I ruined King's Quest V with AI 

“Im the absolute opposite of proud “

12:31 “Cease not thine narration!”… said no one to Cedric in the history of ever.

Omg, that shot of Cedric in the tree. I'll never sleep again.

12:04 Cedric shows his true form

Forget Girl in the Tower. Forget Land Beyond Dreams. King in the Castle is now the greatest King's Quest song.

AI can't decide what hat King Graham actually wears. It changes frame by frame, is a baseball cap from one perspective, and a beanie in another.

Time to call up Radio stations to demand they play "Pawn At Best"

Wow...Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mr. Beast. If you asked me to come up with three more disparate celebrities as choices for your AI voice, I couldn't do it.

I hope PushingUPRoses and CannotBeTamed catch this...

PAY HEED MINE PRECIOUS COMPANION - A GROUND-BOUND SLITHERING REPTILE WITH LETHAL INTENTIONS TOWARDS THY SELF

Yo that song was kinda fire ngl

17:57 The worst crime is rhyming "true" with "true" 😂

Some of it looks ALMOST acceptable, and then there's all the horror. Great work!

SQH will hate me for this (triply so since it's AI-generated AND King's Quest AND a cheesy 90s ballad) but I actually enjoyed the song (albeit in a mostly ironic way). :P I was laughing my ass off throughout the entire thing, it came dangerously close to Girl in the Tower's levels of cheesiness. :) Well done to AI on being as shit (though entertainingly so) as ever!

There was a time long ago when generative music was kind of an interesting endeavour. I recall a project where the algorithm could generate a piece of random sounds of any pitch or tambre and users would vote it as either good or bad. It sucked, but it was interesting. There was another one that produced sheet music in the style of various periods to be performed by real people, that one actually created some really interesting, if a bit bland, music. I remember thinking "hey maybe this could go somewhere in the future and create dynamic generative music customised to a specific person or scenario based on a theme or whatever." Boy was I wrong.

I would play this. Also... 'Graham' sounds like the narrator from the intro to Ultima Underworld.

Ah, Geseree Staken The Hearld Bonder was always my favorite part of the series

How much time did you spend on this? It's so hilariously awful. A real masterpiece

10:00 "King's Quest V - Geseree Staken the Hearld Bonder"

7:32 - Let me guess, LotR stole your sweet roll?

Kinda like this rendition because Cedric is a total ass-owl

A new video from SQH and OneShortEYE on the same day. Move over the births of my children, this is now the GREATEST day in my life!

A stitch in time saves KQ5. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you ..... Seriously this was awesome

10:57 He took everything but the castle's garderobe.😂

I'm very impressed that you've somehow managed to improve both Cedric and that ending track. Not the ruiner video I expected! I'm pretty sure the AI opening fanfare was pulled directly from The Illusionist (2006) though 😅

8:09 I mean, to give it credit, it made the Morphin gag substantially funnier. 10:54 He kinda looks like Ad Avis performing his summoning ritual.

That's a remaster I could get behind!

I imagined that drink your avatar holds is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

This bounced back and forth from "That's not so bad." to "Dear god in heaven, kill it with fire!"

Oh man I didn't expect the AI dialogue to be so funny

I'm impressed with your ability to come up with new video ideas!

This is exactly how I picture Ubisoft or EA remastering the game. It might even be a Blizzard reforged edition. Thanks for the laugh.

New video from the SQH 🕺 *raise the roof dancing in my bedroom in excitement *

All jokes aside, some landscape looks stunning! How did you put them in the game?

I never thought KQV was garbage, I first played it when I was 10 but didn't have a PC with soundblaster. I didn't hear the embarrassing voice acting for several more years. Cool vid, by the way!

Picking up a brobdingnagian bag of jerky at the Test'n'Quest.

Are you sure you wrote that song about King Graham? Entirely too cheerful for you ;) Too bad the singing AI didn't have "wolf that ate a muppet" as a voice to select...

AS MORDAK'S WICKED SPELL TAKES HOLD SO FAST 🔥🔥🔥

I liked the SQ6 teleportation sound.

Sedric's voice is an improvement honestly.

11:08 That’s not too bad a render of the original art… Oh god, King Graham looks like The Thing before it’s been able to complete an assimilation. Burn it!

So I was just thinking about this game, looked it up and found this video! This is incredible! Please run Monkey island 2 through an A.I thst would be awesome.

forsooth and may verily, the dialogue using ye olde english was great in jockulary

The "A.I. Anime" at the first clip is pretty impressive. Not saying as a Corridors fan but they deserve some praises. To me, they seem to be just tinkering around with the tools they found to be fascinating at first. If anything, their "A.I. Anime" looks like a glorified CGI production which they could easily reproduce without the image generative models involved. In my humble opinion, their work has more effort put into and better compared to 99% of the lazy assholes out there that just use online generators for a image making. Yeah, I say this defensively since those guys got harassed by almost everyone when the video came out. Sorry, just needed to get it off my chest here.

Wow, that song at the end 🤣

Still a better experience than King’s Quest 8

You hate LOTR? Blasphemy!

if you're going to fuck around with AI and a King's Quest game, 5 is definitely the one to go with

I wonder what Roberta Williams's thoughts about the abhorrent mutilation you performed in one of her precious games. Because I feel fucking terrified watching this, man

The absolute dump it made of Castle Daventry is hysterical :) But I sort of love Graham and Cedric talking like they’re in Final Fantasy 12 - making it that over dramatic might make this game entertaining :)

I'm gonna have nightmares after this...

How can you call this ruined? A massive improvement on Cedric

Crispin played by John Cleese.

I like the new Cedric

Play the Sierra fanfare but class it up 12%!

Thanks, I hate it. (Okay, I actually love it.)

I reminds me a little of Hylics, really.

Amazing. What a great idea for a video.

Finally, a balanced take on Lord of the Rings.

Good grief! I think it's safe to say AI can't do King's Quest!

Honestly, Cedric has never sounded better.

Next step in this journey. The first ever 100% AI video game. Story written by AI. Music generated by AI. Backgrounds and sprites drawn by AI. Puzzles written by AI. Characters performed by AI. Maybe even try to get AI to code it. This will be next level terrible. It probably will not even be able to boot unless you manually rewrite all of the code. But I mean, as the esteemed developer behind All Demons Must Go To Hell, there's an obligation to outdo yourself in the future, right? Hmm though. Not all of this is TERRIBLE. I mean it is not particularly good but some of the backgrounds look better than HQ4x. I guess that you can get technically passable artwork when you rely on training data that was stolen from genuinely talented artists (something is poetic about tech CEOs with no talent building a robot to steal the jobs of talented people. This is basically the plot of a mediocre science fiction movie) Edit: Also the best thing generated by AI is still Harry Potter and What Looked Like a Portrait of a Large Pile of Ash. Not just is it the best AI-generated thing, it is also objectively the best Harry Potter novel.

wow!

This is hilarious. Well done Indeed!

Wombo Dream is the worst possible tool you could have used for this process. The results are beautiful and terrible and speak for themselves of course.

What is wrong with you? ◐ω◑ My eyes, my ears!

Its sad that i actually enjoyed that.

muh gawd. very impressive. yay'verily !

Yeah AI might be garbage NOW, but just give it another 10 years and you'll see how truly horrible it can be.

This is terrible. Good work!

I always thought that KQ5 had the worst voice acting (your video improved on that I think). I never did finish the game. My favourites of the series were KQ6 and KQ4, that in that order. I still own the original box with KQ1 on 5 1/4" floppies. On the box it describes the game as a 3D game, no lie. Technically, it was... you can move in 3 dimensions most of the time. heheh

Monstrosity.

Good god!

"AI is stealing and bad". Proceeds to use AI in the most incompetent way possible to make a monetized video.

I want to click like, but you said you don't like LoTR. We can't be friends now.

Well that was the most AI thing ever. The new subtitle for the game somehow really fit

STILL an improvement over the original Cedric voice. (Also, final song is a legit banger.) That said, what Cedric gains with a much more tolerable voice, he loses (or wins?!) with that one shot in the tree. Simultaneously the funniest _and_ scariest rendition imaginable. I don't agree on your dataset morality take (watch Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" videos and maybe you'll understand why), but I agree that most AI generations are going to be garbage purely because the barrier to entry is so low, making the "90% of everything is crud" effect way more pronounced. It's a bit similar to how a relative increase in the amount of shovelware is also a signifier that game engines have become more accessible and easier to use.

Hahaha! Please do the same with SQ2 or SQ3!

i actually like the rip of phil colins at the end

One day we'll be able to enter a randomizer seed and play a fully customized immersive AI generated game. And it will suck.

I've been watching a lot of AI generated stuff like this lately. I can sum it all up in one question asked by Dr. Weird in Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "WHAT HAS SCIENCE DoOoOoNnNnE?!?"

I think maybe KQ7 was made with this process. Count the fingers.

Apart from the thinly-veiled insults about Graham being a wet dog, and Cedric taking out his ASS... The ending song was actually GOOD. Was that composed by someone, or did the AI actually do something RIGHT for a change??

Wow this is incredible.

AI art isn't plagurism or theft, its use of copyrighted material falls under fair use. Its all legal and above board. That's why AI tools can just admit it, as well. You can also download and run the open source Stable Diffusion for free and locally, but your PC needs some beef. You're paying cloud services to run AI on their own beefy PCs and do all the hard stuff, basically. AI voice work does have ethical issues, but to do with impersonation and not copyright. edit: this thread sucks

bruh AI is amazing. i know we are old now but that doesnt mean you have to turn into the stereotypical old dude that shakes his fist at the sky and rues technology. aaaaand the "AI steals content" argument is obviously ridiculous. if AI steals content then so has everyone who ever read a book, listened to music, or looked at a painting before producing something of their own, which is literally everyone who has ever lived and ever will live. and if you are really just selflessly worried about people's ability to earn money and put food in their mouth, then you should shake your fist at a social structure that leaves people to languish in poverty and uncertain circumstances, not shake your fist at the existence of a mathematical algorithm that will exist no matter whether people are right or wrong to love it or hate it

I usually love your videos, but this one's too propagandistic for me. Like... yeah, sure, anyone can find some outdated, off-label text-to-voice and image-to-image models, mash them up with a cheesy, purposely bad script from a two-year-old GPT-3.5, and create an abomination. It seems less designed to entertain than to poison your audience against AI, though... Hence, the nine minute soapbox intro. Combine with the lukewarm, very European opinions about AI... and the lukewarm opinions about King's Quest V... and the lukewarm opinions about Lord of the Rings... and yeah, this one just didn't do it for me.