10 Groundbreaking Video Games That TOTALLY Missed The Mark
1. No Man's Sky
No game has ever promised so much and ended up delivering so little than No Man's Sky. Announced in 2013, developer Hello Games pitched to gamers an entire universe to explore; how didn't we know it was too good to be true?!
To their credit, they said they'd give us a universe, and they did - complete with 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 procedurally generated planets. It seemed like an unprecedented leap for game technology, one that would surely affect the future of gaming in a myriad of untold ways. But when the game released in 2016, people quickly began to sing a very different tune.
Much like Peter Molyneux, Hello Games's lead director, Sean Murray, was not shy about spilling details about the game prior to release. So when gamers found most of these details missing, consumer feedback about the game online became overwhelmingly negative.
The planets themselves all looked incredibly similar, most with the same resources and biomes. Online features were absent, and the game's unwieldy user interface could often result in the unavoidable death of the player character.
Long story short, the game that was to take us out into the stars instead left us burying our crestfallen heads in the sand. Hello Games have since released many free updates that hugely improve the experience - but it may still be a while before No Man's Sky captures the attention of Man again.