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

[DementedSheep]

I honesty don't know whether it's meant to be serious or just playing it that way for laughs because the monologue sounds like it was written by 16 year old in the "Everything sucks and this is the way the REAL world works" phase.

But yeah, not likely to play this. Wreak havoc and destruction type games can be really fun when you're say...sending people rag dolling across the map with your car but this seems to just be gong for the shock factor of graphic deaths.

 

[Aaron Sylvester]

The best part is that the more any country tries to ban this game (and they will try) the most popular it will become.

 

[default]

LOL, reminds me of the fantasies of the twitchy, bad-smelling guys in highschool all grown up. What a fucking dumb premise, pass.

 

[Made]

There are ways to make something like this really cool.

Like making it super hard and having one shot kill and permadeath, making it more of a arcade style thing where you try to stack up as many bodies as possible. Really make it something they would describe in a sitcom.
Also having clever ways of taking out people could be cool, like going in to the cellar of a building and blowing up the water heater or going to a dog pound and set loose the dogs that would start attacking people.

I mean I hope this game isn't just gonna be shooting and pre animated execution scenes, witch it probably will.
It will probably just end up being a run of the mill dual stick shooter that everybody will forget before it's even released.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Okay... they're not even being subtle about this. This game is so brooding that even the colors are nothing but black, white, and blood red (and not in the fun way like Madworld.)

If you really wanna be controversial, why don't you throw children in the game while you're at it?

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I'll be honest, that trailer made me feel very uncomfortable. I watched it this morning, and the visual of the executions as the victim pleads for their life and tries to get away has been haunting my head. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I thought of my nephew getting murdered by some mental job who will play this obsessively and decide to act out his fantasy and instantly started to wish they didn't make such a thing. Seriously, that one shot where he's got the girl by the hair and sticks the gun in her mouth has been fucking with me.

But obviously that's a censorship stance, can't have that.

As a game, I'm not sure it's going to work. I mean we only saw a few glimpses of gameplay, what's it doing? Are we going for style points? Because it needs to be more than just being a mass killer simulator, because that's going to get old pretty quickly. Shock value alone won't cut it, because I remember feeling pretty sick when I first played Manhunt. You know what happened? By level 3 was desensitized to the animations.

Another problem I can see with that, and this ties into movies about Mass killings, the death's have no meaning. You know what was great about Watch Dogs? That little info thing that would pop up and tell you a little nugget of information about the NPCs.

Anyway, just the thoughts that have been floating through my head as I thought about it today. It would take some addicting gameplay mechanic for me to pick this up, when I could just play the druggie-trance-8Bit madness that is Hotline Miami 2.

I want to say that maybe the devs idea behind this is to make you feel very uncomfortable and conflicted about what you're doing especially watching those close-up executions. Making you question your actions etc.

But then I could be giving the devs waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

...aaaaaaaaay too much credit.

Haha, I'm 99% sure that you do. Doesn't seem like the kind of game that encourages you to make moral choices.

I mean it be great in a Spec Ops kind of way if that WAS the point, but in the same release they claim to be bucking the trend of artsy games... so it's slaughter for the sake of slaughter.

 

[BarkBarker]

Looks boring as shit, violence is unattached and pathetic for the stuff games have done so casually and it fails to entice me from every possible angle of its elements and features....what a waste of someones time, though granted the script probably took the best of someones trip to the toilet.

 

[EMWISE94]

Well I won't say the violence disturbed me, maybe I've become slightly desensitized to the stuff but also I've seen worse. Heck I saw some guy make a game about the Boston Marathon Bombing and it was waaaaaaaay more offensive, like literally even the in game text was just tasteless, with the 'you win' text being along the lines of "You survived! Now you can continue living the American dream! Buying all the guns and fucking Obama's wife".. yeah, tastelessly offensive.

This is on the other hand might be good for commentary's sake, I mean very few games make you play the bad guy and let you know that you're scum. I mean okay, Hatred is a brutal looking game, can't deny that, here you are gunning down helpless civilians and some armed cops it appears, basically your usual GTA rampage but now no longer being the goofy aside that you do between missions just to get a cathartic laugh.

Does it sound like I'm defending the game? yea I guess, but this defense only holds weight if, and thats a big pulsating neon 'IF', the developers intended such, for this to be some form of commentary on justifiable violence in video games as well as possibly being some form of satire on what the mainstream populace thinks the effect of violence in video games has on its audience. Like it could all be some weird dream sequence some mother is having because she stopped her youngin from playing a violent game and he rushed up to his room and slammed the door with a loud "I hate you! No one understands me!" that echoed through the household.

But again, said defense only matters if the devs say its so, if not, the game's pretty much your standard isometric shooter affair, but again what's its goal is whats gonna set it aside from being another game that tried to sell itself on controversy or the next Spec Ops: The Line, with the big message being "Does gunning down the innocent look enjoyable now that you see the grim reality of it?"

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Higher production values then what I expected, not triple A caliber but not bad overall visually, muted colour palette aside (doing the whole Sin City thing with splashes of red would've made it more visually engaging). That said, pretty messed up premise, certain to be a great example for Anti-gamer pundits. After seeing...

Spoiler

Gone Girl

...though I would honestly like to see a psychotic female killer, don't know what that means, but hey, it's different.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

Not Important has a lot of space in the left side of his jacket. That's what caught my attention in this trailer.

I'm hoping this will allow mods, so someone can make a colorful mod for this thing and guns that shoot kittens and puppies or whatever. The innocent people just minding their business would still die, though.

 

[chiggerwood]

What, nobody? Really? OK I might as well, *AHEM!* CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGG IIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNN MYYYYYYYYYYYY SKIIIIIIIN THEEEEEEESE WOOOOUUUUNNNNDDDDSSSS THEEEEYYYY WIIIIIILLLLLL NOOOOOOOT HEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!

 

[chiggerwood]

You know on further reflection this is not unexpected. No this is not some UBER macho, male power fantasy, where idiot teenagers can take out their Oedipal frustrations in safety. Really all this is, is a predictable course for gaming in the super realistic, ultra gritty, there can be no sense of humor or levity whatsoever, stage of gaming we're currently in. Really this is postal made with modern sensibilities.

 

[EHKOS]

Wow, there are a lot of reasons to hate humans, or hate being a human, but he doesn't elaborate at all. It looks woefully boring with decent art. Surprisingly the woman pleading with the gun in her mouth made me feel something for a second, it's incredibly rare when violence does that to me. I think the last time that happened I tried out Manhunt 2 with the censor removal patch.

But most of the executions have been done before, this just kind of reminded me of that Punisher game. Too bad I can't stand isometric views, although I probably wouldn't pay for this anyway.

Like I said, lots of reasons to hate people, but if you don't have one there really isn't much point, and the guy seems a bit old to decide he hates everything all of a sudden.

Not Important has a lot of space in the left side of his jacket. That's what caught my attention in this trailer.

I noticed that too, but I was also hoping the second grenade would go in the other side, it's so unbalanced now. All I could think of was this:

Spoiler

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

Well that was quite tasteless and kinda disturbing to watch.
but It's hard to be offend over it due to it suffering from the a serious case of trying way too hard to be Edgy. Nether the less it will get media attention and people will be offend.

 

[Antonio Scott]

I find it kinda stupid how people are upset at this tbh. The method to the madness of the game aside, the fact that people are opposed to this while in other games and media people can be killed with reckless abandon and no one bats an eye. All they have to do is make sure they affiliate with some opposing group and all sins are absolved.

 

[The Lunatic]

Looks great! Definitely interested to see how this comes along.

 

[Toblo1]

Trailer is disturbing as fuck, and I assume the game will be disturbing too, but I see a positive side to this thing....

If the game is deliberately trying to be controversial, then there's a good chance that Jim will rip this game a new A**hole on an episode of Jimqusition. Because a game like this is the last thing we need in gaming's current situation and this one needs to be shut down. HARD.

 

[Antonio Scott]

Trailer is disturbing as fuck, and I assume the game will be disturbing too, but I see a positive side to this thing....

If the game is deliberately trying to be controversial, then there's a good chance that Jim will rip this game a new A**hole on an episode of Jimqusition. Because a game like this is the last thing we need in gaming's current situation and this one needs to be shut down. HARD.

I don't think so. Look at other games that get away with it. GTA is an example. A better example is the "No Russian" mission in MW2. They got away with it. Yeah that last one was controversial but people that knew games didn't question it too much. How is this game controversial while others get away with it? Cause the devs are unknowns and so no one is gonna support them.

 

[Antonio Scott]

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.

 

[chadachada123]

This game really looks like Edge: The game. This image has never been so usable:

That said, it looks fun as fuck, because instead of your 'enemies' running towards you (zombies, etc), they're trying to run *away,* which might make for some interesting gameplay. Note the person running under the windows while the PC sprays across them.

My favorite part, though, and something that is poorly lacking in basically every game in exiestance, is the destruction physics. Pay attention to when he's shooting indoors. Shit flying everywhere, furniture and paintings being blown to pieces...looks pretty damn beautiful. Looking forward to more footage.

Also, I think that their release is tied to the #GamerGate issue. They KNOW that this game would become insanely well-known if it was announced right now. Brilliant strategy, if they did.

I want to say that maybe the devs idea behind this is to make you feel very uncomfortable and conflicted about what you're doing especially watching those close-up executions. Making you question your actions etc.

But then I could be giving the devs waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

...aaaaaaaaay too much credit.

Haha, I'm 99% sure that you do. Doesn't seem like the kind of game that encourages you to make moral choices.

I mean it be great in a Spec Ops kind of way if that WAS the point, but in the same release they claim to be bucking the trend of artsy games... so it's slaughter for the sake of slaughter.

On their website they mention "getting inside the mind of a serial killer," so there may be more to it in the finished product. Maybe it really was just gameplay with nothing about the, er...story.