I can never see the appeal of slots and gambling among the elderly. They're all zombies pulling a lever and not getting anything more out of life. They've given up and are just killing time. At least soap operas and game shows don't eat too much of their money. Good on you for engaging with family and teaching what the present time has to offer. It took quite awhile to help my grandmother get even the slightest handle on turning a computer on and off. She used computers in the banking industry but those were never turned off, had very specialized interfaces, and you called IT for help. They were in no way a personal computer.
The thing about No Man's Sky specifically is that because it's procedurally rendered, there was really no way for them to show one of the "cooler" planets without faking it. They even specifically said in interviews after that 2014 trailer that they faked that planet to make it look more crowded than what a "real" planet would look like in the game because they wanted to show a lot of different kinds of creatures in the trailer without having to walk around for 30 minutes.
Here's the problem: When you ask someone about their experience with a game that they might have played for an hour, they might only recall or think about like 5-10 minutes of that hour. A lot of what we do in video games is boring. It's walking between objectives, it's staring at shit in the environment, it's getting lost in the map, etc. And those aren't things that make an interesting trailer, and those aren't the things people remember when they think about a game. Game trailers and fake E3 demos try to get rid of all that extra stuff and just get to the juicy parts, the parts you'll remember, and stack them up into a 2 minute video.
Here's the other problem: They're still using that old trailer to sell the current game. That's false advertising.
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