edit: My bad, it was the fucking Marvel SNAP card game, not Rivals. Still published by a subsidiary of ByteDance... which is just another chinese publisher.
Is there any Australian game for which he won't shill? Even then, the review amounted to "this is a vapid three-hour music video with no depth, conflict or character growth, but it's a cool music video. Recommend."
Maybe. But my point is the chinese publisher of the mobile game is going to be telling the devs what to do 9 times out of 10, even if the dev team is in the US they're still going to play by chinese rules.
There actually is a list of artists for the game, but the names are all over the place so they're literally just commissioning whoever. https://marvelsnapzone.com/artists/
As one of the handful of people on earth who thought Exp33 was not a good game and got shit on everywhere for wrongthink, I feel vindicated now that people have been circulating this photo of Anita cozying up to the devs at GDC this year after her STS2 consulting was found out. View attachment 8988692
Always remember she's been connected to Ubisoft where Sandfall's founder and other devs worked at previously. Landfall and now maybe Sandfall? Why are the names so similar? Something stinks here... View attachment 8988721
They would let her on in a hearbeat to get some French government DEI grant money. Now the antiwoke youtubers that bent over backwards to kiss Sandfall's ass instead of seeing what the devs were (a nepo company of all white libfrogs that made a mediocre RPG and are just as woke as the rest of AAA), are begging them not to have anything to do with her.
If the list is correct, Mixtape is better than every single Dark Souls game, with the exception of Elden Ring. LMAO. Expedition 33 got a 9/10 for compairson.
If the list is correct, Mixtape is better than every single Dark Souls game, with the exception of Elden Ring. LMAO. Expedition 33 got a 9/10 for compairson.
I suspect that that is highly incorrect. On their Gamescoop podcast they always mention that they gave a lot of GB and GBA games tens back in the day but I only see, like, Pokemon, Zelda and Mario games there and stuff like Mario Advance (its SMB 3 with added features) and Link's Awakening is nothing to laugh at.
A little bit of a self-promotion, but last day I made a thread dedicated to games like mixtape: games that game journalists gives a shit about, get stellar scores as a result and then fade to obscurity nobody has played them.
I originally had a bigger introduction in mind, but I decided to cut it because the whole thing was retarded, so here's a TL;DR on why I decided to made a tread on the topic and what kind of games its about.
What do "games for impact" means?
Its a category at the gay awards, which aims at covering and rewarding all those nominal indie nominal videogames that a game journalist uses on a daily basis as replacement for porn for whenever they need to masturbate.
(bear in mind, game journalists don't actually play videogames, so they'll be watching a let's play of those games...
People are trying to find a term for those non-games, like "jounoslop" but I wanna say a term has been there all along, since they are referred to as "games for impact" at the game awards.
if the list is correct, Mixtape is better than every single Dark Souls game, with the exception of Elden Ring. LMAO. Expedition 33 got a 9/10 for compairson.
Both Hollow Knight games a 9/10 too.
Although depressing, the review score isn't as bad as the load of gay journalists referring to it as an indie title, that one is really hitting on a nerve.
There's something almost comical in seeing these faggots play strawman argument, same retard bullshit disney used when that ugly incompetent nigger played the main character in the nominal obi wan kenobi series.
> We asked the Mixtape devs how they made 2026's highest rated game
Honest answer: "so we've spent, like, four hours a week trying to get everything done, and then Ms. Ellison came in and rated our game the highest everywhere lol."
This is only a smidge more dishonest than when Digital Foundry, - an outlet that focuses on hardware and vidya performance, - conducted an hour-something-long interview with Remedy on how they've made the most STELLAR narrative-driven game of 2024 with Alan Woke 2. Remember when that happened? I had to be reminded.
"Indie" game funded by both oligarchs and government funding that spouts THE MESSAGE and spent a fortune on licensed music.
The attempt to shift the idea of indie away from self funded 3 guys in a garage games to groups with this kind of backing is some of the most evil gaslighting yet
I've said it before but "Underage Lesbian Simulator" is the creepiest of genres beloved by the creepiest of people. God, one of the mouths still has braces even.
So limited color Koss Portapro headphones run $50-60. A lower quantity run would likely cost more per unit. The Syitren r300 CD player retails for $100(it appears to be in a stock color). The t-shirt looks like shit(stitching and collar from the video of the retard who posted his on X), probably $20. The other junk in the box, CD(probably burned) with a custom jewel case insert, ringpop hackey sack, koosh ball, techdeck, bubbletape, stickers and poster another $15.
Plus packaging and shipping, this shit is a $200 box of crap sent to people that gamers are just supposed to accept wasn't a bribe.
Remember, the publishers and studios with even larger budgets send these people on trips to fucking Disneyland for crap like Starwars Outlaws, or fly people out to studios for demos and parties like Highguard. Alyssa Mercante got herself a vacation from NY to Italy that was setup before she was fired as a game journo to promote the latest Anno game.
But no, if you call out the obvious bullshit you're just some evil gamer chud.
edit: Something else about this game. It's called "mixtape" but the characters have discmans? In the mid 90s a CD burner would have cost a couple grand, and no kids would have had access to one. Even by 1999 they were still $150+ and the price didn't plummet to nothing until a few years later. But then there's also basic looking portable cassette radios sitting around that wouldn't be right either for the mid to late 90s.
This also doesn't look right for an 80s or 90s slurpee or icee machine
80s skateboard instead of 90s skateboard
This game has no idea what fucking time period it's supposed to take place in, and all of these millenial game journos are retarded claiming it reminds them of anything when shit is so fucking mismatched.
CD player, a shitty CD + tape filled with 90s hits that makes for the soundtrack, a sticker of a fake mixtape game for the game boy, posters and more shit.
You see, when a bunch of asian game devs puts a good looking female character in their game, its sexist and horrible, especially if the character is underage and people don't want to fuck her.
When a western nepobaby makes a grotesque close-up french kissing between ugly teens that totally is just as sexually charged as its disgusting, its stunning and brave.
No, I was pointing out how fucking absurd it is that after so many years of this bullshit that they still expect they can gaslight the internet into believing their retarded narrative.
No, I was pointing out how fucking absurd it is that after so many years of this bullshit that they still expect they can gaslight the internet into believing their retarded narrative.
Annapurna has just successfully gaslit a thousand people into believing Mixtape is "what the nineties looked like" and that "it made them nostalgic for the decade", so don't be surprised to see this pop up again.
In the mid 90s a CD burner would have cost a couple grand, and no kids would have had access to one. Even by 1999 they were still $150+ and the price didn't plummet to nothing until a few years later.
Already mentioned that one in the troonslop thread a couple times. The presence of 80's tech and aesthetics(?) on some things at least makes sense - but having a burned CD on there is kinda like seeing a QR code in a pseudo-PS1 game. It existed in the nineties, sure, but you'd have to be working at a Denso factory to actually spot one.
Annapurna has just successfully gaslit a thousand people into believing Mixtape is "what the nineties looked like" and that "it made them nostalgic for the decade", so don't be surprised to see this pop up again.
Already mentioned that one in the troonslop thread a couple times. The presence of 80's tech and aesthetics(?) on some things at least makes sense - but having a burned CD on there is kinda like seeing a QR code in a pseudo-PS1 game. It existed in the nineties, sure, but you'd have to be working at a Denso factory to actually spot one.
What I remember from the 90's is grunge, dial-up, and a lot of borderline goth/emo art and music that's edgy enough a modern game journalist would burst into flames like a vampire in sunlight.
I can't be the only one who remembers Metzen's solid color artworks in the Starcraft 1 manual, complete with vulgarity and tobacco use.
What I remember from the 90's is grunge, dial-up, and a lot of borderline goth/emo art and music that's edgy enough a modern game journalist would burst into flames like a vampire in sunlight.
While accusing critics of lavishing praise on Mixtape because of payola is probably not entirely incorrect, a real problem is this is the sort of game that a lot of journalists and reviewers would enjoy. “Vague mush of 80s/90s nostalgia, Audio Casettes! VHS tapes!, teen rebellion! but everyone talks and acts like an 'alt' scene member in the Twenty Teens" is catnip for these people. They'd give it a 10 out of 10 even without being paid, and a lot of the people rushing to its defense are doing it for free, because Mixtape is a perfect game to them (it even plays itself!) and of course it's another chance to Own The CHUDs, which is a paramount goal for them.
a real problem is this is the sort of game that a lot of journalists and reviewers would enjoy. “Vague mush of 80s/90s nostalgia, Audio Casettes! VHS tapes!, teen rebellion! but everyone talks and acts like an 'alt' scene member in the Twenty Teens" is catnip for these people.
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