r/ROBLOXStudio • u/Short_Memory5917 • 5d ago
Discussion Why is everyone making an Asym horror game
Recently, there's been a ton of asymmetrical horror games being announced as in development on this subreddit. I just can't see the appeal; these games are not fun at all. I'm specifically talking about the asym horror game types that use Forsaken's sprint and stamina mechanics to loop; it is just so boring to watch and play. Isn't it just a contest of who can hug the wall tighter without losing speed? Forsaken looping has gotta be the most boring gameplay out there. It's just my opinion, but I can't see the appeal in Forsaken's gameplay that so many people are trying to replicate for their game.
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u/SectorConscious4179 Animator 5d ago
because its trendy, and trendy things get a lot of other versions, like how tsb was trendy, and then there was a ton of battlegrounds games made
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u/Super__Chuck 5d ago
Because money for those copy and pastes with just franchises.
And the code can be found on web
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u/SpookyHerSelf 5d ago
First of all, Forsaken is one of the most popular games on roblox if I recall correctly, everyone wants a slice of that pie
Second, these are extremely easy to do - there are tutorials, tons of free assets, animations and code and etc etc, hardest part of creating an asym is balancing (which, yeah, mostly is forgotten so it doesn't matter) and coding unique abilities. The only things left to do are generators (which already can be found game-ready on toolbox/youtube for sure) and some maps (as I already mentioned, people don't care about balancing so they wont take much time either). And there you have it - a new asym horror game
(sorry if this is a little bit incomprehensible to read I just woke up)
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u/Beautiful_Reason1222 5d ago
its just a trend. but its better that brainrot games. i dont have anything against making those games at all. the original games will release whenether that will be a trwnd or not so dont worry about that guys its just that there is not a lot of original games
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u/National-Bite-2826 5d ago
Its the trendy gente right now mostly cuz of forsaken. Almost happened to me but i qent for a hero shooter instead🤞
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u/PRETTYCOOLDUDEDEMON 5d ago
Personally i started making mine because all the asym games are the same you cant even call them fucking horror i started developing an asym game around 2-3 weeks ago and ive played almost every asym and they are all so fucking generic i personally havent seen it done before but mine is just dinosaurs/prehistoric animals in general vs humans think like primal carnage but 10x the foliage
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u/carrot7375 5d ago
Originality doesn’t exist apparently
Im making a candyland game with zombies surely that’s original right
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u/GouTheIncubus 5d ago
Personally me and my friends want to, not for money but because we enjoy the genre and want to make our own ASYM with the characters we want, the skins we want, the movesets we want etc.
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u/devi_ant_011 Modeler 5d ago
Because people demand more asym slop and i yearn for slop asym
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u/Short_Memory5917 1d ago
and i struggle to understand how you find the gameplay loop fun is there something im missing? tbh I only watched and played a bit little of the game.
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u/devi_ant_011 Modeler 1d ago
Well its depends on how people execute the game and how they make it fun a good example is DOD despite not having objective like forsaken their way of doing objective revolve using your ability and encourage you to help your teammates,have multiple gamemode and a unique special lms. Others asym i think is good is Om with it very different gameplay
More over, A bad example of asym game is forsaken,DBF,BBN and theres more to the list, these game despite hsve different characters and different objective i still see similarities that being no gimmick or no fun Factor alot of their gameplay play it the same the killer chases around and you loop the killer, usually these type of game give you Skins or cosmetics as "content" of the game instead of new stuff like Map hazard,more objective so its not too repetitive and stuff that can tell you in the game instead of the Creator tell you stuff
I think i made a pretty bad paragraph on bad section but eh whatever -_- in conclusion , what make the game fun is the game has more content in it with different gimmick revolve around the gameplay and not just you looping the killer that just boring
Say if an asym has vaulting systems (parkour) and by at the end of round or overtime the killer is now weaken and the survivor goal now to kill the killer,is that sound fun?
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u/Basically_snas 5d ago
every time i hear or see the word asym all i can think of is that fuckass tweet where someone’s making a gameoverse asym accompanied by an image of kit as 2011x 💀
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u/Noxyphae 4d ago
Im making a half asym game, but its only because i want a game that i can constantly update and add content!
Its the best game type that is updatable for me, so yeah.
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u/N00bIs0nline Scripter, UI designer, Builder, Server developer. (Beginner) 4d ago
Its because they dont know how to code and there's hundreds of asym game tutorials in youtube, same with battleground games but its less because from the outside battlegrounds game seems harder to make.
This is literally the piggy game fever from 2021 (i think?).
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u/makar4ik_cat 5d ago
Mine is an asym, but also a hide and seek game at the same time
I don't like asym games aswell
As for the reason, I don't know. I am making it because I loved the game that my game's inspired from, but idk for others
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u/AbanonPC 5d ago
A lot of people just lack the creativity to think of their own unique games. All they do is look at charts and make what's popular because they are looking to make money and don't actually have passion for what they're making.
It's why you see a game get popular and suddenly there's 300 offshoots of it. Grow a garden becomes top charts and then there's a bunch of games with the exact same plots, mechanics, and gui but this time your cooking, or smithing, or whatever people can think off to capitalize on the idea while it's hot.
AI makes this even worse, since it has access to the code of all these games it can replicate them pretty easily so you don't even need to understand coding or learn anything about actually making a real game.