I get that YT are dogpiling on Veilguard because their livelihoods literally depends on it, but really the longer it goes on the worse they look. It's an overreaction to a good game.

I get it, clickbait content draws views and there's quite literally nothing else they can be talking about at this moment in time. Games with very heavy DEI agendas are already gone and the next big thing was pushed back all the way to February.

With Starwars Outlaws, Dustborn, and Concord, I understood; Starwars Outlaws was very poorly made, Dustborn and Concord was excessively forceful with their messaging while also not having good gameplay loops.

Then comes BioWare's Dragon Age the Veilguard. at first with click baiting lies like "Act 1 is 70% of the game", "the entire game is like Taash's cutscene", "the ending was like Mass Effect 3-like color filter ending", they pick the ugliest Qunari they can find then say "look at how bad the Qunari are". "heterosexual males only have 2 romance options", and etc.

Then they claim Dragon Age is Dark Fantasy because of Origins, even though in Origins itself they mention Ferelden was very Backwater in comparison to the rest of the world. They actively talk about the corrupt high society of Telvani, the intrigue of Antiva, and the pompousness of Orlais.

Then they nitpicked on the weirdest optional details like "transition scars", not enough "breast/buttocks slider" (which I'm sure an adult mod is going to fix later anyways), the mirror that gave you the option to self identify. They're literally complaining about something they're not going to use anyways.

Every other day, just regurgitating the same clickbait. Why? Because they have nothing else to talk about and click bait is literally their livelihood right now.

So in order to make a living, they drastically nitpick on the extremely small details of Veilguard ad nauseum and will likely to continue to do so until the "next big thing" shows up. For now, Veilguard is literally all they have left.

I get it, the first 10-15 hours has some very questionable writing, which does improve after acquiring all companions. Taash exists and I understand people don't like the character, especially in this political climate. It's also fair that some people don't like BioWare's decision on pushing Veilguard to be more action oriented, in which they truly don't understand BioWare as BioWare has always pushed for as much action as possible in their RPGs (the same trend has been happening since Neverwinter Nights to Jade Empire to Inquisition to Andromeda to Anthem); Squaresoft / Square Enix has done the same thing, always pushing for more action while maintaining strong RPG elements.

Other than the questionable writing decision made for the first 10-15 hours of the game, everything else is really well made and extraordinarily well optimized. Bugs are at a minimum, the levels look phenomenal, the overall story is the best BioWare has released to date, the gameplay is solid, the game length is good. Overall one of the better game released this year.

And quite literally the last lifeline these click bait YT channels have for the time being.