SOTM was good, but FNAF has gone long enough without a new, proper spin on Freddy and his fuzz-faring troupe (+ the pizzaria setting) and maybe that's to blame for why its not as popular these days. That autismbait is like, half the reason this series is even popular.
>>713749523 (OP) Honestly yeah, the lack of a proper reboot or real mechanical shake-up has made the series feel kinda stale. Security Breach tried, but it was jank city and felt like a tech demo more than a full evolution. They need to strip it back down to what made the original trilogy tense-small space, limited control, and paranoia-fueled dread-but modernized. Give us the grimy 80s/90s Chuck E. Cheese rotcore vibe again, with Freddy looking like he crawled out of a dumpster behind a haunted Denny's. Thatโs what the fans want. Not glamrock mall mascots doing TikTok dances.
>>713749950>Not glamrock mall mascots doing TikTok dances.judging by SB's reception that was exactly what fans wanted and like, its one redeeming quality
I want another click team game from Scott but reddit/xittertroons are probably still pissed that he didnโt โvote the right wayโ
>>713749950Yeah I feel the series should've had continue on sticking with the whole grimly dark horror side of it and continued with the whole bite of 83/ purple man lore instead of the wacky kids furfags shits that it's become, even when I was young I used to love the series just because how edgy and darks the shit was back then, The FNAF lore used to be my fucking bible
.t zoomer
>>713750738>people are upset he's objectively scum that voted to destroy Americagood for them
>>713750740i think the best thing to go for would be to have the "rogue AI" plot they're setting up converge with the supernatural element festering beneath the surface. personally i want them to go full esoteric alchemic techpriest schizo with it, its already getting there with the shit about remnant infused metal
>>713751092>Scott voted for orange man because he LITERALLY wants to genocide trans people and minorities, not because of various other things he likely values as a middle aged christian father of four (or five?) living in Texas which of course puts him at odds with terminally online xitter troons this is why you lost 2024, to a rapist criminal of all people
>>713749523 (OP)I loved SotM, and totally agree.
We got this teaser last year and nothing's came from it. Maybe it was scrapped altogether or possibly was a (poor) teaser for the kart game. I don't know. I want a new, spooky Scott style FNAF game again.
>>713752483IDEA: New Fazbear Ent Location which is basically arkham asylum for insane/"scrapped" animatronics (given that ennard has proved you can't just dump even the remains of dismantled animatronics in a junkyard without it coming back to bite you in the ass later
it could even bring back the toy animatronics
imagine mangle retrofitted into a failed experiment to try recreate the telescopic prehensile qualities of funtime remnant-alloy innard cables, who has to be locked up in a strait-jacket so they don't spaz out and become a wall-crawling spaghetti monster
Steel Wool were only good for the FIRST VR game
Everything after PS/UCN is non-canon garbage to me :(
>>713751092>Not kneeling to trannies is "destroying america"ok
>>713750738>>713751092>>713752740Why was it such a surprise anyways? A devout Christian man living in Texas isn't very likely to be a progressive liberal.
>>713752483They already seem to be doing that given SOTM had a literal ghost in the White Tiger and whatever the fuck Sleepy Moon is meant to be.
>People keep making free roam fangames with FNaF 1 setting
The pizzeria layout doesn't really work as free roaming game no matter how much you expand the map
any good fan games you have come across?
>>713758197Five Nights at Jr.'s seems pretty decent imo
>>713758197The Glitched Attraction and Fazbear Entertainment Storage remain my golden standards
The Joy Of Creation's demo on Steam was pretty good too.
The problem with NuFNAF is simple.
Horror works better when you don't know.
These Mechanics on a grungy strip-mall pizzeria are alive because, who knows, it's scary.
These Mechanics are alive because ghostly possession it's okay, still a bit less scary.
These Mechanics are alive because this company happens the hyperadvanced AI and robotics that uses exclusively for entertainment purposes have gone haywire... that's not scary.
>>713749523 (OP)FNAFโs issue right now is the need to tie absolutely everything together + the need to reinvent the wheel. Most of the games arenโt even over 5 nights anymore.
Do a soft reboot where itโs Freddy + new friends, FNAF1 style gameplay as the foundation to build on, and a new mystery to solve if need be.
>>713758197Graveyard shift at Freddy's mainly because of the ending
>>713758197unironcally all of the ransomware fnaf game
>>713761017>That "ransomware" where the game over causes loud as fuck screaming and flashing face of the animatronic who killed you on your screen
>FNAF needs to return to its roots
I've been here too long.
I wish FNAF would just have better designs for the animatronics. The shattereds were... ok, but they weren't as good as the withereds. The mimic's costumes were pretty lame and his design is goofy. Give me a FNAF game where the Nightmare animatronics were brought back. Help Wanted 2 had the fucking STAFF BOTS (not Nightmarrione ones btw) and BON BON jumpscare you.
>>713762071I like naked Mimic, epecially the SOTM version. Best "bare endo" design so far. Costumes are mostly whatever with a few exceptions, namely the mushroom and that bald one with hollow eyes
>>713762245I never liked naked endos too much. Mostly the plastic furby eyes ruins it for me. Mimic is definitely better than say, Yendo though. I also liked his Ruin design more but SOTM is growing on me.
>>713762071bring toy bonnie, (non-funtime) foxy, and mangle back in some form, thats all i ask
also leave roxy in the past, shes had her time in the sun as FOTM furry bait and her design is shit anyway
>>713762071>>713762686It's been so long that a large portion of the fanbase has grown accustom to the modern designs and don't really understand just how good this series was at character design. If there was a genuine return to form there would be disagreements about it.
>>713749523 (OP)>>713758104>>713758979>>713759834>FNAF 2 presents itself as a game with 12 animatronics>It's functionally a game with 4 animatronics and an extremely hyperaggressive fifth animatronicAside from Foxy, Golden Freddy, The Puppet and Balloon Boy, literally every single animatronic can be warded off with the exact same technique.
>>713761312 Same, anon. Every time I hear "FNAF should go back to its roots" I get war flashbacks to 2014 YouTube thumbnails and that goddamn honk nose. We've reached a point where the lore is basically recursive fanfiction and the games canโt decide if they wanna be horror or Saturday morning cartoon. Iโve been in the trenches too long to have hope left, but damn if I wonโt play the next one still.
>>713763357>Iโve been in the trenches too long to have hope left, but damn if I wonโt play the next one still.Cheers to that brother.
>>713762960Idk, DBD Springtrap had a pretty good reception. Also they made Glitchtrap unironically good, who knew what a little bloodsplatter could do for the guy?
>>713763357I'm pretty sure Scott just started letting MatPat write the lore afterwards. No seriously, I'm starting to think that after the 3rd game, he just started watching MatPat's videos and based his lore off whatever conclusion he arrived at.
>>713761312its been how long?
>>713760676i want to play graveyard shift but whenever i get back into a fangame mood it's almost always one of the old classic fangames or one of the many many reworks of treasure island
>>713763820I used to think the same, but then something clicked about Springtrap. Scott had no reason to put Afton in Bonnie, it would've made more sense from a brand standpoint to just have him inhabit Fredbear. Instead he gave him Springbonnie and left the question of Fredbear open, which I feel he only did if Henry was already a character at that time. Stuff like that hints to some kind of complex plot always being there.
>>713749523 (OP)The algo has been pushing that video pretty hard.
>>713749523 (OP)FNAF needs to go back to
>5 night survival gameplay, with puzzles only relegated to finding lore secrets>Uncanny looking Animatronics with no quirky repeated dialogue, just strange static noises>Supernatural lore with actual vengeful ghosts, no rogue AI plot>More grounded, but darker setting(modern games have too much lighting)
>>713766083>>Supernatural lore with actual vengeful ghosts, no rogue AI plotThey're leaning more into the supernatural judging by some of SOTM's final encounters but I don't actually mind the rogue robot thing too much.
>>713761312I still remember the day Markiplier's first video on FNAF popped up in my feed. Now it's got a second movie coming out in a couple months. Time passes quickly.
>>713759325ok. I like fnaf now.
>>713749523 (OP)>>713749950>>713750740I would love a game more grounded on the series' roots, but the problem I see is that there are so many FNaF fan games made with the initial premise, that an official game using the same or similar mechanics to the original ones could easily fail to impress the audience, although I think it could also draw attention exactly BECAUSE it went back to it's origins.
Secret of the Mimic is alright, but it really doesn't feel much like FNaF at all. Security Breach was also ok, but it's a bit too much, I'd prefer something more familiar to the series.
>>713750738Man, and to think that this was one of the things that made Scott decide to step down in the development of the series... He should've just ignored the whole thing, I really doubt it would have any sort of impact on the games.
>>713763885I'm afraid it's been... 11 years
>>713769958The toys except for Mangle really aren't
Toy Chica is almost scary but she's too fuckable beakless
>>713770008i feel like it was earlier than 2015, like 2013 or something
>>71377050918th of august, 2014
>>713763885lost to this monster
to the 4chan behind the slaughter
>Fazbear's Japanese branch
>the animatronics are possessed by the spirits of children who passed peacefully and want to protect others
>by day they entertain the guests
>by night they work with the guard to keep a powerful evil force locked away and hidden
>the evil spirit of William Afton desires this power and regularly sends his twisted animatronics, springlocked corpses, and tortured slave souls to defeat Freddy and friends to acquire the evil force
>>713772154this idea teeters between "sounds sorta cool" and "sounds fucking gay"
especially your picrel
>>713769158the creator is Dr Ferocious on twitter, the files for 3d printing the head and building the body are for sale via DM if you wanna build your own
>>713769958criminal criminal criminal
criminal criminal criminal
criminal criminal criminal
criminal criminal criminal
>>713772812AIEEEEEEE ANALOG HORROR SCARY
>>713772812the creator is Dr Ferocious on twitter...
I wonder if I can replicate it in koikatsu. now i have a good reference.
>>713774439how the fuck does one manage to get LEGO to look so shapely
>>713774634Buy the parts and copy what this guy did. simple ass.
>>713749523 (OP)The series needs to end and the lore needs out right confirmation.
>>713749523 (OP)bottom right sexo
>>713770181 Absolutely. Toy Chica walks that unholy line between horror animatronic and DeviantArt waifu bait. Scott knew exactly what he was doing when he made her lose the beak-the eldritch terror of uncanny valley replaced with a Tumblr-tier thirst trap. The real jumpscare is checking the fanart afterward.
>>713755602>>713776341Growing up is realizing the old games were garbage.
>>713777743here, take this (you) and get out
>>713778513Or else what? Are you gonna reply again with another fetish pic? Nah, wait carry on. That will solidify more the scrambled eggs of reputation the original games have compared to SW
>inb4 "but muh SB" which only happened because of miscommunication thanks to covid
bnuuy
md5: 5bd12e5649a80863286f5fee37399a8c
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>>713778750> Are you gonna reply again with another fetish pic? https://youtu.be/p1OBAeRlde4?si=zS2qHcUSFLm1fTul&t=42
nice bait, btw
the clickteam games at least started out having remotely coherent lore, and none of them were buggy, borderline unplayable slogs
>>713781178nta but the only good games were 1 and 6. 3-4 were barely scary after night 1 and SL was actual garbage besides having ennard night
>when your revenge is so heinous and thorough God himself tells you to take a chill pill and let the Devil handle it
>>713782147>Imagine being so fucking mad about dying you basically tell God and Satan to go fuck themselves so you can take some random Brit and force him into a hell of YOUR own design.I hope the little shit got hired for all his trouble in life and after.
>>713782147>>713782232https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19WGPavLa6s
I think 1 best, 2 okay, 3 highs and lows (core gameplay is fun but the jumpscares are sorta shit, especially springtrap's slow ass ones), 4 is okay visually, sister location im willing to excuse because its trying out new stuff, 6 is cool mechanically but I missed cameras, and ultimate custom night isn't even a game its more of a busywork meme experiment
the VR games are cool, and mimic was decent enough even if I think it was way too short for $40 (if it didn't have the fnaf name it'd be $20 tops)
I think scott needs to make another normal fnaf game while steel wool makes the 'standard horror' and vr fnafs
>>713781830I think 3 had good/scary gameplay but all the phantom jumpscares and springtrap's slow ass walking jumpscares were weak.
sister location was basically half a game until they added the custom night stuff, and even then it felt cheap that he just sorta dumped it all into a standalone mode with no progression or phone guy or anything
>>713782435Realistically speaking what's so hellish about UCN?
>>713781178>SBSBSBCase in point. Enjoy knowing your precious sit and survive genre was flushed down the toilet thanks to Phisnom self-destructing with Plus
>>713782594nta but I assume every time he gets jumpscared he has to get killed via being torn apart or cut up or smashed or stuffed into a suit, so to avoid that he has to make it to 6am over and over and over
>>713782594Afton is defenseless as like 50 different animatronics are eager to slaughter him. They maim and dismember him and he just wakes up and has to try to survive another night.
>wake up in security room >check cameras, close vents>forget to check Foxy>die horrifically>wake up in security room >be sure to check foxy>get torn by nightmare freddy, who isn't an illusion this time>die horrifically>wake up in security room>actually survive the night>wake up in security room againHe's in a groundhog day of getting dismembered by furry mascots
so at the end of fnaf ultimate custom night, is the camera moving away from golden freddy supposed to be from afton's point of view? like "he fucking beat the game now he's walking out of hell while golden freddy is stuck here alone"
>>713782825That's one interpretation.
The other is that it's a non-person camera zooming out as golden freddy is tweaking out, implying that this is going to go in indefinitely. So long as golden freddy/Cassidy wills it, Afton is going to be in his purgatory.
>>713782825No because Afton never escaped hell. It's jsut a confimration Golden Freddy is behind UCN
Why do you guys wanna fuck these robots so much? You realize your penis will get stuck in the gears and shit right?
>>713782916Because we can't get normal women, and we pretend normal women aren't a thing as a coping mechanism.
>>713783018also everyone on 4chan is at least prison gay.
>>713782773But eventually he's gonna get really good at it
>>713783117Then Cassidy, being the spirit of a child, probably eventually get's bored, moves on to the afterlife, and Afton plunges into Hell where Satan wonders what took him so long to finally arrive.
>>713783117That would presumably take a long time, the mental stack of knowing if you fuck up even once you're going to experience a torturous death again wears on you, and some setups you simply can't win regardless. The fortitude you need to have to clear a night is inhuman, and we can hear him suffering and begging for help.
>>713777610https://freddy-fazbears-pizza.fandom.com/wiki/NSFW_Island
Reminder that this exists in a game Scott released
>>713758197Graveyard Shift genuinely spooks me.
>>713760676The camera system sucks dick in Graveyard Shift
>>713782594He is more or less completely defenseless as upwards of like 50+ animatronics want his goddamn head on a plate. And at least a few make allusions of eating him in their kill dialogue. Since he can't die either,r this will literally go on until Golden Freddy/CC/Cassidy gets bored of torturing his ass - which is never.
It's a genuine nightmare scenario. But one that is entirely deserved.
>>713749523 (OP)In to the shit was exactly this.
>>713766650Fnaf was so much better when purple guy was just some random security guard who was weirdly fixated on one small local restaurant instead of the evil british co-founder of a billion dollar worldwide franchise who has evil underground laboratories where he experiments on children to do something something soul juice. He's so lame, man
Must be hard being a security guard in fnaf
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>>713784135https://vocaroo.com/1iCGcXhXhHEg
>>713784128>all that>lameNo. Also, fuck the early "Vincent" shit - that shit was absolute fucking cancer and made FNAF discussion unbearable because of all the teenage girls who gravitated to it.
>>713764186The problem is that the goalpost is moved with every new release. It gets particularly egregious by the point of FNAF 4 where a massive wrench is thrown at the story for no other reason then for Scott to one-up the audience. But the worst offender of them all has to be sister location. It straight up breaks the stroy and changes it into something it was never ment to be.
wtf is the modern story of FNAF? If purple guy still around or is he gone? Is it malfunctioning AI now or still ghosts?
FNAF should have ended after 2
I canโt fucking stand this series anymore
>>713784857>Removing puppetVery based
Guy who made all relevant FNAF games retired from making games and he now writes movies
Literally impossible to get an above 0/10 FNAF game with this in mind
>>713784857>procession of spooky gifs simulator
>>713784687>wtf is the modern story of FNAF? If purple guy still around or is he gone? Is it malfunctioning AI now or still ghosts?Purple guy is the original founder of Fredbear named William Afton. He teamed up with an animatronic and formed the modern Freddy's. He's so busy with his work that his sons (older and younger) decides to take the younger one and shove him in Fredbear's mouth and he dies. He's the boy you play in Fnaf 4. After that he goes full Jeffrey Dahmer, and starts killing kids left and right until he gets caught in Springtrap Bonnie and dies. He gets sealed in and years later when the place is opened as a spooky house, William's zombie form is released. After that I have no idea.
>>713785024The puppet doesn't have a difficulty setting. You just have to constantly wind it up. I think on 10x20 night, it's whatever the puppet setting of night 6 was.
>>713785143Wait a second, I thought Puppet had a difficulty setting. Must be shitty memory since I haven't touched the game in years or I was remembering the difficulty settings from UCN.
>>713763320>Aside from Foxy, Golden Freddy, The Puppet and Balloon Boy, literally every single animatronic can be warded off with the exact same technique.There is 21 animatronics, nobody will want to have to ward off with 21 techniques.
The new FNAF games just take too long to come out
bring back phone guy only way to save the franchise
>>713784687Scott story is its own mosty separate thing. New story is about Fazbear restarting in the future and wanting to make all the murders sound fake by promoting them through in-univers vidya, but they accidentally found an evil A.I. when scavanging old Freddys shit for content and it went out of hand
>>713769958Really? I'm scared stiff!
>>713784687>>713785982However now in the latest game its revealed that the evil AI and its physical robot mimic variant has been around since before the start of the series lingering in the background. And they got wrapped up in this mess because purple guy did corporate sabotage and a hostile takeover of the company that made said AI and Mimic Bot.
>>713786036Purple guy could've killed more people if he just opened a robobrothel
Fun fact: if a story goes on too long, the more ridiculous and convoluted it gets.
The story should have probably just ended at Fnaf 4, but hey we got to milk this thing till the cows come home.
>>713786490people just have to milk the living shit out of every franchise
>>713786145It was always old. They specifically used Mimic AI to accuratly recreate realistic walk cycles of the stuff it would have seen, without knowing the A.I. is broken and homicidal
>>713772812always appreciate an anon who provides a much needed sauce
The originally story ended very conclusively with 6/UCN. Everything since has been Scott's Wild Ride and you can literally just ignore it
Why do you guys want to fuck a robot
this stupid series should have died at the baller speech when everything got incinerated.
these fucking games are so stupid, I would rather install zoomer slop like gacha cancer. I would rather play those brainrot mobile games where the advertisement always loses on purpose.
>>713788795why is he such a shit lawyer
>>713788957If the HW2 content is saying that he was the Mimic AI, then its a women what do you expect?
>>713788795If Scott didn't want us to fuck the robots, why did he make them so attractive
>>713789063>fucking your ice cream dispenser
>>713749523 (OP)at this point fangames are where you should be looking if you're trying to scratch the traditionaly fnaf gameplay itch
i'm personally very excited for frickbear's 3, that game's aesthetics and iterations on classic mechanics are extremely good, plus it's very silly
pic related
>>713789591Why do you think they're always broken when you go to mcdonalds?
If Scott made a new classic fnaf game what would it even be about?
>>713794891Just one of the new games with old gameplay. I'm shocked this doesn't exist yet
>>713751092>wanting to destroy america is somehow bad now???
>>713794891Original Fredbear location, clarifying stuff like Afton's timeline
>>713784823>>713790975Entropy_WHT on twitter
>>713795285Wasnโt the original Fredbearโs just Fredbear and Spring Bonnie? As important as the location is lorewise Iโm not sure it would make an interesting game
>>713784135>>713784193i'll do you one better
https://vocaroo.com/1osv9qNEKEIo
>>713794891Another location where the animatromics are going haywire. It doesn't need to be lore deep. A game like the originals is all I'd want.
>>713797657Pretty sure that fnaf 4 restaurant is Fredbear's Family Diner and we know from SotM that Freddy and the gang have always existed so there might have been the rest
What even is William's final kill count?
Is this supposed to be a male?
>>713800490I find it comedic a conservative christian family man created a bunch of robot furries that look like whores, twinks and trannys
>>713800490UCN gives him a decidedly male voice
>>713800490nothing as manly as hot pink and eyeline
>>713801226>>713801075Kill yourself derailers
>>713801541jokes on you im OP and this is why i actually made this thread
>>713797862and the inevitable follow-up:
https://vocaroo.com/15gf3RMsAhKv
for me it's shadow bonnie
God, Withered Bonnie is such a cool design
>>713784128I still remember the time when the Phone Guy was a central character in theories
>>713803198Give me back my fucking face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvQMu98Rbc
>>713802474Shadow Bonnie isn't a character, though. He's called [insert random keymash here] because he's not the same kind of entity as Shadow Freddy so Scott made the conscious decision to not use the Shadow title
I enjoyed Secret of the Mimic and I LOVE Security Breach. HELP WANTED 1 and 2 are also perfect. Old FNAF wasn't as good. Sorry to say. Everything FNAF 1-3 did, Help Wanted does better. It's that simple. VR changes the game.
>>713803525The best villain the series had was so undercooked and unutilised because steelwool are fagniggers and your opinions are objectively wrong.
>>713783978Based Roxy chad.
>>713803928Roxy is overrated Vanny is better
>>713803853The Mimic is cooler.
>>713768039Missing out on weeing the FNAF movie on theathers ended up being good for me, watching MattPat in the big screen would have killed me of cringe.
>>713804020Take that back NOWWWWW!!!
>>713785752>The new FNAF games just take too long to come out>11 games in 11 years (13 if you include World and the mobile game)
>>713804053more where that came from
>>713804679an idea i had to wrap up the william afton story back when it was all but canon glitchtrap/burntrap was aftons ghost coming back even after the fnaf 6 fire
I stopped following the lore after 4. Started getting into it again recently and i have a question. I thought the story ended with UNC when Afton was endlessly tortured in hell or whatever. So are Security Breach and the Secret of the Mimic like a new era when Afton is longer invoked in the main plot but instead just a memory of the past?
>>713805058Yeah, there was a fakeout where it seemed like his immortal soul excaped hell in the form of a computer virus that tried to resurrect itself, but that was probably just the mimic pretending
>>713806658Aftons digital soul possessed a woman called Vanessa and Afton influenced her to kill children in a white home-made bunny costume. There WAS a fake out where it seemed Afton was revived through the reconstruction of Springtrap (now Burntrap or something) but I'm pretty sure that was the mimic
If you had stewardship of the FNAF series, what would you do next with what's been established? I've been on a hard FNAF media bender lately as someone who mainly sits on the sidelines of the series and it's got me thinking.
It's hard to describe, but it feels too...predictable now? Too 'connected' or tied down?
My pitch is to take a page from Doki Doki Lit Club, make a game that doesn't have the FNAF title, and make it seem more like a normal game. Then slowly bleed in the horror over time, tying the game back to FNAF. The broad strokes is that you're dealing with one antagonist, doesn't really matter what, human or anamatronic, and by the end of the game, you learn that the evil influence has spread to 3 new locations. Each subsequent game taking place at each of those locations, creating a new set of characters and lore to work with instead of filling in more and more about the Afton family and anyone they've dealt with. Maybe one takes place at an abandoned mall, or a museum, or a school campus, or an abandoned Fazbeat Corporate building, each one with a different tragedy. Just branching out beyond resturants. Obviously fill each game with random lore shit that makes no sense.
Then have a final 5th game that ties them all together, answers all the questions, and has plenty of memberberries for the original series.
Hear me out: fnaf, but only with cute male animatronics.
>>713758032>SOTM had a literal ghost in the White TigerThe secret ending has the ghost go into the Mimic, truly becoming David.
>>713808294I'd make:
>FNAF World 2>Scott FNAF game set in a dingy pizzeria/entertainment place in the 70s or 80s>SB or HW2 DLC to finish Ruin's cliffhanger>SotM DLC tied to the Fallfest>HW3 VR game based on all the games with OC stuff mixed in
>>713813338Did you draw that lil bro
>>713813521>>713790975toy bonnie has no business being this thicc