How much violence is OK for a video game?

[Kreekakon]

I don't believe the ''it forced you to do something'' arguement is valid, you've bought the product, and if you have you should know what you're in for, if you simply do not purchase the game you don't have to kill anyone.

I believe that it is a valid argument for the same reasons that "Don't like it then don't buy it, and/or criticize it" isn't a valid argument.

It is made by observers who do not like the game, and are trying to analyze exactly the nature of why that may be even though they have no intentions of liking the thing in the first place.

And here's another thing I've been pondering, people claim it is fine for GTA to do these things because of its satirical nature, however watching the trailer to Hatred I hear absolutely nothing but dripping satire, I'm not sure if that was intended by the devs or the result of the bad writing but it just seems like a big goof to me.

I think this is as you suspect the result of bad writing. As I said earlier I think the main reason that people are offended is because of the civilians being very personally executed in much less intentionally goofy ways.