Gun Media has revealed that it is bringing Friday The 13th: The Game to Nintendo Switch this Spring. The game was originally funded via Kickstarter and was released in 2017 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Switch Edition will include all of the content released for the game so far, including all of the paid-for DLC. That includes every Jason Kill Pack, both Counselor Clothing Packs, and the Emote Party Pack, but stops short at including the Kickstarter backer-exclusive “Savini Jason” character, or the backer-exclusive clothing pack.
Daniel Nixon, Gun Media’s Director of Communications, told Variety:
We’re happy to be bringing ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ to the Nintendo Switch with the help of our partners at Black Tower and Nighthawk. The Nintendo Switch offers a unique experience, in both social settings and on the go, that we feel work very well with ‘Friday the 13th: The Game'.
This news is perhaps surprising, given that Gun Media has been prevented from releasing more DLC for the existing versions due to a legal battle with the original screenwriter of the movie franchise, Victor Miller, who is currently attempting to reclaim the rights to the characters he created for the 1980 movie which established the series.
As a result, Gun Media can only focus on console-dedicated servers and general maintenance, and cannot release any more DLC. This impasse clearly doesn't prevent the developer from releasing additional console versions, hence the news of a Switch port.
Will you be investing in this horror title when it eventually arrives on Switch?
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I had such high hopes for this game when it came out on PC, but then every game I played people would just scream/play music into the mic and troll. No teamwork. Became a pointless game very quickly unless you had 5/6 real mates to play with.
@CurryPowderKeg79 that's what i heard to. I'll give this one a pass for sure
I had heard this game just isn't fun unless you're Jason. I didn't hear about that legal battle though, that explains why this game basically disappeared from the news.
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A good fun game if you're Jason otherwise it's just another mediocre shovelware.
@CurryPowderKeg79
Yeah, reviews were generally mediocre to bad. That was at release though, I don't know if they've been able to fix some of the problems since then. The main criticism was that most of the time you were playing as a counselor, which just wasn't fun.
A shame really, it showed such great promise.
Didn't have a good time with this game on PS4. Dead by Daylight is far superior and I still play it to this day.
@MoonKnight7 I hadn't heard about this legal battle either but I do know that the writer of the first film always hated that Jason took over as the killer of the series with Friday The 13th Part 2 so I can understand why this legal battle is taking place.
I actually enjoyed this. But it was with all friends I knew. I’ll be picking this up
This is an odd legal thing. They can't develop the rest of the DLC they had promised but yet they're allowed to straight up release another version of the game of Switch. I had hoped if this was ever the case, they could put the unreleased DLC stuff on the Switch as a timed exclusive then slowly drip it onto the other versions but argh, doesnt seem to be the case. I heard the legal battle finished recently, but I guess nothing has changed.
I had fun played this, even though I've only seen the first 2 films. Yeah you get idiot players but what game doesnt? Still playing this as I recently got hooked on the XBONE version again and playing for so long to nab those grind-y achievements.
I hope the Switch version will at least run okay because even running on a XBONE X.....yeah, there are still glitches to be had.....
@Elvie Thats a shame. While I do respect his original vision he does have to admit, the series did spawn an iconic hockey mask wearing monster that almost everyone knows as well as the Universal Monsters when parodied.
I wish the game had a better single player with bots. I think it was playing as Jason only for the offline mode.
@Elvie
Interesting, thanks for filling me in.
@MoonKnight7 You can in the options choose which you'd prefer to play as more, Jason or his victim-ies. No idea how much that increases your chance of playing as him but I hope a lot (Since one achievement is play as him 1000 times! Eeek.). And there's an offline bot version added too so there's that.
The reviews were not kind, and yet I've logged over 200 hundred hours playing with a small team on Xbox. We have killing Jason down to a science. It's a fun game and some of the best parts are when the glitches and bugs come out and play.
I have this on the Xbox, very fun to play offline with bots. I will definitely double dip for sure.
Well that was unexpected.
I had this on the Amstrad CPC. Fantastic game
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWapCbY4xA
@RoadieRunner you'll have no such issues on Switch with Nintendo's voice chat "features".
So I looked more into the legal battle and the summary is this:
An amendment to U.S. copyright laws state that the artist can challenge the recipient for ownership of their work after 35 years. Victor Miller, who wrote the first Friday The 13th, was using this to reclaim the rights.
The director/producer Sean S. Cunningham claimed that he wrote under a "work for hire" deal which basically means by applying for the job, any ownership he could have held would have been non-existent. Eventually, a court ruled in Miller's favor, granting him the rights (to the first movie I think). This was then countered by Cunningham by filing an appeal before he withdrew it for technical reasons.
Now, Cunningham has the choice to refile and drag this battle out longer or to negotiate with Miller on continuing the franchise.
Looks like and horror goat simulator... I'll keep an eye on it. May be fun.
I heard pretty mixed reviews about this game, but I did enjoy watching other people playing via Mixer. I'll have to think about this one.
@Elvie I have been following this case for awhile as I am a huge fan of the series. Basically what it boils down to is Miller owns the rights to the first movie only since he wrote that, he owns the name Friday the 13th, Voorhees, Jason's Mom, Mrs. Voorhees and the fact that Jason in the first one is a deformed child.
Cunningham owns the rights of the Hockey Mask Slasher named Jason but can't use the Vorhees name, Friday the 13th name, Camp Crystal Lake, Basically any reference to the first movie.
The reasoning for that was cause as you said Miller stated that he never intended Jason to be a Hockey Mask wearing killer just a deforemed child so Cunningham owns that right since he created the hockey mask killer.
The reason Gun Media can't release the DLC anymore is because they didn't know how long the court case would last so in a nutshell instead of waiting they moved on to other games.
Please add local wireless play to this game (LAN) please and it would be great😁
Anyone played the Friday 13th game already on the eshop? How is it?
I played a ton of this on my brothers Xbox, so I'm def down for this
If you are a Friday fan, I’d definitely pick it up. It was made by a few people so it doesn’t have the polish big games have. The detail from the movies is great. I prefer being a counselor. Play with friends.
@Angelic_Lapras_King
Yeah, but it's still chance based isn't it? There's no guarantee you're going to play as Jason. Plus, I'm sure nearly everyone wants to play as Jason, so I don't see how that's gonna help your odds if everyone "wants" to play as him, just saying. Offline is helpful with that though, I'll give you that.
Played this on the xbox a few years back. It was so much fun at times I really enjoyed it. The match making was a bit of a disaster though. Very happy it's coming to switch without the release of future dlc it could be a problem in the long run but I think there needs to be cross platform for this game to keep the community alive forever.
Nah, I’m good with just Slayaway Camp. This is like Left 4 Dead to me. Or Alien vs Predator.
Only with Jason. Michael > Jason. That’s just my opinion.
@MoonKnight7 you can set your preference spawn as Jason, counselor or either. 8 people play and not everybody wants Jason.
@WOLF13
Well I can't vouch for it cause I never played it, I just remember reviews saying playing as a counselor was boring, and the only fun to be had was with Jason. But fair enough, you would know better since you played it, and prefer being a counselor.
@MoonKnight7 yeah Jason is a bit difficult to control. He has all these powers but you have to practice or counselors will mess with you.
@MoonKnight7 It at least makes it a higher chance of playing as him. If you're lucky and have a lobby of players who either havent set the preference or prefer being the counselors, then I would assume you'd be Jason every or most of the time.
Also there are counselor based achievements too like playing as them 1000 times and doing their tasks 100 times. There will be people grinding to get those achievements, while most of Jason's are a "do it once" thing.
You should expect this to be exactly what it sounds like based on the history of the game and the drama - a cash grab.
I really tried to like this game on my One X but it was just terrible. Online sessions took forever to connect (15 min or more), graphics were ugly and dated, looked like something from the PS2 era, and it was full of glitches and bugs. The gameplay was fun when it worked, and maybe they've improved it since launch, but it was honestly shocking how dated and bad this game was when it was first released.
Interesting to see it announced relatively close to Dead By Daylight. Although I frankly have yet to take enough interest in either game, to even trying them as the PS+ servings they were last year. Got higher priority titles in the wishlist and backlog (including Outlast which I put on hiatus after R3 button malfunction - while the control scheme is mercifully swappable, I don't quite like where the alternatives put the run button) anyway. But far be it from me to view any Switch game announcement as "bad news".
Loved this game but it’s dead on the other consoles. Support for the game is already dead. This would be a huge mistake for anyone to purchase
@CurryPowderKeg79 I played it extensively. It’s actually very fun
@MoonKnight7 I had a lot of fun playing the game with counselors and Jason. Problem is support for the game is over. The community surrounding it is largely dead. It’s an attempt by the publisher to get more money. I’d stay away from this one
@Dpullam I played extensively, loved the game but it’s essentially dead now. They won’t add anything new to the game. Unless they are putting in crossplay between all consoles and PC the community is going to be too small to play
@Lizuka you played against a bum Jason
@jly1987 I was worried about that. The game's popularity is long gone by now. Did it ever get that single player campaign? Am I wrong or was there supposed to be one?
@jly1987 Still getting regular 8 player online games in on XBONE as I got hooked again lately. Not sure how long that'll last since I see some of the same usernames more than once on different weeks but for now I'm getting somewhat alive lobbies.
@Dpullam it did get the single player challenge mode
@jly1987 I was hoping for a full campaign. I wonder how good the challenge mode is.
I don't get this game lol unless it's around £19.99 or less at launch I'll pass
Will it support cross platform play?
They should include the NES Friday the 13th game as a version exclusive in the Switch copy.
They should wait until September 13th, which is the next Friday the 13th.
This is one of the many [removed] games I would rather not see on the Switch. Its a piece of crap, was free on PS plus and I still feel like I got robbed of even touching that piece of donkey dirt. Just dont... Dont waste your time on this game let alone a single penny.
Like the author of the article, I'm a bit surprised to see this is coming. I assumed this game was basically dead in the water after the DLC thing.
As for the game itself.... it's.... interesting. The concept of the game is better than the actual execution. The game is buggy as well and the devs never seemed too interested in fixing it. The online is pretty bad because of an incredibly toxic community, but getting some friends together and playing can be a fun experience. I would lump it in the same category as Ark: Survival Evolved. Both games are buggy and unfinished, both have toxic online communities, but both games can be a lot of fun when played with some friends.
@RoadieRunner I was one of those trolls me and a friend would join random lobbies and troll every time if either one of was was Jason the one that wasn't Jason would snitch out all his teammates while repairing the car and if my friend was Jason he let me live repair car I wouldn't escape.
I would drive around pick up my teammates then tell my friend as Jason I got some one in car with me and pretend to drive to escape when my friend Jason got near I stopped the car and let him pull the guy out of car and kill him did this repeatily until i was the last solo survivor left then would go around tbagging everyone before escaping as the lone survivor my friend as Jason would join in on the tbag which made it funnier
we would do this all the time on xbox then be getting sent hella rage messages from people telling me i need to kill my self some people tried inviting me party chats but didn't join because i knew if i joined they trace my ip and keep booting me offline
I already got a switch and just told my friend this game was coming to switch when it does he's gonna get a switch both us getting this game and were gonna be trolling alot on the switch gonna be fun don't care if this game is $60 I'm buying it regardless of price haven't had this much fun in any game beside the saints row and old call of duty titles
I wonder if that victor miller court case has ended yet? I want more DLC, dammit.
The game is pretty cheap on PS4 and gets discounts to a regular basis. I wont spend 60$ on it when i can get it for 15$ on PS Store
Regardless of the reviews on this game, still 10x better than Slayaway Camp.
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