One Angry Gamer "Now here’s my question: if the opening dialogue from Mr. Killer was about how people had become infected with some zombie-mutating disease and he had to wipe it out of everyone, and the game was called The Diseased, would it still have been pulled?"
A game about killing people.
This game was just gratuitous violence. I don't know why it was rated AO. It's no worse than a GTA killing spree, Hotline Miami, or even the 'No Russian' COD mission. Reminded my of a weaker Dead Nation except no zombies.
I'm surprised Switch is getting this and PlayStation/Xbox isn't. The game was basically Postal with better graphics and more realism.
A look at five games that gamers loved but most critics hated.
Advent Rising is another good example. It got panned by critics but it has a good story and I enjoyed playing it. The graphics are dated, the enemies all look the same, but it was made in 2005 so what do you expect? I wish they made the sequel so I could finish the story but I think the critics killed it off.
Joanna Mueller writes: "Since the 1980's, video game advocates have been arguing for the protection of games as a medium of free speech. Frankly, I consider myself in that camp, but just because a game can push against the boundaries of common decency doesn't mean it should. Especially if the developer is just hoping to ride the wave of pearl clutching controversy to the bank."
Nothing wrong with pushing for controversy, but the game still has to be worthwhile. Lots of games in the 90s showed that.
Because the novelty will eventually wear off and the audience will eventually wise up.
So what? If there's a market for something then why should anyone care if it gets filled, as long as it's not something illegal? You can dislike so-called "edge lord" games all you want (in fact, you can like or dislike whatever you want, full stop) but even if games like Hatred are just trying to take advantage of anti-SJW backlash to make a quick buck, the fact that they exist at all is important in a culture that's becoming increasingly puritan and censorship orientated. Art is supposed to push the envelope. It's supposed to make you think. And even if all a game makes you do is think about why certain people are so desperate to ban it.
Greenlight has been a god damn mess since it started so i aint surprised this happen.
There's really no need to have this discussion, Valve is a private entity and can take any action they see fit in the name of the continued success of their business...
We can assume they chose to delist Hatred because of its objectionable content... But they could have done it because of something as trivial as the anti-hero's accent or the color palette, and the fact would remain: Steam is their service, and they can sell or not sell whatever they want for whatever reasons they want.
Valve is awsome!!
Its valves store they can sell what they want get over it...
Don't like it? Go to another store.
animegamingnerd@ iv played gta since the first game and got uninterested in it after gta3 though iv tried san andreas they usually have a story about a gangster or someone in the mafia usually its about them trying to make it on top shooting other gangs or mafias take down boses blah blah blah whatever probably just explained every gta ever which is probably why i got uninterested with it being that same story either way not based souly on killing innocent people just being a simulation of that yea you could kill random people in gta based on if the player chooses to but the game is not based only on that gta has a plot and story hatred does not you get a gun and just go on a hell spree killing (innocent people) not any form of enemies just people begging for there lives its f**king sick and disgusting. also i cant make any more posts after this so i cant really debate on it being the limited posts.
I must admit after reading what the devs had to say about this ordeal I can see they're taking it quiet well. I see a lot of people accusing this dev for being "neo-nazisn when the only reason they're making these accusasions is because one of the devs liked the Polish Defence League’s Facebook page which is a group trying to stop the Islamification of Europe which they have a huge problem with Islamic immigrants committing crimes. They are not a Nazi or white supremacist group and the political views of the devs should play no part here.