Look, I think No Man’s Sky looks great. I do. But I’m also a bit flabbergasted by it: I have never seen a game capture the popular imagination the way that one has. It comes up unbidden in most casual conversations I have with people about videogames. A big part of this, of course, is potential: there are a lot of sandbox-style games in the world, but few that so aggressively suggest that that sandbox in fact goes on forever. I think another huge part of it, though, is color. We want that world to go on forever; we want…