It only just occurred to me, but Chris really reminds me of George Broussard. Anyone old enough might remember the Duke Nukem Forever saga. Same kind of obsession where they think everything revolves around them and their perfect world they made up in their heads. Seems to be a common thing with 'rockstar' '90s game developers who's had too much smoke blown up their asses.

in contrast to this: Hello Games took their space sim that was pretty shitty and sparse on release and quietly perfected it into something worth playing over the years as well as putting all their promised features in it (No Man's Sky)

they are taking that experience and also making a co-op fantasy game that looks like Breath of the Wild with dragon/giant bird riding with a gorgeous procedural world the size of a small planet Earth

so yeah