10 AWESOME Video Game Trailers (Then The Game Sucked)

10. No Man's Sky

The Trailer

Never let it be said that Hello Games doesn't know how to pitch its ideas. The trailer for No Man's Sky, that first released during the 2014 E3 showcase, promised the entire universe and everyone bought in.

It positioned itself as being essentially Minecraft but on the grandest scale imaginable, a game solely about space exploration and discovery instead of conquest and warfare. Wrapping up with a perfect quote by Carl Sagan, the gaming public was left utterly stupefied by what they'd seen, and thus the wait began.

The Game

No Man's Sky was not a bad game when it was released, and it's only gotten better as the years have gone by. But due to a mix of the usual game press hyperbole that all studios do and other issues such as their entire office FLOODING, the No Man's Sky that came out on August 9th, 2016 was not the game that was promised.

The universe of the original build of NMS was remarkably dry and empty. While there was stuff to do, it was so reliant on the RNG the whole game is built around, that players would go hours without encountering anything.

It was definitely something resembling the game that was promised, and would be eventually delivered in the coming years, but that first impression left a very bad taste in folks' mouths.