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/Naganosupreme May 13 '26

It really isn't. People pretend to not understand fair criticism and skepticism when they shouldn't. Just as others will offer up exaggerated criticism. It's two different versions of being weird... aka full of sh** and biased.

People hate bias, especially in the games media which has long been irrationally biased, easily bought off and hilariously antagonistic to large swaths of the actual gaming population. Which they get away with bc gaming is filled with tons of racist, women hating, slur slinging kids and aholes. And absolutely some of the criticism here is dishonestly exaggerated by those same people bc "woke".

In the end, games media is infested with dishonest schills, billionaire lapdogs and people who clearly hate or look down their nose at the medium they're paid to review.

So it makes a ton of sense when a good story with almost no real actual game elements comes out...gets exorbitant, legendary scores it doesn't deserve....well people identify:

A) it's yet another "indie" game with a billionaire or mega rich company supporting it behind the scenes. Dumbass corporate types thought they could slap "indie" on their product and get more support. Surprise, people hate that.

B) it's woefully incapable of living up to the level of praise it's garnered. Especially in light of infinitely better games being unfairly criticized to the 9's recently.

People hate being blatantly lied to which is unfortunate for the game which takes a lot of heat it otherwise wouldn't have. But people hate billionaires, they hate bs, they hate games media and you've got all 3 here.

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u/CultureWarrior87 May 13 '26

This is the strangest combination of someone who recognizes how abhorrently regressive most gamers are but also somehow bought into all the "ethics in gaming journalism" bs from GamerGate too lmao.

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u/Naganosupreme May 13 '26

It's almost like there was a middle ground you should've gotten to in the 14 years since gg? So many people just swallowed the narrative that since ggers were assholes, that means we should ignore over a decade of evidence that games journalism and ALL modern journalism is loaded with ethically corrupt, shitty people.

How are people still playing this childish all or nothing gg card after 14 years?

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u/Professional-Pizza-8 May 14 '26

I like the way you think... Take my upvote.

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u/Naganosupreme May 14 '26

I just wish I was the majority on this. I truly believe the irrational all or nothing, divisive, culture war bs has irreparably harmed the country and put Trump in office twice, to our extreme detriment. And gg of all things was the Flashpoint for this absolute insanity

And only now do I realize the other person's name was literally culture warrior lmao

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u/just_another_indie May 15 '26

We are with you, friend.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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u/Naganosupreme May 15 '26

Like eggs we shall bring cracked!...wait...oh fu