So in Beyond: Two Souls, your choices don't really matter in the end and in the Stanley Parable, your choices don't really matter in the end.
I don't see the difference.
I don't see the difference.
Beyond: Two Souls vs. The Stanley Parable
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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To me the biggest difference between TSP and B:TS was player agency.
TSP is designed to be very reactive to your actions/decisions, limited as they may be. You may not be in control of it, but you're definitely the one steering the plot. The spotlight's on you.
In B:TS it's more like the course is already set and you're only allowed to interact when it has virtually no significance to the overall experience save for slightly different endings. The spotlight's on everything but you.
TSP is designed to be very reactive to your actions/decisions, limited as they may be. You may not be in control of it, but you're definitely the one steering the plot. The spotlight's on you.
In B:TS it's more like the course is already set and you're only allowed to interact when it has virtually no significance to the overall experience save for slightly different endings. The spotlight's on everything but you.
Yeah, real men forge their machines in the fires of Mount Doom into which they put their hatred, their malice, and their will to dominate all console peasants!Teoes said:
Actually the Stanley Parable has a big gameplay element wich are the choices that the player makes, if you choose to do one thing instead of the other you get about 20 minutes of different content that then in itself can have other choices that then change that content alltogether again.
In Beyond: Two Souls no matter what you do its still the same.
In Beyond: Two Souls no matter what you do its still the same.
"And while The Stanley Parable will occupy far less of your time, at least none of that time is spent watching Willem Dafoe attempting to smile."
Sounds like a strike against TSP to me. More games need to have Willem Dafoe.
Ah, shitty jokes aside, time to go try that TSP demo people say is on Steam.
Sounds like a strike against TSP to me. More games need to have Willem Dafoe.
Ah, shitty jokes aside, time to go try that TSP demo people say is on Steam.
I had a hunch Yahtzee would like the Stanley Parable. It fits his sense of humour perfectly. And of course, it's that rare 'artsy' game that doesn't completely fail due to a lack of self-awareness.
So, a rather simple game that started out as something made with Half-life 2 is better than a multi-million doller POS written by David Cage...
I found mine in the back of a mysterious, occult shop, behind the ancient tablets and soul shards. I'm still waiting to inevitably pay dearly for meddling with great powers I do not understand.Zombie Badger said:
I wish you the best with your new PC.
Shuddup, I can play games on it!
That's why I own a macbook proZombie Badger said:
Shuddup, I can play games on it!
I thought it was a reference to Dr. Staurt Ashen who did a review of a transforming Thomas the Tank Engine knockoff and thought that Sir Topham hat was actually called the Fat Controller.ritchards said:
The Stanley Parable sounds really good. I liked the Demo that the Game Grumps did (which was specialized for them for some reason) but the demo sort of sold me on the idea of a five minute Stanley Parable ride where the audience votes and silly things happen.
A couple hours to play a half life two mod doesn't sound like a great use of money.
"My personal favourite, though, is to duck into a broom closet mid-way through the obedience path and refuse to leave, prompting the narrator to eventually conclude that you must have died."
So you got the Broom Closet "Ending"? The Broom Closet "Ending" was my FAvorite!
I'm kind of surprised that "The Broom Closet Ending" isn't proportionally as big as Portal's "The Cake is a Lie". What I'm not surprised about, however, is how similar the phrases are in context. After all, many design choices in TSP are imitations of Portal's design: a delightfully mean omnipresent voice whose being is actually stuck, a countdown until the player's death, revisiting a previous game's area that has been torn up, and let's not forget that first test chamber with the cube.
Portal is still Yahtzee's favorite game, isn't it? Granted, Silent Hill 2 drifts up there when he's in for a less silly mood in a game.
So you got the Broom Closet "Ending"? The Broom Closet "Ending" was my FAvorite!
I'm kind of surprised that "The Broom Closet Ending" isn't proportionally as big as Portal's "The Cake is a Lie". What I'm not surprised about, however, is how similar the phrases are in context. After all, many design choices in TSP are imitations of Portal's design: a delightfully mean omnipresent voice whose being is actually stuck, a countdown until the player's death, revisiting a previous game's area that has been torn up, and let's not forget that first test chamber with the cube.
Portal is still Yahtzee's favorite game, isn't it? Granted, Silent Hill 2 drifts up there when he's in for a less silly mood in a game.
