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The Stanley Parable - Free Source Mod (Now a Full Game)

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Ugh, this is what we will have to deal with. People who don't care about choice and so they equate freedom to just larping.
 

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The demo actually harms the game, it turns what was a fun and thought-provoking mod into a "2deep4you" game, with appropriately retarded audience to couple with. Seriously, just read that thread on Steam, half the people there didn't even play the original mod yet claim they love it, and there's even this:

Arctura said:
I had never heard of this game before and downloaded the demo mostly based on the exploration description and the screenshots. Most of the demo was a long wtf for me, and although I guess I will buy it eventually it's more because of the Eurogamer approval than the demo. Probably more despite the demo than because of it.

These people deserve the shitty gaming industry they have.

It was always a "2deep4you"-game. The game is as shallow an exploration of freedom in games as Bioshock was, and that's a game where the villain uses Randian snail-magic to make the player beat him to death with a golf club!
 

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Soooo... The consensus is I should just play the original mod instead of spending €10 on the new one?
Yeah. The original's good and the demo's clever, but this is more or less a remake. Most paths are more or less the same but the ones where you rebel against the narrator feel like they should have been quite a bit shorter. Especially the "confusion" path takes WAY too long.

If you loved the original and the demo and want MOAR right now then yes, you should buy it. If you haven't played the original then you should try that, if you liked it then try the demo then decide if you want this one. If you're okay with it then wait for a sale.
 

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And somehow it's the top seller on Steam right now... note that's not in units that's in gross revenue. Amazing how much hype can carry a 'game.' People spam that meaningless 8888888888 meme like 'dis cake is a lie, lulz' and everyone who's anyone has to own it!
 

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Reading comments on it is amusing, seems they are all in the "it's a story, it's not a story, it's great, play it" vein.
 

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Just played two hours of that. It's a game that makes a point, but once the point is made, there is absolutely nothing to it except "jokes" and "secret endings". Okay for 2 euros. At 10, I paid way too much for this.
 

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I can't wait to play it, even though once you "get it" the joke is sorta over. I've finished the original in an hour, saw all the endings, had a blast. I don't know if you could recreate this experience well after the novelty wears off.

Still, it's funny, visually interesting, and I'm a storyfag. I'm going to have fun just listening to the narrator.
 

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Just finished playing the mod. Maybe I didn't get it. Maybe the first half of Bioshock 1 did it better.
 

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Also thought of Bioshock while playing it. It is the exact same theme, except Bioshock does it actually smarter since it's inside "a real game" and that the Ryan speech is not as much "in your face" than Stanley Parable's narrator.
 

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Just played for about an hour. I think it has some interesting thoughts but sometimes it's also a bit shallow. The "2deep4ness" is not something I see. It's just a bunch of very common philosophical thoughts. At least that's what I got from it until now.
 

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The 2deep4u criticism is never leveled at the content of the game, merely the pretentiousness of making a game that's not a game.
 

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The 2deep4u criticism is never leveled at the content of the game, merely the pretentiousness of making a game that's not a game.

I don't take part in that discussion. Game or not a game. What the hell, how does this matter? You enjoy it, maybe, and that's what counts. It is what it is. Well, I loved Dear Esther, so...
 

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Boy does hype bring money. What's even worse is that 30 Flights of Loving made money and it's even more of a rip-off. Still, I really need to get a SDK, create a few hallways, add a few bouncing balls, make some metaphorical text appear and include a few cynical jokes about the industry. This sounds like a much safer deal than playing the lottery every week.

Or writing books.
 

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