9 Over-Hyped Video Games You Were Always Going To Hate

1. No Man's Sky

Stemming from years of what can only really be described as 'mis-marketing' on Sony's part, No Man's Sky comes from a team of 13 people with one pretty unique idea: They just wanted to build a galaxy using mathematical formulae.

Not that you'd know, because thanks to Sony putting their full marketing power behind it and showing No Man's Sky off to as wide an audience as possible, expectations for the game turned this vision into something completely unattainable.

In striving to keep the project fairly vague with the focus on "See for yourself!" exploration at launch, the insatiable need for consumers to understand what you can do ended up pigeonholing No Man's Sky's appeal into team-based multiplayer components that were never advertised, an action focus that was never there, and a game with "infinite possibilities" that was only ever in reference to the environments.

With a certain level of exposure comes great expectation, and as the vast majority of players didn't keep an eye on the gameplay footage that did come out, it's resulted in something of a backlash where people are still screaming, "So there's no multiplayer?!"

Answer? It was never there in the first place.

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Which over-hyped games 'let you down', but in hindsight, it wasn't really their fault? Let us know in the comments!