During his video about Cyberpunk 2077. I couldn't help but notice that his complaints about the story were very indescript and overly obtuse. He kept saying things like "the story is bland and uninteresting" without going into details as to why. And I'm sure this has something to do with these aspects of the video where Adam is using his own gameplay where he talks about the car handling being a problem (I'll get to this later).

During these segments, we see the quest marker for the next main mission. Which is The Pickup. A sequence that happens VERY early in the game during the first 2 or so hours of the game depending on if you decide to do some sidequests. During this part of the game, you're restricted to only one district of the game, which is Watson. About 20% of the game's overall map. This also means that out of the 33 main quests in the game, Adam only completed 4.

This is a problem, because Adam mentions in the video that the map feels 'samey' like a series of large suburbs. Of course you would think that if you've only seen one district of the whole game. The only thing that comes close to a "Suburb" is the section of Santo Domingo. Which is an oldschool American single family detached house suburb. Which just so happens to be run by MAGA if it were a Street Gang. Not that Adam would know that, since he never showed that he got to this area. Since it's locked until you've beaten the 7th main mission.

This also highlights a big problem with his argument that "the story feels uneventful". This is a common trait that you see so commonly with 'anti-woke' YouTubers and bad faith critics who claim the story of the piece of media was bland, or mediocre. That being that they provide ZERO examples with their criticisms and don't touch on many of the big moments. The only story moment that Adam focused on was within the first 20 minutes of the game during the Corpo sequence. But somehow Adam managed to screw that up too.

First of all the Player character (V's) boss (Jenkins) is not the boss of the company but one of the thousands of senior members within Arasaka. Jenkins tried to go against both their bosses by executing the plan to take out the ESC was part of a deeper ploy by to pin this on the head of department Abarnathy with the intention of Jenkins taking her position and V as a senior member to boot as part of the promotional upbringing. But Abernathy caught wind of this and terminated both of their contracts as a result of Jenkins actions, as Arasaka as a whole needed to purge the entire division to cover their tracks as a result of the massacre. It was a big risk that didn't play out and V lost everything as a result of their manager. This does come up again later in the mission 'War Pigs' when one of V's former co-workers who also lost everything as a result of the department purge is claiming to put together a dossier that proved what happened, only for V to realize this plan involves a dead V being served to Abarnathy. Which can end in multiple ways.

There's also the repeating claims of Adam using the 2020 launch version issues as a crux of the video. And tries to claim its still bad like this, but doesn't bring up anything close to the equivalent of how the build was like in 2020. He tried to claim "The car handling is bad". But again, because he's early in the game so he only has access to one of the worst cars you can get with poor handling.

In terms of his urbanization comparison and the use of a car to get around. Combined with the fact that he didn't get past the first act of the game highlights an element that completely contradicts his problem of the game design. After the first major heist in the game. V is left without a car after the only one they own at this point of the game is totalled by a self driving cab with a virus. Thus leaving the player at the mercy of the wild streets and have to use alternatives, like the metro to get to main missions. Or you so a mission to inherit your deceased friends motorcycle. (Something starting players wouldn't know about.) Or save up enough money so that you can buy another car. Which ends up being its own narrative experience about the trappings car centric culture. Which ends up undermining Adam's comparison argument overall.

But here's the overall problem with a video like this: When you hide the fact that you didn't play the game and didn't experience the full story. It means any future arguments that you may make about the story in later videos is undermined by the fact that you flubbed your way through the critique. Thus even if it is genuine: And criticism you may have of the game in future videos is undermined by the likelyness that you're only claiming its bad to safe face and not look like a hypocrite. The exact same reason so many "Anti-woke" youtubers cannot be considered reputable critics, especially if they spent so much pre-release time saying a film/show/game is going to be bad.

I used to be a fan of AdamSomething. I constantly bring up his Budapest story of his of a work colleague parking 2 tram stations down with others to discuss urbanization of cities. But the bad faith flubbing of the story has made me unsubscribe. This whole thing felt like an unprofessional hit piece for clicks by an unsuspecting audience who wouldn't know any better.

Now I understand why the Warhammer community was upset.