That's KIND OF THE FREAKING POINT.
No offense to the OP, that's not who I'm yelling at. I'm yelling at the people who haven't played a game in their life but still hate on games. I know my complaining on a forum doesn't do a thing to help, but that's also kind of the point: Forums are for complaining.
Now, Splatterhouse looks terrible (not it the "bad gameplay" way, the "disgusting" way), yes. A colored, well-executed non-Wii Madhouse. It will probably get a lot of hate, seeing as it looks to me like the game version of Kickass, Kickass being gory, containing nudity/sex, drug use, and anything else that could make a game/ movie get rated M/R. Despite that, this gives the gaming industry a great chance to do something great that we haven't done in a while, something that will let us take a huge step forward.
We can say we'll make what we damn well please for who we damn well please it to be for, and we'll be damned if you try to stop us. Would it be better if it were done with, say, a game that has more redeeming qualities (don't get your panties in a bunch, I mean in the way of complex story and creative gameplay mechanics, the gameplay might be messianic for all I know)? Yes. Very much so. If we had taken this kind of stand with Mass Effect or one of the GTA's, games that have some-to-most of their vulgarity explained or at least not purposeless, it would've been much more beneficial. When this gets hate, though, the most we can do is buckle our knees and say we don't care. We may not be able to support why we don't care or have anything to hold up and say "Y'see, this makes it okay.", but we don't need that.
If we can buckle our knees and take some hatred in the public's eyes, then HURRAY, we're going the way of early films that were just starting to include vulgarity. So, there are some good things about this. Let's just wait for the coming apocalypse and see if we come out alive.
No offense to the OP, that's not who I'm yelling at. I'm yelling at the people who haven't played a game in their life but still hate on games. I know my complaining on a forum doesn't do a thing to help, but that's also kind of the point: Forums are for complaining.
Now, Splatterhouse looks terrible (not it the "bad gameplay" way, the "disgusting" way), yes. A colored, well-executed non-Wii Madhouse. It will probably get a lot of hate, seeing as it looks to me like the game version of Kickass, Kickass being gory, containing nudity/sex, drug use, and anything else that could make a game/ movie get rated M/R. Despite that, this gives the gaming industry a great chance to do something great that we haven't done in a while, something that will let us take a huge step forward.
We can say we'll make what we damn well please for who we damn well please it to be for, and we'll be damned if you try to stop us. Would it be better if it were done with, say, a game that has more redeeming qualities (don't get your panties in a bunch, I mean in the way of complex story and creative gameplay mechanics, the gameplay might be messianic for all I know)? Yes. Very much so. If we had taken this kind of stand with Mass Effect or one of the GTA's, games that have some-to-most of their vulgarity explained or at least not purposeless, it would've been much more beneficial. When this gets hate, though, the most we can do is buckle our knees and say we don't care. We may not be able to support why we don't care or have anything to hold up and say "Y'see, this makes it okay.", but we don't need that.
If we can buckle our knees and take some hatred in the public's eyes, then HURRAY, we're going the way of early films that were just starting to include vulgarity. So, there are some good things about this. Let's just wait for the coming apocalypse and see if we come out alive.