"Hatred" Most likely the most edgiest game ever announced!

[ZombiLoin]

i can safely say however that if their intention was to make people uncomfortable and "stir the pot" so to speak they are definitely doing that.

i don't really approve of the game, it's "plot" or it's gameplay but i honestly think a little controversy once in a while isn't that bad.

[Ad Bot]

[Arekan]

Everybody now-a-days is edgy. Once something like this comes up, everybody puts their babypants on and starts trying to act so disgusted by it.
It's really funny lol.

I'd get this game, because if there's one thing I like about games, it's execution animations instead of just plain running around, shooting then until they ragdoll, then running away. This seems to have lots.

[John Freeman]

i can safely say however that if their intention was to make people uncomfortable and "stir the pot" so to speak they are definitely doing that.

Yeah
Even though I said I'd play it, it did make me a little uncomfortable.

[ZombiLoin]

on the other hand it seems to me that this is just a full 3d hotline miami but with a much bleaker color palette and less tongue-in-cheek absurdity.

and this game seems more like satire than anything else. it's so impossibly offensive (and the blurb on the website kind of points that out) that it's probably a comment on violence in video games in general. it's what tons of people do in gta (including me) minus the colors and the humor.

[Foxscotch]

on the other hand it seems to me that this is just a full 3d hotline miami but with a much bleaker color palette and less tongue-in-cheek absurdity.

hotline was great despite the violence. it was pretty, the soundtrack was incredible, and I personally really liked the psychological stuff in the first half, and it was pretty disappointing to me that it kinda went away after a little before the hospital
but this is just absurd. they're making a violent game just for the sake of making a violent game. and I don't feel like it's appropriate at all, with all the mass shootings that have been happening. giving those people so much media attention was bad enough already. now we're gonna make a game about how cool it is to go out and shoot random people just because?

[Jairo]

controversy marketing

it's worked for other games (cod, gta) so I can see why they would model it

[ZombiLoin]

Hijackahoy. I like this comment on Neogaf by xandaca.

-"It's a clever conceit. Players slaughter people in their thousands without thinking just because a game tells them a character is a villain, a guard or a soldier. Games have repeatedly embraced torture as a gameplay mechanic to no complaint from gamers, they have indirectly encouraged players to laugh at killing prostitutes and strippers, reduced the idea of taking a life to a number on a score or a variable determining bonuses later on. Now this comes along and everyone gets all righteous? I'm calling bullstuff on that. This is the sort of game most of you will have been playing your entire gaming lives and as many have pointed out, a small reskin, a justifying objective or the dishonest pretense of 'satire' would make it all OK in everyone's eyes. No matter how it turns out, this game looks to be offering exactly what so many other games do but without any excuses to hide behind: murdering people as an accomplishment and source of pleasure. Anyone who has ever played and enjoyed a Rockstar game in particular has absolutely no justification in getting high and mighty over this."-

I find it fascinating how a straight up murder sim that the media so often 'stereotypes' video games as can actually be interpreted. I mean it could totally just be some neo national socialist stuff a couple people made but hell even if it is that doesn't mean we can't deconstruct it and critique it in relation to other games, that whole 'author is dead' thing with what a piece of creative art is between the minds of those who made it and those who consume it.

If vidyagaems is art, then we must accept everything from both ends of the spectrum, walking sims to murder sims and all.

[Qwepir]

also since when did people care about violence lol
so what if this is running around killing people it's not like we have a couple other games to do the same exact thing
 i wouldnt mind some sandbox game that looked good doing the same thing

• Yes, all you do in Call of Duty is run around killing people, but it is a war game where you are playing as soldiers and killing other soldiers. Soldiers kill other soldiers in war. It is contextually appropriate.
• Yes, in Grand theft Auto, you can go unload a machine gun on a beach until SWAT takes you out, but this is not required by the game to progress, and most of the enemies in those games are either rival gangsters or corrupt cops. Any massacres you go on are not necessitated, nor are you significantly rewarded for doing so.
• The only gameplay shown off in this trailer is of the player character chasing down random civilians and doing edge-tastic executions because the player character is an edgelord who wants to die violently.

If you think all three of these situations are the exact same, then you have a problem. There are games where all you do is kill people. There are games where you can kill innocent people. There are very few games in which all you do is kill innocent people. Postal springs to mind, but that game is so absurd that it's practically satire. This stuffshow is just playing it straight and comes off looking like it's marketed solely to psychos.


moralcigarette rant aside how the stuff could this be fun to anyone for more than 5 minutes? it looks like alien swarm if the aliens were running away from you instead of attacking. it's like some top-down shooter made for absolute pussies who don't want a challenge

[John Freeman]

• Yes, all you do in Call of Duty is run around killing people, but it is a war game where you are playing as soldiers and killing other soldiers. Soldiers kill other soldiers in war. It is contextually appropriate.

Remember, no Russian.

[Qwepir]

Remember, no Russian.

That scene was portrayed in-universe as the vile act that it is, and the player was not required to even touch the trigger to progress. It did not glorify the mass-shooting of an airport.

[Tayasaurus]

Shadow the Hedgehog model DLC when

[Arekan]

That scene was portrayed in-universe as the vile act that it is, and the player was not required to even touch the trigger to progress. It did not glorify the mass-shooting of an airport.

Looks like this game has no progression, either. The player can walk around not doing anything probably. Also, if you didn't notice, it seems to have cops in it just like GTA. Soo.. invalid argument, because it's like GTA.

[ResonKinetic]

oh boy HERE WE GOOO

[Foxscotch]

That scene was portrayed in-universe as the vile act that it is, and the player was not required to even touch the trigger to progress. It did not glorify the mass-shooting of an airport.

you were also warned and given the option to skip it, the entire point of the game was by no means to kill civilians in an airport

Looks like this game has no progression, either. The player can walk around not doing anything probably.

is this supposed to be a joke? like are you serious

[Jairo]

"SCHOOL SHOOTINGS RISE 0.2%!!! IT'S THE DARN VIDYA GAEMS"