Going by what you've said: The developers wanted to make a product that is controversial for no other purpose than being controversial. You see nothing wrong with this?
I'm not faulting it for letting you kill civilians. Personally, I've been bored of open world games like that for a few years now and desensitized to that kind of havoc for a solid ten years.
I'm faulting it because it looks derivative, cynical and limited. I think the developers thought 'hey let's make a dark game about mass murder' and did not develop the idea beyond that point. They engineered something that people would want to talk about, but absolutely nothing else.
Plenty of stupid games are fun. Jesus, I think
cookie clicker is fun, and that is literally just clicking for cookies. I don't think Hatred looks fun, I think it looks boring and whatever
glee or
rush or
boner a person will get from playing it will rapidly dissipate when it dawns on them that there is nothing to the game except appearing controversial.
If I thought an ounce of originality or clever design existed in Hatred, I would not be writing this post. If Hatred looked good visually, or had some neat mechanic or hook I'd give it a pass. It does none of these things for me. I think it's a creative void and you shouldn't encourage nothing-products made by fat cynical bastards.
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Also, the developers wanted to stir a controversy, by doing that you (Mac) can only do what they expected you to do.
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Dang, they really checkmated me by convincing me not to buy their dumb fucking game! DARN!
If you like the look of Hatred I'm not going to question that. Different strokes for different folks, Varrok, and again I play cookie clicker. It's beyond inane and I am playing it constantly. I don't think I'm taking the moral high ground by not playing Hatred, rather (and this is what I was getting at in the post I linked the trailer in) I'm at a point where games that are dark and violent, regardless of intellectual or credible quality, don't stimulate or interest me. I'm just looking for something different than what the majority of the industry seems to be selling titles on, that's all.