Trivia / Friday the 13th: The Game

• Acting for Two: Robbie Daymond voices both Adam Palomino and Kenny Riedell while Ben Diskin voices both Chad Kensington and Eric "J.R." LaChappa.
• Ascended Fanfic: The game was originally going to be an Expy homage to the films before the developers acquired the license.
• Development Gag: One of the Pamela Tapes reveals that Pamela thought about naming Jason "Joshua," which is what he was originally going to be called early in development.
  • The four seater car the counselors can repair has a New Jersey license plate with the letters NOBBSCO, a reference to Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, the summer camp in New Jersey where the original Friday the 13th was filmed.
• Doing It for the Art: The creators have said their #1 priority is to make a Friday the 13th game that gets everything as perfect as possible.
• Dueling Games: With Dead by Daylight.
• Dummied Out: While bits of Uber Jason are 'technically' in the game ^note this allowed hackers to use his icon in lobbies for example, the judge ruled during the cease and desist case Gun Media couldn't add him to the existing roster as it was interpreted as "new content", meaning he wouldn't ever appear outside the Virtual Cabin.
• Enforced Method Acting: Of a kind. It was actually Kane Hodder who suggested using fellow stuntmen and women rather than actors to motion capture Jason's kills, which accounts for both the somewhat hammy performances (stuntmen are not traditionally hired for their acting skills) and the fact that Kane was able to really go to town on them for the brutal kill animations because they all knew how to take it and give it.
• Exiled from Continuity: The Jason from Freddy vs. Jason isn't in the game due to licensing issues.
• Meaningful Release Date: The game's physical release, as well as The Final Chapter update were both released on Friday the 13th in October 2017.
• Orphaned Reference: Due to the lawsuit halting all future DLC, Uber Jason and the Grendel being unlocked in Virtual Cabin 2.0 is now this.
• The Other Darrin:
  • A weird example of this trope being both averted and played straight with the same character: Kane Hodder, who portrayed Jason in Parts 7-10, returns in this game to perform Motion Capture work for those versions of him; however, his performance is also used for the versions of Jason from parts 2, 3, 4 and 6, who were all played by different actors. Played straight with his Mocap of Part V, however, as that Jason isn’t really Jason.
  • It makes sense for Part 2-4. The actor who played Jason in Part 3, Richard Brooker, passed away in 2013 and Part 4 Jason Ted White had retired. For Part 2 there is still some lingering controversy about who really played Jason, the credit being shared between 4 people, including a woman.
• Role Reprise: Several in fact. Kane Hodder returns for the motion capture as Jason Voorhees, Thom Matthews voices Tommy Jarvis and is even modeled after his portrayal in Part VI, Tom Savini is one of the heads behind designing the kills as well as his own take on Jason, and Larry Zerner returns to voice Shelly Finkelstein after having played him in F13 Part III.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: As a result of a lawsuit between Victor Miller and Sean Cunningham regarding ownership of the franchise and Miller's contributions to it, all DLC and content updates for the game has been permanently cancelled due to legal issues.
• What Could Have Been: Has its own page
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Team-killing related griefing became so rampant that the dev team was forced to remove the ability to kill teammates with anything besides the car from public matches. The patch notes even end with "tldr; ... Can't have nice things."
  • This consequently leaves the Jason player extremely vulnerable and open to mob attacks when they've grabbed a Counselor as they can no longer use them as a Human Shield until the grab-kill animation kicks in.
  • Just as annoyingly you get that one player who intentionally blocks you inside a room with no other means of exiting.

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