10 Incredible Video Games That Were Awful At Launch
1. No Man's Sky
The universe-spanning space exploration sim that generated hype like no other video game before it, No Man's Sky didn't quite make the smooth landing that Hello Games had hoped it would following launch in 2016.
No sooner had players whipped off the shrink wrap and made it off-planet for the first time than the deluge of complaints come flooding in, accusing the studio - primarily co-founder and project lead Sean Murray - of supplying gross misinformation in regards to No Man's Sky's suite of features.
Unsurprisingly, interest promptly fell off a cliff in the weeks following, but Hello Games, eager to make amends, continued plugging away with segmented content updates (capital ships, visual overhauls and base building components) until it could release the update that, in many eyes, would make the experience complete.
That came in the form of No Man's Sky Next, a free patch that, among other niceties, implemented the full-fat multiplayer experience, finally delivering on the promise that Murray had made oh so many moons ago.
If you're one of many that ejected the disc in 2016 just as quick as it went in, you owe it to yourself and Hello Games to give it another chance.
You won't be disappointed.