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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

hanales posted:

I'll have to wait for harshlycritical or someone else less cheesy. Besides his camera taking up a giant portion of the screen, his over acting, poorly applied makeup and horrid facial expressions just irk me to no end. I didn't make it through the phone call.

I seriously don't understand why people are so enamored by scarecams

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hanales
Nov 3, 2013

Improbable Lobster posted:

I seriously don't understand why people are so enamored by scarecams

This has been discussed to death in other threads, but I'll say I can enjoy them. They help to create a personal connection between the viewer and the broadcaster. But bad is bad.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



I don't have a strong opinion about FNAF but I have to say this one looks like a genuinely tense game with its multiple floors, vents, and needing to reboot systems. The animatronic actually feels like a stalker rather than an obstacle you have to constantly watch.

I still think this guy could make a fantastic first person horror adventure game.

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich
I like Markiplier. Dude's a genuinely friendly guy and you can tell he loves doing what he does - the fact he does charity work, etc, as well helps. He's not just a dude gurning into the camera all the time or nor, like Harshly Critical, does he break down and bitch incessantly about anyone that gives him negative feedback.

At any rate, FNAF 3 already out! http://store.steampowered.com/app/354140/

I'm not playing this at 2am in the loving morning.

Gay Horney
Feb 10, 2013

by Reene

hanales posted:

I'll have to wait for harshlycritical or someone else less cheesy. Besides his camera taking up a giant portion of the screen, his over acting, poorly applied makeup and horrid facial expressions just irk me to no end. I didn't make it through the phone call.

Yeah if someone wants to post about what the new mechanics are like and why people are freaking out upthread that would be cool, I have no patience for video walk-throughs.

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

ElvUI super fan at your service!

Ask me any and all questions about UI customization via PM

:psyduck: Holy gently caress, Scott.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

Improbable Lobster posted:

I seriously don't understand why people are so enamored by scarecams

To be fair, have you looked at Markeplier? Have you seen that dude? Have you heard his voice? I mean people like scarecams, but people watch Markeplier cause look at that dude!

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Macaluso posted:

To be fair, have you looked at Markeplier? Have you seen that dude? Have you heard his voice? I mean people like scarecams, but people watch Markeplier cause look at that dude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51uplvbkwY

Obligatory. :shepface:

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Markiplier is a handsome guy with a great voice who should be in radio or narrating commercials. All of the Did You Know Gaming videos with him are great.

Then he puts on his act and I'm just like "Why do you do this?" And he counts his advertising dollars from Youtube and it all makes sense in the end.

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!
The "persona" he uses for FNaF is so grating and he looks so much like John Romero that I really don't care to see anything more by the guy. I'll just wait for HarshlyCritical's inevitable playthrough because there's no way I'm watching more than a minute or two of a guy SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS AND NEVER PAUSING FOR BREATH OR STOPPING AT ALL HE JUST KEEPS ON GOING.

The vast majority of YouTube LPers have no idea when to shut the gently caress up and let the game do its thing. It's like they're getting paid by the word and get deductions for dead air.

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

hanales posted:

I'll have to wait for harshlycritical or someone else less cheesy.

Alright then, here you go.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

King Vidiot posted:

The "persona" he uses for FNaF is so grating and he looks so much like John Romero that I really don't care to see anything more by the guy. I'll just wait for HarshlyCritical's inevitable playthrough because there's no way I'm watching more than a minute or two of a guy SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS AND NEVER PAUSING FOR BREATH OR STOPPING AT ALL HE JUST KEEPS ON GOING.

The vast majority of YouTube LPers have no idea when to shut the gently caress up and let the game do its thing. It's like they're getting paid by the word and get deductions for dead air.

Well I mean... the vast majority of these LPers (Markeplier, Game Grumps, Dodger, Jesse Cox, etc), their fans are watching them cause they like the personalities. They can watch silent LPs of games anywhere, they're watching these guys cause they like the people. It really doesn't matter what game they play. If you're not a fan of theirs, you just gotta wait til someone does a silent play through of it.

hanales
Nov 3, 2013

Thanks!

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011



holy poo poo gently caress this guy forever

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

ElvUI super fan at your service!

Ask me any and all questions about UI customization via PM
Oh hey there's occasionally a surprise for you when you start the game up OH JESUS CHRIST

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

Shadowlyger posted:

Oh hey there's occasionally a surprise for you when you start the game up OH JESUS CHRIST

Is that a face inside that face inside that face

QuoProQuid
Jan 12, 2012

Tr*ckin' and F*ckin' all the way to tha
T O P

Oxxidation posted:

Is that a face inside that face inside that face

Yeah, that's definitely not part of the animatronics.

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

ElvUI super fan at your service!

Ask me any and all questions about UI customization via PM

Oxxidation posted:

Is that a face inside that face inside that face

That is the murderer. Why do you think the animatronic's name is Spring Trap?

al-azad
May 28, 2009



So what's this game about? Something about a "mangler" that's like a Frankenstein's monster assimilating the old Freddy animatronics?

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

al-azad posted:

So what's this game about? Something about a "mangler" that's like a Frankenstein's monster assimilating the old Freddy animatronics?

The pizza chain has finally died for good but some enterprising dipshits have scavenged the old animatronics and gotten them all in one building to create a haunted-house attraction, with the player character now doubling as the security guard "character" and an actual security guard. The entire first day seems to be nothing but a tutorial to acclimate yourself to the place's layout, but on Day 2 your dipshit boss manages to hunt down and install one of the original remnant animatronics, which is presumably Bonnie/Spring Trap. Spring Trap then spends the rest of the game busily trying to murder you, as is its wont.

Beyond that it looks like the sheer psychic anguish of all the animatronic parts stockpiled in the place causes routine hallucinations and interface fuckups if you don't keep your eyes on the cameras and the ventilation running. The ghosts distract you while Spring Trap closes in for the kill.

Black August
Sep 28, 2003

Macaluso posted:

Well I mean... the vast majority of these LPers (Markeplier, Game Grumps, Dodger, Jesse Cox, etc), their fans are watching them cause they like the personalities. They can watch silent LPs of games anywhere, they're watching these guys cause they like the people. It really doesn't matter what game they play. If you're not a fan of theirs, you just gotta wait til someone does a silent play through of it.

It can be surprisingly difficult to find no-commentary and reasonably well done playthroughs of most games. Everyone is so hot and hard to jump on the twitchbux and tubedollars that there's just a gross rash of facecam plays. I can see why these guys do it, and I appreciate more genuine people like HarshlyCritical, but good lord does it get tiresome to see outside of the speedrun scene.

Periodiko
Jan 30, 2005
Uh.

Improbable Lobster posted:

I seriously don't understand why people are so enamored by scarecams

They're children. The bulk of the audience for these "youtube personalities" are teenagers and pre-teens. Pewdiepie is basically a children's show entertainer. It's free, and vaguely risqué. They aren't bored of scare cams because they haven't been alive long enough to get bored of scare cams. They like stupid jokes and mugging for the camera because they're children.

Kaboom Dragoon
May 7, 2010

The greatest of feasts

It's impressive how many people playing seem to have no idea what to do. Then again, I've watched a couple of vids so far and I'm kinda lost myself. Is the audio alert supposed to lure Spring Trap elsewhere? The previous games felt like an exercise in plate-spinning, but this one looks like a complete trial-and-error sim.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Oxxidation posted:

The pizza chain has finally died for good but some enterprising dipshits have scavenged the old animatronics and gotten them all in one building to create a haunted-house attraction, with the player character now doubling as the security guard "character" and an actual security guard. The entire first day seems to be nothing but a tutorial to acclimate yourself to the place's layout, but on Day 2 your dipshit boss manages to hunt down and install one of the original remnant animatronics, which is presumably Bonnie/Spring Trap. Spring Trap then spends the rest of the game busily trying to murder you, as is its wont.

Beyond that it looks like the sheer psychic anguish of all the animatronic parts stockpiled in the place causes routine hallucinations and interface fuckups if you don't keep your eyes on the cameras and the ventilation running. The ghosts distract you while Spring Trap closes in for the kill.

There also seems to be multiple endings? I really hope Scott ends it here as this is probably as far as you can go now unless he makes another prequel.The entire game just seems to be busy work until you don't get the jump scares even more than the first two.

Kaboom Dragoon
May 7, 2010

The greatest of feasts

Crabtree posted:

There also seems to be multiple endings? I really hope Scott ends it here as this is probably as far as you can go now unless he makes another prequel.The entire game just seems to be busy work until you don't get the jump scares even more than the first two.

I would honestly laugh if the Bad End is the only end in the game. It would be fitting, not just for the series, but also for the fans, tearing their hair out over something that doesn't actually exist.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I can't find anything on the endings, can anyone spoiler them?

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

I would honestly laugh if the Bad End is the only end in the game. It would be fitting, not just for the series, but also for the fans, tearing their hair out over something that doesn't actually exist.

And to be honest I don't really see how that can be called that when all you learn is why the one animatronic is called Spring Trap. It's really loving weird to have that be presented as a downer.

Hell, this poo poo is practically spoiled to you sometimes when there's a SCARY 90s 3D image that shows up before you get to the menu.

Crabtree fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Mar 3, 2015

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011

the fact that people have already beaten the entire loving thing and are feverishly posting a zillion vids on stupid lore theories is hilarious. I mean is it really that loving deep, it's a jumpscare night trap game with a barely coherent ghost story thread

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

MinibarMatchman posted:

the fact that people have already beaten the entire loving thing and are feverishly posting a zillion vids on stupid lore theories is hilarious. I mean is it really that loving deep, it's a jumpscare night trap game with a barely coherent ghost story thread

You'd be surprised how easy it is to earn YouTube Subscriber money making a hundred Top Ten FNaF theory videos every few days.

Oh and I guess there is a better ending. Burn this poo poo to the ground.

DLC Inc
Jun 1, 2011


LOL. You know this would have been maybe more interesting than a 2 hour pump and dump if only the creator didn't make all 3 in the span of 7 loving months. Maybe take some more time to capitalize on an initially interesting premise.

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch

I hate that I now know this channel exists.

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Crabtree posted:

Oh and I guess there is a better ending. Burn this poo poo to the ground.
That explains why they explicitly hinted to that happening in the first phone call. Also, the creator sounds like the goofiest nerd from those half-blurred blurbs surrounding the story piece.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

MinibarMatchman posted:

LOL. You know this would have been maybe more interesting than a 2 hour pump and dump if only the creator didn't make all 3 in the span of 7 loving months. Maybe take some more time to capitalize on an initially interesting premise.

People (besides furries that jack off while they play) would have stopped caring by then

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

Fojar38 posted:

I can't find anything on the endings, can anyone spoiler them?

There's more of those chintzy Atari-esque sequences between missions. They seem to depict the Purple Man being trapped in the restaurant somehow and systematically dismantling each of the mascot suits. The final one has you playing as the ghost of a kid, who's gotten together with the other ghosts - who apparently still exist despite the suits being destroyed - and cornered the Purple Man in the women's restroom of the restaurant. The Purple Man attempts to do what the Phone Guy recommended in the first game and hide inside the last remaining costume, which looks like Bonnie. Apparently the suits' inner workings can be spring-compressed to allow people to fit inside, but this one was rigged so the springs popped back after the suit was put on, mangling the Purple Man and trapping his corpse in the suit - hence, Spring Trap. You've been evading the murderer's vengeful corpse the whole time. What a twist. The end.

Butt Ghost
Nov 23, 2013

Wow, FNAF3 sounds pretty goofy. The haunted house theme makes it sound like a parody of the series up to this point. Eh, but it's still gonna sell a bunch, so good for it. The game still sounds as tense as the previous two.

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich
FNAF has always been kinda goofy. The humour's extremely pitch black.

e; Oh man, I just realized that the teaser trailer for FNAF3 wasn't showing Springrap animating. It was showing us the murderer's death throes.

poptart_fairy fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Mar 3, 2015

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

The empty Freddy suit outside the door is the cruelest thing, I jump every time I see the loving thing.

Foul Ole Ron
Jan 6, 2005

All of you, please don't rush, everyone do the Guybrush!
Fun Shoe

Yodzilla posted:

I hate that I now know this channel exists.

You know whats scarier? I met a guy that swears, SWEARS blindy that slender man is real or at least based off of a real ancient legend. It was an awkward converstaion explaining its real origins...

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Foul Ole Ron posted:

You know whats scarier? I met a guy that swears, SWEARS blindy that slender man is real or at least based off of a real ancient legend. It was an awkward converstaion explaining its real origins...

So I know Knudsen is (trying to) keep Slenderman under control out of artistic integrity but I hope it turns into the next bigfoot to puzzle idiots for decades to come.

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Foul Ole Ron
Jan 6, 2005

All of you, please don't rush, everyone do the Guybrush!
Fun Shoe

al-azad posted:

So I know Knudsen is (trying to) keep Slenderman under control out of artistic integrity but I hope it turns into the next bigfoot to puzzle idiots for decades to come.

It has turned into that already, this guy in general was savy enough dude... it is really scary how fast its become something actually beleave.

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