In all the time I’ve been alive I’ve played I don’t know how many games. I’ve played things that I’ve felt are good, bad and the hideous (I’m looking at you Daikatana). I play multiple genres and try to keep an open mind about new possibilities. I used to mainly play platformers and FPS in the 90’s but have also played puzzle solvers. Heck I didn’t even know I liked Hack n Slash until about a year ago.
There are also games that I don’t have any interest in buying, period. Like woodcutter simulator (or most simulators for that matter, seriously why would I want to drive a train forever it sounds friggen boring)… Or games that make me question why they even exist to begin with. Like Hatred. It’s quite the hot controversial potato. So hot that Epic Games wrote the developers of hatred ordering them to remove their logo from the game.
Epic Games isn’t involved in this project. Unreal Engine 4 is available to the general public for use ‘for any lawful purpose,’ and we explicitly don’t exert any sort of creative control or censorship over projects. However, the video is using the trademarked Unreal Engine 4 logo without permission from Epic, and we’ve asked for the removal of our logo from all marketing associated with this product.
It was on Steam Greenlight, then got taken down the other day, then got put back up again with an apology from Gabe Newell.
“Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred down from Greenlight. Since I wasn’t up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision, and we’ll be putting Hatred back up. My apologies to you and your team. Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.”
So why the big deal with this game? Here’s the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3PhvCf_Jg
Basically it’s a game about some guy that’s mad at the world, hates everyone and everything in it, and is intent on killing as many people as he possibly can. That’s the entire goal of the game. I know there have been people who have been comparing this game to games like Postal, GTA, Saints Row and so on because you know, they’re violent? No. I would class Saints Row and Postal under jokes or parody. People die in those games, but it’s so hilariously unrealistic. GTA has it’s bad moments, but the game doesn’t completely center around them like Hatred does. Say what you want about games with violence, but a lot of them have a purpose behind them. DooM has zombies and demons to kill, Carmageadon is cartoonish about killing pedestrians and other cars, in the Tomb Raider series you have to kill people who want to use artifacts for selfish needs, in the FarCry series you’re on an island and need to survive. This just goes on and on… And to compare Hatred to some of those games is just an insult.
For me the issue isn’t so much that it got back onto Greenlight on Steam. If anything this makes me question what can we define as going too far? I mean seriously, what’s next? Child Molester Simulator? Rape Simulator? I can already see people coming forward saying “Well I would never buy this game. But damn it they have every right to sell it!” Seriously if I took a shot of whiskey for every thread I’ve read on every gaming site regarding this game where the gist is basically ‘there’s nothing wrong with a little capitalism’ I’d of keeled over from alcohol on the first link.
It’s going to happen too. (Not the Whiskey part, I ran out awhile ago).