The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a parable, a very short tale with a moral or practical lesson. In that sense, maybe we're missing the point if we think The Stanley Parable is making fun of other videogames. It didn't dawn on me until later, after I had blown a bunch of effort doing things I'd already done and looking for different results, that maybe The Stanley Parable actually would not be giving me the closure I still expected even though it kept telling me I wouldn't get it. So I actually spent even more time in the game looking for something I missed, sure that there must be some meta-ending that tied everything together.īecause in the end, this was still a videogame, right? Videogames are supposed to give you that satisfaction of completion. Eventually, I ran out of different branches to choose from, and couldn't find anything else, but the game just kicked me back to the beginning anyway. Travis can wear a The Stanley Parable t-shirt in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes.And so not only do I keep doing those things expecting results, but I kept looking for the game's "real ending."Įvery time you make a major choice between multiple options, the game splits off into one of several different "ending" sequences, all of which result in the game restarting back in Stanley's office. Kevan Brighting, the narrator of The Stanley Parable, is a downloadable announcer in Dota 2.įrank Underwood plays The Stanley Parable in Chapter 33 of House of Cards. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting Squidward. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting The Traveler. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting Nightmare. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting Cookie Monster. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting Pulp Fiction. In The Stanley Parable, the Worldwide Leaderboard contains an avatar depicting C-3PO. In the Games Ending of The Stanley Parable, Stanley is taken to Test Chamber 00 from Portal. In the Games Ending of The Stanley Parable, Stanley is taken to a random Minecraft world. In the Zending of The Stanley Parable, a drawing of Ittle Dew and Tippsie can be seen on the path to the staircase. In The Stanley Parable, papers from Papers, Please can be found in the colored doors room. In the Confusion Ending of The Stanley Parable, Dallas's Mask from Payday 2 can be found. In The Stanley Parable, a button in the countdown room depicts Brimstone from The Binding of Isaac. In The Stanley Parable, a button in the countdown room depicts an inscription from Fez. In The Stanley Parable, a button in the countdown room depicts the hexagon from Super Hexagon. In The Stanley Parable, a button in the countdown room depicts the Antichamber logo. In Octodad: Dadliest Catch, a poster in Gervason's Grocery references The Stanley Parable. In The Stanley Parable Demonstration, a distorted version of the Octodad logo can be seen.
In The Stanley Parable Demonstration, an image is shown of Limits and Demonstrations. In The Stanley Parable Demonstration, an image is shown of the demo for Metal Gear Solid 2. In The Stanley Parable Demonstration, an image is shown of the demo for Gunpoint. In The Stanley Parable Demonstration, an image is shown of Half-Life: Uplink. The original version of The Stanley Parable is a Half-Life 2 mod, and one ending features the starting location of Half-Life 2.
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The Stanley Parable (July 31, 2011) for PC and Mac.The Stanley Parable is an interactive drama game from Galactic Cafe. For detailed information about this series, see: The Stanley Parable Wiki