Post by @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

It's true, there's nothing actors hate more than large amounts of paying work

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/arc-raiders-devs-embark-insist-that-using-genai-for-voice-lines-was-necessary-as-actors-would-just-go-crazy-if-they-had-to-read-all-of-that

Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

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Published on Nov 3, 2026, 7:32 AM EST — Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" News by Ashley Schofield Contributor Published on Nov 3, 2026, 7:32 AM EST

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Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Arc Raiders' developers speak on the noticeable generative AI voice lines in the original release, CCO insists "we are not in the industry of replacing actors"

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Allan Svelmøe Hansen

@svelmoe@hachyderm.io 19 min. ago

@jalefkowit Maybe the script was so bad that they really would have gone crazy?

Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:

@twipped@twipped.social 14 hr. ago

@jalefkowit granted, I've not actually played the game, but from the footage I have seen I didn't think the game *had* dialog

Viss

@Viss@mastodon.social 16 hr. ago

@jalefkowit so long embark

Yora

@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place 16 hr. ago

@jalefkowit Arc Raiders is such a massively dialog heavy game.

Brian Vastag

@brianvastag@mas.to 17 hr. ago

@jalefkowit How many lines of dialogue are in BG3? Several hundred thousand, I believe.

Reginald

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us 17 hr. ago

@jalefkowit On his deathbed, Rutger Hauer wept as he thought about the time he wasted memorizing and then flawlessly reciting the Tears in Rain speech.

The horror!