Five Nights at Freddy's

I saw that one too XD

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Every night.◊

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Well, given all the written warnings you get against trying to do anything sane to stop the robots, like donning costumes yourself, I'd say the management of the pizza shop is just plain evil, or at least compliant with the animatronics' killing spree.

The fact that the robots are running at all would imply that. If you can get some poor sap to risk death for four dollars an hour, surely you can find a few teenagers to put on animal costumes and dance around onstage every hour or so for dirt.

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I think the idea is that the Freddy's management has the idea that it would be cheaper to let it all rock instead of trying to do anything about it (or at least it's cheaper to just get Micheal <is that still a spoiler, BTW?> a job night-guarding the bots instead of just getting rid of them), so they just keep the robots around.

In fact, that's probably why they're just riding it out until foreclosure day on the shop comes instead of just cutting loses now and leaving.

Speaking of that, bit of Fridge Horror came over me trying to imagine how that would go over when people finally get to the bots during foreclosure, especially if they do it at night...

edited 4th Sep '14 3:55:39 AM by TechPowah

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Perhaps that will be the sequel? He did promise one.

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The fact that I can't tell if this was shopped or not makes it even scarier.

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That's definitely photoshopped. The text doesn't quite fit the sign.

Some people on Steam were discussing what it would be like if there were, in fact, a real Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, that would have a special challenge thing where you'd be in a room and basically would have to play the game in real life (with people dressed in costumes instead of actual robots, and without any actual killing, of course). And if you won you'd get prizes.

The issue with anyone actually controlling the robots is that they'll end up just camping outside the door. Its easier if there's an AI.

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They could instruct the people in the costumes to act like the animatronics. They could even have each person act specifically like the animal they're dressed as — person in Bonnie suit only goes left, person in Chica suit only goes right, Foxy could have a little light in Pirate Cove that comes on whenever the guard checks that camera, etc.

"We're home, Chewie."

At which point, why even have people in the suits at all if you have to direct their behaviors so clearly.

Now, say there are four guard booths, that could make things more interesting and motivate someone to not be camping.

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Because it takes a lot of time and money to get animatronics to move about in such a way without the demonic possession we're trying to avoid.

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What I meant is that no one would want to be the animatronics because you'd be so instructed on how to act.

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Perhaps there could be certain spots where a light would appear. The light could be turned off by the press of the button. The light would occasionally turn back on, and if the animatronics leave a light on for too long the guard wins. This would motivate the animatronics to move around the map.

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x last few posts: Surely I'm not the only one now thinking of Five Nights at Freddy's re-imagined as some sort of Legends of the Hidden Temple-esque gameshow, right? (or did I just date myself by asking that?)

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I'd love to see that. Assuming it's just a show and not actually killing people, like the elminated contestants become the other mascots for the bonus round or whatever.

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People are thinking up of multiplayer game modes like that. Various guards working together to keep the player controlled animatronics away and anyone who gets dragged off comes back as another player controlled animatronic.

A game like that in real life would actually be very fun in the same vein of how fun it is to walk through scare houses on Halloween or scare people with costumes on Halloween. I'd know I would play Foxy or Bonnie in a game like that.

Fun Fact: I was actually the one who suggested the Freddy's Pizzeria with the Nightly Contest. I feel proud of that

Controllable Helplessness applies to FNaF in some form right? At least when the power runs out.

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You know, something just occurred to me.

Here we have four animatronic robots that are a) strong enough to overpower a fully grown man, b) quick enough to navigate an entire pizza place in seconds, c) stealthy enough to do so without making a sound, d) sophisticated enough to pick up on all your habits and adapt accordingly, and e) tough enough to retain all of their functionality after years of neglect.

I think the guy who built these could probably give the best roboticists a run for their money today, let alone in 1987...

And yet, for whatever reason he decided to sell his talent to some seedy back woods Chuck E. Cheese knock off.

Huh.

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Turns out this is the same tech that would later be employed to disastrous effect in the film Small Soldiers.

Maybe their inventor was a mad genius with a dedication to the art of pizzeria-based playgrounds and robotics was just a hobby.

edited 6th Sep '14 8:43:33 PM by Zarek

"We're home, Chewie."

Damn you Robert Picardo! *Shakes fist in an impotent display of rage*

edited 6th Sep '14 8:44:07 PM by maxwellelvis

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I'm joking, but this actually makes a lot of sense oddly enough.