"Hatred" Reveal Trailer. Or as I like to call it, "The Next Big Controversy"

[SomeGuyOnHisComputer]

It just looks like a Postal knockoff to me.
I doubt It'll have the balls to be as outright nightmare inducing as Postal though. So I wonder ... what's the point?

 

[sataricon]

It just looks like a Postal knockoff to me.
I doubt It'll have the balls to be as outright nightmare inducing as Postal though. So I wonder ... what's the point?

what's the point of making 100 assassins's creed games?
Why make 15 or so of the Fifa games?

Money that's why.

 

[Wraith]

Not gonna lie, I'd play the fuck out of this, because I am very entertained by brutal gameplay and destruction physics. It's why I played GTA all of my life.

 

[Fishyash]

In all seriousness, this game could end up being really good, like an isometric run & gun game such as Metal Slug. The villain protagonist idea is hardly fresh and doesn't seem well done. Looking at the team in the website it looks like there are no writers, so I won't be getting my hopes up for an interesting story.

Anyone notice how the link provided in the description of the youtube video? The one that goes the games site? Notice how kid friendly the game presented in the site actually is? Yeah we got played like a fiddle.

Kid friendly? Are we looking at the same website?

A few of the developers have apparent links to white supremacist groups: http://fucknovideogames.tumblr.com/post/100204212288/hatred-is-a-genocide-simulator-developed-by-neo-nazis

I'd support a product if it's good enough, even if I thought it was developed by horrible human beings. Wagner's operas and his influence to the music art form is the best example I can think of.

 

[Zhukov]

Oh man, 14-year-old-me would totally buy this.

Although I suspect that even 14-year-old-me would turn his nose up at that voiceover.

If they're aiming for disturbing then I think they're rather wide of the mark. Disturbing is found in the small and subtle and grounded, the humdrum and everyday, not in the big and bombastic and over the top. At least for me.

It'll be pretty funny if it actually does turn out to be made by neo-nazis. I mean geez guys, way to live up to the stereotype.

It's a shame really, some of those destruction physics actually looked pretty cool.

 

[Gladion]

Oh man, !4-year-old-me would totally buy this.

And 14-year-old-me would talk to you about it at school all day long.

Seriously, though, pretty much everything about this trailer is embarrassing. The monologue seems directly ripped out of House of the Dead Overkill minus the self-awareness.

It is time for me to kill... and it is time for me to die!

 

[Irick]

Oh man, !4-year-old-me would totally buy this.

And 14-year-old-me would talk to you about it at school all day long.

Seriously, though, pretty much everything about this trailer is embarrassing. The monologue seems directly ripped out of House of the Dead Overkill minus the self-awareness.

It is time for me to kill... and it is time for me to die!

I like how this thread seems to have turned into comparing this game to games that are way better.
This bodes well for its future release.

 

[Bombiz]

No, yeah, I'm picking this over brooding uninspired bullshit any day.

Except this is brooding and uninspired bullshit. This is the most brooding game I've seen ever.

 

[WindKnight]

So... someone really decided we needed A new ZOGs Nightmare, and wants to get it on Steam?

yeah... this is really not boding well at all.

 

[Popido]

Say what you want, being politically incorrect seems to be working for them.

Already people are calling them crazy, edgy, tryhards, childish and what not. Cmon on. Theres a fucking goat simulator! I really don't want to use relative fallacy here, but please. Think for a second. Judge the context and quality of this trailer with Goat Simulator sitting next to it, and tell me again how tryhard, random, edgy and childish it is.

All we know, the game might be good. Are we judging the quality of the context or the context's subject itself?

Edit:
And after rewatching the trailer, are we seriously questioning the mental health of a character that goes Postal? Obviously, the context would be better if it was a love story or revenge trip.

 

[Blue C Jeffrey]

Say what you want, being politically incorrect seems to be working for them.

Already people are calling them crazy, edgy, tryhards, childish and what not. Cmon on. Theres a fucking goat simulator! I really don't want to use relative fallacy here, but please. Think for a second. Judge the context and quality of this trailer with Goat Simulator sitting next to it, and tell me again how tryhard, random, edgy and childish it is.

All we know, the game might be good. Are we judging the quality of the context or the context's subject itself?

It's certainly working, all right.

[link]http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/10/16/the-video-game-morality-questions-raised-by-mass-murder-simulator-hatred/[/link]
[link]http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/16/6988687/the-worst-trailer-of-the-year-revels-in-slaughtering-innocents[/link]

I still don't know what to think after processing it since yesterday.

I'm starting to think it's more meta-commentary than anything else. Reading how some people talk about being the bad guy, the horrible shit they did in games like Fallout and GTA with glee, you'd think people would be alright with this 'specially after Postal.

I guess it's the reactions of the civilians. Usually they're either running around yelling their heads off or letting loose annoying quips. Here, though, they seem to build the impression of fear and wanting to live. Strikes a harder chord, I'd imagine.

That, or Not Important looks like the stereotypical high school outcast.

 

[Bombiz]

Say what you want, being politically incorrect seems to be working for them.

Already people are calling them crazy, edgy, tryhards, childish and what not. Cmon on. Theres a fucking goat simulator! I really don't want to use relative fallacy here, but please. Think for a second. Judge the context and quality of this trailer with Goat Simulator sitting next to it, and tell me again how tryhard, random, edgy and childish it is.

All we know, the game might be good. Are we judging the quality of the context or the context's subject itself?

Edit:
And after rewatching the trailer, are we seriously questioning the mental health of a character that goes Postal? Obviously, the context would be better if it was a love story or revenge trip.

You're assuming that I actually liked Goat simulator. They're both bad games its just that this one is so pretentios and straight faced about it that it just rubs me the wrong way.
As far as I see it both this game and goat simulator are the exact same game with the exact same fan base.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

So basically they made a shitty generic game with nothing going for it and are hoping to sell off controversy. I think everyone should just forget about it, ignore it and hope the developers come up with something better to spend time.

Pretty much what you wrote. The media controversy due to this game will promote and sell it for them.

 

[Herman Hedning's mace]

As many has said before me, it's obvious that the game is trying really REALLY hard to be edgy and go against the stream of modern culture. But honestly violence is (ironically) the safest way to be edgy, to the point that barely anyone cares about anymore.

You know what would actually be edgy in a video-game? If the main character was in a healthy homosexual relationship.

 

[Adam Lester]

You know what would actually be edgy in a video-game? If the main character was in a healthy homosexual relationship.

Army of Two? I found it progressive for its portrayal of two very, very masculine non-stereotypical homosexual males engaged in a deep and understanding relationship but it seemed lacking in the gameplay department.


On the subject of Hatred...yeah, that game looks groan-worthy. If it were on consoles, I'd assume preorders would include a box of band aids so you don't cut yourself on that EDGE

 

[Popido]

Say what you want, being politically incorrect seems to be working for them.

Already people are calling them crazy, edgy, tryhards, childish and what not. Cmon on. Theres a fucking goat simulator! I really don't want to use relative fallacy here, but please. Think for a second. Judge the context and quality of this trailer with Goat Simulator sitting next to it, and tell me again how tryhard, random, edgy and childish it is.

All we know, the game might be good. Are we judging the quality of the context or the context's subject itself?

Edit:
And after rewatching the trailer, are we seriously questioning the mental health of a character that goes Postal? Obviously, the context would be better if it was a love story or revenge trip.

You're assuming that I actually liked Goat simulator. They're both bad games its just that this one is so pretentios and straight faced about it that it just rubs me the wrong way.
As far as I see it both this game and goat simulator are the exact same game with the exact same fan base.

Then let's take the other end of the spectrum and compare it to Blood Money. Another pretentios and straight faced game about killing innocent people for no higher ideologies. Or love.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Gotta be honest, the actual shooting and gameplay mechanics actually look pretty dang good, and the environmental destruction looks well done. It kind of looks like a darker version of the awesome "Alien Shooter" with much better graphics.

But as many have said, if 90% of the game is just shooting unarmed civilians for sheer shock value, then no thanks.

Also, the main character looks like the love-child of Rob Zombie and Nathan Explosion.

 

[Verlander]

Looks a bit crap if you ask me. Most games that work the controversy angle this hard tend to be.