Five nights at Freddy's Game Discussion

[leah-]

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[i<3 wolves678]

Who is the friendliest looking animatronic on Scott's banner?

IMO it is the original bonnie

Naww, Fredbear is easily the most friendly looking animatronic XD

Although, now being more serious, I just noticed something.
The only animatronics we haven't had a relatively "normal" and not somewhat "scary" design of so far is Fredbear (aka golden Freddy) and springtrap (aka spring Bonnie), and that's because we never saw them at fredbears family diner before they were discontinued.
Now one thing I'm really hoping for in the DLC is for an extra night that is spent inside fredbears family diner, before the bite. Now there is a possibility of this happening, as remember on the night (2?) minigame, the child is trapped in the diner. The child tries to get to the exit, yet runs into a guy in a fredbear suit, saying he was too late, but could get past the animatronics to find help. The child was obviously too scared of the animatronics to get past them and lay under the table crying, but one thing that was never shown was the child leaving the building, meaning that they were probably trapped there over night. Now people could argue that seeing what the child saw on that night would probably be pointless, considering none of them are believed to be possesed yet and the child would not yet have nightmares if the bite didn't happen, but remember in the night (4?) minigame, he sees a young girl who says about the animatronics killing people and hiding their bodies. Now, either this girl has a really evil mind, or the more likely thing is that it still happened then. Also the child seemed scared of the animatronics since the start, probably thanks to his brother using the foxy plushies head to scare him.
I'm don't know, but I just think seeing inside the diner would be cool, especially seeing what Fredbear and Springtrap looked like before.

[Megaguirus]

Who is the friendliest looking animatronic on Scott's banner?

IMO it is the original bonnie

I'm gonna have to say the Puppet is. Seriously. I know it always has a smile on its face, but this one looks genuine. Mangle looks friendly too.

The least friendly is original Chica. She's giving the death stare or something. Her eyes are too wide and her head is cocked, giving me a hostile vibe.

And on the topic of the banner. Look at how Nightmare is directly behind Fredbear. As if he is a shadow. I think Nightmare is Shadow Fredbear. To further this, his jumpscare has no movement and the sound is distorted. This reminds me of Golden Freddy's jumpscare from the first game. It was distorted as well, and was too a "shadow" in a way. I also don't know what to think about Golden Freddy's eye. Is that a simple glitch, or is Scott trying to tell us something? Like how it looks like Mangle has the feet of a parrot on her arm.

I also like how the only way Springtrap can smile is to open his mouth and show the corpse inside. XD I don't know why I find it so funny.

Although, now being more serious, I just noticed something.
The only animatronics we haven't had a relatively "normal" and not somewhat "scary" design of so far is Fredbear (aka golden Freddy) and springtrap (aka spring Bonnie), and that's because we never saw them at fredbears family diner before they were discontinued.
Now one thing I'm really hoping for in the DLC is for an extra night that is spent inside fredbears family diner, before the bite. Now there is a possibility of this happening, as remember on the night (2?) minigame, the child is trapped in the diner. The child tries to get to the exit, yet runs into a guy in a fredbear suit, saying he was too late, but could get past the animatronics to find help. The child was obviously too scared of the animatronics to get past them and lay under the table crying, but one thing that was never shown was the child leaving the building, meaning that they were probably trapped there over night. Now people could argue that seeing what the child saw on that night would probably be pointless, considering none of them are believed to be possesed yet and the child would not yet have nightmares if the bite didn't happen, but remember in the night (4?) minigame, he sees a young girl who says about the animatronics killing people and hiding their bodies. Now, either this girl has a really evil mind, or the more likely thing is that it still happened then. Also the child seemed scared of the animatronics since the start, probably thanks to his brother using the foxy plushies head to scare him.
I'm don't know, but I just think seeing inside the diner would be cool, especially seeing what Fredbear and Springtrap looked like before.

That's an excellent theory! I would love it if the DLC was like that. I believe that the animatronics are already haunted, just not Spring Bonnie or Fredbear. Why? Because this takes place around the same time as FNaF2, in 1987. This diner is either the sister location to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, or a brother location and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is the sister. To further this, in one of the minigames a little girl has "toys" around her, toys that look like the Toys from FNaF2. Now, either this is an error by Scott, or he's trying to tell us something. Also, in the brother's (?) room there is a torn up Mangle.

Of course I believe that this poor kid witnessed the murders, which is why he fears Spring Bonnie and Fredbear but clings onto his "friends", which are plushies of the original four. He can see dead people and the one who is talking to him isn't the Fredbear plush (which is only an illusion, which is why I can appear everywhere) but one of the children. Finally, to finish this up, the murderer was this poor boy's father.

And why the animatronics are trying to attack him during the game is simple. They're not real. We can clearly see that they are the creation of a wild and tormented imagination. That's why Foxy reverts back into a plushie sometimes, and why Freddy comes from the bed, where a Freddy plush happens to be.

Finally, the show that pops up on the TV means nothing significant. It doesn't mean that we're playing in 1983. Many people seem to have forgotten that shows can run reruns for a long time. I watched a lot of animated shows growing up, like Ducktales, Tom and Jerry, etc, when I was growing had my childhood in the 2000's. Not the 70's 80's or 90's when these shows originally aired. It wasn't until I watched Nostalgia Critic's Disney Afternoon episode that I learned Ducktales was from the 80's. This blew my mind, because I grew up on that show too. So it doesn't surprise me at all that a show that aired in 1983 is still playing in 1987.

[Skrooker]

Who is the friendliest looking animatronic on Scott's banner?

IMO it is the original bonnie

Is no one else gonna point out that Plushtrap has another set of nasty big pointy teeth on his endoskeleton?

Even though he technically shouldn't have one, as he is a plushie.

[vinny.]

Have you guys heard the news? Not only will Scott Cawthon be directly involved in the FNaF movie's production, they're crafting actual animatronics at Henson Creature Shop for this movie.

And the sad thing is I've already heard people complaining about that, wanting cheap CGI instead of real robots that will take thousands of dollars and months to make.

The thing is, I don't like CGI much. Most of what I grew up with wasn't CGI: it was Jim Henson and Tim Burton and the old Disney movies, the ones you can still see the rough sketch lines in in the finished product. My life was puppets and claymation and stop-motion and generally non-CG animation. In that regard, I may be a bit biased, but a lot of people grew up on the same. I don't like how puppetry and stop-motion are being replaced by CGI all because CGI is cheaper. Many of the old stop-motion and claymation shows I grew up with have been taken over by CGI. There are entire segments of Sesame Street that are CGI now. Sesame Street, people.

I can understand when in some cases, you can't use puppets or robots to make a movie, the cases where CGI is the only option, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I have a problem with it when it intrudes upon what I grew up with during my childhood. I grew up with Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock and The Muppets. I grew up with The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride. Things like that you can't simply replace with CGI, because then it truly looks cheap. There's a certain ense of heart and accomplishment that goes into creating a puppet or a clay figure or a robot or animating an entire movie with a pencil and a huge stack of paper, the feeling that you've crafted this character or movie with your bare hands and you will use it for something great, something that will transcend the passing of time and won't change. Think of all the old Disney movies you've seen, all the cheesy '80s movies, all the puppet shows you've watched. They're classics for a reason.

The problem with everyone wanting CGI is that it is intruding upon my childhood, taking old shows that I loved (and admittedly, still watch from time to time) and "renewing" them with CGI. It's wrong to mess with something like that.

Think of it like this: how would you feel if someone remade The Nightmare Before Christmas or The Corpse Bride or every Muppet anything ever into CGI?

It's not a nice feeling, is it?

That whole huge rant right there was to make a point: there was no way they could make this movie a great one with CGI alone; it simply won't work. The director, Gil Kenan, himself stated that there would be very little CGI used in this movie (if at all) because CGI wasn't frightening enough. He and Cawthon are taking the time and dedication and money to making real robots for this movie, and that says a lot.

This especially says a lot because let's face it, Hollywood can turn a perfectly excellent game series into a box-office bomb. The fact that they're using real robots means a lot in that they're making an honest effort to make this movie as great as they can make it. They are sparing absolutely no expense.

And I don't see Tim Burton getting crap for using puppets and clay in a computer-generated age. Why are Kenan and Cawthon getting it for robots?

And why would you want CGI animatronics when many aren't even scared by the CG ones in the games? Imagine a real robot compared to a CG one. Imagine that same robot jumping out at you from a giant movie screen, in 3D no less, compared to a CG one.

Which one is scarier?

I think I've pretty much spoken my piece here, but I've been flipping out about this movie since I heard the news yesterday. I've already made plans with a bunch of friends to see it its opening night in 2017, and it absolutely must be in 3D. I want to be peeing my pants, I want real terror from this movie.

And real animatronics are the only way to get that.

First off Its the 21st century cgi is the new puppets they had cgi back then corpse bride and many more would have used it and lets face it if CGI is used right it can be amazing take a look at disney movies like Malficent and more and fnaf is not a excellent series in any way there are many flaws with the games and storyline and if theres going to be one move there may be for and the series is already milked so this is just taking it too far and when you walk into the theater it will be filled with 12 and 10 year olds ect shouting "I love foxy" and lets all be honest thats what 99% of the fanbase is and most cant accept that but its true and im estatic that the movie is coming out but if the cgi is done right it would be great and yes claymation stopmotion and more is great im also happy that they are using animatronics but i think for some scences they may have to use cgi you cant hold on to the past or you cant accept things n the future

[Zitface]

CGI CAN be used well- but it ISN'T nowadays. A lot of movies overuse CGI is such a lazy way, Jurassic World being a major guilty party, not to mention the color is all washed out and visually uninteresting.
CGI can be an EXCELLENT visual effect- but no producers put the effort in to make it look good and not lazy.

Everyone knows that series isn't perfect, we never said it was, but it appears you came in here with an opinion that's not favorable of this game and an intent to express it in a non-positive or constructive manner, as well as to rudely tell us we can't accept change or the future, when, we know how badly CGI is used and how AMAZING practical effects can be without being as costly as it is to use computer animation [five seconds of CG in Freddy vs Jason was just...LUDICROUSLY expensive. Someone in the twenty+ thousands] when the designers and producers of said practical effects can be.

tl;dr You're being critical of us for no reason except for you haven't thought your point through thoroughly enough [CGI is often used lazily] and for the reason that you [appear] to not like the subject at hand at all and thus appear to be more critical of it than one should be, especially in such early stages of pre-production.

[Atomic Samurai]

Sorry if this post annoys anyone if they think it's obvious but....

If there were infact two bites ( 1987, 1983 ) then this means while one takes place in 1983, with Fredbear as the culprit, now I see alot of people asking WHERE the second one happened, well, let's revert back to 2014, when FNaF 2 came out. This one took place in 1987, something we all seem to have forgotten. This means Fredbear's Family Diner shut down within the span of 5 years in between the bites. Now it's probably safe to assume that it shut down around 1984-1985, with Freddy Fazbear's Pizza opening around 1986. Then after the 5th night on FNaF 2 we hear notice of a Party going on before the place shuts down, the day the second bite happens, with the most likely culprit being Mangle.
Well, this is what I think at least, sorry if it's vague

[Zitface]

Yeah, I was ALWAYS certain that 87 was Mangle- always always always. Up until FNAF 2, I had no opinion on the matter.
I can understand there being two bites at different years in PRESUMABLY different locations- Freddy's is a CHAIN. It's possible that one bite was so distant from the other, the news didn't spread so some parts of the country don't know about the first, and said first bite's location doesn't know about the second. Stranger things have happened!

[vinny.]

Honestly i like some of the games but I never said perfect i was qouting how he/she said excellent game and yes I respect your opion on CGI yes it is expensive and there are films nowadays they use cgi good but not perfect and use must understand that CGI is still being mastered and i never said practial effects were horrid. Im sorry if i offended you in any way but like i said I respect your opinion and you respect mine.

[Zitface]

I'm pretty sure a lot of what you're saying in that post isn't what you said originally but I'm just gonna let that lie for someone else to pick up, because I'm too tired to actually analyze a post that long. I had the energy to do a quick response on it but not to actually pick out what bothered me about it.
Also, excellent doesn't mean perfect.

I'll agree to disagree, however, so this doesn't escalate. I hate confrontation, haha.

Speaking of "friendliest" on the poster, I would say Mangle or Toy Bonnie, or Original Bonnie. I just. I love Mangle so much.