Daniel Vávra is a Czech video game maker, famous for heading up the writing teams of Mafia and Mafia II, as well as Kingdom Come: Deliverance (for anyone who doesn’t know, these are considered some of the better written video games; he was only 27 when Mafia was released, so it was quite an accomplishment).
For whichever reason, he is currently out there shilling Cyberpunk 2077.
Finished @CyberpunkGame and apart from the slow start its a masterpiece. Story by Adam Blacha and Tomasz Marchewka is fucking awesome and visuals are unbelievable. Congrats to @adambadowski Mateuzs Kanik and the whole @CDPROJEKTRED team. Best game of last two years foe me. ??? pic.twitter.com/GGOOn7l34n
— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) December 16, 2020
Apart from many other things @CyberpunkGame had the best written love/sex scenes and relationships in a game (except Theresa in KCD of course :)) Texting with Panam was like real life. I almost really fell in love with her and the tank scene… 🙂
— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) December 16, 2020
Regarding all the hate against @CyberpunkGame. I was very sceptical about the game when it was announced and I didnt expect that they will repeat the success of W3. So I was totally blown by the game and its narrative. Its alsp technical and artistic marvel. Period.
— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) December 16, 2020
He even claimed, absurdly, that the game is better than Red Dead Redemption 2.
Waaaaaaay better. And I loved rdr1.
— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) December 29, 2020
And – wait for it – better than Grand Theft Auto V!
It didnt. GTAV is a giant sandbox with tons of cool minigames and activities, but the gameplay and execution of missions is very simple compared to this. Devil is in the details.
— Daniel Vávra ⚔ (@DanielVavra) December 16, 2020
There are really only three reasons he would be saying this stuff:
- He wants to be edgy and transgressive, going against the general consensus that Cyberpunk is garbage
- He’s literally being paid to shill, or
- He was drunk and just trolling people (note the number of typos in those tweets)
The basic fact of reality is that even totally aside from the technical problems, Cyberpunk is just not a good game. I have a very good gaming computer (bought for me by readers), and my bugs were very minimal, and I found the game to be utterly draining. It is terribly written, and the gameplay is tedious and bad.
Thankfully, these people are getting their comeuppance, in many different ways.
A recent post on Niche Gamer explained that CDPR is literally telling people to finish the game as fast as possible in order to avoid corrupting their save files, then went on to list some of the many problems that the company is experiencing in the wake of this horrible game’s launch:
As previously reported, the game’s numerous delays and leaked footage were not the end of the woes for CD Projekt Red. One reviewer suffered a major epileptic seizure, and accused the developer on basing the Braindance headset off a medical device designed to intentionally induce seizures.
Despite high praise from initial reviews, the Metacritic user score was far less. Currently the Metascore for the PC version of the game is 86, with a user score of 7.1 (out of 10). Meanwhile, the game’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One user scores are 3.3 and 4.5 respectively (with Metascores of 55 and 54 respectively).
It should be noted that those who have not played the game may also be submitting user reviews, as Metacritic does not verify if a user has completed or played a game. In February for example a user of Reset Era orchestrated the review bombing of AI: The Somnium Files.
Metacritic placed a 36 hour grace period on user reviews for video games in July of this year. Metacritic would later insist this decision was not motivated by reactions to any particular game. That year also say low user review scores for Warcraft III: Reforged, and The Last of Us Part II.
Users complained of Cyberpunk 2077‘s numerous glitches and bugs, along with poor optimization and the console version having inferior graphics. Even critic reviews that praised the game also discussed those issues. Since then a hotfix has been released, but CD Projekt Red stock value dropped by 29% in a week.
CD Projekt Red apologized for not showing Cyberpunk 2077 running on last-gen consoles (though they did show the game running on PlayStation 4 Pro), and for the unstable launch of the game. As such they offered full refunds. However, one investor has begun a class action lawsuit.
A Q&A investor call reportedly had CD Projekt Red denying they had any special agreements for refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 on consoles, and that they were working on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game “until the very last minute.”
I hope the company collapses.
Frankly, they should be taken to The Hague and tried for crimes against humanity.