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Played the new one for about 4 hours it was super meh. Not worth 25 bucks unless there's a secret that blows me away. I think the first one is the best one still.
The Stanley Parable/s, all of them - This is a game?
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The fuck? There was a sequel?
I know the one you can buy is a remake of a mod, but I didn't think they were crazy enough to make another one.
I know the one you can buy is a remake of a mod, but I didn't think they were crazy enough to make another one.
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Twenty seconds of research would have told you that it is not a sequel. It is an expanded story with some new routes and game engine upgrades. Basically another upgrade a few years later, just like last time. Seems like people that enjoyed the original really seem to like the re-relaese and the new stuff. I wasn't in love with the original game, but it was fun. So I'll probably wait for this to go on sale.
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The game was cute when it came out. But by today the whole meta angle to gaming as burned itself down and is only used by hipsters who think no one ever heard of the idea before.
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They removed the portal and minecraft segments which is bad enough, but jim sterling had his ego stroked with them adding an easter egg with his troon name
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I haven't played the Stanley Parable but from what I have seen it seems to be a self-aware walking simulator.
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Why the fuck would you appeal to a YouTuber who's only achievement in the last two years is to continually bleed subscribers?
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They replaced them with Rocket League and Firewatch. That will age even worse.
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I remember 2 years ago or so, people told me to wait for Ultra Deluxe instead of just playing it then.
I guess I'm glad, now I don't have to play it at all.
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Wow these Skyrim remasters are really getting out of hand.
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It turns out Stanley Parable was made by Todd Howard in a rubber mask the entire time. And he would have gotten away with it too!!!
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One of the endings involving Stanley getting knocked out and waking up in the intro to Skyrim would be hilarious and too high budget for the game, but I can dream.
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Stanley wondered who would pay $25 for a fancier walking simulator. Stanley opened the fridge and found a soy drink. Suddenly Stanley knew who his customers would be.
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I remember when people on Gamefaqs told me that Stanley Parable was the greatest game ever and a true representation of "games as art" lol
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It's overpriced, beats the watcher over the head with an obvious message that you don't need to actually engage with the medium to understand and incredibly smug and self important. So it's a true representation of "games as modern art".
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Stanley Parable was funny, sharp, and took the piss out of what would become common trends in gaming. It also played around with presentation in the medium itself in a way that other games shortly thereafter fiddled with, before the boring sludge of the late 2010s turned everything into an endless series of aping whatever saw success. One of the better DOTA2 announcers.
Doesn't look like Ultra Deluxe is really worth getting unless it goes on sale for like $5. I'll get it for that much. Apparently one of the steam reviews is trying to cope it out as them making a meta-joke on how games release remasters with "new content" that turn out to be shit, 'cept if that were the truth it'd be a well and truly shitty joke. Ha-ha, you're a dumb consumer who bought the new shiny - wait actually based
Doesn't look like Ultra Deluxe is really worth getting unless it goes on sale for like $5. I'll get it for that much. Apparently one of the steam reviews is trying to cope it out as them making a meta-joke on how games release remasters with "new content" that turn out to be shit, 'cept if that were the truth it'd be a well and truly shitty joke. Ha-ha, you're a dumb consumer who bought the new shiny - wait actually based
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Yeah it was a pretty neat game and like you say it preempted a lot of the following decade. I try to be a bit less harsh on Stanley Parable because it was ahead of the curve and wasn't made in the midst of extreme fart huffing.
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A lot of people in the indie scene copied it like apes, proving they missed most of its commentary, but it in and of itself is not unlike various plays and shows and albums and yadda yadda yadda through the years that take the piss on their mediums. It's kindof like how playing with the fourth wall was a lot more funny when things like Brazil or Monty Python would do it, but nowadays it's so overdone and boring and uninteresting that there's no fucking meat left on the bone and we need to return to genuine, passionate things made and played straight
I'd say the successor to Stanley Parable in terms of what it did would be.... the Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Like SP, it's a pretty boring game without much going on in that department. But it manages to use the medium's strengths to tell a story in increasingly inventive ways that you just can't do in any other format, which was kindof the question SP was begging at. The story it tells isn't exactly something that sticks with you long-term, and you can kindof get the same experience just watching a let's play, but it hints at the promises of medium once someone comes along and applies themselves.