I never fully understood the hype.
I certainly don't understand the amount of hype, especially when looking at the various interviews with the lead developer. He never actually promised much.
It's a triple-A game in the vein of numerous mediocre indie games.
Not correct, actually. It is an indie game. It's confusing because it's the first indie game that gets a physical release, and the physical copies are (I think) published by a AAA-studio... but the game itself was developed financially independant, and digital publishing is independant. The game is not released by Sony, but by Hello Games. And it's also the first indie game that gets released with a "AAA-"price (a classification I find inherantly stupid... a game is not worth more or less just because it was published by a large studio). Time will tell if it can justify that price. Me, I'm onboard because I never actually thought someone would dare an experiment with procedural generation on this scale.
I've seen the recently leaked footage of course, and it is pretty much what I expected from what the developers actually said about the game.