10 Broken Games That Are GOD-TIER Now
3. No Man's Sky
These last three entries are the gold standard for games coming back from the worst possible first impression, and no better way to start than with No Man's Sky.
Words cannot adequately describe the hype that No Man's Sky produced with that original trailer. But due to multiple incidents along development, the worst of which was their office flooding, the game that was shipped was far from the game that was promised.
To be blunt, more or less the entire game was missing. While perfectly stable and without any major glitches, the game was just flat-out empty. None of what makes the game great nowadays was there, and what was there was nowhere near enough to satiate an increasingly irate audience. The backlash to NMS' release was immense, the game becoming a universal symbol for empty promises by a developer.
But, obviously, that wasn't the end of the story. Over the next few years, Hello Games set about putting in all of the stuff that was meant to be there from the start, and some more on top of it while they were at it. No Man's Sky is now considered one of the best open-world games out right now, with a litany of new features that enhance the experience without taking away from the core idea of exploration.