10 Recent Video Games That Totally Insulted Players

Despite middling pre-release expectations, free-to-play FPS The Finals launched to a decently positive reception from players and critics alike, though there was one aspect of its production which quickly soured some.

Shortly before release, developers Embark Studios confirmed that the game's voiced commentators would actually be created by an AI-powered text-to-speech program, trained from voice actors employed for that purpose, because they felt that this brought them "far enough in terms of quality."

Naturally this proclamation didn't go down too well with both players and industry members, who felt that treating flesh-and-blood voice artists like disposable assets who simply slow game development down was a bad look.

The proof was ultimately in the pudding in the final game, because while the voices certainly aren't awful, there's still an unmistakably uncanny, flat quality to them, that they're just shy of persuasively passing for actual human beings.

Ultimately it hasn't done much to dent The Finals' popularity, but it did however cause many to ponder how this tech will be used far more egregiously in the future.