• Edgiest Game Ever Announced
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[QUOTE=CrimsonChin;46254794]Just pretend the civilians are anti vacciners/WBC/racists.[/QUOTE] okay but then I still wouldn't kill them because that's still an edgy as fuck thing to do you just added pretension and eugenics on top of it
it looks like shit
AH JUST FUGGEN HAITE DIS WOHRLD
i was expecting his mom to walk into the room and interrupt his monologue. was very disappointed
The thing is, in Postal the rampage and misanthropy setting actually works because every npc in the game is trying really hard to provoke you into killing them. The message is 'you should really kill these people because, well, just LOOK at them, they even hate you back'. They are all annoying parodies that actually TRY to push you over the edge with their comically hate-able behavior. It's a fun take on mass murder. As fun as you can possibly make it. This game just supplies you with regular people and assumes you already did the math and agree with its message of 'durr, humanity bad because ppl=shit weak vermind maggots'. It assumes you already have found your own personal motivation to kill perfectly normal random strangers, that you have already built up some sort of frustration that justifies this silly logic of "I think everyone should be killed because x". It doesn't make sense and seems disturbing when you actually have a mature, emotionally balanced mind. But the trailer just goes 'Everything is shit and should be killed, you with me? You probably know why already, right?" That's what disturbs me about this. I have no reason to believe that random people on the street deserve to be killed for any reason imaginable. Then again, the opposite trope is VERY popular in games. When you get an arsenal of gruesome ways to graphically kill an army of people and the narrative assures you that you're dealing with VERY EVIL PEOPLE that have VERY EVIL INTENTIONS that they need to voice in every spoken line of dialogue they have as NPCs to the point where it comes off as a REALLY forced way to supply a justification to commit clean conscience killings and let off some steam without having to feel disturbed or reflect critically about your own behavior. This seems like a kind of reversal of that trope. But while this trope bothers me for being a lazy, unrealistic and shallow way to justify excessive violence and avoid any ACTUAL moral debate, HATRED just goes one step deeper into lazy-land and doesn't even bother to do that. If the intention of this game (which I find hard to believe) was to supply a look at what a 'badly justified violence' game looks like with the pretense stripped off for the sake of discussion I could see where they were coming from but it wouldn't justify throwing this bad media nuke out there. I doubt it will spakt the RIGHT discussions often enough, if that was even intended which I doubt. Nevertheless, I don't think it should be banned or anything. To me, it serves as a cynical reminder of what some games would look like with the flimsy, badly written narrative stripped away. But not a fun think I would want to play to pass time
This is some suspicious timing.
[QUOTE=Pako;46256437]This is some suspicious timing.[/QUOTE] how so?
I don't care about the violence or anything, but this just tries way too hard to be edgy.
[QUOTE=Ricool06;46254921]Sgt.Cortez took a downward turn since the splitter war ended.[/QUOTE] Time to [B]SPLIT![/B]
Part of me wonders if they're intentionally advertising it as Edge, Eddge, n Edgy Shadow the Hedgehog Crawling in My Skin: the Video Game in order to gather maximum media attention, and then it comes out, and then it's actually a really smart satire on the amount of violence in video games or the way the media reacts to video games or something like that but then the rest of me is pretty sure it's just going to be an edgy piece of shit :v:
History of this community: FP loves Halo -> FP hates Halo FP loves CoD -> FP hates CoD FP loves lifehacks -> FP hates lifehacks FP loves game violence -> FP hates game violence
i wouldn't want to put this on my resume if i was applying for a game dev job
[QUOTE=MiX-A;46256738]History of this community: FP loves Halo -> FP hates Halo FP loves CoD -> FP hates CoD FP loves lifehacks -> FP hates lifehacks FP loves game violence -> FP hates game violence[/QUOTE] I don't know if those first two are true, from what I've seen FP still likes the older halo and CoD games, just not the newer ones.
[QUOTE=MiX-A;46256738]History of this community: FP loves Halo -> FP hates Halo FP loves CoD -> FP hates CoD FP loves lifehacks -> FP hates lifehacks FP loves game violence -> FP hates game violence[/QUOTE] or maybe some people like certain things that others don't? it isn't that it's violent and we hate that, it's that it's stupid and contextually fucked and we hate that there is still a huge number of mindless halo fanboys here, and COD and lifehacks were hated once they started to get REALLY retarded and violent games, there are TONS of threads for those in GGD
Seems like they are just making it as controversial looking as possible for free advertisement from news media and other sources, and are hoping that people will pick it up based off of that alone.
I was really, really hoping he'd open the door and he'd be in somekind of unicorn infested magicland. Oh well
[QUOTE=MiX-A;46256738]FP loves game violence -> FP hates game violence[/QUOTE] Since when is the case? Violence makes a lot of sense and has a lot of weight in a war/crime/post apocalyptic/etc game. Games that are just mindless violence and seriously portrayed slaughter of innocents/civilians with no story purpose are pretty tasteless.
[QUOTE=MiX-A;46256738]FP loves game violence -> FP hates game violence[/QUOTE] for the record, running around naked and shooting people in the face in Rust does not mean the whole community enjoys violence
Honestly, I'm interested solely because I'm dying to see how the finished product will look, and just how well they can work with the "No bullshit, your goal is kill everything" angle. If they do it right, it might even end up being entertaining. Yeah, it's macabre as fuck, and it's certainly not going to be for everybody, but they've certainly got everybody's attention with something so controversial.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oalkH6nDtpA[/media]
I think people are over-reacting a bit. It didn't take a blatant mass-murderer game like this in the first place to spawn school shooters. It is Quake and Doom that "brought us" the first incidents of those, so what's the problem?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46256907]I think people are over-reacting a bit. It didn't take a blatant mass-murderer game like this in the first place to spawn school shooters. It is Quake and Doom that "brought us" the first incidents of those, so what's the problem?[/QUOTE] Did anyone even mention this ? People are only saying this is a shit game with a shit message and that it's trying too hard, not that it's going to spawn serial killers.
[QUOTE=Limed00d;46252084]jack thompson's gonna have a field day with this[/QUOTE] He was disbarred in 2008. He is no longer a lawyer.
[video=youtube;szxgL2qeF2o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxgL2qeF2o[/video] it fits so well
Honestly I love that this game exists because its just so comical how stereotypical it is Like, I can't take it seriously at all. A part of me admires just how much lack of any restraint was put on its themes/character/etc Also, honestly surprised it took this long for an "EDGY KILLING REMEMBER COLUMBINE LOL I LOVE DOOM" game to come out
[QUOTE=MisterSjeiks;46256797]I was really, really hoping he'd open the door and he'd be in somekind of unicorn infested magicland. Oh well[/QUOTE] I [I]love[/I] this idea. Like, everythings super goofy and bright, but the player acts as as if it's all grimdark as hell
I hope the whole game is actually a therapy session, with the gameplay being the protagonist discussing his desires with his therapist. You win by adjusting to society.
If they made this more like Blade and changed the people to vampires it'd be cool.
I'm just convinced the Dev's are trolls... (Totally not late on saying that) Considering their reason for making this is to go against the artistic and politically correct games They seem to be everywhere these days :v:
[QUOTE=ArchXeno;46257164]I hope the whole game is actually a therapy session, with the gameplay being the protagonist discussing his desires with his therapist. You win by adjusting to society.[/QUOTE] But then that would mean there would be actual substance to the game's story, an having a meaningful story apparently is too polite and politically correct i guess, and the devs don't want that.
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