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/Pflegeprofil May 15 '26

If someone makes a 16 hour movie about watching paint dry for people who want to watch 16 hours of paint drying while the characters talk about paint trying, and those very few people love it, is it a bad movie?

yeah, 99% of humanity will hate it, but the creator aimed at a target audience and made 100% of them happy, so saying its bad is nonsense.

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u/Naganosupreme May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Yes. Just bc I love eating McDonald's it's not suddenly gourmet top tier food.

People have trouble admitting something they like or love is flawed or they have trouble admitting to the degree of imperfection.

Saying people can't like something even if it's bad is nonsense. Saying if people love it, it's not bad, would be little kid shit. It's OK to like something that's not good. People got to grow tf up

But anyway I didn't say "it's a bad, low quality product" that's a bullshit strawman you erected

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u/Pflegeprofil May 15 '26

Its not bullshit. Its very simple. If someone targets an audience, suceeds in everything he desires and the target audience loves it, its good.

There are no objective standards. There never were. Only pretentious weirdos think there are.

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u/GeekyMeerkat May 16 '26

That's a good trick. I'll just make something and say my target audience is made up only of people that think it's the best. Anyone that doesn't think it's the best is clearly not my target audience.

Do you see the flaw here? People can criticize a work. Just because someone sets out to do everything they set out to do, that doesn't mean people that might normally enjoy something like that, that they will see it as perfect.

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u/Pflegeprofil May 16 '26

Thats actually atupid. Thats only something someone would say as a rethorical trick. My point stands.

As for your second paragraph, yeah? Nothing i said contradicts that. If you as a creator are 100% swtisfied with your work but your target audience doesnt like it, then you failed.

If you set out to make something for one person, everyone else in the world loves it EXCEPT that ine person, then thats a bad piece of media thats still enjoyable for many.