No Man's Sky - If Only It Stayed Unreleased

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While No Man's Sky isn't an RPG, an editorial at RPS captures what some might feel about the upcoming launch of any game - savoring the weeks and the days before release.

I'm a little sad that No Man's Sky is being released.

This is surely not an uncommon feeling: sometimes the the long weeks of anticipation leading up to Christmas are more fun than the day itself, which has the weight of expectation placed upon it and is, in any case, quickly devoured. With enough experience, you learn to savour the anticipation for its own sake.

No Man's Sky's procedural universe will not be as easily chewed through as a Christmas turkey Quorn log, but its release still marks the end of No Man's Sky as a horizon-dwelling object of pure imagination and the beginning of its life as something more real and undoubtedly more finite.

I have experienced this before, of course. Once upon a time, the game I was looking forward to most was Black & White. "Looking forward to" is probably an understatement. I ached for that game. It's embarrassing now to think how much frustrated longing I felt for a product, but I was young and of course blissfully naive. I searched out every morsel about the game I could find in magazines and on the internet and swallowed it all. The colourful world, the giant animals, the promise of funny little stories playing out between the two, these things captured my imagination.​