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[Nonek]

Don't all shooting game protagonists have a bag of holding sewn into their armpit?

[Chilloutman]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrX7G-1xPLs

 

Ah, subtlety.

 

Ooh I can allready hear the Weenies starting to squeal.

 

Edit: Day one purchase.

 

 

Looks like Postal 1 which takes itself seriously... bleh.

[Nonek]

It's taking itself seriously? With the over the top voice acting and ultraviolence I assumed that it was a satire, like Robocop or something, sorry my mistake.

 

Edit: Or that it was Leigh Alexander's autobiography.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Nonek

[Hurlshort]

Classy.

 

 

How did they even get enough people to work on a game like that?

[Keyrock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrX7G-1xPLs

 

Ah, subtlety.

So, is there some kind of story and/or goal to this game or is it just Survival Mode: The Game?  Anyway, doesn't look like my cup of tea, but it doesn't bother me that it exists.  At least it doesn't try to thinly veil its murderous rampage gameplay with some kind of "I come from the old country to make better life and escape all the killing" bull****.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Keyrock

[Malcador]

Classy.

 

 

How did they even get enough people to work on a game like that?

Probably the same as any other game, some games you butcher orcs by the truckload, this one just has you doing it to people. Rather funny, I found.

[BruceVC]

 

Classy.

 

 

How did they even get enough people to work on a game like that?

Probably the same as any other game, some games you butcher orcs by the truckload, this one just has you doing it to people. Rather funny, I found.

 

 

I don't find anything funny about that game and I definitely won't be playing it, with all the possible games you could design this game look like its  about someone going on a shooting spree against  an unsuspecting population?

[Malcador]

I don't find anything funny about that game and I definitely won't be playing it, with all the possible games you could design this game look like its  about someone going on a shooting spree against  an unsuspecting population?

Well, it's a subset of how people play GTA so it follows that someone would consider a game like this. What it needs is SOF-style damage modeling.

[Fighter]

I admit this is exactly how me and a bunch of buddies played GTA. Just seeing how much havoc you can wreck.

[Meshugger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrX7G-1xPLs

 

Ah, subtlety.

 

That has the potential to be as great as Bonestorm.

 

[Fighter]

It may just get us censored in this climate. Even though it's not very different from a slasher movie where it's really all about how inventive the kills are.

[Hurlshort]

There is a pretty big difference between your slasher horror films and that Hatred game.  Hatred looks rather pointless, really.  Is there a story there?

 

edit:  I watched that trailer through to the end, and I kept expecting something to show that it is lampooning violence.  Maybe it's there.  At least the Postal series always recognized that it was wallowing in the muck.  Anyways, the trailer was pretty horrific on a few different levels and I nearly closed it more than once.  I guess I'm not a fan.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Hurlshot

[Fighter]

What's the point of the average torture porn slasher pic? The story? To see the hero prevail? Please. People just like violence for whatever reason.

[Malcador]

Should have had the PC be an actual monster, so they can play it as a hack and slash but in reverse.

[HoonDing]

Will there be Child Killing DLC?

[Malcador]

New M&B DLC - http://t.co/Q79igPjjwJ

 

From the creators of the popular “Brytenwalda” mod, we present to you “Viking Conquest”, an upcoming DLC for Mount & Blade Warband! This single and multi player DLC brings Mount & Blade to historical Dark Age Britain, complemented by authentic scenes and cultures. The DLC a story mode with a complex plot, where choices have real consequences, as well as a standard sandbox mode in an all new setting, with expanded options and controls. Online battling also takes on its own flavour, with special modes like Coastal Assault and Warlord.

No child killing or rape and pillaging confirmed as of yet.

Edited October 16, 2014 by Malcador

[Tale]

What's the point of the average torture porn slasher pic? The story? To see the hero prevail? Please. People just like violence for whatever reason.

The typical gorn movie's value lies in shock effect. A build up of tension leading to those OH GOD I CAN'T WATCH moments.

 

The audience drawn to this on the other hand will either be from angst or controversy.

[ShadySands]

I hate scary stuff but I'm reminded of this
 

 

Why We Crave Horror Movies--By Stephen King

I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better, after all. We’ve all known people who talk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch their faces into horrible grimaces when they believe no one is watching, people who have some hysterical fear – of snakes, the dark, the tight place, the long drop . . . and, of course, those final worms and grubs that are waiting so patiently underground.

When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a
horror movie, we are daring the nightmare.

Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. Which is not to say that a really good horror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may scream when the roller coaster twists through a complete 360 or plows through a lake at the bottom of the drop. And horror movies, like roller coasters, have always been the special province of the young; by the time one turns 40 or 50, one’s appetite for double twists or 360-degree loops may be considerably depleted.

We also go to re-establish our feelings of essential normality; the horror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary. Freda Jackson as the horrible melting woman in Die, Monster, Die! confirms for us that no matter how far we may be removed from the beauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light-years from true ugliness.

And we go to have fun.

Ah, but this is where the ground starts to slope away, isn’t it? Because this is a very peculiar sort of fun, indeed. The fun comes from seeing others menaced – sometimes killed. One critic has suggested that if pro football has become the voyeur’s version of combat, then the horror film has become the modern version of the public lynching.

It is true that the mythic “fairy-tale” horror film intends to take away the shades of grey . . . . It urges us to put away our more civilized and adult penchant for analysis and to become children again, seeing things in pure blacks and whites. It may be that horror movies provide psychic relief on this level because this invitation to lapse into simplicity, irrationality and even outright madness is extended so rarely. We are told we may allow our emotions a free rein . . . or no rein at all.

If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree. If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, heh-heh-heh); if, on the other hand, your insanity leads you only to talk to yourself when you’re under stress or to pick your nose on your morning bus, then you are left alone to go about your business . . . though it is doubtful that you will ever be invited to the best parties.

The potential lyncher is in almost all of us (excluding saints, past and present; but then, most saints have been crazy in their own ways), and every now and then, he has to be let loose to scream and roll around in the grass. Our emotions and our fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone. Certain of these emotional muscles are accepted – even exalted – in civilized society; they are, of course, the emotions that tend to maintain the status quo of civilization itself. Love, friendship, loyalty, kindness -- these are all the emotions that we applaud, emotions that have been immortalized in the couplets of Hallmark cards and in the verses (I don’t dare call it poetry) of Leonard Nimoy.

When we exhibit these emotions, society showers us with positive reinforcement; we learn this even before we get out of diapers. When, as children, we hug our rotten little puke of a sister and give her a kiss, all the aunts and uncles smile and twit and cry, “Isn’t he the sweetest little thing?” Such coveted treats as chocolate-covered graham crackers often follow. But if we deliberately slam the rotten little puke of a sister’s fingers in the door, sanctions follow – angry remonstrance from parents, aunts and uncles; instead of a chocolate-covered graham cracker, a spanking.

But anticivilization emotions don’t go away, and they demand periodic exercise. We have such “sick” jokes as, “What’s the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and a truckload of dead babies?” (You can’t unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitchfork . . . a joke, by the way, that I heard originally from a ten-year-old.) Such a joke may surprise a laugh or a grin out of us even as we recoil, a possibility that confirms the thesis: If we share a brotherhood of man, then we also share an insanity of man. None of which is intended as a defense of either the sick joke or insanity but merely as an explanation of why the best horror films, like the best fairy tales, manage to be reactionary, anarchistic, and revolutionary all at the same time.

The mythic horror movie, like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us. It is morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest fantasies realized . . . and it all happens, fittingly enough, in the dark. For those reasons, good liberals often shy away from horror films. For myself, I like to see the most aggressive of them – Dawn of the Dead, for instance – as lifting a trap door in the civilized forebrain and throwing a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators swimming around in that subterranean river beneath.

Why bother? Because it keeps them from getting out, man. It keeps them down there and me up here. It was Lennon and McCartney who said that all you need is love, and I would agree with that.

As long as you keep the gators fed.

 

Edited October 16, 2014 by ShadySands

[Raithe]

I thought we craved horror movies because it was a great way to get an arm around your date at the cinema or when watching them on the couch with her?

[Nonek]

Never mind all the violence, the protagonist is a smoker, and thus must be shunned and driven forth.

[Orogun01]

Never mind all the violence, the protagonist is a smoker, and thus must be shunned and driven forth.

Also, did you see how he put a gun to that woman's mouth before blowing her head? Clearly a misogynist. 

[Volourn]

"I don't find anything funny about that game and I definitely won't be playing it, with all the possible games you could design this game look like its  about someone going on a shooting spree against  an unsuspecting population?"

 

It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.

 

No humans have been killed. No humans have been killed. No humans have been killed.

 

 

Anyways, more seriously, I'm not into pure shooters. I prefer purpsoe in my mass killing games ala WL2.

[BruceVC]

"I don't find anything funny about that game and I definitely won't be playing it, with all the possible games you could design this game look like its  about someone going on a shooting spree against  an unsuspecting population?"

 

It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.

 

No humans have been killed. No humans have been killed. No humans have been killed.

 

 

Anyways, more seriously, I'm not into pure shooters. I prefer purpsoe in my mass killing games ala WL2.

 

Its more the mindless principle of the game design I am objecting to. I thought you guys demanded creativity....this game sets the bar very low

[Volourn]

Did you read my post? I'm not planning on buying or playing it. LMAO

 

But, I forgot, SJWs are anti anyone who doesn't yetll at the top of their lungs that something needs to be banned, its' creators burned at the stake, or some other insane thing. They don't believe in freedom and choice.

 

Thankfully, I live in a country where I have a choice. And, I choose not to play this game. I also choose not to go on some moral crusade against the game. MAGINE THAT.

 

 

I'll put it another way. I'm no fan of Leigh Alexander, but if she made a game I think I'd enjoy, I'd play it. PERIOD.

[Lexx]

That Hatred trailer looks pretty boring, imo.