Since the first teaser for Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach referred to the game as "9," that would suggest two of the games we currently classify as spin offs are actually considered by Scott Cawthon to FNaF 7 and 8. I would guess those are Help Wanted and Special Delivery since Help Wanted appears to directly lead into the events of Security Breach, and there's a good chance Special Delivery does as well with "Ness."
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I'm not so sure, but do we need a separate page for Five Nights as a whole to distinguish it from the first game? A lot of the stuff about the first game gets mixed up with general tropes and discussions about the series, and I was wondering if there was any way to separate them or leave them as is.
I have an explanation for the Backstage Endoskeleton and Vonnie leaving it.
It is the backstage, meaning a bare endoskeleton might not be out of place.
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Given that there are now four games in the series, wouldn't it be better to have a page dedicated to the franchise as a whole instead of having a page for each individual game?
I think that would be much more organized than it is now.
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Problem would be where to put it. Franchise.Five Nights At Freddys? No, this game hasn't branched out enough in other mediums to justify such a page.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Can we try renaming this page to "Five Nights At Freddy's 1" and then create a series wide page with the old name? I was the one who opened the Franchise page, sorry I didn't know the rules around it.
Ironically, I don't actually like coffee that much.
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Alright, I'm gonna try to set up a timeline here for the games now that the third one's out. So, it starts out with Fredbear's Family Diner, that ends up being closed down. After a few years later they open up Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, with improved animatronics, and it's going well and good and whatever until this one guard that was fired comes over. He freaks out. He hides in a Golden Freddy suit and kills some kids, because he's a seriously messed up person like that. He is given a life sentence, but still manages to escape. 20 years after that incredible fiasco, another Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is opened, with animatronics more closely resembling the first designs. The dead children possessing the robots are still really angry, and can't tell the difference between the murderer and the new security guard(s), and tries to get revenge. However, one survives, but is fired. 30 Years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza shuts down, a new attraction, called "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" opens its doors, uncovering the mythos. The murderer comes back. The souls of the children are released from the suits, and PM/Purple Man discovers them. They chase him down until he finds an empty suit. He hides in it, cranking the animatronic parts away. It springs a trap out, and kills him once and for all. The member of the show playing the security guard is, well, a real security guard as well. No one has discovered the rotting body in the Springtrap suit, and think it is decor. PM, wanting revenge against the children, tries to kill everyone. He is a murderer after all. But he doesn't succeed. He starts a fire, and the building goes down in flames.
What happens after that? Who knows?
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Ok, sorry for the timeline being a huge wall of text. I tried to space it out, but it didn't work for some reason. Maybe I just didn't press enter enough times or something.
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Why does everyone keep insisting on changing the synopsis of the game?
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It's a fresh new game and is attracting lots of editors, many of them will have ideas on what the description should say.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I want a discussion on this:
- Based on a True Story: Aside from the 'Animatronics trying to kill you' theme, there is a... disturbing similarity between the backstory and the murders of some Chuck E Cheese employees perpetrated by Nathan Dunlap in Colorado in 1993 where he snuck into a Chuck E Cheese restaurant that he had been fired from and shot the 5 employees, before stealing as much money as he could and running off. Not only does each victim match up to the animatronics in both gameplay style and patterns, but also in minor tics. You can find out more in this video by Matthew Patrick of Game Theory.
It's a HUGE stretch. I watched the video and the theory is full of holes which even Matthew Patrick admits. At best we could put the example up as an "it's possible" for Very Loosely Based on a True Story (because Based on a True Story is not a trope in and of itself and should not get examples, VLBOATS is the closest that could fit) but I don't think we should even give it that much, given the theory is just that, a theory by one fan which is full of holes.
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I have been informed by Fighteer in Ask The Tropers that it's not a valid example, as Based on a True Story is required to be stated such by Word of God. So yeah.
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Is there another trope that it could fall under like the fridge horror or nightmare fuel? The parallels are still incredibly significant even if they aren't directly inspired by the event.
Fairly certain it's not Fridge Horror, and while technically it may fall under the general concept of Nightmare Fuel that page recently got purged of all examples not actually in the game, so it probably shouldn't be there either (though it seems someone's added it anyway).
I'd argue it doesn't have a place anywhere here. As mentioned already, it's full of holes.
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Foxy was misblamed, it was Chica who did the bite of 87 and Foxy had his attraction shut because the corporation thought he was not as popular as the others so shut him down.
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Fridge Brilliance: Freddy Plays Bizet's "Les Toreadors," about a bullfighter, much like the security guard, maneuvering around the giant killing bulls, IE animatronics.
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Ahem, not really seeing how it's Fridge Brilliance.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Makes sense, considering the lyrics translate as:
''Toreador, on guard! Toreador! Toreador! And think well, yes, think in fighting That a dark eye watches from above, And love waits for you, Toreador, love, love waits for you!''
It's about people putting themselves in terrible danger for a thrill, more or less.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPONdZBh6s - It's happening, and I love phone guy's understatement of the century line at the beginning.
Is there a number where we plan to stop listing everyone who beats 4/20 mode and puts up a video of it under the Crowning Moment of Awesome page? Yes, it was thought to be impossible, and the first guy definitely deserves a mention, but now that we know it's not impossible it's just the equivalent of beating a very hard level, and we don't list every time someone does that on other games.
Since I don't think this bit of speculation belongs anywhere else...
Has anyone tried setting the custom night to 11/13/8/7?
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I'm pretty sure whatever that's supposed to do is only available in a version that isn't available to the public as of yet. Maybe I'll try anyway.
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Would Controllable Helplessness apply to this game in some form?
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I doubt it. You're never restrained as far as I can tell. You're just relatively stationary. That, and how else could you push the light and door buttons? They look too far away for an arm reach.
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Perhaps, but we really haven't identified a trope for when the fight-or-flight response is completely stymied. I really do think that's the primary reason this game freaks people out — there's no way to destroy your enemies, and you can't go anywhere because you're already in the safest room in the building. If Scott Cawthon's planning a sequel, I think that's the main thing he should bring along, as far as gameplay mechanics are concerned.
Is the fact that the player character's name is Mike Schmidt really a spoiler? I've seen people spoilering it out in various places. Just because it's not shown until the end of the game doesn't make it a spoiler- it's not significant to the plot at all.
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That's pretty common practice. It honestly baffles me, too. The Lego Movie pages does the same... Wyldstyle's real name is constantly spoilered out, but it's an utterly insignificant reveal.
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In the case of Mike Schmidt, it may be because we're not actually certain he IS the player character. Sure, his name is on the check, but that's the only place it shows up.
Would it be alright to replace the story(regarding Chica causing the Bite of '87) in the Nightmare Fuel tab, with an edited version of it? The story is ridden with grammar errors, and it's not a link to said story, it's the whole thing.
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Fixing grammar is always a free action.
That said, that text is so long that removing it altogether would not be a problem either.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Should a page for notable fanworks be made (like the audio created by fans currently linked to on the nightmare fuel page) or is it alright to keep them in the pages they're already in? I know the MLP:FIM page eventually added fanworks but that seemed to be because there was a lot of it.
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Well, MLP:FIM had a lot of fanworks with pages on the wiki. If this is the case here, you can make such a subpage.
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It doesn't come from Zelda.
So why is the main page on "Videogame" and not "Video Game" like almost every other page on video games? Also, why the space in the titles for pages for this game (e.g. WMG/ Five Night's at Freddy's instead of WMG/Five Night's at Freddy's)?
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Because of The Problem with Pen Island. Videogame.Five Nights At Freddys and VideoGame.Five Nights At Freddys are the same article. Can't see the spacing issue, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
My previous post borked the spacing, but here's a pic of the problem with the space in the name
◊. Note how the pages relating to FNAF have a space where every other page on the wiki does not.
I suspect it's a broken custom title. I'll send another one.
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Someone apparently got the sound files out of the game. Turns out, one of the screams used when you're caught goes from a mechanical sound (which is all you hear ingame) to a child screaming. Just thought it was interesting.
Should beating 4-20 mode count as Lord British Postulate? It's not a NPC, but the game's creator didn't think it could be done until it happened, and I think it's the same basic concept.
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Nah, Lord British Postulate is about NPCs specifically. Dunno what the trope is for your scenario but Lost And Found might know.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Fridge horror, if it's true that the animatronic mascots are getting more hostile over time wouldn't it be safe to say that they will eventually be unsatisfied with guards and will end up getting out eventually?
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Double down on that: Freddy's is closing at the end of the year. Without security guards as bait, what's to stop them from getting out?
They'd probably be terminated when they finally close down.
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I see just one problem with that — they shouldn't be able to move as it is. So if they're only "safe" during business hours, then what happens if there are no more business hours?
Well, they were set up to move all the time, before the Bite of '87, which resulted in them being set to only move at night, ostensibly to keep them working properly. Presumably once the place closes down, if they can't be totally dismantled they could at least just be set up to not move at all like they do during the day, since they aren't needed to function. Granted, since the machines are actually haunted, that might not work as well as one might expect...
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should there be a characters page?
there are characters, but not really that many...
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Yeah, I have to doubt the need for a characters page here. All we have are Phone Guy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Freddy and Golden Freddy (if you count Golden Freddy separately) and the player character, Mike Schmidt.
Huh. I never noticed before that the standard activation order was alphabetical. B, C, Fo, Fr, G.
Just added a new item to the Trivia tab, a combo of Freeze-Frame Bonus and Genius Bonus. That distorted speech on Night 5? It's actually a reversed, sped-up, pitch-shifted quote from Autobiography of a Yogi:
"Sir, it is lamentable that mass agricultural development is not speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms. Would it not be easily possible to employ some of them in quick laboratory experiments to indicate the influence of various types of fertilizers on plant growth?" "You are right. Countless uses of Bose instruments will be made by future generations. The scientist seldom knows contemporaneous reward; it is enough to possess the joy of creative service."
(The voice actually cuts off in the middle of "creative".)
Why is this a bonus? Because this is the chapter in which the yogi shows that metal is alive...
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I'm starting a cleanup effort for the first six games' pages, if you'd like to help or give feedback, please do so here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16550680110A22093300&page=1#1
Thank you.