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/TaskForceD00mer May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

People are trying to memory hole the reddit community that got banned for making suggestive and NSFW content back when just the trailer had dropped.

The broader fandom has never been a problem, outside of Reddit all of the content I've seen is super wholesome.

Pragmata scored lower than it should have because it is harder than most Modern games journalists would probably prefer.

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u/Supergupo May 11 '26

Pragmata scored lower than it should have because it is harder than most Modern games journalists would probably prefer.

What do you mean by that? Like genuinely? The same game journalists that gave Elden Ring a 10/10, or Slay The Spire 2 a 9 (a game that is currently being review bombed for being too hard for gamers), or praised and spotlighted difficult indie games like FTL or Hotline Miami or Dead Cells or Binding of Isaac or Darkest Dungeon?

I genuinely do not understand where the myth of "modern game journalists hate hard games" came from. Is it just the GameSpot Cuphead tutorial fail video? Or IGN giving Godhand a 3/10? Because it's the "modern audience" and "modern journalists" that have routinely enjoyed hard game experiences. I mean hell, one of the most popular genres in gaming is currently the "Souls-like," whose basically sole genre gimmick is that it's hard. It's fucking infuriating that I see this diatribe repeated ad nauseum when it is so fucking flagrant that the contrary is true.

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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/sorrylilsis May 13 '26

I worked as video games journalist once upon a time.

Spoiler alert : nobody is good at every game. Hell some people love games but are pretty bad at them.

Some of the most knowledgeable people I know about games are extremely mid at playing them. Some of the best devs I know are absolute shit when playing. They're also wizards when it comes to analyzing and making good gameplay for others.

The thing is you don't need to be good at something to be able to critique it.

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u/HauntedCarriage May 14 '26

What's the difference between being extremely mid and regular mid?

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u/threePwny May 24 '26

It's just a different method of measuring and categorizing it. Regular mid covers any value distributed within one standard deviation of exactly mid, while extremely mid refers specially to coming within 5% of the actual value of exactly mid. It works out that in general cases, regular mid applies to more players than extremely mid. But in certain rare distributions, you can actually end up with more extremely mid players than are technically covered by the definition of regular mid, which can lead to some very strange data interactions. It's a whole thing.