If you want to talk about frustrating players, The Stanley Parable's achievement "Unachievable" is a masterclass. The description reads "It is impossible to get this achievement." It seemed to be awarded randomly, prompting players to carefully reconstruct what they were doing when it happened in attempts to figure it out. Ultimately, it was determined that the developers were actively updating the game to change the obscure rules for it to unlock.

@damsen978

3 жыл бұрын

So what are the obscure rules for it to unlock now?

@damsen978

3 жыл бұрын

@@fellasyouknowwhenyoudrinkw2231 No, that's hacking. And i don't hack.

@damsen978

3 жыл бұрын

@@fellasyouknowwhenyoudrinkw2231 Whatever you say, kid.

@the-pink-hacker

3 жыл бұрын

I forget how I did it, but there is a guide online. Apparently when trying to get the achievement you have a chance that it locks and you can’t ever get the achievement.

@Dribin

3 жыл бұрын

@@the-pink-hacker it locks? How can it lock you out of ever getting the achievement?

OH, DID U GET THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING? THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE

@reistgames46

4 жыл бұрын

you forgot XDDDDDD

@Ixarus6713

3 жыл бұрын

TO ANYONE IN THE NEARBY VICINITY, THIS PLAYER IS DEAD! Please have a new player take over making sure that they have a rudimentary knowledge of the fourth wall and first-person games so that the witty humor and jokes are not lost on them. Oh yes, the new player let's continue on! Oh not you too... Everything That Lives Is Designed To End. We Are Perpetually Trapped In A Never-Ending Spiral Of Life And Death. Is This A Curse? Or Some Kind Of Punishment? I Often Think About The God Who Blessed Us With This Cryptic Puzzle, And Wonder If We'll Ever Get The Chance To Kill Him

@xenwilson5919

3 жыл бұрын

its my favorite ending too

@RubyPiec

3 жыл бұрын

XDDDDD

@tree1120

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ixarus6713 You too?! Unbelievable. I'm at the mercy of an entire species of invalids. Perhaps there's a monkey nearby you can hand the controls to? A fish? A fungus? Look, you can hammer out the details; I'm not particularly picky.

>The player isn't engaged by the adventure line Excuse me WHAT. I think the narrator was the one not engaged with it.

@nathankurtz8045

4 жыл бұрын

The confusion ending is where I felt like the narrator and Stanley really bonded. For the first time they were actually working together to create a story and they were having fun doing it. And they were able to explore previously undiscovered parts of the office in the process.

@Alphae21

3 жыл бұрын

what's 9+10

@yesno8273

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alphae21 21?

@antipsychotic451

3 жыл бұрын

it wasn't supposed to be taken literally

@zephyrna6249

3 жыл бұрын

@@yesno8273 u stupid

Great title! "Frustrating players" as one's task as a developer, but also being "Frustrating players" pushing against the narrative boundaries of a game.

@nixel1324

4 жыл бұрын

Pushing the narrator's buttons, so to speak.

@OverHour

4 жыл бұрын

nobody comment on this video again

@user-rk5cu5tg2g

4 жыл бұрын

uhhhh shut the fuck up please

@andrix7777

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-rk5cu5tg2g please up fuck the shut uhhhh

@swifter46ter

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrix7777 fuck uhhhh the up shut please

Take a shot everytime he says "lays itself bare"

@Notkaikie

4 жыл бұрын

If I did that I'd end up so drunk I'd lay myself bare

@drumset7916

4 жыл бұрын

@@Notkaikie Goddamnit, you beat me to it !

@damneddaniel3088

3 жыл бұрын

I'd probably die from alcohol poisoning

@brandonservis9791

3 жыл бұрын

I will list the times: 0:07 2:56 4:35

@FunBoysGaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@damneddaniel3088 Alcohol poisoning from three shots?

The Stanley Parable feels so much like a kind of hell. A narrative hell. A video game equivalent of No Exit by Sartre.

@OneRadicalDreamer

3 жыл бұрын

Art imitating life imitating art

@PedroHenrique-ci4tk

3 жыл бұрын

It's a story about control freak tabletop RPG game masters

Now I kinda want to see an essay on all the endings and all their meanings...

@tyrew1247

3 жыл бұрын

Watch this, it's a 2 hour video detailing everything, yes everything kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5ZrvNWTqJeqm84.html

@gamerboygaming

3 жыл бұрын

Tyrew12 Oh! Thanks!

@daveharrenburg7670

3 жыл бұрын

@@gamerboygaming Here's one that going a in-depth without taking 2 hours kzread.info/dash/bejne/loWrltlyh8q-k7Q.html

@arya6085

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveharrenburg7670 fuck you :)

@daveharrenburg7670

3 жыл бұрын

@@arya6085 :)

how about we make a game where theres no ending but we constantly hint at an ending, leading players to go on their own paths of procedurally generated areas endlessly edit : changed an to no

@cipher8987

4 жыл бұрын

You know what they say, its about the journey not the destination. Good motto for that game.

@combatoutlook5184

4 жыл бұрын

Minecraft

@notlunaticdancer4393

4 жыл бұрын

Dwarf Fortress, though there are no hints of an ending, just a promise of adventure

@karenelizabeth1590

4 жыл бұрын

Atari 2600 has many exciting games for you

@blyxx7450

4 жыл бұрын

@@karenelizabeth1590 lol Adventure and Berserk were the shit. I have a couple of disks with Atari games.

i see good prospects for your channel

@lolicon453

4 жыл бұрын

As a prospector myself, I found gold

@TG-ue2vu

3 жыл бұрын

Fully agree, YT is definitely gonna blow this guy up if he keeps up the amazing quality

@thedarkthelight2284

3 жыл бұрын

@@TG-ue2vu nope

@miles7113

3 жыл бұрын

I see you said this to get a like from the youtuber.

@dark_rhodie

3 жыл бұрын

@@miles7113 let people be people. Dont be such an attention nazi

The perfect ending to this game for me, was after all of them, you do the one where you stop going in the bosses office just in time and the door closes, then you go back to the start and escape through an escape pod. The only true way to escape.

@ahlpym

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the choice ending. It has rolling credits and it separates the player from Stanley, leaving the latter incapable of making a choice.

@roseCatcher_

2 жыл бұрын

The escape pod ending is actually a failure ending. That's because, for the pod to work, the narrator must accompany Stanley, but the narrator already got turned off when you didn't enter the boss room. This is why going into the pod leads to failure and a restart.

Me after the video feeling big lead head vibes: “oh of course it’s leadhead”

This was made LAST YEAR? Jesus, I can't believe i wasn't recommended this yet

@ARandomEliatrope

4 жыл бұрын

Same

‘they’re no longer horrifying’ half life alyx: allow me to introduce myself

@RingingResonance

4 жыл бұрын

wereaaa! My ICE CREAM! WAAAAHAHaa aaaaaaaaa!

@_timetravels4528

4 жыл бұрын

Damn Alyx was good man, I envy people who never played it about to immersive themselves in it for the first time SO MUCH I dont mean to go into a rant. but this game is the one that will make us go from 2d to VR...

@twinzzlers

3 жыл бұрын

@@_timetravels4528 I prefer normal.

@LightlessAMG

3 жыл бұрын

@@_timetravels4528 what order should i play all of the "half life universe" games?

@driv3563

3 жыл бұрын

@@LightlessAMG Of course in the chronological order. Just please don't get Black Mesa or Half life source.

Fun fact: without knowing anything about the game, my first ending was The Confusion Ending. Yeah, it was weird, but one of my favorites. Also, great video!

@dico703

3 жыл бұрын

Me too... I'll get the game free with epic games and whoa, i started the game and make choices... and i came at the confusion ending. My reaction was like "oh, this game is very confusing. And incredible. I'v never see that before. THAT FUCKING INCREDIBLE, THIS GAME IS GOING TO BE MY FAVORITE !!!!'' (sorry if my english was bad, i'm french and I'm learning english now😅)

@paulosantana9607

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't the confusion ending meant to be the first ending anyone new to the game would get? IMO it's very intuitive that you should not follow the narrators narration at some point.

@menfie

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulosantana9607 yes! When he said that I almost screamed like it is the ending my friends got when they played the game for the first time.

I would’ve just turned off my computer after that “you win” and accept that just to spite it

No matter how long time has passed, “The Stanley Parable” is always going to be my favorite game. It is a game about choice and free will, in a particular perspective, yes. However, this game is ultimately the perfect embodiment of philosophy. It evokes so many questions, yet rarely answers them, which is what philosophy is all about. It act as a mirror for each player to make their own reflection, and that is beautiful, divine, and something I will encapsulates in my future games.

@customsongmaker

4 жыл бұрын

Is it even a game? Does it require skill? Can you get better at it? Can certain people play it better than other people? Can you lose? Can you accomplish anything, other than listening to someone talk?

@FuIIDiveVR

4 жыл бұрын

I'd rather read philosophy than play an illusion of a game.

@zhoumadeit

4 жыл бұрын

customsongmaker That’s when the definitions of video game become insufficient, we need to redefine it. I will try to be the one.

@zhoumadeit

4 жыл бұрын

Sara Valestein How are you so sure that games will always be an illusion? There is so much potential here.

@FuIIDiveVR

4 жыл бұрын

@@zhoumadeit I would call this game an interactive thought experiment. I'm not sure how to define game according to today's standard tbh 😂

4:04 Holy shit I finally found someone else who tried a no powers run for Dishonored 1.

@graphite7898

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there friendo, it seems you have met another one, you know, me!

@THExRISER

4 жыл бұрын

@@graphite7898 Oh you too?

@ezetommytommy9974

4 жыл бұрын

@@THExRISER It was an achievement, so I imagine a lot of people played the game like this, just saying...

@THExRISER

4 жыл бұрын

@@ezetommytommy9974 But,why would it be an achievement if it's impossible to do? I mean the video itself does mention that there are two instances where you *HAVE* to use some sort of power to get over: -Escaping from the hole after getting captured by Daud. -Bypassing the defenses of the lighthouse in the final mission.

@ezetommytommy9974

4 жыл бұрын

@@THExRISER it is , the only power you can use is the teleportation one

The confusion ending was absolutely amazing to experience for the first time.

I can see you drew a lot of inspiration for your commentary from the museum ending; fantastic work nonetheless

@Leadhead

4 жыл бұрын

You got me! While I had been wanting to do a video like this for a while, it was the museum ending that finally promoted me to go for it

0:03 how big is your mouse pad?

@Forceman25

3 жыл бұрын

A 360 degrees one

@henryfleischer404

3 жыл бұрын

Null I use a 10 year old fake leather ipad case. I prefer the increased friction over a sheet of paper, and I don't use wood because my mouse can't track properly on it

@cpgautam172

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get the joke, can u explain?

@AubreyMK

3 жыл бұрын

@@cpgautam172 no joke, it was a question

@cpgautam172

3 жыл бұрын

@@AubreyMK ok now i understood the comment, i never played this game, just saw lp of someone playing so i was actually looking for the mouse pad.

This is very good, very deep and very on point. I think I have learned something today.

Dude I'm going to play the stanley parable again because of this video. Great work!

@alfajororeo

3 жыл бұрын

ive just stumbled upon this video and wow. It had around 100 views the first time that I saw it, your channel has grown so much and so fast, you completely deserve it

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe thats coming out should have a 'noclip' ending, where you can find a noclip exploit where the narrator disappears and the game turns into the "Backrooms"

@einjohannis4711

3 жыл бұрын

That's alreary in the normal game isn't it?

@FplusETVChannel

3 жыл бұрын

EinJohannis I think you’re talking about the serious room and that’s not what he was talking about

@gwg2813

Жыл бұрын

@@einjohannis4711 you mean the window?

This game is one of my favourite games ngl, it really deserves more recognition.

@THExRISER

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@WhatIsMyPorpoise

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't got it but know too much about the game, so I'm just waiting for ultra deluxe? So i can experience at least some parts of it for the very first time and ponder over them.

@THExRISER

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhatIsMyPorpoise Oh yeah,I forgot that's a thing!

@WoodChuuck

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr I cant wait for the ultra deluxe version later this year.

the part with the room with many doors that all open at once has and will stay with me forever. Whenever I get into an unexpected or unplanned situation now I always think to myself "it's an adventure", and visualising all the doors opening in my head is comforting. It fills me with a sense of wonder of what that unexpected situation will bring me.

"Games can only grant to illusion of free will" Sandbox games: Allow us to introduce ourselves...

@luigiforsthoffer

4 жыл бұрын

Main storyline: I'mma pretend I didn't hear that.

@zatzu

4 жыл бұрын

Oh you thought you had free will? Guess what the game is designed to make you think that. You craft you build, you survive. All as the game wants you to do. There's no escape. *Insert evil laugh*

@mamertens99

3 жыл бұрын

It's not completely free will. You are often not able to do everything, really everything. A lot, yes.

@user-iz1ud3tz6d

3 жыл бұрын

@@zatzu Fortnite, right?

@FplusETVChannel

3 жыл бұрын

NeatPlainy no Minecraft

Remove the prop's in the maze part of the confusion ending, and suddenly...... Hey wait, why am I in the backrooms?

the number of choices doesn't matter. they have to be GOOD choices. like getting on with a character in an RPG, only for the characters to never acknowledge your relationship, like it doesn't exist even in theory

Amazing video dude. Kept me hooked from the start till the end.

Leadhead - interesting introspection into one of my favourite games ever My brain - DUN DADAA DUM DA DUN DAAAAAAAA

And now I feel dumb for not getting any of this analogy when I played.

Singlehandedly one of my favorite games ever. Fantastic analysis of the confusion ending, keep it up!

This was such an insightful breakdown, thanks man. You've helped me find more meaning in something that I've always seen as nothing more as a comedy game.

Man, I keep looking for video essays and coming back to this channel. Not pretentious, completely practical and non-nonsensical, and very good to listen to. Keep it up!

i have no binged most of your videos i enjoyed the look off. thanks for this time i have spent with you

I’m 2/5 of the way to getting the “go outside” achievement let’s go gamers

When I last played the Stanley parable (3 years ago), I got so bothered by the way it presents choice/illusion of choice that I decided the only way to "win" the Stanley parable was to stop playing. And here we are.

@AxtonKincaidILM

3 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, that same sentence is in the game. It goes along the lines of “you think you can win this game? The only way to win is to hit escape, and click quit” or something like that

What a fantastic bit of food for thought. I never realized how deep the message could be.

These videos are just awesome man. You *need* more subscribers.

WOW that was impressively well made! Stanley Parable is quite something, and I had never thought of it like this!

2:38 Haha oh wow, Postal 2, I almost forgot. What a beautiful clusterfuck.

The existentialism that you touch on this video is honestly sending me Making art that reaches your heart in the same way it reaches others is such a difficult thing, it seems impossible, but when you are able to do it, that art really feels better than what you would have made for one or the other

got this in my recommended, honestly I don't even have anything clever to say - this was a really cool and we'll structured video dude!

I like the message, I’ve focused on what others would think about my writing, I need to find a balance

Incredible job on this video dude!

love the postal part where youre so overwhelmed your pissed on the ceiling

7:52 this bit of commentary and challenge to fate is always so excellent every time I hear it. What good writing that is.

Heyy, you just hit 10k subs! You deserve 100x more though, your content is amazing!

Dude what a fucking great video. Free will vs narrative. Freedom vs intended experience. Stanley vs. Narrator. Genius man. Its almost not even about Stanley Parable its about storytelling as an interactive experience.

i like see some games so differently now your views on games are awesome!

I like how he said how the confusion ending is like really rare and stuff... I ALWAYS get the confusion ending, always on accident, and I've come to hate it. 😅

I'm glad he brought up dishonored, one of my favorite single player series and a game that really gives the player lots of freedom which results in drastically different playthroughs

The algorithm has been recently recommending me old videos at unexpected times with different groups of people. Idk what has happened to the algorithm but I'm not complaining.

@PedroHCF37

3 жыл бұрын

What has it shown you until now?

@davidkonevky7372

3 жыл бұрын

@@PedroHCF37 it's a lot of things, can't remember

@Rainquack

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidkonevky7372 Some of them are probably on the playlist I started around New Year's Eve 2019/2020, when I first noticed this recommendation trend aswell: kzread.info/head/PL_o5KS4P97r8U08aIY8T8ZCpUF-Qb2MWQ

Bro, underrated channel hope more ppl will see your vids

quality content! incredibly thought provoking

I really like this video.... well done!

You're an amazing KZreadr who deserves way more subscribers

I thought this channel was big but it has 13k. What great quality and effort but in, you earned a sub

5:13 I love the nod you make the player so lmao

I love discovering stuff like this on KZread

Hey Man just wanted to say you deserve more views and subs. Your content is superb.

I just gotta say the adventure line music is amazing

Great shit my guy

this game never frustrated me or anything i just got in love with the narrator he is just so fucking funny

If you keep posting quality content such as this. I give it by next year you'll have close to a million subs. If not at least 500k

Minecraft: *Exists* The Stanley Parable: *Wait, That's Illegal!*

@spring_nottheseason2484

4 жыл бұрын

Well, there IS Minecraft in Stanley Parable. Literally.

@k_pler

4 жыл бұрын

@@spring_nottheseason2484 huh, I didn't know that.

@tornadorundo

4 жыл бұрын

@@k_pler pretty funny because in that part where stanley plays minecraft, the narrator stops the game because he doesn't like the freedom stanley has.

Your channel is awesome you earned a sub

Someone once asked MatPat if he would do a theory on The Stanley Parable. I replied to the comment, explaining how there isn't really much to: 'Explain,' about The Stanley Parable. This is as close as a Game-Theroy episode I can think of, for this game! Well-Done! :)

When I first bought it, I played the 1st ending and thought “That’s it? What a waste of money”

@BaconNuke

2 жыл бұрын

Did you play again and find a different ending? Or did you see someone else play and suddenly realize you judged the game too quick?

One of my favorite games, nice video.

6:22 your "peer fulstration" def is so good, and true. If you want to teach you have to waterdown you knowlage.

Did anybody notice the how it feels to play pyro video when he was taking about metal gear solid

I wish they continued the confusion ending all the way, and that it didn't just cut and the line leading nowhere

The broom closet ending was my favourite

Thanks! Think this is why I'm loving MSFS 2020.

7:12 No, this is an extended version of the ending that was not added to the game.

this is how I feel about writing music. It’s so, so very frustrating.

It feels weird because not many games I know use a compass to direct the player. There still might be a compass on the screen and if you can put markers on the map then it will show you which direction to go but most games don’t really force it anymore.

"youre always going to be walking through someone elses halls" except dwarf fortress, truly unique

The confusion ending was the first one I got 😅😂

cant wait to finally be able to play this after my 5 years is almost up

"Frustrating players" The game made Matpat drop the f-bomb

How do you only have 10k Subs? You need 10 million!

Him: "Museum ending is the ending most people will encounter on their first playthrough." Me who has played it a good number of time: "WHAT IS THIS ROOM? WHY DID I NOT KNOW OF THIS ENDING!"

@ahlpym

3 жыл бұрын

Have you really never gone down the “Escape” hallway right before the Mind Control Facility? That’s all it takes.

this helped, thank you!

underated channel

Freedom of exploration needs content to be unravel, multiple stories hidden behind causality, the space itself is unimportant if there is no meaning to it, and i feel like it takes a bit of the fun out of it if you can clearly see the choices like 6:58, not just because you will keep wondering what it would happen if you choose the other and the lost of the other content in that playthrough but also because you will see that it is all that it is like in 7:07

Have a look at Hardspace Shipbreaker, there the player finds parts of the life’s of others when dismantling their spaceships. The player has his story and he can consume or ignore the past lives of the others.

One more year till I get the go outside achievement! Cant wait to replay it

Seems like the algorithm suddenly decided to show this to people. Great video.

I like how the confusion ending was my first

this brings back memories

Very interesting breakdown of the concepts. To be honest I went in completely blind and I thought I had finished the game when I got to the museum ending and didn't pay much attention to it afterwards. Clearly it's worth a replay.

i got the confusion ending by just choosing randomly and it was so fun and bizarre

5:55 I felt the exact opposite. I have *no sense of direction whatsoever* so games that are laid out in an even slightly nonlinear way just wind up with me wandering the same hallways sometimes dozens of times, padding the game with frustration. That compass is there for people like me who can turn around and walk down the same hallway and not recognize that they're doing it because they got turned around by a combat encounter.

@AtrociousAK47

3 жыл бұрын

so basically you're zoro from one piece, lmao. still im almost the same way, i often have to follow a path as many as a dozen times before i memorize it if theres no map or pointer telling me exactly where i am and where im going. my favorite spell in skyrim is clairvoyance since it helps counteract that games confusing compass (marker tells you to go outside then when you get outside it says go inside). im also practically blind as i tend to easily miss things if they arent explicitly pointed out to me, and not just in games.

I got the confusing ending the first time i played and i had no idea what was going on

1:09 I THOUGHT I WAS HEARING WHEATLEY

the confusion ending was like my second ending i think. my first probably was the power ending

What the heck I didn't realize this game had a message, I just played the confusion ending and didn't think anything about linear vs. non linear gameplay.

After I played this game for like 2 or 3 hours I was so confused and had so many questions, it's the most confusing game i've ever played.