Five Nights At Freddy's

[Count groudon]

Freddy's has been out for a month, FNAF is really getting old. The sequel better bring some new shit to the table.

Didn't the guy who made it say he had a bunch of ideas for animatronics and areas that didn't make it into the game that he promised to use in the sequel? If so I honestly hope they find a way to make it scary and not just a massive clusterfuck of evil robot animals charging at you.

 

[DustygreeneNCR]

Didn't the guy who made it say he had a bunch of ideas for animatronics and areas that didn't make it into the game that he promised to use in the sequel? If so I honestly hope they find a way to make it scary and not just a massive clusterfuck of evil robot animals charging at you.

It'll be Five Nights at Call of Duty.

 

[RetardBus]

Didn't the guy who made it say he had a bunch of ideas for animatronics and areas that didn't make it into the game that he promised to use in the sequel? If so I honestly hope they find a way to make it scary and not just a massive clusterfuck of evil robot animals charging at you.

I forgot, but I think so. I hope that they serve other roles than the original four, because too many robots would suck, especially if they didn't really serve a purpose other than quantity. Maybe they could possibly have a parody of furbies in there. Not necessarily associated with Chuck E. Cheese but they're still both extremely creepy and considered animatronics of some sort.

Either way, I hope it will be another point and click game with a few things to spice it up. Freddy as a franchise has great potentials for both sequels and spinoffs.

 

[c-no]

It'll be Five Nights at Call of Duty.

Complete with scripted jump scares of Freddy coming to get you even if you do play very well.

 

[Count groudon]

I forgot, but I think so. I hope that they serve other roles than the original four, because too many robots would suck, especially if they didn't really serve a purpose other than quantity. Maybe they could possibly have a parody of furbies in there. Not necessarily associated with Chuck E. Cheese but they're still both extremely creepy and considered animatronics of some sort.

Either way, I hope it will be another point and click game with a few things to spice it up. Freddy as a franchise has great potentials for both sequels and spinoffs.

I think it'd be pretty cool if the other animatronics just fucked with you instead of attack you directly. Like maybe there could be one that messes around with the camera, or one that distracts you so you lose track of where the others are. But I just hope they find a way to make it better without ruining the things that made the first one so fun and terrifying.

 

[Mourning Dove]

It's happening

So I'm assuming in the sequel the Freddy's Pizza place is somehow reopening, yet they haven't even bothered to maintain their animatronics? Freddy looks more ragged than before. How is this supposed to attract customers and not scare them away again? I know this is supposed to be a horror game and Freddy is supposed to look scary to us beyond the fourth wall, but this is me sperging about game details.

 

[ASoulMan]

I can't wait to see what new mechanics Scott brings to the table. This has gotten me thinking about what will be in the game already.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Actual stuffed bear

 

[exball]

I hope there's an animatronic that can kill your lights cameras. That'd add quite a bit of suspense in the later nights.

 

[Watermelon1337]

So I'm assuming in the sequel the Freddy's Pizza place is somehow reopening, yet they haven't even bothered to maintain their animatronics? Freddy looks more ragged than before. How is this supposed to attract customers and not scare them away again? I know this is supposed to be a horror game and Freddy is supposed to look scary to us beyond the fourth wall, but this is me sperging about game details.

I think through the game's own hints like on a newspaper or something that it says the pizza place is getting shut down next year, but the owner promises that the animatronics will be kept somewhere safe and won't be dismantled because they have "a place in our hearts". So maybe you're gonna be a security guard at the warehouse Freddy and the gang will be held in, or wherever they'll be moved?

 

[Andrew Noel Schaefer]

While Five Frights at Dennys isnt a game I would ever play because I am a giant pussy when it comse to jump scares, I would be a liar if I said I did not like the atmosphere and mysterious lore behind it, especially the way of how it makes you question the nature of the animatronics or even Cameraman's line of work. But even as it leaves some things in this fun void where there is no direct answer and having one would kill most of the atmosphere the game builds upon (Face it, whatever theorys YOU! have are a thousand times more intresting then whatever the author of the game came up with) I would still like some 'clues' on certain things.

Specifically Golden Freddie. I personally like to say that he is either the secret ringleader of the whole thing... or Phone Guy stuffed into an animatronic suit and then may or may not be all in Cameraguys head

I eagerly await what direction the series will go to in FIVE FRIGHTS AT DENNYS II: FOXYS FURRY VENGEANCE

 

[Watermelon1337]

I agree that leaving lots of things unanswered is what makes the game really good, and I'd love to see more things around the new game giving us more details to the 'story', just not enough so we can start seeing an actual plot.

However, I will be extremely pissed if the "dead children are possessing the animatronics" theory becomes the main belief. I find that theory the lamest and laziest one to go with.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Have you finished those errands?
Have you finished those errands?
Have you finished those errands?

 

[RetardBus]

I think that "Grand Reopening" is just a funny slogan, and Scott has yet to reveal anything about the sequel's plot or setting, so we'll have to see. I hope the sequel has a lot more replay value, and I can't wait to see what new stuff will be brought to the table, as well as more lore. I completely agree with McRascal. As much of a fan as I am of this series, it would really be a copout on Scott's part if he went with "ANIMATRONIC ROBOTS POSSESSED BY DEAD CHILDREN AND PAST SECURITY GUARDS BOOOOOOOO SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS! THEN WHO WAS PHONE?!" rather than a unique, well thought out explanation that hasn't really been done before. Freddy's overall is a brilliant idea for a game and a series and I'd hate to see a potential great franchise go to waste.

Besides it being faithful to the original game while also adding new things to the mix, I also hope that it will continue with the brilliant psychological horror and the bone chilling atmosphere, and not just fall back on jumpscares and use nothing but that. Subtlety is one of the main factors that made the original Freddy amazing in my opinion.

Spoiler

Actual stuffed bear

Saved. Great find.

 

[Watermelon1337]

The creator really is competent in how he worked on and developed the first game, which always makes it scary when sequels can bring out the laziest of effort within people. He was able to prove that jumpscares can actually BE scary and aren't just for lazy copouts like every other game or movie uses them for. The suspense and atmosphere itself is why I love the game, it's new and interesting and not another goddamn Slender ripoff (which that game was more frustrating than scary for me since I was more annoyed at having to find all the notes and being timed).

All we know is there is something wrong with the animatronics and the owners of the establishment KNOW and WANT them to continue doing what they're doing. They just don't want to be caught doing it. Mike gets fired on the custom 7th night for proving that he knows how to reprogram the characters, meaning you can easily change them to being much slower and active in wanting to chase and grab you. The game tells you through the pizzeria's history that the owners know there's something wrong but they refuse to fix or change it.

They KNEW the animatronics would be dangerous to be around since one of the rules pinned to the wall is "Don't touch/get close to Freddy or his friends." Yet they let the animatronics run around the place with kids during the day anyway until the bite of '87. If we assume it's Foxy, which it seems to be, Foxy isn't even turned off - he's just put behind some curtains with an out of order sign at his stage. The staff come in early to clean out the suits every morning so that parents can't give any more complains about the fluids oozing out of the suits. They did everything to make sure they couldn't technically be connected to the crimes of the 'guilty man in the mascot suit' who kidnapped the children.

Was it really a crazy guy using an empty suit (note that even without the endoskeletons, the suits are still full of secondary wiring and machinery) or a guy that the pizzeria was able to put the blame on since no one would believe a robot in a bear suit could do it? Either way, the man certainly didn't bite through a kid's head in '87 and isn't the one shoving people into wired suits, he's in jail.

And now, despite being supposedly shut down, the pizzeria made it known that they would do whatever they could to preserve the animatronics and give them a 'good home' to stay in, instead of taking them apart and deactivating them. They're persistent in keeping the animatronics activated...

 

[Count groudon]

The main reason the atmosphere seems so scary to me is just thinking that during the day the pizzaria is supposed to be this amazing fun place that everyone loves and (with the exception of the bite) Freddy and his friends are friendly and absolutely beloved. But during the night, for no real logical reason it becomes this dark horrifying place where you're totally alone and defenseless while you wait for your shift to end. And the fact that the animatronics begin hunting you downright when you show up. Yeah they're supposed to be on some kind of free roam at night I get that, but the way they know when you're watching them and the fact they always go straight to the security room (not to mention Freddy himself actually hiding from the cameras when he's coming after you and foxy only attacking when you're distracted) just makes you feel that there's way more wrong with them than just a malfunction in their programming. And the fact that most of the staff at Freddy's seem totally oblivious to the danger like phone guy just treating it as a mild hazard on the job and even managing to work quite a while before actually facing any real danger, and the owners willing to allow you to work several nights there in the extremely dangerous conditions like there's nothing to worry about. Another thing that freaks me out is that from the way phone guy makes it sound the animatronics just wandered around at night and were only really a threat if you just happen to bump into them, but just a few days before you started there they suddenly attacked and killed him and once you start they actually begin to intelligently stalk you makes it feel like they were actually waiting for you to come there, and were just biding their time until you showed up.

 

[RetardBus]

The main reason the atmosphere seems so scary to me is just thinking that during the day the pizzaria is supposed to be this amazing fun place that everyone loves and (with the exception of the bite) Freddy and his friends are friendly and absolutely beloved. But during the night, for no real logical reason it becomes this dark horrifying place where you're totally alone and defenseless while you wait for your shift to end. And the fact that the animatronics begin hunting you downright when you show up. Yeah they're supposed to be on some kind of free roam at night I get that, but the way they know when you're watching them and the fact they always go straight to the security room (not to mention Freddy himself actually hiding from the cameras when he's coming after you and foxy only attacking when you're distracted) just makes you feel that there's way more wrong with them than just a malfunction in their programming. And the fact that most of the staff at Freddy's seem totally oblivious to the danger like phone guy just treating it as a mild hazard on the job and even managing to work quite a while before actually facing any real danger, and the owners willing to allow you to work several nights there in the extremely dangerous conditions like there's nothing to worry about. Another thing that freaks me out is that from the way phone guy makes it sound the animatronics just wandered around at night and were only really a threat if you just happen to bump into them, but just a few days before you started there they suddenly attacked and killed him and once you start they actually begin to intelligently stalk you makes it feel like they were actually waiting for you to come there, and were just biding their time until you showed up.

My previous theory involving high end military tech somehow ending up in the robots (Through either a legal loophole or outright being obtained illegally), being the only thing allowing them to be as high tech as the delusional CEO would want them to be.

To add to that theory, it could be while the military hardware was extensively reprogrammed to fit it's new intended purpose, some of the nastier aspects of it (Remember, this hardware was originally intended and only authorized for military usage) were hardcoded into it and no instructions were provided for civilian contractors who went through all of the paperwork and agreements to have this technology available to them legally. It was so rare it was viewed as unnecessary by the authorities.

 

[Count groudon]

My previous theory involving high end military tech somehow ending up in the robots (Through either a legal loophole or outright being obtained illegally), being the only thing allowing them to be as high tech as the delusional CEO would want them to be.

To add to that theory, it could be while the military hardware was extensively reprogrammed to fit it's new intended purpose, some of the nastier aspects of it (Remember, this hardware was originally intended and only authorized for military usage) were hardcoded into it and no instructions were provided for civilian contractors who went through all of the paperwork and agreements to have this technology available to them legally. It was so rare it was viewed as unnecessary by the authorities.

That's actually a pretty solid theory, but I think it's something more supernatural. Like the way they start looking more insane and demonic and the way they seem to be intimidating and toying with you by changing some of the posters to old newspaper clippings detailing incidents surrounding the place, Foxy changing his sign to say its me when he escapes, and the incredibly disturbing hallucinations makes them seem a bit more demon-like to me. But I guess all that stuff could just be the gaurds hinted mental problems and they are just powered by illegal military tech. All I know is that fucking bear has ruined Carmen for me

 

[RetardBus]

That's actually a pretty solid theory, but I think it's something more supernatural. Like the way they start looking more insane and demonic and the way they seem to be intimidating and toying with you by changing some of the posters to old newspaper clippings detailing incidents surrounding the place, Foxy changing his sign to say its me when he escapes, and the incredibly disturbing hallucinations makes them seem a bit more demon-like to me. But I guess all that stuff could just be the gaurds hinted mental problems and they are just powered by illegal military tech. All I know is that fucking bear has ruined Carmen for me

I'd prefer going the less super natural route since I not only find it a lot more unnerving, but like I mentioned before, having the animatronics be possessed by 2spooky ghosts/demons would be really lame and cliched.

 

[Watermelon1337]

The fifth night recording, when played in reverse, reveals a few phrases like "in the labratory" and "the joy of creation." I think someone even found the exact source it was taken from, but I'd need to try finding it. I wonder if the animatronics are basically on a 'test run' at the pizzeria to see how they function on their own and interact with people. Whatever the intention, they certainly aren't there to be gentle with children.

I can't even give a theory about Golden Freddy, though... I'd guess from Mike's insane paranoia every time he puts down the camera his mind could be playing a wicked trick on him, but that seems a bit of a stretch; being someone who has hallucinations unless on my meds, I don't think something like that in a typical, probably sane person would just manifest a giant slouching bear that apparently kills you.