Daniel Vávra, Deliverance 2 Director, Criticizes Lower Scoring Outlets on X/Twitter

Daniel writes: "You trusted source of gaming news! Last time they refused to give us any score 🤣"

"A trusted news source. Mission accomplished. We no longer have 90% Metacritic score. Be proud of your excellent journalistic standards!"

[Putte]

What the F is this. The game has insane good reviews everywhere and a nearly 90 on metacritic. Makes no sense this article.

[Killa78]

He should accept the criticisms for bugs and fix them.

Crying about poor review scores when reviewers are calling the game out reeks of insecurity and gas lighting.

If I played a game that deleted 3 hours of progress because of a crash / glitch, I certainly wouldn't be rating it a 9/10.

[H9]

Yeah that's the only reason why I wouldn't say Dragon's Dogma 2 was game of the year because it was broken

[thorstein]

Critics are crybaby narcissistic trash. Always have been, always will be.

[1nsomniac]

The job of any games reviewer is to objectively review the game as a commercial product sold to a customer. I’m sick of reviewers believing they shouldn't disclose bugs and that they should be ignored for the purpose of the review. Just shows how incompetent at the job they are.

[H9]

Reviewers were out talking about the game and it's political views but ignored the performance, and this guy is looking for every negative word that have been said about the game to harass who said them, the game is sitting at 88 and that guy is still complaining

[porkChop]

I don't agree with him calling out the review outlets as reviews are entirely opinion-based. I do agree with his criticism of metacritic though. Many issues with how they weigh reviews. OpenCritic is just a much better aggregator.

[anast]

Your game is janky, it's lucky to get an 8.

[leemo19]

Well I understand calling out the main Eurogamer one. That reviewer was just blantly bad and so many things she said either wrong, couldn't figure out the most basic things like bringing up your torch.
She mainly just wanted to criticize the director than review the game.

[gold_drake]

agreed.
i read that article and it was ... ridiculous.

[XBManiac]

Haters will hate. This game is far better than anything Bethesda, Bioware and company have done in the past 10 years.

[SimpleDad]

Criticizes and bans bad reviewers. Absolute joke of a man.

[Dandizzle]

He is right, it's simple. If your a lower more trashy outlet (like a lot of sources here on N4G). You want to exaggerate anything you can so it appears so outrageous it gets attention and clicks. Accuracy, legitimacy, decency in journalism all come secondary. Thats how the journal industry works for games.

That's also how you get guys like Jason Schreier getting so prominent. That guy was doing exactly this same thing as these folks on X just years before. I have actually worked at places harmed by this kind of just shitty journalism for clicks.

[RaidenBlack]

This is an N4G submission?

[Knushwood Butt]

It's been vetted!

[Deeeeznuuuts]

The game looks great by what I've seen but this guy seems like a bit of a knob, he's said a few things now that just don't shine him in a good light at all

[jznrpg]

Don’t bitch at the bad reviews it’s a bad look.
Even if you make an amazing game you will get a few lesser reviews.
Some people don’t like certain types of games but review them. Some people have bad taste.

You will always have some detractors for good reasons or not. Just the way it is. But to retaliate doesn’t help you in any way even if it’s warranted.

The lower scores I read was mostly because of performance issues and bugs. How much a score should be affected by that is debatable but it’s definitely acceptable to deduct points from a game at launch if it has some serious issues.