Would you play a game where you are a slasher villian?

Have you ever played Manhunt? It's sort of in the same vein of what you are describing.

I was going to say Manhunt

Totally. I've wanted a game like that for years. Manhunt is close, but not quite.

Take the Batman stealth sequences and replace the takedowns with brutal murders. I'd play that.

No, because the tension in a slasher movie comes from trying to evade, escape, and defeat the villain. That's why I find games like Clock Tower 3 so much more appealing than something like Manhunt.

Absolutely.

Playing it with the Piggsy skin pushes it just that bit closer :P

Only if it was like two options: you can play as the slasher or the.... well, the slashee.

Hell, a multiplayer game like that would be awesome (6 normals versus one hulking dude with a chainsaw)

@animasta: I really don't think you want a game where you play as the slashee...those don't tend to turn out all that well...

@chaser324: to be fair, LJN could take the easiest concept in the world and fuck it up.

Haha, I always used a custom Jason skin. Too bad Manhunt 2 never had much in the way of fan-made skins, from what I can recall.

Could be fun. Would people want to play a more-serious game like that, or would this hypothetical game lean heavily on fun slasher-movie camp? Either way could be fun.

The modern video game journalism brigade would be fucking insufferable about the game, though, probably no matter how camp it was.

Yes I would ... if its good ovbiously

Not really stealthy, but the takedowns in Sleeping Dogs, especially in the later parts of the game, are really fucking brutal.

As long as the developer of said game makes the AI stupid as hell like most people in slasher films.

grand theft auto 5.

use only knife and kill as many as you can without getting caught

most kills and least deaths in the 1 hr 45 min slasher movie time span is the ultimate villain

I'd be down for like an Anti-L.A Noir. Instead of trying to piece together killing sprees, you are coming up with these grand schemes to get away with murder while still leaving just enough of a trail for the cops to look for you but find nothing.

That's how i play Hitman games...

In terms of whether or not it would stop me from playing a game, no, not if the game was a good one. But I wouldn't play a game for the sole purpose of being a slasher.

most games feel like serial killer simulators. Was just piling bodies in Deus Ex Human Revolution and then again in Dishonored.

I personally would love it if they had more Camp, like eves dropping into a camp and listening to girls rant about boys or watching Crispen Glover dance. Even the worst slash film has a good set up why to see these people die..... and also disembodied Talking heads would be nice.

I wouldn't have a problem with it. I still don't get the controversies with Manhunt. I mean... you're killing other serial killers.

I mean ya, killing is killing, but in the context of a video game it's as meaningless as a Friday the 13th movie, only more so because its bad guy on bad guy.

Anyway, it'd never get made or would unrightfully get censored to hell but I would not have a problem with it at all. It kind of reminds me of that one slasher movie where this documentary crew is following a serial killer around to make a documentary about him. I forget the name- interesting movie idea although its full of plot holes just by its premise so its best not to think about that.

I was initially going to say that I'd be concerned that a slasher game could easily turn out to be an average stealth game with regular people replacing the enemies. Something like this could be cool, but I still think it'd be difficult to pull off well.

Hotline Miami is pretty close, and 2 is going to be about the events of 1 being turned into a slasher flick (and fans of said movie commiting copy cat crimes)

@chaser324 said:

@animasta: I really don't think you want a game where you play as the slashee...those don't tend to turn out all that well...

I'll say again, Clock Tower 3. The game is basically a slasher film where the protagonist has to go up against a whole series of slasher movie-style killers, complete with the need to finding hiding spots a fear/panic mechanic woven into the gameplay.

The first 15 minutes (aka "the good part") of Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit was kind of like this (which made for a great demo). Unfortunately, the game goes completely off the rails not too long after that first section.

@hailinel said:

@chaser324 said:

@animasta: I really don't think you want a game where you play as the slashee...those don't tend to turn out all that well...

I'll say again, Clock Tower 3. The game is basically a slasher film where the protagonist has to go up against a whole series of slasher movie-style killers, complete with the need to finding hiding spots a fear/panic mechanic woven into the gameplay.

In theory it's an interesting design setup, but Clocktower 3 at least failed by being incredibly shallow, and the killers would show up far too often. I found the scariest part of Clocktower 3 was exploring around without the killer stalking me, because I'm often left on edge waiting for when he would actually pop out. Instead Clocktower 3 kept throwing the guy after you so often that it lost a lot of the tension and was instead just sorta boring.

If someone were to make a similar sort of game with a few more expanded mechanics--such as a greatly increased emphasis on being quiet while exploring--then it could be interesting.

Slender is one such modern-day example of successfully pulling off the feeling of being the fleeing victim of a slasher movie villain.

There was an IndieGoGo for a game where you played as a Jason like villain called Sanitarium Massacre. It did not make it.

http://pigfarmergames.com/games/sanitarium-massacre/

@yummylee said:

@hailinel said:

@chaser324 said:

@animasta: I really don't think you want a game where you play as the slashee...those don't tend to turn out all that well...

I'll say again, Clock Tower 3. The game is basically a slasher film where the protagonist has to go up against a whole series of slasher movie-style killers, complete with the need to finding hiding spots a fear/panic mechanic woven into the gameplay.

In theory it's an interesting design setup, but Clocktower 3 at least failed by being incredibly shallow, and the killers would show up far too often. I found the scariest part of Clocktower 3 was exploring around without the killer stalking me, because I'm often left on edge waiting for when he would actually pop out. Instead Clocktower 3 kept throwing the guy after you so often that it lost a lot of the tension and was instead just sorta boring.

If someone were to make a similar sort of game with a few more expanded mechanics--such as a greatly increased emphasis on being quiet while exploring--then it could be interesting.

Slender is one such modern-day example of successfully pulling off the feeling of being the fleeing victim of a slasher movie villain.

I think part of that is just personal tolerance and preference for certain scare types. Clock Tower 3 is by no means a perfect horror game, but compared to other titles of its day, it was still pretty unique. Your primary concern in the game is evading a murderous psychopath (just like the previous games), but transitions the gameplay from point-and-click to direct character control. As horror games on the PS2 go, it had a lot going for it; it's just a shame it didn't sell well.

But as an aside, one cool thing about Clock Tower 3 that other games can't boast is that its cutscenes were directed by Kinji Fukasaku (director of Battle Royale).

Yes, I've played Manhunt. It doesn't really give me the feeling that I would get playing a slasher movie villain though. Part of that is that I think it plays like complete ass, but mostly because it has kinda a grimy realistic atmosphere instead of a campy slasher movie atmosphere.

If Spring-heeled Jack counts, then yes.

Give me a Friday The 13th Part 5 game where I can choose not to kill Violet, because I love her so much.

Hell fucking yes.

I still cringe every time Wei breaks someone's arm.

I'm pretty sure I've already done that in most of the action games that came out in the past few years.

Naughty Bear was a cutesy version of that.

Sure, I'd play a slasher horror game that put me in the role of the slasher. In fact, I'd love to play a Jack the Ripper game where you play as Jack the Ripper.