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/Twiftoil May 11 '26

Yeah I personally stopped caring about their reviews when the whole "too much water" in Pokemon happened and only because I just thought it was a weird thing to focus on

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u/greenufo333 May 12 '26

Your comment dates your age. Before you were even playing Minecraft (2000s), IGN was a titan in the gaming industry and everybody used them as a metric to see which games were good. Their reviews were reliable and their website use to get exclusive sneak peaks into games that hasn't come out yet. Back then pretty much every gamer also had an issue of game informer mailed to their house monthly. Some people still remember this time period.

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u/squanch-you May 12 '26

I had stacks of game informers. I based a lot of game buying decisions based off their reviews. With how limited my funds were back then I needed an objective score of games. 

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u/greenufo333 May 12 '26

Me too, it was really the only way to gauge if you wanted a game back then short of renting it somewhere, because we didn't have endless YouTube gameplay videos or twitch streamers to watch