8 Exact Moments That Killed Video Game Hype

I know we're all aware of the, let's just call it a tumultuous journey of No Man's Sky, but trust me for a while this did actually look to be the game to end all games. Hell, I even remember attending a gig that acted as a preview for the soundtrack courtesy of 65daysofstatic and was utterly blown away.

I, alongside so many others, wasn't just on a hype train for this game, we were on the hype station orbiting Earth gazing off into the abyss of space with feverish anticipation.

Yet the horrible pull of reality sent that space station crashing back to Terra Firma when some cheeky whippet managed to get a hold of an advance copy of the game via eBay and put up a near full preview of the launch version of the game because my God did the bloom come off the rose here.

Nearly every promise made by the devs was shown to be false or at best wildly over-exaggerated and just like that with an almost Thanos-inspired snap of the fingers, the hype was killed and now we were left adrift in the cold embrace of nothingness.

Thankfully the devs did put in the hours to actually dole out many of the promised features, but at launch, it was an entirely different story.