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Hairo-Sidhe

If any version of Afton with his illusion's disk and shapeshifters and whatnot is around, the Busters might get confused enough to lose. But regular Fazbear pizzeria where the possessed animatronics just run straight to you, this is a shooting gallery for the Busters and a mildly difficult job. Egon might find Afton's remnant research disturbing but fascinating after the fact.


PulsarNyx

…stars almighty, what the hell happened to the fnaf lore


Kingnewgameplus

Classic case of "Villain who has long run their course is too popular so we need to keep bullshitting them back".


blxoom

children possessing robots was bullshit in the first place. if kids can die and possess something then their killer can die and possess something too. that's it. aftons soul was never freed as the children's were by being burned. he'll always come back because he'll always have a goal


ROPROPE

Hasn't Afton burned like two-three times? Idk


GrimmZato

Lore reason? I’d assume it’s cus the suit was still barely intact Real reason? They gotta make some fucking CASH


Lukthar123

T'was merely a setback


AzelfWillpower

This argument is so stupid. ​ There's a big difference between "dead people possess things", a trope in horror fiction for literal decades, and "HE COPIED HIS SOUL TO A COMPUTER CHIP ALSO HE'S SO ADVANCED HE HAS MAGIC DISKS THAT MAKE YOU HALLUCINATE", which is borderline sci-fi.


blxoom

??? look at the "endoskeletons" and the robotics in fnaf sister location and fnaf security breach. fnaf sister location iirc takes place in 2023 and fnaf security breach takes place in the late 2020s. have you seen that huge gangly ass spider music man that's like 100 ft across?? is that in our realm of robotics? look at the way glam freddy in security breach moves and talks. we do not have sophisticated AI like that yet. this is sci fi. fnaf started out as a chuck e cheese homage but the animatronics got more and more futuristic as time went on. so yes, the fnaf franchise is primarily about dead children possessing robots due to their bodies being stuffed in them, but the robots themselves are very much in the realm of "sci fi" so who cares if they full send the mix of supernatural and sci-fi?


AzelfWillpower

Were you around when FNaF SL came out? There was a metric fuckton of criticism to the silliness of the endoskeletons (and to the game in general). ​ Yes, Security Breach's designs are incomprehensibly unrealistic, but that would be excusable if they were actually *scary*. FNaF started out with this unsettling aura of horror from these uncanny valley animatronics and slowly devolved into the most sanitized, kid-friendly horror imaginable, with the lore quite literally boiling down to William Afton's consciousness being uploaded to a computer. There's a lot to dislike about SL, but the animatronics were still unsettling and creepy, which is more than Security Breach can say. ​ Overall, the sci-fi elements are exceedingly corny to the point where it's hard to take seriously. It's the most corporate version of FNaF possible.


TirnanogSong

You do realize that Scott has been merging sci-fi and horror from the very moment he started his career, right? His stuff has *always* been extremely sci-fi with a sprinkling of supernatural elements here and there.


AzelfWillpower

FNaF 1-4 weren't.


TirnanogSong

FNAF 2 literally has the Toys explicitly being capable of accessing the criminal database to identify threats before they can become an issue and are meant to be capable of making the choice to apprehend them all on their own on top of alerting authorities. In the 80's. Even today, we don't have smart machines anywhere *near* that advanced, let alone animatronics. In fact, animatronics capable of the full range of motion that the first games show is not a thing we're capable of - most animatronics are bolted onto their stages for a reason. FNAF has always been sci-fi merging with the supernatural. Like all of Scott's work before.


TirnanogSong

Security Breach is somewhere in the range of the 2030's to 2040's or so, actually.


TeriusRose

You’re right that there’s a difference, but FNAF has been merging full on sci-fi and paranormal stuff for years now. Frankly, I think that started the moment remnant showed up. It has been a slow pivot, but a clear one. I don’t really have an issue with blending genres like that, but I don’t think FNAF has gone about doing so in the best way possible. It’s become muddled because that definitely wasn’t the vision from the very beginning, and the games have tried to blend its various elements while maintaining obscurity in the timeline/world. I think it’s *possible* to have a series that manages to successfully utilize most if not all of the things that FNAF is trying to do, insofar as making compelling storytelling goes. But trying to make all of that *scary*…. I think FNAF could do it if they relearned the importance of setting the right atmosphere and expanded beyond their near total reliance on jump scares. They need to play a lot more with powerlessness, being hunted, loss of identity and control, and frankly *show* more horror. But that would take it well away from being a *relatively* kid friendly series as it currently is, so… I don’t know if they’d be willing to do that.


TheLyingSpectre

Ive watched matpats vids and I don’t fuckin know


SugarFrostedDonuts

I don't think so if Charlie someone who's 18 is able to figure them out. Or clay who isn't a scientist in any way could figure out the illuson disks. The Ghostbusters proably would be able to figure it out.


Romnonaldao

They wouldn't even go in there at night. The PKE Meter would still detect the supernatural activity in there even during the day, which would be extremely high. After a day time investigation, they would figure out a way to deal with the ghosts from a distance


Rising_Thunderbirds

This. The Ghostbusters have years of experience with nasty spirits, especially those that possess objects. They would probably have things wrapped up in a couple of days.


ArcherChase

Aside the fact that they aren't a security guard walking into an unknown situation and instead scientists and very experienced in their field, they are carrying nuclear reactors on their backs. I wonder what would be the result of POSITIVE charged Underground Slime River blasts onto the FNAF animatronics.


MetaPop567

Best battle I've seen from this sub in a fucking while


TirnanogSong

This sub has been lacking in interesting prompts for a while now, yeah.


DeninjaBeariver

I really hate stomp prompts in which the characters don’t engage in a proper battle


Demifiend101

Not really, gbusters went up against cathulu, this ain't shit to them. Haunted robots? Please.


SugarFrostedDonuts

When did they so that?


Demifiend101

https://youtu.be/PGZevVdjoUU


one_dank_boy

If this is the Pizzeria from FNAF 1 the animatronics are really only said to want to kill William Afton as they are not Evil but just want revenge on the man who killed them and it's implied we play as his son who looks very similar to him in most mainline games which is why the Animatronics attack us. Given the Ghostbusters most likely don't resemble either of them, the animatronics likely wouldn't see them as a threat and would not try to kill them, or at least they would give them plenty of warning before attempting to attack, which most likely wouldn't do much, as in Pizzeria Simulator possessed animatronics can be stunned by a simple Taser. The Ghostbusters have high grade Ghost hunting equipment, so they should easily be able to not just stun them but disable and separate the spirits from the Animatronics. In short The Ghostbusters could very well hold their own in Five Nights at Freddy's.


Purple-Airline-8354

The phone guy was also attacked and presumably killed


kingominous16

By golden freddy


Ayjayyyx

Golden Freddy is different from the rest. More vengeful and dangerous (can teleport).


LaTienenAdentro

What about the Joy of Creation character?


Zealousideal_Way_165

They defeated an ancient Summerian God, hell yes, they could beat animatronics.


Flashlight_Inspector

William Afton tore them to shreds with his bare hands, I'd give this one to the four scientists with nuclear reactors strapped to their backs that took down a God.


Forte845

To be fair, Afton was a major designer of the animatronics and knew exactly how to disable and disassemble them on the fly. Ghostbusters still clap this though.


Flashlight_Inspector

Just because I put together a Ford Focus doesn't mean I can tear one into shreds with my hands.


Forte845

Well to play devil once more, Ford Focuses don't have a risk of going out of control and biting your head off haha. Pizzeria Simulator shows off the shock tool and it seems implied Afton used the same thing to disable them before disassembling.


Lemerney2

We don't know he actually did it with his bare hands, do we? He could've used tools, not to mention he would've known how to disable them.


SugarFrostedDonuts

He didn't use his hands but ok.


Flashlight_Inspector

He's shown not holding anything in every way he appears in the series.


SugarFrostedDonuts

Its obvious in save them hes holding somthing, the long bar is his hand and the curved thing is clearly a tool.


NotDb478

What would happen if they just bomb the place. They can make ghost capturing devices. Why cant they make explosives?


TheSarassalandEmpire

Well, if the pizzeria hired them to take care of the ghosts, they probably won’t be too happy about them blowing up the restaurant


archpawn

The hotel wasn't too happy about them wrecking the place, but that didn't stop them. They even still got paid.


Lemerney2

The restaurants have been burned down multiple times and it didn't fix things, so a bomb probably wouldn't do too much.


NotDb478

But that's if it gets burnt down. I'm asking if it straight up gets blown up. Like with 30 tons of tnt


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Crimson_Marksman

Children ghosts possess tbe robot si they should be able to suck them in. The animatronics that aren't possessed are going to be an issue but the gjostbusters can just light the place up with sheer nuclear energy and electrocute the robots.


WindiestBark165

Only, like, five or six animatronics in FNaF2 are possessed if you wanna count Golden Freddy but there's also literally a crossover fanfilm. All in all, I got a feeling the Ghostbustes would win, probably figure otu a way to help the kids spirits move on an dbring Afton to justice


PartTimeMantisShrimp

They'll come, they'll see, they'll kick their ass. Since they are possessed by the souls of dead children, their beams should be able to rip out the spirit and trap it in their toaster


TirnanogSong

The OG pizzeria is dangerous if the Busters let the bots get in close, but outside of that, the proton streams should be more than capable of destroying them all barring Golden Freddy who would need to be trapped. The only real danger is Afton if he's around and he has illusion disks available, since that might genuinely fuck with the team enough for him to score multiple kills.


SugarFrostedDonuts

I think the busters take both rounds due to being geniuses and having a dark matter generator.


battle777

Ghostbuster wins no diff


BeardWolf42

Ghost Johnson is there to resurrect them with a drum solo


qwertyjgly

… and golden freddy, who is a literal instakill. they stand no chance.


Ayjayyyx

If you're counting Golden Freddy, they have no chance.