"what if npcs in video games were chatbots" is this fantasy that keeps coming up and theres not even anything interesting to say about it. its just that the people who want that are morons who dont understand what an npc is

What they think is that you can pick a character like Gandalf, Garrus or Kim Kitsuragi, tell chatgpt to act like that, and that chatgpt will be able to come up in the spot with the well crafted dialogue that was the work of one or more artists, using their lived experiences, feedback, intent.