Mixtape - GOTY? IGN agrees!

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

I couldn't really care less about this game other than having a bit of fun watching it bomb, but there's one thing that absolutely pisses me off: The headphones one of the main characters wears all the time. They're clearly Koss Porta Pros (apparently first introduced in 1984, so actually relevant unlike a ton of other things in the game apparently), but they're backwards. RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Also, she doesn't know how to rewind a tape manually. There's a "minigame" that's supposed to consist of using a pencil to rewind a tape. You do not, in fact, rewind the tape. You fast-forward it.

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[p1138]

So it seems the Mixtape discourse whether the game is indie or not really triggered the Art Economist to the point he switched from slideshows to gameplay.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NfaroAAlIn0
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Not going to lie, hearing him losing his mind (comparatively speaking) kind of made me laugh.

This man is an idiot, holy shit.

Snowfall, an FX show, from 2017. Disney didn't acquire Fox until 2019 when 3 of 6 seasons had already been released and most of the awards it won were from prior to season 4 in 2021.

Claims the writer room Reservation Dogs was made up entirely of "indigenous people" Taika Waititi isn't even indigenous to the same fucking hemisphere as the rest of the native americans that wrote it.

Compares John Romero and John Carmack... by using Daikatana and Doom 2016. Not Quake 3 Arena? Or Doom 3(which sucked)? John Carmack didn't even work on Doom 2016, he left iD software in 2014 because that Rage bullshit fucking flopped, nevermind that Zenimax bought iD software in 2009 so anything after that including Rage and Doom 3 BFG edition weren't indie games either. Nevermind that Carmack went to fucking Oculus VR, did basically fucking nothing and then moved onto Keen Technologies in 2022 to do AI shit and still hasn't done anything.

Brings up Hiyao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli getting Disney to do global distribution(they did North American, not global)... except claims that Disney had no influence on anything but that's completely untrue as they completely fucked the English dub for Princess Mononoke by insisting it have a bunch of recognizable Hollywood names instead of just established voice actors and wound up with Gillian Anderson, Jada Pinkett Smith, etc. But as far as the content, why would Disney's distribution have had any impact on works created entirely before Studio Ghibli even fucking existed? He specifically calls out Nausicaa, Laputa, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, all completed before Disney had any involvement in 1996, and even fucks up by bringing up Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind which was done in 1984 before Studio Ghibli even fucking existed and isn't distributed by Disney or Ghibli.

He's fucking retarded, and either dishonest about so much shit or completely ignorant about crap that would have taken him minutes to fact check before spewing any of this crap.

Also, she doesn't know how to rewind a tape manually. There's a "minigame" that's supposed to consist of using a pencil to rewind a tape. You do not, in fact, rewind the tape. You fast-forward it.

Here's the clip, she doesn't even do that. She'd have fucked up the tape.

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16 de Mayo, 2026

Finally got to watch Josh's stream. I mostly agree with him, just not about the rating. I give it a 6-7.

Didn't watch the end of the stream, but the entire problem with this game is the rating. If the game journos had given it even an 8, no one would have given a shit, looked into Annapurna Interactive, etc.

It is a bit lenghty at times but does have its funny moments, including a few not too obvious references, like the one to the 1980s Loudness Wars no one seems to have got.

It started in the 80s, but never ended. As far as references to the loudness wars, they may be in...

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[Drag-on Knight 91873]

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

Eh, I like watching people crash out at this game.

 

[Captain Quazar]

I saw a few comments on this game of people saying that it has less interactivity than a DVD menu.

lolz

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

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

It should not be forgotten, it should be mocked until the people who made it cry and slink away in shame.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Claims the writer room Reservation Dogs was made up entirely of "indigenous people" Taika Waititi isn't even indigenous to the same fucking hemisphere as the rest of the native americans that wrote it.

The ultimate kek is the knowledge that no one is actually indigenous to the western hemisphere. Scalper indians (siberian ice bridge crossers) are just as "native" to America as a fucking viking in unnamed nova scotia.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Mixtape blew guys.

 

[p1138]

The ultimate kek is the knowledge that no one is actually indigenous to the western hemisphere. Scalper indians (siberian ice bridge crossers) are just as "native" to America as a fucking viking in unnamed nova scotia.

I was referring to north-south since Taika Waititi is from New Zealand, but sure. Point being, if "indigenous" literally means from anywhere then it makes a writers room full of white people just as "indigenous".

 

[FunPosting101]

I'm guessing there's all sorts of people talking about culture war related stuff in this thread, I have no problem with that, so long as we're all on the same page when I say that woke = garbage. However, I have something else I want to bring up, where's the videogame? No seriously, in Mixtape, a supposed videogame, where is the game? Where is all the stuff that makes a videogame, a videogame exactly?

So far as I can tell, based on various youtube videos, this thing is just shitty writing, shitty walking simulator content, a sound/music track with some big names on it and "gameplay" that's an actual joke, since you literally cannot lose, all bundled together into one ridiculously overhyped package that only paid shills give a fuck about.

Given that, why the fuck should I bother giving these faggots my money?

 

[p1138]

I'm guessing there's all sorts of people talking about culture war related stuff in this thread, I have no problem with that, so long as we're all on the same page when I say that woke = garbage. However, I have something else I want to bring up, where's the videogame? No seriously, in Mixtape, a supposed videogame, where is the game? Where is all the stuff that makes a videogame, a videogame exactly?

So far as I can tell, based on various youtube videos, this thing is just shitty writing, shitty walking simulator content, a sound/music track with some big names on it and "gameplay" that's an actual joke, since you literally cannot lose, all bundled together into one ridiculously overhyped package that only paid shills give a fuck about.

Given that, why the fuck should I bother giving these faggots my money?

That's the best part of the whole thing. It's not just some people complaining, it's everyone complaining. I know a 40 year old black lesbian that complained about the obviously bullshit 10/10 nonsense this "game" received, how the soundtrack is dumb, it doesn't look like the 90s, all of the anachronistic bullshit, failing to rewind a tape properly, not wearing the headphones right, the bribes the reviewers received, the lack of anything resembling a game, everything.

The general dislike of this shit has nothing to do with culture war crap, just like gamergate 1.0 didn't have anything to do with culture war crap(it was about someone blowing game journos to get good reviews). Polygon wants people to believe it's some culture war shit, because then they'll just cry about being the victims. Don't let polygon/kotaku/ign/aftermath etc trick you into thinking this shit has anything to do with being woke/culture war/whaetever. They fucked up by not making the protagonist a black tranny, and can't fall back on that bullshit to defend themselves against the obvious claims of fraud and bribery.

 

[Toolbox]

Might be a slightly off topic but some people earlier in the thread were talking about Due Process, a tactical 5v5 competitive shooter much like Counter Strike in a lot of ways.

Annapurna separated from the dev team because of the “Cops Vs. Robbers” theme the game had going on. The theme was a cyberpunk style military police force raiding terrorists, and this did not go over well during the George Floyd riots. Annapurna tried taking more creative control and required a few changes to the game. For example the attackers could not have black or blue uniforms as that was too “police” like.

Eventually the publisher dropped the dev team, killing the game as they were forced to release in an unfinished state. The dev team was only given about a month to finish the game, with no early warning, and they expected about another year to work on the game. The team disbanded shortly after the forced early release. I thought Annapurna had scrubbed all evidence of the game from their brand image.

After this occurred, Annapurna only publishes art house games. I’m not surprised at all to hear of a connection to Larry Ellison.

I've wondered about that, thanks. Is the whole story around the Due Process situation broken down somewhere? Did ex-devs spill all these details?

 

[General Zigger]

Is the whole story around the Due Process situation broken down somewhere?

I doubt there is. I’d be happy to share more if there was interest in its own thread or DMs if you want. I doubt others want to read about me sperging about a failed indie FPS.

On mixtape: I didn’t know Ellison’s daughter was a failed Hollywood producer, but it’s starting to make sense about what type of games they publish. I guess she wanted to make movies whether that was sold in theaters or on steam.

 

[FunPosting101]

Don't let polygon/kotaku/ign/aftermath etc trick you into thinking this shit has anything to do with being woke/culture war/whaetever.

I dunno about that, the self-absorbed millenial narcissism this game exudes is part and parcel of modern wokeness, so that's at least some of the reason why this game is so hated. That said, you're largely correct that a game that effectively isn't a game, like this one, is going to be hated regardless of politics/culture war stuff.

 

[Flopper]

I watched two streams of this "game" and it's worse than I thought. Putting aside the fact that it's barely a game (I thought it would be like Life is Strange where there would at least be interactions and dialogue choices), there's no fail state outside of a very brief rewind if you go off the very strict path the devs laid out for the player, the game is extremely pretentious, self-indulgent and up its own ass. The main characters are absolutely horrible people, don't behave or act like any teenager at all, and their knowledge of music (the game is set in the 90s) is unbelievable, (not to mention that the main character has wireless headphones in the fucking 90s)

The best character in the game is one of the friend's dad, who rightfully grounds his daughter for pissing her future away by being an awful human being, so naturally the game portrays him as being the villain. And the first response the main character has to this is be an abhorrent bitch and screech about how this ruins HER playlist that she set up for their party. It's all about her and what SHE wants.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Dispatch had decent writing and people still want a sequel. I doubt people will say the same about this game.

Dispatch is literally just a lowbrow rom com movie with capeshit trappings and the tpe of writing people hated about Telltale where your choices don't actually matter. It's better than Mixtape in that it doesn't do that retarded fake low FPS animation thing, but in pretty much eveey other regard it is exactly the same.

Frankly, I'm just sick of Western devs making movie games and pretending as if they're anything but hot dogshit.

 

[Captain Quazar]

I watched two streams of this "game" and it's worse than I thought. Putting aside the fact that it's barely a game (I thought it would be like Life is Strange where there would at least be interactions and dialogue choices), there's no fail state outside of a very brief rewind if you go off the very strict path the devs laid out for the player, the game is extremely pretentious, self-indulgent and up its own ass. The main characters are absolutely horrible people, don't behave or act like any teenager at all, and their knowledge of music (the game is set in the 90s) is unbelievable, (not to mention that the main character has wireless headphones in the fucking 90s)

The best character in the game is one of the friend's dad, who rightfully grounds his daughter for pissing her future away by being an awful human being, so naturally the game portrays him as being the villain. And the first response the main character has to this is be an abhorrent bitch and screech about how this ruins HER playlist that she set up for their party. It's all about her and what SHE wants.

Mixtape makes Minecraft Story Mode look like a masterpiece in comparison.

 

[pork and beans]

shalom, mixtape is my favourite video game cheers from tel aviv

 

[Captain Quazar]

https://www.polygon.com/d-topia-developer-interview/

Another likely slopfest from Annapurna.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

Wrong forum bro, try multimedia this forum is for games only.

I know I'm quoting 22 pages late but god damn semper fucking fi.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

We need to find the person who caused gaming to go "mainstream" and beat him to death with a solid gold brick that has a lemon wrapped around it.