[dominikg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@molecularmusing @aras that would work perfectly with ai generated low poly models and textures right? Get ai to do all the work and creativity, that's what they're aiming for.

[shnooflebear@curly.cat]

@aras Yikes. Talk about missing the point entirely, for the sake of being able to put an "ai" label on the crap.

No thanks.

[kiwitb@mastodon.social]

@aras DLSSLOP

[grmon@chaos.social]

@aras its all still none present fabric movement or character motions. Still not better than #shenmue nearly 30 years later.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras The finest demo running on their latest hardware that a) I could not afford to buy and b) they wouldn't sell me anyway cause their production lines are busy?

[joonq@mastodon.social]

@aras Ive learned that if anything says AI-powered or powered by AI its going to be thrash and slop 😂

[swetland@chaos.social]

@aras Not just you. Every new "ai enhancement" technology in gaming is another round of "what fresh horror is this?!"

[mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sschoener @aras honestly fair call out, the strength of what I wrote is way more than what I felt!

The feeling there is more that I've been unconvinced style transfer is going to produce much interesting art, given it exists elsewhere and has seen quite limited use.

[gustodon@mas.to]

@aras We will destroy everything we enjoy, burning and shredding it all until oblivion seems luxurious by comparison.

[nicknamesofgod@mastodon.social]

@aras Moore's Law Is Dead has a video up about this nonsense. Apparently "turning DLSS5 on" literally replaced the character model's in-game face with an Instagram model's, and it took two (2) RTX5090 graphics cards to do it at something like CAD$6000 (USD$4400) each. The future, everybody!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tiw7blVRZg&list=WL&index=2

[archo@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aras looks like a natural progression of the thinking displayed with RTX Remix and genAI in general

it was off-putting to me even back when it was more opt-in and customizable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9I0iLxGJl0