(cr1tikal) Five Nights at Freddy's Gameplay and Commentary - General

[QUOTE=Cone;45808638]i can't really complain about much in the game itself, there's not really enough game design for me to call it bad or good. it's a goofy £5 Night Trap remake, i can't really criticize that. but i'm fairly certain that everyone who says "omg i had 2 sleep on the couch after reading this thread" is just doing it to fit in with everyone else. then you've got the furries. and then the slim remainder are fairly okay guys who just see the game for what it is and can enjoy it without acting like obsessive freakazoids[/QUOTE] [editline]26th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Ganerumo;45808660] dislike something just because it's popular.[/QUOTE] i mean duh it couldn't be the gameplay/graphics/horrid fanbase [editline]26th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Ganerumo;45808660] I'm not that surprised, it's pretty typical of a lot of facepunch users to ignore something up until the point it becomes popular and then some idiots come out of their cave and start bashing the thing.[/QUOTE] this seriously has to be the [I]most[/I] "facepunch" post i've ever seen

[QUOTE=bepassley;45808631]yeah those people talking about fox dicks when referring to the fox robot are totally playing it for the plot[/QUOTE] It's an inside joke, knot it off.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;45808660]you're just grasping at straws to dislike something just because it's popular.[/QUOTE] this game does something weird to the brains of people who play it they appear to go into some sort of hypnotized state where all they do is defend the game and keep creating 'content' to keep the initial 10 minute experience of the game forever

i know its a tail but wouldnt it be so funny if it was a dick i mean just between us it could be an inside joke like a fox dick lmao [highlight](User was banned for this post ("threadshitting" - dai))[/highlight]

I got interested because it's the first horror game I've really cared about in a long time that made the jumpscares [I]primarily[/I] a failure state. I can't stand popscares but it's at least justified here as a way to end a tense horror game: you fucked up, you get screamed at by things that kill you, you learn, and you go back and try to beat them. It breeds a lot of paranoia as you start to wonder if you're doing things right, listening among quiet ambience for possible sound cues in constant dread that you're not prepared for [I]just that one bot[/I]. The scares add a good incentive to beat the game. It's an interesting take on the genre: instead of you walking up to a spooky cupboard with a scare that's gonna make your pants brown, you're stuck in a room with limited resources trying to keep the cupboards from coming to you. Among all the horror title fodder we've seen on Youtube and the like I've never seen a game take this setting with this idea for gameplay. It's not the best game ever, and it was never designed to be. It's like the Deadly Premonition of horror games in a way: not up to par with AAA, but has the charm, design and environment to keep it memorable.

realtalk a lot of the people who like five nights at freddy's are super hardcore furries. i think that's worth everyone acknowledging cos it's not just here and it's a big part of why the community for this game chokes balls. other than that it's kids looking for validation which is the other part of why the community chokes balls.

[QUOTE=Mr. Jelly;45808096]I like how you guys act like a game needs your approval to be enjoyed by other people[/QUOTE] i like how you act like posting your opinion on a forum is more like sharing facts if someone says "this game sucks" it's completely fucking obvious that it's their opinion, and not just an objective fact because it's impossible for that to be true. literally no one has said in this thread at all ever "this game is shit, fact". and even then, it'd be just a god damn joke unless they were genuinely stupid. if you want to enter an argument don't use weirdly condescending pointless rationals

[QUOTE=Batmoutarde;45806111]it's because of furries making fanart no joke[/QUOTE] People actually believe this. People are willing to dismiss any and all other factors contributing to the game's popularity in favor of believing "it's those damn furries". You guys really crack me up.

[QUOTE=People who dislike 5N@F]This is bad, the people who play it are bad, I hate it, go away.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=People who like 5N@F]Screw you dislikers, I like it, you all suck, piss off.[/QUOTE] I understand that everyone has different tastes, and that everyone is entitled to their own individual opinion, but you don't all have to come in here and take a steaming shit on the game and everyone who likes it, thereby instigating pointless arguments with fans. Also, people who like the game don't need to be continuing arguments with those who don't, thereby extending threads far too long with no tangible result. Just live and let live, accept that someone will always like what you hate and hate what you like, less bullshit and less stress for both sides that way. Some people think 5N@F is horror reborn, some think it's cheap pop-scare bullshit, but neither side has good enough justification to turn a thread into a big-ass mud-flinging argument over the game's quality. Just stop beating each other over the head due to this already. Do I think this game is God's gift to the horror genre? Nope. Do I think it's worthless garbage? Also no. But I do personally enjoy its gameplay and atmosphere. And that's a personal opinion, meaning I can't factually say shit about its quality as a game using that as basis. I think it's decently-spooky due to the tense nature of managing 4 differently-coded AIs with unique tactics coming after you at once, with limited resources and a goal to just survive til the time hits 6 AM. It's basically Pac-Man's per-enemy, unique-tactics AI meets Papers Please's high-octane "sit in one place and tactically perform one or more of a limited set of actions" gameplay. That description can mean either the best horror game ever made, the most boring point-and-click bullshit to grace Steam, or some form of more-reasonable middle ground to you. But it's still a subjective, personal opinion, no matter what you think of the game. Some people like it, some don't, and that's okay for both camps, so stop pissing on each other over something that's not worth getting into massive arguments over. Coming into a thread based around appreciation for a game or someone who's playing said game just to say you hate it isn't a gallant quest, it's a "why reply?" ban waiting to happen. [editline]knot[/editline] Oh, and "But furries are making porn of it!" isn't a good enough justification to hate the game, just like it's not good enough reason to hate most things. People on the internet make unstoppable floods of porn, and furries especially latch on to anything with animals that act in human ways in it. These things are just a fact of the internet, and you can't really stop the porn from flowing in any way. Again, live and let live, just ignore the porn that doesn't tickle your fancy. Besides, if we judged games/movies/etc. on what kind of porn got pumped out by its fanbase, any Disney movie with animals would be considered garbage due to all the furries making porn and OCs of the talking animals featured.

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;45808788]People actually believe this. People are willing to dismiss any and all other factors contributing to the game's popularity in favor of believing "it's those damn furries". You guys really crack me up.[/QUOTE] look up 5 nights at freddies safe search off and please edit this post afterwards

I've never watched anything by Cr1tical until now. This is it? This monotone dude? Wow.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;45808736]and then they start drawing porn of the fox[/QUOTE] Again with this. Somehow people assume that when a group of people share a liking, they are somehow merged into a freaking hive mind of some short. There's no individuals, no people, just a big single mutated fatball that can be judged for whatever it does. And even if there were individuals, they cannot be judged as such if they support the group. The concepts of an asshole, a troll, a bad person, all blend into one definition that stands for the entire group of people. So if a person is an asshole, he's an asshole - but if a furry is an asshole... he's a furry.

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;45808833]I've never watched anything by Cr1tical until now. This is it? This monotone dude? Wow.[/QUOTE] go watch him play a better game

such inflamed passions for a $2 game I thought it was fun. It's like creepy chuck e. cheese with whack-a-mole mechanics. It's not perfect (fuck screamers) but it doesn't have to be for $2. It's a fun way to kill some time imo. Of course it's going to be overhyped, it became popular the same way Amnesia did: irritating Youtube personalities fake-screaming at their monitors.

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;45808833]I've never watched anything by Cr1tical until now. This is it? This monotone dude? Wow.[/QUOTE] There are better videos of him but overall that's his monotone way. Few videos just show him losing himself in a positive way. I like him, he's simple a cool guy that should become my Pepsiman poster.

[QUOTE=Talvy;45808697]It's a joke, knot it off.[/QUOTE] Haha, what a knee-slapper Fox penis.

in fact, what would make the game a lot more playable for me would just be a fade to black with text saying something along the lines of 'you're dead' i still had fun combing through the wiki to experience the creepy shit though

Video gave me a few chuckles but the real comedy here is the 3 pages of comments. And fuck me, even with truck loads of ignorance i know there is rule 34 of fucking everything. Thats the god damn point of that shit.

[QUOTE=geogzm;45809049]in fact, what would make the game a lot more playable for me would just be a fade to black with text saying something along the lines of 'you're dead' i still had fun combing through the wiki to experience the creepy shit though[/QUOTE] that's so boring like I get everyone's burned out on jump scares but they're still fun in the right doses. There's a difference between this and, say, Doom 3's hall of closets. the tension of the game is the focus, and there probably couldn't be that tension if you just died casually The fox thing's death scene is definitely the best though, he just pops in like "what up", doesn't get in your face, you just see him run down the hall and boom he's there the one when you run out of power is subtle but still good too

[QUOTE=geogzm;45809049]in fact, what would make the game a lot more playable for me would just be a fade to black with text saying something along the lines of 'you're dead' i still had fun combing through the wiki to experience the creepy shit though[/QUOTE] There's a better middle ground than that. Jump scares are cheap but a sudden fade with a "you're dead" screen would just be downright confusing. If anything, there should be something less sudden before the scream to make it match the atmospheric element of the game (e.g. static overlay fades in as you glimpse one of them coming in, screen cuts to black, scream is heard echoing through the office, game over screen)

It's a stupid inside joke, just like stuff like "ogrelord", "it's orge" and other shrekshit like that. Inside jokes are bad because they makes people who don't get them mad. But sometimes you simply need to ask yourself "Wtf do I even find so annoying about that?", because there really isn't always an answer. I think people are overthinking the love for the game. I think it's just an average game, but I like it because it has personality. I draw fanart because, again, inside jokes are fun. That's it. I don't worship the game or its small community.

[QUOTE=C0linSSX;45809104]There's a better middle ground than that. Jump scares are cheap but a sudden fade with a "you're dead" screen would just be downright confusing. If anything, there should be something less sudden before the scream to make it match the atmospheric element of the game (e.g. static overlay fades in as you glimpse one of them coming in, screen cuts to black, scream is heard echoing through the office, game over screen)[/QUOTE] I'd be fine with just you lower the monitor and one of them is suddenly in front of you in the room, or whatever. Jump scares are not awful, but screamers definitely are.

Now I haven't even played it, but why is Arc Nova along with some other people so seemingly obsessed over the fact that the enemies are apparently "furries" ? I also don't understand how a fanbase can ruin a singleplayer experience. Because some individuals decide to draw explicit imagery of it? If you apparently hate it so much, why are you looking for it in the first place?

^ There should be a precise smart rating as opposed to dumb.

[QUOTE=Arc Nova;45808818]look up 5 nights at freddies safe search off and please edit this post afterwards[/QUOTE] So what you're actually saying is that you actively look for such material, and then rant about it? Are you perhaps a bit insecure about something?

Just gonna add my two cents (as if anyone gives a shit) about what made the game popular Even if you don't like FN@F's gameplay, or its visuals, or the jumpscares, you can't deny that it's pretty unique. You're confined to a small room, unable to move. All you can do is wait for 6AM to finally arrive as you watch the progress of the animatronics. You can't even close the doors for very long. In-fact, they have to be kept open most of the time to prevent power loss. This adds to the tension, the doors are literally wide open and there's nothing you can do to prevent one of them from jumping you other than keep a close eye on the cameras. But what if one of them manages to escape your vigilant eye and sneak in while you're watching the others? Not to mention the blind spot outside your office, you have to put the monitor down at least every once in a while to see if they're right outside your room. And where the hell are those footsteps coming from? It's a simple concept, but it goes a long way and really plays on your anxiety. The low-fidelity visuals add to the atmosphere too, it adds a serious "uncanny valley" element. Yes the fanbase is getting shittier by the day, yes there's copious amounts of R34, yes it's getting pretty overblown, but that has nothing to do with why it became popular in the first place. It doesn't matter if you don't like the game, just don't try to belittle those that do by passing off its appeal as furry shit and the like

who cares if you like it who cares if you dont the world keeps on spinning

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;45809160]I'd be fine with just you lower the monitor and one of them is suddenly in front of you in the room, or whatever. Jump scares are not awful, but screamers definitely are.[/QUOTE] But these aren't screamers; you're actively trying to stop them. Screamers just pop up without warning or merit. You're actually being stalked by these bots and are watching them do it. When you learn the game, you learn why you lose and how to prevent that. We've had so many games and movies that just go "BOO oh it's a cat jumping dowBOO oh it's a friend's hand on the shoulder" that many people associate "jumpscare" as "lazy". If you make the buildup, environment, and fear all crescendo into a big scare that makes your heart race, that's effective scare tactics, and that's why I approve them in this case. Also, once you get use to them a few times, they end up being pretty friggin' silly.

My own review and theories of why people say it's bad : It's a good indie game for the price they are asking, any "scary" game that is somewhat above quality then other ones are always hyped up by Youtube users because it's easy views. The characters in the game can easily be remade into different art-styles and are frankly likable, hence the mass amount of furry art and fan-art. Some facepunch users don't like it for one of the three reasons : One, it's popular. Two, they legitimately were not scared of the game. Or three, are just trying to get a reaction out of people (Which is easy to do when somebody is a fan of a game.) The game itself is a really simple point-and-click red-light, green-light game, but the fact you cannot move and the pure randomness of the game (Such as the game breaking it's own rules and being able to kill you on the "introduction" level very rarely) adds to some of the "scare" value that other games don't do. Of course, the jump-scares get tiresome, but the game throws some more elements into the gameplay to make it harder for you to live through the day up until the sixth. Otherwise, I'd suggest anybody to buy this for the unique experience the game provides. It's at least, a mostly original game. For five dollars, it's well worth to play through to the end, even if you aren't scared by it. If this was a 15 dollar game - I wouldn't be praising this game as much as I am now. Buy it, your not wasting 5 dollars. If it was any more money you would, but it's not.

Remember when this thread was for a funny video? That was a fun time.