Five Nights at Freddy's

[Askold]

*sighs*  Its bad enough having one mediocre, yet incredibly popular, horror game.  Now, there's a whole friggin series of 'em.  I'm gonna sound like a really old hipster here, but, does anyone else remember a time when games had to have some actual thought put into them?

Yes, that time is now. I'm not sure when it began, but people never stopped making games that have actual thought put into them.

PONG was a extremely simple game because they didn't know how to make anything more complicated but you can't claim that it has any deep meaning in it. As soon as people were able to make something more complex in gaming they tried to do so.

Back in the "good old days" we had games like this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPf37uIX2V0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPf37uIX2V0</a>
published on the same year as this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw</a>
and Monkey Island two (And Leisure suit larry 5 and Police quest 3.) Nostalgy is a hell of a drug but the fact is that we remember the good stuff and forget the bad. There have always been really lame and shallow entertainment as well as more thoughtful but we only think that modern times are filled with shallow crap because the stuff we remember from the past is only the very best few items that are still appreciated.

[RavynousHunter]

Its more that the toughtless crap gets popular.  I can create whole world, a series worth of stories littered with intrigue, questions with multiple answers, and facing the player with difficult, sometimes outright impossible, decisions out of sheer necessity.  And that could very easily fail, whereas the game equivalent of Ass from Idiocracy would net me millions and countless awards and see me being hailed as a "true innovator."  Not to say that FNAF is the game equivalent of Ass, but its still a mediocre game whose only real value is as a source of cheap, plentiful jump scares.  Its more the gaming equivalent of a "Halloween Horror Fest" at an amusement park; its great if you're susceptible to that kind of thing, but if you're not, then its just boring and devoid of actual content.

[niam2023]

Well, apparently the new Animatronic is darker and more horrific than the last few.

It is apparently possessed by a child murderer who died in it, kills you while gloating that he is still there, and at certain times you can see the new animatronic opening its head up to reveal a mangled, split in half skull and rotted eyes. As in, a corpse is inside the animatronic. It looks like a zombie, and you can even see the murderer's brain poking out.

[RavynousHunter]

Admittedly, that is pretty cool.  Hell, I'll cop that the premise of FNAF is alright; its nothing ground-breaking, but its definitely alright.  The problem I have with it is that its hidden behind an unfortunately subpar game.  If you had the opportunity to actually evade the rogue animatronics, it'd add a whole new level of tension and suspense, kinda like Outlast.  Because, let's be honest here, if you're going up against haunted animatronics that are out for your blood, are you going to just sit in one chair, doors (in the first one, at least) aside, doing fuck all while they're coming for you?  Hell no, job or not, you'd find something to hide in, behind, or under.  Just sitting there like a moron kinda stretches suspension of disbelief too thin, for me.

[Zygarde]

So...someone made a real Freddy Fazbear and it's about as terrifying as you would imagine


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GEtj_AaLA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GEtj_AaLA</a>

[niam2023]

Why would you make a real Freddy Fazbear? Its...its like they WANT the game to happen for real...