Hopefully me rambling off didn't put some people off, This was me holding stuff for almost 2 years so I tend to go off sometimes to get to point because I feel sometimes its best to know from start to finish.
I miss VHS so much ... great game in almost every way but the devs and the community were not only toxic af but incompetent as well, and I pray for a VHS comeback under a different, better development studio
@@Clown_the_Clown yes, I totally agree, Hellbent was a terrible development studio. Slow, toxic and incompetent nonetheless they made a great game and I hope it comes back someday in the near future under a different studio. Last year comes back too, so I do think VHS has the same chances
? Wait what? I remember in the beginning they were widely beloved for communicating with the community a lot and stuff. I mean the game didn't run well on my PC and I was waiting for a console release but it never came as far as I was aware. What changed?
@@soulbounddoll1826 the game never received 1 good update. Either an update broke something or it was a questionable decision that often times got criticized months in advance from the "real" community that this was a bad change and shouldn't get through. Well they did it anyway and the last players every time they made these decisions. Overall the game was a mess from developer side when it came to update not to forget it took them like 5 months for one single content update and the constant gaslighting from the devs and the toxic side of the community that made the game worse day by day
@@JaeeTv what happened to all your DbD videos? Had to jump through hoops to remember your channel name since I forgot, (found your old profile picture in an old DbD RUclipsr tier list, then used Google Lens to find a meme with your name in it) but when I found your channel again, I couldn’t find any of your DbD videos except for two.
Hellbent needs to sell the IP to other developers, the amount of cut content could've breathed new life into the game and put it up there with all the other asyms. Sadly Hellbent will never do it and would rather do nothing with it like EA with Alice.
This is the only game where I've actually grieved its loss, to the point where idk if I can even watch this documentary, I'm sorry, I'll leave it running in the background on mute or something, this game is how I found you
Hashtag im still here pls make more deepdives onto this game dude its so interesting to see what happened behind the scenes and what you thought could have have fixed or turned things around
The VHS devs were essentially handed the golden ticket for a new style of an asym to fill a void that will never be filled by games like dbd. Having the 4 be able to fight back works well provided the 1 is having a good time. And that is where Hellbent took the golden ticket, ripped it up and then took a dump on it. They were so clearly against game experience for monsters that it bamboozles me to this day. I can only think the devs loved playing on comms with each other and took it in turns to be monster, which works for a group of friends, but not public matches. VHS will go down in history as one of the biggest flops possible for a game. (and no I didn't suck at monster, I had a 90% w/r with wart, so as Jae says, it isn't a skill issue, it is the stress and feel of the gameplay)
To this day VHS is the only asym I actually miss playing and literally tried them all. Really miss it. I still believe Dollmaster is the best designed monster in an asym, aesthetics and gameplaywise (and he wasn't even my fav to play as!) The fact that this game died is truly a tragedy.
One more thing I think VHS missed was an “m2” monster. In dbd we have a lot of killers which play different with their powers like huntress being able to play mid and long range, demo and wesker dashing through the map, billy running everywhere, etc. Hits in VHS to my experience, didn’t really felt rewarding, in a mechanical way. You could make a macro outplay, but there was little room for a micro game outplay, the closest thing to that was Deathwire with it’s shot, and even that didn’t feel really hard to get since it could go through walls and charged too fast to require a micro outplay from the monster side
Just sounds like the devs suck at making a game when there’s literally a successful one in the same genre. People copy each other all the time, we call it “inspiration”.
Pretty good video, liked listening to it in the background while I work. Perhaps for a future subject for a "podcast style" video could be a "If I made an asym game". Where it would be your own ideas for a hypothetical asym game, you had some pretty cool killer ideas that if I'm being frank kinda departed a bit from the 80s style VHS had. I've been playing asym games for many years now and I certainly got ideas of my own, but I'd be interested in listening to what ideas you'd have and what a hypothetical perfect asym game could be.
I feel like a dynamic shield would have been great. It starts off small at the beginning of the game and after each stigma it gets a percentage stronger
I miss VHS so much it was such a great game and came at a great time for me. I had been in the beta since early December 2021 and about to move in with my boyfriend. I spent the rest of my beta time and early access release in a good place with good memories before he passed in January of 2023 by that point i had over 600 hours in the game so i will always hold it dear to my heart as being a great time in my life and I wish it had been able to stick around longer and gave us plenty more joy!
I have the most fond memories of any game with this game here. I miss it so much. I hope for a comeback of some sort. It would have a small, dedicated fanbase no matter what.
this game was so much fun. it was actually something i enjoyed and wished it worked for others. would have been like..."ok i played enough dbd for today, im going on vhs now" sucks it didnt came to be
VHS really could've of been .... no fr though you're the only streamer who i remember extensively covering VHS. I gave it a fair shot shortly before the devs called it quits and, while the game wasn't perfect, I really liked it and there's nothing else quite like it available right now. I really hope that it comes back in some capacity.
bro I recently remembered this game, it had so much potential but it had little to no marketing and took too long to release after teasing the game with content creators. I played so damn much of this game on both sides bought the super ultra pack or whatever I was invested. It really is tragic to see this game dead
You were saying not to worry about balance and I think its safe to say they didn't care about it for the majority of the game's life cycle which is why people stopped playing it. They knew in the beta that monster wasn't fun to play and they made so little progress on it until the end. They also never fixed the audio issues.
Dang, it's a game I was looking forward to and then forgot about. I never played it :( I forgot! I really appreciate this video. I randomly got recommended a video about "Home Sweet Home Online" and that's how this one was recommended. Man I'm jelly, you speak of a Dev being like an unstoppable killer main D: wish I could have seen him DBD beasts: Demogorgon, Xenomorph, Hag kinda. You mentioning a harpy monster really got me excited qq, plz dbd make it happen
Solo Q unfortunately made Dollmaster and Wart incredibly annoying for last stigma. I don't know if I'd enjoy the shield thing tbh, but I also don't know how'd you'd fix it without removing grouping up, which would not be great for obvious reasons.
It will never happen but really wish the game would make a comeback somehow. Don’t even remember how I found the game but console would have helped the community survive for a lot longer but they never made it. Best game that could have been for sure.
Loved all your ideas but for the magician instead of the acid, I’d have it so his last ability is if he hits a teen hit places a coin behind their ear and that’s his tracking the only way to get rid of it is to have another teen remove it acid may be better tho 😅
I really liked playing against Dollmaster, it was difficult but rewarding. I really absolutely hated going against Deathwire. All the slowdown was so ass, I just hate when games do that. I really miss VHS. And all the money I put in..
Hash tag I'm still here....yeah I typed out hash tag ha ha. Never played vhs but loved the video, I enjoy passion like this. I have a bunch of ideas for evil dead, that was my favorite asymmetrical.
Wish the game were not delisted. Instead would have just liked to see it in maintenance mode. Would have allowed new players to discover the game. Keep it somewhat alive. Like GCI did for so long. Before they got delisted too. Great games 👻 to soon.
I followed this game for ages but when it finally came out it ok but had serious balance issues. I also never cared for it's toned down violence which does not fit with the 80's aesthetic since every horror flick out of that time period of note was 24/7 ultra violence. It feels like it was designed by people who only watched stranger things for reference and stranger things is just "How hipsters remember the 80's" the tv show. If you relaunched this game and did nothing but tone up the violence and swap the kids out for college students and 80's horror stereotypes it would be infinitely more fun.
Kinda off topic, Devs needa lock in cuz imo Minecraft, Overwatch, and Dbd needs some competition. So far every “dbd competitor” has did well… not great. I’m praying for Marvel Rivals because no one cares about the others and hopefully Hytale releases before I turn 300.
@@rwentfordable i’m glad someone else agrees. i don’t know if i ever mentioned my uncomfortable feelings towards this, but i figured it was worth pointing it out now, considering that he has rebranded lol.
VHS is game I want to like, but so glad it failed! Simply because, I feel like developers like that, shouldn't be reward for their actions. To many Asim games, have devs want to be the next DBD but put less effort in terms how act. At least be semi professional! Yet most just can't due to inexperience I guess? Not sure, just glad they had this failure so they either can improve in future or just fade away.
![[FAILED ATTEMPT] Going from The Backdoor, to The Hotel, to The Rooms, to The Mines.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6-NS-fWcF8o/mqdefault.jpg)
![[FAILED ATTEMPT] Going from The Backdoor, to The Hotel, to The Rooms, to The Mines.](/img/tr.png)
Hopefully me rambling off didn't put some people off, This was me holding stuff for almost 2 years so I tend to go off sometimes to get to point because I feel sometimes its best to know from start to finish.
I miss VHS so much ... great game in almost every way but the devs and the community were not only toxic af but incompetent as well, and I pray for a VHS comeback under a different, better development studio
VHS earned it's downfall. Hellbent failed to address core issues with the game, and banned people for bringing up criticism.
@@Clown_the_Clown yes, I totally agree, Hellbent was a terrible development studio. Slow, toxic and incompetent nonetheless they made a great game and I hope it comes back someday in the near future under a different studio. Last year comes back too, so I do think VHS has the same chances
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Wait what?
I remember in the beginning they were widely beloved for communicating with the community a lot and stuff.
I mean the game didn't run well on my PC and I was waiting for a console release but it never came as far as I was aware.
What changed?
@@BuriedInInsanity Real shame, because the universe, artstyle, and lore was really neat.
@@soulbounddoll1826 the game never received 1 good update. Either an update broke something or it was a questionable decision that often times got criticized months in advance from the "real" community that this was a bad change and shouldn't get through. Well they did it anyway and the last players every time they made these decisions. Overall the game was a mess from developer side when it came to update not to forget it took them like 5 months for one single content update and the constant gaslighting from the devs and the toxic side of the community that made the game worse day by day
Should be named like "why it failed" imo.. Don't be afraid to talk about it in that capacity
I felt there’s already so much negativity. I just didn’t want to add that but I get you
@@JaeeTv hopefully they learn from the negativity and aren't shielded or destroyed by it
@@JaeeTv I mean, a game dying is pretty negative man lol. Not your fault or ours that the reality of things is negative, it just is. Simple as.
@@JaeeTv what happened to all your DbD videos? Had to jump through hoops to remember your channel name since I forgot, (found your old profile picture in an old DbD RUclipsr tier list, then used Google Lens to find a meme with your name in it) but when I found your channel again, I couldn’t find any of your DbD videos except for two.
No asym where you can fight the killer has ever done well.
Hellbent needs to sell the IP to other developers, the amount of cut content could've breathed new life into the game and put it up there with all the other asyms. Sadly Hellbent will never do it and would rather do nothing with it like EA with Alice.
This is the only game where I've actually grieved its loss, to the point where idk if I can even watch this documentary, I'm sorry, I'll leave it running in the background on mute or something, this game is how I found you
Hashtag im still here pls make more deepdives onto this game dude its so interesting to see what happened behind the scenes and what you thought could have have fixed or turned things around
The VHS devs were essentially handed the golden ticket for a new style of an asym to fill a void that will never be filled by games like dbd. Having the 4 be able to fight back works well provided the 1 is having a good time. And that is where Hellbent took the golden ticket, ripped it up and then took a dump on it.
They were so clearly against game experience for monsters that it bamboozles me to this day. I can only think the devs loved playing on comms with each other and took it in turns to be monster, which works for a group of friends, but not public matches.
VHS will go down in history as one of the biggest flops possible for a game.
(and no I didn't suck at monster, I had a 90% w/r with wart, so as Jae says, it isn't a skill issue, it is the stress and feel of the gameplay)
Im literally never gonna forget this game man it was peak
To this day VHS is the only asym I actually miss playing and literally tried them all. Really miss it. I still believe Dollmaster is the best designed monster in an asym, aesthetics and gameplaywise (and he wasn't even my fav to play as!) The fact that this game died is truly a tragedy.
One more thing I think VHS missed was an “m2” monster. In dbd we have a lot of killers which play different with their powers like huntress being able to play mid and long range, demo and wesker dashing through the map, billy running everywhere, etc. Hits in VHS to my experience, didn’t really felt rewarding, in a mechanical way. You could make a macro outplay, but there was little room for a micro game outplay, the closest thing to that was Deathwire with it’s shot, and even that didn’t feel really hard to get since it could go through walls and charged too fast to require a micro outplay from the monster side
I miss this game, a Lot of potential
Just sounds like the devs suck at making a game when there’s literally a successful one in the same genre.
People copy each other all the time, we call it “inspiration”.
you know its a bad time when a dev says "we dont want to make survivor unfun". ok how about the person who is LITERALLY BY THEMSELVES THEN???
Pretty good video, liked listening to it in the background while I work. Perhaps for a future subject for a "podcast style" video could be a "If I made an asym game". Where it would be your own ideas for a hypothetical asym game, you had some pretty cool killer ideas that if I'm being frank kinda departed a bit from the 80s style VHS had. I've been playing asym games for many years now and I certainly got ideas of my own, but I'd be interested in listening to what ideas you'd have and what a hypothetical perfect asym game could be.
Just a heads up. Someone got Video Horror Society back online. You can't play with randoms, but you can play with friends and bots.
I feel like a dynamic shield would have been great. It starts off small at the beginning of the game and after each stigma it gets a percentage stronger
We need this and the return of VHS
OMG I JUST HOPE IT RETURNS
@@emvis8256 I miss Propnight too, and only shit like DBD survived
3rd times a charm right, pls i miss Brett and my wolfie
@@tre1o184 and my Leo Jess i Faith
@@ksawcio6 unfortunately true
rest in peace, my beloved
I miss VHS so much it was such a great game and came at a great time for me. I had been in the beta since early December 2021 and about to move in with my boyfriend. I spent the rest of my beta time and early access release in a good place with good memories before he passed in January of 2023 by that point i had over 600 hours in the game so i will always hold it dear to my heart as being a great time in my life and I wish it had been able to stick around longer and gave us plenty more joy!
Man… I miss VHS. And I never got to have Dino Wart sadge
A mod team by the name of "evil never dies" recently bought the game domain. If you redownload the game, you get every cosmetic in the game.
@@ItsJavaJawa Get all cosmetics to not be able to play with them? Cool.
I have the most fond memories of any game with this game here. I miss it so much. I hope for a comeback of some sort. It would have a small, dedicated fanbase no matter what.
this game was so much fun. it was actually something i enjoyed and wished it worked for others. would have been like..."ok i played enough dbd for today, im going on vhs now" sucks it didnt came to be
VHS really could've of been ....
no fr though you're the only streamer who i remember extensively covering VHS. I gave it a fair shot shortly before the devs called it quits and, while the game wasn't perfect, I really liked it and there's nothing else quite like it available right now. I really hope that it comes back in some capacity.
bro I recently remembered this game, it had so much potential but it had little to no marketing and took too long to release after teasing the game with content creators. I played so damn much of this game on both sides bought the super ultra pack or whatever I was invested. It really is tragic to see this game dead
You were saying not to worry about balance and I think its safe to say they didn't care about it for the majority of the game's life cycle which is why people stopped playing it. They knew in the beta that monster wasn't fun to play and they made so little progress on it until the end. They also never fixed the audio issues.
Honestly this pisses me off because the game had so much potential but the devs seemed to be so incompetent they just let the game died
9:50 Oh, hey, Last Year
That game wasn’t too bad, either
Dang, it's a game I was looking forward to and then forgot about. I never played it :( I forgot!
I really appreciate this video. I randomly got recommended a video about "Home Sweet Home Online" and that's how this one was recommended.
Man I'm jelly, you speak of a Dev being like an unstoppable killer main D: wish I could have seen him
DBD beasts: Demogorgon, Xenomorph, Hag kinda.
You mentioning a harpy monster really got me excited qq, plz dbd make it happen
Solo Q unfortunately made Dollmaster and Wart incredibly annoying for last stigma. I don't know if I'd enjoy the shield thing tbh, but I also don't know how'd you'd fix it without removing grouping up, which would not be great for obvious reasons.
It will never happen but really wish the game would make a comeback somehow. Don’t even remember how I found the game but console would have helped the community survive for a lot longer but they never made it. Best game that could have been for sure.
Damn, I feel if Jaee would have gotten the effort that he deserved I feel this game would have been Great!!. sad to see it fall the way it did
It could have been so great I still carry so many good memories from it
As someone who does podcast Jae just go for it people love them
Loved all your ideas but for the magician instead of the acid, I’d have it so his last ability is if he hits a teen hit places a coin behind their ear and that’s his tracking the only way to get rid of it is to have another teen remove it acid may be better tho 😅
not a bad idea tbh but for me it gives it more of a monster vibe since the acid is nod to ALIEN
Deathwire was the main reason me and my friends were driven away from the game. it was such a unfriendly game for beginners on both sides
I remember this game. It was actually fun. Too bad the devs ruined it themselves.
I miss vhs so much and I’m always craving to know what this game could have been and even some ideas you had most seem pretty fun or good ideas
I love vhs 😮😯
I really liked playing against Dollmaster, it was difficult but rewarding. I really absolutely hated going against Deathwire. All the slowdown was so ass, I just hate when games do that.
I really miss VHS. And all the money I put in..
Hash tag I'm still here....yeah I typed out hash tag ha ha. Never played vhs but loved the video, I enjoy passion like this. I have a bunch of ideas for evil dead, that was my favorite asymmetrical.
Thanks for watching ❤
Wish the game were not delisted. Instead would have just liked to see it in maintenance mode. Would have allowed new players to discover the game. Keep it somewhat alive. Like GCI did for so long. Before they got delisted too. Great games 👻 to soon.
Its a shame they made survivors too strong. Ontop of that LEAVING THE GAME ON A SINGLE DEVICE INSTEAD OF INCLUDING CONSOLES ALSO
I followed this game for ages but when it finally came out it ok but had serious balance issues. I also never cared for it's toned down violence which does not fit with the 80's aesthetic since every horror flick out of that time period of note was 24/7 ultra violence. It feels like it was designed by people who only watched stranger things for reference and stranger things is just "How hipsters remember the 80's" the tv show. If you relaunched this game and did nothing but tone up the violence and swap the kids out for college students and 80's horror stereotypes it would be infinitely more fun.
Actually what you said is the truth and I just hoped that things will change for the greater good even if they have already bite the dust
Kinda off topic,
Devs needa lock in cuz imo Minecraft, Overwatch, and Dbd needs some competition. So far every “dbd competitor” has did well… not great. I’m praying for Marvel Rivals because no one cares about the others and hopefully Hytale releases before I turn 300.
Iove your vids my man keep up the good work and love watching every game you play
i’m glad you rebranded. i quit watching you years ago due to the weird, childlike mascot.
@@MCDLXXXVIII_ I remember that, it was weird.
@@rwentfordable i’m glad someone else agrees. i don’t know if i ever mentioned my uncomfortable feelings towards this, but i figured it was worth pointing it out now, considering that he has rebranded lol.
VHS is game I want to like, but so glad it failed! Simply because, I feel like developers like that, shouldn't be reward for their actions. To many Asim games, have devs want to be the next DBD but put less effort in terms how act. At least be semi professional! Yet most just can't due to inexperience I guess?
Not sure, just glad they had this failure so they either can improve in future or just fade away.
Why not let Video Horror Society be owned by IllFonic and Teravision Games?
"Bro you have so much ideas. It's like you like gaming or something" 😒
My idea for a change for that game was removing the forced look up after getting a hit. Felt awful and like you were punished for getting a hit.
I remember suggesting the ice cream man idea to you
By the sounds of it the problem always goes back to how bad the game was developed. So we know who the real problem were
They fumbled vhs like how GW fumbled Ferrus Manus.
cool ideas
I don't want to be rude but it's kinda funny people thought it was the next dbd killer
The hype of this 'Dbd killer' was extreme. I hope they feel stupid and embarrassed.
What happened to the game?
Could've of.
I think was a perfect video and Jae had some amazing monster ideas.
Jae would of made monster fun and saved VHS