Hatred Review: A controversial game that isn't really worth hating

A game based off of nothing more than mass-murdering innocent people...you want kids playing games like that?
thats is why kids have parents, to educate them, if you cant/ dont want to do that or rely responsibility/ blame on someone else, you shouldn't even be allowed to have kids
 
A game based off of nothing more than mass-murdering innocent people...you want kids playing games like that?

Kids play on PC nowadays? ... we're all grown ups here playing grown up games. If your mindset is that only kids play games, then you are in the wrong place.

"Hatred" is not meant for grown-ups. It's for ****-ups. I would never trust the mental state of anyone who emotes positively while playing that odious piece of digital swill.
 
With all the shootings we've had idk how they can release a game like this. Might as well make a 911 simulator while your at it.....

So what if someone did? People need to grow a pair. More people have died as a result of street crime than have died in war or mass shootings. More people have died or suffered PTSD and disabilities in war than have suffered the same in mass shootings. In fact, the suicide rate for veterans in America vastly exceeds the suicide rate for victims of mass shootings. Yet, I don't see many of these moralizing pontificators calling out Battlefield Hardline or Call of Duty for being insensitive (though there seems to be some token acknowledgement given to GTA).
 
So what if someone did? People need to grow a pair. More people have died as a result of street crime than have died in war or mass shootings. More people have died or suffered PTSD and disabilities in war than have suffered the same in mass shootings. In fact, the suicide rate for veterans in America vastly exceeds the suicide rate for victims of mass shootings. Yet, I don't see many of these moralizing pontificators calling out Battlefield Hardline or Call of Duty for being insensitive (though there seems to be some token acknowledgement given to GTA).

It's actually quite the opposite, I know veterans that play Call of Duty as a means to coping with being out of combat. Neither of those mentioned games have the single goal of murdering innocent people and police offices. Think about it, that is the ONLY goal. They might as well call the game "I'm a terrorist". I'm all for "violent" games to increase the realism, but this one goes one step too far. All it takes is one mentally unstable gamer to let this game get into their head/feelings and they go act out what they just played.

I play PC games. I thoroughly enjoy them... Just not when they are blatantly promoting terrorism. I'm not saying "START A VOTE TO BRING IT DOWN!" I'm simply voicing my opinion, which is exactly what the comment section is for.
 
It's actually quite the opposite, I know veterans that play Call of Duty as a means to coping with being out of combat.

Anecdotal evidence doesn't refute the point. I've met and played games w/ veterans who avoid Call of Duty and other "realistic" shooters specifically because it reminds them of their deployments. That no more supports my point than it refutes yours. The point is that the calling out of a developer for being insensitive to victims of violence is entirely hypocritical.

I play PC games. I thoroughly enjoy them... Just not when they are blatantly promoting terrorism. I'm not saying "START A VOTE TO BRING IT DOWN!" I'm simply voicing my opinion, which is exactly what the comment section is for.

Exactly. But it's also for discussion, which is all I'm doing. I have little interest in playing Hatred because the premise of the game exceeds my tolerance for gratuitous violence. However, statements like "Hatred is not meant for grown-ups. It's for ****-ups. I would never trust the mental state of anyone who emotes positively while playing that odious piece of digital swill" and "With all the shootings we've had idk how they can release a game like this. Might as well make a 911 simulator while your at it....." are so demonstrably irrational they beg further commentary.

Neither of those mentioned games have the single goal of murdering innocent people and police offices. Think about it, that is the ONLY goal. They might as well call the game "I'm a terrorist".

It is "I'm a terrorist." You play as a mass murderer. A deranged psycho who belongs in a straightjacket, not a blank-slate avatar intended for role play. Literally it is about being the bad guy. It does not celebrate evil, it does not promote evil. It simply attempts to present that evil from the perspective of the evildoer.

All it takes is one mentally unstable gamer to let this game get into their head/feelings and they go act out what they just played.

People have been making this exact argument for decades. It was irrational in the 90s, it's irrational now.
 
It's rated M. Kids shouldn't be playing it.

It's actually rated AO, which is hardly a fair thing. Why don't things like Postal, GTA 5 and such get an AO rating? You clearly in GTA 5 for the story get a torture scene, but that slides past with an M because of what? Probably bribed to let it pass, or they never seen those pieces of the game.

I an loving the game so far. It does not deserve all the hate it is getting and it is exactly what the developers promised and then some. A dumb, violent, and over the top shooter.

8/10
A game based off of nothing more than mass-murdering innocent people...you want kids playing games like that?

Oh noes.. the kids might get their hands on it?! Better start lobbying against such things, especially since we have too many preferring to be in a nanny state. Just ship such people over to the UK, where they have silly laws for things like this.

It's for the parents to decide besides, this isn't even sold on shelves because of it's rating. They purposely went to the ESRB for a rating, and got slapped with the AO rating which they used for shock value. Due to it's rating, all the "news" sites jumped on it as a result. Since they can get their views / clicks for the day, because it's of course the most "controversial" kind of game in this day and age. 2015 and we're still afraid of things, because parents flock together making excuses for their laziness.

I don't care for how any parent wants to act, don't lay the blame on others because of your choices. Should we start burning those filthy books? Or how about we ban movies as well? Do you actually monitor your kids, while they go online and probably look at things they shouldn't too? This isn't the fault of anyone but the family, just it's always easier to turn a blind eye and shift the blame.

Only reason a company will cave in is because, everyone on mass spams them until they roll over. Then they use this as a means of saying, they conquered a giant company who was pushing filth on their kids. You often then wonder, why a company sticks to what it can see as safe. Because pushing the envelope leads to a backlash, then having to retreat with their tail between their legs. Losing probably millions upon millions, due to a possible recall or some other reason.

Why did this come about? To push the envelope obviously, and it comes off as rather pathetic. Only the big companies can't be seen as doing this, because one bad thing will lead to many ignoring them. Especially wide scale it could have an impact, on jobs and much more but people clearly don't care about any of that. Smaller teams can come together and make something like this, push the limits further and then move onto their own actual dreams.


Also no I won't make a TL;DR because people should read what I said. :p


This rant was incomprehensible nonsense.
 
This rant was incomprehensible nonsense.

Good to know. :p

Should I link to various articles and such just so, there are bread crumbs for someone to follow? I sourced a good few things, also some possible biases but we all know it's truthful. Sorry it doesn't flow well enough, I get tired of people beating a dead horse.

It's actually quite the opposite, I know veterans that play Call of Duty as a means to coping with being out of combat. Neither of those mentioned games have the single goal of murdering innocent people and police offices. Think about it, that is the ONLY goal. They might as well call the game "I'm a terrorist". I'm all for "violent" games to increase the realism, but this one goes one step too far. All it takes is one mentally unstable gamer to let this game get into their head/feelings and they go act out what they just played.

I play PC games. I thoroughly enjoy them... Just not when they are blatantly promoting terrorism. I'm not saying "START A VOTE TO BRING IT DOWN!" I'm simply voicing my opinion, which is exactly what the comment section is for.

Can we kindly stop the whole excuse of "video games did this to someone"? What about all those books that are a dime a dozen, you could likely pick up that are way worse? We have movies that go over the top, some niche movies and such can go into further details on things. TV shows? Do we need to really point out, there have been a ton of violent shows too?

It's your comment but don't be surprised, when people comment back on your thoughts. I'm not even attacking so much, as pointing out everyone's scapegoat that games do this but nothing else does. Also it's only on PC, so it limits access to the game. Even then? It's mindless violence, it's just the whole frame of mind and everything that makes it seem too much.

How does that really compare to over the top arcade style shooters, where people are literally splattered in bits? It's over the top silly while being mindless "fun" in such a game, I guess we should consider both completely different ends of the spectrum despite doing the same kind of violence. I'd like to see someone make a mod for this game, put rainbows and lollipops everywhere then see the reaction to it instead.

We can paint it any different way we want, it's still violence but the whole "dark and gritty" feeling makes it too over the top. I find it complete cheese and overrated on all fronts, hopefully anyone who got the game got a refund on it. Not because it's "too violent" but because it's just, cheesy and pointless violence. It's just slapped with a different coat of paint, and in a different kind of skin than we're really used to seeing it in.

Play it for a short while, get a refund and move on please. Just because you seen something here, doesn't make it worse than any other shooter game. ;)
 
Can we kindly stop the whole excuse of "video games did this to someone"?

Now stop right there. This isn't Rapture and you aren't Fontaine. Allowing video game super villains to subconsciously influence your speech patterns only validates the claim that violent games program vulnerable minds.
 
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