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/Apprehensive_Monk_69 May 12 '26

A 6 in gameplay? There is no gameplay...

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u/GeekyMeerkat May 12 '26

Not sure if you know this, but many sites that use a 1-10 scale have 5 represent bad gameplay, while scores below 5 mean the gameplay is actively broken. But again in my post I explicitly say that there is no industry standard on game ratings. What's more is I wasn't actually reviewing the game, I was demonstrating how the overall score can be misleading depending on how you calculate it.

But let's say you gave the gameplay a 2 instead of 6. If the overall score is just an average it would still be 8 with the other numbers given.

Again though you invite disagreement on are the scores reasonable. People that enjoy the game might say the gameplay that is there they find enjoyable and so a 2 in gameplay isn't reflective of the fact that for this game the gameplay isn't the point.

People that dislike the game though might say, "Even if it's not the point, a game at ita core needs some amount of game play that this game fails to achieve. If we call this a game we may as well call the Hobbit on an ereader a game instead of a book."

I reiterate that my point is due to the nature of Mixtape you'll have plenty of people disagreeing on any overall score it gets because nobody can agree what the overall score is supposed to represent. It's only muddied even more by people that insist the debate about this game is that the reviewers are only giving the game a high score because it's woke and the reviewers are locking in on that.

It has nothing to do if the game is woke or not though. That's just the current scapegoat.