The Game Awards Will Be More About Gameplay, Less About CGI After No Man's Sky Debacle

More Gameplay, less sizzle. Geoff Keighley explains how The Game Awards show will exist more about substance than any other year thanks to No Human being'south Sky.

Geoff Keighley told Polygon in a recent interview in calorie-free of what happened with the controversial indie title that "people will exist surprised at the depth of some of the game content we will show this twelvemonth."

No Homo's Sky highly impressive debut trailer was revealed at the VGX Awards in 2022. In one case the game was released, people noticed the final build did not really friction match up with what was beginning shown at the awards show and what Hullo Games promised.

This leads to a modify in how The Game Awards 2022 volition premiere games. Instead of the standard sizzle trailer, some of the games will exist presented in a 'Let's Play format' with nearly five minutes of people playing them. This way, we should exist able to get a better sense of what the game is similar, as opposed to a very scripted game sequence or even worse, CGI trailers.

A lot of the interview focuses on Keighley's thoughts about on how the prove may accept the started the massive hype build-up for No Man'due south Heaven and his plans for irresolute in the futurity:

I have thought about the story ofNo Human being'south Sky a lot. Did we create this blackness hole of hype that the developers couldn't pull themselves out of? Some of that was authored by me.

In that location is a practiced moral of that story and information technology's part of what I'm trying to address this year; to have developers be more than transparent about the land of their game.

The Game Awards volition take place Dec 1st at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. Of course, you can watch it via streaming on all the main platforms. Y'all can check out the total listing of nominees correct here.