Some three months after the adventure exploration survival video game “No Man’s Sky” was released on the PlayStation 4 and the PC, the disappointment still persists. But its complete letdown may eventually do something good for the 2016 Games Awards.
Apparently, the disappointing delivery of the overhyped “No Man’s Sky” has forced organizers of the 2016 Games Awards, scheduled in December, to focus less on CGI and more on gameplay delivery of video games vying for awards.
Geoff Keighley, who will be hosting the event next month, disclosed that the 2016 Games Awards will be featuring games that have more substance and less sizzle as part of its lessons learned from the debacle that was “No Man’s Sky,” reports News Everyday.
Months and weeks before its official release, “No Man’s Sky” was promoted with promising trailers and game demos but eventually, gamers discovered it to be near-complete fabrications that many were saying that the game would have benefited for a much-delayed release date.
Incidentally, Keighley is blaming himself for the hype surrounding “No Man’s Sky” when he said that they may have created a black hole of hype that the developers couldn’t pull themselves out of.
He admitted that he authored some of the hype for “No Man’s Sky” but there is a good moral of the story and it would be part of what he would be trying to address this year at the 2016 Games Awards. He said that the event would encourage developers to be more transparent about the state of their respective games.
The 2016 Games Awards is slated on December 1 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California and is promised to be a celebration of the best games of the year. Fans can watch the show via live streaming on various digital channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Xbox Live, YouTube and PlayStation Network.
Another blow for Hello Games
Incidentally, Hello Games, the developer of “No Man’s Sky” has suffered another blow following the departure from the company of game designer Gareth Bourn.
Apparently, Bourn was pirated by “Squadron 42” campaign developer Foundry42 last month. Many critics believe that Bourn made the right choice to agree since Hello Games and its President Sean Murray had created a perfect storm with “No Man’s Sky.”
Since Murray has not been responding to gamer complaints and addressing issues with regards to possible updates that could somehow lessen gamer disappointment on the game, it would be foolish for Bourn to take the rap for something which the boss refuse to take responsibility for.
Unless Murray and Hello Games do something fast for “No Man’s Sky,” many gamers and critics are already saying that the game is doomed to extinction in a few weeks or months’ time.
The disappointment on game’s subreddit
Before its release, “No Man’s Sky” actually captured the worldwide imagination for its seemingly infinite possibilities.
Back then, the game’s subreddit forum was full of breathless star-children, obsessing over every utterance by Sean Murray.
While the game’s mathematical improbabilities produced a sort of hyperbole, fans really believed in it and grew increasingly fervent.
So when “No Man’s Sky” turned out to be a dude, the same subreddit forum of the game exploded in fury, even taking it out on a journalist who reported on that delay by sending him death threats, reports A.V. Club.
Last October, the moderator of the subreddit forum even shut it down saying that it was a hate-filled waste hole. It has been reopened by a new moderator since but the whole thing remains an example of how toxic modern gaming communities can get.
Up until this time, there is still no official word on game developer Hello Games on how they intend to fix the problem.
Because of the failure of Hello Games to address the situation as full-fledged game developers normally would, there are now speculations going around saying that “No Man’s Sky” is close to complete extinction.