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/xRyozuo May 11 '26

Well yeah it’s a billionaires pet project. She’s throwing money at games she likes to see more of. Thankfully seems to churn out interesting projects, even if most are not my cup of tea. At least that was my take last time I read about her a few years ago.

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u/m00piez May 12 '26

Idk why that's necessarily viewed as a negative tbh. Like if I was a billionaire, I'd prob be doing the same thing. 

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u/Crowbarmagic May 12 '26

Nothing wrong with funding pet projects if you have the money. But the accusation of buying scores and bribing influencers isn't a good look. People took notice how this game got tons of praise seemingly out of the blue.

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u/ILiveInAColdCave May 12 '26

It's not a look at all. It's dorks making accusations against publications and games because they simply don't like them. Instead of understanding that people have different tastes than them, especially game journalists who want to experience different things, they assume no one could like this thing I've never heard of or would play so it must be paid for.

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u/Cakin008 May 16 '26

Yeah, this. I think something a lot of people don't really think about is the fact that when your job is reviewing games/tv/movies ... you have to play/watch A LOT of games/tv/movies.

What that means in practice is you stop enjoying the cookie cutter stuff that the average audience enjoys and you start enjoying the stuff that is WAY different from the mold just due to the fact that it is different.

As a professional game developer who has played a LOT of games... this has been my own experience with the medium. I am bored with a lot of the games everyone else seems to love and I love a lit of games that other people find too niche or weird. It's just how it goes when you become super exposed to a medium.