A lead developer onCyberpunk 2077, Patrick K. Mills, has shared a negative comparison video between CDPR’s game andStarfield, calling it “fake criticism” and noting that it is “actively harmful” to the gaming industry.
As expected from one of the year’s biggest games, Starfield has been the talk of the town over the past couple of months, something that doesn’t look to slow down now the game is out for everyone.While a lot of players and critics seem to be rather happy with the game, there’s also been a lot of unhappy fans, who either have legitimate complaints about the game, or appear to be looking for reasons to be annoyed.
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Take this video from Twitter user doctorps4, for example, which compares elements of Starfield to Cyberpunk 2077, such as what happens when you jump from a tall building into water or aim a gun at civilians. Incredibly important stuff that should be used to judge a game, I agree. Even though the video is positively highlighting Cyberpunk in an effort to bring down Starfield, one developer on the game has called it out as being a bad thing for the industry.
That developer is Patrick K. Mills, senior quest designer on Cyberpunk 2077 who,as pointed out by ResetEra user Bishop89,took to Twitter recently to share the video and point out how it does nothing but harm to the industry. Mills also recognised the irony of the situation, considering this is the exact kind of thing that was happening to Cyberpunk when it first launched, with comparison videos claiming that it had less detail than games like GTA 4.
Mills said, “How times have changed. (Tbc this fake criticism is actively harmful to the way the audience interacts with the medium and I hate it, but it’s very funny to see after how many hundreds of these were made to ridicule cp2077)”. It says a lot that Mills, who has been through this exact same thing in the past, isn’t in support of it and thinks that it just serves to harm developers, even in the situation where the game that he worked on is being presented as the better of the two.
When one commenter tried to say that the point being made was lost on Mills(that being that Starfield is trying to offer “unparalleled exploration of a galaxy”), Mills rebuffed it by saying that the video has no point, since there’s no commentary and it just features a handful of mechanics being compared for no discernable reason, making it “useless criticism”. Which, of course, he’s totally right about.
