> video games won't need voice actors any more and way more fleshed out dialogue
I respectfully disagree. One only has to look at Mass Effect's voice acting for male and female Shepard. It's (almost) exactly the same dialog lines, both performed by humans, but Jennifer Hale just kills it. The voice alone made a lot of players think of Femshep as the canon (despite the male model being present in the box art and most PR media).
I do agree in that we might need less voice actors - but mostly for non-key NPCs. Humans will still play a role.
On that same note, it would not surprise me if non-key NPC's dialog was not written by a human any more, but by a machine. A human "writer" could be replaced by a "chatgpt prompt engineer". But again that will only apply to secondary NPCs.
I respectfully disagree. One only has to look at Mass Effect's voice acting for male and female Shepard. It's (almost) exactly the same dialog lines, both performed by humans, but Jennifer Hale just kills it. The voice alone made a lot of players think of Femshep as the canon (despite the male model being present in the box art and most PR media).
I do agree in that we might need less voice actors - but mostly for non-key NPCs. Humans will still play a role.
On that same note, it would not surprise me if non-key NPC's dialog was not written by a human any more, but by a machine. A human "writer" could be replaced by a "chatgpt prompt engineer". But again that will only apply to secondary NPCs.