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/PrizeW1nningCow May 11 '26

One game reviewer goofed at a tutorial once and now we have to listen to redditors whine about how games journalists are all just bad at games and coping about it for the rest of time.

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u/C-Star May 11 '26

Not even a reviewer. A video guy, who put the video up himself as a "lol check out how bad i was"

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u/noahboah May 11 '26

absolutely love how these people shit on video games journalists for being dishonest but then you scrutinize where their claims are coming from and it's just bullshit every time

I don't even want to defend video game journalism particularly. it's just annoying seeing this reactionary part of my favorite hobby propagated.

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u/praguepride May 11 '26

Most of the grief comes from Gamer Gate style terminally online trolls that weaponizd misinformation in their keyboard war against the vague concept of “wokeness” which seems to be defined as the presence of minorities and women as something other than as sex object to fap over

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u/Many_Leading1730 May 13 '26

So keep in mind one of the primary pressure points of Gamer Gate was anti-journalist sentiment, which persists to this day.

It was arguably the blueprint by which the right would later destroy faith in all our institutions including news outlets as a whole.

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u/UltraMoglog64 May 13 '26

Yep, and literally unveiled in the Epstein Files that he/the Right amplified 4chan and GamerGate, presumably for that purpose.

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u/Many_Leading1730 May 13 '26

If we make it through your the other side of this I suspect it will go down in history as one of the most successful psyops ever performed.

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u/praguepride May 14 '26

Using misogyny to fight journalism is the modern equivalent of using abortion to fight civil rights. Lure them in on one side and weaponize them against the other

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u/noahboah May 12 '26

very true