Five Nights at Freddy's

and now the Game Grumps are doing it

So, apparently Freddy can activate on day 3.

See me getting chills down my spine when his laughter started kicking up.

It must've been a week now since I just gave some LPs a cursory glance and my brain still won't shut up about the screamer faces.

Man, fuck this game and fuck my brain, too.

I had to quit, before anything actually happened, on night 1, because I saw the Golden Freddy poster. I felt like a jackass.

I'm curious as to why there's no F Na F's Character page yet...

Would be pretty bare bones considering that there is no personality to any of the animatronics and all would be a variation of 'creepily looks into camera and jumpscares you', imo.

i want to meet the head of fazbear entertainment

i really do

just to see the single most

legit executive in the world

i mean look at his company

Been watching a bunch of playthroughs... I'm scared outta my mind. I cannot open my bedroom door right now due to sheer terror of thinking Foxy is there. Though he(???) is my favorite one! And I even made crappy fanart!◊

I've seen worse fanart in KYM. I'd say yours looks good

That's quite the mental image, too.

"Welp, too scared to leave my room, get off my chair or even turn my head because I'm afraid Foxy might be there, and all I have is my computer and a tablet."

Life imitates art in the worst way.

I really liked the idea for a daylight horror sequel, where you're trying to protect customers. I guess you'd have to have some way of acting on either customers or the robots to keep them from getting isolated with one another? Maybe there would be a limited control system that will drive the robots into a killing frenzy if you try to use it too much.

I don't know, I like the idea that the Fazbear Four are extremely misguided protectors of their fellow kids.

I was messing around on Steam, and going by the tags, this game is apparently now a very popular "Dating Sim".

I saw that. It's even a higher-ranked tag than "Robots".

Well, I mean, have you seen the fanart for this game?

Yeesh. It's...something else.

edited 25th Aug '14 11:41:09 AM by Deathonabun

I came across a shipfic between the security guard and Foxy on FF.net XD

i personally like the thought the animatronics are evil

i mean what with the guy killing the five kids

if it was the animatronics

1. you're not going to tell the police and press your animatronics are at fault
2. evil animatronics sounds really fucking stupid on headlines
3. hey, we have a scapegoat with access to all these things (logically he probably did it discounting evil animatronics)
4. go go gadget arrest him

Proposing my own theory:

There really was a human culprit. The murder weapon is the animatronics (this explains why the bodies were never found). The culprit was the one that caused the animatronics to go "maverick". Foxy was the 1st one to go maverick. The culprit may have died later by his own murder weapon.

Just for kicks, let's try to solve potential sources of inspiration for this game. Chucky Cheese's being obvious.

One of the sources of inspiration for Five Nights at Freddy's may be When They Cry, and here's why:

1. The central premise of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, which is also a central premise of When They Cry, albeit more so for Umineko than Higurashi.

2. Golden Freddie from a mundane solution is almost identical to the solution to the final death in Watanagashi-hen ( a terror induced hallucination that kills via caridac arrest)

3. The main type of horror being used on the viewer being psychological horror via Paranoia Fuel ( more so if you believe hallucinations are at play), much like the horror tactic of choice for When They Cry.

edited 25th Aug '14 8:48:41 PM by magnum12

I really like that Theory of yours, that it was the Murderer who tampered with the electronics in the first place to be sadistic Murderers.

Anyways, I'm going to move Rule 34 to the Trivia Page, because the game itself has nothing to suggest Rule 34...

edited 27th Aug '14 6:40:28 AM by DingoWalley1

So I have a theory: Freddy's is (or was; I'll get to that later) located in Night Vale.

Night Vale is exactly the kind of place a pizzeria full of evil animatronics would be. It's full of that kind of stuff. Being in Night Vale would explain a lot of strange idiosyncrasies; why would the robots have this homicidal glitch? In Night Vale, there's multiple instances of computers spontaneously becoming sentient. Why does no one think it's horrifying? Evil robots — just another day in Night Vale. Hardly the strangest or most threatening thing in town. Why does the protagonist risk their life every night for below minimum wage? It's not like any of the other jobs in town are safer.

There's also a bit of an implied silver lining in this theory. In current-day Night Vale, there's only one pizzeria, Big Rico's. There used to be others, but they all burnt down in an unsolved arson case around the same time Big Rico's opened. If Freddy's is in Night Vale, then it has to have been before Big Rico's came along, meaning the place has probably burnt to the ground.

I think we discussed that theory a few pages back. Pretty interesting.

You did? Crap, I thought I was being original. 'S what I get for threadhopping.

If the guard was in Night Vale, he'd have to have just moved in to not come to Freddy's more prepared.

A critique of DSP's critique of Five Nights At Freddy's, mostly discussing his hypocrisy and inability to give concrete reasonings for his dislike of the game.

Can the whole internet just collectively decide to not mention this game anymore in my presence, actually? And drop the avatars and stuff, too?

It just won't leave my OCD head. I'm not usually afraid of the dark, but whenever something like this impacts me this badly, I have to keep playing the "don't think of the scary thing"-game and now I'm here at past 3 AM and let me tell you I regret many of the decisions I have made in the past.