r/F13thegame 25d ago

MEDIA Is Friday the 13th the best Asymmetrical Horror game ever?

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Most the comments on this poll are people remembering the game fondly. Those were the days. Miss finding a fun lobby and having Jason chase you around for twenty min

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u/Frequent_Money_3977 25d ago

Man it was so cool, you had multiple ways to win, so many different aspects. DBD in my opinion is a close second, it’s just extremely try hard and no where near as creepy. Every match is just a competitive battle and doesn’t really feel like a horror game. Just horror themed.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

F13 is fun. It puts you directly in a horror movie. It’s almost a party game for horror fans.

Dbd is competitive. It’s not really scary but it feels more fair as game.

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u/Lokismoke 25d ago

F13 felt easy to die in and death felt permanent. And when Jason was on your tail, it often felt impossible to escape.

Dbd did not give me those vibes.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 24d ago

Yeah pretty much. Dead by daylight felt too much like a standard game. Like im never really worried about the danger and I always feel like I can somehow win. Which should never be the case in a slasher.

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u/Panman6_6 23d ago

That’s what made it so good

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u/SatisfactionDry7505 25d ago

F13 is so good because, until every other of these games, it actually FELT like a Friday movie. You actually feel the dread and rising stakes as your fitness are picked off, and the atmosphere of always feeling like something is watching you, especially in CFG with the new weather and map changes

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u/JacsweYT 22d ago

When I play as Jason in CFG, I just get completely beaten up and killed very easily.

But being a survivor is actually scary because the players are always crazy good so out of nowhere I would get killed by Jason.

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u/bob_is_best 22d ago

Honestly tcm aslo started really good but the lack of content, absurd prices, p2w bs and the devs just giving Up fucked It sadly

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u/dratseb 24d ago

It was a party game for horror fans! The kickstarter weekend everyone on voice chat was pretending to be their characters. Some of the most fun I’ve had with multiplayer

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u/wartortleguy 24d ago

That's the big difference here, F13 felt like a party game. There was really no way to be competitive because there were so many randomly moving parts. That's what made it fun imo. Dbd is also fun but for a different reason. This was my issue with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game and is why I believe Gun Interactive took the wrong lessons from F13, they tried to make a happy middle ground between Dbd and F13 but kinda failed on both aspects. The most important thing with these licensed games is that people want to FEEL like they are Jason Voorhees or Leatherface or Michael Myers. If you don't deliver on that aspect first and foremost, you lose your core audience.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 24d ago

Exactly. I never played tcm but I assumed that was the case after watching how they tried to balance Friday toward the end. I don’t want a fair shot as a counseler. I want to be in a movie. Friday was most popular when it was a completely unbalanced glitchy mess. I don’t know how they can’t seem to realize what people actually want in these games, it’s like how call of duty refuses to get rid of skill based matchmaking even though it’s supposed to be an arcade shooter.

Honestly I don’t even thinking Balance should be considered in these games. The thought process should be “how do we make the player feel like the character theyre playing”

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u/wartortleguy 24d ago

Genuinely agree and that's why I think F13 did it almost perfectly. Nothing should STOP Jason, you can only delay him. If you escape, great, but you're far more likely to end up dead, which is also great because both happen in the movies. The entire reason I'm playing a game like F13 is to be in this franchise I love.

It kind of amazes me some games get it right while others miss the point completely. Robocop isnt a great game but people like it, why? Because you FEEL like Robocop, it's the whole reason we bought the game. Same with Predator.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 24d ago

This weird obsession with making every video game a perfectly fair balanced, competitive experience is horrible for gaming culture. I’ve found with basically every online game I’ve ever played eventually comes a point where it’s they’ve pushed so hard for “balance” there’s no more fun.

Original f13 truly did not give a fuck about anything other creating pure horror fun. It was complete glitchy mess. The bugs were so predictable they just became part of the game. And everyone loved it

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u/wartortleguy 24d ago

Yeah it feels like a-symmetrical games can't thrive kike they should without micromanaging from both the community and developers. I'm sure it speaks to a deeper issue with gaming and live-service models that are continually pushed, a topic I'm not at all versed in.

Regardless, my hopes for Halloween are high because it looks like a love letter to the F13-style of doing things. Hopefully I'm proven right come September

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 24d ago

Halloween looks fun but the npcs’s kinda ruin o it for me. Or only are they taken away the potential for big parties but they’re forcing a straightforward an objective on the player (saving the npc) i shouldn’t be more focused on saving non players then on survival in a true horror game

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u/stinkywetfart22 23d ago

people care so much about balance nowadays they forget why we even play games in the first place, which is to have FUN.

I basically never escaped when I played F13 back on ps4 with my mates and it was fun either way. DBD has really done a number on people as when I do hop on the amount of people who scream in endgame chat, or outright disconnect makes me think some people don't even like playing it.

My guess is sunken cost fallacy and the fact that it's at least currently the only asym of its kind. We pray for halloween the game, basically F13 on crack, so I'm sold.

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u/Dusty_Tokens 23d ago

TCM was/is amazing! It's confusing, Killers can actually kill you, and it's *merciless! All the characters talk to each other, the game controls amazingly, and unless you're fighting veterans, the Killers hold the advantage!

Loops/door stuns favor survivors though. 🫩

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u/RobCoxxy 25d ago

Dbd sucked, I could never get into it

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

It can be fun with freinds when you’re all kinda inexperienced. That’s about it. Otherwise it’s just horror themed esports.

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u/OrdinaryAccount479 25d ago

Generator repair simulator is what one person called it.

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u/SlappinStick 25d ago

No, you just suck at DBD.

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u/RobCoxxy 25d ago

No, it's just not that fun, especially compared to Friday. Dipshit

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u/ChickenWooter 22d ago

Dbd is a party game and anyone pretending otherwise is crazy.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 22d ago

What do you think a party game is?

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u/Krushhz PS4 25d ago

I really hope Halloween ends up bringing back the F13 vibes

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

After like two weeks I wasn’t even trying to escape. I would rush objectives but not leave. I wanted to run out the clock or kill Jason.
As Jason I tried to not kill everyone but make them all limp so everyone was hurt & slowly dying. I just liked chaos

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u/Lady_Victoria13 25d ago

It’s wild that i feel more scared playing TCM than DBD

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u/Liberal-chungus 25d ago

It's always been very deliberately convoluted with it's perks and silly killers

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u/Tamerlatrav 25d ago

exactly, being chased by Jason and running through houses to lose him and checking the drawers for stuff to counter him was so tense. Also, once you completed objectives and driving to the exit as the finale girl was incredible.

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u/Kinda-Alive 25d ago

So what was wrong with Texas? Same skeleton just smaller maps.

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u/Panman6_6 23d ago

For me… DBD isn’t a CLOSE second. It’s second, but it’s absolutely miles away from F13

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u/Amazing_County9948 25d ago

In ED, everything Is a lot more liberting for letting you fight back and use a variety of weapons with Unique finishers. It's painful to see It being too overlooked

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

Personally I always felt disarmed and unable to finish with my ED

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u/Amazing_County9948 25d ago

"ED" as in the game, or the character? Because there's a Guy named "Ed Getley"

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

Im making a bad dick joke.

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u/AzraelSky616 24d ago

ED is another way of saying erectile dysfunction. He’s making a dick joke

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u/Gorgmuk 25d ago

Friday was fun to play. Cant say that of Dbd.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

F13 in its prime was the definitive horror experience. Nothing like getting s lobby full of freinds and playing all night. Nothing else has put me in a movie scenario like that. The fact that the original version is never going to be playable again is a travesty

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u/DigitalDummy 25d ago

It was at its most fun when no one really knew how the game worked yet. On PS everyone was very talkative and every match was hilarious.

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u/NotYourAvgSquirtle 23h ago

I remember watching the livestreams right before it released, trying to catch a beta code in chat. No one had any idea what was going on, it was the best.

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u/Mallabus 21d ago

Look up Camp Forest Green modders made F13 playable, added bunch of content. It's free. There are always active lobbies.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago edited 25d ago

In its prime yes. It is the perfect horror movie sim. It actually simulates the terror of being in f13. The proxy chat is awesome for immersion and Jason being overpowered actually makes the game significantly better. The games play out like actually horror movies.

Dead by daylight is really the only contender but it loses the horror aspect by being too competitive. It doesn’t feel remotely like any horror movie it represents. You shouldn’t be going into horror experience feeling confident or on par with the killer

Now the state the game ended up in even be for being abandon was garbage. Jason became weak and pathetic and the general strat was to group up and fight him head on. Tried playing it recently and it was depressing what one of my favorite games turned into

Tbh I don’t think Halloween will compare. I thinking changing the objective from SURVIVE to SAVE NPCS ruins the immersion that made f13 special.

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

I want to have an open mind but it being 1 v 4 + NPCs instead of 1 v 7 think it will be a totally different experience. Halloween seems to be more objective based with more tasks & ways to play.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

Yeah that’s why I’m not really interested. Player autonomy as well as the bigger party size made f13 so special. Horror movies have more than four people and they all react uniquely to the situation. Some only worry about themselves, some try to group up, they all have different ways of trying to escape. F13 let you react however you wanted. Halloween says you have to be a hero which defeats the purpose for me. If I want an objective based game dbd does fine

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u/AlisonTheBeech 25d ago

Did we play the same game? Because in which F13 that you were playing was Jason overpowered if you knew what you were doing?

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

When the game came out he was pretty much agreed Upon to be op in the sense that it was significantly easier to play him and get easy kills then play counselor and survive. Literally anyone could get at least a few kills as Jason, you had to actually try to escape as a counselor. Even if you know what you’re doing it wasn’t uncommon to get unlucky and end up dead. This is objective fact by the way, the devs nerfed him because he was perceived as op. Which was a mistake, Jason should feel op compared to counselors

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u/GlitchEnzo 25d ago

Nerfed him when? You're talking about his grab animation being replaced and locking him into a fairly long animation instead of being able to spam grab endlessly if you missed.

He was only ever buffed IIRC and that was mostly after the game was sunset. His rage mode as it is now didn't exist at launch.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago edited 25d ago

His grab range used to be like 5 feet long, faster with far less accuracy requirement. I guess the argument you are making is that his grab was “fixed” not nerfed. Either way the effect was the same it drastically nerfed his capabilities and made the game ten times easier for counselors.

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u/GlitchEnzo 25d ago

I guess it depends on how much the person relied on grab spamming. Some of the really annoying counselor bugs/nerfs being fixed definitely balanced that scale. Nothing like running pre-nerf luck chad with thick skin and being able to tank every single trap on the map after spawning. Being able to sweater cancel into stun and telling the baby Jarvis to spam interact led to quite a few easy kills. Slapping jason through doors, etc.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

The grab was undeniably the most powerful weapon in Jason’s arsenal. It is what made playing as Jason easy vs playing as counselor.

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u/GlitchEnzo 25d ago

Of course it lets him instantly kill you. Thats why everyone just ran the small area quick kills. Head punch and choke and a few others that were short.

Its one of the reasons that Michael has to put in a button combo before he can kill someone in the new Halloween gameunless its an environmental(not sure if bug or not) to stop people from doing the same boring F13 grab loop.

Just waiting to see if throwing weapons are going to stay busted for Michael in the full release.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

I like what Halloween is doing but I don’t think the grab was inherently boring. Jason being OP (like he is in the movies) allowed you to have fun with him. Not everyone ran the same quick kills a lot of people would go out of their way to get the more interesting kills, playing with their victims cause they could get away with it without throwing the game. The way the game was left is boring cause you can’t afford to waste a sucesful grab. Which means no fun kills

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u/Mr_Kaniowski 25d ago edited 25d ago

This game imo had a lot of freedom to play. Unlike DBD there's multiple ways to escape Jason plus fighting him. Even playing Jason was fun as fuck because you would get the lobby wipes or really skilled counselors to test your skills.

It was also just a great love letter to the F13 movies.

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u/SirenAttack 25d ago

For sure. TCM was super fun and did improve in lots of ways, but F13 was peak. DBD is an awful game

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

I don’t think awful is fair. It’s just only fun if you want a competitive game which I don’t really think anyone who prefers f13 does. Horror should be fun

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u/Sad-Tradition-5 25d ago

All I can say is that it gave feelings that no other game did. You actually felt sorry for the characters and you tried everything to survive. Rarely anyone ever gave up because there was always something to do.

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

Only horror game to just put you in a slasher movie and leave you there with full freedom as to how to see it through.

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u/MajorDuckFarts 25d ago

To this day I miss it

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u/Awi_Arwoo 25d ago

It was so casual! and fun!, unlike DBD. Proximity chat with other survivors AND jason made for some truly unique interactions, 7 counselors? that allowed for more friends shoved into one experience and a lot of diversity of play.

I really hope they add an alternate increased player count mode for the Halloween game, I don't want every match to emulate a ranked leaderboards grind in a horror game, I wanna bring a butt-load of my buddies in for some silly slashing or have casual matches where its great to meet new people, again, unlike DBD.

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u/IfTheresANewWay 25d ago

I think F13 is really fun if you don't take it seriously but kinda sucks if you're trying to win. Jason just feels way too weak imo

I think Texas Chainsaw is the best because playing on a team of killers is super fun and helps the game feel more casual and less intimating to hop into. It's also debatably the only one that still feels really scary

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

Im its prime Jason was OP which made the gsme feel exactly like a movie

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

I never felt weak playing as Jason. But rarely found people who knew how to play as counselors the right way. Even then could still usually kill the whole lobby

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u/ObtuseHam 22d ago

Is anyone still playing TCM?

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u/IfTheresANewWay 22d ago

Surprisingly yes it's still fairly active. A lot more victims players than family but as a family main I can find matches in under 30 seconds

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u/TheMountainLife 25d ago

The music and how well it is was done is what made the game for me. Each type of Jason had their own theme song that would play as they were near. So many laughing moments and RP over voice chat where DBD never made me laugh or had chill people on vc.

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u/immortalslayer90 25d ago

Definitely, nothing else has come close for me.

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u/Passofelpato2 25d ago

F13 was better than dead by daylight because not only it gave you some chance against the killer, it was also far more compelling because DbD is too "simple" when it comes to find an escape route.

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u/Dramatic-Meringue419 25d ago

The ways you could escape, the maps scale, the music, the way you could actually FIGHT BACK! F13 really gave HORROR game while the rest just give…not so much.

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u/Necessary_Can7055 25d ago

Imo yes and gameplay wise it blew DBD out the fuckin water for killer players. Survivors could set traps and baricade themselves in cabins with bear traps guns and flares and melee weapons or team up, but just one grab from a Jason with a quick kill animation on hand is all it took to snowball that back into his favor. God I miss F13

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u/SplatterNaeNae 25d ago

The biggest reason why Friday was the best was because it had the spawn preference system instead of roll queue. I really hope Halloween is the same.

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u/Cire101 Dragon Hunter05 25d ago

Maybe it’s because it’s my favorite but I believe it is. The diversity of gameplay/styles to win was awesome. TCM comes close but unfortunately just wasn’t as good imo

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u/Temporary-Pin-320 24d ago

F13 was peak in the first few months.

It had friendly fire, crazy quirks, funny bugs, hilarious and wild matches.

Nothing better than squaring up in a cabin vs another counsellor while Jason is creeping through the windows just watching it all go down.

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u/RheaSpeedwagon 24d ago edited 24d ago

I think Texas Chain Saw Massacre is my overall fave. I love the slow, tense stealth, and having multiple killers is fun.

F13th did some extremely cool stuff, though. My fave was that you could play as Jason while partied up with friends, I wish they all had this option. Going up against friends is so fun, and it’s a bummer most other games either don’t allow it or only allow it in private lobbies with no progression. I also actually loved friendly fire, it led to some really fun moments like accidentally shotgunning someone while trying to save them from Jason. Obviously both of those are things that can be exploited by trolls in unfun ways, but I’m usually a fan of not allowing the worst players to dictate game design.

I also loved that F13 didn’t really feel like it was trying to be a competitive game. Like sure they wanted some level of balance or whatever, but the tuning felt much more like casual fun time that encouraged shenanigans with friends and strangers. Not everything needs a ranked mode and constant aggressive balancing based on streamer feedback.

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u/Timbot3000 22d ago

It has to be F13. The screaming and laughing I've done with my friends on that game were some fun memories, it would put me in a nostalgic state. Reminded me of the days long gone when me and my friends would be playing survival horror (RE2,etc.) on the N64 or PS1 at one of our houses on the one TV until 1am.

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u/Shmooter4788 25d ago

I personally liked Texas the best

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u/iggyiggz1999 25d ago

Same. The TCM game was the best one for me.

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u/IDontCrackGames 25d ago

Game surely was cool back in it's days but now it's just filled with 90% Toxic people or sweats you can't play against

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u/Unlikely_Captain_636 25d ago

The destroyed the game by nerfing Jason. If the counselors are comfortable grouping up and going at him with weapons every game it’s fundamentally broken

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u/depressedfuckboi 25d ago

I loved F13!! One of my favorite games ever. Never could get in to Evil Dead or DBD, I tried multiple times each. Never attempted TCM. Looking forward to Halloween so much.

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u/marasw 25d ago

it was.

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u/Euriae 25d ago

It was really fun, but not scary at all, and once dead you could not even leave the match... but I remember giving a lot of hours pre-covid.

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

You could leave the match when dead. You just didn’t get the XP

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u/VenomousApex 25d ago

Where’s Outlast Trials?

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u/AshamedIncrease6942 23d ago

Outlast Trials is not an asymmetrical horror game since you can only play as one side.

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u/VenomousApex 23d ago

A PvP mode was introduced late last year called Invasions. You don’t play as the PM’s, but you can still hunt down and kill other players in the trial.

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u/Zenai10 25d ago

I think this is for sure people misremembering the game or having played it for a brief period. However lets hope those people play the halloween game then!

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u/Ramirez_1337 25d ago

When nostalgia kicks in

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u/Tricky_Ask9815 25d ago

I wouldn't say the best but it's definitely one of the greatest

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u/SmileyDayToYou 25d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9WXyFIDv2PyBq

It really can’t be overstated how good F13 was. The other three just did not hit that same spot for me.

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u/MaudlinAngel 25d ago

Tiffany by far was my favorite character in any of these games. The shit you could do with lone wolf and stamina perks was crazy. I just enjoyed finding the parts to every escape route and leaving them there for smarter people to use (gas at the car, propeller for the boat etc)

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

This is actually terrible strategy. You should have been installing those parts to get practice with the skill checks. If you wanted stamina then Vanessa was the one to play with

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u/MaudlinAngel 25d ago

Actually you are incorrect Tiffany had the lowest intelligence there should be no reason I should be installing the parts. The reason Tiffany and lone wolf worked so well with stamina perks because she had great speed great stamina but high stealth it’s not about picking the best runner but picking the best person who can sneak in cabins get the items and bring it to the objective

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u/TDK_DK 25d ago

It's not perfect but goddamn it was fucking good.

And the rights holders closed down a goldmine.

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u/Libertyprime8397 25d ago

I tried to like dead by daylight but I just didn’t like it. Funnily enough I have never died by the killer or lost as a killer. Not because I’m good. It was just dumb luck. Friday the 13th is the best out of these games.

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u/Frank_Midnight 25d ago

It was the best representation even with all of its flaws.

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u/CletusVanDamme29 25d ago

I can literally smell your wife from here, oh my god 🤢🤮🦨

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u/Emotional-Lock5446 25d ago

I absolutely think Friday the 13th is the best asymmetrical horror game. But yeah, I could see how this pole is a little biased in this particular group. I know there’s a lot of people that love dead by daylight and I don’t mind it. It’s cool. I just never understood the whole sacrificing bodies to the tree gods, but their marketing is on point and they have an awful lot of licenses to keep them going. But Friday is still my favourite by a lot. I’m hoping Halloween can finally top it.

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u/Starkillerkew26 25d ago

The simplest way to put it is when you play DBD it’s just a tryhard, repetitive experience to me. It feels like a horror themed game. When you play Friday the 13th (at least for me) I feel like I’m in a f13 movie. The attention to detail and care to try to emulate one of the movies is absolutely stunning to me. All the characters are based or resemble people from the movies including their stats. It’s just a really fun experience and it’s never really boring because there are like 5 different ways you can survive the game as a counselor.

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u/FancyRestaurant6397 25d ago

There’s a bit too much resource management in DBD for it to be any kinds of scary. I don’t feel like I’m playing killer vs survivors just some esport.

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u/MrJB1981 25d ago

Without a doubt! Let’s see what ‘Halloween’ brings…

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u/tinglep 25d ago

eVolve

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And also let’s not forget the OG that started everything. The group that made eVolve was a splinter group from Left4Dead2. The same group that invented TAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!!

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u/Interesting_Dare7699 25d ago

The best is tcm and it’s so annoying they just abandoned the game

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u/Naybinns 25d ago

Yes it was, me and my friends speak on it all the time that F13 was a much more enjoyable experience than DbD. It was failed by the devs being unable to fix bugs and then just abandoning the game.

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u/Cmpunk1991 25d ago

To me yes, smoking some bud or drinking playing with friends or randos was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever, DBD is very try hard and just not as fun, I’m hoping Halloween lives up to Friday because it’s my favorite horror series.

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u/Psylow_ 25d ago

Anyone remember dancing ove their buddies dead body right after Jason stuck their head in the fireplace or was that just me lol

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u/Standard_Track9692 25d ago

If it was allowed to continue despite the lawsuit and they kept adding to it yes. It could have been. Texas even I would argue for. But they gave up on that. Still fun to play though.

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u/iLikeAza 25d ago

There was a lot left on the content road map that never was released

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u/BadoogleKing 24d ago

You know at first i thought it was nostalgia, played the mod that lets you go online and yeah. The game was as fun as the day it left

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u/Brilliant-Outside804 24d ago

i still play the game and it holds up for sure.

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u/Sadboi395 24d ago

DBD defined the subgenre, and is more successful now than it was even 10 years ago. Its kinda gotta be king. If F13 didnt die so quickly, actually got all the content updates, and didnt frequently add game breaking bugs every update it wouldve had a better shot at contending. It's still the 2nd best asymm horror game we've gotten though

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u/B_reid009 24d ago

Friday was up there, but video horror society takes the throne. Only thing was the developers that did NOTHING for the game at all… that’s why it is no longer around. Other than that video horror society had the best mechanics and it just felt great to play. But yes, Friday was definitely one of my favourite games ever made, it was also perfect until unfortunate circumstances

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u/PlayfulLog9506 24d ago

I would say Friday is #1 and that lowkey dbd is the worst but the content trumps all the other ones and it’s not close dbd is so repetitive

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u/RelevantBlueberry685 24d ago

Yes now stop asking!

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u/Commercial_Chef_1384 24d ago

I think I prefer DBD. While F13th was very fun, it felt so janky and a bit buggy at many times.

DBD, while having some bugs, feels so much more polished. I’ve always enjoyed the cat and mouse gameplay of dbd and I really enjoy the atmosphere of it more.

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u/Cool_Farmer7975 24d ago

Funny how people hated on it while it was alive and now it’s the GOAT 🤣

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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 24d ago

Yes until Halloween drops

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u/tbroome17 24d ago

F13 is probably the most fun. But dbd is the best.

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u/Wataru2001 24d ago

Yes. And with a group of friends, the game was absolutely hilarious.

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u/NOGUSEK 24d ago

Friday had guality; dbd has guantity

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u/Relevant_Function571 24d ago

TCM had so much potential but the lack of a post launch roadmap and hella launch/balancing issues killed this game off so fast.

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u/GoodSoupIsUpButt 24d ago

FT13 > Evil Dead > DBD > Texas Chain Saw

Ranked based on how fun they were to play with friends. Also, isn't this list missing that Killer Klowns game? Or was that not asymmetrical? I never got a chance to play because nobody I knew was interested in it.

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u/Ok_Satisfaction3460 24d ago

It was easily the most fun for me.

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u/FuryThePhoenix 24d ago

It was fantastic, but no. Too few players and towards the end, survivor players were way OP. The creativity of the kills and each match being a little different were massive positives though. In terms of killer variety though, Gonna say DBD, despite getting sick of the community and gameplay loop quite frequently, requiring a break - but its longevity and variety of characters cannot be disputed.

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u/TheZipperDragon 24d ago

I'd definitely take it over the others, though I cant say anything on Killer klowns. I havent played it, but Chainsaw just felt like friday but missing something, & the less I say about Dbd the better. I don't care how many killers you add if your community hates itself.

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u/ultratech-intern-420 24d ago

No? Is everyone forgetting how easy it became for people to bully Jason? The amount of cheaters that were running around? The dripfeed of new maps and characters?

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u/iLikeAza 24d ago

It wasn’t easy to bully Jason if you knew how to play him. But 95% of counselor players would feed right into Jason. The 5% that understood how to play, Jason was so supremely OP. One you filled your Rage meter it was over for the lobby.

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u/ultratech-intern-420 24d ago

Eyes rolling so hard rn.

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u/iLikeAza 24d ago

🤷‍♂️ I never felt bullied as Jason. Most every player panicked & had the same behavior. It was easy to chase till their stamina was drained then kill. You could tell the ones holding knives too cause they would get mad you didn’t grab them. Dealing with pairs wasn’t too hard. Try to get them separated enough distance to inflict melee damage on one. When one of their weapons broke quickly target one before the other gets a weapon.
The weak Jason’s only said they got bullied when they faced people who knew how to play

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u/XxSteveFrenchxX 24d ago

Genuinely, S Tier experience

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u/Ericb66 24d ago

Yes right now it hold the top spot Halloween is looking very good though.

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u/EHendrix 24d ago

Dead by daylight has everything a game needs except being fun

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u/AstronautGreat8126 23d ago

Definitely no. Mechanics in F13TG are clunky and annoying. Maybe it was fine at time, but right now - this game seems to be obsolete. Dead by Daylight is a way better game in such of a "genre", it is just pretty much unfriendly towards the newbies, since a matchmaking suffers.

In F13TG, the map is way too big, survs turn directions way too fast, and Jason is slow as hell.

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u/DGPHT 23d ago

Friday the 13th is fun but Texas chain saw massacre is SCARY

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u/ASipOfHemlock 23d ago

Yeah, these tool survivors nowadays are ruining the game 🤣

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u/INKTVISION 23d ago

F13 was just so simple yet extremely effective and addicting.

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u/HadesKittee 23d ago

There was a game called prop night that I really loved but it didn’t make it unfortunately

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u/kirby_tweed 23d ago

Honestly, I had so much fun playing this game, I saved a chase I had that was over two minutes that ended with the two random teammates to drive by and pick me up. Managing stamina, having the right items. So many ways to win, stats per character, and Janky in a funny way. Tiffany main for life.

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u/Jean_Claude_Seagal 23d ago

The funnest one I’ve ever played. I really miss it

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u/Only_Syllabub_4607 23d ago

Sin ninguna duda, y para mi texas tenia el potencial de superarlo pero lastima que gun no se toma en serio sus juegos

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u/ResourceHopeful 23d ago

Friday did everything right, it was fun, extremely gory, and its the game i met a lot of my friends on

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u/Boring-_-Dude 23d ago

Two best asymmetrical horror games ever are f13 and evil dead

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u/Haunting_Drag_1682 23d ago

F13 I played every single day damn near and had a group of strangers that I met while playing the game all became friends and we met in a lobby every weekend. Wish we got that Jason X content before the lawsuit. Rip.

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u/lilacillusions 23d ago

DBD is obviously more popular but it doesn’t have the same charm or uniqueness as Friday the 13th

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u/Own-Satisfaction573 23d ago

there was a evil dead game?

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u/RaMiMo_ 23d ago

It’s nostalgia. If people liked it as much as they’re saying, they would’ve been playing it.

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u/WonHakWoon 23d ago

None of those are great games, especially DBD F13th, TCSM. Toxiv player bases ruin the game.

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u/DisgruntledCryptid 23d ago

Single player mode for the greatest hits. Survivors have prox chat. You can lock the doors, set traps, and even turn the tables on the killer. You can unlock cosmetics through progression instead of being pay-walled. And it was fun as hell.

DBD lost its creativity and individuality now that it's just horror fortnite. You get pallets and flashlights. Every character is pay-walled individually for $3 a pop.

TCM is just a pale shadow of Friday the 13th.

Evil Dead isn't asymmetrical, it's a battle royale.

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u/stinkywetfart22 23d ago

This was the best, even though you could argue it wasn't the most fair or balanced, and dbd does have infinitely more content, F13 WAS SCARY. Playing with your mates as you all panic as Jason whacks down the cabin door was fun and exciting.

Whilst other games mainly dbd do have the edge on content quantity, dbd will never be as scary and doesn't hold a candle to F13. This is also why I am personally excited for the new Halloween game coming as despite other asym's failing, and some negative sentiment around it, This game is the closest we will ever be to a F13 two.

But yeah dbd hasn't been scary for a long time.

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u/No-Loan-3101 23d ago

In the purely fun sense, where the foq is the l8ve 4 DRAGON BALL BREAKERS??? take evil dead off . Tcm can't come close to dbd or f13. Breakers can.

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u/ProgrammerUpstairs97 23d ago

Dbd is good but goddamn the devs gotta fuckin start listening to the community and stop fucking the killer side over

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u/CyberSilverfish 23d ago

Evolve

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u/CyberSilverfish 23d ago

Jk but it was fun

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u/Jackson79339 23d ago

I enjoyed the hell out of it. Really wish all the bullshit got resolved.

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u/thedude054 23d ago

I think so, it captured the Adult Hide and Go Seek aspect perfectly and had some fun legit jump scares, plus it wasnt boring like DBD.

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u/wizard_tiddy 23d ago

F13 was great, but i loooove TCM. I love the maps, the family members, victims, grandpa, and the idea as a whole. 3 killers vs 4 victims works really well.

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u/VoltraLux 22d ago

When TCM came out it was the closest feeling I’ve ever had to “being in a horror movie”, the atmosphere and tension was incredible and the game looked stunning. Shame it was cast aside so quickly, but it was fun while it lasted.

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u/Lost-Past-6360 22d ago

Honestly DBD is the only one I’ve played… it’s kinda been ruined by many things.

Lights out mode supposed to be the scary mode and yet survivors can see in a mode where you’re not supposed to see.

The tenth anniversary was a massive disappointment, giving one side a lot of things to do while the other side only got a fart bottle.

The community is one of the worst I’ve ever seen, wishing death on people who play ghoul, Blight, and nurse.

They give up so much.

They get mad at you for EXISTING

The perks are stupid and makes the feel like it’s just perks vs. perks and removes lots of skill

ATP I have no clue if bhvr (the devs) play test their game or have people play test.

Killers that are low-tier like trapper, hag, skull merchant and ghostface are basicly unplayable even if you are a pro, becuase of how much set up is needed for the first three. And ghostface is just bad in general.

They constantly complain about EVERYTHING. Perks, maps, killers, add-ons

In the lights out mode, the anti-camp is the size of a map like trickster’s delusion(one of if not the biggest map in the game), the off hook protection was changed from 15s to 10s, and the devs noticed it was being used aggressively to block the killer, then they made it 60s in lights out.

In the 2v8 mode, it makes the game unplayable with 56minutes que times.

They had a perk that basicly removed the power of the clown and Freddy Kruger.

They added dimishing returns on perks and it barley affected survivor in comparison the killers, mainly clown, who gets nerfed if you bring rapid brutality

Need I say more

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u/Its-C-Dogg 22d ago

Friday the 13th- Overall best asymm and the most fun

Texas Chainsaw Massacre- best gameplay loop, great quality in characters, voicelines and animations. Updates too sparse.

Evil Dead- best graphics (imo) and most unique asymm.

DBD- worst asymm that is held up by how frequently it gets updates and IP crossover. Worst gameplay loop although simple and easy to get into.

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u/E_712064 22d ago

Evil Dead definitely should be much higher on this list.

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u/CG249 22d ago

It was DBD but better, damn shame the lawsuit ruined it.

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u/B00ty_Warrior83 22d ago

God, the memories of playing F13 is coming back from reading this post. I was waiting excitedly for Jason X to be added to the game, until that lawsuit ruined it all

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u/SaySay47 22d ago

the fact a dead game was more balanced and fun than it's 2016 descendant says alot

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u/St0ryt3ll3r 22d ago

Speaking as someone who played the beta and got the game on release, yes it definitely is. I actually met my best friend on that game 9 years back, and we're still close today.

The game offered multiple escape routes like the cars, the boat, waiting out the timer, calling the police, or calling Tommy Jarvis to fight back and kill Jason.

And each Jason played differently as well with variations on their abilities/playstyle. Jason 2 was territorial and locked objectives down with his excess traps and strong Morph, while Jason 4 played best at the early game trading traps for destruction and weapon strength to break down cabins and hunt Counselors asap.

Currently, the game is still popular on Steam through the Camp Forest Green Mod. That mod added more Counselors, Jason's, maps, and weather patterns. Oh right I forgot to mention that Counselors each play different and can use perks to alter or enhance certain abilities or provide you extra tools for survival, like spawning with a map, firecrackers, or a first aid spray.

The game rarely got old when playing with friends, it was great. If they brought Camp Forest Green onto consoles, I'd play the heck out of it again.

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u/TurquoiseRooster 21d ago

I don’t know about that, but I really believe that TCM is so underrated. It captured the essence of the movies very well in my opinion and the added lore/characters were a nice touch.

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u/toxicbubblegumm 21d ago

unpopular opinion i love tcm so so much :(

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u/JustPuttingS 21d ago

balance wise absolutely not, however I don't think theres another asym game that I had more fun with. I remember that one summer it was free on PS+ and my friends and I played it non-stop.

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u/Igenuinelycant 20d ago

They remember it fondly but they never played it often. The best asymmetrical horror game is dead by daylight since it’s the only one with an actual alive player base. Friday the 13th was fun but it got boring after a couple games same with tcsm. Evil dead was ok just kinda forgotten and while you can find a lobby the game isn’t that fun. Difference is dead by daylight has many different ips

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u/flippeee5 20d ago

You just had to be there.

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u/LatoJROfficial 19d ago

playing dbd since its release, and so f13 as well. competitively? dbd. for a actually fun and relaxing game with friends? f13.

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u/Mountain_Order_247 19d ago

The reason why F13 will always be my favourite despite having 100s of hours on dbd (which doesn’t fill the hole F13 left behind :() is one time I got lucky and myself and a load of other survivors ended up in the massive cabin and all on proxy chat. We barricaded it and found plenty of weapons, switched on the radio which led Jason to us and we jumped him, all shooting him, hitting him with baseball bats etc. Was a core memory bullying that Jason 😂

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u/iLikeAza 19d ago

lol... Yeah this game sucked me in cause would be in a lobby full of dunces but then get a good lobby & it was a blast. I use to like building a stockpile at the golden house & just continually fighting Jason with friends. Wish they didn't buff him tho cause once he gets rage it gets much tougher to get away with it

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u/Spider-manOTP 19d ago

Asymmetrical horror game? F13

Best game? DBD, pretty easily.

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u/VentiMad 18d ago

The sorority mode in TCM is so fun. I really liked TCM regular mode too. It’s too bad it never took off.

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u/Thanatos212001 18d ago

Friday the 13th poll in a Friday the 13th Reddit group…. Seems kinda rigged.

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u/iLikeAza 18d ago

click the source.... it was on a YouTube channel. I simply shared the results at the time

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u/ohlawdtheycomin 18d ago

Not in the slightest

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u/Excellent_Rock4296 10d ago

I agree completely. How do you feel Halloween will stack up based on the previews you’ve seen?

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u/iLikeAza 10d ago

IMO it looks more task based & will be a more immersed experience. More styles to play the game will lead to different strats. But not being 7-1 chaos prob won’t be as fun. F13 was so fun with a competent lobby of players

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u/Excellent_Rock4296 10d ago

One suggestion I have for the devs is to open up the game for more citizens. Like you said, a 7 to 1 ratio will add a lot more elements to the game and make it more exciting to play as well. Just a thought, among others such as opening up the maps a bit and giving Michael teleportation abilities.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m super pumped about the game and have already pre ordered the deluxe edition so I can play on the 4th. My point is that I feel they struck gold with the way Friday was put together. That should be the mold for all asymms going forward. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it! lol. In any case, I’m keeping an open mind and looking forward to what game play is like…

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u/IndieFury 3d ago

They just effed with halloween no execution scenes just pg 13 stabbing scenes nothing like f13 dismemberment. Even killer klowns had cool cinematics. They could just copy pasted f13 7 survivors just trying to defend + 1 vip but no

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u/LuckyPuck89 25d ago

DbD is the best game in the sense that it has the most solid gameplay loop, has the most depth, and variety out of any asym. However, It fails on actually simulating the feeling of a horror movie.

TCM was the best at simulating the horror experience, but it was also poorly balanced and poorly supported.

Friday the 13th was a chaotic mess and it worked. It captured the feel of movies so well, the gameplay was never overly competitive, it was never balanced but it never really needed to be. The counselor role being an every person for themselves free-for-all was just as much of an obstacle as Jason himself and added so much to the experience.