Tbh though when No Man's Sky released - and for a good few years after - it wasn't anything close to what it is today in 2023.
In fact it was pretty awful, missing a huge chunk of the promised features (I remember the multiplayer shitstorm very well).
no mans sky's whole drama was that the game's promised procedural generation was capped, thus the giant creatures u saw in trailers and terrain was smaller.
overtime they redeemed themselves, big time.
but the lie was nothing but a cap they decided to put, not a false hype about features that never existed.
also, they never promised multiplayer, multiplayer came as a surprise.
but the planets were still traversable. the terrain was lavish.
the BIG comeback is that they enriched the game af, with new features every season. still do to this day
starfield teased and rubbed my cock with procedural generation open traversed planets, i got barren LIMITED BY BOX boring 1 fps planet with rtx 4070ti,
infinite loading screens, cannot fly in ship for real unless its a skybox in some space box,
cannot actually control ship within the planet but its a mobile decorated base/space box plane.
i've never seen such a scam like starfield in terms of what they promised. It turned out to be just a sci-fi game in vaccum atmosphere, asking for 70$ for a rather mediocre experience, if we forget the false teases. They legit lied indirectly over n over.
especially for bethesda. can you imagine this was developed ever since skyrim, in secret? it must be a big lie in itself too.
mad, it made me appreciate NMS even more.