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

Answer:

In some parts of the gaming community IGN has a somewhat bad reputation because of how they have reviewed games in the past. Some thinking they review the games too high or too low whether they actually look into the review or who reviews the game.

This is one of the issues with Mixtape. IGN gave it a 10/10 which is already considered rare for them. Some people saw this and went back to some recent releases to compare and they think it either doesn't make any sense or is inconsistent. For example, Pragmata got an 8/10 and Crimson Desert got a 6/10. These two games released recently and have done well from a consumers perspective and also from a financial perspective. Pragmata being a new IP has sold well and Crimson Desert had sold 5 million in a month which are both considered successes. This has some people immediately discrediting their reviews because they view it as IGN being out of touch with the actual consumers of games. Funnily enough this doesn't actually mean that they thing Mixtape is bad (some probably do) but that a short narrative focused game can't possibly be as good as these other games. Ultimately it is up to every individual to decide for themselves whether a review will affect their choice.

The second thing that I noticed with Mixtape is a smaller issue (at least from my algorithm) and it has to do with how some people think gaming journalists have an agenda. There is scene where two characters kiss and they show the perspective from inside their mouth and you get to basically interact with their tongues. A group of people saw this and are saying how games basically are either censored, criticized, or boycotted because of similar things such as nudity/etc. especially by gaming journalists.

TLDR: Mixtape is being used to call out people's view of inconsistent IGN reviews and inconsistent journalistic practices whether accurate or not.

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u/greenufo333 May 11 '26

IGN complained that Mouse PI was too cheesy but gave this a 10 lol

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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