Elite 4

[Durandal]

Procedurally generated is slightly different than the "Largest Sandbox" claim, but I see what you mean.

Not really. A sandbox is a sandbox, whether made by hand crafting or procedural generation or a combo of both.

If you want my opinion the direct and current future of gaming before we can code more realistic and interesting environments to generate themselves, is more player control over the environment. Chris Roberts makes a couple of interesting claims in that regard but there are so many other glaring issues with SC that I can't see it going quite the way people expect it will.

Anyway as for this Elite 4 here I've never played the other Elite games but I'll probably at least give it a try. Just this particular video doesn't really show anything new or interesting despite how well put together it is.