The long-awaited and much-delayed No Man’s Sky game promised the impossible. So perhaps it’s no surprise that it failed to deliver.
No Man’s Sky, one of the most hotly anticipated video games in the last few years, was poised to change gaming forever.
The open-world game was literally endless, its 18+ Quintilian planets generated by an algorithm and allowing players to discover brand new species of animals and plants wherever they went.
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But that gets old real fast, as disappointed gamers have discovered since the game hit stores earlier this month.
Because everything from discovering new planets to collecting materials for more space travel just seems very tedious and dull — which isn’t the feeling you want to get from a video game, which is usually designed to distract from the tediousness and dullness of real life!
This Honest Game Trailer from Smosh does a pretty good job of summing up exactly why No Man’s Sky is such a massive disappointment:
They cynically rename the game ‘Big Fat Lie,’ in reference to the special features promised by the developer that haven’t (yet) been included — most significantly the crucially important multiplayer aspect that might just bring the dynamic aspect to No Man’s Sky that the game is currently lacking.
The question is if it’s too late to get the many disappointed players back, even with such radical updates. IGN reports that a stunning 90% of PC players have dropped during the first two weeks of the game’s release, and although some drop-off is of course expected, this should raise some red flags.