Why are there so many damn nominees? 14? FFS, at that point you might as well just hand out a participation trophy to every game you reviewed that year.
Or they just like another game better. Not voting for FF7 Rebirth doesn't mean someone automatically thinks the game is mid. I'm sure some do think that though.
Played about sixty hours - it's a 5/10 at best and only gets worse as you go. The level-design, the lore-breaking narrative decisions, the quest design, the absolutely god-fucking-awful dialogue, the repetitive combat, the breathtaking lack of enemy variety, the lack of meaningful choice or role-playing options, the lack of any real conflict or darker themes, I could go all day.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the video-game equivalent of Christian Rock: it might look like the real thing at first but you soon realize the people making it don't care about the medium or the artistry: they've merely borrowed something popular made by people far more talented and co-opted it for their own ideological purposes, stuffing in weird stuff that doesn't fit and stripping out what made it matter in the first place.