Friday the 13th Game -- Tommy Jarvis Will Be a Playable Character

@RoccoHout: I was hoping Kevin Bacon's character from the original would make an appearance too. His death was so brutal and gory, I would love to relive that scene in the game. And what about Pamela Voorhees, any word on her? It would be so epic if they could make a kill or scene where little boy monster Jason pulls someone out of their boat into Crystal Lake!! EPIC!!

@7tizz: There are a lot of games out there with better multiplayer than campaign mode I'm not saying no to that but what I'm saying is how can you complain about having an extra mode and getting a bigger experience and more hours to your playing time and just getting a lot more for your buck.

@7tizz: Because like I said I am a huge fan of the films and would have still played it had single player not made it in. But from watching the reactions and hype behind it, I figured that a lot of extra money would be made, enough to add it in. The devs said in an interview early when the game 1st got announced that a single player mode would be the goal but "not to get our hopes up because it would require much more funding". I don't think they knew how much ppl love the series. All in all, it will be that much better of a game with it, yeh delay sucks but I think it will be well worth the wait. Both modes for both play styles. Everybody wins!

@7tizz: The Singleplayer aspect of the game isn't coming out until later (Summer 2017) not day one. The Multiplayer only got pushed back a few months to Early 2017, so they can get started on Singleplayer earlier, rather than release the game and then get started on Singleplayer, so that we can get it sooner, instead of maybe Winter 2017.

Am I a backer? Yes. Do I care about the date being pushed back? No.

Also, the game was originally set for FALL 2016, which is vaild until Dec 22, which is now pretty much the time frame for the beta. Where people kept are getting the "October 2016" date was the Kickstarter campaign that needed a specific date to be chosen and after the scope of the game had changed early this year (things like the in-game Twitch Support being voided by Twitch), they had to re-order the scope of the backer-kit stretch goals, which offered things that would take more codin, thus the date had to be more fluid.

The game is going through a polishing stage right now, so a lot of the look and mechanics are being tweaked, but the offering of counselors and Jasons to play as will be limited, so that the former is solid. A lot of what they aren't showing us is really just superficial, but at the same time, stuff that they want to surprise us with, such as "How to defeat Jason". We already know the several ways to escape. We know how to win as Jason. We know you can heal in the game. I don't know what you think isn't all that "completed" that it's going to set the game further back than 2017, let alone the current deadline.

Now onto the "greedy" part. The team had to cut off what funds they could get after the it almost reached the Tommy Jarvis stretch goal. They still wanted to included it in the MP release and are doing so. The Singleplayer thing, they can't touch the money for that, nor have they even reached the funding for it, as they need to be paid now to do it, rather than later, like Summer 2017, but they made that decision to do it, anyway.

So, you say that you've been following it closely, but... I'm not seeing that. You do know that Single Player was in the original stretch goals, right? The demand for it was there during and after the Kickstarter, especially with so many people that missed the Kickstarter. The reason why it was taking longer in Backerkit, though, is because they couldn't offer up some of the bigger backer perks, like being a counsellor in the game.

The original intent of the game would have been a $5M dollar budget, rather than the $800K it came to be, so don't tell me that they didn't want to try make a blockbuster, when they wanted Singleplayer, a remake of the original NES game, Pamela Voorhees, Manhattan and Grendel maps. Just don't.

You might have not asked for Singleplayer, but that's not the consensus of everyone that backed it, myself included. My internet connection (because Australia is only just getting fibre internet now) was trash at the time and it would have made playing the game, let alone streaming it a nightmare, so I'm quite lucky that I have fibre now, but you're the vocal minority of Kickstarter Backers on this.

@truemack69: Jason will be OP and more on your ass than Alien: Isolation, which... Had more enemies than just the Alien, so I don't know how adding a few more monsters would make it any different, if not just retarded.

@gamingdevil800: Correct. First time Jason was ever actually defeated was in part 4, by Corey Feldman. (...who went on to find great success with crack or heroin or something.)

But at the time, it was a stand-up-and-cheer moment in theaters and/or VHS.

@netnow66: Hop in window. Hop out window. Repeat!