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.
They have already made an announcement that the game itself doesn't contain AI generated content and given US advertising laws that has to be true. (Then again, sue the company it goes bankrupt not the person who owns it)
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.
Ummmmm.... It's only a High Priced advertising event really!! So they only had to pay the cost of entry and Boom!!! You get the advertisement shown on the main stage of an awards show!!
@@DOCDOCFLAMINGOS I think then the issue becomes questioning why TGA didn't do enough quality assurance if the barrier to entry was just paying money. What if someone paid advertising money and showed a Hitler or Nazi celebration video live on TGA?
Do people not understand that you just... pay money to have your trailer in the show? I'm genuinely confused when people are confused about stuff like this.
Reminder to folks who don't know any better... Don't buy it to investigate it. Don't line their pockets, please. Let it go bust. If you suspect a product to be immoral or a scam, understand you can talk about it and do some sleuthing without needing to be the one to pay the scammers.
This feels... Like an NFT project. Something about how vague it is, how it's paying its way into being noticed, how alien it feels when you try to make sense of it... It definitely has the DNA of NFTs in it. I can just feel it.
Also the 'fashion' focus where the only thing they want to say about the game is a bunch of GAN-made renders of impossible garments screams 'NFT' to me...
"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.
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.
AI can be a really useful tool, but I'm consistently astounded not only with what people define as "creating" but also with what they choose to "create."
My mom, who's the "cool" right of Boomer very grew up during the hippy era and loosely associated with them, she knew one dude who always complained that he never really dreamed and if he did it was those walking hotdogs etc. from Disney Cartoons. So he took LSD to experience the ultimate he could come up with - what did he experience? Disney style walking hotdogs and other condiments... He was so disappointed. 🌭
@@BobbyS84 I try to be optimistic, and I think it's a skill that can be developed. A lot of GAI users have just never thought of themselves as artists before.
"Run to the rescue with cats. Peace will follow" sounds like a live laugh love-esque saying you'd find hanging up in an airbnb or something or on a bumper sticker
@@llcdrdndgrbdI mean we could say the same about dogs. Dogs are known for causing chaos like chewing uo furniture, breaking things and eating whatever they can reach.
i just checked the steam page, and the third '''endorsement quote''' at the bottom is straight up gone. like it was never there. which tells me it's very likely these are in fact just made up quotes and that one of these three people heard about this and contacted the company or steam about this and they had to remove it. and these are big name people. this is a big deal, like legally speaking to add to this, Akira Senju, whose name is part of this, is currently doing work for a pavilion in japan, and has only ever worked on 4 video games in his whole career, the latest being triangle strategy in 2022, the others being all a decade before this, and the three latest being with square enix. there is nothing the artist has said himself about being involved with catly. so there's is like 99,9% chance this is very much fake
The other video games he did? Some fighting game in ‘96 and 2 Fullmetal Alchemist games that came out when he was composing for FMA: Brotherhood. So who knows if he actually composed for the games or if they just used the OST from the anime.
Maybe someone should reach out to them to see if they said anything about this game, and in the case of Thomas Vu, if he IS privy to it, ask if he's seen any more than we have to make such a bold statement.
Regardless of whether any of this is AI or not, stuff like the pupils on the cat-person at 18:15 being asymmetrical despite looking otherwise "professional" in terms of level of detail is an immediate red flag.
I don't know. Most people, and other animals, for that matter, are truly perfectly symmetrical. With the level of realism used here, it could easily be an individual trait. It could go either way. I'm saying that as a lifelong artist who's finishing school for game art and design. It's a tough call on this one, I personally feel. I do think this whole trailer/concept is super suspicious, though. There's a lot off with it, so I'm not denying the asymmetry isn't there.
@@ElysetheEeveeif it were a traditional drawing or painting, yeah. But it looks like it’s supposed to be 3D modelled, and if that were the case the pupils shouldn’t be asymmetrical unless the eyeballs were modelled and mapped differently - a mistake I don’t even think rookies do
When I saw that, I was convinced this isn't "not a game," but rather an "NFT" game. That's why everything is so vague, yet angled towards "fashion" and this hideously out of touch concept of success. They're probably just building a platform to trade worthless cat tokens they can pump and dump. God, I hope they get caught defrauding investors and this all blows up on them.
My guess is that there’s a “tamagotchi” aspect planned for Apple Watch (if this is in fact a game). For anyone too young to remember tamagotchi, it was a japanese “digital pet” craze that used a little device with a pet on it, you’d have to remember to feed and play with them. It sucked then because the tech was pretty basic. These days you could do a lot more, and somebody will be successful with that idea, eventually. Maybe I should start learning programming this very moment.
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.)
@@Sleepyhead080808its not even that, its genuinely the case; why would anybody actively care about a basic AI game if there was no love into creating it?
I'm actually a totally blind person, and even I am noticing that this sounds slap dashedly put together and not out of love. Surely, that's a huge, red, flag!
@@lucasriddle3431 No you're fine, I get a lot out of it. The screen reader I use, reads video titles, then I just let my imagination and comments do the rest, and enjoy what I can and then ask others to help, hopefully fostering collaboration in the process. I eventually hope to start my own channel, which would be more raw than most as I'm not a video editor, but I'll just be talking about the things I love. I've got a couple of older videos on mine but I don't know if they'll stay or not. One's the ice bucket challenge the other's me trying Golf, but to be honest I've got a lot more I want to talk about from movies to gaming.
As a cat lover, I can say that, whatever artificial, dead-eyed, soulless, misshapen abominations those things from the trailer are, they are NOT cats. This is peak uncanny valley stuff right here.
@@MattRandomnumber 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.
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.
The creator for the game being a crypto/nft bro makes me think it's a C: Crypto game where almist every piece of clothing costs real money and only a tiny portion is free.
It really brings me joy how many people immediately recognized this for what it is, it's nice that more people have zero tolerance for this sort of thing
Someone on Reddit was able to connect co-founder *Kevin Yeung* to NFT projects such as _Mech Angel._ They had a game called _Alien Mews_ they were working on, and apparently, early images of that game look a lot like _Catly._ People are also assuming the trailer was AI generated, but an artist was paid to mask the artifacting
@@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.
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
3:33 I see they didn't only get the best artists for their game, but also the best UX designers for their website. I can _totally_ read white text on a white background.
10:21 nope nope nope. That review is literally AI. Ask Chat GPT to give a review of this game it will literally spit out the exact same thing. This is exactly how ai talks.
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.
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.
NFTs seems like their likely direction at this point. That "Fashion Collection" AI is likely what they'll be selling NFTs of. They'll promise to turn the NFTs into real wearable items for your cats when the game comes out, and they want NFT sales before then to fund the game, which is why they're advertising it.
the thing that weirded me out is that the "trailer" is so vague. wtf is this game? what is it about? what do you do? do you make outfits, take care of cats, build sanctuaries? what does snow and robots have to to with this, it didnt mention anything like that *in the trailer*
The company also made a game called “Plantly” which involved growing plants on the blockchain and sharing them as NFTs The company also claims to have not used, and have never used the blockchain, NFTs, or AI
I'm beginning to wonder if this wasn't a stunt to see how far the "devs" could push a nothing product. The trailer is bogus, the cosmetics (?) are obviously ai, every word has clearly been written by ChatGPT, the bloody company is called SuperAuthenti?? This feels like a prank, or a statement being made by the "devs" to me. Or maybe it's a cash grab and I'm giving these people way too much credit. Just, "SuperAuthenti" is WAAAAAY too on the nose for them to not be self aware.
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)
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
Gamers (as in, people who buy and play video games) are not the target demographic. Venture capital firms easily swayed by fancy tech are. They're already chomping at the bit to throw Yes amounts of money at AI startups, and the prospect of creating video games with AI would enrapture them completely. The games don't need to be good or even exist.
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.
Not so much naive as stuffing fingers into his ears as they wave money at him so he can cry plausible deniability. Read his posts and they were very "trust me bro, I saw stuff , but I'm going to let myself a way out by saying I may have gotten played, oopsie". Edit: typo
Ok I have a roadmap for this game 1: Turns out the cats are NFTs you have to buy to even play the game 2: Small updates, mostly making sure people are buying the NFTs and not playing the game they bought normally 3: They dump the NFTs for big profit 4: They make a new AI game like a space Odyssey or something that they can pump and dump for even more profit
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.
What's really funny is that a cat/human mmo where you build a life together in a post-apocalyptic world, and you can customize your house and choose how you play would be a hit lol
I literally just went and looked at the Steam page- it's been updates with a lot of the content shown in this video having been purged and now it seems to actually have what the game's content substance is listed. Also all 3 of the "endorsements" are there as of this post.
8:54 I don’t know about you, but this blurb alone (and every other thing about this game) is so AI generated. 9:47 Notice how there is no gameplay footage in the gif section- because there is no game.
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 think the irony is that people who want to use ai claim that theyre better than human artists are the ones who need human artists the most. bc they dont know what theyre doing. they dont know how to put these ai assets together. they dont even know what they really want, what their vision is. they just think of something vague that sounds cool and think oh well the ai can do the rest right (spoiler alert no it cant). what they really need is artists who can give their artistic input and give advice on how things should look or what might look better. human artists will think to tell you, give you more choices that you might not have thought of. ai does vaguely what you asked for in only a literal sense and nothing else.
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.
@@sluggastar2 If anything, I'm giving a negative amount of credit: they did such a bad job that it looks like a parody, enough that I suspect it is one.
It's unlikely because args are usually made by creative or artistic individuals who would know to just not use any ai for any reason, including even for parody/deliberately creating unsettling vibes
First time I saw this trailer, I couldn't help but think that this is secretely an ice cream commercial mostly because of that color palette and everything being so uncannily soft
@@playdoh658 Not even sure the "Graphics" would even work well for the Switch hardware. If they consider the features and graphics and high detail to be true, then the Switch will Not be able to handle it. And I doubt Nintendo would give some No-Name studio developer packs of the Switch 2 over well known developers.
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.
Minor detail in the video but I love how the background music involves the stray soundtrack, I loved stray to death and to have it as the background music on a video based on cats couldn’t be more fitting ❤
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.
@@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.
Thank you for adressing this issue without screaming your head off. I would absolutely play as the cat with purple ear tufts but only, and this is important, if it's animated by a human being.
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”
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..."
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.
Probably have AI write the news-post, as I can totally see AI just going "Apple put an i in front of their various products, so they probably still do, so it's the iWatch when they make a watch!"
I think apple never owned the iWatch trademark and it may be that no one owns the trademark in the US, so they can say they're going to have one, implying it's an apple watch, without facing legal repercussions
7:28 If customizing the cats is an option, they definitely should have put that in the trailer. The first thing I want to do is simplify the iris designs and tone down the fur colors. Oh, you can change the cats eyes, I just noticed that. I don't like the other eye options any better.
The website is 100% AI generated. The steam page is 100% AI generated. The trailer is 100% AI generated. I don't believe a single human hand touched this project.
Another sign this may be bull: the project lists Akira Senju (the composer of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and Triangle Strategy) as a composer for the game yet a google search returns nothing even with catly tagged to the end of his name
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.
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.
@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
This really looks like a prank. Like, someone is going to come out with a TH-cam video in a week that says, "I broke into the Game Awards with a FAKE AI GAME"
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.
This is the likeliest prediction.
yeah and those animations look SUPER AI generated. Pretty sure this is nothing more than a scam
Well darn. And here I almost had faith that it was some kind of critique/satire of AI slop, maybe with an interesting metanarrative or something.
Banana game but with cats maybe?
They have already made an announcement that the game itself doesn't contain AI generated content and given US advertising laws that has to be true. (Then again, sue the company it goes bankrupt not the person who owns it)
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 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.
Ummmmm.... It's only a High Priced advertising event really!! So they only had to pay the cost of entry and Boom!!! You get the advertisement shown on the main stage of an awards show!!
@@DOCDOCFLAMINGOS I think then the issue becomes questioning why TGA didn't do enough quality assurance if the barrier to entry was just paying money.
What if someone paid advertising money and showed a Hitler or Nazi celebration video live on TGA?
if this game does turn out to be fake, Geoff is gonna be pissed that he got stumped
Do people not understand that you just... pay money to have your trailer in the show? I'm genuinely confused when people are confused about stuff like this.
@@trickster721 people understand it. do you understan that the problem is that the Game Awards accepted their money and are thus promoting an AI scam?
Reminder to folks who don't know any better... Don't buy it to investigate it. Don't line their pockets, please. Let it go bust. If you suspect a product to be immoral or a scam, understand you can talk about it and do some sleuthing without needing to be the one to pay the scammers.
Aka, time to become a pirate
@evilginger8595 Y'arr, you bet! 🏴☠️
@@sunlado what you want, because a pirate is free! You are a pirate!
This
I have a feeling people will hate buy it and hate stream the game.
If it is really that bad it could be the new Velma
This feels... Like an NFT project. Something about how vague it is, how it's paying its way into being noticed, how alien it feels when you try to make sense of it... It definitely has the DNA of NFTs in it. I can just feel it.
Also the 'fashion' focus where the only thing they want to say about the game is a bunch of GAN-made renders of impossible garments screams 'NFT' to me...
L😅o
"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.
Written like AI prompt.
It reads like what's meant to be a hidden tags element
Sounds like playing Charades with a complete moron. 😹
This sounds exactly like an NFT "game" with AI content.
This sounds like what you'd stuff into AI to make trailer.
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
Because the descriptions are all AI generated
@@meatmobileidk I feel like even an AI would say Apple Watch
Or was a script generated by ai as well
"a canvas of stories, painted in fur" is not an advertisement, it's a threat
Cats (2019) springs to mind.
Pretty metal actually
A neconomicon
🎸 💀 👹🤘🏿 @@Ghazghultheork
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AI bros: "AI tools will empower non creative inclined people to envision their dreams!"
Their dreams:
Catly.
AI can be a really useful tool, but I'm consistently astounded not only with what people define as "creating" but also with what they choose to "create."
My mom, who's the "cool" right of Boomer very grew up during the hippy era and loosely associated with them, she knew one dude who always complained that he never really dreamed and if he did it was those walking hotdogs etc. from Disney Cartoons. So he took LSD to experience the ultimate he could come up with - what did he experience? Disney style walking hotdogs and other condiments... He was so disappointed. 🌭
@@BobbyS84 I try to be optimistic, and I think it's a skill that can be developed. A lot of GAI users have just never thought of themselves as artists before.
"non-creative inclined" is such a word to exist
@@BobbyS84 this is astounding as it is informative. oh, what i would give to just have a thought bubble of a hotdog in my head.
"Run to the rescue with cats. Peace will follow" sounds like a live laugh love-esque saying you'd find hanging up in an airbnb or something or on a bumper sticker
Can you imagine cats running to anyone's rescue or ensuring peace, its like these people have never seen a cat.
it reads like one of those badly translated t-shirts from non-english speaking countries
Sounds like a piece of wall art you'd find at a TJ Maxx.
@@llcdrdndgrbdI mean we could say the same about dogs. Dogs are known for causing chaos like chewing uo furniture, breaking things and eating whatever they can reach.
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
@ole2107 the owner of this company tried to sell this NFT scam twice already, this is just his 3rd attempt
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)
"BLINK, MOTHAF***A!"
*cat goes right towards him*
"AAAAHH NONONONO!!!"
MA! IT'S IN THE HOUSE! MA!
MA!
Who put makeup on this f*cking cat bro
i just checked the steam page, and the third '''endorsement quote''' at the bottom is straight up gone. like it was never there. which tells me it's very likely these are in fact just made up quotes and that one of these three people heard about this and contacted the company or steam about this and they had to remove it. and these are big name people. this is a big deal, like legally speaking
to add to this, Akira Senju, whose name is part of this, is currently doing work for a pavilion in japan, and has only ever worked on 4 video games in his whole career, the latest being triangle strategy in 2022, the others being all a decade before this, and the three latest being with square enix. there is nothing the artist has said himself about being involved with catly. so there's is like 99,9% chance this is very much fake
The other video games he did? Some fighting game in ‘96 and 2 Fullmetal Alchemist games that came out when he was composing for FMA: Brotherhood. So who knows if he actually composed for the games or if they just used the OST from the anime.
Does it still have the League Of Legends developer quote saying it’s the best mmo?
The quotes are still there, maybe you just gotta click "Show more" first
Maybe someone should reach out to them to see if they said anything about this game, and in the case of Thomas Vu, if he IS privy to it, ask if he's seen any more than we have to make such a bold statement.
@@pre4edgc Well the actual gameplay shown in the new trailer looks less AI. So maybe their quotes were just based on that than the weird trailer
Regardless of whether any of this is AI or not, stuff like the pupils on the cat-person at 18:15 being asymmetrical despite looking otherwise "professional" in terms of level of detail is an immediate red flag.
good catch!
@@alien_cultgood CATch.
I saw that too!
I don't know. Most people, and other animals, for that matter, are truly perfectly symmetrical. With the level of realism used here, it could easily be an individual trait. It could go either way.
I'm saying that as a lifelong artist who's finishing school for game art and design. It's a tough call on this one, I personally feel.
I do think this whole trailer/concept is super suspicious, though. There's a lot off with it, so I'm not denying the asymmetry isn't there.
@@ElysetheEeveeif it were a traditional drawing or painting, yeah. But it looks like it’s supposed to be 3D modelled, and if that were the case the pupils shouldn’t be asymmetrical unless the eyeballs were modelled and mapped differently - a mistake I don’t even think rookies do
1:30 the apple watch at the bottom of the screen is the cherry on top like yeah you'll play on apple watch WTF 😂
This gives the same vibes as a game releasing on ps3, xbox 360 and gba
@@snil4which ones?
@@harrisonmoore3841 "mw3" released on original DS (i put it in quotes cause it's nothing like mw3 on console)
When I saw that, I was convinced this isn't "not a game," but rather an "NFT" game.
That's why everything is so vague, yet angled towards "fashion" and this hideously out of touch concept of success.
They're probably just building a platform to trade worthless cat tokens they can pump and dump.
God, I hope they get caught defrauding investors and this all blows up on them.
My guess is that there’s a “tamagotchi” aspect planned for Apple Watch (if this is in fact a game). For anyone too young to remember tamagotchi, it was a japanese “digital pet” craze that used a little device with a pet on it, you’d have to remember to feed and play with them. It sucked then because the tech was pretty basic. These days you could do a lot more, and somebody will be successful with that idea, eventually. Maybe I should start learning programming this very moment.
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.)
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 whole situation is really summed up with the quote "Why would I care to consume something you didn't care to create?"
True
From whence comes the quote?
@@minerharry I don't remember the username, but it was someone on either Tumblr or Twitter
I'm 14 and this is deep
@@Sleepyhead080808its not even that, its genuinely the case; why would anybody actively care about a basic AI game if there was no love into creating it?
I'm actually a totally blind person, and even I am noticing that this sounds slap dashedly put together and not out of love. Surely, that's a huge, red, flag!
I've never thought to consider that blind people still watch TH-cam. But I'm sure you hear statements like that a lot. Have a nice day!
@@lucasriddle3431 No you're fine, I get a lot out of it. The screen reader I use, reads video titles, then I just let my imagination and comments do the rest, and enjoy what I can and then ask others to help, hopefully fostering collaboration in the process. I eventually hope to start my own channel, which would be more raw than most as I'm not a video editor, but I'll just be talking about the things I love. I've got a couple of older videos on mine but I don't know if they'll stay or not. One's the ice bucket challenge the other's me trying Golf, but to be honest I've got a lot more I want to talk about from movies to gaming.
@@jukesy1992 That's really cool to hear!
In this case your visual impairment is a blessing for you, these cats are not pleasant to look at.
@lucasriddle3431 u mean 'hear youtube'
As a cat lover, I can say that, whatever artificial, dead-eyed, soulless, misshapen abominations those things from the trailer are, they are NOT cats. This is peak uncanny valley stuff right here.
The fact that they especially advertised that ugly ass fur that is definitely AI-generated
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
@@MattRandomnumber 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.
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.
The creator for the game being a crypto/nft bro makes me think it's a C: Crypto game where almist every piece of clothing costs real money and only a tiny portion is free.
Honestly if this isn’t an ARG it makes me want to make one really really badly like this.
@@ajmccorristin1125that'd be awesome actually
@@dawa_- what are some cool args I could look into? I've heard about them a bit but haven't looked into them much
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"
@@sarinabina5487or like that evil corp in the Maze Runner series being named WICKED
Doofenshmirtz ahhh name
It's like naming your company TrustMeBro. INC
It really brings me joy how many people immediately recognized this for what it is, it's nice that more people have zero tolerance for this sort of thing
Someone on Reddit was able to connect co-founder *Kevin Yeung* to NFT projects such as _Mech Angel._ They had a game called _Alien Mews_ they were working on, and apparently, early images of that game look a lot like _Catly._
People are also assuming the trailer was AI generated, but an artist was paid to mask the artifacting
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.
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
This is the same event where we were trying to be sympathetic to and spread awareness about declining employment rates at game studios btw
It's beyond parody. :(
And how does this affect that in a noway shape or form?
@Space97.Well, normally everything in the video would have to be made by humans. Humans _employed_ to do these things.
Disgusting
That's a good thing though we want hacks out of the industry not awareness bs for incompetent POS who hate gamers.
3:33 I see they didn't only get the best artists for their game, but also the best UX designers for their website. I can _totally_ read white text on a white background.
10:21 nope nope nope. That review is literally AI. Ask Chat GPT to give a review of this game it will literally spit out the exact same thing. This is exactly how ai talks.
I mean those reviews have to be fake. Otherwise the highlighted names would actually link to the interviews in which they were quoted
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.
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
It’s even funnier that their response to the accusation was almost literally ‘dude trust me’
They dropped a new "gameplay" trailer.
NFTs seems like their likely direction at this point. That "Fashion Collection" AI is likely what they'll be selling NFTs of.
They'll promise to turn the NFTs into real wearable items for your cats when the game comes out, and they want NFT sales before then to fund the game, which is why they're advertising it.
the thing that weirded me out is that the "trailer" is so vague. wtf is this game? what is it about? what do you do? do you make outfits, take care of cats, build sanctuaries? what does snow and robots have to to with this, it didnt mention anything like that *in the trailer*
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
some might call this roasting but I call arsoning
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 hope the "game" turns out to exist. But here I am for my Silksong😅
remember me
Getting in on this for the Katly sweep. First game to make a katillion dollars
The company also made a game called “Plantly” which involved growing plants on the blockchain and sharing them as NFTs
The company also claims to have not used, and have never used the blockchain, NFTs, or AI
That settles things lol
Oh yeah then its definitely a scam.
The part that I don’t understand is why wasn’t this vetted ahead of time?
@@tankart150 maybe people higher up are invested in this nonsense
4:30 the disturbing way that cat's glasses are attached to its head by just being jammed into its face made me chuckle
I'm beginning to wonder if this wasn't a stunt to see how far the "devs" could push a nothing product. The trailer is bogus, the cosmetics (?) are obviously ai, every word has clearly been written by ChatGPT, the bloody company is called SuperAuthenti?? This feels like a prank, or a statement being made by the "devs" to me.
Or maybe it's a cash grab and I'm giving these people way too much credit. Just, "SuperAuthenti" is WAAAAAY too on the nose for them to not be self aware.
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)
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
They're already offering pre-sales. They unfortunately likely have made at least some money off it already.
Gamers (as in, people who buy and play video games) are not the target demographic. Venture capital firms easily swayed by fancy tech are. They're already chomping at the bit to throw Yes amounts of money at AI startups, and the prospect of creating video games with AI would enrapture them completely. The games don't need to be good or even exist.
@@spyr0guybingo, I think some venture capital just disembowled their wallet over the VP’s stepson that owns this studio. No quality to see here
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.
Not so much naive as stuffing fingers into his ears as they wave money at him so he can cry plausible deniability. Read his posts and they were very "trust me bro, I saw stuff , but I'm going to let myself a way out by saying I may have gotten played, oopsie".
Edit: typo
it's so weird that it's all the exact same clips from the trailer. I would be SHOCKED if this game came out.
Ok I have a roadmap for this game
1: Turns out the cats are NFTs you have to buy to even play the game
2: Small updates, mostly making sure people are buying the NFTs and not playing the game they bought normally
3: They dump the NFTs for big profit
4: They make a new AI game like a space Odyssey or something that they can pump and dump for even more profit
“I feel like an AI would do a better job” is such a savage insult like calm down
Even though it is AI-
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.
This project completely REEKS of AI generated, NFT scamming, Crypto SLOP
and the stench is VILE.
Wheres your proof? Hell even arlo says it looks too good 😅
@Space97.Saw someone higher up in comments say that the developer made a game called plantly that was NFT garbo
They've since updated the steam page with (alleged) in-game footage and screenshots, which still do not make me think it's a real game
Was The Day Before a real game?
And claimed that it’s also a farming game? Despite neither trailer showing any farming mechanics whatsoever?
Additional possibility: It's the beginning of a large-scale ARG. I really hope its that.
Could that work with the apple watch as the platform? I honestly feel it should have been on android too and not steam at all.
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.
@@Dad_Shoesi would always choose bugs, rather die than be covered in disgusting slop stolen from real artists by disgusting, evil mega corporations
🐜🍑
"SuperAuthenti" is an interesting name for a company that is allegedly making the least authentic product imaginable.
2 possibilities
- NFT Game
- Secretly Frog Fraction 3
yo if this is Frog Fractions 3, that would be hilarious
Thanks for the reminder, I still gotta play 2
Don't cruelly taunt us like this
THERE’S A FROG FRACTIONS 2???? Time to let’s play it soon
@@VerbDoesStuff It is hidden inside a game called Glittermitten Grove
0:56 lmao I guess the kitten can defy the laws of physics.
What's really funny is that a cat/human mmo where you build a life together in a post-apocalyptic world, and you can customize your house and choose how you play would be a hit lol
5:27 The Doki Doki Literature poem minigame be like
literally XD
😂😂😂
Marie Persona 4 Golden every time I enter the Velvet Room:
@@armintargaryen9216 trueee!
Watching TGA I remember thinking it looked like a toilet paper commercial. Cats about to wipe its ass on some Charmin
If I want to play a cat game, I'll just replay Stray
theres like a ton of cat games out there now.
Stray is STILL on my to buy list.
@Sorrowdusk Buy it soon. It's a great game
Hell yeah! Is good game.
And Little Kitty, Big City.
I literally just went and looked at the Steam page- it's been updates with a lot of the content shown in this video having been purged and now it seems to actually have what the game's content substance is listed. Also all 3 of the "endorsements" are there as of this post.
8:54 I don’t know about you, but this blurb alone (and every other thing about this game) is so AI generated.
9:47 Notice how there is no gameplay footage in the gif section- because there is no game.
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.
"Mysterious cats unlike any seen before on earth!"
- Red, Overly Sarcastic Productions
Eyes are just naturally scary and unnerving.
Bubsy. I'm sure one of the torments in hell is having to play Bubsy 3D.
@@Hodoss i’d rather play Bubsy 3D over whatever this Nintend-cats meets Fashion Dreamer AI bullshit is gonna be.
@@SpiderGansta You are either ignorant of Bubsy 3D (which is a good thing), or very brave.
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 watched the game awards while being very sleep deprived and I thought I hallucinated that trailer to be honest
i think the irony is that people who want to use ai claim that theyre better than human artists are the ones who need human artists the most. bc they dont know what theyre doing. they dont know how to put these ai assets together. they dont even know what they really want, what their vision is. they just think of something vague that sounds cool and think oh well the ai can do the rest right (spoiler alert no it cant). what they really need is artists who can give their artistic input and give advice on how things should look or what might look better. human artists will think to tell you, give you more choices that you might not have thought of. ai does vaguely what you asked for in only a literal sense and nothing else.
This is the kind of world you'd have a nightmare about while suffering from debilitating anxiety
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 💀
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
@@Cool-Vest You give crypto bros too much credit
@@sluggastar2 If anything, I'm giving a negative amount of credit: they did such a bad job that it looks like a parody, enough that I suspect it is one.
It's unlikely because args are usually made by creative or artistic individuals who would know to just not use any ai for any reason, including even for parody/deliberately creating unsettling vibes
it takes a special kind of awful to make cats of all things unappealing
First time I saw this trailer, I couldn't help but think that this is secretely an ice cream commercial mostly because of that color palette and everything being so uncannily soft
Using the stray soundtrack for this video is such a nice touch. Now theres a cat game worth playing
All those images that show up at the end of the trailer HAVE to be made with AI. There's no way.
I hate that the Switch Eshop has just become the place for people to dump their trash.
I don't think they actually got Catly license by Nintendo and are lying that they will have it on the eShop.
@@tails230 considering the amount of ai trash dumped onto the eshop already i dont see why this wouldnt be on the eshop anyway
All the genAI h-tai games that are exposed to kids whenever they go to the hshop 😓
@@playdoh658 Not even sure the "Graphics" would even work well for the Switch hardware.
If they consider the features and graphics and high detail to be true, then the Switch will Not be able to handle it.
And I doubt Nintendo would give some No-Name studio developer packs of the Switch 2 over well known developers.
aldora games has entered the chat
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.
“Every strand is a masterpiece” it’s a strand-type game
Lmao I was thinking the same thing.
That Steam page description is 100% just the prompt used to generate the teaser trailer.
Minor detail in the video but I love how the background music involves the stray soundtrack, I loved stray to death and to have it as the background music on a video based on cats couldn’t be more fitting ❤
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.
@@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
She only ever has 5 fingers throughout her entire presence on screen. I'm not saying its not A.I. but this is definitely not true.
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.
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.
Thank you for adressing this issue without screaming your head off.
I would absolutely play as the cat with purple ear tufts but only, and this is important, if it's animated by a human being.
AI definitly, look how the fur texture changes every shot
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”
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..."
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 am very happy you are using the Stray soundtrack for this video.
The trailer literally made my sickness worse. I didn't even know it could do that.
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.
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
Also in the news post it calls the Apple Watch the iWatch! That's not what it's called! What are you doing!
Probably have AI write the news-post, as I can totally see AI just going "Apple put an i in front of their various products, so they probably still do, so it's the iWatch when they make a watch!"
I think apple never owned the iWatch trademark and it may be that no one owns the trademark in the US, so they can say they're going to have one, implying it's an apple watch, without facing legal repercussions
7:28 If customizing the cats is an option, they definitely should have put that in the trailer. The first thing I want to do is simplify the iris designs and tone down the fur colors.
Oh, you can change the cats eyes, I just noticed that. I don't like the other eye options any better.
2:00 - this part is perfect for an out of context compilation
11:00 ben brode left the hearthstone team years ago
Yeah I remember that. I was about to type the same thing
Yeah he runs Second Dinner, who made the other dominant TCG Marvel Snap.
Why wouldn't they say "game director of Marvel Snap" ?
I think we’ve found ourselves in another “The Day Before” situation
That press release on the Steam page is clearly the AI prompt they used to make the trailer.
Sadly it looks like they rewrote the entire Steam page to cover it up, because now it looks more like a generic Steam game page
The website is 100% AI generated. The steam page is 100% AI generated. The trailer is 100% AI generated. I don't believe a single human hand touched this project.
Another sign this may be bull: the project lists Akira Senju (the composer of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and Triangle Strategy) as a composer for the game yet a google search returns nothing even with catly tagged to the end of his name
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.
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.
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
This really looks like a prank. Like, someone is going to come out with a TH-cam video in a week that says, "I broke into the Game Awards with a FAKE AI GAME"
arlo it has taken you 2:36 to say “this game doesn’t look real” i hate it