I understand why the two halves of Penny Arcade apparently are almost at war at each over it; it’s… different. To give an idea, my gameplay involved [SPOILER WARNING]…
…going through two different runthroughs, then getting up and quitting the game at the urgent behest of a narrator. And not because I was upset; because I agreed with said narrator that this was the only way to ‘win’ the game. And I didn’t feel like I wasted my money on the exercise.
[pause]
If I had to say what The Stanley Parable is I think I would say that it is a well-designed piece of intellectual property that has only a tangential relationship to a traditional game; and that it probably would not be able to exist without Steam. So put that in the plus column for Steam.
I played the original HL2 mod version back when it came out. How is this version different?
I watched a Let’s Play of the game and my thoughts are that this game is trying to make a point. What that point is, I have no idea.
Assuming the new version is more or less the same as the mod, TSP is a an experiment with having the player and game narrative fight against each other. The game tells you what to do, you are free to rebel but the game fights back, sometimes in petty ways. There were many outcomes some happy, some sad, all hilarious.
And unlike ME3, you could get a different ending.
Ouch.
But true.
BTW. Check out the latest Bundle of Holding. The theme is tentacles.
:gritted teeth: YES THEY HAVE ALREADY COME BY TO HAVE ME THROW MONEY AT THEM.
…Sorry. It’s just that I just bought Cthulhu 101 in electronic form (my print copy quickly fell apart).