10 Video Games That Were Sold On Lies
1. No Man's Sky
The most recent and perhaps most egregious example of a developer lying to its audience, No Man’s Sky may well prove to be the straw that broke the E3 hype train’s back.
In a series of visually stunning gameplay demos, Hello Games sold No Man’s Sky as a space exploration game in which ‘anything could happen’. It was a universe of 18 quintillion planets, with you at its centre.
The finished product left a lot to be desired, and was curiously missing some core gameplay elements that had been teased by Hello Games’ Sean Murray. Instead of the open-world sci-fi epic we were promised, No Man’s Sky was a fairly middling, survival-crafting game, albeit with its procedurally generated elements turned up to eleven. A lot of players were hit with glitches, frequent texture pop-ins, and even game-breaking bugs upon launch, which led to speculation about the legitimacy of the game’s E3 demos.
Worst of all, players were confused to find no multiplayer component within the game. Sean Murray had stated on several occasions that No Man’s Sky would include multiplayer lobbies, and that players could meet each other on different planets.
When such features never materialised, the backlash was insane, albeit not entirely unprovoked.
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