Here’s a quick list of recently released and upcoming games developed/published by them:
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Exploding Kittens VR
- A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
- MudRunner VR
- Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered
- RoadCraft
- World War Z VR
- The Knightling
- Docked
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando
- Bus Bound
- Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival
- Road Kings
- Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered
- Jurassic Park Survival
- Rails of Fury: Train Defence
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake
- Untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender title
- Turok: Origins
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3
- Rideshare “Stimulator”
- Stuntman: Hollywood
- Untitled John Wick title
For the full list: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saber_Interactive_games
This fucking company making headlines just reminded me of how big a pile of shit The Knightling is. It is almost a game that is playable. It fools you into thinking it may be fun to play until the play time elapses well past the demo zone and your chances to refund it are gone. Then the nonsense starts to become apparent. The intuitive direction just dissappears. The goals evaporate along with any sense of progression or direction. The peaks of difficulty and the valleys of guidance make for a game that completely unravels by the third act.
I have patience for a crappy game. Back in the Blockbuster days gambling your weekend on a random game off the shelf was half the fun. You’d roll the dice and have 2 days to find some fun in what could be a real stinker. The knightling holds any appeal for less time than a Blockbuster rental period. I am having trouble finding the correct words to say that it very quickly turns from a low budget adventure game to a huge fucking mess. The bar was low and they still walked under it on their tip toes with their hands in the air.
Seeing this studio pop up in the news for being shitty just reminded me of a game I would have been very happy to have forgotten about. Even well outside the guidelines for a return I will make an attempt to do exactly that.
Karch also stated that he didn’t know who Sacco was until he consulted an AI chatbot, but nevertheless claimed that she was replaced by “someone more talented” and that he would retrospectively be “happy to replace her with AI” because AI is “programmed to be honest.”
Here’s Karch’s full statement:
"Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her. We have already said we are using AI for certain parts of the game and will update the Steam page once we have finalized the feature set.
Tbh that sounds totally like a rant by someone caught in the act…
" because AI is “programmed to be honest.”
HAHAhA no. LLMs are programmed to give you the most likely answer according to their training data, not necessarily the truth. For an example look at how much Grok has been lobotomized to fit his daddy’s warped sense of reality.
Stella who? I had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her.
Man, these people have lost their fucking marbles…
Yeah, this quote confirms that the CEO has become AI-obsessed and therefore probably did replace the writer with AI, just like the writer claimed.
Also, it is always so weird to me when people admit that they used AI to do something that they definitely should’ve been able to do without AI. “I had to ask Claude who this employee was” is not a dunk on the employee! You’re just admitting that you don’t even know how to search for a name in your own HR system! Like you’re an incapable moron or something!
“I don’t know who you are” is a common insult from pathological narcissists, which I guess is what he was trying to convey.
To a narcissist, being unknown or forgotten is the worst possible insult
