Yep and they seem to be rampant in video games studios, I don't believe this is coming from consulting firms, it's too woven in that it must be the dev teams themselves. 

Well that's it, the internet and corporate suits ruined mainstream video games. Just watched a bit of the Skill Up review.

They found my line, crossed it and goodbye Bioware.

Read the comments. It's not the only one either, I think Bioware might have fucked themselves regardless of good reviews. The anti woke police youtubers are gonna magnify this to concord levels. It just won't be cool to play this game by tomorrow morning. 

I'm so sick of culture war bullshit. No matter what side of the fence you sit on.

Culture wars have been a thing since the beginning of civilization, our ones are just magnified to high heaven with the internet. I agree with you but it's as simple as turning off your Internet or stepping away cause you can't make it stop and it never will, the new generation will win the war against this generations woke views and then the generation after that will rebel and so on and so forth. It will not end. Ya gotta disconnect from it yourself. 

Not with game reviews and I have an entire shelf of gaming magazines from the 90s and 2000s. This shit was not there back then.

Is this going to be another Star Wars Outlaws? I think this is going to become more and more common as critic and audience preferences diverge.

Not a must play according to re views. Bargain bin pick up eventually

Agreed. Don't expect everyone to ignore it now though, again this is the internet, especially when done this poorly. Bioware here fucked up and implemented their "message" badly, that's the issue. Again, Baldurs gate and Cyberpunk... no issues cause they didn't make light of it or hamfist any message on top of what they implemented which is really great stuff, really hits the mark for me. They just made it feel natural and no big deal.

I don't care about the culture war stuff, although that coming out dialog scene is pure cringe. But so were the sex scenes in DA: Origins lol.

When they say "return to form" and turn it into an action RPG with bland looking characters and boring visuals, that's where I check out. It simply doesn't look visually appealing, and the combat system doesn't look fun. With reviewers saying they turned the difficulty down to easy to get the boring battles over with faster, giant red flag.