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#10: Freddy Fazbear: Five Night's at Freddy's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l18A5BOTlzE
I guess it's about time I give a shout out to this franchise, huh? It's only one of the most overrated indie horror game series out there! Truth be told I've knocked around the idea of adding in Freddy and his band of rogue animatronic misfits for sometime and actually started on this years ago but stopped for multiple reasons. One reason being that I feel the series has gotten away from itself like laughably so. I enjoyed the first game and the third to an extent but each installment seems to perpetuate it's own mediocrity. What I mean is that the games really don't improve, they just keep doing the same thing with mildly different tactics which I could be okay with were it not for the fact that the story continues to hover in it's own limbo. It always feels like Scott Cawthon is trying to give us more information on the same story that we all figured out from the first one. We never advance on it or if we do it's just kind of little bit information that doesn't amount to much... to me anyway. I just feel there's way more potential for these that is sadly not being used.
The second reason I abandoned the project was that it was the one and only time that a piece of work disturbed me so much I couldn't continue on it! Yeah, surprising, I know! As I'm sure you noticed this is one of the few times I've deliberately deviated from a character's canonical design during a Halloween Countdown. Reason being is that I always felt the designs of the Fazbear animatronics failed in comparison to the nightmare fuel that are the actual animatronics they're based after! Especially Showbiz Pizza! Seriously! Those old pizzeria mascots are the stuff nightmares are made out of and not something that can be replicated willingly, and the fact that they all looked that freakish and terrifying unintentionally made them all the more ghoulish to a child's mind!
With that in mind I set out to combine the looks of Scott Cawthon's designs with that of Showbiz Pizza's mascots, particularly Billy Bob who is the creme de la creme of horror. The effect was exactly what I wanted... almost too much in fact. I had actually intended to draw all 5 of the original animatronics, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy but I found myself unable to continue on past a certain point. Staring headlong at all of the original source material for these monsters really dug up some childhood trauma and I put the project aside, never to be heard from again I thought. When it came to planning out this year's countdown though, I realized "Hey, I've never given Five Nights at Freddy a proper shout out! I should do that... oh wait! I was going to wasn't I? Do I still have that old sketch? I do!" and the rest is history. In the end I opted for just Freddy for one, he is literally the mascot of the series and if I should show case just one it should be him in my opinion and two it saved me a lot of time and prevented me from bitching out like I did before!
While I've kind of shit on the series as a whole, I do need to say that Five Nights at Freddy's does hold a place in my heart. I do enjoy the concept and themes, I just don't feel the sequels added anything more to the table and the fanbase has effectively ruined it for me. Still, I'll always remember that great feeling of isolation and helplessness that the first game gave me and dug up all those old childhood fears in a way I hadn't felt in a long time. In truth, the first Freddy game really messed with me in a way no horror game had and I commended it on that. To that point alone I felt Freddy needed to place at least once... but all the souring to the series name dropped him pretty low on the roster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l18A5BOTlzE
I guess it's about time I give a shout out to this franchise, huh? It's only one of the most overrated indie horror game series out there! Truth be told I've knocked around the idea of adding in Freddy and his band of rogue animatronic misfits for sometime and actually started on this years ago but stopped for multiple reasons. One reason being that I feel the series has gotten away from itself like laughably so. I enjoyed the first game and the third to an extent but each installment seems to perpetuate it's own mediocrity. What I mean is that the games really don't improve, they just keep doing the same thing with mildly different tactics which I could be okay with were it not for the fact that the story continues to hover in it's own limbo. It always feels like Scott Cawthon is trying to give us more information on the same story that we all figured out from the first one. We never advance on it or if we do it's just kind of little bit information that doesn't amount to much... to me anyway. I just feel there's way more potential for these that is sadly not being used.
The second reason I abandoned the project was that it was the one and only time that a piece of work disturbed me so much I couldn't continue on it! Yeah, surprising, I know! As I'm sure you noticed this is one of the few times I've deliberately deviated from a character's canonical design during a Halloween Countdown. Reason being is that I always felt the designs of the Fazbear animatronics failed in comparison to the nightmare fuel that are the actual animatronics they're based after! Especially Showbiz Pizza! Seriously! Those old pizzeria mascots are the stuff nightmares are made out of and not something that can be replicated willingly, and the fact that they all looked that freakish and terrifying unintentionally made them all the more ghoulish to a child's mind!
With that in mind I set out to combine the looks of Scott Cawthon's designs with that of Showbiz Pizza's mascots, particularly Billy Bob who is the creme de la creme of horror. The effect was exactly what I wanted... almost too much in fact. I had actually intended to draw all 5 of the original animatronics, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy but I found myself unable to continue on past a certain point. Staring headlong at all of the original source material for these monsters really dug up some childhood trauma and I put the project aside, never to be heard from again I thought. When it came to planning out this year's countdown though, I realized "Hey, I've never given Five Nights at Freddy a proper shout out! I should do that... oh wait! I was going to wasn't I? Do I still have that old sketch? I do!" and the rest is history. In the end I opted for just Freddy for one, he is literally the mascot of the series and if I should show case just one it should be him in my opinion and two it saved me a lot of time and prevented me from bitching out like I did before!
While I've kind of shit on the series as a whole, I do need to say that Five Nights at Freddy's does hold a place in my heart. I do enjoy the concept and themes, I just don't feel the sequels added anything more to the table and the fanbase has effectively ruined it for me. Still, I'll always remember that great feeling of isolation and helplessness that the first game gave me and dug up all those old childhood fears in a way I hadn't felt in a long time. In truth, the first Freddy game really messed with me in a way no horror game had and I commended it on that. To that point alone I felt Freddy needed to place at least once... but all the souring to the series name dropped him pretty low on the roster.
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I just never liked the concept from the get go. I got a lot of entertainment of watching "let's plays" of the first game where players would freak out from the jump scares, but the game has no replay value, and the story to be honest is just pretty dumb, and never got any better. This is one of those games where I just never got why it got such a dedicated fanbase. Undertale has such a fanbase too, but at least with that one I could get the appeal (I just never got the obsession people had with its characters). This, not so much. It's just a really superficial game with boring mechanics and a lackluster story, too many sequels, and a obsessive cult-like fanbase it doesn't deserve.
Even as a horror game it just fails on a basic level; the game isn't scary at all, it just makes you nervous and jumpy the way a really loud jack-in-the-box would. But after a while the jumpscares feel more like an annoyance than a true scare. Playing it just cause tension and annoyance, which is the exact opposite reason I play games for. I play games to relax and unwind, not to have to constantly be tense about what may happen later.
Even as a horror game it just fails on a basic level; the game isn't scary at all, it just makes you nervous and jumpy the way a really loud jack-in-the-box would. But after a while the jumpscares feel more like an annoyance than a true scare. Playing it just cause tension and annoyance, which is the exact opposite reason I play games for. I play games to relax and unwind, not to have to constantly be tense about what may happen later.
TLDR version: Basically it's just a crappy horror game, and I don't even like good horror games. I checked it out to see what the fuss was about, and I just don't get why it has the dedicated fanbase it has. I can ignore the games easily enough by just not playing them, but I keep bumping into its fans all the time and the fanart people make of it, and I really wish these games would just get forgotten and go away. I try not to be an "anti-fan" (someone who has annoyance not just at something they don't like, but also annoyance towards the fans of it) but this is the first thing I felt not just an intense dislike of, but its fans too. I like to think I'm a pretty tolerant person; I've always said I don't mind if people like something I don't, as long as they don't shove it in my face. But this feels like it constantly gets shoved in my face just by how prevalent its fans are, especially around FA (which I don't get, as it has nothing to do with furries at all. The characters are animatronics, not anthro animals).
Well, as for the characters imo, a lot of the appeal for people of FA may not just be the fact they can make a furry out of a robot, but the fact there are furries who also like robots or see their sonas as robots. I do get why it can be annoying, and Lord knows I have too much dedication to this series, but I understand. I hate being scared, but like either creepy aesthetics and also animatronics themselves (the novelty mind you, I am no tech wiz or roboticist). FNAF is sort of a minor mashup of soft versions that won't make my anxiety rise or anything. But the characters themselves I find more appealing in fan stuff, mostly because despite the "horror" feel, the cast feels more at home with either ramping up the horror way more or the exact, cheerful or comical opposite. As a game and a story, it was originally just a dream from a kid for the first four titles, but then jumped the shark over and over until it lost all coherence as a property. I understand why it is hard to see on social media or in art a series that gets under your skin for any reason. But alas, some series or games or shows get popular and overexposed a lot. For you, it's FNAF, for me... I'm actually unsure what series I could hate logistically. Cause I also usually just try and enjoy anything as it comes. I guess the worst and most vapid might be Minions, but also the Rabbits. Same vapid and annoying deal for both. But again, it boils down to "Minions and Rabbids suck lol" and I stop caring two seconds later.
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