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Post by Snarboo on Aug 22, 2014 21:44:40 GMT -5
Alright, I'm going to attempt another run of this at 11:30 PM EST! I'll also be using Hitbox this time, so let me know what you guys think. |
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Post by Scylla on Aug 23, 2014 3:13:56 GMT -5
I never really play horror games, but I'm planning to buy this if only because I have a massive obsession with animatronics. It'd be cool if this game stirred up more interest in the history of Showbiz Pizza/Chuck E. Cheese. I'd love to see more people checking out The Rock-afire Explosion. It's one of my very favorite documentaries. I miss Showbiz. They had legitimately good arcades; after the switch to Suck-E-Cheese it all went downhill. My local Chuck E. Cheese as a kid had a really amazing arcade on the second floor. It was a relatively quiet area designed as a retreat for teens and adults (they also had projection screens for people to watch TV and stuff). Unfortunately since I was a little kid I didn't take much advantage of it because I liked the craziness of the first floor with the animatronics, rides, ball pit, and castle to climb around in. Sadly I never got to experience Showbiz firsthand at all. I don't think they even made it to my part of the country? But maybe that's why my Chuck E. Cheese was so good, because it was designed to be a Chuck E. Cheese from the get-go and not some retrofitted Showbiz. Of course it got progressively crappier over the years as they switched to lame ticket redemption games and what have you. I got to visit my old Chuck E. Cheese for the first time in many years just a couple years ago for my niece's birthday party. It's a shadow of its former self, but it's neat to see a few remnants of how it was in the 80s. Basically the things that would be too much of a pain to remove and modernize. They've still got some old stained-glass windows, and while the huge castle is gone, the two-story statue of Chuck is still there. |
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Post by Bobinator on Aug 23, 2014 11:31:43 GMT -5
The Chuck-E-Cheese near where I live basically imploded on itself a few years after I became too old to actually go there. Kind of a shame, as it wasn't that bad. I remember they had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and this one Konami game called [i[Pirate Ship[/i] that nobody else on the internet remembers exists.
I'm pretty sure they actually rebuilt the thing, too, for whatever reason.
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Post by kaoru on Aug 23, 2014 12:55:55 GMT -5
I'm watching the video, because... Not done with it yet, but is that what all LP'ers are like? Do they all talk to the game? Answering all the questions.... That how you get them Youtube clicks. Play game considered scary (Amnesia, Slender) or really hard (Dark Souls), and then badly act affraid/raging constantly at a face cam. Hilarious! Remember, most of YTs audience is made up of 12 year olds, even if only mentally. |
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Post by Allie on Aug 23, 2014 13:29:05 GMT -5
The Chuck-E-Cheese near where I live basically imploded on itself a few years after I became too old to actually go there. Kind of a shame, as it wasn't that bad. I remember they had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and this one Konami game called [i[Pirate Ship [/i] that nobody else on the internet remembers exists. I'm pretty sure they actually rebuilt the thing, too, for whatever reason.[/quote] The one around here is still alive, but there are always police cars outside of it all day, due to the reputation from about 5-10 years back that Chuck-E-Cheese is where Ghetto Mothers go to fight each other. |
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Post by Garamoth on Aug 25, 2014 21:54:54 GMT -5
Well, how 'bout that, how's that for timing: 500-Words Indies - Five Nights at Freddy'sI have to admit the finer points of the game's "Chuck E Cheese" theme are as beyond me as the Indonesian folklore in Dreadout (unusual themes are always a plus in my book, though). There are none of those pizza joint/arcade/kid's show stores where I'm from. Do kids really like those? I have a mental image of those places being kind of depressing and decrepit. With that said, that animatronics band in the documentary looks scary as hell. How do kids not find this stuff creepy? |
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Post by TheGunheart on Aug 25, 2014 22:07:09 GMT -5
Well, watching some old vids, I'd argue it's a mix of lighting + distance from the 'bots along with voice acting that usually makes them less creepy in context.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Aug 25, 2014 22:36:31 GMT -5
Well, how 'bout that, how's that for timing: 500-Words Indies - Five Nights at Freddy'sI have to admit the finer points of the game's "Chuck E Cheese" theme are as beyond me as the Indonesian folklore in Dreadout (unusual themes are always a plus in my book, though). There are none of those pizza joint/arcade/kid's show stores where I'm from. Do kids really like those? I have a mental image of those places being kind of depressing and decrepit. With that said, that animatronics band in the documentary looks scary as hell. How do kids not find this stuff creepy? Well, it may be different for my time, but the animatronics looked nothing like they do in this game. They looked more like statues with their jaws moving up and down. For an example. Mostly you just had the people in suits. Like Disneyland. Once again speaking for myself, they weren't really the draw anyway. It was the arcade games. Well, actually, it was more the stupid ticket games. The only arcade game in the one near me was TMNT. |
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Post by Scylla on Aug 26, 2014 5:26:38 GMT -5
Don't underestimate the ability kids have to be fascinated with things in spite of finding them scary.  I definitely always found them creepy to some degree, although I was probably even more afraid of the guy in the suit as a little kid since everybody would want me to go up and hug him for a picture, haha. The designs of the animatronics definitely got less creepy over the years (although they also lost quality in terms of articulation). The Rock-afire Explosion band came before Chuck E. Cheese even existed so they're some of the older designs and thus pretty damn freaky looking, haha. But the early Chuck E. Cheese designs were pretty terrifying too. Compare the above Pasqually with this nightmare:  |
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Post by GamerL on Aug 26, 2014 5:57:55 GMT -5
holy shit that looks awesome and it's only 5 dollars? I may have to drop what I'm doing at the moment and take the time out to play that
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Post by Ike on Sept 5, 2014 20:25:55 GMT -5
Is everybody else seeing a different game than me? I'm watching a Let's Play of it and it seems godawful boring.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 5, 2014 20:42:38 GMT -5
No, really the only thing about it is I can't handle jump scares like a grown man. So truth be told that fox gets me every damn time. But, is this something you have to pay money for? Because holy hell really? Other then that, I'm actually not sure why this is such a viral hit. It seems at it's core a simple puzzle game and one video I watched, Markaplier or something like that, seemed to realize that the trick is to keep checking on one camera and the doors. And you win.
But, I think after this I have a theory. I should become a really popular LP'er. Then find good games to have a scare cam and act like a fucking spastic over, and make them viral hits.
"But, but where the fuck did the hole go to! God that's so fucking scaaaaaary"
"What the fuck man! What! The! Fuck! Why do the red skeletons keep getting back up! That's so fucking broken man."
"Oh shit! They got crucified! HAHAHAHA who do they think they are Jesus? Man, Fei is now Japanese Jesus"
"Ha prepared to receive his fist! What a gaylord!"
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Post by Ike on Sept 5, 2014 20:51:10 GMT -5
That's exactly it. Any [SCARY] [HORROR] game that people can [LET'S PLAY] with a [SCARECAM] and [SHRIEK] like a [FUCKING NINNY] at is a guaranteed success, especially if you're PewDiePie or a cute girl.
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Post by kal on Sept 5, 2014 21:00:16 GMT -5
Is everybody else seeing a different game than me? I'm watching a Let's Play of it and it seems godawful boring. As we discuss in the First Strike (which we will upload soon enough hopefully). FNAF's is a game that is quite specifically isn't particularly scary to watch. The main fear/intensity of the game comes from your rapidly dwindling resources, the interplay between your knowledge and your battery usage. As a game it's designed to force you to sit patiently and do nothing while straining your ears to hear the tell tale sounds of movement, switching the camera on only for one of the anamtronics to have moved where you didn't expect or to have gone absent completely. Naturally this type of psychological pressure on the player is completely absent when you watch someone play it, even more so when it's one of those idiots on YT that huff and puff at every single thing, over-exaggerating it to over-saturation. |
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Post by Ike on Sept 5, 2014 21:02:05 GMT -5
I can't see how it would be fun even if I were playing it. It seems to be entirely tedious jump scares. From the way people were talking about how scary it is I thought you would at least get to walk around the place.
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I definitely always found them creepy to some degree, although I was probably even more afraid of the guy in the suit as a little kid since everybody would want me to go up and hug him for a picture, haha.
