08-24-2014, 10:04 PM | #1 |
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Five Nights at Freddy's
Wikipedia Steam There appear to be a number of YouTubers, both high and low profile, who are playing this one jumpscare horror game called Five Nights at Freddy's. The spoiler-free premise of the game is as follows: you've been hired by a local pizzeria to be their night watchman. They want you to work the nightshift, from 12am to 6am, for the next five days. Rather than call them a "pizzeria," they're more like a Chuck E. Cheese / Show Biz, one of those children's arcade-pizzeria hybrids with the animatronic mascots and such. So it's a rather large building with a kitchen, a dining room, and so on. It even has a security suite proper for you to monitor the grounds from! So what's the catch? The catch, the player finds out very soon (Day 1), is that there is something very wrong with these animatronic mascots. It's your job to keep them from reaching the security room -- and they do so want to reach it and meet you. There are more details beyond this, some of which are revealed as the player advances through the days (levels), others of which were apparently not revealed until the game's creator explained things on the wiki. (So sayeth many a YouTube commenter. *shrug*) I don't want to spoil people if they don't want to be spoiled; if you do, I guess what I'll say is "Just go ahead and read the YouTube comments." Most reliable way to spoil yourself on anything, right? There are loads of people asking there what the heck is going on and loads more who are eager to share their findings from the wiki. I mentioned that the game is currently trending with a lot of Let's Players on YouTube. The one that YouTube recommends when you type in "five nights at freddy's" is Markiplier's. You can catch Part 1 of his playthrough here. I found his playthrough to be generally enjoyable. I don't follow Markiplier but I have seen videos of his before. He seems like a jolly, kind fellow and I think that lends itself well to this video series. He's also very noisy -- always making some sort of noise or comment with his voice -- and I think that that too actually lends itself well to this video series, believe it or not. Normally I hate it when LPers talk incessantly during their playthrus, and for horror games in particular (like Fatal Frame 2, say) I feel like it's ruinous to the atmosphere. But for this specific game, it worked really well. It morphed the series into something very much like voyeur television. So I guess what I'd say is that if you don't like voyeur TV then maybe go look for someone else's playthru. ^^; But if you want to watch a guy get the ever-loving crap scared out of him, then this is a pretty good one. If you're highly susceptible to jump scares, I'd suggest staying away from this one. As far as its horror is concerned, the game is maybe 5% other, 95% jump scares. If I had to compare this video game with a board game, it would definitely be Perfection by Milton Bradley.
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08-25-2014, 02:16 PM | #2 |
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Game Grumps are also doing a playthrough with Arin, Suzy and Barry (the three remaining original Grump-related members) if that's more your speed.
EDIT: Barry's reactions are super adorable btw. xd Last edited by Jerichi; 08-25-2014 at 09:05 PM. |
09-03-2014, 02:46 PM | #3 |
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This one is pretty damn funny.
If you're not familiar with Phantoml0rd he's primarily a high ranked league of legends player and one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, mainly for his childish sense of humour and his tendency to rage and break his headphones when things don't go his way. I've been following him for a while, he's hilarious. |
09-22-2014, 02:51 PM | #4 |
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when ur looking at the laptop too long and ur friends come in to help u get dressed
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09-22-2014, 03:28 PM | #5 |
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So I actually beat FNaF a while back, including the bonus nights on 20/20/20/20. Still enjoy it though, even knowing how to beat it it still scares the crap out of me. Especially when I take way too long trying to find Fazbear himself.
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10-24-2014, 07:52 AM | #6 |
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So, Matthew Patrick of Game Theory, my Youtube mancrush, has posited this on what Five Nights is really all about. I think it's pretty interesting and the similarities between Five Nights and the incident he discusses are way too numerous to be completely coincidental. What do you guys think?
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10-24-2014, 11:12 AM | #7 | |
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But let's give him a fair shake with this new theory of his. Spoiler: show Overall, I think he did a decent job at supporting his case with evidence. In fact, I would say that it's quite possible (if not probable) that the person who made Five Nights at Freddy's is a Coloradoan familiar with the story the Game Theorist references. After all, why a Chuck E. Cheese? Why the number five? Why the dark kitchen camera? So on and so forth. I just wish that he'd examine some of the holes in his theories as well. It feels a little childish that he's afraid of drawing attention to the evidence that works against his theories. He should realize that people are going to spot those problem areas anyway and he should instead take ownership of them. "I'll admit that A throws a wrench in the works. And so does B. And even C a little. But you guys gotta admit that D, E, F, and G sure do seem like an awful lot of coincidences. :o" They do, GT. They do. I doubt he cares that much to do it, but it would be interesting if he contacted the creators of the works he theorizes about to ask them if he's on the right track with his theories. In cases like the Rosalina-Peach theory, I very much doubt that Nintendo would ever confirm he is right were he right before they unveiled it themselves in a future game. But in the case of Five Nights at Freddy's, who knows? At the very least the creator of the game might be willing to confirm that he is in fact from Colorado or that he had indeed heard of the story before that the GT references.
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11-11-2014, 04:13 AM | #8 |
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So Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is out and if the first game made you shit yourself the second one is 1000 times more horrifying and suspenseful.
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11-11-2014, 10:06 AM | #9 |
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I'm fourteen and a half minutes into Markiplier's first episode of FN@F 2. From what I've seen so far ...
The new Chica is way, way less scary than the old Chica. Since anyone playing/watching this game is trained to expect jump scares, the fact that her jump scare is a visual downgrade from the original Chica's jump scare is a problem. The new Bonnie is likewise less scary. The new character is probably the least scary looking of the bunch. Too far removed from human or anthropomorphic animal faces. The changes to the game ... I initially thought that taking away the ability to close doors and replacing it with the Freddie Fazbear mask made the game slightly less scary. However, since Mark's efforts so far have revealed that the mask is a far inferior safety net, I find that opinion changing. There was rarely any psychological terror in closing a door in the first game if you were an expert energy manager. It was a pretty solid safety blanket. The mask on the other hand is like a perverse double-edged sword of a present: sure you buy yourself safety against Threat A, but you also invite danger from Threat B. The addition of a third location you must check in the security room -- the area right in front of you -- definitely increases the game's difficulty. Not sure that it increases the terror though. The music box likewise increases the game's difficulty but doesn't seem to add much in the way of terror. It basically feels like the new Pirate Cove. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ On the topic of the Game Theory video that S_o_S linked, it seems the sequel takes a small shit on it: your paycheck in the sequel is only about $100, which would translate to only $4/hr if you assume 5 hours per day x 5 days. Which lines up with the Game Theorist's quoted amount ... but falls $20 short of the first game's paycheck. Can't have it both ways: either you were paid over minimum wage in FN@F 1 (which destabilizes his premise) or else you're somehow being paid beneath minimum wage now. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Rooting for Mark to kick the game's ass, but so far it's frustrating to watch him lose and for neither of us to know why he's losing or what it is that he has to do to win.
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So, the first night is not even remotely scary in comparison to the rest of the game.
Why? Because on the first night you only have to worry about a grand total of 4 animatronics. On every night AFTER the first, there is a total of 11. And none of them look anywhere near as cute and cuddly as Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, and Toy Freddy. Also, Mannequin, the one that killed Markiplier the first time, is one of the few ways the game makes sure you're not constantly wearing the mask. The music box that you have to wind up keeps Mannequin busy, and only Mannequin busy. If you forget to wind it, Mannequin will instantly come after you, and ignores the mask. |
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Also, that was his second death, not his first. First death was to Toy Chica.
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The game itself literally explains it on the intro to the first night. XD
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2. The game did not establish that character as "Mannequin." Mark himself goes on to assume that it is a toy version of a fearsome white animal animatronic we see on a poster along with Old Chica, Old Bonnie, and Old Freddie. But you've now established that it is a character named Mannequin who exists apart from the animals. So no. No "XD" for you.
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The other one: Spoiler: show There are a few Easter eggs like last year too: Spoiler: show Quote:
DO NOT READ THIS SPOILER UNLESS YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW PLOT: Spoiler: show ----------- There's something else I realized too. Spoiler: show Last edited by CyberBlastoise; 11-17-2014 at 05:57 PM. |
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11-18-2014, 01:50 PM | #17 |
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Finished watching Markiplier's playthrough of FN@F 2 the other night. (I thought he said in an early video that it was just a demo? Seems to me like it's the entire game!) So ... thoughts!
Spoiler: show All in all, I'm glad to have seen it. It was fun to cheer Mark on. He truly is "the King of Five Nights at Freddy's". Spoiler: show
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Watched Mark play FNAF3 yesterday and today. Thoughts:
Spoiler: show Two episodes into Mark's playthrough of FNAF4. Thoughts: Spoiler: show We'll see what I think of 4 by game's end. But for now, these are my thoughts!
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