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One of Cyberpunk 2077’s developers doesn’t seem happy with someone using his game to dunk on Starfield.
We’ve yet to finish our Starfield review, but it’s already obvious to everyone that the game suffers from all the usual technical problems of a Bethesda game.
Some will be less bothered by this than others, but certain fans have started to make direct comparisons between Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077, presenting the latter in a much more positive light than usual.
One of Cyberpunk 2077’s own quest designers, Patrick K. Mills, jumped onto Twitter to defend Starfield, blasting the comparison video as ‘fake criticism.’
Despite what you might imagine, the video in question doesn’tfocus on any bugs or glitches but rather technical differences between the two games.
One example is how pointing your gun at other characters in Cyberpunk 2077 elicits a reaction, causing them to crouch in fear or run away, but none of that happens in Starfield.
Another is how shooting at bodies of water, or diving into it, in Cyberpunk 2077 creates ripples, but not in Starfield.
‘This fake criticism is actively harmful to the way the audience interacts with the medium and I hate it,’ he tweets. Although he does admit it’s funny seeing Cyberpunk 2077 being presented as the better game when these same types of videos were made to criticise it in the past.
‘There’s no commentary, just a handful of features being compared,’ Mills adds in response to someone defending the video.
‘What’s the meaning of this comparison? How does this relate to how I should feel about or experience these games? Useless criticism.’
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It is possible to read Mills comments as being passive aggressive – after all he did highlight the video – but he does seem to be genuinely frustrated at the comparison.
The lack of interactivity in the Starfield world is something we’ve already noted in our review and there are certainly some sections of the two games that look quite similar – with both having a heavy influence from Blade Runner.
The one clear advantage Starfield has over Cyberpunk 2077 is that, while it does contain noticeable bugs, it’s nowhere near as broken as CD Projekt’s game was at launch.
Most fans seem to have forgiven those problems by now though and it’s going to be interesting to see how Starfield’s reputation evolves over time…
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One of Cyberpunk 2077’s developers doesn’t seem happy with someone using his game to dunk on Starfield.