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"mediocre series"

"has sold millions of virtual copies"

"has had dozens of near perfect reviews"

"has been played and popularized by several YouTubers that have over 5 million subscribers"

He releases it early to satisfy the fanbase. There isn't much to tease/reveal before it comes. It's not like it's Smash Bros, where you had characters revealed approximately every two to three months, and new gameplay images surfacing weekly. This is just an Indie game series, with simple yet unique gameplay. Besides; if he waited until October to release the game, the fanbase would've shrunk considerably.

FNAF 4 is nice, but is also not as good as the first one IMO, mainly because audio dictates everything you need to do, and I have crappy hearing due to constant ear surgeries since I was young. The fact that the breathing of the animatronics is barely audible means that I die nearly every time. I may not even buy the full version of it.

"dozens of near perfect reviews" probably from the fans who think it's the #1 best game ever created and have the worst fetish for it

"has been played and popularized by several YouTubers that have over 5 million subscribers" So have countless other titles.

If he had waited a couple more months, all it would've done is generate more hype and speculation on the title. For what he could've done until launch, there are teases he can do. If he does demos, he can make better demos each month to generate more hype. The creator is impatient, horrible with releasing his titles, and is milking the series out of every idea he's had, and all this will do is lower the quality of future titles.

Ontopic: So, is it actually still Five Nights at Freddy's if they're not at Freddy's Pizza Parlor or whatever it was called?

"mediocre series"

"has sold millions of virtual copies"

"has had dozens of near perfect reviews"

"has been played and popularized by several YouTubers that have over 5 million subscribers"

He releases it early to satisfy the fanbase. There isn't much to tease/reveal before it comes. It's not like it's Smash Bros, where you had characters revealed approximately every two to three months, and new gameplay images surfacing weekly. This is just an Indie game series, with simple yet unique gameplay. Besides; if he waited until October to release the game, the fanbase would've shrunk considerably.


Anyway.. enough of this.


FNAF 4 is nice, but is also not as good as the first one IMO, mainly because audio dictates everything you need to do, and I have crappy hearing due to constant ear surgeries since I was young. The fact that the breathing of the animatronics is barely audible means that I die nearly every time. I may not even buy the full version of it.

"has been played and popularized by several YouTubers that have over 5 million subscribers"

Game Theory fans will watch Game Theory episodes and treat them as gospel

Demo out http://www.indiedb.com/games/f...oads/fnaf4-demo

I first found out about Five Nights at Freddy's through Let's Player Markiplier. I remember being instantly intrigued with the game and looking more into it. I remember the first stages of the game's popularity grow. but it wasn't until last December that i finally got my hands on the game itself. Is it intriguing as i originally thought it was?

The story is simple: you play as Mike Schmidt, the new night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Your goal is to survive five nights at the restaurant, as the animatronics there are active at night, and if they catch you after hours, they'll stuff you into an animatronic suit, killing you in the process. It seems pretty barebones, but what makes FNAF so intriguing is the lore. though special Easter eggs, you'll learn more about the restaurant's history, including an incident where five children were killed by a man in an animatronic suit. the game is so rich in lore, but doesn't give it out to the point where you know everything. there is a lot of mystery surrounding the game and a lot of it is open to many theories and rumors. this helps a story as basic as FNAF succeed in almost every way.

The gameplay is pretty simple as well. You can only move left and right in your office; you can't move anywhere else. you have two doors with door lights, one of each on both sides, and a camera to watch the animatronics's movements. using the camera, doors, and lights uses up your power. once you run out, it's a matter of time before game over. Using all these mechanics and reserving power is key to your survival every single night(a single night lasts about 6 minutes). What makes this gameplay so amazing is the sense of paranoia you feel when first playing the game. you have no idea when the animatronics will come because of their patterns, and you feel dread knowing these animatronics could come out to you at any moment. This is easily the best part of Five Nighs at Freddy's, as it gives a sense of horror that most big-budget horror titles and movies can't replicate. This sense of fear also makes it one of the few games to use jumpscares effectively, as there is actual build up to the jumpscare, as well as something to fear. the small musical cues as well, such as footsteps by the animatronics, only add to the dread.

other small things such as the graphics an design are solid, but there is only one negative i found with this game. One huge, glaring issue: growing wise to the act. Once you start to learn the animatronic patterns and develop a good strategy, the game loses all sense of dread. instead, you'll start to feel frustration whenever you lose a night once you get a pattern down. this is even more evident when you unlock the custom night(after first unlocking and beating the 6th night) and do the 20/20/20/20 challenge, which is one of the worst difficulty spikes you'll endure if you take on the challenge.

this problem aside, Five Nights at Freddy's gets a lot right for its small price tag and production values. The story is intriguing thanks to its lore, and its gameplay is fresh, new, and above all horrifying... if you don't get used to the patterns.

Overall rating~ 7/10. A great game. it has its flaws, but is still worth its price tag for everything that it does get right.

I was so pumped for Five Nights at Freddy's 2. I loved watching gameplay for the first game, and i was really interested to see where the lore would go next in the series. Like the first game, i didn't get my hands on the actual game until last December. Is it as good as the first game?

The story is essentially the same as the first game: you play as Jeremy Fitzgerald, the new night guard at the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. You must survive five nights at the restaurant, or the animatronics that become active at night will kill you. and like the first game, the story is rich with lore, only this time it's much better. More info is given to the player about the restaurant chain's history, and the game hints at not only being a prequel to the first, but taking place during the first game's lore, with incidents such as the missing children incident possibly taking place. The expanded lore gives a lot more interpretations as to what exactly is going on, and it makes the story in this game even better than the first.

The gameplay also expands on the first game. First off, there are no more doors in your office, which you are restricted to like in the first game. there are vents on both sides of your office, as well as a large opening to the hallway in front of you. these areas, as well as much clearer music and sound cues, are key to figuring out if an animatronic is near you. because you have no doors, your only mode of defense is a freddy fazbear mask that will fool the animatronics into thinking you're one of them when they get into your office, as well as the flashlight mechanic. it is now impossible for the restaurant to lose power. instead, you can flash your lights in the vents, hallways, and rooms to hold off certain animatronics. your game overs in this game will depend on if you flip your mask down fast enough when an animatronic is nearby or in your office, or if you eventually use up all of your flashlight power. finally, there's a music box that needs constant winding on the camera feed. if the music box stops winding, a new animatronic will insta-kill you.

and holy crap, there are a lot of animatronics in this game. a grand total of 10, 11 if you count the one involving the music box. this, on top of the numerous new mechanics, can be a turn off for some players with how overwhelming it can get, especially on the later nights. but if you thought the first game wasn't very challenging, then this game just got a whole lot better for you. and once you get the patterns down on how to complete the game, it can be pretty fun for some players like me. the game itself also looks much better than the first, and graphics and models look a lot smoother and slicker than the first game.

here's the big problem with Five Nights at Freddy's 2: because of all these numerous mechanics, the first game's eventual feeling of frustration when you get a pattern and strategy down becomes evident again; only this time, it's much worse. the intrigue and horror in this game wears off a lot quicker than the first game because of the overwhelming mechanics. if you don't have lightning fast reflexes, you will die. a lot. this takes a lot away from the game's horror factor, and most of the game will feel cheap rather than horrifying. i haven't even gotten past night 6 because of how difficult the game is with all these mechanics. if you make it far enough to get past the custom night with the 10/20 setting, you deserve a trophy and a cash prize for your accomplishments with getting past this game's insane difficulty.

for every good thing Five Nights at Freddy's 2 gets right, it gets just over the same amount wrong. the story and its lore are much better than the first game, and the game looks and sounds much better than the first: but while the new mechanics and gameplay can work well at first, the game will quickly turn into a rage-fest because of the overwhelming number of things you have to consider and do on later nights in the game. if you liked the first game, give this one a shot. if you disliked the first game, don't bother with this entry.

Overall rating~ 6/10. An above-average game, but still has glaring issues that may hinder your enjoyment.

Even after being somewhat disappointed with Five Nights at Freddy's 2, i was still highly anticipating the third game. Everything from the premise to the game itself looked like this was going to be the best FNaF game yet. After all the hype, does Five Nights at Freddy's 3 deliver?

Five Nights at Freddy's 3's plot is just like the others: simple but loaded with lore. Taking place 30 years after the restaurant chain shut down, you play as an employee at the new Fazbear's Fright horror attraction, inspired by the events that took place in Five Nights at Freddy's 1 and 2. The creators, through salvaging old parts and such from the restaurants, find a working animatronic robot to use for the attraction. your goal is to survive five nights at the workplace, without this sole animatronic killing you. Throughout the game, you get old audio logs from the man on the telephone from the first two games, foreshadowing the events that happen after the first game. The lore in this game is easily the best in the series. the game does an excellent job at tying up loose ends and questions that were mostly unanswered, but still leaves enough mystery that there are still theories about it to be made. Combine this with a great ending(assuming you don't get the bad ending, but i'll get to that later), and you have a story that ends on a great note.

Aside from watching the animatronic on the cameras, the gameplay is much different than the past two games. You have two camera feeds: one for the attraction, and one for ventilation. in the horror attraction, you can play audio clips to lure the animatronic to that part of the attraction, and keep it away from your office. the vent feed is used to shut certain vents when the animatronic tries to climb into them for a shortcut to the office. From time to time, the camera feed, audio devices, and ventilation will get errors, and you'll have to perform a system reboot on them to get them working again. Preventing ventilation errors is as important as rebooting broken camera feeds and broken audio logs, as the screen will fade to black in and out and cause you to hallucinate more than you usually do. throughout the game, it is possible to get hallucinations of previous animatronics, and while they can't kill you, they will make you hyperventilate and cause you to reboot certain systems depending on what they do. in other words, they can't kill you: the new animatronic is the only one that can kill you. this adds a whole new layer of horror to the game, as you only have to worry about one animatronic killing you, but have a whole barrage of hallucinated ones that will make the experience worse.

Like Five Nights at Freddy's 2 to the first game, the production value for this game is much better. animations and environments look smoother than ever now thanks to actual on screen animations. sound design is also top notch like the last installments, and gives the player a much better sense of where everything is.

Much like the last games, you will eventually grow wise to the act and figure out some strategies. Notice how i say SOME strategies. Now that there is only one animatronic that can kill you, the game isn't nearly as frustrating as the past entries, and the animatronic is much more unpredictable. you will never know where this one will strike next or go to next, and it adds a lot of fun to the game. though this can get annoying at times, Five Nights 3 probably has the best sense of challenge yet because of this animatronic's behavior, and the fact that he balances out all the new mechanics unlike the previous entry.

The only big problem i have is the multiple endings. You can get two endings that are alike, but vary because of how you get the better ending. i won't spoil what happens, but once you play the minigames that are required for the better ending, you'll understand much better. Not only do i wish there was one definitive ending, but the process of getting this ending is kind of ridiculous. Without some sort of video tutorial, you will not get the better ending. what you have to do is really specific, and it doesn't help that the game's subtle hints don't give the player much sense as to what they need to do. One ending would've been fine, the slightly different endings weren't needed.

many people have agreed that this is probably the last in the FNaF series. and i honestly hope so. Five Nights at Freddy's 3 wraps up the story so well that there doesn't need to be another game in the series. the gameplay is great and fun, the animatronic is unpredictable, the production design is top notch, and the sense of growing wise to the act and the frustration level is the lowest in the series, even if it is there sometimes, and i wish that there wasn't a convoluted way of getting a better ending to the game when there could have been one. IF you liked the last games, or were burnt out on the second game, check this one out. If you didn't, this one just might change your mind. Thank you, Scott Cawthon, for making us an amazing trilogy of games.

Overall Rating~ 8/10. An awesome game. the problems are more evident, but the game does a lot right to make it worth the price tag.

Whoa, I never heard about this kind of thing. This is why you don't take a game series too far -

http://kotaku.com/how-a-five-n...ntro-1700998427

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Whoa, I never heard about this kind of thing. This is why you don't take a game series too far -

http://kotaku.com/how-a-five-n...ntro-1700998427

Yikes... I really hope that things will die down at that Pizzeria soon.

^ What makes you think the Rosalina theory is wrong?

*idontevenwatchgametheorythatmuchimjustcuriousdontkillmepls*

Very, very basic facts about the character that MatPat ignored.

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Very, very basic facts about the character that MatPat ignored.

That's great and all, but that doesn't explain a single thing. Now, if you would actually list those facts, then it would be different.

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Quote: sonicbrawler182

Very, very basic facts about the character that MatPat ignored.

That's great and all, but that doesn't explain a single thing. Now, if you would actually list those facts, then it would be different.

I'm not doing that here since it's a long list and it's off topic.

It's not like it should be hard to believe he's wrong though, since he's been wrong on many things before. The Rosalina one is just his most terrible one (that or the really meta one about the games industry).

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That's great and all, but that doesn't explain a single thing. Now, if you would actually list those facts, then it would be different.

I'm not doing that here since it's a long list and it's off topic.

It's not like it should be hard to believe he's wrong though, since he's been wrong on many things before. The Rosalina one is just his most terrible one (that or the really meta one about the games industry).

Then again, if given unconfirmed facts, you have your right to try and find out a real answer. Until given real confirmation, we can all speculate all we want.

Matpatt does his homework when trying to find these facts. Now, he could be right, and that would be great for him because he actually tried to figure it out. But if he's wrong because he overlooked some things, that's on him.

And watch as he releases it sooner than Halloween.

And watch as he releases it sooner than Halloween.

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And watch as he releases it sooner than Halloween.

I'm betting on next month.

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And watch as he releases it sooner than Halloween.

I'm betting on next month.

I have to agree with that

The game may be over but the film still being made don't forget that.

Reveal Spoiler

Now we all or some know the whole story now we all wanted to know who caused the bite of 87 we know the characters were possessed. We know a killer was invold and how kids were set free and how it started.from The murdering to the puppet enraged to the free spirits of childs the whole story was told. But only we did not see the puppet in fnaf 4

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The game may be over but the film still being made don't forget that.

Reveal Spoiler

Now we all or some know the whole story now we all wanted to know who caused the bite of 87 we know the characters were possessed. We know a killer was invold and how kids were set free and how it started.from The murdering to the puppet enraged to the free spirits of childs the whole story was told. But only we did not see the puppet in fnaf 4

Might want to spoiler that for people who actually care about spoilers/who haven't played it and want to play them.

If you brighten up the new image, there's a tiny ? next to the d.

Ugh, so much for ending the main series. Scott will keep milking it every several months for the sake of money.

Scott posted an update on the FNaF4 steam page about the upcoming Halloween update;
-Scott says whatever is coming is something completely different from dlc or a game update, and that it's going to be something we won't be expecting.
-Whatever comes is not going to expand on FNaF 4 at all, as he's happy the way it is.
-It isn't going to be a sequel or prequel.

Actually, it was NOT the bite of 87. It took place in 1983 ^.^

Also worse way to die ever,

Balloon boy was in my office, mangle was too, and I couldn't check lights. And foxy jumpscared me. YAY!