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

[vledleR]

I take issue when he says 'colorful'. I can hardly point to a modern game that is colorful.

...Preach it Destructive Creations. Fuck colors man. I can't go anywhere in games without seeing red orange yellow green blue purple and pink. It makes me sick.

See, stuff like this is why I consider them trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy. Granted the color scheme was one of the few things in this game that I thought was actually interesting. Everything in black and white but with a few exceptions. I've always been a sucker for that. Still that's made interesting because they used COLORS! In a minimalistic way true, but they still used colors. 1/10, not nearly edgy enough.

It may just be me, but it seems the word "colorful" was used to be evocative of diverse representation, rather than the literal definition

 

[Erttheking]

I take issue when he says 'colorful'. I can hardly point to a modern game that is colorful.

...Preach it Destructive Creations. Fuck colors man. I can't go anywhere in games without seeing red orange yellow green blue purple and pink. It makes me sick.

See, stuff like this is why I consider them trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy. Granted the color scheme was one of the few things in this game that I thought was actually interesting. Everything in black and white but with a few exceptions. I've always been a sucker for that. Still that's made interesting because they used COLORS! In a minimalistic way true, but they still used colors. 1/10, not nearly edgy enough.

It may just be me, but it seems the word "colorful" was used to be evocative of diverse representation, rather than the literal definition

Well even then they still fucked that up considering that even the trailer showed a nice range of diversity with victims.

 

[RJ 17]

Considering that they're now "featured content" around here, I'm not certain I should link to the Game Theory episode that speaks about this game and how the controversy up to it was all exactly what the developers wanted in order to promote their game and push sales. Basically it compares the controversy over this game to the controversy over the game series that would eventually go on to become GTA.

And really, you'd kinda have to be blind to see that that's not exactly what was going on to begin with. Why else make a game that's so obviously deliberately trying to be "offensive"? You'll get people talking about your game, that's why. Brand Recognition and all that jazz. Doesn't matter if it's just a "meh" game after that, you've already sold your product and gotten the money, no need to be concerned with it beyond that point.

In short: this game was only ever meant to be a quick way for the developer to make a buck...I doubt they really gave a damn about it's artistic value (not going to say whether it has any or not...I'll leave that judgement to people who actually feel like arguing about it ).

 

[OneCatch]

Well,i'm buying it anyways out of spite. And to surprise all of the pro-censorships fools out there, i am going to play the game, then Go outside and NOT murder everyone i see. That'll teach em.

And to surprise all of those oversimplifying everything, i am going to criticise the game because it looks like an offensive, incompetent mess, then Go outside and NOT call for it to be banned.

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On topic, yeah, it looks kind of boring. Like one of those top-down cartoony shooters you used to see online. Art style seems ok, kind of Sin City-ish. Still not a fan of the whole 'super-edgy-as-fuck' premise though. Meh

 

[FPLOON]

Is it weird that I was hoping this game would be more open-ended to how you would "clear" stages to keep the replay factor in check?

Other than that, I'm assuming it's better to stick with the Postal games, then?

 

[MonsterCrit]

Gee , Hatred, possibly not good. Who could have forseen that. Aside from the fact that people often compare it to POSTAL and POSTAL 2. People seem to forget that neither of these were very good games.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Sounds about like what I thought it would be, which is disappointing.

 

[RedRockRun]

Watch all the professional game critics step in line to go over-the-top, trashing this game as though they're in the 50's and proclaiming no affiliation with communism. I'm sure they're all chomping at the bit to jump on that bandwagon and get their "Hero" gold stars.

 

[Tilly]

I'm completely on board with pushing back against this recent trend of treating all fictional representations as being somehow equivalent to their real life brethren. The complete lack of evidence for any of that type of theory is reliably ignored for the sake of any agenda people want ammunition for nowadays.

I just wish they'd pushed back with a game that I had a slight interest in playing. I'm not paying just for the shock value or the symbolic allegiance to being politically incorrect. I do that constantly anyway for free.

 

[Adultratedhydra]

Looks like a functional twin-stick shooter re-imagining of the original postal.

Sorry were we expecting some groundbreaking masterpiece?

 

[Erttheking]

Watch all the professional game critics step in line to go over-the-top, trashing this game as though they're in the 50's and proclaiming no affiliation with communism. I'm sure they're all chomping at the bit to jump on that bandwagon and get their "Hero" gold stars.

Oh what? Were they supposed to lie and say they liked it better than they did? Besides, the only review I can find right now is destructoid, which only gave it a 5.5, which they deem average.

I never got why some people care so much about what reveiwers think.

 

[Fox12]

I'm absolutely shocked that a game that looked like a mediocre piece of crap is turning out to be a mediocre piece of crap.

And what exactly makes it a " peice of crap"? The fact you don't like it?

*Cough*

No.

- Controls are wonky and don't work well
- The Game is too easy
- The game is repetitive and doesn't offer much.

That makes it a bad game. But buy a controversial game for being controversial. Don't demand too much of them. You're just falling for their plan anyway.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

Well at least it's the first A rated game on steam which will hopefully open the door for more A rated game. to bad the first seems like it's going shit but at least it did something important for the games industry

 

[Lunar Templar]

what a surprise.

a game trying to be controversial, turns out to be not very good.

what a shocker.

>.>
<.<
do I really need the '/sarcasm' for that? should hope not.

 

[Zhukov]

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.

 

[Zeraki]

Not very surprising, the only thing the game had going for it was the developer intentionally making it as offensive as possible to boost sales by drumming up controversy. Controversy that Steam contributed to by idiotically pulling the game from Greenlight, causing a lot of people to suddenly hold Hatred up as a martyr in a battle against censorship.

From what little I've seen the game itself isn't even shocking, it reminds me of something some moody teenager in the late 90's would have thought of as "cool and edgy". People just blew the whole thing out of proportion, which is exactly what the people making it wanted.

 

[Iwata]

I honestly couldn't care less.

It's controversy-bait, and plays as such.

I don't call for it to be banned or anything, but I also don't go for obvious marketing stunts reminiscent of "your mum will hate this game".

 

[SecondPrize]

I was watching a Polish stream yesterday. It did seem easy, but hey had it on easy. They also didn't seem to have trouble with controls, using KB and M I guess. I wasn't too fond of your sonar vision in seeing exactly where people outside of your field of vision are nor the police AI inside buildings running one by one up stairs or through doors despite seeing three of their predecessors doing the same thing and falling down dead. Thank god for mods, it should be good in the end.

 

[Bat Vader]

I was going to buy it just to review it and laugh and how ironic and tropey it is going to be but now I don't think I will. After watching the video I don't want to spend money on another bad game. Maybe it's just me but I feel like Hatred is going to be considered "The Room" of video games for awhile. Doesn't help that the main character looks a bit like Tommy Wiseau.