First Look at Hatred - Spoiler: It's not very good

[Zhukov]

Why do people not like it? looks great.

Wish I understood what they were saying.

"GermangermangermanHatredgermangermanTrenchcoatgermangermanClippinggermanSlowdownsgerman."

But yeah, looks pretty uninspired.

Oh, and the dialogue. "You smell of weakness you ****", "I'm a man of hatred and disgust." Too edgy for me.

At least the environment destruction looked decent.

Fuck off racist

Greetings and salutations friend!

You seem like a sterling individual of refined tastes, transcendent intellect and impeccable personal hygiene.

I look forward to many more fruitful and stimulating exchanges of thoughts and ideas such as this one in the future.

I wish you well and hope you have a glorious and fulfilling day!

 

[vledleR]

Also, it's not "banned". ESRB has no legal authority to ban anything. That's a voluntary decision on part of the retailers.

You're getting into the semantics of the word "ban". I never said the ESRB had legal authority, but GOG simply doesn't sell the game, and Twitch will kick you off their service if you play there game. Call it what you want, but it restricts the sale of the game.

Me not wanting it to be rated AO is simply as to not give the developers free publicity, pretending to be "edgy" and market itself to people that want to stick it to the man. I find that obnoxious as all hell. I'm not against Hatred because it's immoral, but because it's stupid, shallow and cynically marketed - Void of moral and any purpose except to cash in. It looks absolutely mediocre too, which affirms my view that it's just a cheap cash in.

You really should've proofread that.

 

[Mutant1988]

You're getting into the semantics of the word "ban". I never said the ESRB had legal authority, but GOG simply doesn't sell the game, and Twitch will kick you off their service if you play there game. Call it what you want, but it restricts the sale of the game.

That's not the fault of the ESRB still. To get a product approved for sale, you need to be rated by them. But retailers have no obligation to restrict the sale of AO titles. They do that anyway. Want to complain about that? Send a message to GoG, or Twitch for not letting you broadcast it.

Not choosing to sell a game on your market place does not constitute a ban.

What Twitch does is a ban on broadcasting it - Which again, is entirely at their discretion and nothing forced by ESRB.

Me not wanting it to be rated AO is simply as to not give the developers free publicity, pretending to be "edgy" and market itself to people that want to stick it to the man. I find that obnoxious as all hell. I'm not against Hatred because it's immoral, but because it's stupid, shallow and cynically marketed - Void of moral and any purpose except to cash in. It looks absolutely mediocre too, which affirms my view that it's just a cheap cash in.

You really should've proofread that.

Not really. I don't hate Hatred because it's immoral. I never said it was.

I hate it because it's a mediocre attention grab.

The second statement asserts that to me, it's void of any moral (That's amoral - Not immoral), good or bad. It's not genuinely trying to challenge anything, nor is it's offensive material anything more than a means to an end (NOTICE US!). It's just a cheap cash in on engineered controversy and nothing else.

The true message to take away from Hatred? People will buy anything if they think it's sticking it to the man or annoying someone else.

 

[sageoftruth]

Did they mention the sound design at all? From the footage I've seen, that's the only redeeming factor

According to TotalBiscuit's look at it, the physics engine was also a strong point, but otherwise, it was repetitive, dull after the first few minutes, and a bit buggy in some parts. Also, as the trailer demonstrated, it had super cringe-worthy monologues. Without the "edgy" trailer it was merely a below-average game, destined to fade into obscurity.