This has all the hallmarks of an NFT game. The nonsense colors, weird designs etc. If it is coming to all those platforms, it likely started development as that type of game. And if it's NOT coming to those platforms, they used the TGA to prime a bunch of people to try to buy NFTs. Or yeah, it's an AI stunt.
That strange "catly fashion collection" smells very strongly of NFTs. It's weird that it's on steam, because the last time I checked they don't allow NFT games.
@@ShadowEclipex well my point is more that it could have been an NFT game that has pivoted to being mobile slop (Apple Watch??), or it was just a clever marketing ploy to become an NFT game after some time (and won't be coming to Steam et al.)
I worked in an animal shelter for over ten years. I have seen a lot of cats. These are the most alien looking, horrifically deranged cats I have ever seen.
ive been a cat owner for most of my life, and this is such an uncanny thing, whoever who made it has the most surface level experience with them or less
@@Eltron92 I imagine they had to cut them down to the parts that didn't generate weirdly. Run any AI video to long and it just starts to devolve into madness.
Yeah, the editing of the trailer made it look AI generated to me as well - That 'lots of quick cuts' which is a necessity with where AI video generation is these days apparently, since if you let it run too long it apparently gets freaky looking, the way the fur is rendered also looks... Off... to me - Which might just be me not liking the art style. As do the eyes but that might be that hyperrealism often looks off to me in ways that make eyes look fundamentally wrong.
@@TimelessTimothy He kept deleting the trailer/first cinematic for Concord but he ended up up making like 5 videos on it and he kept needing to download it again
@@TimelessTimothy Concord. Every time Arlo would delete the Concord Trailer off his PC, assuming because he thought he was done talking about it, something crazy news would happen with the game. Requiring him to download the trailer again so he could make a video covering the news on it.
Sora AI released publicly on December 9th. The only possible way this was generated using Sora AI is that this random Indie studio had inside access to Sora AI. Its literally impossible for them to have made this trailer using Sora AI in time for the take awards which happened last week. Again, unless it was generated by an insider who already had access to it before it released publicly. Don't get me wrong. AI may have very well been HEAVILY involved. But the trailer cannot be an AI generated video unless someone had access to Sora AI early, or this is a custom AI engine. More likely this trailer was animated normally and the designs were made in AI.
@@JaidynReiman true, though it’s also possible it was made with other realistic video generators, since iirc tencent came out with one a while before sora (which if that the case would be even worse given all the stuff tencent’s done in the past)
While watching I knew it looked weird but I thought there was no way the Game Awards would let some AI generated trite onto their show but I guess I was wrong.
And at the same event where we're trying to bring awareness to declining employment rates at game studios, no less. I'm just so caught up on that in a sense I'm having trouble comprehending. Awful. TGS doesn't care about games or the industry as much as they'd like you to think.
I looked at the fingers in all the two poses where you can see fingers and the only one that looks close to weird is where it's blurry but it's definitely the right amount of fingers.
As an artist who dabbled in 3D animation, the trailer is AI. full stop, Too floaty, the fur is inconsistent, giving the idea that the model changes its fur amount every single screenshot, the environment is really weird and dreamy... Its AI, don't know about the ChatGTP text if they made the texts using chatGPT (although i really think they did) The trailer was AI. It was AI
Try to look at the individual fur kinda sliding through the "model" it is really inconsitstent... the creators are all NFT bros and last thing, Last thing, AI kinda tried to recreate minecraft, kinda like AI "Animation" you can play... im CONFIDENT they saw potentiall in an AI game with AI minecraft and want a piece of the pie (I love minecraft arlo, please do not think FOR A SECOND this AI game is official, it is not... although look it up, it will be a very hard watch)
I don't think so. The cat designs in the trailer are way too consistent to be AI, and current AI video struggles to make consistent scenes going on for so long.
The weirdest thing for me is the money. As said the going rate on game award trailers (during the main show rather than the pre show too) is insane, while also seeming to get these high profile content creators and voice actors to promote it.... for an MMO on an apple watch?? That's like the worst genre to pick lmao??? For a trailer that looks abysmal, has text that makes no sense, with no gameplay in sight? This reeks of a scam, but I can't see them making a profit? Maybe my faith in humanity is too high lol
Prediction: This whole thing was an elaborate ad for an AI program. Every single thing from the name to the description to the trailer to the website, was all created by AI. Some tech company is going to come out and say "Gotcha! We did all this to show what can be done with AI and soon you too can be part of the creation of the first ever fully AI generated game (if you invest a bunch of money in crypto). Oh and also the "game" is just NFT collecting or something."
Also, if you can't tell, it looks like the website was hastily put together with a shop template from either squarespace or shopify. That's why it's so basic. They just filled the space with random AI pictures because they have no products for a shop page.
Would a tech company really pay Geoff Keighly 100k just to showcase this sort of gotcha ad? They could do the exact same thing while just throwing out a trailer on TH-cam.
@Ar021 I agree there's a lot of garbage to wade through on the eShop, but that's more so due to the lack of a ratings system than anything else. There are good games on there that are not published by Nintendo, they're just hard to find using the shop itself
That's my prediction. There are too many things that wouldn't add up if it was a regular scam. Nobody names a company something as stupidly obvious as "SuperAuthenti" if they're legitimately trying to trick people. Something else is going on here.
"Hyperealism. Actions. Cuddles. Speed. Islands. Fashion. Dreams. Snow. Rabbits. Plants." in the middle of the quick description reads like SEO padding via a strategy I'm not even sure still works.
Is anybody else a little freaked out by that cat with the “special eyes?” I’ve never seen a more unnerving fictional cat since espurr. And Espurr is really adorable, i love it. I don’t love this. This is like Pet Sematary ala Color Out of Space.
I'm not as disappointed in this getting into TGA as all the celebrities that took a bag to promote it. I mean, I don't expect anything from Ninja, but Felicia Day was a bummer. I just heard Ben Brode gave it praise after he allegedly saw 20 miniutes of gameplay behind closed doors. He at leats said "If I was played, I was played," but he still comes off as naive about the whole AI/crypto/blockchain aspect of the whole thing. If you do any amount of digging into the people behind Catly - which is getting harder to do as they scrub the internet of all record - it's obviously a crypto rugpull waiting to happen.
In the off chance this game turns out to be actually real, this has to be either A: the worst advertised game of all time, or B: some sort of surreal avant-garde ARG we've yet to uncover
As a long-time sucker for ARGs, this would be amazing and be the highlight of my year.... unfortunately, there's no way we're that lucky, and this is just some crypto rugpool.
Considering the main guy behind the "game" is an NFT crypto bro, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a slapped together NFT play to earn game and the game play is just a slot machine where you win AI generated pictures of cats.
So we're just gonna ignore that Geoff Keighley allowed this on his show? Are we just gonna continue to pretend he's not a massive snake who has a history of sleezy shit and this is yet another example of it?
Geoff Keighley wants hsi own version of the oscars, and is basically trying to appeal to the fame of movies to seem more popular. he's NOT a good person to run game awards, but he's what we have. this also means that he has no idea how to deal with issues that are uneque to games. such as high profile scam games.he's not a snake. he's a dog that's trying to apply dog logic to cats.
I can buy Geoff and a handful of executives getting fooled into believing that this game is real. Though I do hope they acknowledge what a fumble this was.
Opened TH-cam and immediately the 2 visible videos on home were wasabi talking about this game's creator saying "there's no AI" and then this video right under
*Supposedly* the director of this game says there's no AI, NFTS or Blockchain, and Ben Brode says what he saw was legitimately cool, but I highly doubt all of it.
The Ben comment is weird. He's not the sell out type. That said, outside Marvel Snap I haven't heard any news since leaving Blizzard. A lot can change in 6 years.
@@LivvieLynn Having defence at all is weird. Infact, what I find wild is apparently a small group of people were able to see this "game" behind a curtain or whatever. It almost felt like the director knew this response was gonna happen so they prepared these few people just say "nuh-uh i was there, bro. it's totally a real game". Yet there's nothing for the public to really see so we can only take them for their word. Personally I think it's backfired because I think it sounds even more like a scam.
I've seen people suspect an ARG. I think it's here as sort of a decoy, a punching bag that looks super suspicious to draw attention. Then, once enough suspicion has coalesced, the entire thing will be killed by like the Doom Slayer or Persona 6 or something. This is step one of a two-part genius advertising campaign, and I can't wait to see where it goes.
Honestly I'm kinda in a "Poe's Law" situation where I have to wonder if this is all an op by someone with the express purpose of just further showing how damn embarrassing the Game Awards is that they'll show a trailer for a game that literally doesn't even exist and was faked together with AI slop One could argue that making a Steam page, a website, and presumably paying a fat bag to have the trailer shown in the first place seems like a disproportionate amount of effort for something like this, but I reckon it's no issue for someone who somehow has a lot of time, disposable income, and _plenty_ of spite towards someone else Of course, big problem with this theory is if it really was an op to showcase what a joke Jeff Keighley's Circus is...I feel like the individual behind it would've come out by now and said as much?
Doing it now, instead of waiting for next year's Awards, for maximum "gotcha" visibility? If I had the money to pull this off as a prank (which, at best, it IS), that's when I'd reveal it.
It's most definitely occam's razor (most obvious answer is correct) and an ai rugpool scam. But if we lived in a perfect world. This would be the start to an Alabrete ARG made by hideo kojima or some other AAA creative centered around the dystopian hellsacepe that is AI art.
Shovelware is far from anything new, if anything it just makes the actually passionate products look even better by comparison. One look at the Switch eshop says it all.
Arlo uploads WAY more consistently here than his main it's also just nice to hear his voice he's a professional Yapper for sure can literally talk about anything and turn it into a video 😂
Someone with way too much disposable income saw the kid who got on stage during Elden Ring's acceptance speech and thought "well, I won't make it on stage, but..."
I’m reminded of some lyrics from a song by Django Django that sum up my feelings on this perfectly: “We threw it in the fire; it’s better that it not be made”
@@drawgam2946 Some more info has been dug up recently that makes this game have a 90% chance to be a scam. The makers of this game have previously tried to release several NFT games and now that there are so many eyes on them after Catly, the company stated that they have neither used AI or ever had any connection to NFT games. And they have begun erasing any info on their previous NFT game attempts off the internet.
Isn't kinda sad yet hilarious how every single year a brand new controversy for Geoff Keighley happens at the game awards? In 2022 it was the bill clinton kid, in 2023 it was the "please wrap it up "debacle and now this year it's showing off an AI slop game that most likely isn't even a real game 😭
I guess I passed this off as simply a pre-rendered cut scene only type thing and didn't think much of it. But this is a fascinating take. I think I might actually pay attention to this to see where it winds up.
I was a member of Felicia Day's Discord server for several years, and I left because of her endorsement of this garbage. I should have bailed when she started slinging crypto, but at the time I thought maybe she's just naive. Now I'm concerned that she's a grifter.
The people they claim to be quoting are real but there's no evidence that I can find other than those quotes that they have anything to do with this. EDIT: There's an IGN article on the matter. Apparently the Hearthstone creator Ben Brode did in fact say that and took to Bluesky to confirm it. These other quotes are probably legit. Thomas Vu is a producer who's worked on videogames before so he may have a financial stake in this. Vu and Super Authenti co-founder Kevin Yeung both have a history with web3 and blockchain as well. They are also hard to google on account of the fact they both share a name with someone more famous. Akira Senju is a well known composer, and given that the other two quotes seem legit, I have no reason doubt he's making the music for this thing.
another weird thing is they call the Apple Watch "i-Watch" in every single one of their pages, which is the kind of mistake that could only be made by someone who doesn't know a single thing about making an Apple Watch game.
I swear, when I first saw this trailer, I was all, "Is it just me, or was this made with AI?" All of the models looked _off_ to the point I was wondering if the Game Awards was gaslighting us or something.
An AI has become self aware and has decided to make a video game. It's like that X Files episode, but instead of a super powered laser in a satellite, the AI has game design programs.
The controversy here doesn't need to be that someone is making another AI scam. The controversy is that people are HELPING the scam, and it got into the game awards. I don't care if it's real or not, I care that it got onto the main stage of a (supposedly) high profile event.
Less than 20 seconds in an I'm already saying "wtf" at the supposed "fur" on that cat. It looks like the scraggly strings of hairy pillowcases more than fur. The hair of cats are quite fine and normally ends with a pointy-bit like human hair, but if you look closely (which I admit is hard to do since the blur is all over the place) each strand is a consistent thickness with it being chopped off at the end.
This reminds me of when Geoff Keighley hyped up DokiV like 3 years ago then look what happened with that game... nothing it just died. This is that same thing at least it didn't have geoff keighley saying, "We have a very special announcement... Have a look at this!" then it's this AI Cat slop.
There is two good endings to this: 1. It is actually a hyper abstract satirical attack on the ethics of these large companies using AI. 2. It’s real and the company loses ALOT of money on this game.
The entire time watching it at the TGA i couldn't put my finger on it as to way it felt to uncanny to me it just felt weird to look at so but now i know why
It seems 100% AI to me from the video, images, website and description. I think 1% human interaction went into making this and that was them typing "make me a trailer and website for a cat game"
With all those quotes, they keep gassing this "product" up, yet without specifying a *single* thing about it. No gameplay, no characters; not anything of the sort. Those are almost certainly fake.
It’s as if someone snorted a fat line straight into the frontal lobe down to the last piece of the spine, but with catnip marinated in LSD instead of Colombian 'Christmas snow'!
Before going to this, I read an article about an interview with the dude who owns the company. He basically played coy and said “hmph, I am surprised anyone even thought it was ai or nfts!” And denies any connections to them. I just took it at face value and moved on. Now seeing the deep dive… holy moly this game isn’t real Oh also, the dev calls it an “MMO” yet that isn’t even mentioned in this description 😂
They really named their company “SuperAuthenti”
That’s basically like naming it “TotesReal”
lmao 😂😂
damn right
Wait. Then this might be something genius. Like the whole thing will be destroyed as an advertisement for Persona 6 or something.
What? Elaborate please lmaoo@@Cool-Vest
"I have a girlfriend, she just dousn't go to this school"
@@Cool-Vest SILKSONG1!111!1!11!!
the best part is that the company making this game is called "SuperAuthenti" 💀they aren't even tryna be sneaky
Ah yes, my favorite company:
SA
this is like an evil ceo in a cartoon naming their company "GoodIncorporated"
Surely ending a product's name with "ly" will work _THIS_ time.
Concordly
@@Charnutboyaudibly laughed at this
@@anonymousspectator9460
Wait... say that again.
Referring to what? I must be out of the loop
@forregom that again
This has all the hallmarks of an NFT game. The nonsense colors, weird designs etc. If it is coming to all those platforms, it likely started development as that type of game. And if it's NOT coming to those platforms, they used the TGA to prime a bunch of people to try to buy NFTs. Or yeah, it's an AI stunt.
All the devs linkedins are scrubbed of everything except "worked in finance". it's 100% crypto shit
That strange "catly fashion collection" smells very strongly of NFTs. It's weird that it's on steam, because the last time I checked they don't allow NFT games.
Don't give them ideas
Luckily NFT games are banned from Steam, so we don't have to worry about that too much. At the very least if it is an NFT game it will be removed.
@@ShadowEclipex well my point is more that it could have been an NFT game that has pivoted to being mobile slop (Apple Watch??), or it was just a clever marketing ploy to become an NFT game after some time (and won't be coming to Steam et al.)
I worked in an animal shelter for over ten years. I have seen a lot of cats. These are the most alien looking, horrifically deranged cats I have ever seen.
you don't have to work at an animal shelter to see how awful these cats are
@@rainbootzzI wouldn't say it looks bad, but it sure does look AI generated.
Ok well I'll say it. It looks bad.
i think i see the disconnect!
the cats at your shelter were real, these cats are (assumedly) fictitious video game characters.
hope this helps!
ive been a cat owner for most of my life, and this is such an uncanny thing, whoever who made it has the most surface level experience with them or less
The fact that no clip in the trailer was particularly long-it always cut right to the next one-made me think it was AI right off the bat.
Yeah they made longer videos and stitched the best few second clips
@@Eltron92 I imagine they had to cut them down to the parts that didn't generate weirdly. Run any AI video to long and it just starts to devolve into madness.
yeah but with what tech? AI video is way too recent for that stuff.
To be fair the scenes of the cats jumping around seem to be legitimately animated, however it's a very short so it wouldn't cost too much to animate
Yeah, the editing of the trailer made it look AI generated to me as well - That 'lots of quick cuts' which is a necessity with where AI video generation is these days apparently, since if you let it run too long it apparently gets freaky looking, the way the fur is rendered also looks... Off... to me - Which might just be me not liking the art style. As do the eyes but that might be that hyperrealism often looks off to me in ways that make eyes look fundamentally wrong.
Keep the trailer saved this time, Arlo.
lmaoo
This is a HILARIOISUSDGNB
Wait, what's the context on this? 😅
@@TimelessTimothy He kept deleting the trailer/first cinematic for Concord but he ended up up making like 5 videos on it and he kept needing to download it again
@@TimelessTimothy Concord. Every time Arlo would delete the Concord Trailer off his PC, assuming because he thought he was done talking about it, something crazy news would happen with the game. Requiring him to download the trailer again so he could make a video covering the news on it.
The steam description reads like it’s just the prompt they used for the AI to “make” the trailer, especially since the sora AI just became public
Seriously, it's too weird of a description to even be *generated* by AI
I agree. It 100% looks like a prompt that you'd give to an AI image or video generator.
That is actually probably true. Because the trailer keeps cutting like it's piece together from multiple different short AI generated videos.
Sora AI released publicly on December 9th. The only possible way this was generated using Sora AI is that this random Indie studio had inside access to Sora AI.
Its literally impossible for them to have made this trailer using Sora AI in time for the take awards which happened last week. Again, unless it was generated by an insider who already had access to it before it released publicly.
Don't get me wrong. AI may have very well been HEAVILY involved. But the trailer cannot be an AI generated video unless someone had access to Sora AI early, or this is a custom AI engine.
More likely this trailer was animated normally and the designs were made in AI.
@@JaidynReiman true, though it’s also possible it was made with other realistic video generators, since iirc tencent came out with one a while before sora (which if that the case would be even worse given all the stuff tencent’s done in the past)
While watching I knew it looked weird but I thought there was no way the Game Awards would let some AI generated trite onto their show but I guess I was wrong.
They allowed a DLC in as a full game. The bar’s pretty low.
The bar no longer even exists anymore
The real question is if it will sell more than Concord.
And at the same event where we're trying to bring awareness to declining employment rates at game studios, no less. I'm just so caught up on that in a sense I'm having trouble comprehending. Awful. TGS doesn't care about games or the industry as much as they'd like you to think.
I thought it looked like AI but I assumed the same
The clothing stuff makes me think this "game" only exists to sell NFTs
Probably unfortunately
Definitely maybe
People still care about NFTs?
@@Ar021 People suffering from major sunk cost fallacy
The girl in the trailer in one pose has 6 fingers... so yeah... this might just be AI
Ugh yeah it’s really obvious when you zoom in on it.
I looked at the fingers in all the two poses where you can see fingers and the only one that looks close to weird is where it's blurry but it's definitely the right amount of fingers.
2:18 the hand on the hip has a finger that is practically split in twain
@@bro-dude99 When I zoomed in I think it's just a shadow.
no. nope. nothing is wrong there, you're seeing lighting and the thumb behind the other fingers. @bro-dude99
As an artist who dabbled in 3D animation, the trailer is AI. full stop, Too floaty, the fur is inconsistent, giving the idea that the model changes its fur amount every single screenshot, the environment is really weird and dreamy... Its AI, don't know about the ChatGTP text if they made the texts using chatGPT (although i really think they did) The trailer was AI. It was AI
Try to look at the individual fur kinda sliding through the "model" it is really inconsitstent... the creators are all NFT bros and last thing, Last thing, AI kinda tried to recreate minecraft, kinda like AI "Animation" you can play... im CONFIDENT they saw potentiall in an AI game with AI minecraft and want a piece of the pie (I love minecraft arlo, please do not think FOR A SECOND this AI game is official, it is not... although look it up, it will be a very hard watch)
Yeah, I believe it, just seeing how the "main" cat never looks the same between different shots
I don't think so. The cat designs in the trailer are way too consistent to be AI, and current AI video struggles to make consistent scenes going on for so long.
It can't be ChatGPT unless they are insiders or some sort of highly funded tech company. SORA came out for public use less than 2 weeks ago
@@famouskoifishIt could be the designs are AI but the trailer isn't.
It’s even funnier that their response to the accusation was almost literally ‘dude trust me’
As the old meme goes "Ma, there's a weird f-ing stray cat outside and it looks- it looks like grandma the f-ing thing!"
"I DON'T WAN IT STARTIN A FIGHT WITH LUCY!" (gestures to Stray)
Some say it's Artificial Intelligence, I say it's Genuine Stupidity.
Authentic Idiocy
this game is what happens when you combine both
@@NinjaRabbit29 Those are the exact words I came to respond with! 😂
This is gold
"a canvas of stories, painted in fur" is not an advertisement, it's a threat
The weirdest thing for me is the money. As said the going rate on game award trailers (during the main show rather than the pre show too) is insane, while also seeming to get these high profile content creators and voice actors to promote it.... for an MMO on an apple watch?? That's like the worst genre to pick lmao??? For a trailer that looks abysmal, has text that makes no sense, with no gameplay in sight? This reeks of a scam, but I can't see them making a profit? Maybe my faith in humanity is too high lol
Maybe they paid for this trailer with AI Generated Money
Well it's made by cryptobros. Money sense it's basically mutually exclusive
We got an AI generated cat game scam before Silksong 💀
Silk song isn’t real I’m convinced atp
Catly is an ARG for Silksong.
That hurts my soul
Guys silksomg came out 6 months ago, I just beat the calcified Centipede yesterday using the waywarder compass charm.
We got an AI generated cat game scam before Half-Life 3 💀
Prediction: This whole thing was an elaborate ad for an AI program. Every single thing from the name to the description to the trailer to the website, was all created by AI. Some tech company is going to come out and say "Gotcha! We did all this to show what can be done with AI and soon you too can be part of the creation of the first ever fully AI generated game (if you invest a bunch of money in crypto). Oh and also the "game" is just NFT collecting or something."
Also, if you can't tell, it looks like the website was hastily put together with a shop template from either squarespace or shopify. That's why it's so basic. They just filled the space with random AI pictures because they have no products for a shop page.
ooof
That is a great theory
Would a tech company really pay Geoff Keighly 100k just to showcase this sort of gotcha ad? They could do the exact same thing while just throwing out a trailer on TH-cam.
@@raze2012_ But we wouldn't be talking about it right now if it wasn't at the show...
@julioagua arlo might not, but there's plenty of channels trying to talk about weird and possibly fake games.
It said one of the platforms it was coming to was Apple Watch. There’s no way this ain’t ai generated
Not only that, but on the Steam update page, they call it the iWatch. Definitely A.I. slop.
“I feel like an AI would do a better job” is such a savage insult like calm down
2 possibilities
- NFT Game
- Secretly Frog Fraction 3
Good to know the AI bros are taking over video games now too, and here I thought the images generated for the switch eShop shovelware was bad enough
The Switch eShop and AI slop is a match made in heaven
@Ar021 I agree there's a lot of garbage to wade through on the eShop, but that's more so due to the lack of a ratings system than anything else. There are good games on there that are not published by Nintendo, they're just hard to find using the shop itself
Best case scenario, this turns out to be a bizarre ARG teaser for an actual game announcement down the line, like a horror game or something
That's my prediction. There are too many things that wouldn't add up if it was a regular scam. Nobody names a company something as stupidly obvious as "SuperAuthenti" if they're legitimately trying to trick people. Something else is going on here.
@Cool-Vest or there so pretentious and narcissistic they genuinely belive there fooling people
You know what, whatever it is... it is bug-ass ugly. And I will not be touching it with a ten-foot barge pole.
Don’t you DARE compare that game to bugs!
Bugs are too good for this…
@@snapslingpeavine1371 I don't know. If I had to be covered in bugs or AI, I would never choose bugs.
"Hyperealism. Actions. Cuddles. Speed. Islands. Fashion. Dreams. Snow. Rabbits. Plants." in the middle of the quick description reads like SEO padding via a strategy I'm not even sure still works.
I watched the game awards while being very sleep deprived and I thought I hallucinated that trailer to be honest
If I want to play a cat game, I'll just replay Stray
This is the same event where we were trying to be sympathetic to and spread awareness about declining employment rates at game studios btw
5:27 The Doki Doki Literature poem minigame be like
literally XD
It's real alright. Real stupid 😂
Is anybody else a little freaked out by that cat with the “special eyes?” I’ve never seen a more unnerving fictional cat since espurr. And Espurr is really adorable, i love it. I don’t love this. This is like Pet Sematary ala Color Out of Space.
If this is a real, non-scam game, I'll buy Silksong for 20 people
I will take you up on that
Very brave of you to offer.
I'm not as disappointed in this getting into TGA as all the celebrities that took a bag to promote it. I mean, I don't expect anything from Ninja, but Felicia Day was a bummer. I just heard Ben Brode gave it praise after he allegedly saw 20 miniutes of gameplay behind closed doors. He at leats said "If I was played, I was played," but he still comes off as naive about the whole AI/crypto/blockchain aspect of the whole thing. If you do any amount of digging into the people behind Catly - which is getting harder to do as they scrub the internet of all record - it's obviously a crypto rugpull waiting to happen.
That press release on the Steam page is clearly the AI prompt they used to make the trailer.
That new VR game "I am cat" looks better than this in every possible way. You can play a cat but then decide to rob a convenience store? Amazing.
In the off chance this game turns out to be actually real, this has to be either A: the worst advertised game of all time, or B: some sort of surreal avant-garde ARG we've yet to uncover
As a long-time sucker for ARGs, this would be amazing and be the highlight of my year.... unfortunately, there's no way we're that lucky, and this is just some crypto rugpool.
Also in the news post it calls the Apple Watch the iWatch! That's not what it's called! What are you doing!
Considering the main guy behind the "game" is an NFT crypto bro, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a slapped together NFT play to earn game and the game play is just a slot machine where you win AI generated pictures of cats.
So we're just gonna ignore that Geoff Keighley allowed this on his show?
Are we just gonna continue to pretend he's not a massive snake who has a history of sleezy shit and this is yet another example of it?
Geoff Keighley wants hsi own version of the oscars, and is basically trying to appeal to the fame of movies to seem more popular. he's NOT a good person to run game awards, but he's what we have. this also means that he has no idea how to deal with issues that are uneque to games. such as high profile scam games.he's not a snake. he's a dog that's trying to apply dog logic to cats.
It was the best game awards in a long time. Geoff Keighley did a good job.
@@drawgam2946 Ok bot
I can buy Geoff and a handful of executives getting fooled into believing that this game is real. Though I do hope they acknowledge what a fumble this was.
Opened TH-cam and immediately the 2 visible videos on home were wasabi talking about this game's creator saying "there's no AI" and then this video right under
they were caught hiding replies on twitter mentioning AI. can check right now on their initial release post. super fishy
Exact same layout lol 🤣
*Supposedly* the director of this game says there's no AI, NFTS or Blockchain, and Ben Brode says what he saw was legitimately cool, but I highly doubt all of it.
ARG
The Ben comment is weird. He's not the sell out type. That said, outside Marvel Snap I haven't heard any news since leaving Blizzard. A lot can change in 6 years.
@@LivvieLynn Having defence at all is weird. Infact, what I find wild is apparently a small group of people were able to see this "game" behind a curtain or whatever. It almost felt like the director knew this response was gonna happen so they prepared these few people just say "nuh-uh i was there, bro. it's totally a real game". Yet there's nothing for the public to really see so we can only take them for their word. Personally I think it's backfired because I think it sounds even more like a scam.
What if it's a fakeout for a game that's criticizing ai slop, but trying to play it straight, and the devs who saw it were let into the loop
God, imagine if it was only a trailer and ends up a 2d game.
social experiment
I hope at this point
I've seen people suspect an ARG.
I think it's here as sort of a decoy, a punching bag that looks super suspicious to draw attention. Then, once enough suspicion has coalesced, the entire thing will be killed by like the Doom Slayer or Persona 6 or something. This is step one of a two-part genius advertising campaign, and I can't wait to see where it goes.
If this is an experiment, then I really really need it to fail. This can not be the standard for future games. We need real humans making real games
I didn't watch The Game Awards, but as soon as I saw the first footage of this game I was screaming "AI!" There is no doubt about it
I'm sorry, I should not have called this a game. I will repent and do better in the future
Honestly I'm kinda in a "Poe's Law" situation where I have to wonder if this is all an op by someone with the express purpose of just further showing how damn embarrassing the Game Awards is that they'll show a trailer for a game that literally doesn't even exist and was faked together with AI slop
One could argue that making a Steam page, a website, and presumably paying a fat bag to have the trailer shown in the first place seems like a disproportionate amount of effort for something like this, but I reckon it's no issue for someone who somehow has a lot of time, disposable income, and _plenty_ of spite towards someone else
Of course, big problem with this theory is if it really was an op to showcase what a joke Jeff Keighley's Circus is...I feel like the individual behind it would've come out by now and said as much?
Doing it now, instead of waiting for next year's Awards, for maximum "gotcha" visibility? If I had the money to pull this off as a prank (which, at best, it IS), that's when I'd reveal it.
Plot twist: it's a teaser for a new Hideo Kojima game.
It's most definitely occam's razor (most obvious answer is correct) and an ai rugpool scam.
But if we lived in a perfect world. This would be the start to an Alabrete ARG made by hideo kojima or some other AAA creative centered around the dystopian hellsacepe that is AI art.
All those images that show up at the end of the trailer HAVE to be made with AI. There's no way.
The background song you used feels oddly perfect for this video.
If this is truly AI, I am like very worried for the future if people keep churning out AI slop and calling it video games
Second video game crash incoming: Market flooded with low quality AI content.
@@see.eye.2361 I feel like there's already enough shovelware that it's unlikely that new AI shovelware will make a large difference
Sadly it's already happening, just look at the Switch eShop these days :(
The bigger question is whether people will buy any of it.
Shovelware is far from anything new, if anything it just makes the actually passionate products look even better by comparison. One look at the Switch eshop says it all.
11:00 ben brode left the hearthstone team years ago
This whole situation is really summed up with the quote "Why would I care to consume something you didn't care to create?"
I prefer this channel over your main one at this point.
Arlo uploads WAY more consistently here than his main it's also just nice to hear his voice he's a professional Yapper for sure can literally talk about anything and turn it into a video 😂
This basically is the main channel now.
Someone with way too much disposable income saw the kid who got on stage during Elden Ring's acceptance speech and thought "well, I won't make it on stage, but..."
I’m reminded of some lyrics from a song by Django Django that sum up my feelings on this perfectly:
“We threw it in the fire; it’s better that it not be made”
it takes a special kind of awful to make cats of all things unappealing
It feels like this entire thing was created by AI or something. Not just the trailer itself. No, EVERYTHING
The guy who is at the head of this game's creation is a crypto-bro. Fishy? It's smelling like a Whale Fall here!
My pedantic side feels the need to point out that whales aren’t fish 😅
I’m with you on your comment‘s spirit though 👍
What does that mean? He has his own coin or is he invested and talks about it?
@@smintili Except you can't evolve out of a clade
@@smintiliwhale falls attract hundreds of fish, among other things
@@drawgam2946 Some more info has been dug up recently that makes this game have a 90% chance to be a scam. The makers of this game have previously tried to release several NFT games and now that there are so many eyes on them after Catly, the company stated that they have neither used AI or ever had any connection to NFT games. And they have begun erasing any info on their previous NFT game attempts off the internet.
My friend excitedly showed me this trailer after we both finished watching game awards. I knew it was AI immediately lol
Out of all the games?
excitedly???
finished?????
Demon King?????
secret stone???
Isn't kinda sad yet hilarious how every single year a brand new controversy for Geoff Keighley happens at the game awards? In 2022 it was the bill clinton kid, in 2023 it was the "please wrap it up "debacle and now this year it's showing off an AI slop game that most likely isn't even a real game 😭
Something strange happens at every game awards😭
2022 was Bill Clinton kid,
2023 was developers at their acceptance speeches being told to ‘Please wrap it up’
2024’s is this slop
I hate that the Switch Eshop has just become the place for people to dump their trash.
I think we’ve found ourselves in another “The Day Before” situation
didnt watch the game awards, but wow this looks... bad. wow. you can instantly see that its AI in the first second of this video.
Watching TGA I remember thinking it looked like a toilet paper commercial. Cats about to wipe its ass on some Charmin
I guess I passed this off as simply a pre-rendered cut scene only type thing and didn't think much of it. But this is a fascinating take. I think I might actually pay attention to this to see where it winds up.
We all thought Concord was real too
It was real, even if very briefly, unlike this.
Not fair to compare Concord to this lol.
Bad =/= fake. Just look at 95% of licensed games.
That's insulting to concord, which was at least made by people with some vision, even if there wasn't much
I was a member of Felicia Day's Discord server for several years, and I left because of her endorsement of this garbage. I should have bailed when she started slinging crypto, but at the time I thought maybe she's just naive. Now I'm concerned that she's a grifter.
I think you're being too harsh here, Arlo. You should give the spiritual successor to Concord a second chance!
"You gotta be kitten me!" 🙀
me- outch
The people they claim to be quoting are real but there's no evidence that I can find other than those quotes that they have anything to do with this.
EDIT: There's an IGN article on the matter. Apparently the Hearthstone creator Ben Brode did in fact say that and took to Bluesky to confirm it. These other quotes are probably legit. Thomas Vu is a producer who's worked on videogames before so he may have a financial stake in this. Vu and Super Authenti co-founder Kevin Yeung both have a history with web3 and blockchain as well. They are also hard to google on account of the fact they both share a name with someone more famous. Akira Senju is a well known composer, and given that the other two quotes seem legit, I have no reason doubt he's making the music for this thing.
When you want to ride the coat tails of Stray but have no talent and want to put in as little effort as possible.
I showed the trailer to my wife and she said “these cats are evil and I don’t trust them.”
"SuperAuthenti" is an interesting name for a company that is allegedly making the least authentic product imaginable.
another weird thing is they call the Apple Watch "i-Watch" in every single one of their pages, which is the kind of mistake that could only be made by someone who doesn't know a single thing about making an Apple Watch game.
Or it's because they can't call it the Apple Watch because it's a parody or mockery. It's an elaborate joke.
@@HauntakuTVwhat makes it more confusing is they use the actual Apple Watch logo in the trailer itself so irdk
The fact that this was allowed to be shown at TGA is disgusting. Greed is awful
It's like if an AI used a bunch of other AIs to make a "brand".
I thought this game looked like some weird AI generated garbage but I was not prepared for how deep the rabbit hole would go
I was thinking that this was an weird Ai thing
I swear, when I first saw this trailer, I was all, "Is it just me, or was this made with AI?" All of the models looked _off_ to the point I was wondering if the Game Awards was gaslighting us or something.
An AI has become self aware and has decided to make a video game. It's like that X Files episode, but instead of a super powered laser in a satellite, the AI has game design programs.
I don't know why but the videos where arlo is just confused are the funniest things ever to me
and I'm here with him like huh?? 😭😭
my favorite part is when he's just done like he just doesn't even care anymore
This project completely REEKS of AI generated, NFT scamming, Crypto SLOP
and the stench is VILE.
This Stray DLC is lookin crazy
The controversy here doesn't need to be that someone is making another AI scam. The controversy is that people are HELPING the scam, and it got into the game awards. I don't care if it's real or not, I care that it got onto the main stage of a (supposedly) high profile event.
This feels like some kind of weird guerilla marketing.
Less than 20 seconds in an I'm already saying "wtf" at the supposed "fur" on that cat. It looks like the scraggly strings of hairy pillowcases more than fur. The hair of cats are quite fine and normally ends with a pointy-bit like human hair, but if you look closely (which I admit is hard to do since the blur is all over the place) each strand is a consistent thickness with it being chopped off at the end.
I don’t know if I’d call this stuff Ai. It’s more just A.
This reminds me of when Geoff Keighley hyped up DokiV like 3 years ago then look what happened with that game... nothing it just died. This is that same thing at least it didn't have geoff keighley saying, "We have a very special announcement... Have a look at this!" then it's this AI Cat slop.
You know I'm starting to think this whole thing might be a prank.
There is two good endings to this: 1. It is actually a hyper abstract satirical attack on the ethics of these large companies using AI. 2. It’s real and the company loses ALOT of money on this game.
The entire time watching it at the TGA i couldn't put my finger on it as to way it felt to uncanny to me it just felt weird to look at so but now i know why
I swear I had a dream that looked like this games trailer once. I don't recall it at all, but it feels like I have.
@Kane: I have a feeling you'll want to keep this trailer close on hand. So you don't have to redownload this horror as much as you did with Concord! 🤣
It seems 100% AI to me from the video, images, website and description. I think 1% human interaction went into making this and that was them typing "make me a trailer and website for a cat game"
The next Concord. I hope we get 70 TopicArlo videos about whatever this is
With all those quotes, they keep gassing this "product" up, yet without specifying a *single* thing about it. No gameplay, no characters; not anything of the sort. Those are almost certainly fake.
It’s beginning,, within the next few years I just know the gaming market will be flooded with bullshit like this.
It’s as if someone snorted a fat line straight into the frontal lobe down to the last piece of the spine, but with catnip marinated in LSD instead of Colombian 'Christmas snow'!
Forget the attempt to replace all human developers, identity theft, and revenge porn. THIS is the reason that AI needs to be permanently discontinued.
I feel like this is a Kojima publicity stunt to some how promote a future project and if it's not it's hilarious that this was my first guess
Before going to this, I read an article about an interview with the dude who owns the company. He basically played coy and said “hmph, I am surprised anyone even thought it was ai or nfts!” And denies any connections to them. I just took it at face value and moved on. Now seeing the deep dive… holy moly this game isn’t real
Oh also, the dev calls it an “MMO” yet that isn’t even mentioned in this description 😂