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The Stanley Parable |OT| Training Bicycles in the Art of Undoing Temporal Paradoxes
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Neuromancer
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I... I don't know if I just won the game, or lost.
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Deleted member 80556
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Maybe a little of both?
So I figured out the computer input thing. The first time you click the computer in inputs 1 character, the next time you restart the screen will appear on a different computer and you can input the second character. Do this 4 times (once it appears on the boss' secretary's computer) and then it will be on the screen in Stanley's office. Click it one final time for a secret ending.
Once you are at the secret ending are you supposed to just exit out or is there something I am missing?
Pretty sure there's nothing.
So, I found something interesting
I got the whiteboard ending out of sheer luck, but in the bottom right hand corner or the whiteboard it appears to say "Console >baRk". I had the console open from the "Stern Talking To Ending" so I typed in various capitalizations of bark and had no luck. Any ideas? You can see a screenshot here http://i.imgur.com/Psa2O6L.jpg
type "bark" in console then click around and the clicky keyboard sound will be replaced with a dog bark.
Just type bark in lowercase and you will bark on mouseclick. I don't know if it does anything useful, though.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Holy fuck!!!
Minecraft!?!
Not sure how I didn't run into that. Thanks though.
mixmixmixmix
Neo Member
This game is so crazy it's just blowing my mind. There's so much possibility. Bravo devs..
Laurentius
Member
Geez, so many things people are posting that I missed (and I got about 10 endings).
Also, it's been the top selling game on Steam all day today. Very cool to see!
Also, it's been the top selling game on Steam all day today. Very cool to see!
Comfort Jones
Banned
That demo pretty strongly turned me off on the idea of spending over 10 dollars on this game.
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That's unfortunate for you. Though I think the full game is a better experience, you probably wouldn't like it either.
Laurentius
Member
How does one get that ending?
Man, just booted it up again and got about 3 more endings I didn't see before. I think I've seen around 15? Do we have any official count on how many have been found?
One weird thing I haven't figured out:
Take the choices that lead you to that cool space room, and then kill yourself by jumping off that ledge a bunch of times. When you respawn, the narrator makes a comment about "the offices being much brighter then they have ever been before". I thought this was perhaps like the confusion ending where something different would happen as I proceeded, but it seemed the same beyond that initial comment.
Is there anything secret that something has found that triggers only after the "office is brighter" comment?
Is there anything secret that something has found that triggers only after the "office is brighter" comment?
As soon as you leave Stanley's office, head towards the two windows. One of the desks has a chair that's pulled out a bit, and if you angle it right you'll "climb" up on top of the desk. Crouch and maneuver your way over to, and out of, the window.
I'm not sure if the papers being strewn about is related to that ending or not, but it was the first time I'd seen it.
Laurentius
Member
Thanks! Those were great "endings" too.
Also, very strange. I DIDN'T get the paper's strewn about after watching those, but the narrator did say "wait, no. This isn't Stanley's office. Where's Stanley's office?". Everything looked the same to me, though, and I went through for a bit and saw no differences.
I have a feeling that there must be a TON more secrets hidden in the game that people haven't found yet. I would be very happy if several months from now people are still periodically finding new bits of dialogue and an ending here or there.
If my count is right, I believe I've seen 18 endings so far.
Was really disappointed at first, as I kept getting endings that were in the original mod. I wasn't a fan with the outcomes before, still not a fan now, particularly the one where
as it just seems to open-ended to be a meaningful critique of something. I also thought that some of the original endings were made worse with some of the changes that were made. In the original,
. In the new one, though, the
Maybe it was the lack of surprise since a similar trick was pulled in the original
Once I got some of the new endings, though... Holy shit. Absolutely magnificent stuff. Loved, loved, loved the
. The
one was extremely creepy, and was an excellent commentary on
. Broom closet is one of the funniest things in the game. Maybe it's the fact that Galactic Cafe have matured since the original was released, but you can definitely see a colossal jump in quality in the new endings. Can't wait to see what these guys come up with next.
Oh, and as an avid trophy hunter, I found Room 430 to be absolutely amazing.
Stanley ends up insane and dies outside, with a woman watching him
ending up in the Half Life 2 map was a real holy shit moment, considering that the beginning to that game is so iconic
Minecraft thing doesn't work nearly as well. Maybe I just don't like Minecraft that much. Portal works a little better due to the similarities between the narrator and GLaDOS.
Once I got some of the new endings, though... Holy shit. Absolutely magnificent stuff. Loved, loved, loved the
confusion ending, which reminded me for some reason of that daffy duck cartoon where the guy keeps erasing him
phone
people sitting at home playing video games (pushing buttons)
Oh, and as an avid trophy hunter, I found Room 430 to be absolutely amazing.
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I think he has the ability to just say random things in the first room. Same with the random phone calls.
I love that he
boards up the broom closet
Does anyone know what triggers
the confusion
AHA-Lambda
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How do you get
It's so cool to see all of the stuff people are finding even after playing it for hours last night and getting 10 different endings
I'm still missing 5 achievements so I know there's more, and I didn't get the speedrun one either, but can't tell if I'm not quick enough or if there is another way.
whiteboad ending?
It's so cool to see all of the stuff people are finding even after playing it for hours last night and getting 10 different endings
I'm still missing 5 achievements so I know there's more, and I didn't get the speedrun one either, but can't tell if I'm not quick enough or if there is another way.
I got the "wait, no. This isn't Stanley's office. Where's Stanley's office?" line aswell I don't know what it does.
I like that you can
. Also that if you
.
Boy, this thread is spoiler tag city!
answer the phone to order a shitload of boxes that then show up the next time you restart
break the story by unplugging the phone, you can then break it even further by taking the right door instead of the left when prompted, of course
Boy, this thread is spoiler tag city!
LeeRoyBrown
Banned
The game achieved something I never thought possible.
The demo was better than the main game.
It was a really interesting ride but ultimately I got bored.
The demo was better than the main game.
It was a really interesting ride but ultimately I got bored.
CarbonRevenge
Banned
The demo was really linear and only had a few actual choices.
The actual game itself has many more choices than the original and alot of random stuff that happens.
Comfort Jones
Banned
I've played the original as well, so I must ask if this game gives you choices that actually make sense. I ask because in both that and the demo I did not feel like I was really thinking or doing anything with real thought. Is there actually any real meaningful player interaction at all? TBH this style of game just comes off as incredibly pretentious, something that tries to be interactive art but does next to nothing with the actual interactive side of things.
Laurentius
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The choices are generally "do I go this way or that way", or "do I obey the narrator or disobey him". But it's done really well, and there's a huge amount of possible decisions and entertaining endings. I don't think I ever had to sit back and debate what I should choose. But the results were always interesting enough that I would go back later and make the other choice to see what happens.
I don't see the game as pretentious, personally. A game is pretentious, in my opinion, if it's trying to be more important or meaningful then it actually is. I don't feel like the game is trying to portray any deep and important meaning, and thus don't feel that it's pretentious. It's just trying to be clever and funny while subverting certain narrative tropes. Which it succeeds at.
Videogamer did an excellent job on: Explaining The Stanley Parable
SlasherJPC
Banned
Was playing last night, and kept not listening to the guy and doing exactly opposite. Eventually the game just went completely black and that was it. Nothing else. Did the game glitch?
Laurentius
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There might be an ending like that, I can't remember. Try it again, but make different choices yet. There's tons of different endings, I've done probably around 15-18 so far.
Just got the Speed Run achievement. Basically you have to
This is how my run went:
Wow, that's a big chunk of spoilers.
get the "Freedom" ending at least four times to get it. Every time you "beat" the game with that ending something shortens in terms of the map.
First run: Normal everything, including the New Age music when I tried to rush the keycode and the long diatribe as you go down the elevator towards the Mind Control Facility.
Second run: Normal everything up to the boss's office where the narrator just opens the door for you. The elevator dialogue isn't present.
Third run: The second computer room is removed and you get a left turning corridor from the first computer room to the two door choice. Boss's room is even faster as the secret door opens as soon as you enter the office. Everything else is like the second run.
Fourth run: No computer rooms at all. Just a straight corridor from Stanley's office to the two doors. Everything else is like the third run. This was the run that got me the achievement.
Second run: Normal everything up to the boss's office where the narrator just opens the door for you. The elevator dialogue isn't present.
Third run: The second computer room is removed and you get a left turning corridor from the first computer room to the two door choice. Boss's room is even faster as the secret door opens as soon as you enter the office. Everything else is like the second run.
Fourth run: No computer rooms at all. Just a straight corridor from Stanley's office to the two doors. Everything else is like the third run. This was the run that got me the achievement.
Wow, that's a big chunk of spoilers.
So, have we got a list of possible ways that the game can end or what? I want to know if I'm missing any.
Is there anything else?
Complete obedience.
Turning the mind control machine on.
Going through the escape corridor and museum.
Going down the stairs and going insane ending.
Confusion ending.
Answering the telephone.
Unplugging the telephone and going to the right.
Whiteboard ending.
Door closes before you can leave Stanley's office.
Minecraft/Portal/complete disobedience.
Happiness room/suicide ending.
Jumping from the moving platform death.
Turning the mind control machine on.
Going through the escape corridor and museum.
Going down the stairs and going insane ending.
Confusion ending.
Answering the telephone.
Unplugging the telephone and going to the right.
Whiteboard ending.
Door closes before you can leave Stanley's office.
Minecraft/Portal/complete disobedience.
Happiness room/suicide ending.
Jumping from the moving platform death.
Is there anything else?
Some of those things like the shortened path to the two-door room are randomized from what I can tell.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
How does the new game compare to the original mod in terms of the endings/tricks? Is it worth playing if you already went through the original game?
Was the first ending they found right at the start already noticed? I liked that one.
Laurentius
Member
So the game is still #1 on Steam, and the dev just tweeted that it's sold a TON of copies. Very happy to hear that. It's pretty cool how quirky little indie titles like this can be this successful these days.
Agreed, I'm so happy that this has stayed number one.
I completely enjoyed playing - so worth the price of entry.