>you will never relive the fnaf1 period when e-celebs hadn't found the game yet and people hadn't even figured out the missing kids plot yet
>you will never enjoy a pre-mascot horror genre again

I did research on this back in 2019 or so, when there were earlier archives of /v/, and unfortunately, literally the first post about FNAF on /v/ was already after Markiplier had made a video about it.
The idea that /v/ got to this game before e-celebs did is simply not true. This is not a Minecraft situation.

>people hadn't even figured out the missing kids plot yet
Bro. People knew that the first day it came out. Newspaper articles on the walls were talking about missing children and the store getting shut down. The suits being haunted by dead kids was the theory right out of the gate.

>>713953527 (OP)
FNAF 1 is still the only one of the games that I think is truly unsettling

>>713953527 (OP)
>>you will never relive the fnaf1 period when e-celebs hadn't found the game yet
??? It was maybe a month AT MOST before ecelebs found it. This game became popular because of ecelebs

getting home from middle school and checking scotts website for a new render was unironically probably one of my childhood highlights gaming wise

>>713953840
based zoomer

Should've ended it with FNAF 6. How could you ruin such a kino ending

>>713953658
unfortunately the /v/ archive in particular isn't really reliable since everything pre-2015 underwent massive purges, including media and posts

>>713953832
Very generous "at most" there.

>>713953840
>tfw 2's something borrowed something new teaser with both bonnies

Feels like so long ago. Sometimes I forget about that weird mysterious period when it first came out all the way back in 2014. Whenever I think about I always just realize how massive and commercialized it's become and move on with my day

>>713954114
When I did the research, whenever it was, I could see all the posts from right before the game came out and right after the game came out. It was like threads with only 4 replies or so and they were after Markiplier had already made his video. I understand if you won't take my word for it, but I know for a fact Markiplier got to it first before /v/ did.

>>713953527 (OP)
fnaf1 was such a gem before the series blew up and then the creator chased after youtube theoriests. Each new game lost the grunge and atmosphere of the first in favor of.... something.

>>713953747
He probably meant the fact the missing kids were stuffed in the suits. People did get into diving into the lore pretty quick though

>>713954232
I liked 2 but stopped following the series with the travesty that was 3. Never bothered after that.

>>713954232
it was kind if weird how it went from "supposed to be for kids but twisted and horrifying" to "supposed to be for kids... and that's it"
but I guess that's where the money was

>>713953821
doesn't help that scott made 2&3 in the same year as 1 in a "after the fact" manner because he wanted to capitalise on the commercial success and make big banks. same with the rest of the games, they all were mostly rushed out to the public with little thought put into them design and writing wise

>>713953832
OP is a faggot and wants to pretend to be ye oldfag who's sick of them zoomer kids ruining his fun

>>713953840
I don't remember writing this post

>>713954335
the horror of 1 was that it was a place that was supposed to be for kids being horrifying because of the decay of the building. Each subsiquent game cleaned itself up until it became indistinguishable from regular ol media aimed at kids

There are teenagers who grew up loving fnaf but now look back upon it and think its cringe.
My nephew had all the plushies. When he was 11 he invited some friends over and saw all of them and called him gay. The next week he tossed out all his childhood trinkets and a few years later I think he's playing tennis or soccor I forgot which.

>>713954335
Really wish we could have both.
I really didn't like most of the designs in SotM, kind of odd considering how much appeal the SB and Ruin designs had.
But SotM at least hit the horror notes a little better.
Heres hoping the next release actually does justice to the studios design capabilities and roots.

Too bad the threads descended into gay/furfaggotry in record time anyways.

>>713954626
It sounds like your nephew learned a very valuable lesson about hiding your power level.
11 is a pretty rough age to learn that though.

>>713954039
should have ended it with FNAF 4.

>>713953840
>the one with Nightmare Fredbear picking up the hat
Got me so hyped, thought 3 really was the last game

I remember back when people were debating on whether Foxy was a guy or a girl back when FNAF 1 was fresh. I remember a ton of videos back then that voiced Foxy gave him a girl voice.

>>713953840
i remember refreshing tf out of that website on some days after school, running up the saturation on the image or using inspect element to find hidden messages was fun as hell

WHOOPSIE DAISY

>>713956058
You mean Bonnie

>>713956058
>I remember a ton of videos back then that voiced Foxy gave him a girl voice.
Is that right? As far as I can remember, Bonnie was the only one constantly mistook for a girl

>>713956959
I vividly remember one creepypasta reading where some woman voiced Foxy at the end of it. I can't find the video now. I think there was a couple like that too. But both Bonnie and Foxy had their gender debated a lot before it was confirmed

>>713953527 (OP)
>you will never again that SINGLE DAY before it got popular.

>>713958165
Based anon. That single day hit different-just you, the VHS static, and the sickening crunch of a jumpscare with zero expectations. No lore spirals, no timeline theories, no MatPat dissecting childhood trauma, just raw mystery and vibes. I miss that eerie purity, man.

While on that subject I did like that the secret of the mimic is that it is a child or the mind of a child and has a faulty program making it go crazy. But I do mean its a child, like it actually shrinks down to 3 feet tall and awkwardly stomps around like a kid. He parascopes out when he goes insane but his default is a small child.

What I don't get is that M2 learns abusive neglect from Arthur and uses that to murder him but is a crazed maniac after that? Did they write for M2 being the dispatch guy then decided to change it to Fiona for the secret ending not realizing that would mean we haven't had any manipulation from M2?

wasn't fnaf being talked about on here before it got mainstream? or am I thinking of a different game

>>713958489
For me it was following an anon trying to ace the game before we figured everything out and the Paul Blart fanart coming from that.

imagine going back to the days of FNAF 1 and telling the fanbase that in the future Scott will write it so a guy had a robot wife in the last that he fucked

>>713958597
No. You're thinking of Minecraft.

>>713958597
Yes, and yes. We talked about it before it got popular and still talk about it. It was another example of a game needing a /vgeneral and then that general getting a bit inaccessible and weird with all its insular activity.

But also /v/ collectively tries hard to get in on games before they get popular.

>>713953527 (OP)
>you will never relive the fnaf1 period when e-celebs hadn't found the game yet and people hadn't even figured out the missing kids plot yet
Never fucking happened, people knew about FnaF from Markiplier and others. The idea that there was a time when FnaF was pure of eceleb shit is pure nonsense

>>713958597
People probably heard about it from youtube, but /v/ did have fun figuring things out on their own, same as all the other communities

>>713958696
They would not be surprised.

>>713958757
Correct. I think it is more like before we realized it was already popular.

>>713958741
Cool revisionism, but no. Markiplier had a video about it before /v/ played it. >>713958778 is correct.

>>713953840
Im a zoomer who did this myself and even i somehow feel like a boomer when looking at whatever fnaf is in the current year lol. it just kinda went off the rails with sister location and the insanity of the story and it was impossible to keep up with and it lost me. Its basically unrecognizable as a series to me now. But being there for the 1-4 era was fun, and even if 2-4 arent the greatest games, 1 will forever be kino to me. It's hard to revisit 1 knowing its probably been recontexualized a fuck ton by the absurd story though, i liked it more when it was just the most simple premise of surviving a haunted chuck e cheese. movie was also neat

Scott never explained the "You did this"
Mangle hanging itself teaser for FnaF world did he?

>>713959128
That was about the massive negative backlash against fnaf world, I think

>>713959581
Nah, I vividly remember those days, the game still wasn't out by the time that teaser came out, I don't doubt there was backlash against World's new aesthetic but I'm fairly certain the consensus around that image was that it was his response to high demand for the game to come out as soon as the previous ones did (either that or a hint to the Animdude boss fight, the dialogue there certainly seems to match)

>>713959920
The animatronic renders were so cute in this game is such a shame we never got FNaF World 2

>>713953658
>The idea that /v/ got to this game before e-celebs did is simply not true
You're wrong

>>713954206
>>713958778
>>713958865
/v/ was discussing FNAF weeks before mark or any other eceleb shit out a video on it. i would know since i clearly remember someone linking a no commentary livestream to gameplay of it and seeing no results for FNAF on youtube at the time. i also explicitly remember discussion about when the youtube fags would catch wind of it. don't even care about this series but i hate lying zoomer revisionists.

>>713958597
Yes, for about 2 weeks until Markiplier played it.
I regret not saving more OC memes/art from back then.

>>713953527 (OP)
Even older zoomers probably remember how games like Night Trap were mocked because switching between video feeds and pressing buttons was a stupid idea and a terrible idea for a game.

>>713960149
>>713960352
You're misremembering, simple as. Pic related proves you wrong >>713954136

>>713960436
Correction: Looks like it was 4 days. FNAF released on Aug. 8th and Markiplier put up his famous video on Aug. 12th. It was a few days after Markiplier put his video up when most of /v/ did a 180 on the series since it was popular and therefore not cool anymore. That was when people thought Freddy had advanced programming and would go against your game play strategy from the previous nights. It also was before we knew the names of some of the characters. I think it was Chica that we didn't know the name of.

>>713960436
>>713960741
The timestamp for these images is all from after the Markiplier video btw
Don't know what you get out of this revisionism

>>713960871
Me neither for you anon. Go look up when FNAF 1 released, August 8th. I was there that first week anon, before we knew of Night 6, and when people were spamming ARE YOU READY FOR FREDDY in every thread

>>713960717
It is also entirely plausible that people discovered the game parallel to Markiplier's video without knowing about it

>>713960932
That doesn't mean anything, anon, Markiplier played it first, but it was only like the first day or whatever, so of course he didn't know about number of nights or anything past that. Maybe he didn't even make it out of the first day. The point is, you're misrembering who got to the game first.

There was in fact no big fanbase making original memes of FNAF within the week it came out.

>>713959581
>>713959920
i don't think anyone still has a clear idea on what the fuck the mangle and ball boy teasers were about. i think maybe the mangle one was also a slight joke on the paddle ball since i remember people joking about it quite a lot back then.
i know fangames exist but i wish a second game was made, i think you can really push some of the concepts the game has like more chips and bytes and maybe upgraded attacks (like freddy can upgrade to pizza wheel 2 instead of it being a completely separate attack).

>>713960951
You don't need to watch the video to have Steam's algorithm be influenced by it. Or to have someone watch the video and then tell someone about it, who tells someone else about it, who posts about it on /v/ and that's how you learn of it.

Either ways, the point is that OP was talking about this mythical time where e-celebs hadn't found the game yet. This time did not exist.

BUT WHO THE FUCK IS BALLOON BOY?

>>713961129
enragement child

>>713960717
>>713960741
>>713960871
>>713960932
>>713961028
"The demo version of Five Nights at Freddy's was released on Amazon on July 23, 2014, followed by IndieDB a day later. The next month, an Android demo would release in August, 2014, and would be removed following Clickteam's remastered updates."

>>713956058
Kind of retarded debate becaus Foxy was the only voiced animatronic and he clearly has a male voice
Also he doesn't even look like a girl

>>713958597
>wasn't fnaf being talked about on here before it got mainstream?
NIGGER there was never a time when FNAF wasn't mainstream, it came out and it became an ultra hit amost instantly

>>713961028
If I cared enough to go look in the archive I could show you even more like the images I posted above. /v/ told me about the game before it came out and it was getting a following on here. There were plenty of indie horror threads on here and FNAF was one of the big ones that released at the time which was being hyped up in those threads. It wasn't until the 2nd or 3rd day when it really took off.
Note that I am NOT saying it was /v/ that made it popular, but it had its own group of fans on /v/ before Markiplier got to it. Again, go look at the day FNAF 1 released and when Markiplier got his video up.
>>713961245
It came out August 8, 2014 on Desura.

>>713961245
No one here was playing this shit on IndieDB. You're lucky I no longer have access to the archives from 2014 cause they went out during the Phantom Pain, but I know for a fact /v/ only started talking about this game after August 14. Maybe you'll convince some newfags into continuing to post your revisionism, but yeah, at least me you can't fool.

>>713961245
>IndieDB
So THAT'S why I remembered getting it from somewhere other than steam

>>713958597
Yes, for several days before the first big youtubers posted videos we had threads

>>713961340
I searched the archive back when it was available before The Phantom Pain and I know this is not true. So you're either misremembering or lying. Fortunately for you, the archive has gone to shit and I will never be able to correct you on this.

>>713961028
>Markiplier played it first
No he didn't

>>713953821
>>713954336
FNaF 1 truly is unique isn't it? Scott really struck gold with it. I don't think 2 and 3 are bad either, and I don't blame the dude for trying to capitalize on the success as soon as he saw the opportunity, but I do agree that they lack the same atmosphere, despite being good games, too.

I just wish the series didn't get so convoluted... up until 3 it all made perfect sense, but the 4th one onwards threw a wrench in everything.

>>713961401
>So you're either misremembering or lying.
Yeah and you are too.
Anon, one or both of us is lying. But you keep ignoring it was out 4 days before Markipliers video went up, which I don't know why you keep doing.
And like >>713961443 said, Markiplier wasn't even the first, he was just the first huge youtuber to play it.

>>713961443
Despite not playing it first, I wouldn't be surprised if Scott used him to come up with ideas and names since he seemed to take a liking to his playthroughs

>>713961514
I wouldn't be invested in this argument if I didn't explicitly do this research back then when there were still working and searchable archives of that era to confirm that the first time /v/ talked about it was after the Markiplier video, because I saw an argument similar to this and was curious. The memory of me seeing that the first thread about it were after Markiplier (and even those had like 4 replies at most, so it still took a while for the game to take off on /v/) are very fresh on my mind.

>>713961340
>It came out August 8, 2014 on Desura.
yeah my point being part of it released even earlier than that and it makes sense that /v/ was discussing it for (3) weeks before mark made his video
>>713961345
>No one here was playing this shit on IndieDB
source: your ass. there is more to support the claim of /v/ finding it weeks before that video came out and that's the cold hard truth little zoomie.

>>713961728
>there is more to support the claim of /v/ finding it weeks before that video came out
There is literally nothing to support it other than your claim against mine. That's what sucks about this discussion. But I know what I saw back then. You ain't gaslighting me. You're going off of half formed memories from right after the game released and I'm going from slightly more recent memories where I searched the archives to get to the bottom of it. Or maybe you're just lying.

It was really special
>people speculating the robots were improperly recycled military models sold by some unscrupulous dealer the the cheapskate company
>the speculation about what was in the kitchen that we couldn't see

Someone link the archive with the oldest FNAF memes available and I can put this autistic issue to rest

>>713961451
There's many, many instances of Scott obviously switching shit up just for the sake of keeping the mystery going, even if it didn't really make sense

>>713961943
I only saved a few images sadly. I don't know when the based anon drew pic related, but it was around that timeframe.

>>713961451
>but the 4th one onwards threw a wrench in everything.
>nearly all teasers question "was it me? or me?"
>87 in source code
>actually lmao it was some other bite fuck you

I spent like 90% of the night drinking and playing Springtrap on dbd and this thread alone has made me smile more than I did the whole fucking work week

Thank you anons, I don't feel like my life was *as* wasted

>>713962003
Well, this one is from FurAffinity and marked August 19

>>713961401
What archive do you used?

>>713961803
>There is literally nothing to support it other than your claim against mine
>>713961245
three full weeks before the release of the video. with that, it holds more weight even if both our claims are hearsay.

>>713962008
Seeing the 1983 date on the TV must have caused some aneurysms
And then the fucking box shit

>>713954039
He technically did
Everything post-6 is Steelwool lore and only a retard listens to people who retcon the first instalment they make

>>713962257
My personal canon is 1-6, no booksloppa either

>>713962008
It is quite funny to me that, after everything, the bite of '87 really was just a small incident and it's sole consequence was the animatronics of the first game don't walk around in the daytime.

>>713953527 (OP)
>you will never relive the fnaf1 period
good, being a fnaf fan in fourth grade was rough

FNAF 1...
Pure SOUL and nostalgia for OLD fags like us..

>>713962147
i really don't get the TV being connected to the year. i mean yeah the general idea doesn't make sense considering by 1987 fredbear's was fucking closed but... reruns exist, i could easily believe fazbear's rerunning old fredbear and friends episodes or a new show had some sort of "and now a very special friend, FREDBEAR!" before rerunning an episode in the middle of a program or something. iirc before 4 it seemed that fredbear's just kind of closed without any incidents.

>>713962475
this but unironically

>>713962008
>>actually lmao it was some other bite fuck you
kek that really puts it in perspective
He got really trolly in his games around FNAF 4, especially with things like the box and all the stuff he put in FNAF World.

>>713960741
post more please.

>>713962549
Was that image drawn before or after Into the Pit was released?

>>713962008
I remember I got pissed and frustrated when I saw it; from that point on, it was a struggle to accept the story.
Then to book nonsense started to appear shortly after, and that was another God damn can of worms that made no sense either.

I like Scott, and I admire him working hard and making a name for himself, but I just can't understand what the hell he did with the story.

That being said, I do think the games he did himself had soul. The SteelWool games are fine, but they don't feel much like FNaF

>>713961451
>and I don't blame the dude for trying to capitalize on the success
me neither. only a retard would choose shit like "the heakin artistic integrity and quality:,(,,,,," over making BILLIONS
>but I do agree that they lack the same atmosphere, despite being good games, too.
yeah we're discussing the quality which is lackluster, honestly even the first game wasn't that amazing but at least it wasn't rushed to hell and back because he was already poor and was making one last game he enjoyed making
>I just wish the series didn't get so convoluted... up until 3 it all made perfect sense, but the 4th one onwards threw a wrench in everything.
the main problem with 4 is that he wanted to make the "it was all.....a dream!!!!" ending which is beyond retarded but then walked back that decision so now you have all these clues that seemingly lead to nowhere and you have him trying to repurpose them into a working narrative.
worse then all of that imo is him continuing the series past the fnaf management sim, freddy and the gang, afton and everyone who had any ties to the original freddys diner should have died then and there, it's fine to continue the series but it needs to be a new saga, like how leon Kennedy is seprate from chris redfield

>>713963498
>The SteelWool games are fine, but they don't feel much like FNaF
I think the dirty, greasy look of Scotts settings along with the harsher lighting in his renders really makes them stand out compared to Steel Wool's games. Help Wanted 1 is the closest I think that came to feeling like the Scott games, and I think them copying the FNAF 1 thru 3 locations had a lot to do with that. They have the right idea (most of the time), just not quite the same execution. Everything is too clean. and brightly lit. SotM was a bit dirtier and darker at least, so maybe they'll improve.

>>713963193
>he put in FNAF World.
man.....i wish FNAF world wasn't such a failure online with people(rightfully) grilling him alive for it. i WISH we'd get another fnaf rpg the game lends itself to that style of gameplay but after all the drama he's definitely not touching the genere with a 10 foot pole.

>>713953527 (OP)
I remember some of the first people to really latch on this game where the fucking bronies and then the furries not long after, the second game is when it really started to just turn into an early 2010s cornball fandom.

>>713963592
>afton and everyone who had any ties to the original freddys diner should have died then and there
It was a perfect way to start something fresh if they wanted, but I guess making new stuff is much harder than repeating what already worked.
Last I checked in Afton was now a computer virus that can mind control anyone that plays a VR game and I can't help but wonder why they didn't just make this a different serial killer, or just a rogue AI without digging up the same old names.

>>713963193
Imagine the rimjobs

>>713963839
Funny you say that, because it turns out it was a rogue AI that was copying Afton this whole time. Steel Wool and Scott dropped the ball bad on Security Breach's story and they tried to course correct by clarifying the intent was the virus was a rogue AI from the books called the Mimic. I think people are still divided on this direction. Personally I really like it. Afton is great, but he should stay dead for good after the events of FFPS.

>>713963839
>but I guess making new stuff is much harder than repeating what already worked.
it's marketing 101. People are more likely to buy when they recognise the characters, same reason freedy and chica return, with foxy's replacement being another fox with a new coat of paint. you can see this phenomenona in fighting games too.
>mk tries to force scorpion into the protagonist role for multiple games where he doesn't fit the role
>ryu butting in to kill the big bad in SF5 when he literally has no business being there, shitting on a character that should be in the spotlight
but it all comes back to what i said several posts ago, they want money not to create art.

>>713963821
What happened with Fnaf World?
t. have never played a single fnaf game or watched anything that wasn't a retarded challenge run like "fnaf 4 with no sounds"

>>713954039
Should have ended at 3. Unfortunately it became too good of a cash cow. That's how FNAF World happened.

>>713964227
>the Mimic
jesus what an annoying walking asspull
worse part is that Ive seen actual retards claiming muh mimic was always some planned overarching villain or whatever mental gymnastics
I stopped caring around Pizzeria Simulator so I guess I shouldnt be bothered but man this sucks

>>713964227
I enjoy The Mimic in general but Burntrap existence at all was an utter foul ball that they can never truly walk back.

>>713963498
>The SteelWool games are fine
They are liteally all 0/10 megagoyslop

Btw does William Afton have any competition for the title of "Best modern videogame villain"?

how did this simplistic shit made with a gamemaker get so popular?

>>713953840
>Mfw FNAF 3 released ahead of schedule

>>713965203
>gamemaker
uhm actually it's clickteam fusion

>>713958696
>Pic
Would.

>>713963821
a second fnaf world would be fun if it was fleshed out a lot more, not the biggest of how endgame teams basically always have to be a team of nightmares, gift boxers and maybe toy foxy/spring bonnie/fredbear if lucky. a couple phantoms have uses but the vast majority of 1-3's characters are either outclassed or suck major cock.

>>713963425
Probably before.
What's up with child protagonists and beating the shit out of animatronics?
>Gregory: critically damages 3 animatronics, wields anti-animatronic equivalents of a pistol and a shotgun
>Cassie: murders Roxy out of necessity
>Oswald: punches an agony monster Spring Bonnie multiple times to save his dad

>>713961960
>>713961451
>You could never get the camera for a room marked kitchen. You could bring it up but all you could get was weird noises
>latest game has a mockup of fnaf1's location
>the room that would be the kitchen is a room full of computer consoles, either a computer lab or some sort of control center.

>>713953527 (OP)
I actually remember the first /v/ streams of this. Can't believe this shit became an autistic zoomer multimedia empire

>>713960436

>>713964227
>Funny you say that, because it turns out it was a rogue AI that was copying Afton this whole time.
I thought Anton and the mimic were unrelated despite both being under the pizzaplex.

>>713965923
the animatronics KNEEL to shotas and lolis

>ywn go back to a time when zoomies weren't being nostalgic over a shitty glorified flash game that cost actual money or when jeets didn't have internet
I can't believe how old and out of touch I'm getting.

>>713953840
i pity you and others like you for the dogshit that was available to you. you all deserve better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocbAfuNRQ1c
What do you even do after a series peaks?

>>713964737
>Should have ended at 3.
true, the only reason he made 4 and beyond is because springtrap's jumpscare was so dogshit

>>713968316
I personally would have done a soft reboot which is distant/irrelevant to the main story and emphasizes the original horror atmosphere. In other words, Graveyard Shift at Freddy's.

>>713970607
>springtrap's jumpscare was so dogshit
What are you talking about? I shat my pants when that guy just stared menacingly at me.

>>713971591
The little nod he does looks fruity as hell.

>>713972137
I think Scott should have considered having more of the springtrap costume be weathered and damaged so that you'd see hints of the body underneath, and then maybe have a screaming rotting face replace the bunny mask at the end/extra nights.
Maybe that would have been too on the nose though.

>>713960713
night trap was kino

>>713966694
>nostalgic over a shitty glorified flash game that cost actual money
oldtroons fondly look back on meat boy, braid, isaac, world of goo, and their ilk thoughbeit

??? recent why fnaf1 became a thing is markiplier aka an e-celeb who made it known through his let's play

>>713972237
Anon, Scott sucks ass at modeling humans. Have you ever seen FNAF3/FNAF6 springtrap unmasked?

*ahem*
I always come
https://youtu.be/4VTBMznLrWs

I think 4's the scariest personally.
>Pitch black hallways
>You can just barely see their eyes retreating into the darkness those early nights
>Having to listen for breathing
>Nightmare running around the house like a maniac with his heavy ass stomping, not giving you a second to breathe
>Essentially complete silence, not even some noise like the fan or buzzing lights or the music box or the 'Threat Near' music

>>713953527 (OP)
Man, Fnaf really went off the fuckin wall, didn't it? From what I hear its now some insane-ass universe with all sorts of nonsense magic.

>>713975382
I think it definitely captures that
>something woke you up in the middle of the night and you stay up awake just trying to listen for that thing because no one else is in the house
feeling you've had as a kid but also the game fucking sucks and I hate scott for making a piece of shit game that you have to pump the volume up for but also contains super loud jumpscares

>>713953527 (OP)
Mascot horror was always bad. 90% of horror games are cheap slop

no you faggots were always seen as embarrassing children who needed an e-daddy to scream at the scary furries for you
god i hate nostalgafags

>>713975481
A decade of writing around one-upping theorists does that to a series.

>>713953840
The site teasers were very cool. I’m surprised more people haven’t stolen it, it’s such a good marketing tactic and hype generator

>>713953527 (OP)
>Pre-mascot horror
Like fucking what. Slender? Amnesia? .exe? The only decently successful one was SCP in that regard but you ain't missing much from "pre fnaf horror" era.

>>713975481
The only magic is the ghosts, they just got more particular with how haunting works. It's more sci-fi than magic now

why was the movie such a retarded pile of shit
why didn't the animatronics just fucking kill people
https://youtu.be/2VV9nPJ4FTM

Why are normalfags so fucking obsessed with FNAF 1 specifically and why do they ignore or find stupid reasons to trash every game in the series?

>>713977253
Because they're children. If you want regular killyou robots, the Toys seem to be doing that in the second one.

kill yourself zoomers

>>713977718
FNAF 1 was simple, all the sequels have convoluted mechanics and context for the sake of being different

>>713977253
Because it wasn't even a horror movie. It was made for kids, and completely failed to capture the spooky atmosphere from the first game. And I fucking hate how seemingly all FNAF fans say the movie was great.
>>713978543
The first game is a good example of "less is more". Keeping it simple.

>>713978376
Zoomer website faggot

>>713978216
bro fuck off, they're trying to kill the guy in the first videogame so it should copy the first videogame
I don't care about retcons that got added in later
If the robots are nice to children, don't put children in the movie, simple as

>>713954136
I distinctly remember FNAF taking a while to end up on steam so I'm not sure what this is meant to prove.

>>713978543
>>713978829
If you actually believe in "less is more", you're retarded. The only way to ruin something by adding something to it is adding bloat or something that's a creative failure, and the sequels leading up to 6 have none of that.

>>713960741
THAT'S THE IMAGE, I remember seeing a thread with that as the OP, it was the first of anything FNAF I ever saw. And I know it was back before FNAF ended up on steam because people were having to go on desura and indieDB for the game. I remember "when is FNAF going to get on steam?" being a thing for a while.

>>713966694
how high does thinking about zoomers raise your blood pressure, gramps?

>>713972538
>braid
30+ years old boomer here, I hated that pretentious shit from the start and indie games are one thing that's now better than back then. The whole trend of 2deep4u platformer games deserve to stay dead, I'll take metroidvania slop any day over that.

>thread about the games and not the coomer stuff
Well I'll be damn

>>713961646
And there's your problem, you're relying on archives because you weren't fucking there.

>>713984160
>30+ years old boomer here
>doesn't even post braid's dev

>>713964632
>What happened with Fnaf World?
scott released the game early(as always) but it released with shitty graphics and half of the stuff not implemented well, worse yet it looked nothing like the trailer which made people feel like they were tricked, all of this caused alot of backlash, he apologised, gave everyone a refund fixed the game so that it's now a bit better and looks like the trailer at least. fast forward to Halloween and another drama happened and he made a huge self flagellating post about how he's horrible and everytime he touches the game he ruines everything. honestly everything that could go wrong went wrong but on a positive note, scott noted years later that the game is the main reason he now has quality checks, when he made fnaf world he was still in the mindset of rushing a game and throwing it on the market asap so that's why it turned out like shit.
>>713965629
now would be the perfect time for a fnaf rpg but I'm not holding my breath, nor do i trust them to pull something like that off well.

>>713986494
we're still here despite the /pol/spam and the goon spam

>>713953840
>Animatronics start cartoonify slowly on the THANK YOU page each few days
I am still pissed the giant flying head didnt make it in.
>>713975837
People would immediately start drawing parallels to Scott and im not sure i'd want that if i were to make something, even if that was the clear inspiration.

Whenever I try to reminisce on the early FNAF days, I just start to miss Slender which I actually grew up with. Damn animatronics stealing Slenderman's thunder.

>>713953527 (OP)
>you will never relive the fnaf1 period when e-celebs hadn't found the game yet
This quite literally NEVER happened. Markiplier received codes for FNAF1 before it EVEN RELEASED

>>713975481
Sorta magic nonsense yes.
It's not actually that far-fetched in-universe though since the stuff in the latest games were all built from FNAF1.

>>713959128
what I want to know is who the fuck is Desk Guy

I will die on the hill that SL was the actual turning point where animatronic designs went to shit
>FNAF 1: They look like actual animatronics. If not the game's popularity you could place those into an actual joint and no one would bat an eye, but they're still unsettling when they go murder mode. Perfect example of scary in context, not tryhard design.
>FNAF 2: Withereds look like they're supposed to - withered animatronics and are deliberately trying to be creepy, but overall still (Visually) simple robots as well as Toys, with Mangle being the weirdest and still just being an amalgam of spare parts
>FNAF 3: Previous designs, but burnt to shit. Featuring Springtrap the peak of Scott's design because he's a zombie trapped in the skeleton of his suit
>FNAF 4: A bit tryhard on the scary theme, but it makes sense due to the entire game being a nightmare of a kid.
And then you get Sister Location, where the skeleton of the robots there is just a bunch of fucking sentient wire and everything looks like a damn spaceship with super clean panels and shit, despite being made somewhere alongside the 1 crew. It feels like they belong to a whole other setting entirely.
I get that 2 is the earliest game and it already had bullshit like "AI Face recognition" on toys, but at least they still felt believeable because they were still fucking animatronics.

>>713986659
Yeah I posted Phil because he was pretty much the face of "pretentious indie platformer" genre

>>713960132
wasnt there some "we are hiring people for clickteam" teaser that looked like it was in World's artstyle a while ago?

I was always too scared to play these games

>>713992370
considering the FNAF CCU I doubt anyone actually plays these games

>>713992370
I was too, but Security Breach and Secret of the Mimic aren't really scary.

>>713994941
mimic is conceptually fucking terrifying but steel wool can't code

>>713995328
The code wasn't the issue this time, I just grew accustomed to this type of horror games after the Outer Wilds DLC.

>>713962257
They literally only "retconned" that installment because Scott himself screwed them over by being incredibly vague and cryptic.

>>713966694
You need ot get off the internet and stop shitting yourself over what younger people are doing. You are turning into your parents.

>>713965068
Throw a dart at any single-player From Software game and you can get a good contender out of it.
William's only really had FNAF 3 to shine so IMO it's hard to rank him in comparison to other villains.

I had a phase where I was kind of trying to eschew Five Nights At Freddy's from my palette because I had started to think it was lame and normalfaggy to be into it. Now, getting more seriously into obscure freeware gaming where Legacy Of Flan and Pilgrim's Progress and The Desolate Hope are some of the bigger titles in the pond, I can see I was being a little immature. The process of following the FNAF series' sequels and promotional rollercoaster in middle school like >>713953840 mentioned was really fun. I have memories of my Dominican classmate nagging me over and over to watch Game Theory and telling me how awesome Matpat was, but even then, as a 13-year-old Homestuck fan, I wasn't into it. Sister Location is the best in the pre-Steel Wool series.

>>713991254
Sister Location has the best aesthetics in the series and you're gay if you think they're bad.

>>713997721
IT ALL
COMES
BACK
TO
FUCKING
HOMESTUCK

>>713997936
Maybe you should stop being a whiny Internet Historian newfag and read it, then, buster.

>>713980086
>the sequels leading up to 6 have none of that.
I'd say they have a lot of it. As a series, FNAF isn't anymore cohesive than Halloween 1-6.

>>713997828
It may have best aesthetics by itself but its a complete and retarded design shift from the last 4 games.
If they were a "New generation" of robots made after 3 - maybe it would not be as bad, but these retarded spaceship robots in a cartoon villain bunker are just jumping the shark way too far compared to the rest. And the cable endos are fucking retarded regardless.

>>713998289
The cable endos are awesome.

>>713960717
/v/ archives dont go back far enough, if you go to smaller boorus from the area you can see this place discussed Freddy before Markiplier found it.

>>713953527 (OP)
Of course we'll never enjoy anything again, we're jaded and hateful and feel only seething rage at the very concept of existence.

FNAF's setting of haunted metal is cool, it should explore stories unrelated to pizzerias

>>713995328
>Tfw I was interested to see how speedrunners would tackle the fact that the Mimic could spawn in any number of suits when entering a room, which would always change the routes they'd have to take
>Lol nope, game's been broken in half after a little over a week
>Exploit found that lets you skip the whole game after 8-ish minutes
Not to give Steel Wool too much shit, but c'mon now.

I was never that big into fnaf but for some reason the more nonsensical memes always get a crack out of me

>>713992641
>cultural phenomenon
>less than 1500 people actually played it at the same time
Holy

>>713992641
This cannot be unedited

>>713954114
Butt why?

>>714000023
I am amazed by fnaf shitposters.
To this fucking day they keep pumping out content and its NOT shit. Especially the SFM videos because jesus fucking christ i haven't seen actual industry animators do shit on par with most of those, and game-focused animators ive seen for other franchises have always left. What the FUCK is with these people? Why are they so fucking creative?

>>714000520
because no archive is perfectly reliable forever. even b4k almost died recently

>>714000981
>actual industry animators
because there's a huge check list and only top of the line picks are allowed if you don't click with all the bullshit you can go fuck yourself.

>>713953527 (OP)
I actually think it's funny how the fanmade headcanons and theories back in the day turned out to be way more interesting than what we got officially
>Fanmade Purple Guy is a nameless dude in his 20s with unexplainable purple skin who was a random employee of Freddy's that killed children for mysterious reasons/to satisfy his sadistic needs. Canon Purple Guy is William Afton who is buddies with the founder and seethes at him eternally due to jealousy, killed children for some magic/eternal youth bullshit
>fanmade Mike Schmidt was just a average joe who was a fan of Foxy and thought he found his dream job, risks his life because he's poor and needs the paycheck. Canon Mike Schmidt is just William's son with a fake name who is there for clues
>theories about Fnaf 2 taking place after the first game when the trailer came out made way more sense than believing the owners of the pizzeria went back to reuse the old models instead of the more advanced toy animatronics
>Foxy or Freddy being responsible for the bite of 87 was way better than a nobody animatronic like Mangle
It felt like the more the story was revealed the less interesting it got.

>>713953527 (OP)
I don't care about none of that hipster shit. I just the old FNAF gameplay and vibes.

>>713953821
Even back then I felt like Fnaf 2 was an atmospheric downgrade. It didn't feel nearly as tangible as 1, it just looked "off"

>>714002945
You’re gay.

why is he so cute?

>>713997546
??? What the fuck are you talking about. Literally none of From games have villains. Also Afton appears in every Fnaf game except 1. He fucking kills a child on screen in 2

>>714003737
he does have a point about the atmospheric change thoughever
albeit I believe it was a deliverate choice to make the first 5 games or so more distinct from one another since, you know, its a point and click management game.

>cringe
Afton was researching remnants to save his kid who got killed by his brother shoving his head into fredbear's mouth
>based
Afton is just a psychopath who accidentally stumbled onto a way to force robots to become haunted after he killed a kid in one

>>713953527 (OP)
I was on /v/ the day this game first went viral here. Crazy to see what it became

>>713956058
This was me but I used porn to find out. It wasn’t until years later I found out foxy was a dude. Probably just retarted

It seems like zoomer children ate so good in the 2010s kiddy horror department. I actually feel like I missed out as a millennial, not being able to see them through a child's lens. They must have felt very real for fiction.

>>713986523
Archives proved me right. I wasn't "there" in the sense that I wasn't paying attention to FNAF threads at the time and trying to cross-check with youtube videos, it's true.

>>714002467
The auschwitz theory is still the GOAT

>>714007146
>Predicts Remnant and Afton almost 1:1
What the FUCK did Scott mean by this?

>>714005268
I saw those threads when they first popped up, but ignored them because I was too into other shit at the time. Fast forward a decade later, and now I’m really into it and enjoying all of games and fan creations.

>>714004318
To fool (you) into letting your guard down. He’s just a harmless widdle wabbit, right?

>>713990782
Henry

>>713953527 (OP)
Wish I could see the archives from when people found that

>>713953658
archivesof /v/ are not that reliable

>>713953658
We still have Undertale at least

>>714009293
Whatever happened with the other fangames from that multiverse-slop initiative to profit off them?
ONAF 3 was fantastic all around

>>713961451
I think 4 was fine in a vacuum story wise. Aside from the fuck you not bite of 87 thing, and the box which was obviously just something that didnt really pan out rather than a direct troll, the story can really just be taken as dying child having nightmares/hallucinations. But then fucking sisterlocation makes it so the nightmare animatronics were actually real and the kid isnt dying in a hospital but is in a replica of his bedroom in a secret underground facility so evil bad man can experiment on him with goofy gas or some shit because muh remnant or whatever. Seriously fuck sister location

>>714010121
cancelled because of petty drama or in dev hell

>>714010121
In limbo/cancelled. The faverse initiative was a objective failure. Turns out the vast majority of the fan game devs were untalented hacks that would rather argue with children on twitter all day than actually work on the games they're being paid to make. And the one dev that actually released their game (ONAF) was ousted as a pedophile. The whole thing was just one big shit show.

>>714007831
Alternatively known as Swastchica

Unsettling thread. I don't feel old, I feel creeped out by how zoomers are adults now with opinions and consciousness.

>>713953527 (OP)
Markiplier found this game under a week after launch. And you didn't know about it either, because otherwise you would have backed the kickstarter.

>>714010121
cancelled or in limbo, maybe one day it'll be more than a great flumpty game but for now it's basically a giant mess.

>>714000981
>What the FUCK is with these people? Why are they so fucking creative?
Because this place first discovered and popularized the franchise, and once upon a time /v/ was rife with original content. There was also the /vg/ thread which used to have so much original content that you had ten simultaneous people at any given time producing stories alongside the official games, back when Freddy lore was much more mysterious. It got to the point where if the most recent Freddy game got dull or had been played to death you had 700 reply /vg/ threads just for discussing some content creator's original characters or whatever comic lore they were doing. Mercifully the modern internet never discovered that era because it was distracted by much bigger things of interest, like Pewdiepie or Markiplier.

>>713953527 (OP)
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *headphones saturate*
>"game over, bitch"
I don't get why people like FNAF gameplay

>>713960741
When something blows up in popularity, yes that typically does indeed lead to more cringe and its roots being forgotten.

>>714011601
>If I reduce the audio-visual experience to a text description, then people will agree with me

>>713980086
Yes I do because most of the best horror media ever made operated on less is more philosophy.

>>714011601
>walk around
>do a puzzle
>walk around again
>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>*Static noise*
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *headphones saturate*
>"game over, bitch"
I don't get why people like Horror gameplay

>>713991254
I am not aiming to purity test you, but SL's bots are the most classic Cawthon designs we have in a FNAF series, we all know he's made enough sweet robots to make someone from /m/ cream.
I think it's a departure from the Fazbear mascots in 1, yes, and a big deal of that is because half of them are humanoid. Freddy, Bonbon and Foxy don't have felt for skin, that probably also contributes.
BUT I fucking love these designs and how creepy they were made. I especially love the segmented faceplate hinges, they make so little practical sense for appearances but god do they look amazing as another layer of uncanny before even opened, but also freaky as hell when any funtimes' faces looking muscular-looking wires underneath when opened. I think, if anything, it's peak. Circus Baby's design is as peak as Whithered Chica, Mangle, Molten Freddy, and original Springtrap. I fucking love her creepy grimmace that's like a smile not properly designed to be viewed from all angles.
While I do think the voices have been overdone in SB/UCN Heather Masters, Kellen Geoff, and whoever does the narrator/handunit all gice fucking amazing vocal performances that add to their characters, Funtime Freddy absolutely benifites from sounding like a maniac. While I have mixed feelings about Ennard in appearance I also think Scott bailed too early on him and merley scratched the surface on what his character could be/do.
The game itself was fucked because of the linear story progression, repetitive gameplay minigames, fucked checkpoint system, and nigh 4. That said, the art and audio designs are probably one of the best in the franchise.

>>714011601
>>nothing_ever_happens.jpg
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *headphones saturate*
Sounds like something happened.

>>714002945
FNAF2 is held back mostly by the puppet mini game, that really felt like busywork for the sake of it. if you actually liked the spooky shit, FNAF2 had a lot more content and more shit going on, I think it's the most underrated of the series.

>>714002467
>Fanmade Purple Guy is a nameless dude in his 20s with unexplainable purple skin
No, fan made purple guy is "Vincent" a 20's something hot AF serial killer. (Seriously EVERYONE called him that back in the day, and I never gave a shit about this god forsaken series).

>>713953527 (OP)
It seems furries latched onto it and tried claiming it as their own pretty quick after it blew up.
Hence some of them acting like the revelation of Scott having some conservative viewpoints was a "betrayal" or major shock or something.

>>714002467
only OG theory I'm partial to is mike being some random guy desperate for a paycheck and somehow really fucking good at staying alive so much the fazbear corp just finds an excuse to fire him because he's actually making money somehow

>>714012902
It was common knowledge immediately anon. All you had to do was look at his Youtube channel or who he hired to be Henry and you would know his politics.

>>713962003
Desolate Hope fucking rocked
I always wonder if he had made the third game of the trilogy

>>714011601
You got jumpscared because you didn't realise and react to what happened.
>>714011179
Cant tell you the number of youtube videos I saw of media while I was in college have commentors or youtube essayists say things like >>713953840. We're getting old. Just don't make the same mistskes boomers had when adressing or looking at the youth, milennials already get it bad enough for all the DEI/SJW progressivist shit. My mom rejected spongebob when I watched it as a kid, back when it only had 1 season, and I always found that rather fuddy duddy when she also encouraged me to watch classic Avery Looney Tunes that would do similar schtick. I'm walking away with a fondness for both.

>>713959128
it was mainly to hint at fnaf world having le creepy 2deep4you plot so that theorists would be interested in it. it's retarded.

>>714002467
i wish the night guards were just random joes, making it so that nearly everyone is just william's son has always been so fucking retarded.

>>713962003
Ho fuck I remember that
>>714013172
Ngl, I loved how it looked but I can't get past any of the first areas because the platforming teeters between annoying to bad. Also I remember being confused about the day cycles and outdoor exploration scavenging. I really should give it another go.

>>714013368
It's the same thing as Star Wars, just because the first three movies revolved around the Skywalkers means the entire franchise does too?

FNAF 1 is genuinely a masterpiece whether or not you like the series. The fact Scott managed to make such a great game in fucking clickteam fusion is nothing short of incredible.

>>714013756
>The fact Scott managed to make such a great game in fucking clickteam fusion is nothing short of incredible.
True
I trust RPG Maker games more than Clickteam.

>>714013867
>RPG Maker
pick up the fox
pick up the fox
pick up the fox
pick up the fox

>>714010865
>And the one dev that actually released their game (ONAF) was ousted as a pedophile. The whole thing was just one big shit show.
holy kek so that's why he fucked off the internet huh

>>714014530
Yeah. Dude was sending sick shit to kids on Discord.

>>714013867
>>714014421
engage the camera motherfucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XylhU1-be1g

>>714014767
wrong game

>>714002467
>It felt like the more the story was revealed the less interesting it got.
Agreed.
I'd also say the story bit off more than it could chew, by introducing all these named and voiced characters that don't show up too much. It really feels like you got to know Phone Guy better as a character than William and his kids. The later games are vague in a way the first three weren't.

>>714014767
>devour my hot bird ass, Freddy

>>714014912
i accidentally replied to the second post, both are RPGMaker though and use the same TTS for the bots so it doesn't matter too much

>>713953527 (OP)
Facepunch forums had fnaf thread way before, everyone mocked game at first but then shit bricks.

fuck garry kike btw

>>714011089
swastichica is the true final boss of the series

>>714015072
Part of it is just early fandom fun. Right when a series starts theres all this optimism and hype. You don't know a lot about the series so you're free to fill in the gaps yourself with theories and AUs. Then as things continue more details are revealed, people start to disagree with the direction of things and all that fun starts to dry up.

>>713954136
>does not mentions failed kickstarter scott made
>does not mentions fnaf demo which was released before game itself
newfag alert newfag alert

bump

>>714018153
bump these nuts lmao
nerd

>>714009171
undertale is sour dog shite

>>714013097
I know. That's why the people treating it as shocking or some sort of betrayal was weird.

>>714013097
But that on it's own for Henry wouldn't really prove anything. He chose a considerably left-wing California studio to work on his franchise as well.

>>714007996
Henry didn't make Baby

>>714013368
the ones in 2 are, not even revenant

>>714004318
because Henry wanted to make William's furry OC into a faggot

>>714006097
we did. Me and my friends did at least. It was fun

>>714006097
>zoomer children ate so good

only zoomers use phrases like "ate so good". FNAF is only really relatable if you were an 80's or 90's kid who experienced the real thing, there's no way most kids raised on FNAF actually went to the real thing often, chuck e cheese has been on the decline for years and years

>>714012529
>7ft tall

Does fnaf has to be horror? Why nit make it a party game like guitar hero?

>>714021207
but I like the horror parts

>>713972137
the way he comes out of the dark is really great, adds to the feeling of him getting up in your face

>>714006486
So it doesn't bother you that the people who were literally in those threads said they had multiple weeks talking about the game, when they had to go to sites like indieDB and desura (I remember that myself) because it wasn't even on steam yet? Which easily plants said discussions as before the Markiplier youtube video?

if your not currently enjoying the current fnaf period. i don't know what to say

>>714022410
I always did, just with breaks

>>714022410
It's not the same but I like it because it has it's own unique and fun ideas. The Mimic is cool and only gets cooler, so I'm just excited to see what adventures he gets up to. The old stuff I can still love and appreciate as it's own thing, but I can get into the new stuff too.

>>713953527 (OP)
>>you will never enjoy a pre-mascot horror genre again
Dude, horror games from like 2005 - 2014 basically didn't exist aside from Amnesia and PT, both of which you could class as walking simulators.

>>713953840
>in elementary school (Year 7)
>only computer I had was a piece of shit laptop, didn't trust it to run any games really
>still interested in the FNAF games, liked the game theory video on the first one that compared it to a real spree killing in a restaurant and had followed the Jim Sterling videos on Scott Cawthon's games
>in high school, parents gift me a better laptop for my birthday
>finally play the games now that all four are out
>don't like them
>play Harvester instead

>>714012529
No, the big deal was that every robot, including Springtraps springlocks, looked like an simple robot mechanically that worked well through all 4 games.
Sister location robots look good but they do not fit the style established by 4 previous games, especially if you take the narrative into consideration. If anyone somehow never heard of FNAF but saw the original cast - they would quickly piece together that those are animatronics a-la chuckecheese. SL "animatronics" on the other hand look like full on sci fi robots from a completely different game and i doubt anyone would ever think that stuff like Ballora was designed as a children entertainment robot that was supposed to be rented out, even if as a kid murder machine, compared to slightly uncanny but overall safe looking crew from 1, which was made AFTER these.

All in all, i think the word i am looking for is "Overengineered" in regards to SL cast. Too much space-age bells and whistles, barely any actual animatronic. Yes they look like something Scott would make for Desolate hope... but here's the thing - this is not desolate hope,.which makes this argument equal to saying that putting Rayguns and Wookies into later indiana Jones movies is a good idea because George Lucas did Star wars before it.

>>714026267
why did afton create a sexy ballerina robot for kids anyway

>>713953527 (OP)
Bullshit maybe 0.5% of /v/ would know fnaf if not for markilplier.

>>714026267
>SL "animatronics" on the other hand look like full on sci fi robots from a completely different game and i doubt anyone would ever think that stuff like Ballora was designed as a children entertainment robot that was supposed to be rented out, even if as a kid murder machine, compared to slightly uncanny but overall safe looking crew from 1, which was made AFTER these.
Considering even Afton's own board of directors called out the SL designs, I'm fairly certain them being overengineered is the point.

>>714002467
Fanmade Purple Guy was Vincent, who was the most terrible OC garbage you could imagine. The seething born from Vincentfags after Afton got named was the most unbearable fucking thing.

>>714013756
It's been mentioned before, but what Scott does with Clickteam is genuine wizardry. Pretty much nobody knows how he does it.

>>713953840
so many zoomers on this site now
>t. fnaf 1 came out during my hs sophomore year

>>714026267
I hear you and can see the viewpoint. I kind of have similar feelings on some of those points with the nightmares of 4, overdone to fit image, granted that is what the game was going for and it accomplished it well but gave me a "jumping the shark" vibe. As much as I dislike the phantoms of 3, those at least felt more aligned with the predecessors.
I think I'm fine with the shift of SL's bot design but I see where you're coming from.
Now I will also say, and >>714027661 almost hinted at this, the SL bots are avtually 100% Afton made, whereas Emily was the lead designer of the Fredbear and Freddy crews, unless I'm mistaken. I wonder if that was meant to be conveyed in the design differences.

>>713953527 (OP)
FNAF literally had no positives outside of the community and Scott's interactions with it.

Theorizing about the lore, engaging with videos done about it and speculating on future stuff, the hoaxes, coming home from school to see another cool af teaser from Scott. The only 2 games that ever had something going for it outside of that were Fnaf World which was geniuenly a fun little RPG and Sister Location which was the only scary and narratively interesting game in the series.

FNAF's positives started to die out after SL released and Scott decided to go full franchise with FNAF. I can't blame him at all, Scott was an actual family man who wanted the best for his wife and kids so he banked as hard as he could on fnaf to make sure they could have the best life possible, but fnaf as an IP concept literally does not work if its a global franchise with 2000 different spin offs.

It's like unfiction webseries like Marble Hornets, the moment you try to go overly mainstream and global with it, there's no point.

>>714021207
Fnaf world
5 laps
Id be down for a Freddy Mario Party clone

>>714029091
That's what I got from the designs too. Henry was the animatronic guy and Afton was the money guy, when he went off to do his own thing after not so subtly killing 5 kids (even if he wasn't/wasn't yet caught with it), he made the SL animatronics from his own mind and with a focus towards money and killing kids. That's why they look so freaky and are so actively dangerous in a way that fits. Clearly everyone in universe hated them, they were Afton's twisted creation.

>>714029165
Am I strange for wanting a Fnaf cartoon? Take the premise of World, the kids create a space to have fun, and see how it works for a show.

>>714014767
Idk how retarded it is but FNAFuckboys was and still is the funniest thing to me. Putting absurd shitpost 2014 style humor together with deadpan generated voice acting is some of the funniest shit you can do in the universe. The fact it was a pretty good rpgmaker game aside from that was a miracle.

>>713953527 (OP)
I never did like FNAF. It’s subculture faggot bitch shit like FNF and Undertale.

>>714029401
Even Baby admits the one day she was working at the restaraunt some people feared her. God, Afton is such a freaky unapologetic flamboyant dick, I kinda fuck with that energy, but he has autistic levels of fascinstion with performers, creepy clowns do seem like his speed.
>>714029563
No but you'll be Monkey's Paw'ed. Somebody made a youtube cartoon fan thing, if that works.

>>713990782
It's actual Scott. Scott himself kinda talked about this but Animdude and the Animdude avatar that shows up in fnaf world as a boss is meant to be the "image" Scott puts on when interacting with the community and fans. The desk guy is meant to be the real scott and represent how making all of fnaf was not as much of a joy as it seemed. Scott somewhat talked about how much of a conceptual nightmare making the books and SL was and it put him in a few dark places of his mind that he geniunenly didn't intent do be in, as FNAF 1-4 were not only done as one entire thing but still made out of relative pure fun from him. This entire weird dark place manifested in SL and Baby which is why desk guy acts like she's a crime against humanity.

>>714022410
SW games are soul but I don't really care about the mimic or any AI thing
>Oh wow evil robot... That means something to someone I guess

>>714029745
>but he has autistic levels of fascinstion with performers, creepy clowns do seem like his speed.

It plays into the theory I always liked that Afton is from some armpit of eastern europe. Mascot restaurants were never a thing there in any context but clowns and performers were often present at children events. Henry knew how to make mascots really well cause he likely was truly fond of the concept since he was a kid. Afton had no relation to that nostalgia so he built the robots on what he had to go on. It even tracks since Ballora looks suspiciously like how women circus assistents dressed sometimes in the 60s-80s Europe

>try to play sister location for the first time
>get to the bon bon hand puppet segment
>can't get him to show his bowtie ever
>look up other footage and he's peaking higher than he is for me
genuinely what the fuck

>>714030076
I wish SW would play more into the idea of free roam horror in FNAFesque places instead of trying to bank on Scott's lore heavy things.

Security Breach is honestly a pretty damm good execution of the concept of playing a small kid lost in this huge ass mall, that's the thing I liked the most about it, everything was so large and big and there were so many rooms that the space itself felt scary and daunting, it really captured that feeling you had as a kid that if you got lost at night in a mall you'd be freaking the fuck out. They should have just tried and stuck to that formula but with different spaces that fit that nostalgic horror vibe.

>>713953527 (OP)
What is that expression supposed to convey anyway?

I find it hilarious how as FNAF went more and more child catered, the shitposting community got more and more unhinged. Idk any other community around a modern trend that still treats total shock humor shitposts as funny aside from fnaf

Pizzeria Sim was the perfect ending to FNAF and I refuse to acknowledge anything that came after as canon

>>714030883
Same but FNAF 1

>>713961451
fnaf 2 (paycheck) put a wrench by taking place 1987, when 87 and fredbear represented the spooky past
in scott's mind fnaf 2 wasn't 87, since the concept of fnaf 4 was the bite of 87 until he remembered
the 1987 paycheck was mindless fanservice like adopting "golden freddy" when fredbear was coined in the same game

>>714030443
Lust

>>714030443
>is this organigger serious?

>>714030313
I want security breach 2 more than most games, but Scott is legitimately a bad story teller and needs to be kept away from direct control. The hands off/barley anything approach sure fucking worked well seeing everyone knows the original games plot. If course everyone though burntrap was Afton seeing as the fuckin game never tells you it's an evil robot
They should go all out, imagine a fazbear freight section of the mall

>>714009171
troon game

>>713953527 (OP)
I stopped following the series after 2 when I found out he's just milking the franchise. And I still believe anything lore outside of "bad man puts kids into machines" is not worth investing in. And boy... I made the best choice

>>714031203
Secret of the Mimic had the most direct storytelling out of the entire franchise and he wrote it. I think Steel Wool just made him tell them what he wanted exactly.

>>714030883
Fnaf 1 to 4 is like muah, perfection, classic horror tragedy and the same time I kinda stopped being so into it for a while

>>714030170
All I know is you have to be patient and not flail the flashlight around. I'd say proct hin to move somewhere else if the bow isn't that visible. Can the bow be clicked through Freddy's body or does it have to not overlap the model?

>>714030443
>are you ready for Freddy?>>714031469

>>714029653
it has and will always be one of my favorite fangames, for me it'll always be when even when it's still being silly it ends up still being hype because of the music choices like basically all the final bosses like 2's BB and 3's springtrap fights

>almost no music for 4 games, a lot of the music that was sparely used is not even made for the game
>decides to make one of the best horror themed pieces of music of all time for SL

https://youtu.be/MRGcOAPCqmw?list=RDMRGcOAPCqmw

Seriously VentaBlack is one of the coolest sounding horror tracks I've ever heard in a movie/game, it's so incredible. And most of the other tracks in SL are also godlike. Why did Scott work Leon Riskin this hard for SL?

>>714031492
I got bored playing it and just looked up the endings, which I don't feel ruined my experience

FNAF needs a hard reboot. Back to a simple pizzeria with animatronics that haunted by dead children and a serial killer at large. And I'm not talking about the comic book game adaptation, either.

>>714031776
For me, it's Watch Your Six, but they use the same motif so I consider our tastes close enough

>>714031732
>tfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBWWumC4XBc&ab_channel=Dramacard starts blasting as you deplete cranky's healthbar beyond the first half
Made all the grueling token grinding I did for the speed boosts 100% worth it for me, probably one of the only reasons why I'd say the originals are just as worth playing as CC is since the latter made him completely unkillable

I still think the franchise died when the Marionette stopped being relevant. Ignoring the classic and withered animatronics, the Puppet is the most FNaF character from them all.
>His own music box mechanic parallels Freddy's toreador march when the power is out
>Amazing character design that stands out the most to every other character, including modern ones, as he doesn't appear to be a robot
>His expressionless face can subtly show emotion depending of the camera angle
>Biggest connection with many spirits and his character role combines with everyone. Ringmaster of the missing children, Springtrap's nemesis, Elizabeth's broken reflection, and even the Mimic is related to Nightmarionne
>Even more paranormal than Golden Freddy, as he behaves demonic and at some point, organic. The Marionette can stretch, expand and regenerate limbs like a tentacle venom snake in the books. This behavior doesn't make any sense with any established remnant and spirit rule in the franchise, while everyone is a haunting robot or some paranormal event, this makes the Puppet appear like a fucking organic creature
Even if his concept was poorly executed, Lefty and the Rockstars were single-handedly making FNaF 6 a FNaF game. Springtrap evolved into a slasher and got his own fandom, just like Sans got his own AU fandom separated from Undertale. And the funtimes and the mimic are from a completely different genre.
The franchise burned when the Puppet burned.

>>714032362
shit i posted the wrong version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJFlDiqglQg&ab_channel=VGMusicfan1314

>>713953821
not with that fuckin recolor

>>714032381
I agree though all of this could have been carried on and well executed if it wasn't for how FNAF 6 turned out to be. FNAF 6 shouldn't have been this forced "perfect ending" and it should not have been that ending at all. FNAF 3 clearly has an end for the child victims and the golden freddy soul, after SL, Fnaf6 should have been about Puppet and Henry vs Baby and Afton as they're the only things still alive and doing shit by that point and they directly parallel each other. Both the puppet and baby were kids of Henry and Afton respectfully that died unintentionally but ended up becoming creations that helped their fathers.

Scott needs to come back and make a classic fnaf game set in the first Freddy’s location, the one where the withereds came from. It would sort of be a cross between FNAF 1 and 2 featuring the main 5 and the Puppet as the main attractions, with Fredbear and Spring Bonnie kept in the back

>>714032716
I still remember how everyone thought both Springtrap and Puppet's reflection could be seen in the Sister Location trailer. Perhaps in another timeline, that game was actually in the future, with only Puppet and Springtrap as returning old characters

>>714033035
*main four, or are Golden Freddy and Fredbear different? I can’t recall

>>714033164
Lots of continuity errors. They're the same animatronic, but Fredbear refers to when it was just a lifeless suit and Golden Freddy to when he was possessed.

>>714033035
Anons would decry it but I had a similar idea just go full schlock and do a paranormal investigation as a kid
breaking into said location
Actual purple man/Afton running in at the end to stab you would be the scariest "oh shit this is real" moment in Vidya history

>>714032362
a silly shitpost fnaf rpg should not be as kino as it is but they really make the bosses seem like actual threats even with the silliness.
>i'll fucking kill you if it's the last thing i do
>i might not live to see a better day but i'll at least take solace in the fact that you won't either
>INHALE MY FUCKING DONG

>>714021748
If that were true I'd have seen it in the archives when I searched for it.

>>714033525
I thought this is what Into the Pit was going to be desu. Those graphics with your narrative idea would be amazing.

I cannot fathom the appeal of these games, especially given the majority of the audience seem to have been literal children when they were first released.

When I was 15, I tried to make a Five Nights At Freddy’s text adventure game where the twist was that the main character was incubating an animatronic in their stomach and it would chestburst them to life in a hybrid machine/spiritual birth at the end. Keep in mind, this was before any of the flesh-and-metal plot revelations that came later where Scott actually did that.

>>714034550
Did you write that Fazbear Frights story?

>>713953527 (OP)
This never happened lil zoom zoom.
T. 2003 old fag.

>>714038150
>

>>714002467
Don't care, Mike's journey for redemption was based

>>714032301
Was about to make this post
SL has a fucking golden ost

>>713991254
For me that happened as soon as FNAF2. The designs in the first game were perfect because they genuinely looked like real creepy animatronics. After that they were either too cutesy or too tryhard

>>714038232

>>713953527 (OP)
>Zoomers are actually getting nostalgic for this abject DOGSHIT VIDEO GAME
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>714040296
all that horror was before FNAF was Slender clones
it just needed something semi-decent to explode

>>714032716
I always wished FNAF 6 had stuck with what SL set up and been about William's family and robots. Bringing in Henry and Puppet feels like it came at the expense of everyone else.

>>714040296
>i am so incredibly angry and triggered about this, argh

>>714032716
i think 3 was too weird of an ending to be the final game since springtrap escapes
even then, i like 3 4 and 6 for different reasons

4 might as well not be a freddy game but it is a really good horror game, i like the designs in 6 and 3 actually has you work as a security guard (as in look in the fucking cameras)

>>714040296
Why did you laugh in all caps when everyone knows you're shitting yourself? Like, poop is literally coming out of your fucking asshole.

>>714040296
And it will only continue to get worse.
We already have unironic poppy playtime threads here, how much longer until gen beta is getting teary eyed over garten of banban?

yup

>>714040852
>boo hoo time moves on
are you going to browse this forum in 40 years?
someday people will be nostalgic for friday night funkin and nothing you do will stop that from happening

>>714040639
afton story already ended after pizzeria simulator, no point in retreading. I don't mind the new lore because having everything concentrated in one guy is just lame and it makes more sense for Afton to be some dickhead business guy than some guy with the capability to build skynet but only obsess with killing kids

>>714041470
i'm honestly impressed at the amount of garbage they introduced after that FNAF world update and Sister location

>>713953527 (OP)
>tfw you will never be a zoomer and know what it feels like to worship e-celebs
feels bad man

>>713959027
I replayed 1-6 last year before the movie came out with friends and it was a good time. I think they've all held up well enough
>>713997721
Same here, it's a balance. I don't think you should be puffing out your chest and discussing the cinematic mastery of children's shows on xitter but I do think it's good and healthy to acknowledge that what you thought was cool as a kid can still be cool now. In my head I compare it to tokukatsu and wrestling and the like
>>714013306
this is how I go through life, just try not to treat it like the boomers
>>713968000
it's not like I didn't play other shit like halo, fnaf was just the first time it felt like a thing that was exclusive to my age group

>>714040296
Millennials are nostalgic about shitty hyper bloody fanmade versions of mascot video game characters. They don't get to talk.

>>714042884
I'm nostalgic for games like Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Twisted Metal 2, Ridge Racer Type 4, Phantasy Star Online, and Ragnarok Online. You wouldn't catch me dead near mascot horror.

why haven't they rebooted the series
nobody cares about the mimic and the only worthwhile thing to ever come out from the games is chica and roxy

>>714043535
Scott doesn't want to

>>713997546
Fromsoft games are fucking dogshit and over hyped roll slop garbage.

>>714044097
Agreed. Soulslop has done irreparable damage to gaming.

I don't know or care about all the interconnected "lore". I just evaluate each game as its own thing.

>>713953527 (OP)
I never played FNAF. What did I miss?

>>714047096
nothing, most of the biggest fnaf fans never played it.

>>714047096
Half the fun was trying to figure it out, experiencing it with all the answers and secrets already laid out is not that interesting

>>714004558
>Literally none of From games have villains
They all have villains, it's just that not everyone you fight is working for one bad guy.

>>714047896
>They all have villains
Nope. MAYBE you could argue Genichiro is a villain, but he is obviously way worse tahn Afton

>>714047096
A genuinely good horror game as the first installment, then a slow and deep spiral into autism with everything afterwards

When was the last time this series had a cohesive direction? I remember things were already starting to fall apart when 4 and Silver Eyes came out.

>>713953527 (OP)
>When people hadn't found out the missing kids plot
The very first thread made on FNAF talked about it. Stop LARPING as an oldfag over zoomer shit you worthless fucking cocksucker.

I just enjoyed the games. The only problem is when they threw a fit over Scott being a Republican, and got him to sell it.

>>714011089
Carlos!

>>714030158
>armpit of eastern europe.
AUSTR(AL)IAN
MAD
LAD

>>714047096
Simplicity done right.

>>714040852
I don't think anyone actually likes Banban.

The SB Pizzaplex has an awesome design but the actual game part sucks. How could you use that environment to make a good game?

So the Mimics end goal is an endoskeleton army right?

>>714051539
>How could you use that environment to make a good game?
That's obvious, make it a multiplayer hangout with a lot of minigames

>>714051539
Make it Resident evil

>>713962008
I always thought the point of the 83 bite was to be the initial event that caused the spirits to reenact it in 87, with Golden Freddy becoming active in FNAF 2 on the night before the 87 bite, acting as a kinda grudge from 83. Who actually caused the 87 bite never really mattered, the 83 bite is there to give a reason for why someone got bit in the first place, tying it to an individual's story (Crying Child) instead of it just being a random act of violence from the spirits.

>>714040852
More than half of the posters on threads of those new, dumb indie games are porn addicts that have been posting here for maybe at least a decade, or pervert discordfags. I was surprised in a very sad way when I saw an unironic Sprunki thread, and even more when people there were only talking about how sexy the characters were. The characters, from that retarded trash. Those are the faggots that post on /trash/ and like to bring their literal trash here. At least fnaf was being discussed here since 2014, I mean look at this
>>713999298

Retards itt are making this a generational gap thing, when it should be more about the quality of the threads. And /v/ fnaf threads are surprisingly some of the best here. It's sounds stupid, but somehow it's true. Unlike other threads

>>713958552
They did a bioshock
It's bioshock 1 and bioshock 2 dlc (bioshock 3)
It doesn't really make sense but how is it supposed to make sense when you are just copying something else?

>>714052684
A survival horror fnaf game would be really cool, but I don't see one getting greenlit anytime soon.

>>713953527 (OP)
as soon as there was a plot beyond "the animatronics want to put you in a suit" it all went to hell. it was that comic premise combined with the heavy atmosphere that made it alluring, and the little hints of lore like "bite of 87" (can't believe i'm saying that) were just sprinkles, a hint of something greater. but once it delved in, it sucked and i only occasionally gave fnaf a glance.

>>714014767
Five nights at fuckboys won

this thread is a fever dream. I feel so old now

>>714062779
i fucking did it eat my shit

>>714063000
It will happen to youuuuuuu.

Favourite jumpscare sound?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ld8HY1fjo

>>714027386
Should have he made an ugly ballerina robot?

>>714057905
>A survival horror fnaf game
Isn't FNAF already survival horror (or at least the first six games)?

>>713953527 (OP)
fnaf was always shit

>>714069910
Sl>ps>3>4> steel wool>1>2
Shattered Chica's noise is pretty cool