I'm not the easiest person to offend. I've laughed at jokes about everything from Jesus walking on his bathwater and whistling through the holes in his hands. If it's funny I laugh. Most of the time I don't even get offended because people are just ignorant or trolls. However, the other day I was browsing the internet like any day and I came across a game trailer. The trailer was for a game called Hatred. Watch the trailer below.
Do you see that? That's one way to gain people's interest. I thought maybe it was a joke in poor taste. I headed over to the website at the end of the video. It wasn't a joke. This is a fully funded game. The game is about an unnamed character going on a shooting spree. The character hates living so his goal is to kill as many civilians as possible. The developer describes the game in the following way
Do you want t a game that isn't politically correct? Play Saints Row, play Grand Theft Auto, even Mass Effect and Skyrim have some good old fashioned racism. This isn't trying to be the opposite of politically correct. It's just trying to be offensive. You aren't poking fun at others games with the political incorrectness in your game. You're glorifying spree killings and nothing else. You're painting glorious pictures of these killings and passing it of as "We don't want to be high class art." Because Fat Princess and Minecraft are so classy and artistic. You couldn't make high class art. What you've done is take an unoriginal idea that has been used by every person claiming video games causes violence.
You aren't creating a game that satirizes the direction the game industry is heading. You're just making a spree killer simulator. I'm all for satire, political incorrectness is funny sometimes. This isn't political incorrectness. It's not funny either. You know who else doesn't think it's funny? Epic Games. 2 hours after the trailer debut they put out a statement saying you were using their engine without permission. Do you really think this is a good idea.
Have you ever seen one of the Law and Order episodes where they try to prove that the video game is what caused the killer to commit the crime? That's what hatred looks like. I half expect Elliot and Olivia to be shocked while Munch goes on a rant about video games destroying the youth while Ice T asks "What's a video game?" There's a thick line to cross to offend gamers, you have to go out of your way to do it, but you've done it.
The last decade has been spent trying to prove video games don't cause violence and that they are indeed art. You've managed to take all of that progress back. But, congratulations you've managed to offend almost everyone. Gamespot spoke to you, they asked where you going to release the game. You stated you'd release it on Steam. Somehow, I highly doubt Steam will allow that.
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Do you see that? That's one way to gain people's interest. I thought maybe it was a joke in poor taste. I headed over to the website at the end of the video. It wasn't a joke. This is a fully funded game. The game is about an unnamed character going on a shooting spree. The character hates living so his goal is to kill as many civilians as possible. The developer describes the game in the following way
Hatred is an isometric shooter with disturbing atmosphere of mass killing, where player takes the role of a cold blood antagonist, who is full of hatred for humanity. It's a horror, but here YOU are the villain. Wander the outskirts of New York State, seek for victims on seven free-roam levels. Fight against law enforcement and take a journey into the antagonist's hateful mind. Gather equipment of the dead ‘human shields’ to spread Armageddon upon society. Destroy everything on your way of hunt and fight back when it's disturbed.The game is just about killing. There's no story, just kill. God of War is all about killing, but there's a story to it. It also doesn't take place in a time when shootings like these are becoming a common thing. James Holmes, Elliot Rodger, Adam Lanza, and Ivan Lopez are all names that ring fresh in the memories of people. Spree killings are something that have increased in frequency. On top of that people have been petitioning open carry of firearms by carrying firearms through city streets. This game will obviously increase panic in the public. I get it, you're not American. You're from Poland but your game takes place in New York. But what is the point of this game? According to the developer:
The question you may ask is: why do they do this? These days, when a lot of games are heading to be polite, colorful, politically correct and trying to be some kind of higher art, rather than just an entertainment – we wanted to create something against trends. Something different, something that could give the player a pure, gaming pleasure. Herecomes our game, which takes no prisoners and makes no excuses. We say ‘yes, it is a game about killing people’ and the only reason of the antagonist doing that sick stuff is his deep-rooted hatred. Player has to ask himself what can push any human being to mass-murder.
You aren't creating a game that satirizes the direction the game industry is heading. You're just making a spree killer simulator. I'm all for satire, political incorrectness is funny sometimes. This isn't political incorrectness. It's not funny either. You know who else doesn't think it's funny? Epic Games. 2 hours after the trailer debut they put out a statement saying you were using their engine without permission. Do you really think this is a good idea.
Have you ever seen one of the Law and Order episodes where they try to prove that the video game is what caused the killer to commit the crime? That's what hatred looks like. I half expect Elliot and Olivia to be shocked while Munch goes on a rant about video games destroying the youth while Ice T asks "What's a video game?" There's a thick line to cross to offend gamers, you have to go out of your way to do it, but you've done it.
The last decade has been spent trying to prove video games don't cause violence and that they are indeed art. You've managed to take all of that progress back. But, congratulations you've managed to offend almost everyone. Gamespot spoke to you, they asked where you going to release the game. You stated you'd release it on Steam. Somehow, I highly doubt Steam will allow that.
You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He's also playing Pokemon Liquid Crystal on YouTube
Follow @OriginalKingD
