memory bloc 1386378000: One Man’s Risk
Value: No Man’s Sky anchors in the global consciousness
“At the time I tried to pull it from the VGXs, but Geoff Keighley said the game’s already slotted in, so we just showed it. “I thought we would be heading for a terrible embarrassment… It would make no sense to people and that would be the end of the project. It was going through in my mind, ‘If the reaction is really bad, will I still keep making this game?’” No Man’s Sky stole the show at VGX 2013. It surprised everyone, dominating the conversation about video games for days afterwards, and upstaging every triple-A trailer which also debuted during the show. Its procedurally-generated universe – in which every atom, leaf, and ocean were created by the game itself – immediately resonated with people around the world. [IGN] A huge splash in a vast sea of competition. Success was inevitable for Mercury’s Shared Dream. But there was no going back after this debut.
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