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Purchases I Regret: FNAF
10 years ago
Let me start off by saying I love FNAF (Five Nights at Freddy's) as a whole despite all the hate it gets from people who are tired of seeing it, or think it's "not scary."
I could go on about how fear is mostly subjective but that's a whole other discussion that many people, who most would consider more qualified for various reasons, have talked about before me.
Why do I say I regret this purchase though? Because even though I've played a single ripoff of the game... which was much less scary and intimidating due to the content involved (Five Nights in Anime) plus the endings arent entire undesirable... classic case of the gamer/completionist in me fighting with the pervert... (T&A in my face or win the game... HMMMM) even though I've played this spinoff that made me think I was ready for Freddy... night one I was trembling at my keyboard even though bonnie only threatened to attack once and I succeeded in shutting him out, the fact that everything out there was moving around and making those noises and not exactly having any sort of attack pattern made me very nervous. The inability to predict the next attack raised my anxiety levels tenfold.... (cause if anyone knows me they know I love my predictability... IE anyone who's ever played a PVP style game with coop options, I always pick coop... its easy to predict what an NPC will do but its much harder to figure out player thoughts/actions... dont judge me, I play games to relax and have fun not compete!)
A few other phenomenon that occurred that further broke my understanding of the game after watching many players play it is the "it's me" screen flashing in my face. Out of every play-through I've watched, that's never happened on night one... ever. Needless to say it psyched me out. I started panicking, I lost the animatronics, Bonnie almost caught me that one time he attacked and seriously for the last half hour of the night, I just fucking shut the doors and said fuck this, draining my power to 11% before 6 AM hit.
And then there was Foxy... that fucker... he's not supposed to come out on night one... not to my knowledge. When I saw him poking his head out of pirate cove in the middle of my panic I just couldnt deal. I dont remember him staring at you on night one...
So I say all this to say that the reason I regret this purchase is because dueto the massive amount of anxiety this game is going to cause me, I dont feel like I'm going to complete the whole thing. I'm damn well going to try but... I dont do horror games as it is. I dont deal with the stress well. The fact that you cant run makes this game even more stressful. BUT I do want to see what Scott Cawthon has for us in FNAF 4... as soon as its out, I'm looking for a playthrough. I dont think I'll be playing the game myself though, unless I handle games 1-3 without crying to myself in a corner somewhere hoping the creepy animatronics dont come eat my face.
I could go on about how fear is mostly subjective but that's a whole other discussion that many people, who most would consider more qualified for various reasons, have talked about before me.
Why do I say I regret this purchase though? Because even though I've played a single ripoff of the game... which was much less scary and intimidating due to the content involved (Five Nights in Anime) plus the endings arent entire undesirable... classic case of the gamer/completionist in me fighting with the pervert... (T&A in my face or win the game... HMMMM) even though I've played this spinoff that made me think I was ready for Freddy... night one I was trembling at my keyboard even though bonnie only threatened to attack once and I succeeded in shutting him out, the fact that everything out there was moving around and making those noises and not exactly having any sort of attack pattern made me very nervous. The inability to predict the next attack raised my anxiety levels tenfold.... (cause if anyone knows me they know I love my predictability... IE anyone who's ever played a PVP style game with coop options, I always pick coop... its easy to predict what an NPC will do but its much harder to figure out player thoughts/actions... dont judge me, I play games to relax and have fun not compete!)
A few other phenomenon that occurred that further broke my understanding of the game after watching many players play it is the "it's me" screen flashing in my face. Out of every play-through I've watched, that's never happened on night one... ever. Needless to say it psyched me out. I started panicking, I lost the animatronics, Bonnie almost caught me that one time he attacked and seriously for the last half hour of the night, I just fucking shut the doors and said fuck this, draining my power to 11% before 6 AM hit.
And then there was Foxy... that fucker... he's not supposed to come out on night one... not to my knowledge. When I saw him poking his head out of pirate cove in the middle of my panic I just couldnt deal. I dont remember him staring at you on night one...
So I say all this to say that the reason I regret this purchase is because dueto the massive amount of anxiety this game is going to cause me, I dont feel like I'm going to complete the whole thing. I'm damn well going to try but... I dont do horror games as it is. I dont deal with the stress well. The fact that you cant run makes this game even more stressful. BUT I do want to see what Scott Cawthon has for us in FNAF 4... as soon as its out, I'm looking for a playthrough. I dont think I'll be playing the game myself though, unless I handle games 1-3 without crying to myself in a corner somewhere hoping the creepy animatronics dont come eat my face.
