Yes, NMS was overhyped and completely failed to meet expectations. But it was also complete garbage on release. 7/10? Not even close. It’s one of the only games I ever bought on physical disk that I returned because it was so bad when it wasn’t unplayable. That wasn’t a problem with expectations, that was a terrible fucking game.
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sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Maybe No Man’s Sky. I’m not too sure what people think of it now a days but it had a massive turn around since launch
Stillhart@lemm.ee 8 months ago
fushuan@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Sure, but this post is not about 7/10 games on release, it’s about 7/10 games now vs their expectations now.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Eh. NMS is unfair because it is literally a different game today then when it launched.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 8 months ago
Sure but still today there are people who say it is too shallow and dull, and at that point I think they are just expecting it to be fundamentally different.
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 8 months ago
Absolutely
To be fair, originally it utterly failed to do most that they promised and I don't blame anyone who felt burned because of that and gave up on it,
But today, it does some of the craziest stuff that it promised that at the time sounded like pipe dreams. The planets are some crazy and different some of them seem downright surreal. I made a base on a planet with a landscape made of stained glass crystals. The animals are wild and weird. Getting to learn to communicate word by word with multiple different alien species is pretty cool. The dynamics of trading are pretty interesting. Raiding derelict freighters is creepy. And you can play all of it with your friends.
When people say it's shallow, I wonder if they didn't even try to bite into it or they are expecting custom story content in every planet. I have played it for hundreds of hours and I didn't even finish the main story quest. Each aspect of the game has a lot to offer.
Because of that I'm also really looking forward for their new game.