Typical Steam review, sigh... The worst thing in all this is that those reviews take the place of the good, traditional reviews at the top of the section.

It seems that some people can't read certain things: they can read the review & laugh about it but they can't read "Was this review helpful?", & instead they read "Was this review funny?"...

Perfect!

I just have to get it to let off steam... you know... without the booring legal issues

Yea the press don't really give a shit as long as they get clicks, if they did they wouldn't give it coverage.

I read this about RapeLay on Wikipedia.

"Critics of violent game imagery, such as British Member of Parliament Keith Vaz, have cited games involving rape as an example of why video game content needs to be more strictly regulated. RapeLay in particular had come to Vaz's attention in 2009, three years after its initial release, as being one of the rape games purchasable on Amazon.com, despite not being officially distributed nor supported outside of Japan, and he vowed to bring the issue into the British Parliament to prevent the game from being sold. Amazon subsequently removed the game from its website. Equality Now followed up on the game, urging activists to write to Illusion and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in protest, arguing the game breaches Japan's obligations under the 1985 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In May 2009, these actions culminated in the restriction of the sale and production of RapeLay by the Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS), an independent Japanese ratings organization for adult games, making the purchase of the game impossible.

The distribution of RapeLay has been banned in Australia due to a campaign run by Women's Forum Australia, under the directorship of Melinda Tankard Reist. Minister for Broadband Stephen Conroy wanted Google Australia to censor search results for downloads of the game, but this did not occur. The game is also the only one to be effectively banned in Argentina. Citing RapeLay as an example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in his concurring opinion vis-à-vis the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association wrote, "It...appears that there is no antisocial theme too base for some in the video-game industry to exploit.""

TLDR: Make rape game = bad decision. Won't be too surprised when/if similar things are said about this game by governments around the world (then again rape is a no-no, while murder seems to be okay territory for games).

hows your country free?

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can´t call USA a free country ... just look more what you write maby soon you are listed as an terrorist in your country for liking a game like this^^

Nearly every game has you committing atrocities of some form, most try and cover it up with "good intentions" though, but if there's no conflict, there's no story

The reviews are crap in general, I only care about user reviews, because there's a major issue with large companies influencing game journalists reviews, either through bribery or blackmail

There really was no way for them to win, they pull it, they get hit with the hypocrisy/censoring stick. They dont, the media jumps on them for allowing "ultra violence to taint our saint children's minds". At least this way, they can make more money off of sales due to the undeserved hype.

Fox News, MSNBC, while they spout off about gun control, dont paint gamers as mass murders in waiting, nor do they cite games as valid plotting material.

well postal was in the bundles, and yes they would want it, since its so controversial, meaning lots of sales, meaning lots of promo for their site.

People who wouldn't buy it for normal price would be enticed by the bundle I think. That whole "well let's see what the hype is all about" mentality.

It would drive sales far more than the majority of bundle trash we see. Only Humble might skip it because they sell huge numbers regardless.

Eh, if it doesn't interest you just move along and ignore it I'd say. Just because you don't like the devs or the premise doesn't justify stealing it.

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Yeah exactly. They made a "shocking trailer" to insure their sales no matter what the final product will be like. They're obviously not trying to make an entertaining game. They're only trying to make money of dumb people.

LoL... That's exactly what I said , dildo for brains. I have no problem whatsoever in killing things in video games. In fact shooters are my favorite kind of games. I don't have a problem with the depiction of violence in general. Hell, Tarantino's movies are some of my absolute favorites in cinema. My problem with this game is that it has a very thin excuse for a story and will become extremely boring after 15 minutes of play. Killing people in video games is fun cause it lets us normal people express some of our more primal instincts for violence, without anyone actually getting hurt. But without a purpose, a goal or a sense of achieving something, it's just shallow and stupid. And this game has neither of those things. In Max Payne and all those games you talked about, you knew why you were doing what you were doing and what you were fighting for. As you do in Payday. To get rich. As for Postal, I'm not saying that all games need to have humor, all I said was that, for Postal, the humor was absolutely necessary, otherwise it would have been as big a piece of shit as Hatred.

Yeah, I dont care for sports games either; might be because I dont like watching sports either, but I could just play the sport in real life. I play games to get immersed and experience things I can't in real life, if I feel like playing some hockey, I grab my skates and stick, and play some hockey with my buddies, I dont play a game about it

I'm allowed to state my opinion, right? And my philosophy is that all people, when making something, especially a work of art(yes, games are art) should strive to do as good a job as possible, so their product is the absolute best that it can be. If not, then don't do it at all, because what's the fucking point? With something like Hatred, the very concept is an extremely stupid one and there are 0% chances that this game will be anything other than complete and utter shit. So if you're making shit and you're aware of this fact(unless you're extremely dense) why the fuck make it? Exactly the way Michael Bay makes his movies. He's well aware of how horrendous they are, but he makes them anyway because he knows stupid rednecks that populate the Southern United States will trample each other filling the cinemas to watch these fucking shitty movies. Beyond the shock value, this game has NOTHING to offer, only to really stupid people that can probably be entertained with a rock tied to a piece of string.

P.S. The example you gave was irrelevant. I don't play sports games and MMOs either, but I can understand their reasons for existing very well. I don't consider these games shit, I just consider them as not being for me. But I completely understand what people see in them. In this particular case, I'm actually interested in the type of game it is, as shooters are actually my favorite kind of games. The problem is that this PARTICULAR shooter is total shit and a disgrace to the genre.

I saw the trailer and I read what it's about. It's basically a sociopath simulator, but not the funny kind like Postal. NOPE, it's depressing, dark and dreary and apparently all you do in it is murder innocents. You know...the thing everyone does in GTA games and their clones for abut 10 minutes before getting bored and starting an actual story mission. Only here there are no story missions and that's ALL you ever do. Doesn't it sound like fun? I vote NOOOOOOO!!!!!