00:01Everyone loves a good comeback story, and in the world of video games, so many have crashed and burned on
00:07Arrival, falling well short of developers' promises.
00:10But against all odds, some manage to turn it around.
00:24Widely seen as the comeback kid of gaming, No Man's Sky from indie dev Hello Games teased a potentially infinite
00:31universe to explore, but on launch day, players got a generic survival game with sparse, monotonous content and a total
00:39lack of multiplayer.
00:40Initially keeping quiet, the devs committed to doing right by fans, and several massive updates later have turned this into
00:48a success story with the game going on to win numerous awards.
01:01Few games get an opportunity to burn it all down and start from scratch.
01:06But that's what happened after the original version of MMO Final Fantasy XIV met with such a dismal response that
01:13Square Enix ultimately scrapped the entire project, shutting down servers two years later in 2012.
01:20After going back to the drawing board, a version 2.0 was released in 2013 under the moniker A Realm
01:27Reborn to both critical and commercial acclaim.
01:37Teased back in 2012, Cyberpunk 2077 released across current and last-gen platforms in 2020 after a series of delays,
01:46and suffered one of the most disastrous launches in gaming history, rapidly becoming the poster child for AAA games toppling
01:54under the weight of their own hype.
01:56The game under-delivered so spectacularly with bugs making it all but unplayable on last-gen consoles that Sony removed
02:04it from its storefront for six months.
02:06If there's one thing I can tell you about this city, you either love it or want to burn it.
02:15While the jury is still out on whether Cyberpunk has had its redemption arc, the game has since been vastly
02:21improved through a series of patches, and is set to receive its first major expansion in 2023.
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