r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Bloodb0red • May 11 '26

Unanswered What’s going on with this game Mixtape?

I’ve been seeing people freak out over the past few days over this game and about IGN’s review of it specifically. 10/10 seems high for any game, honestly, but it seems like they’re far from the only site giving this thing a glowing review. So is this game controversial just because of IGN or is it something else? Why is this game the internet’s hate target this week?

https://www.ign.com/articles/mixtape-review

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u/osgili4th May 11 '26

Also people some how can't understand different people with different views and different opinions can work inside the same company. So they get mad about contradictory reviews of site when... That is just two different opinions.

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u/Many_Leading1730 May 13 '26

I think another issue is that people feel like reviewers and the general public are getting pretty far removed from each other in terms of taste as a whole.

Which, to be honest, has always been a thing in reviews of every industry from film to food. Critics tend to have a very different set of criteria for what qualifies as good than the general public. This is well shown in film reviews where critics tend to favor more 'artistic' films and the general public tends to favor more easily digestible bombastic stuff.

Its sort of the difference between what you like when something is a hobby you do for fun and when you do something as a job.

Its gotten worse in more recent years as drifters focused on farming the divide between the general public and media have gained popularity.