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Originally Posted by cDnStealth
This is where I stand as well. I thought that trailer was disturbing and this isn't a game I am interested in playing but I also don't believe in banning things. I am one of those people who believes games are art and that means sometimes having to accept the ####ty art along with the good.
These days everyone calls for games to get banned when something offends them. I think it robs developers of their creative freedom and it hurts gamers from getting some interesting titles. Six Days in Fallijah is one that comes to mind. I don't think this is one of those titles but I don't know if it's much different from games like Postal or Manhunt. Or mowing down civilians in an airport (CoD:MW2). Context is obviously everything but I think the people who commit these acts in real life will do them regardless of Hatred's existence.
Destructive Creations put out a highly offensive and disturbing trailer just asking for media outlets to blow it up and they took the bait hook, line and sinker. Hatred has way more press and exposure than it ever should have and that's exactly what they wanted.
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I think that there is a fairly liberal interpretation around the term art, and people use it to justify absolutely everything so that they can be seen as enlightened or accepting.
I think there was a case a few years back where a pedo tried to justify his videos and pictures of little kids in sexual positions and being touched as art.
Its not art.
This game isn't art by any stretch.
There is nothing new or revolutionary about it or aesthetically prone to interpretation.
Its several levels below the guy who pissed in a jar and through a crucifix in it.
This game is murder porn, its a virtual snuff movie that appeals to the lowest people in society.
Its not that innovative of a game, Even if the ending is a no matter what happens the character gets a needle in his arm, its disturbing and disgusting.
But the old saying is controversy creates cash, this takes it to an extreme, but I doubt that its going to lead to a lot of cash. There is no one that is going to distribute it in stores, and none of the main stream game streaming sites are going to carry this abomination.
It will probably find a small and devote group of consumers who will pay a lot of money to fulfil a pretty sick fantasy.
i know that if I had a kid and I saw him playing that game, we'd be having a pretty serious talk about it, then I'd wipe it out of existence forever.
This game though will become a huge lightning rod against the gaming industry if god forbid some thrill killing mass shooter has it loaded on his hard drive.