# Talk:The Stanley Parable

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This article is a mess - it mixes up things from the mod with other things from the standalon release, and vice versa, and is in desperate need for a rewrite (Also taking into consideration that the standalone release is the "definitive" release of The Stanley Parable). I'd do it myself, but I am bad at Wikipedia. Would love it if somebody did, however. --87.241.82.82 (talk) 16:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I've been writing most of it and have assured the remake info is separate from the mod game, only up to the point where the success of the mod led to the remake version. (I will add the part about the name change and being "definitive", though. --MASEM (t) 16:18, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I got an account to reply with, because screw IPs - but sweet, that'll probably help. I'm one of the guys who worked on the game, so it's nice to see that somebody cares about the wikipedia article for it :D --Hideouss (talk) 12:26, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Great, good to know :)  Just be aware that WP (particularly now after a large incident) is very careful on conflict of interest editing (eg: you making direct edits to an article about a product you likely have financial interest in), and thus you are feel and are welcome to drop anything you'd want to see changed or fixed (as long as we can back it up in sources) here on the talk page, and I or another editor can fix that up. --MASEM (t) 13:29, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Oh, yeah, well aware. That's another reason I didn't want to edit the article myself, directly. That, and I don't understand citations at all. --Hideouss (talk) 13:58, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, don't worry about the citations - just a url pointer to any articles, and we can format them correctly. --MASEM (t) 14:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 I'm gonna go ahead and add a review template with some reviews and scores that have come out today, along with the Metacritic overall scores. SilverserenC 00:49, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
There should be a picture and slide showing who Stanley is Cr427d843 (talk) 12:23, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

well i say yes cause i only played a remake of it on rec room and also it just shows your normal avatar so yeah. 2403:4800:3240:500:9EC8:E9FF:FE12:445F (talk) 09:05, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
I don't know how to use this, but how can an article on The Stanley Parable not discuss the narrarator, Kevin Brighting?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craig234 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC) 

Hello friends, I have compiled a complete list of endings in the 2013 remake. Do you think it's appropriate to add them on the article? There are discussions on the Internet, but there is no definitive list. Zen Light (talk) 06:42, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

I suspect not, it goes beyond the scope of an encyclopaedia article and more into the area of game guides and game cruft. Both are things to be avoided. Яehevkor ✉ 09:52, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Unless, of course, the endings get significant critical coverage, which I haven't seen much of yet - all reviews acknowledge multiple endings and that all drop you back into the office to start again, but even specific endings haven't really been described. --MASEM (t) 13:54, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Ta-da!. Though I didn't know that playing the baby game for four hours was a real ending. Geez... SilverserenC 19:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
My issue with that source is that it is, for all purposes, a user-submitted blog.  See the site's about page: "The Las Vegas Guardian Express is different: We’re not tethered to any corporate or governmental interests as we deliver information to you because we’re powered exclusively by content from you, the citizens of the United States, as well as citizens of other countries that contribute to our publication." I'm not questioning the validity, but this is basically akin to a Gamefaqs guide. --MASEM (t) 20:03, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I didn't even notice that. Are we sure James Fenner is just a user and not a journalist for the group? SilverserenC 21:21, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
The way I'm reading their about, they have no journalist staff that write stories directly; they do have webmasters and admins to manage content, but not anyone creating content. Mind you, the way the press is working on this game, I would now gve a better change that such an article might be written by a true RS. --MASEM (t) 21:35, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

@Masem: Currently, the lead describes the game as interactive fiction.  I removed this since it's a graphical 3D game, not a text adventure, but was reverted because of "reliable sources" and because it's "fiction you interact with."  On the first issue, I don't see any sources specific to that sentence, or any other sentence mentioning "interactive fiction" specifically.  I'm not denying they exist.  I just want to see them.  On the second, any video game with something resembling a plot is "fiction you interact with" by definition so I fail to see the reverter's point.  --NYKevin  18:54, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Sources that call this IF: [1], [2], [3], [4].  And I guess while IF is traditionally text-based games, the key here that just because the interface is in 3D, it doesn't disqualify it from being a work of fiction that contains player interactions. --MASEM (t) 19:13, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Fair enough, I suppose, though I'd still appreciate a citation somewhere in the article itself near the term "interactive fiction."  I still don't agree that this is correct usage (I'd call "a work of fiction that contains player interactions" an adventure game or an action-adventure game depending on gameplay), but if sources are calling it that, we need to follow them.  --NYKevin  23:10, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The Stanley Parable has similar themes to the 1985 film Brazil. If Davey Wreden is on record as having been inspired by the movie, I think it would be a notable addition to the article.
58.7.78.239 (talk) 07:47, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
I would add something interesting, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
The "Mind controll Facility", is actually a general topic in philosophy's history.
What do you think, should i add a linked note discribing the Picture?
(Have a look at Focault regarding this topic - "discipline and punish")
sincerely, v.

It says October 2013 twice.
(Plus, it's ignoring the mod, released July 2011.) Tallaussiebloke (talk) 13:25, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Talking about in the infobox, not the article.  Tallaussiebloke (talk) 13:26, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Because of the complexity of release (3 different versions) we're using the collapsible list so that the "first release" is shown. That first release is the full version which is NOT the mod but the remaster of it, but we can include the mod's release in the collapse. --Masem (t) 13:52, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
What would it take for The Stanley Parable 2 (I am kidding about the name - if you've played it, you'll get the joke) to get its own article? Or at least more information on what content was added, or a summary of the new story told? Dogman15 (talk) 03:07, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Ultra Deluxe has more of a linear story that it tells, with certain endings happening in a sequence: New content door, jump circle, Memory Zone, reviews, skip button, SP2 Expo Hall, collecting figurines among other bucket endings, and finally the epilogue. Would it be a good idea to write a summary of this plotline? Dogman15 (talk) 00:46, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Not to that level of detail but yes. --Masem (t) 03:38, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
I noticed no one replied to my message in the section above this one. Also funny is that I literally just listed a bunch of plot points, so any additional detail that might be implied from that is imagined by the reader. Dogman15 (talk) 22:16, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

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