10 Video Games That Survived Embarrassing Launches
1. No Man's Sky
Once again, we return to the proverbial Icarus flight. The lofty ambition that proved that the power of hype and selling snake oil doesn't always work in your favour.
Sean Murray faking gameplay with a pad, all the pomp and bluster of a Peter Molyneux sales pitch, before the inevitable pitchfork mentality of "not what we were promised!" from the braying crowds.
But what a difference two and a half years makes. If you were to play NMS fresh out the box without any prior knowledge of what happened, you'd be in for a treat. A beautifully realised collection of planets, space exploring at your own pace, all while being able to take it all in with friends.
If there was ever a prime example of a phoenix rising from the flames of backlash, then No Man's Sky would be it. What was once the dreary tedium of solo exploration and unfulfilling ending, radically changed into a kind of Elite-lite for the intrepid space explorer.