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

[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.

Well, as terrible as The Room is at least it's got soul. Admittedly this is a view based of the trailers and minor gameplay I've seen (I'm not buying Hatred because fuck the controversy machine), but Hatred doesn't seem to have much... well, soul. It doesn't feel very genuine. A sub-standard shooter churned out by developers who are unironically appealing to the edgy teenage boys of the world.

If anything this would be similar to The Room sequel - a soulless, generic piece that only got hyped because of something attached to it.

There was a sequel? That's another issue that I have with Hatred. Why create something controversial just for the sake of controversy? To me that just seems incredibly shallow and immature. If something controversial was portrayed in something that the developers put their all into and wasn't just made for the sake of controversy I would respect it more.

 

[SweetShark]

I am waiting for the DLC:
- Friendship: There is already a trailer for this joke. It is literally the game we all wanted from the beggining we saw this trailer.
- Splatoon: Base of this comic:

Spoiler

It would be interesting. Everuone need a Splatoon make-over.
- Hell's Invasion: You and a Town full of Demon ready to drink your HATRED from your veins!!!! I don't think so!!!!
- Hatred Gun: A gun which literally shoot the words "Hatred".
- Heresy Everywhere!: Team-up with a bulky Space Marine ready to "clean" a Town filled with Magical Ponies, Cute Teddy Bears, Furies, Sparkle Vampires, Ridley's Fans.
- Cheats: YES! CHEATS!!!! DDJJHdjhdwkHKDJEHDKJEfh!!!!

 

[bdeamon]

I guess you can say this game inspires "hatred" among the community.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

They actually gave out review codes? Huh.

 

[chadachada123]

So I guess it really is a straight up high-res version of Postal 1, eh? But with vehicles?

The price is a little steep, but it seems like a fun little thing. If anything, it isn't edgy ENOUGH. The Punisher beats it by a mile.

 

[jim1398]

I'm still holding out hope that the ending is going to be some sort of Spec Ops style commentary on violence and the human condition and the marketing was some sort of social experiment designed to highlight the current issues we have with outrage culture (people were literally calling this the worst game ever and saying it shouldn't exist...after seeing the reveal trailer, which was less than 2 minutes long and had under 30 seconds of gameplay).

I'm pretty certain it won't be that though and instead it's what it looks like, a rather underwhelming twin stick shooter, with reasonably nice destruction physics that is, to me at least, less shocking than the last couple of additions to the Mortal Kombat series (I just can't bring myself to care that you're killing 'innocent people' because to me, you aren't, you're killing characters in a video game. The only time I care about video game characters is when they have some actual character).

Well, if it is just what it looks like, I hope all the people who were outraged by it and felt it necessary to let everyone else know are happy with themselves. You gave this game far more attention than it deserved, have ensured it's going to sell far more copies than it would have on it's own and basically just done exactly what the makers of the game were hoping you would do.


In short,

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[jklinders]

Well, that's about as expected.

A standard isometric twin stick shooter that has nothing to add to what is a decisively old school genre of game. So it's only selling point is pretty much "fuck censorship and the man?" Yeah, pass. i literally have 4 of those in my Steam library already if I want to engage in some old school casual digital violence.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well they set out to make an edgy game that would inspire hate... job done I say. Any reason to play it... not that I can tell.

"Oh it's like Postal."
No it's not like Postal. Postal prides itself on fucking around in the weirdest goofiest ways possible (mostly hanging your junk out and see what people will say... then piss on them). I don't remember a single mission in the game actually demands you kill someone, killing just comes from NPCs getting upset at your shenanigans and eventually cops turn up.
Hatred meanwhile, 100 NPCs on the map, you have gun, kill 100 NPCs to progress.

 

[F4TK]

That's Postal 2. The original postal was just a psychotic guy murdering people because he believed the world was against him.

"The earth is hungry. Its heart throbs and demands cleansing. The earth is also thirsty..." Are quotes directly from that game all but said verbatim in Hatred at the end of a level. The top down gameplay and style make it pretty much a spiritual successor.

 

[Bat Vader]

So a game that has the main character say stupid stuff like "Genocide crusade" turned out to be mediocre? No shit, right? At least I can get a laugh out of how edgy it is.

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

Oh god! Now that's too good! If I didn't know any better, I might think Hatred is a satirical game. Turns out it is dead on serious, which makes it even funnier.

That's how I have been seeing it from the very beginning. I hope no one takes Hatred seriously but it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously with piss poor written dialogue like that.

If it was meant to be a satirical joke on video games and violence I would love it but it isn't and that makes me sad.

[/quote]If someone does a mod where they replace the PC's dialogue with Tommy's from the room I would buy the game then.[/quote]Every time he guts a woman he could say "You're tearing me apart Lisa!"

Funny thing, I looked it up and Tommy Wiseau is 59.

 

[FirstNameLastName]

That's Postal 2. The original postal was just a psychotic guy murdering people because he believed the world was against him.

"The earth is hungry. Its heart throbs and demands cleansing. The earth is also thirsty..." Are quotes directly from that game all but said verbatim in Hatred at the end of a level. The top down gameplay and style make it pretty much a spiritual successor.

True, but it's important to remember that Postal 2 is pretty much the only reason anyone still remembers and cares about Postal 1.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Its a little bit depressing and ironic that so many people are offended by the game not being offensive enough. I...just...Wha...? It's just a little game, guys.

 

[Cryselle]

It's kinda the video game equivalent to "You Won't Believe What THIS MAN Does In His Spare Time!" ads in the corner of browsers. Boundaries only really get pushed when something is good enough that people want to extend the boundary to include them.

 

[chadachada123]

Well they set out to make an edgy game that would inspire hate... job done I say. Any reason to play it... not that I can tell.

"Oh it's like Postal."
No it's not like Postal. Postal prides itself on fucking around in the weirdest goofiest ways possible (mostly hanging your junk out and see what people will say... then piss on them). I don't remember a single mission in the game actually demands you kill someone, killing just comes from NPCs getting upset at your shenanigans and eventually cops turn up.
Hatred meanwhile, 100 NPCs on the map, you have gun, kill 100 NPCs to progress.

It is exactly like Postal. You're thinking of Postal 2. Postal 1 was concentrated edge.

 

[Genocidicles]

I'll probably pick it up, if only to prove there's more of a market for games like this than shit like Gone Home.

 

[WindKnight]

I'll probably pick it up, if only to prove there's more of a market for games like this than shit like Gone Home.

Fine bud. Enjoy handing your money to a lazy, half assed dev who just played you like a fiddle.

This [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/full-frontal-nerdity/13913-Full-Frontal-Nerdity-Just-Make-A-Game-That-Pisses-People-Off] comic pretty much summed it up.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'm not shocked... raw violence is just the simplest form of interaction in a game world.

Yeah, you know, what actually shocks me about this is that some people were apparently actually shocked by how "violent" the game was.

Hatred is the logical conclusion of where games currently are headed. Or shooters, at least.

There's a pretty large moral distinction between mowing down aliens or an opposing military force compared to innocent civilians, sure, but in practical gameplay terms it's a very small difference.

And even then, I'm not sure how this is supposed to be bucking any "trends" when it's just doing what Postal and Grand Theft Auto (and all games that have tried to copy Grand Theft Auto) have done. If anything, it's trying to ride the coattails of a trend and hoping everyone else won't notice.

So yeah, boring and uninspiring and unsurprising. I'm sure loads of people will buy it anyway because they love being reactionary and "sticking it to the man". I won't, because I'm one of those weirdos who no longer has any real interest in going on slaughtering rampages in games like Grand Theft Auto, so a game built solely on that sort of premise has no allure for me.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

So TotalBiscuit did his review


I think it being mediocre was the worst outcome for this game Because if it was really bad it could I've been something fun to laugh at but instead we just get mediocre

 

[Skatologist]

Wow does that look boring and something you'll get tired of within 10 minutes of playing.

I'll probably pick it up, if only to prove there's more of a market for games like this than shit like Gone Home.

So...GTA V wasn't the piece of media that grossed a billion dollars first then? Or was that Gone Home?

 

[SquallTheBlade]

That's Postal 2. The original postal was just a psychotic guy murdering people because he believed the world was against him.

"The earth is hungry. Its heart throbs and demands cleansing. The earth is also thirsty..." Are quotes directly from that game all but said verbatim in Hatred at the end of a level. The top down gameplay and style make it pretty much a spiritual successor.

True, but it's important to remember that Postal 2 is pretty much the only reason anyone still remembers and cares about Postal 1.

What do you mean? When people compare Hatred to Postal they mean Postal 1, not 2, because that's the comparison that makes sense. I don't see how your statement is any way relevant to this.