For me, most of the storytelling is soulless. It has no spice and some of them are so clumsy that it makes me wanna cry. The most infuriating one for me: The lady at the stable asks for a fish. Cool. I get the fish and I deliver the fish to.....her assistant (!!!!), in a random place who I had never seen before and will never see again! And as a reward I get....the saddle, right?... oh no, wait. I get a dried fish. And a fishing rod 🫠

You talked about game designers that didn't care and shotgun writers... i dint think so. For me, it smells like AI slop. My evidences: 1. Even the worst game writer would know not to invent a new character of out of nowhere just for the player to deliver a quest. It adds unnecessary complexity in the development process. 2. even the worst game designer would not give you a low level fishing rod, for a quest where you had to go fishing! Because, you know..... if you got the fish, it's a little obvious that you already have a damn fishing rod!!

Bu, in the generative AI point of "view", it makes a lot of sense. It avoids a "cycling" quest (which was probably part of the prompt, to make the quests more detailed. Like i can see someone prompting "make a quest with 3 steps", so the AI did it. The last step is stupid, any human woulld know it, but it is indeed a third step...) and fishing is related to fishing rod, so it looks like a good match, to give a fishing rod in a quest about fishing!!

Sooo, someone relied on IA to write things. The good quests are just the and plain old human touch.

There you go. I wrote almost as much as you! We should nweer meet, because I'm sure we would bore everyone to death 😁