Please, No More Licensed Asymmetrical Horror Games (The Jimquisition)
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Friday the 13th, Predator, Puppet Master, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and bloody Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Alongside Dead by Daylight, the saturation of asymmetrical multiplayer based on horror icons is boring the heck out of me.
#fridaythe13ththegame #puppetmaster #Deadbydaylight #ChildsPlay #KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace #JimSterling #StephanieSterling #Games #Gaming - Ігри
Glad you didn’t get seriously hurt!
I had two choices - try and catch them, or turn the fuck back around and hope for the best. I genuinely believe if I had tried to catch them, I'd be dead or paralyzed.
I love wrestling.
@@JimSterling Glad you made the right choice. Because who else would we thank God for then? Also who else would make us depressed about the state of gaming, but hey, that´s secondary.
@@JimSterling Thank God for you, Stephanie. Add me to the list of being glad that you weren't seriously hurt.
Rip @@JimSterling
"Your game isn't very good."
"Debate me bro."
"actually the game is good, you're just bad and don't understand how hard game development is."
If something being difficult or frustrating to do made it in any way objectively good, you'd be a saint.
Digital homicide 2 let's go!
Jim might as well have called the dev a snow flake. He's already acting like a right winger for bullying someone's free to play passion project and not even mention Puppet Master is free
@@AlesJulalanie they mentioned in the video that its free tho
I can't believe Stephanie Sterling, Godless Adult was killed within 3 seconds of starting this video, may she rest in piece
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Good Riddance!
jk. I think a neck brace would have been a nice (and dramatic) prop, at least for the intro.
It was a fabulous run.
Ah yes, absurd and funny UA-cam comments; one of my favourite genre of comedy 🙌
"Debate me!"
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"I can't actually respond to any of the clearly laid-out criticisms, so let me shout you down in front of an audience to satiate my ego!"
*FAX!*
XD
That was summed up accurately and succinctly. As someone who actually took debate in school, most people who yell out, "Debate me, bro!" are people who never did or totally failed that class.
@@Craxin01 I never took debate as a class. But I have to ask someone who did. What *is* the solution to when people just strawman you? Like, I've noticed that the *default* argument strategy people use is to deliberately (at least I really hope its deliberate) misinterpret whatever you say in the worst way possible, or just make massive assumptions about who you are from what you said and then argue against their misinterpretation instead of argue against you.
And I have never been able to find a counter to this. Its a blatant strawman, but it isn't what people think of when they hear the term "strawman", so you can't call it out. You can't refute what they've said because if what they said is wrong, your argument against it legitimises their strawmanning of you, making you look bad, and if what they said isn't wrong then you look like the bad guy for arguing against it.
The only thing I can think of is that, if what they said isn't wrong, you can agree with them and then try and gently nudge them back to what you actually said, but more often than not, they're both strawmanning you *and* making bad arguments so agreeing with them to try and get them on track would mean agreeing with a wrong argument.
Given most people haven't taken debate class, you can't just point out what they're doing, because they don't even realise they're doing it. And nobody is willing to call out strawmanning when its from their own "team", so to speak. I got no idea how to counter it and what I hate even more is that I catch myself doing it too. Thats how widespread it is.
@@ASpaceOstrich actual debates have moderators that are supposed to call out the usage of blatant manipulation tactics. But when was the last time you went to a debate which had an educated and proper moderator? probably debate class.
This... is why public debates are entirely worthless. 1. people are too ignorant to understand basic manipulation tactics. 2. Nobody properly moderates public debates.
We should just end the fictional idea that debates mean... anything.
consider your gishes galloped
Ugh. Steph mentioning a Doom Eternal esque Evil Dead game just made me sad. That’s such a cool idea that will never happen because it would require real money to make and would be harder to get recurring monetization out of.
In theory it would/could work really well, but at the same time... I think we're more likely to get another Resident Evil clone (much like how Hail to the King was but probably it won't have half of it's development time cut.)
The best thing about this pitch? Bruce Campbell can still do an amazing Ash and he is a great voice actor.
This game could be an ironic Duke Nukem-like come back (where the game itself is good, but the humor makes it great :) )
the game could even fill the same setting as doom eternal if it followedd the original ending of army of darkness where Ash wake up in the future with the Earth destroyed
There were some 3rd person Evil Dead games way back in the day that were really fun for the time.
@@devforfun5618 Fun fact about that, originally the scrapped sequel of Army of Darkness was going to have BOTH endings be cancelled where both versions of Ash having to find a way to communicate between time in order to stop the end of the world. The idea was later reworked for the scrapped season 4 of AvED... just with the "present day/s-mart Ash" being replaced with the Ghost Beaters right after the season 3 final fight.
Before I see the main video content, let me just say that wrestling clip looked excessively painful and I’m super glad you aren’t dead! Where would we be without your exemplary wit, poignant critiques and fantastic tits?
A very bad and titless place, that’s where!
(Srsly, glad you’re okay Steph :) )
whos steph
Ok, but that cover art for Predator Hunting Grounds having the trees mirroring the Predator's silhouette is bloody gorgeous. Props to that artist.
Small blessings... *SIGH*
Friday the 13th being lost due to a licensing issue was a tragedy, but even the Texas Chainsaw game by the same devs hasnt been able to fill that void. This is the same issue that live service games have. Their can only be so many at a time that can suceed since they require a ton of players to be on them constantly. DBD is still around because it was successful from the start and only added on since. We could use more Alien Isolation type games where you're being hunted by the killer.
Funny thing about that, Texas isn't made by the same developers (it's made by Sumo Digital ala the LP3 devs but is now being shifted over to a different team.) They have the same publisher, but the team that made Friday the 13th is actually responsible for Predator Hunting Grounds + Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed. While one of the directors/creators of the Friday the 13th game is now spearheading Killer Klowns.
@@honoramongscars649 I feel like we might have stumbled on a pattren with these Licenced Asametrical Slashers.
@@ConnorLonergan Originally Friday the 13th was pitched as Slashers vol. 1 Summer Camp, so... in a way this is following the originally intended plan. For better or worse.
Except bullshit AI & no autosavee on purpose. Seriously, Alien Isolation's fun went out the window real quick.
DBD has all the DLC. Which seems to be the better option for all horror characters. Put them in a game that's already polished.
Monster in my pockets belongs in pockets, not mouths!!
It can be both! They're not "Monsters Only in My Pocket"!
@@matthewbreen1951 darn you're right! I retract my statement! So long as the monsters have been or will be in your pocket they can go all sorts of other places!
What is a mouth if not a flesh pocket with a hole in it?
@@BoxyBlue also now I think on it, cheeks are used as pockets by squirrels and other animals... I've really gotten this entirely wrong. Statement retracted for a second time!
@@BoxyBlue A warm moist flesh pocket
Why make Alien: Isolation, with all of the complex behavior programming and attention to detail that entails, when you can just make a player control the monster and attach it to a bunch of generic, sandbox style maps?
It's probably this, much easier to make a multiplayer game than to build a singleplayer game that lasts people a while. Especially when you have to balance a chaser type of enemy so that it's both scary and not frustrating.
@@massivepileup Yeah, like, conceptually I get the difficulty. Xenomorphs, cool as they are, are kinda one note. Hide in vents and stalk you from the shadows before hitting you with the surprise kill.
Something like Jason though? Especially as the franchise continued and got increasingly absurd in the elaborate death sequences department? It's a not an easy task to make something like that feel organic in the highly dynamic world of a video game.
Personally, that's an indicator to me that you probably just shouldn't make a game revolving around complex and highly cinematic sequences like that.
Forcing Jason into Dead By Daylight or whatever is probably not doing the character any justice but it's at least divorced enough from its context that you can kinda overlook the fact that the player controlling him is making him spin in place like a top.
Okay, hear me out. Killer clowns, but it’s a dating sim. 😉
@@JustAnotherLawyer Gotta get that space clussy somehow.
I played Dead by Daylight back in its early days, back when the devs had monthly streams about the game.
I made gay art of two of the original killers, and they showed it in the fanart section of the stream, to the horror of all the straight dudes.
it was incredible, my proudest internet moment
That sounds amazing, lmao 🤣
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...which two?
You got a link where I can find the gay art of the two killers you made?
@@patrickphelan279 .... Trapper and Wraith
New series idea. Fuck-its with Buckets.
Just gonna bring this up for further context... the Puppet Master game started out as a fan game that just ended up getting the rights to the franchise down the road.
Killer Klowns WAS meant to get a sequel that was started/stopped multiple times before Disney fully cancelled it and the game pitch was the only way to do anything with the franchise (imo a comic adaptation of the scrapped sequel(s) would've been a better route to go in.)
A good chunk of these were pitched with the "more optimistic" view that going for a wider audience appeal (with online multiplayer games) could help jumpstart a franchise revival. But due to a lot of these starting development around the same time (and games taking a lot longer/cost more to make)... it has caused a lot of oversaturation and due to mismanagement (like what happened with Evil Dead + Friday the 13th) they end up usually not lasting very long.
The problem is coming up with a pitch that says "let's make something like x game based on y movie." Not just for asymmetrical horror, this has been a problem for all gaming history anytime a genre becomes popular. How many shitty licensed character action games from the 2000's are there?
You can't just copy the mechanics of a game and expect to be able to reproduce it perfectly. Just like how you can't just copy a script and expect to be able to make the same film. Like how film-making involves the coordination between many actors, writers, camera-men, and the director, game design requires coordinating the art, writing, and game systems to make a coherent whole.
Game mechanics are tools with functions. Every tool you choose to use affects the experience of playing the game. Deliberately choosing the right mechanics for a particular game's world is what leads to innovative game design, bringing disparate game systems together to make a unique experience. When you just replicate an exact copy of a game with a new coat of paint, what you make ends up feeling empty in comparison to the original, because the game mechanics feel completely disconnected from the world.
@@natebookout1353 That's completely fair and at the very least there does seem to be at least an attempt at a shift away from this being the "only" option for Horror IPs (mainly due to them failing.) Just look at Alien; besides the horde shooter we also got a top down RTS survival game, a weird fnaf clone, and apparently an upcoming horror survival game once more.
ANDDDDDDD then there's the upcoming Friday the 13th game that seems like it might end up going down the "Until Dawn" route/formula.
Hopefully we do get even more variety/"weird" ones in the near future.
not sure where you heard that but Disney has nothing to do with the rights of Killer Klowns.
@@stoves5877 Short summary = the Fox Merger with Disney led to multiple projects/films being cancelled; including another attempt at a Killer Klowns sequel
I thought Stephanie was joking about "Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game" but... IT'S REAL?!?!?!?
KKfOS is a textbook cult sleeper. An ignored shelf filler at the local video rental shop in the 90's, people only really seemed to begin to appreciate it 15-ish years ago. Universal Studios Theme Park only added them as walk-around characters for their Halloween events one or two years ago, thirty five years after the movie was released.
yes it is like @murrfeeling said they only care about it now since the fad is pull dead IP's and hurl them at a wall and see what sticks. KKfOS could have been a Destroy All Humans kind of game fun, stupid and over the top but instead we get this.
@@Rusty5000 I'd have played the shit out of a KKfOS Destroy All Humans style game
It had a huge booth at PAX East this year. That was a quick little rollercoaster of emotions. Klowns! Wow! Oh no!
never got an email about the closed beta.... pretty sure that was supposed to be early 2024....
I was kind of excited about Killer Klowns until I found out it was an async multiplayer game. I don't want more multiplayer, I want a fun single player experience.
Same here. Lost all interest as soon as I learned that.
it coulda been a bit of fun, but longer it takes the deader it's genre becomes, and one could argue it was pretty much dead when it was announced GaS sure were on the way out.
Asynchronous games are a different thing; games where players observe the action at different times. The classic example is chess by mail. Laser Squad Nemesis is one such computer game.
The term here was asymmetric multiplayer games, where players have different rules. A typical example is Among Us.
The issue is with shovelware. Multiplayer only is used as a shortcut to never develop things like story or AI, and franchise licensing is used not just for the buck but to skip story, character and world design.
It's perfectly possible to have a game be fun with almost nothing in it. Hundreds of perfectly equivalent reskins is tiring at best.
With respect to Dead by Daylight and NFTs: that wasn't Dead by Daylight's choice. That was the Hellraiser license holders who sprung it on them after the fact, and the deal was basically "we use your Pinhead model for our NFT or we sue you" in a classic case of "we have altered the deal pray we do not alter it further." The community got rightfully mad and the Hellraiser NFT project thankfully died but I do think it's important to recognize who's at fault. It's not Behaviour Interactive: it's entirely on the Hellraiser license holders.
At one point I'd thought that a "Thing" game made like a sort of higher budgeted Among Us would have been neat, but then I realised that it being multiplayer would kill a lot of the atmosphere the movie had. Not to mention it likely would've been monetised tohell and back: "Kurt Russel skin, only $15!"
there is a single player the thing
@@devforfun5618 Yeah and it fucked. Great game. Would enjoy a remaster, a real one and not some kind of butchered reboot.
Imagine a game based on The Thing done with the amount of detail that Alien Isolation had.
@@BlindErephon That was the PS2 era one, wasn't it? I think a friend of mine had it, but I didn't really get a chance to play it myself.
On top of the licensed ‘The Thing’ game that was released on PS2, I can definitely recommend a 2D puzzle/stealth game by the name of ‘Carrion’ which takes a lot of influence from ‘The Thing’.
I really badly want to see buckets make regular appearances, you gave them a remarkable personality.
Just to highlight how prolific this is, Dragonball Franchise has one of these too.
You play the non Z warriors trying to survive the antagonistic like Cell
That at least had the unique thing of being able to transform into one of the heroes to actually fight the villain effectively
My dream of playing the random farmer Raditz owns in the beginning of DBZ is finally real. /s
Oh yeah... forgot all about that one.
wut
I was half-hoping Steph would mention The Breakers in some capacity as a "Look at the sheer extent of this" deal, but I guess that doesn't really fit for the Asym Slasher "subgenre" since it's referring to a shonen anime and not a slasher flick.
The Dead by Daylight NFT situation was related to the license holder for Pinhead doing a seperate NFT thing that is only associated by the in game model. The license holder has sinced changed to Clive Barker who is not associated with the NFTs. It was a weird situation that resulted in a lot of backlash and distrust but DBD has not had any other instances with NFTs since.
he got it back ? is that why the last movie doesnt suck ?
So Jim was just wrong?
My friend roped me into playing Project Playtime as a joke, and it physically broke me :(
My condolences. _Gently offers some super glue for your shattered physique_
Broke you like taking a wrestler to the neck?
Oh snap, Okage: Shadow King, I haven't thought of that rpg in ages! ^^
I should replay it one of these days, heh
I heard it was bad but I didn’t know how bad. I thought the first two Poppy Playtime episodes were pretty creepy albeit with some weird level design. Chapter 3 was just mid, at least for me.
I'd like to see a Hitman style slasher game, where by day you spy on your targets, learning their routines weaknesses etc, then by night you put a mask on and put what you've learned into practice
so, yandere simulator without all the perving on schoolgirls and spaghetti code and unfulfilled promises? I'd be down with that
Christmas Massacre is close to this, but minus the day part. Sniper Killer's killer sections look to have this as well.
I just mentioned recently that a Hitman style game would’ve been a great fit for Puppet Master
@@Romanticoutlaw Do you have something other than Yandere Sim you can compare the concept to?
Bloody hell Steph. Well done on not dying there.
It did look quite painful, ouch 😢😢
Wait, is Buckets trying to say that chewing on Monsters in my Pocket will cure my anxiety?
Brb, gonna give that a try!
12:00 actually, that isn't Ghostface from Scream. DBD couldn't get the rights to that character, so they just licensed the mask and made an original charger named The Ghost Face who wears the same mask as Ghostface.
Copyright, trademarks and licenses are so effing stupid
It's like the obvious, cheap Freddy costumes from Spirit Halloween named "Sweater Wearing Killer."
@@jamesrule1338ironically they DID get the rights to Freddy for the game
I hope your injury doesn't effect your rumored match against Cody Rhodes at next year's WrestleMania.
Stardust vs Sterdust! Book it, Triple H!
#1 - glad to see you weren't hurt, expected to see you in a C-collar doing the vid.
#2 -- considering the theme of all these games, raise a glass in memory of Roger Corman who passed this weekend at 98 and was responsible for a huge number of the B movies many of us love.
Afaik, the thing with NFTs for Dead by Daylight is that the license holder contractually obligated the devs to have the models for Pinhead NFTs made for an entirely separate entity , NFTs otherwise were in no way integrated into the game.
Granted, it's still bloody expensive if you want to buy all of your favourite characters and all the cosmetics for them. "But you don't have to!" I hear people say and yes good on you for having the self control , little fella. A LOT of people are vulnerable to that kind of exploitation to the thing that absolutely has gameplay value.
So Jim was wrong about NFTs being in the game...... Gotcha
@@Sonichero151 In fairness to her, good luck finding any article from a reputable outlet that reported it accurately. Some dipshit at BHVR decided to say they collaborated on the collection (technically true, I guess...?) and every journalist ever took that at face value.
@@merepseuAlso, at the time everyone believed it. I remember that there was a rumor that buying the NFTs would be how people would get a Butterball costume.
It's true the game can be expensive to get into but even that is being remedied as we speak. They've been bundling up the non-licensed characters into bundles at a much low price and have slashed the prices for the characters in these bundles in half in case you want to buy them with in-game currency with you can earn for free. This can't ever apply to the licensed characters though sadly which you'll always have to buy at the same price.
@@naikigutierrez4279 I remember believing it too! I didn't know it was normal for the licence holders to get DLC keys and the right to use the game models however they pleased. Maybe not the Butterball part but at that point, when you're doing something super shady, turning out to be even shadier somehow is kind of expected.
In everyone's defence, why would you lie about that? NFTs were already hugely unpopular, universally maligned even. Everyone in the office but a handful of suits probably had their heads in their hands when they decided to announce that.
I knew Balatro had made it when, within a month of its release, a game popped up on Steam that was literally just "Balatro, but with roulette in stead of poker."
But... how can they even do that? At least poker has SOME skill to it. And it fits the deck-building process. Roulette is literal chance.
@@TheGerkuman Thus demonstrating just how well the copycat vultures understand the markets they're trying to penetrate.
@@ZMannZillaThe developer of Bingle Bangle understood that roulette is chance based so your average run is built on editing the wheel to improve the odds while becoming a more degenerate gambler. That's why balls often land on multiple slots to increase the chances of winning, and you can eliminate portions of the board to minimize risk.
Is it good??
I got a certain Idea from a gameplay tab in Idle Dice 2 but I assume that's not it...
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 100% deckbuilding.
One day, CEOs will find out that they will make more money making the trend, than following it. I'm not holding my breath, because that demands competence.
Fuuck, I'm so glad you got the better outcome of that bump - I don't think I've ever winced so hard at a short clip like that
Thought you were joking about Killer Klowns getting a game because that sounds too absurd, but it's an actual thing.
I concur, missing the single player horror style that drew me into the genre in the first place.
Hell at this point I'd take a remake of the old NES Friday the 13th.
I'll never get sick of the "Lee" jokes
Editor missed the chance to put a Digital Homicide blood splatter on the screen in the first seconds. Hope you're doing well now btw!
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Be me, watching this vid for 11 minutes like "Yep, couldn't really do that with Hellraiser, my fave franchise is safe from this BS" and then nearly literally spit-taking at the Dead by Daylight footage. What. The. Fuck.
Nothing is sacred, nothing is safe...
if there is a franchise prone to shameless cash grabs it is hellraiser, whoever owns the rights really doesnt want to lose it and let the creator work on the movies again
Ironically, Hellraiser has been in Dead by Daylight for almost three years
and that's the dlc that was related to nft bullshit. funny thing is, as someone who likes DbD against my better judgement, I actually find pinhead pretty fun to play, but yeah, most licensed killers have really underwhelming powers, when compared to either the licence they're from, or the game's own killers like the singularity.
alien isolation is still the best horror franchise game to exist. like, imagine if we got other games that played into the movies genre. halloween as a detective style game, where you're looking for evidence and slowly being stalked by michael myers. anyone remember the toy story 2 game on PS1? that, but make it puppet master! evil dead as a doom clone is brilliant! the biggest issue with all of these games is the lost potential of what they could've been.
Why can't someone make a derivative of blast corps? We don't have enough of those
Instruments of Destruction just hit 1.0 and apparently took a lot of inspiration from that.
Hi Buckets, don't be convincing JSS to climb to the roof to sort a TV aerial
THANK YOU! Every time I see they're working on a game based on a horror franchise, my excitement is immediately deflated when I see it's the same asymmetrical MP game.
There's so much potential in giving these movies proper single player (or maybe PvE co-op) games.
I hear there's a Puppet Master game "yey! About time."
I hear what genre it is "Well now I don't want it."
Exactly my reaction!
Okay, JSteph, can you PLEASE stop taking unnecessary risks that might lead to serious physical injury? You're the only one right now who calls out the industry's bullshit who doesn't immediately forget about the important issues the moment some shiny new game comes out. It'll be a shame to lose you to some wayward Stone Cold Stunner or whatever.
I mean, at least they don't work for Boeing.
theres plenty of other people callin out the industry! pirate software, accursed farms etc just gotta go look
@coobk373 Big shout-out to Accursed Farms. So many gamers complain about game companies, but Ross is taking the initiative and actually doing something about it.
There are arguably TOO MANY PEOPLE with youtube channels dedicated to industry bullshit. I Promise you there is no risk of us running out of them.
Just turned push notifications back on and I couldn’t be more pleasantly surprised. No idea why you stopped showing up in my feed but I’m back.
Because your turned your notifications off lol
@@goreobsessed2308That's... Not how it's supposed to work.
You may be right about it, but you really shouldn't.
Did it coincide with Steph moving back to the UK a while ago? Videos get uploaded a few hours earlier now due to time zone differences, so if you have a very regular UA-cam routine then that might be the reason why. Algorithm do be weird sometimes.
"The extraordinary is ordinary"
Why does that sound like a tagline from the X-Files?
Uh-oh the developers are having a sad? Will they take this as constructive criticism, or go the way of the Romine brothers?
I'm gettin' sick just of Horror In General, can only imagine how bad such a specific subtype flooding you must be.
Horror is just a subgenre of comedy
@@rodolfeitor Relevance?
I was going to joke about how they should make Hellraiser into a game because of how silly any idea that was, and then the gameplay footage of Pinhead in Dead by Daylight showed up on screen.
I love movies that make me uncomfortable and anxious. Other people love schlock horror. Some, uh, let's call them people like jumpscares. Horror can be good. Capitalism makes it bad.
It's been that way since the 80's horror boom though. Horror is cheap to make and there is always a new batch of teens who will go enough to turn a profit by weekend two. Blumhouse built an empire doing it.
Holy shit I haven't thought of the Singularity multiplayer in years, hearing it mentioned was like having a fully grown man land on top of my head.
It's ok Buckets. I also chew on Monsters In my Pockets when I'm anxious. Steph was very inconsiderate.
Welcome to the Jimquisition Cinematic Universe, Buckets.
I did not know this show needed a squeaky puppet, and now I can never again picture it without.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if someone is thinking about making a Gremlins asymmetrical slasher, or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Maybe those games like the ones of Evil Dead in the OG Xbox or The Thing in PS2 need to come back.
Never missed a Monday yet
Thank you Buckets for being a brave birdie. Hope to see you again next week!
The Ghostbusters one is really good and I say that as someone with 1k hours of dbd - it’s had a year of free dlc, an offline mode where things can be unlocked , 0 paid dlc (There is a pack to get cosmetics sooner but they can be unlocked quite easily, they just take a little time but there’s no time limit or anything) - Also compared to Dead by Daylight it’s quite novel in that it’s 4 chasers vs 1 sort of survivor, buy they also scare citizens out of buildings and can sabotage packs and some can even possess ghostbusters.
AND there’s even one ghost based on the toy with the pop out eye!
I was honestly just happy to have a fun Ghostbusters video game
I would have preferred another Ghostbusters game like the 2009 one. I also had more fun playing the multiplayer of that game than I did with this new one.
People told me support had been good for the game, but your listing it off really makes me want to give it a go.
1) I am so glad you didn't get seriously hurt. There's a story out now of a woman who is now partially paralyzed because of a similar situation; a singer for a band wanted to crowd surf and jumped off the stage, landing right on her head.
2) Amazing that the best Friday the 13th game we're ever gonna get is the NES one
Killer Klowns from Outer Space was one of those films that you rented on VHS, fully expecting some real trash, only to discover that it was surprisingly well-made and any trashiness was 100% deliberate. Pure cult film, that one. And the people who made it went on to do the wonderful puppet-work for "Team America: World Police" iirc.
I suppose it's a bit like Pumpkinhead (a.k.a. Vengeance The Demon to us Brits) in that they were made by special effects guys trying their hand at directing, so of course the effects are surprisingly good... When their own company is doing the effects, they're not going to half-arse them for their own directorial debut, are they?
OW that spot in the beginning! I admit I ugly laughed at the bowling GIF in the bottom right. But hope you are gonna be OK, that looked like that hurt like hell! Be safe!
Can next week be 'Please, No more breath of the wild clones'
Or Vampire Survivors. Or Overcooked.
Asymmetrical horror games don’t need plots, working UI, or unique maps if you want to crap out a bad game for as little effort as possible.
You can't die! How will I ever tolerate a Monday again?
That was a rough bump, glad you are okay and not seriously hurt. My neck hurts just watching that. I definitely agree with you on this concept. DBD was enough with how much all that fucking DLC is.
Is it too much to ask for a single player horror game where you play as Jason Voorhees?
Blame Shaun Cunningham.
My only question would be Metal Gear Solid style gameplay, or Hotline Miami style gameplay?
It's not a horror game if you're the one chasing and killing people, it's basically a puzzle game at that point. Playing as the killer means that you need a bunch of CPU humans to kill and some kind of failure state. Unless they can kill you back and are strong enough to do so if you're not careful (which ruins the slasher feel), they would either need to escape you somehow or just hide for long enough for the police to arrive. That kind of gameplay just lends itself to asymmetrical multiplayer games, which is why there's a shitload of them.
The only way I can see that kind of game working as single player is if it's like Hitman and you're a serial killer trying to murder people without getting caught and shot by the police.
@@jamesrule1338 preferably Metal Gear style. Like a similar style to Alien Isolation but reversed.
@@leetri You have a point lol. Not really scary but more of a power fantasy. Really I just want a new Godzilla game.
So for years I assumed the lyrics of the intro song where "more different, more clever" etc, and it took the captions to teach me otherwise.
Buckets next Killer in DbD confirmed!
Ads? On a Jimquisition? Oh, this is going to be a good one.🍿🍿
For Friday the 13th, I'd love to see a single player game where it introduces a bunch of campers and has a story but every few scenes you take control of a different camper and have to escape from Jason, the story can take branching paths depending on if you survive the encounter with that character.
Gods that first clip, horrifying. Glad you're alright!
Legit tired of AHG, like. They end up hyping the fact they have a license so badly they ignore how their gameplay keeps getting turbo fucked up (looking at you, Dead by Daylight)
Great episode and all, but I gotta say Monsters in my Pocket are ALWAYS a good way to express angst.
To be fair, even Vampire Survivors sort of did crossover content already - didn't they add the "Among Us" creatures into the game at some point?
Yeah, games industry really is kinda shit.
I'm really glad you weren't seriously injured. I'm also excited about 'Killer Klowns' too. I love the movie and I'm really hoping this game gets us a single player game sometime in the future. I doubt it'll happen, but maybe...
Stephanie Sterling wants a single player horror game? They tried that with Alien and see what happened?!...
We got Alien: Isolation! Is that what you want, Steph?! More 10/10 games that make money and everyone loves. Is that really what you want?!
Praise the Lord for Buckets
Take care Stephanie! The world needs people like you! 💜
I just wanted to let you know that as awful as it was to see an ad in this video on mobile, having Jason punching a dude's head off interrupted MID PUNCH by "UA-cam premium is UA-cam without ads" of all things is *almost* comical.
10:47 Well not just studios. Most AAA studios are beholden to their publishers. In fact some studios are so used to Game Mill doing this that they began making _blank templates_ for whenever Game Mill commissions them before they even know what IP they need to slap on it.
The bird part was hilarious,you should keep it
See its a shame this took off over the same game play style as alien isolation as that seems tailor-made for the slasher genre
The concept behind a doom style evil dead game sounds so fitting considering Ash's weapons are a boomstick and chainsaw.
I'm already dreading the flood of Helldivers 2 clones that will inevitably end up getting made :(
I've never been a fan of asymmetrical multiplayer games, if only because balancing them is nearly impossible. I cannot fathom why the AAA industry, in its phobia of actually polishing things, would want to follow this trend. Well, okay, it's too emotionless to "want" anything, and greed is greed, but to deliberately go after a patching NIGHTMARE of a genre doesn't seem smart even for them. Correct me if I'm wrong about this, by the way.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre one doesn't even really make sense, since Leatherface is already in Dead By Daylight...another asymmetrical horror/slasher game.
At least some of them have some ideas to throw into the mix and aren't just pure DBD clones? In the puppet one you can apparently fight other puppets (arguably also making it a hero shooter, I guess??), the Evil Dead one seems to just be a more open Left 4 Dead with possession thrown in, the Predator one...I literally only know of because of the female Predators to be honest. Doesn't make it a less saturated market, sadly, or more fitting for the franchises.
Glad you didn't get hurt too much!
Puppet Master game pitch: Arkane makes it, it’s a stealth slasher where you control Toulon and his various puppets while they wreak a bloody trail of revenge on the Nazi regime.
Toulon himself would be rather fragile and incapable of combat, but he could deploy his puppets as scouts or guards while he controls one of them directly. They would each have different abilities that could grow stronger and more effective as the game goes on, and Toulon would have his own skill tree which enables assists and team up attacks for the puppets like, at their most basic, having the burly one hold a guard temporarily while you kill his buddy.
Arkane knows how to make interesting power sets and impeccable levels and all the vents and chandeliers and low tables they love putting in their environments would be perfect ambush spots for the miniature murder-dolls.
I would play the fuck outta this game. I would also love to see Arkane’s take on Nazi architecture and art. It sounds weird to say but they’re really good at making architecture in their games that convey the political and social themes of the environmental context. It’s a very specific type of art design. Like, you really *feel* Dunwall’s disdain for the poor as you move through it.
I already love Buckets with my whole heart, congrats on the new co-host and the continued health of your neck
Almost everything about this video can be applied to superhero movies
Hooray, you're not dead! And you got a puppet!
Edit: Here's an idea for free. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes as a Left For Dead-style FPS.
I honestly didn’t know Singularity even *had* multi until this very moment.
I might have missed it if you did do one, but im surprised you haven't done an episode talking about the oversaturation of crossover media
wait, we arent supposed to eat monsters in my pockets?
12:10 woah I didn't know Scream was so HECKED UP, he took a selfie with the guy he just murdered! 😲
Not me finding this video over FOUR WEEKS LATE because youtube didnt notify me even though ive had the bell icon ticked for all notifications for years now
My dog wants more buckets sound effects
Your editing puns are the best on YT! "Second Lee" for secondly was _chef's kiss_ perfect! 7:45
I loved puppet Master a kid. Me and my brothers would rent tbem from a little shitty rental place in this small town we grew up in. I still remember the smell of the place.
Holy cow! You got body slammed and lived. But srsly, hope you’re doing okay.
And I’m also totally a fan of Buckets.
“My apologies for those of you that are disappointed for my continued living” 😂
Oh God I didn't know about that! Glad you're alright and recovered well!
I think the answer to why is pretty simple, and you mentioned it before, how it would be cool to play a single player game where you're being hunted by Nemesis, but games that try to evoke that same dread as Alien: Isolation, an actually terrifying game that I can't beat that still utilizes a pre-existing IP, those kinds of games take an initial investment that studios and publishers aren't willing to make, not when it's so much easier to make your players do all the work for you. Giving players characters on both sides means they don't have to write AI for the killer or the survivors. No one had to bug test their behaviors, because all of that is player-side.
Glad your ok, ouch!
It makes me sad that we didn't get actually decent games for Killer Klowns or Puppet-Master those could have so much potential! Although now I also want someone to make a really decent game version of Reanimator...
I wasn't aware that anyone else knew Singularity existed. It's underrated as a whole.
Also, the Bruce Lee gags are my new favorite thing. A "Poor Lee" was missed at 8:05 though
the genre has a dedicated playerbase - it may not be you, but I fucking love every single one of those titles.