Originally Posted by
Voij
See, that comparison would make sense if the general public would consider e.g. Manhunt to be acceptable... but we don't. What Serbian film is to disgusting films about human perversion, Hatred and Manhunt are in terms of disturbing use of violence in video games. There are some people who like this stuff, mostly sadists with fantasies about abstract and brutal violence, but the general populace condemns these things for being about nothing but senseless violence.
Also, your mentioning of GTA is just idiotic. There are hundreds of activities you can do in GTA, running amok is merely one of them. With the same logic as yours, GTA is also a Golf simulation game and an underwater exploration simulator.
Hotline Miami at least has some objectives outside of "murder as many innocents as you can".
It's absolutely mindboggling to me that you think Hatred can be defended. I mean, I could perhaps understand if you tried to argue that it attempts to be an extreme form of "art", the same way that people defend stuff like 2 guys 1 hammer, but just saying "it's not that bad"? Really? What the hell happened to you that you think Hatred's portrayal of the murder of innocent people is alright?
PS: I'm really curious where you got your "highly praised" statements from. Sadists United Weekly? Mutilating Innocents - Beginners Issue?