10 'Next Big Thing' Video Games That Failed Miserably

3. No Man's Sky

You can't have 'failed' without No Man's Sky, even if I do think it's one of the most underrated games of the generation.

Regardless of how much work Hello Games have put into their sci-fi sandbox since launch, at launch, it was quite a bag of lies everyone could see right through. We all know of Sean Murray's mess of fibs and conjecture now, yet the fault of No Man's Sky lay just as much with the marketing team as Murray himself.

Both Sony and Hello Games had touted No Man's Sky as this ginormous genre-bending mixture of everything from survival components to drop-in, drop-out multiplayer, first-person shooting, space dogfighting, equipment and ship upgrades - it went on and on.

Whilst the vast majority of those features were in the game in some form (turns out the 'multiplayer' Sean was referring to boiled down to leaving messages for one another), the distance between expectation and reality were in themselves, galaxies apart.