/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

Enjoy your lonely thread faggot

What is this about?

It's an indy horror game about animatronic animals trying to kill you. This isn't a good OP.

>>189359
And neither is it a good game, so it's only fitting, I guess.

>>189361
Well you are just a bundle of fun.

>>189364
More fun than the game at the very least.

//youtube.com/watch?v=iOztnsBPrAA

its interesting idea, reminds me a bit of Night Trap

It does connect more when a person has a direct connection //youtube.com/watch?v=qDHNBdkPS7c
//youtube.com/watch?v=NOY5scO7aUY

Freddy and Company vs Rock-afire and Showbiz now that would be battle. One that dispensed and decided to feed on children and the other that stood with them until their final days.

>>189370
I was thinking the same. Looks kind of cool. I may get it, it's only $5 after all.

>>189570
its interesting that you have to start listening to the sound cues as much as the cameras as the week goes.

>Chica always comes from the right side, Bonnie always comes from the left. Freddy comes from the right side also.
>when a bot enters or leaves the hallway, you will ALWAYS hear footsteps.
>you can't hear Chica or Bonnie moving outside the hallway, although I'm not sure about Freddy
>Chica is the one moving pots and pans in the kitchen, if you hear that, she's in there
>Freddy is the one playing music and laughing, this usually means he's in the kitchen as well
>Freddy is the hardest bot to see, you can recognize him by his glowing eyes.
>the dub-dub-dum voice is Foxy. He's probably getting bold, so you should check on him!
>checking on Foxy frequently prevents him from entering his active state
>if Foxy is missing, you must check the Outer Hall to get him to bang on your door and reset his kill timer
>Chica must move to the outer hall, then to the inner hall, and THEN to your blindspot to get to you, meaning that if she isn't in any of those spaces you shouldn't check the right door unless you've heard footsteps 3 times.
>Bonnie is FAST. She is able to move from the Dining Room, Outer Hall and Supply Closet to your blind spot in only one turn! Always check your left blind spot when you hear footsteps. I'm not sure if she is able to do this from Backstage or not. Assuming she must follow the same movement rules as Chica (and I'm not sure about this), that means she can move at least 3 spaces in one "turn!"
>I don't think I've ever seen Bonnie in the bathroom, I'm not sure she can go in it, but I have seen Chica and Freddy in there
>Bonnie's kill timer once she's in your blindspot seems to be shorter than the other bots, you don't have much time to react, especially on later nights
>I've never seen Freddy in the blindspot except when the power goes out, I suspect he can enter your office from the inner hall without going through it.
>if the lights or doors aren't working, you're fucked.

What makes this game truly terrifying is that unlike most horror games where you have places to hide or run, or defend yourself, here you just sit there and wait for them to come to you. Claustrophobia sets in pretty quickly, and the intensity of keeping your power up makes it a pretty scary experience.

But it's true, after Night 3 the novelty starts to wear off. I think it's the graphics tbh. Everything being prerendered removes some of the uncanney valley scare factor. That and the screamers are cheap.

>>189589
I think either actual songs or maybe actual camera movement could help things, Also more Lore to the place. More info on the murder and maybe them looking more as described as the week goes on "oozing blood and mucus"

http://picosong.com/c7W5/

>>189628
Would've been better if it was kid-friendly with subtle disturbing undertones.

>>189628
...

...Is there any context to this?

>>189645
Gauging from the subject its someones idea of a song similar to what they'd sing as part of their sets. Its two voices one being "Mike" and the other being Chica either them singing it while Listening to Chica in the kitchen or them attempting to buy time after being captured, but the end being what it is.

Speaking of the Animatroincs The Rock-Afire Explosion Setup used for Showbiz before it was phased out and both brands united under Chuck E Cheese was a lot more complex and advanced than the Pretty Shit Chuck E Cheese ones. The Code they used for these things in programming their shows must be something for them to still be able to work new material into them now.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Hx37dCMi29w

Think Aaron Fechter would be into making a Freddy or one of the other friends. Though it might be dangerous as they'd actually be move to move about now most likely with tech upgrades to the already pretty advanced systems.

//youtube.com/watch?v=jKq4IQVos58

HA HA HA AMAZING

>>189649
>People keep posting this
>It's shit

>>189657
No it's not, it's funny, cr1tikal is TOTALLY UNFAZED by the game, I certainly couldn't do that.

Plus the pineapple piss story had me in stitches.

//youtube.com/watch?v=s5GfhGFVCFE

Four Twenty mode, blaze it.

Oh so this is where all the new cyborg furry comes from.
GG, keep trucking!

>>189731
Yep looks like this game crosses some wires and ends up in a odd place. I think the Android port will end with a lot of broken tablets.

Didn't expect the person who created this made some other games before, much less that two of them at least have some action to them, and that they're both multi-genre games starring a coffee pot. One of them's a free download, so I guess I have no reason not to try it out sometime.

As for Freddy's itself, my hopes got up when I first heard of it, since I thought it was going to be some kind of point and click adventure where you need to evade animatronics while you explore, like they were the raptors from Jurassic Park or something. Not sure I'm so interested in what it is.

//youtube.com/watch?v=PmYG90Azlkg

>>189782
First question is what I thought when I heard the introduction. Though based on discussion I've read of the animatronics being haunted, and the win screen for the secret custom night being a note that you're fired for tampering with them despite just locking them out, I'd guess that guards are actually hired as a sacrifice to placate spirits. Hence, those that can survive are of no use to the company.

>>189809
Looks like there's quite a few neat little touches that I didn't notice from just checking to see how it played. interesting how the endoskeleton and suit both have their own set of teeth, and how there's no spare Foxy parts.

>>189821

[spoilers]I'd assumed that that notice was because you had 'tamperted' with them by changing their AI for bonus night.[/spoilers]

>>189809
The fuck is going on in this picture?

>>189825
I know, right? Why would there be an employees only sign above the door on the employees-only side?

>>189825
A reason to keep the brightness turned down, clearly.

>>189809

Wait a second...

That's a suitless exo-skeleton right there!

If their job is to try and stuff you into a suit why do they leave that one alone!?

>>189707
Wow.

Wow.

He's hot.

>>189832
Well, that is the backroom and technically the only employees only area, they might just let it take its time changing?

>>189833
And he cries of horror are so cute too~

Also a buddy at the local gaming club show me this:
//youtube.com/watch?v=QZz29mz3jSw
AHHAHA, man, I want to see this with all the things Rule 34 has ruined.
Yes ALL of it!

>They can sabotage the lights and doors

Well shit.

>>189900
I know +4Chan has lot of furries around here, and there's no other place to make a thread for SFW furry video game fanart, but could we not turn this thread into a dumping ground for this stuff?

>>189901
Not him but look at every thread here, they probably have a ton of fanart. This is no different, except it's furry, something you don't like.

>>189903
They don't. Plus4chan doesn't have loads of fanart dumps.

>>189903
I actually don't care about furry either way and enjoy the nonsexual stuff perfectly fine as long as it's not nonfurry->furry-ization stuff. I just don't want it to end up like the threads on /co/. And aside from the single Awesome Video Game Art thread which was made specifically as a dumping ground, most posts of fanart in /cog/ are accompanied with some sort of comment or discussion.

>>189905
This isn't a load of fanart. There's 4 in this entire thread so far, counting OP. The VGCats comic doesn't even count. Face it, you're just annoyed because it's slightly furry.

>>190034
You cut off like three panels from that comic.

>>190034
>>190035
Went to the url in the image, and can't find any Freddy comics on that tumblr. Is it hosted somewhere else?

>>190158
I got it from here:
https://e621.net/pool/show/4646
Just know its a NSFW site.

Managed to find it there, but there's no mention of other stuff by that artist.
Figured out how to find the art tag on the tumblr site, though.
http://toastydoodles.tumblr.com/tagged/my-arts

>>190351
Like "The Bride of Foxy" and Such. Both a fucked up and touching bit that one. Don't shake the baby.

//youtube.com/watch?v=tGo16GG9qTA

>>190446
Aaaaand now it's dead.

>>190447
sequel is coming out next year. It'll be fine. Oh these children with no knowledge of the greatness of Showbiz.

I really don't care for the whole backstory of how the animatronics became haunted or why the pizzeria is shutting down. I don't even care to know what the puppets will do to me if they catch me. Explaining any of that makes them less scary. This is something where I feel the less said, the better. It doesn't add anything to the game. It's like explaining the origins of Slenderman, like come on, do you REALLY need to know that?

For me, this game's appeal relies on one thing and one thing only: the novelty of a Chuck E Cheese horror game. The animatronics are scary because the viewer was frightened of animatronics as a child. No amount of story is going to add anything to that.

>>190645
>the viewer was frightened of animatronics as a child
That's totally relatable.

Disney just did two shows that featured both the love and fear of those suckers.

Though some do love to know the lore. Its likely why its off to the side and you have to actually do screencaps to read those parts.

>>190696
Jesus fuck.

>>190696
>Lipstick

>>190697

Yea someone saw that comic I think

>>190747

OH GOD NO

Oh no, now they actually move other than Foxy, we'll I'm gonna run. Wonder if the suit is just to drag those last minutes.

//youtube.com/watch?v=lVPONdZBh6s

NO FUCKING DOORS

WE'RE ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE

Oh, and here's the kicker to the game's new mechanic.

See, you have a Freddy mask to hide behind now. It'll fool the old bots, but the new bots have facial recognition software; presumably, if they see you with the mask on, they'll think of you as an unrecognized bot and take you out. (After all, why would the new bots have any grudges against people?)

So it becomes a matter of knowing when to put on the mask, especially since confrontation is inevitable.

>>190894
Nnnnice validation there, Scottie.

>>190898
So we're also in the middle of a Robot War. Looks like Foxy Lady was one of the first casualties.

>>190904

Well, that might not be entirely true. Take a closer look at the pictures on the wall at the start of the FNAF2 trailer: it looks like kids ripped apart New!Foxy, if those images are to be trusted. (Another thing to note: there's a kid's drawing of Gold Freddy in the office, as well as a drawing of an unidentified black figure in the pictures at the start of the trailer.)

Now let's go back to the first game. You have to stop the old bots from getting into the office because they'll think you're a robot without a suit and shove you inside one until you are dead. It's the reason you have the Freddy Fazbear mask this time around: to stop the old bots.

Since you have to keep the mask off to stop the new bots (or so it would seem), what could their reaction possibly be to seeing you with the mask on? They could see you as a suit without an exoskeleton in it and decide to "fill the suit". I'll let you imagine how. Enjoy that nightmare of a mental image, by the way.

//youtube.com/watch?v=th_LYe97ZVc

>>190932
Wow, usually I don't take Mat's theories seriously, but I think this might be right on the money.

>>190932
I was watching this one at 2AM in near darkness thinking it was nothing.

That was a mistake.

>>190937
Welp I'm not ever working anywhere late at night.

>>190932
The game being inspired by that real life crime is a strong possibility, but what we've been told about the next game pretty well rules out the other theory: Mike isn't the player character anymore, he canonically survives long enough to get moved to the day shift.

>>190943
Of course one must also remember that FNAF2 is a result of Scott becoming a sellout.

>>190944
Haaahahah

Oh anon.
Pfft.
You silly billy.

>>190943 — Or so your bosses say, anyway. "Day shift" could just be a euphemism for something far more sinister.

>>190944 — LOLwut

>>191267

Well that's just fucking frightening. I wonder how the fuck it's going to attack—and how you have to defend.

If they actually move, I don't think anyone will be able to play the game. Too busy cowering in corners.

//youtube.com/watch?v=60wLvPWXCCc

Fyi, the reason Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is out is just because the dev was mad about indieDB's demo policy so he just put it out.

Scott, you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK. (And then promptly lost sleep for a week.)

Playguide to 5N@F2:
http://gifsound.com/?gif=i.4cdn.org/vg/1415704532273.gif&v=M-otEdq-Ozo

Wait what? It's out? I thought the release date was 2015, that was fast.

>>191340

He changed it to December 2014, then apparently didn't want to wait to release a demo version, so he said "fuck it have it now".

BY THE WAY. Spoiler-iffic post detailing solid facts (and speculation based on said facts) about the FNAF2 story and how it connects to the first game: http://officialbeam.tumblr.com/post/102356405890/

>>191342
Deepest lore or deepested lore?

>>191352

I'm amazed that he managed to hide it so well. I don't think anyone suspected that twist.

This rings with the Showbiz to Chuck E Cheese switchover as the Chuck Animatronics were simpler and less complex (less costly) to Operate. Which also happened in the late '80s. I could see Five Nights 3 Taking place at one of those surreal unlincensed joints that survived. Characters Rehashed into different ones in bag wigs and such.

>>191342
OH MY FUCKING GOD SCOTT.

>>191359

I'm gonna say "the thing I'll see in my nightmares for a week".

>>191359
Could that be the thing from the minigame?

>>191361
Yea those ears don't line up with any of the suits

>>191359
>>191361
Could these be the same thing? There's an apparent size difference, though...

>>191370

It’s possible, though what they could be is anyone's guess. I don't recall hearing about any death scenes involving those things. (I don't even know if you see the suitless endoskeleton anywhere else in the game.)

>>191363
>minigame?
Speaking of - what's the Speak and Spell saying in those?
I understood one of them: Save The (?)

I usually hate the matpat game theories but boy am I looking forward to this one.

>>191373
Could be anything, from what we see in those eight bit "Memories"? Purple Dude started preying on children in and around Freddy's Part of the Core Programming in the Robots seems to be "Protect the Children" which I think make go as after as 'borging the ones that were killed.

It annoys me that there's actually an argument over whether this is a sequel or a prequel, when it practically spells out that it's a prequel.

I miss when putting a 2 on the end didn't automatically mean it HAD to be a sequel, and when you didn't have to put a 0 or a subtitle at the end for it not to be.

>>191381

For some weird reason, people don't want to believe the game's a prequel. The evidence is too fucking solid to point towards any other conclusion, though.

>>191374

One says SAVE THEM, one says SAVE HIM, one says HELP THEM

>>191386
Robots Programming looks to include code for protecting the children to an extreme degree. Listening to the calls it seems to hint that in the area there has been a rampant child abduction epidemic of some sort and Freddy's is like the last stronghold that kids have for safety. But when that is violated by the purple man(?) The Robots get twitchy and start suspecting every adult of wrong doing. Hence our Freddy 2 Guard I suspect being the Victim of The Bite from an over protective Foxy. Feels like something out of that German Satire Game. Terminators Dressed as Mascot Animals to protect kids from predators.

>>191396
From what I know, the Purple Man is supposed to be the Day Shift guard who stops Freddy from stopping the murders, thus making them blame the Night Guard as well.

Kinda surreal, I'd not gone into this seeing Freddy and Co as tragic figures, but here we are.

>>191432

I'd say that depends on who's actually responsible for the child murders and why the Bite of '87 happened. There's still enough ambiguity in the story to leave questions about the tragic nature of the bots open for debate. FNAF2 leaves loads of new questions to be answered (specifically about Balloon Boy, the Puppet, and the new hallucinations).

Until Scott either confirms or denies specific theories, any plot point not explicitly spelled out in the games or already confirmed by Scott is open for speculation.

I wish Scott would just say it's a prequel to make people shut the fuck up.

>>191440
What? And tarnish the fan support his product?
His series isn't that solidly established yet.

>>191440

If some people can't put 2 and 2 together, why should he have to tell them that it's 4?

>>191442
Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Tokyo Shift.

"WELCOME TO YOUR FIRST NIGHT AT FAZBEAR-HIMATO INTERNATIONAL WACKY FUNTIME PIZZERIA."

>>191443

Freddy's Five

Speaking of which, wouldn't a more appropriate game tile be "Six Nights at Freddy's"?
It would lose the alliterative title but the 2 doesn't help either.

Cos, unlike the first one, where the 6nd and 7rd nights were a bonus, the 6st night is actually part of the story.

>>191447
Well part of that is we are clearly not supposed to be there on the sixth night.

>>191455

Yeah, Phone Guy is pretty clear about that in the Night Six call.

I love how FNAF isn't so much a video game as it is an ARG.

>>191506
It's more about layers or detective work than being an ARG, since it lacks the interactivity (so far) that come with ARGs. You have stories and bits to decipher, and stuff like >>191502 which is super fucking creepy/awesome.

It reminds me a lot of the Gamecube game Eternal Darkness. The game could be scary/stressful in its own right, but it would then fuck with your head, making it seem like your TV had turned off, or the game had horribly glitched, or your save file was being deleted. This stuff is more indirect, though you do have the 8-bit games after you die sometimes.

I personally hope there's a lot more stuff uncovered like this.

>>191510

Didn't Scott have nightmares about one of the characters while he was working on the first game?

//youtube.com/watch?v=WQCQ9r0XJKI

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE BEAT 10/20.

>>191495
Exactly. It's at least acknowledged in game as something more than just a bonus.

>>191525

Hell if I know.

Maybe Freddy 3 will be an even further Prequel back to Freddy's Family Diner or whatever the predecessor was.

>>191546

I’m not so sure it’ll be another prequel, but I do think it’ll answer any lingering questions about The Bite, the Missing Children Incident, and what roles The Puppet and The Purple Man may have played in both. FNAF2 dropped enough hints to make sure FNAF3 could wrap up the mystery with some big reveals.

The big question on my mind is how the hell Scott could top FNAF2—and end the FNAF story to boot. How do you bring this series to a close without, say, some sort of ‘final boss’ or endgame climax scene?

>>191547
Yeah, I'm kinda stumped as to how the gameplay could expand. Adding more animatronics (I hate that word, can't we just say "robots"?) seems kinda redundant.

>>191549

Could Evolve into a Night Trap style affair. Where you have to trigger traps, doors and such to keep them from the outside or just from getting to the office. Kinda like the GMOD version that had the power room you had to reset when it went down.

>>191549
They ARE robots.
An animatronic is an automata with reprogramable animations.
Fred and friends can roam freely and have simple artificial inteligence.
They are just called animatronics because that is what Showbiz/Chuck-e have irl.

>>191558
But it's so long and awkward and technical.

>>191560
It's also more innocent. "Robots" can easily bring to mind killer robots, especially in the context of a horror games. But animatronics are things we know from Chuck-e-Cheese and Disney World; a tad unsettling, perhaps, but not something that would fill you with dread. Well, until now.

The line "Robots have come alive and are killing people!" sounds more mundane than "Animatronics have come alive and are killing people!"

Ya know what a robot screaming in mortal, existential terror at it's own existence sounds like?
>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>191591
Thank any deity that this isn't animated. Why is it that Foxy while looking the most menacing isn't the most frighting.

>>191593
It's the Bluth way.

>191593
Foxy doesn't seem the most messed up. Menacing is part of Foxy's stage character anyway, so violence is somewhat natural. Bonnie on the other hand is a purple bunny and also the most similar to Freddy, possibly being somewhat in his shadow. I could see Bonnie putting in the extra effort to do stuff like rearrange the heads in an attempt to keep up with the others and build a more distinct identity.

>>191605
Holy shit, Disney needs to hire this dude.

>>191606
Dunno if he's THAT good.

Why is Chica yellow? No matter if she's a chicken or a duck yellow feathers are reserved for babies while her character looks like she's supposed to be grown up.
>Ornithologist tears

>>191612
I dunno, the bib and the different colored thighs always made me think she was supposed to be an adult baby

>>191614
Adult-sized baby, rather

//youtube.com/watch?v=l18A5BOTlzE

Think of they were voiced they would be less scary than coming at you with those children wails

>>191622
I thought the children wails were just Balloon Boy.

I could see some animated shorts of these. Course they all end in tragedy for the child companion.

>>191636
>assuming a child companion
>assuming they're not outside of your guard room trying to persuade you to open the door via showtunes

>>191637
That would be the end credit song. After the downfall.

I can't help but wonder if the Purple Man was a person, or an evil spirit.

>>191640
People keep saying its the Day Shift guard.
The one who Didn't See Anything Unusual while kids were disappearing.

>>191640
>>191642
Other people are saying it's Phone Guy, because there's an image of the purple man holding a phone.

http://theycallhimcake.tumblr.com/post/102393096763/shoo

>>191654
//youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5c3Qtcr_w
They lack something on their animation that makes it creepy.

Look, I know you like this game, but could you PLEASE save the fanart dumps for the appropriate thread(s)? There's no point in continuing to bump a thread if you don't actually have anything to talk about.

>>191886
Well there is a rumor, FnaF3

>>191886
It's not like this board is so busy that active threads are fighting for a position on the front page. Where's the harm in people posting fanart in the thread dedicated to the property the fanart is for?

a new song by the living tombstone
//youtube.com/watch?v=gk-aCL6eyGc

>>191935

Is that confirmed as his actual Twitter? Does he even have one?

>>191935
Ok, so they're going exactly where /vg/'s 5N@FG wanted to go after the first game. Hopefully this one isn't a rush job like 2.

>>191936
According to the Wikia, he has state he does not have a Twitter account.

While we're figuring out if >>191935 is real or not, Game Theory has another Freddy theory for you.

//youtube.com/watch?v=d1kw1RmzrPc

>>192025
I expected something more cringe inducing.
May be it was because he had a plain voice most of the time instead of the over joyed one he has used other times.

http://kotaku.com/five-nights-at-freddys-fan-game-makes-disney-characters-1670549728

Good lord.

>>192099
Makes sense, good old creepy pasta

>>192099
Night 2 is out already and there are some people have done Lets Play footage of the first one.
How long before Gisnep takes it down?

>>192099
>Forget Chuck-e-Cheese-like animatronics. Those are already a little bit creepy on their own. Corrupting Disney characters, however, is the go-to subject for every art major.
Fixed for accuracy.

>>192310

Now I have to know: what would The Mangle look like?

>>192315
it's right here >>191695

>>192348
On the first night of Freddy's, my true love gave to me...

>>192363
A stuffing in a spare suit.

On the second night of Freddy's, my true love gave to me... Two crazy wolves, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

On the third night of Freddy's, my true love gave to me... Three phonecalls, two crazy wolves, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

Got nothing for the rest

On the fourth night of Freddy’s, my true love gave to me… Four music boxes, three phonecalls, two crazy wolves, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

On the fifth night of Freddy’s, my true love gave to me… FIVE GOLDEN BEARS! Four music boxes, three phonecalls, two crazy wolves, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

On the sixth night of Freddy’s, my true love gave to me… Six party hats, FIVE GOLDEN BEARS! Four music boxes, three phonecalls, two crazy wolves, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

>>192364
>two crazy wolves

Fuck I forgot Foxy was a fox, not a wolf. I thought I was being clever.

>>192366

We can always change it.

On the seventh night of Freddy's, my true love gave to me… Seven lousy paychecks, six party hats, FIVE GOLDEN BEARS! Four music boxes, three phonecalls, two crazy foxes, and a stuffing in a spare suit.

>>192367
See, but I was adhering to the original syllables. Oh well.

And because the game only has seven nights, I decided to collect the whole thing on mah Tumblr. I gave you two anons credit and reblogged Orlandofox’s image (which inspired this little bit of fun) to ‘add’ it to the post.

http://stephentstone.tumblr.com/post/106313049008/reblog-seven-nights-of-freddys

>>192452
>>192453
Hype

>>192453
>>192452

I know the game is relatively simple, but he's pushing these things out in a hurry isn't he.

>>192456
When the game is THAT simple we are getting them at a moderated pace.

>>192456
>>192459
It's necessary, the internet can only stay interested in FNaF for so long.

It's funny how nobody really cares about the game/scares anymore, they just want to see where the story goes.

>>192462
How long until Telltale FNAF?

>>192463
by Platinum

>>192462
The gameplay gets ultra-simple fast, and becomes mainly about twitch reaction. FNAF2 required almost no use of the cameras, except to wind the music box. The death scares are all the same, just changing who jumps at you. The real fun is in the death mini-games that were creepy as FUCK and the Hallucinations, things that are far more story-driven.

I'm hoping he shies away from jump scares and tries to do more psychological horror, where the animatronics appear in different ways or do different things before the jump scare. Imagine that you pull down the monitor and there are just two paws covering the majority of your screen, with a creepy voice saying "guess who". I understand that he is able to do these solo and quickly because the games are mostly pre-rendered static images, but that gets old fast.

>>192462

Yea most just want to continue down this Rabbit Hole. And see the likes of Markiplier play it.

>>192462

Having never played the games (because my rig is a years-old piece of shit), I'm mainly in this for the story. And I want to see how it ends (or in this case, ‘begins’).

>>192524

Possibly both

>>192524
>Having never played the games (because my rig is a years-old piece of shit)

Dude, it's pre-rendered static images. An N64 could run it.

>>192532

Even when I bought it, my rig wasn’t built for gaming, y’dig? I can barely run YouTube videos at 360p without some stuttering these days.

>>192568
My autism demands they actually line up more with their personalities. Like, Freddy would be above Leo since he's the leader, and Foxy is above Raph since he's more aggressive.

>>192620

HE IS STILL THERE…

BTW, noticed something about the new teaser image.

Scott essentially rewrote over each previous teaser image by uploading them with the same filename. He's not doing that this time; fnaf3.jpg is still up.

The filename for the new teaser image: whatcanweuse.jpg

>>192620
>>192621
Can somebody lighten them up?

>>192627

I’ve seen a super-brightened version of it; there's nothing there that’s not visible in the slightly-brighter version from >>192620 (you see a tiny bit more of Golden Freddy, but not enough to make a difference).

A few bits of info gleamed from other sources:

>Scott is hiding messages in the source code of his site. At some point during the "offline" period, the "keywords" meta tag included the keywords "30 years later" and "only one" in the content. Right now, the only keywords are "I remain".
>Note the contents of the box in whatcanweuse.jpg: Foxy's hook is there.
>If you play with the brightness/color levels of fnaf3.jpg, you'll see two unusual details about Golden Freddy: there's blood in certain spots and the eyes have veins. The only other time we a set of eyes with veins in an animatronic suit is the Game Over screen for FNAF1—where, presumably, Mike’s been stuffed into a suit.

//youtube.com/watch?v=U6QWh5OKOLY

>>192639
Of course the phone guy was stuffed into a suit too. And according to MatPat's theory, he's the kid killer. So maybe it's him.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/10005-Five-Nights-at-Freddys-and-This-War-of-Mine-Review?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Welp.

>>192751
>Implying people at the scapist has the power of making good arguments

>>192751
...What? Usually I hold Yahtzee to a fair level of criticism, but he is literally criticizing it for being too scary.

>>192751
Aw yeah, This War of Mine RULES.

>>192757
Also he said that he doesn't like it, which is distinct from saying it's bad. It does precisely what it sets out to do and does it well, but that doesn't mean that he, or I, or anyone really automatically want to play it. I respect Freddy's for taking an untried concept and executing well it with minimal resources just as I respect the entire Eastern Bloc's dedication to recreating old airplane control panels switch by switch, but I've no personal desire to play either one.

>>192759
I play horror games to shit my pants. I thought that was the reason people played them and enjoyed them, but apparently not.

>>192760
It's what happens when you review games for a living and are told you need to make a go at everything popular for the sake of business, and that's not taking into account being typecast as a nigh-unpleaseable cynic.

>>192760
That's why I avoid horror games. I just can't take it. Hell, even Ravenholm in Half Life 2 was pushing my limits. I really enjoy the universe he's building, though, and watching LPs of people shitting themselves is also fun. (I bought FNAF because I enjoyed the LPs but will never play it.)

You know, you play a security guard, ostensibly to keep people from getting in the place than from getting the place to get at people. It would be interesting if the third game included actual burglars and you have to guide them out before the animatronics stuff them in.

>>192751
Sounds like he actually enjoyed the game, honestly. Seems like one of those cases of "I'm a big Metroid fan, but I've never even come near 90% completion."
Which is mainly me, but hopefully that comes across.

>glance to the side
>"On the PC Master Race and the Language Police"
>notthisshittuagen.png
>actually read the article.
Well that actually wasn't as bad as it could've been, all things considered.

//youtube.com/watch?v=hdHlIy0W4uU

JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT A GOLDEN BONNIE

>>192857
So rather than expanding on the gameplay he seems to be keeping with the "alone and stationary in a room" angle. Bit disappointed, but I'll see where it goes. Hopefully he spends more time with it than 2. Especially when it comes to play-testing because holy hell 2 was just a chore grind simulator with a jump scare when you didn't do things just so right.

THE OFFICIAL STEAM GREENLIGHT DESCRIPTION:

>Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great lengths to find anything that might have survived decades of neglect and ruin.

>At first there were only empty shells, a hand, a hook, an old paper-plate doll, but then a remarkable discovery was made...

>The attraction now has one animatronic.

>>192861
Seems the story's amping up!

Though it does seem Scott is at least trying out something new with the game. If there's something Five Nights needs is a little refinement on the gameplay side. The story's great - but you gotta give a reason as to why this is a videogame and not marathon.bungie.org.

>Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors

So, modern times, then?
This is gonna be interesting.

>it's animated
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

>>192864
>what if ‘Golden Bonnie’ isn’t Bonnie at all—what if it’s a combination of parts from all the animatronics? It would explain the whatcanweuse filename, the box of animatronics parts seen in both that teaser image and the trailer, and the ‘one animatronic’ bit in the description.
Yes; the description doesn't say the <i>found</i> one animatronic, only that it <i>has</i> one animatronic. My theory is that [spoiler]they found the empty shells and Puppet; Puppet now changes in and out of shells, taking on the personality of the shell its wearing. Being an attraction, I bet there are rails that other shells can move on, so you have to not only see someone coming but be able to tell if it's a shell or Puppet[/spoilers]

I like how there's that giant window so you can see *something* coming down the lone hall to you, which means that just because you see them coming doesn't mean you'll necessarily have time to react. Also, the monitors don't take up the entire screen, but from the teaser images they might be in fixed locations (so you have to look at a specific direction to use them.)

I hope this is the last one.

>>192870
Why do you say that, anon?

>>192874
It's not so much that as I don't think the series can go any further after this. FNAF 2 added twice as many enemies and expanded the story by a lot. FNAF 3 is set as a sequel to FNAF 1 and this time there's only 1 animatronic and one entrance to the room. It's really the only way Scott could go for another sequel, it's basically the Alien-Aliens-Alien 3 situation all over again.

>>192876

No, they’re games, but all three feel(/will feel) similar in gameplay without any real evolution of the gameplay, which has given rise to "END THE SERIES NOW" talk. A fourth one would have to feel drastically different to avoid being seen as a blatant cashgrab instead of a "proper" sequel.

The real popularity of the FNAF series really lies in its backstory—or specifically, how the lack of details in the backstory gave rise to fans sharing theories about what happened. FNAF2 gave everyone a shitload more meat to dig into thanks chiefly its status as a prequel that takes place before The Bite of '87, but it still left a lot of questions open to debate. For people who haven’t even played the game (like me), the story and its mysteries have become the real allure: we want to resolve all the open plot points of FNAF lore, and we can't do that without a new game. (Or unless Scott just delivers the Word of God about the backstory.)

A new teaser image is up: http://www.scottgames.com/always.jpg

Nothing hidden in this one, and believe me, I checked with as many different filters as possible.

Eventually the fad bubble will burst and Scott will move onto something else. But three is starting to look like something actually new this time - maybe.

>>192887

I expect him to move on from FNAF after 3. …maybe 4 if he has enough good ideas for a fourth game.

I wonder if the "always comes back" is Purple Man since he's apparently terrorized all the incarnations of Fazbear

>>192888
Depends on his goals in making them. Some sort of artistic merit? I can see him stopping unless he gets some gonzo ideas. Making money? He'll keep pumping them out as long as people buy them.

>>192892
Makes sense, especially with the purple text.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/12903-In-Survival-Horror-Anticipation-is-Worse-Than-the-Actual-Scare?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

One last thing.