Dragon Age: The veilguard reviews at 83 Opencritic/84 Metacritic.

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Chazore said:

Darc Requiem said:

Machina the critics hate their audience. As an older gamer, the contrast between what passes for gaming journalist now to what I saw in the 90s to early 00s is night and day. If it were just a matter of different taste, I don't think most people would care. However they praise things they know the audience won't like out of spite. "To own the chuds". I don't understand this modern mindset of willfully antagonizing your customers, they pay the bills. Chasing them away leads to the business folding.

Was talking about this with my partner the other day, where I was talking about the old days, where reviews within magazines talked about just the games, not the critic's viewpoints or irl political stances, nor any shade thrown towards the critic's audience. 

Today it's a different story. There's that infamous Kotaku review of the PS5, where most of the review went completely off the rails and involved talks about Trump and right wing folks, both of which had nothing to do with Sony, nor their PS5 release.

Journalism feels like it's becoming a lost art, as well as the integrity that goes with it. Now it's all about making mula in whatever way possible.

100% agreed.  My kids love Harry Potter, I read the books to them when they were little.  I recall when Hogwart's was released, all I wanted was a review of the actual game and got nothing but political BS.  Heck, for a period we weren't even supposed to talk about it here on the forums.