I feel the FNAF thing is getting out of hand
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I will say this is a VERY valid statement. i think that the fnaf fandom (which i am a part of) should calm down and don't try to push their ideas down other peoples throats 24/7. On the other hand sometimes i wish people would give the games a fair shake and not immediately dismiss it as kid stuff or "cringe".
I feel both sides are getting out of hand, yelling about why the other cant have their killer in the game or why x character wont fit. I just wanted fun discussion and speculation, not arguing.
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You know i appreciate when people discuss in a civil manner and criticize without doing it in a way that is mean. You are a legend my dude.
oh wait i could have just said constructive criticism
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Thanks guys. I think a lot of my perspective comes from the fact that I was in the same boat as a lot of people here: I started hearing about FNAF back in the mid to late 2010s and it seemed to never stop, and I grew so sick of it that I just wanted it to go away. I also refused to accept that any of the praise could possibly have been warranted because I only had a surface-level understanding of what it was all about and why people kept talking about it (it didn't help that sequels kept being released like every 8 months).
So finally one day I decided to just see what myself what all the fuss was about. Before playing I really did believe that the game was just a jumpscare simulator, that you had to just sit there and wait for jumpscares to happen and that was the whole point. I couldn't imagine why anyone would think that would be anything other than tedious and stupid. When I realized that it was the reverse - that the goal was to do everything in your limited means to keep up with where the animatronics are and shut them out at the right times to AVOID attack (the jumpscare, signaling failure), I understood that there was actually some gameplay. It was extremely tense, and I respected that it was able to invoke such a strong response. I also respected the sound design and atmosphere. By this time they were on game 2, I believe, so I also enjoyed reading about the lore which at that time were creepy theories. I still didn't like how many younger people wouldn't stop talking about the game (I was in my late 30s by this point and wasn't part of that audience) but I could now understand what made the game effective and how it managed to capture the imagination. I enjoyed it.
I was temp banned for the last month so I couldn't say any of this then and I really wish I could have because I feel that maybe I could have helped some people to feel less annoyed by the subject and also help some of the more aggressive fans to understand that "hey, there are actually some of us here who don't mind or even like the games, but you need to calm down about it and try to organize your thoughts and requests a little better so that you don't keep ostracizing the people you're trying to talk to". I mean I like alien greys, they creep me out. I'd love to see one in the game in the sense that they would make the game more interesting to me, myself. But do I accept that a character like that really wouldn't quite fit, most people wouldn't want it, and that it would be annoying of me to make posts trying to change people's minds? You bet.
It was a vicious cycle: I could see vague reasons why the new chapter could potentially be FNAF, some of the theories were actually pretty interesting. But as excited as those fans got the more they wanted to talk about it, which is understandable, but they were clearly starting to annoy the non-fans to the point that THEY were just getting pissed off. Some users attempted to find a middle ground or at least politely deescalate the situation, but I think that there weren't enough people from either camp who could (or were willing to try to) understand where the other side was coming from. No one's "fault" per se, it's just a bummer that things got taken as far as they did and have probably tainted the discussion forever.
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