Mixtape - GOTY? IGN agrees!

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durrdurrdurr said:
Arrested development is a pandemic.
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I prefer the term used in Road House, "40 year old adolescents".
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Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
 
Northern Blockhead said:
Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
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Isn't Stray like a cat simulator with some light story?
Mixtape is literally just cutscenes with boring ass minigames.
 
Northern Blockhead said:
Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
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I believe there was a wave when it came to games like Stray, especially since the game with bare bones gameplay won during the Steam awards for Most Innovated gameplay. It got a pass due to you playing a cat, but even then video game journalists and their love for pushing one button gameplay were deep throating the game.

I think this time around the wave was too big to ignore, so people actually took a deeper look inside. Didn't help when you have the deep throating being too blatant of journalists saying that this game changed my life, you need to play this right now coming out of top video game media outlets.
 
Northern Blockhead said:
Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
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I think what made people express their frustration with mixtape (atleast for me) is that it is barely a game but still got 10/10 from most gaming news. Paying off reviews aside, You cant give the best score to a game that barely even functions as a game to begin with. Atleast Stray, Life is Strange and even Dustborn has gameplay elements, choices and fail states. Mixtapes has none of that other then pushing a few button and holding a stick sometimes.

All of this reminds me of Gone Home (was it not made by the same studio?) that came out over a decade ago. It also got 8s and 9s it didn't deserve (since you could "beat it" in less then 10 minutes) but atleast it had gameplay with you, searching a big mansion for clues of what happened to the people who live there.

Mixtapes just feels like an insult to games that pour their sweat and tears into their gameplay.
 
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Northern Blockhead said:
Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
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The problem doesn't lie within Mixtape's existence; the problem was the unanimous 10/10 GOTYAY from the usual suspects, the subsequent full-throated defence and the obvious astroturfing. Nobody cared about Stray because the press didn't treat it like the second coming of Christ. Also, it had some gameplay instead of none.
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I don't think anybody but outrage farmers and their audience is claiming that Mixtape doesn't have the right to exist. It's the journo's reaction to it and, yet again, tangible proof of the main sites' nepotistic culture, their disconnection with the audience and clique-like behaviour.
 
this game is just like "my immortal"!

(except not as funny and memorable as "my immortal")

maru su's/self inserts
random musical numbers
unnecessary swearing (what the hell are you doin' you mutherfukers!)
thinking boozin' and drugs are cool
uncomfortable intimacy scenes
unaware of how subcultures act and behave (metal for mixtape goth for my immortal obviously)
poor understanding of past decades (80's for my immortal 90's for mixtape)


bizarre how alike they are
 
Northern Blockhead said:
Maybe it's just me, but if Mixtape being published by Annapurna Interactive (and likely had been funded by the Ellison's) is such a big problem; where exactly was the outrage when they published games that most folks loved, like Stray?

I am most certainly retarded, so take this with a mound of salt, but shouldn't the principle be applied across all their games? :\
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The reason is that Mixtape is a good target, it's not woke or meme "cute cat game" so the indie trannies feel safe riling against it without a danger of backlash, trying to take down Annapurna which does a lot of artsy games "on their turf".

Lots of arguments about the game are ridiculous when Visual Novels are regularly reviewed and get high review scores if they are coom/woke enough.
 
Maybe Im reading into it a bit too hard... but does this nepotism dev's reach actually get to the piracy scene?
If Fitgirl is giving it that sorta approval and people defending it, could they be exerting influence over the piracy scene to boost the perception that this game is popular?

IDK if ive ever heard of a dev or really any sort of company trying this route for increasing the visibility of a product
 
One_True_Yuri said:
Maybe Im reading into it a bit too hard... but does this nepotism dev's reach actually get to the piracy scene?
If Fitgirl is giving it that sorta approval and people defending it, could they be exerting influence over the piracy scene to boost the perception that this game is popular?

IDK if ive ever heard of a dev or really any sort of company trying this route for increasing the visibility of a product
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this game is trying to sell the past to people who didn't live through it as a commodity by appealing to their adolescent emotions. it's retreading the 90's for zoomers. because i was just barely old enough to live through it i don't really see the appeal but i think someone around the age of 20 with a particular obsession with nirvanna era alt rock will probably find this game appealing. it's total slop aimed straight at gen z, of course, but i think it's worth pointing out that i'm 32 fucking years old and the only video game i can think of that validated my own personal experiences in a video game is fucking Gone Home. Yes, i too also experienced these things as an adolescent! whoa! No wonder Gone Home 2: Electric Boogalloo has gone over so well with certain fans

Of course, i don't play video games to validate my own personal experiences, but that's kind of the rub of this and why i think people are reacting to it with disgust. zoomers as a generational cohort are kind of are desperate to have their experiences mirrored in fiction in the same way that boomers are desperate to be validated, except they don't watch television.
 
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