What are the elements that accomunate all these games and made them become so overhyped?

What are the elements that accomunate all these games and made them become so overhyped?

All 3 games were marketed heavily by approaching streamers and getting them to generate hype for undisclosed sums of money in order to start a cascading effect.
These are known as "stream bait" games.

ITT: games ruined by people

You know that in order to be "ruined" something must have been good previously, right?

Nobody needs to offer streamers money. After a few hits like Amnesia and FNAF, youtube facecamers started rooting around for games to attract their audeince and, wowie zowie, games with interesting stories that could be picked apart lead to more views.

They were all indie games that managed to become bigger and more popular than most AAA shit today.

DDLC has an impressive amount of autism for how recent it is, but it's still not greater than something like the Sonic fandom

Is "overhyped" really a good word for these games?
They gained their popularity after they got released

undertale is a good game

I think timing is a big factor. When Undertale was released, a game of that style hadn't come along in years. So even though it was mediocre, there was a big demand for something like that, and people wanted to like it.

Put all the puzzle pieces together. The timing, desperation for a game like that, and the tendency for people to believe whatever they want to believe.

most people on Sup Forums weren't even around when this image was made

Without thinking about how the fanbases ruined these, here are my thoughts of each of them.

Undertale is probably the most game-y of the 3 games, since you can actually die and restart at a save point and is also an RPG. It's a bit linear for my taste and the humour isn't my cup of tea, but the first playthrough without spoilers is a decent time.

Five Nights at Freddy's is kind of like one of those FMV games on SEGA CD or Panasonic 3DO. There isn't much game to be seen other than making sure you preserve a good amount of energy and not getting jump scared. It was a bit boring after 3 nights, and the fanbase mainly exists for the some what of a lore Scott has built up.

Doki Doki is a tad bit short for my liking. Props to it being free though. I feel as though it would have been better if they removed the warning at the start, even if Tumblr babies would start complaining about it. It ruins the surprise because you know what is coming. Other than that the writing is alright, the art is fine and it's mostly decent at best for what it is.

replace ddlc with bendy

>The actual state of DokiDokiNiggers

Bendy lost momentum fast. I didn't see anyone talking about it after the first 2 weeks.

>ironic weebs

Except FNAF was a solid and original horror idea for a game, it wasn't shit until Scott started milking it, Undertale also had a couple of original ideas, interesting mix of different genres and somewhat cool moments, it wasn't something really amazing but it definitely was a fun game and well worth the cheap price, the only bad things I can think of were few cringy jokes but I don't think it was so bad, luckily the dev didn't start milking it and the game itself is still fine with only the shitty fanbase preventing you from engaging in any sort of discussion about it anywhere.

Haven't played Doki Doki so I dunno about it.

The warning isn't there to keep people from complaining. Its there to keep Dan from being killed in a courtroom by some autists parents if they decided to kill themselves after playing it.

Wasn't the guy who made Undertail already super famous for being part of that grey people comic?
The game itself is pretty charming and the combat was pretty novel. So it was a pretty good indie game that already came with an insufferable fan base.

reply with "follow your dreams"

The Undertale fans managed to make matt pat cry so they are good people on my book

Yall know people are fucking seething when a free shit game like ddlc is making people obsessed and it's nothing more than 2017's katawa shoujo

Ohhh....oh my tummy doesn't feel so good it's very queasy....ohhhhh oh no it's coming out!!!!

*makes this thread*

>accomunate

How's that Moniko x Sans fanfiction coming along user?

My progressive tumblr relatives recommended Doki Doki Literature club. It sounded pretty cool and it's free to play. Why does Sup Forums hate it so much?

Because it's a virtual novel.

All 3 are pretty great.
>tfw not autistic enough to judge a game by its fanbase

people like it so Sup Forums doesn't
notice how literally no criticisms are actually about the game, shit like "streamer bait" "normie trash" "hurr anime" "hurr unertale" is all you see

What the fuck is a Tzelriforce

Undertale 8/10
FNAF 4/10
Doki Doki 2/10

how fucking retarded can one person be

go to any of the big streamers and once a week they'll be playing a game and literally say in their title "#ad"

hey i fixed your stupid triangle, no need to thank me

t. DDLC /vg/ thread member

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Sup Forums likes it just fine, they just hate the fanbase. You will occasionally get some autist saying how it ripped off some obscure VN that no one has read but thats it.

>v/ likes it

this

they're both pretty bad but come on, a cursory glance shows that /ksg/ is on their 3395th thread, not counting the TWO (2) resets from the threadmakers losing count

Doki Doki should be replaced with Minecraft.

ddlc, also good. in fact all three of the games in the OP are good (idk about the later 5 Nights games, I actually never played those), but the fact that they are enjoyed by loud, annoying, unlikable people leads a lot of the brainlets around here to assume that they must be bad, because if people who I don't like, think it's good, it must be bad. just typical underage/brainlet logic

for the record I'm not saying any of these games are perfect, there's plenty of grounds to criticise each of them and if you've played them and didn't like them that's a valid opinion, but I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the unwashed masses who just reee whenever they see something like that

>he wasn't around in September

It was kind of like today. Except every thread was positive and some of the most polite shit I have ever seen on Sup Forums. People went out of their way not to spoil others. Even phoneposters were doing a goodjob,

They're creepypasta. They've got the promise of shocking imagery to lure people in, "deep lore" or meta fuckery to get them invested, and tragic relatable characters to keep them talking about it afterward.

At least he knows to hate what he has become.

>tl;dr i became a fucking suicidal weeb and i'm in love with Monika

not yet

I mean, it makes perfect sense if you connect the dots.
>Game uses gimmick to get strong emotional response
>Character designs are cringe middle school level garbage
>The game's focus isn't gameplay, so any dumbass can go on youtube and experience the entire "game"

The better question is, why haven't we seen more shitty games capitalize on this obviously effective formula?

why was there such a surge of popularity with doki doki? i knew of it's existence for awhile now but it just now became popular? have streamers finally found it?

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>tfw Cuphead avoided this fate despite falsflagging faggots pushing for it to be the next Undertale or Fn@f

Maybe there are games released before DDLC, FFAF or undetale that did the same, but they didn't really gain momentum because game streamers werent as popular back then?

feels good mugman

Undertale succeeded thanks to homestuck fans and the furry fandom

5 nights succeeded due to youtubers

ddlc succeeded because of look at me i am a ironic weeb aren’t i special fans

10/10

Easy to play with a mysterious plot that is hard to follow.

>ironic weeb
What the fuck does this mean?

>When Undertale was released, a game of that style hadn't come along in years.

>Lisa came out months before

Fuck you.

Needs MLP.

Dark Souls

DDLCfags are worse than the other two

not a game.

Somebody into surface-level anime who, in order to avoid the perceived ridicule from being a "weeb", takes up a position of being self-aware of their "weebiness" and attempts to overcompensate because of this.

Bendy should be replaced with Hello Neighbor.

Basically it's the anime equivalent of those people who call themself "gamers", browse reddit, makes epic gamer references like "THE CAKE IS A LIE" and shit.

Tl;dr People who don't really give a shit about anime at all but only pretend in order to put a label on themselves and be part of some group to be "quirky and unique".

unironically this

but better than everything

>Lisa, a an actually rpg, with a good story, and actually jokes. Plot is closed and no need to be ass raped bu mattpat

>Undetale. Shit RPG, with shit graphics. Plot is left out in the open to be milked by mattpat. Jokes were few and far in-between. While most being LE RANDOM.
They are not really the same dude

Of course. The Homestuck crowd dug up old shit like OFF during the hiatus and paraded it around for months.

Undertale is completely different from Lisa, you dumb fuck.

nah, Neighbor is the guy

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well atleast OFF was an rpg with some puzzles. Still took time to know what to do.

DDLC, FNAF, and Undertale they pretty beat themselves . Like shit one is a point and click, and the other is a fucking VN

HEY GUYS AND WELCOME BACK YO LINEAGE II

There are actually people new enough to have never experienced the fucking countless Undertale threads when it was released.

Maybe that the players had really good personal experiences with them.

So basically used like how "we true gamers" call people casuals?

One thing is being casual, another is being an obnoxious annoying faggot that spouts memes all day.

Sup Forums "liked it" before it became popular and there were a lot of threads.
Then streamers played the game and threads became shitposting generals.

Same applies for FNAF and undertale

Wow, this is actually the best definition of ironic weeb I've seen. Good job, user! And thanks.

Twitch and Youtube. It's that simple.
I would've said Doki Doki Undertale at Freddy's but that works too, I guess.

It's simple

>cheap or free
>extremely low system requirements so that even a computer from 10 years ago could run
>easily identifiable character archtypes
>game length has to be short enough a Youtuber can play it to completion without the audience (read: children) getting bored
>some meta shit for autists to milk to death with dumbshit theories and "analysis".
>spooks

The most important thing is that the characters either have to be furries or waifubait, which exponentially increases fanbase autism.

Over using 'Meta dialog/jokes/story''

>and the fanbase mainly exists for the some what of a lore Scott has built up.
the fanbase consists of 12 year old game theorist fanboys and furries who want to fuck the animatronics
all these games where furry bait, furries while overhype anything with anthros in it and become insanely obsessed with it dedicating their time to drawing their cuddly waifus and husbandos
as for doki doki literature club, its weeb bait, so all the weebs sperg out about it and hype it everywhere
Like how do you guys not know this its 2017 you appeal to the weird social outcasts you get an undying excitable fanbases.

>i'm a true fan i'm above you
pretty obnoxious too tbqh

>implying weebs don't do this ''I'm above you'' shit all the time
i'm glad you enjoy the japanese culture but that doesn't automatically make you a better person than me

>no minecraft
moron

I get that you're trying to make a case about everything being gatekeeping in relative terms, but "casual" is usually used disparagingly, while many people are all too happy to call themselves "weeaboos".

Literally nobody is saying that watching more chinese cartoons than you makes me superior in any way shape or form, stop putting words in my mouth, autist.

Also, "weeb" is not a label you should put on yourself, get a grip.

All three are designed around being an experience first and a game second, to easily be packaged into a youtube format. When you've seen it once, you've seen it all, so secondaries watching streamers/youtubers aren't missing out on anything.

That's true, good point

I'm not talking about you specifically. But why else would that term exist

Theres nothing autist about Doki Doki.

All of those games have lore that extends beyond the youtube videos though

>Features spooky shit
>Breaks the fourth wall
>DEEP LORE
>Characters are "interesting" and has lore to them

That's how you get a fanbase around your game. Remember, people wants to care about the characters so even if it's just a spooky scary skeleton or a robot, the deep lore around them will make the freaks go nuts to nuts on them

Just go look at /vg/ to see the autism about these games, it's pretty crazy

Replace doki doki with minecraft or dork souls and we're good,.

No. Not GAAAAAAAME THEORY enough.

>implying the Holy Trinity wouldn't be Sonic, Pokemon and Minecraft
Though they may be (mostly) quiet compared to more vocal fandoms, those three still fester the highest amounts of autists worldwide.

>undisclosed sums of money
DDLC is free, user

>Konata

I wonder who's behind that post ?

None of those were you dumbass

All three games succeeded because of memorable character designs and being more easily accessible than other similar games (i.e. being sold openly on Steam as opposed to VNs you have to download from shady japanese links on obscure anime forums)

Recipe of success: make a game with a memorable cast of waifus and memesters that directly interact with the player and rake in that waifufag and lonely tumblr landwhale cash.