Mixtape - GOTY? IGN agrees!

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p1138 said:
So he basically made the same video that Alana Pearce made a while back, and it's still fucking dumb. "nobody would bother with 1/10 games and there's nothing to say about them so the bottom half of the scale isn't used" no one was ever demanding more 1/10 games be officially rated, nor does that account for 2-5/10.

The rest of the video can be summed up from these two slides.
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Of course the problem that he failed to address, same as a Pearce, is that if the 7 is just "competent" and everything gets a 7 by default(which should have been a 5 or 6 to provide more room for variation across the top end of the scale), and when the ENTIRE fucking reader base "just doesn't get it" then maybe the critic industry scale needs to change? If this were a discord server or something this would be the point where someone would post that principal skinner "am I out of touch, no it's the children who are wrong" meme.
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I do understand what he and Alana are arguing, though. The unfortunate reality is that the review scale still operates from an era where games came out blatantly unfinished and buggy were all the norm. Nowadays, especially with the advent of Steam's early Access, you just don't see a lot of games that have a lot of glitches and unplayable states in their 1.0 form unless the developers really fucked up, or were forced to rush out a product like Cyberpunk 2077.

Even if they overhauled the review metric and put more emphasis on whether you enjoy the game, though, I wouldn't be surprised if the scores for Mixtape stayed the same.
 
Northern Blockhead said:
I do understand what he and Alana are arguing, though. The unfortunate reality is that the review scale still operates from an era where games came out blatantly unfinished and buggy were all the norm. Nowadays, especially with the advent of Steam's early Access, you just don't see a lot of games that have a lot of glitches and unplayable states in their 1.0 form unless the developers really fucked up, or were forced to rush out a product like Cyberpunk 2077.

Even if they overhauled the review metric and put more emphasis on whether you enjoy the game, though, I wouldn't be surprised if the scores for Mixtape stayed the same.
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Oh I understand it as well. But it doesn't change the fact that if the entire target audience for the content(the reviews) doesn't, then maybe it's entirely wrong? The fact that the professional game review industry has been on a massive decline for the past 15+ years at this point is an obvious indicator of this.

But you mention coming from an era when games came out unfinished and buggy being the norm... that's still the norm for the larger publishers. The only difference is that patches can fix them, but even then they aren't reviewing the patched versions of the games either. A game that may have rated a 7/10 on launch day could become a 2/10 after a bad patch, or could be a 9/10 after a good patch. Also the fact that they don't even have the time to do any technical analysis of the games they're reviewing(not that they even try) is another huge problem.

The fact is it's 7/10 because that's how school teachers grade the "average" as a C. The problem with this is that if a student ticks all of the correct boxes on a test that means their competency can be rated as an A at 10/10 but the teacher will be providing specific feedback of which answers were wrong so they can be corrected later(usually). This doesn't work for videogames where a 10/10 gets that score because of payola or "feelings". We've seen game journos that can't understand basic mechanics written in plain English on screen, so how would those people know that weapon combos in an action game might have a problem, or that there's a glitch leading to a soft lock down a particular dialog tree? They don't, and shouldn't be expected to, but rate games using a system that implies that's what they're checking.
 
Mike Matei's Penis said:
40 year old Australian white women
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i hate 40 year old white women so much bros.

that zoe quinn had to fuck five different guys for a handful of awards on her fake game, in a just and fair world could imagine how much pussy larry “the kike” ellison’s kid would have to trade for all that admiration? and with inflation. thats some real goyim dealin in the real world type shit right there
 
Lone MacReady II said:
As a sequel to SH1, the average gamer would assume the game would be about another troubled character's mind, i.e. getting to experience the trauma of another person 2nd hand like Harry did with Alessa. You play the entire game getting peaks into the minds of other characters like Eddie and Angela, so you would be safe in assuming the game was about them, or Laura, or maybe even Mary... but no, once it is revealed that James killed Mary, the entire game is recontextualized.
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this is kind of the whole Metal Gear Solid 2 thing, too. The game does the exact same thing to YOU, the player, that the narrative did to snake in the first game. there were times in the first game that snake was unaware of things the player was aware of and that never happens with raiden.

The first game is pretty subversive as an action thriller because each villain you run into more or less spills their fucking heart out to you over how they've had a death wish for years because they don't find joy in killing anymore. Each of them spits out a similar dying breath that they're the same as snake and that snake will fail in the same way they failed. the entire game is snake going "uhhh... no u" up until he figures out the entire thing was a manipulation by his brother so liquid could pull a "no U, fgt!" at the end with the metal gear.

Then the second game tees up a sequel where you think you're again going to play as solid snake valiantly opposing a team of rogues that symbolically represent the game's theme, and that snake is going to again battle his brother, but then the game starts and you're a whiny gay teenager. Each fight is a fucked up black mirror version of an encounter from the first game where not only do all of them just die uncerimoniously before even explaining their shit, they're just trying to gaslight you into thinking that you're not just redoing the first game again. Liquid ocelot isn't even actually liquid, it's just ocelot manipulating snake! that's the whole theme of the game!
 
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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Stray was a complete bullshit walking simulator with minimal gameplay. Run around and press buttons when white bubbles to interact with pop up.

Somerimes you has to jump over things.

If it wasn't about a cat it would have gotten nothing.

Pure troonslop.
 
there is more people talking about this shit on this site than people actually playing. stop talking bout it, stop hate watching it and will be forgotten just like Dispatch did
 
El Chacal De La Trompeta said:
there is more people talking about this shit on this site than people actually playing. stop talking bout it, stop hate watching it and will be forgotten just like Dispatch did
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this is basically the thread for batting at low hanging fruit in the culture war now because nobody actually wants to play this game
 
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