Five Nights At Freddy's

You could argue you kind of "fight" Afton in the third game... But you only learn about his identity long after the game is over, and the place is set on fire for no apparent reason. It's funny how Dayshift also makes fun of that. By the way, I discovered there's Killer in Purple, another fangame where you play as Afton himself. Is it any good?
 
skykiii said:
This has honestly always been one of my issues with FNAF lore. I feel its hard to care because you rarely ever experience it in the moment.

Like, to compare to another evil robot maker... you actually fight Dr. Wily. William Afton is just some guy who is mentioned in books.
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I remember seeing a meme about William Afton and his de-evolution as a villain which depicted William Afton in the 2014 side with his original pixel portrayal and then the next section was "William Afton in 2025" and it is a picture of Dick Dastardly who is a Saturday morning cartoon villain from Hanna Barbara.

I felt like it accurately portrayed his regression as a villain.
 
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Powerhouse of the Cell said:
then the next section was "William Afton in 2025" and it is a picture of Dick Dastardly who is a Saturday morning cartoon villain from Hanna Barbara.
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So this line gave me an idea for a fangame:

Cassie has become the new Vanny, but every time one of Afton's plans fails she does the Muttley snicker.

I guess that means the armies of Music Man bots are the Ant Hill Mob in this scenario. What we need now is for someone to be Penelope Pitstop.
 
They are following the second game to the letter, even that stupid mask. Not bad. Even better, the first movie, which was sadly a bit average due to being too short and not developed enough IMO, DID have a confrontation with Anton, no matter how brief it was.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
They are following the second game to the letter, even that stupid mask. Not bad. Even better, the first movie, which was sadly a bit average due to being too short and not developed enough IMO, DID have a confrontation with Anton, no matter how brief it was.
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By the looks of the trailer, it looks like we get some Afton flashbacks, which is a good idea. Their solution to the timeline fuckery of having the FNAF 2 place be the original location was also a pretty sensible one
 
As a franchise turbo oldfag, my issues with the first movie were that they rushed straight to purpleman like a virgin on prom night, and the lack of gore. The gore thing is understandable, this has become a franchise for the littlest tiniest pacifer-slurping infants, but I'm worried this movie is going to start rushing to other shit that appeared in way later games instead of giving the "current" stuff time to shine, like the dude that appears out of nowhere in the last real game to say "I was also here the whole time and now I'm going to end the franchise (not really)". That guy has apparently already been cast so we'll see how that turns out, but I dunno.

I feel like Golden Freddy really got shafted in the first one considering he was THE big mystery of the first game. It looks like the marionette is a really big focus of this one, being THE big mystery of the second game, which I like.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
but I'm worried this movie is going to start rushing to other shit that appeared in way later games instead of giving the "current" stuff time to shine
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I mean the Sonic movies already do this considering Shadow is in the third movie and Knuckles was pushed hard in the second movie even though Tails also made his debut in the second movie.

Hollywood tends to have massive ADHD when it comes to plot and backstory, especially if it relates to video games. Going back to the 90's with the second Mortal Kombat movie, they had all these characters introduced from the third game only to kill them all quickly with either no or a very VERY brief explanation as to why they were even there in the first place.

Unless you have a director that's going to be 100% faithful to the games, this is the kind of trade-off you have to just accept if you want a vidya IP to be on the big screen. It sucks, but that's how it is. Not even anime is 100% faithful. Last vg anime series I saw that even came close to it was the Ace Attorney series.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
Hollywood tends to have massive ADHD when it comes to plot and backstory, especially if it relates to video games
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I mean, it makes sense. Like how many movies would you want before Shadow makes an appearance? He came well past a decade into Sonic, and if we're only introducing one major ally a movie, it'd take like, four or five for Shadow to finally appear.

As for Five Nights at Freddy's, it's sort of the same thing. If every movie focused solely on one game, it'd take six whole movies to get through the decent part of the franchise, and I don't think that'll work out at all. I'd like it if it took time to breathe a bit, but it's just not realistic.
 
To be fair, it's not like the games have a lengthy and extensive plot, so covering multiple games per movie makes perfect sense. I suppose all of the classic saga until SL might be covered by movies (a trilogy was planned IIRC).
 
I just hope the movies stop at Pizzeria Simulator at the latest. Ultimate Custom Night works as like, maybe a minute long epilogue at best.
 
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