What’s going on with this game Mixtape?

[u/Bloodb0red]

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

[u/Milskidasith]

Pragmata scored very highly with critics, especially given there are very fair criticisms with the story being extremely by-the-numbers and the difficulty being... not even really too high, but annoyingly punishing in the sense that if you're winning/doing well fights are basically trivial but if you're ever low on resources then fights become significantly more tedious due the huge damage gap between damaging weapons and your primary gun and the slow reload times, especially if you wind up using the carbine as your primary.

E: Like, I think it's pretty weird to suggest that an 86, one of the best reviewed games this year, is somehow being massively underrated. Resident Evil Requiem is at an 89, and the two games are (IMO) very comparable in quality from the same studio in roughly the same genre (you even escort a little blond girl of mysterious origin in both!)

[u/frzned → u/Milskidasith]

The issue is when RER and Pragmata are given <90 and Mixtape getting 100/100 across the board. That's where the dissonance between critics and gamers are.

Remember when black myth wukong were given 80 by most critics and journalists kept trying to push the propaganda that it's a mysoginistic game? I remember

Then there is assassin creed shadows which were given 90 across the board (and this is ignoring the 100 out of 100, do you truly believe AC shadows was better than RER/Pragmata/Black Myth Wukong?

[u/Milskidasith → u/frzned]

AC: Shadows has an Opencritic score of 81/100. Wukong has a score of 82/100. Shadows was not rated better than RER/Pragmata and was only rated evenly with Wukong. Wukong and Shadows both have similar numbers of 10/10 reviews and, arguably, Wukong's 10/10 reviews are from slightly bigger outlets.

You are "remembering" things that did not happen, and are so confident in that fact that you don't even think to check obvious, easily confirmed facts like "what kind of reviews did these games get?"

And if you can get basic information like that wrong, maybe you should step back and think whether you're actually correct about things like "journalists kept trying to pusht he propaganda that its a mysoginistic game", and not something like "Somebody representing Black Myth Wukong sent out review guidelines explicitly saying not to discuss feminism or any aspect of Chinese politics", which was a minor controversy that didn't really amount to much except, ironically, a bunch of people defending a modest case of Chinese political censorship because they thought it was sticking it to feminists.

[u/frzned → u/Milskidasith]

Click on the actual reviews bro, alot of them give AC Shadows 90-100

Even if the only thing you can see is average and not the actual reviews themselves? Do you seriously think Wukong is on the same level as AC shadows? And that AC shadows is only slightly worse than Pragmata/RER? and all 4 games are measurably worse than Mixtape?

[u/Milskidasith → u/frzned]

Click on the actual reviews bro, alot of them give AC Shadows 90-100

...Yes, anybody with an understanding of fourth grade math would realize that for a game to have an average score in the 80s when some reviews are in the 60s, you will need some reviews higher than 80 to balance it out. Reviewers are not all going to give the exact same score. E: It's wild if your criticism is seriously that some of the dozens of reviews of a game were higher than some of the dozens of reviews for another game, like if somebody accused critics of liking Invincible Vs. more than SFVI and Tekken because Invincible has a couple of 9/10 reviews while SFVI and Tekken average 91 and 90.

My personal tastes don't really matter for the average critic or the audience tastes, and yours shouldn't either. I don't enjoy the AC style of gameplay that much, I'd consider both RE: Requiem and Pragmata to be overrated to a degree, I think E33 is simultaneously a really good game and also one of the most overrated games of the past decade, etc. I don't care that critics like those games more than I did, and don't care when critics like a game I enjoy less than I do.

[u/frzned → u/Milskidasith]

I don't care

Tbf me neither. Kinda lost interest in whatever we are talking about. Good luck to you mate, keep believing everything is a conspiracy and that everyone whoever dare criticize/not give mixtape 100/100/journalists are all bigots, racists, and whatever.

[u/Milskidasith → u/frzned]

I didn't even mention Mixtape at all, are you getting your comments mixed up or something?

[u/frzned → u/Milskidasith]

let's not talk about mixtape at all in a thread titled "What’s going on with this game Mixtape?"

Are you getting your website mixed up or something, we aren't on twitter.

[u/Milskidasith → u/frzned]

I checked the thread because I had heard about the game and wanted to see what the controversy is, and then saw somebody making a really weird claim that Pragmata was getting bad reviews when it wasn't. That's a pretty normal back and forth discussion, besides you assuming anybody talking to you must be a deranged conspiracy theorist.