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sausje
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Stanley Prable is such a joke that I'd not even try this new game.
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Keit
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Sep 2015 06:35 Post subject: |
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Stanley Parable is such a fun game with great writing that I'm excited to try this new game.
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| Posted: Wed, 30th Sep 2015 07:15 Post subject: |
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Stanley Parable was skullfucked by sandniggers.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Oct 2015 19:27 Post subject: |
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Out now.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/
(If I was the OP I would put "by The Stanley Parable dev" or something in the title.)
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Oct 2015 19:47 Post subject: |
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More Hipster shit I presume
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Oct 2015 20:35 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Oct 2015 21:11 Post subject: |
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| trucane wrote: | | More Hipster shit I presume |
+1 New Black Ops can't come soon enough.
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Keit
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 06:34 Post subject: |
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Destructoid: 9 (Darren Nakamura)
| Quote: | | On the surface, The Beginner's Guide is a game about game design and critical analysis. Digging deeper, it provides a window into the mind of a man I might not have fully understood otherwise. It does all of this in a way only a video game could. More than anything else, it has caused me a lot of introspection, a feat few games ever achieve. |
Game Informer: 8 (Jeff Marchiafava)
| Quote: | | The Beginner's Guide addresses a lot of heavy issues in its 90-minute journey: Depression, loneliness, self-doubt, and the need for validation are but a few of the topics touched upon. Despite the inherent veil of fiction, Wreden's narration is well-written and feels honest. At the end, you're still left with the initial question: What can you know about a person by looking solely at their work? I'm not sure there is an answer, but trying to find it is a thought-provoking experience. |
Rockpapershotgun: (John Walker)
| Quote: | | So did I enjoy it? Kind of. I think I appreciated it more than I enjoyed it, and then that appreciation was tinged with a wish that it could have been more. More clever, more surprising, more deep. But more importantly, it made me think, made me worry about people I care about, made me uncomfortable. And for that, I think, it deserves praise. |
Gamespot: 8 (Edmond Tran)
| Quote: | The Beginner’s Guide is an absorbing journey into the thoughts and processes involved during the creation of a video game. It succeeds in helping you understand and sympathize with game developers as artists and people. It equips you with important tools to perceive and think about both video games and other mediums in intelligent ways. It’s a game that lives up to its namesake--it’s the beginner’s guide to the meaning of video games.
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Giant Bomb: 4/5 (Austin Walker)
| Quote: | I can’t help but think that The Beginner's Guide is not the “sequel” that fans of The Stanley Parable may have wanted from Wreden. I also think that this game might be his declaration that he just doesn’t care very much about that fact. Regardless, The Beginner’s Guide does exactly what I want from a followup to a wildly successful work: It shakes things up. The Stanley Parable played with time and space, anticipating the player’s action and shifting to surprise, amuse, and fascinate. But with The Beginner’s Guide, Wreden doesn’t rely on tricks of level design to disorient or teleport the player. Instead he uses sharp writing and radical honesty to turn on the time machine we all have built into our heads already: The one that takes us back, over and over, to our most regrettable moments; the one that, years after the offense, leads us to sympathize with the one who did us harm; the one that tows us through decades of thought on long nights, locking us somewhere between productive reflection and unhealthy obsession.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 09:37 Post subject: |
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The.Beginners.Guide-SKIDROW
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 14:11 Post subject: |
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Played the first 10 chapters the game is just 
Can't wait to see how it continues from there when I get back home 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Neon
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 14:13 Post subject: |
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More like "ends", the game is barely 90 minutes long.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 14:15 Post subject: |
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I know, it's in the description by the dev 
| Quote: | | The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand. |
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 20:20 Post subject: |
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The game was super interesting up to where I left it and from then and on it became just... 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Keit
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 21:13 Post subject: |
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Great little gem if you're lucky. I enjoyed it immensely and found it a rewarding experience, but I can see how people just find it being a strange game.
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| Posted: Fri, 2nd Oct 2015 22:00 Post subject: |
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Can't say that I enjoyed it at all (whereas I enjoyed The Stanley Parable immensely!)
I play games for the very reason that it helps me get away from my problems - not so that I can be thrust into someone else's or have to mull over my own ones while playing.
Maybe I missed the point of it entirely. Who the fuck knows. Regardless, this was not an enjoyable experience (and definitely not worth $10).
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ixigia
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Oct 2015 03:14 Post subject: |
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You're not alone Immunity, as a Stanley aficionado I went ahead and p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶d̶ pressed W it till the end, and while I can understand its existence, found the whole thing a tad too pretentious for my tastes. 
The Parable conveyed brilliance with its inspired design, this one on the other hand felt too personal so to speak, almost emo.  I'm probably just too grumpy to grasp this sort of stuff. Maybe I should play it again with vintage-framed eyewear on and red checkered shirt 
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 21:09 Post subject: |
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The Stanley Parable was great, this is just hipster bullshit. Glad I waited for the scene release.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 22:47 Post subject: |
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Ah, so I'm not the only one then.
Hey, I'm Mr.Deep, look at me!
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:10 Post subject: |
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He's just as pretentious though.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:14 Post subject: |
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I found the game quite good. A decent exploration of how much art reflects the artist and also how much the viewer/gamer projects his own meaning onto a piece of art and thinks that that is what the artist meant. You know the old sometimes a painting of a bird is just a painting of a bird without any deeper meaning. Also, some of the levels had some interesting thoughts about video game design.
To conclude, it is not as good as The Stanley Parable but it is a good effort on its own merits. It is definitely not for everyone but nor is it "hipster thrash". Maybe I'm an idiot but I didn't find all that pretentious plus the narrative was quite good.
I do feel this is not really worth paying for. It really is more of an interactive essay/short story without any gameplay.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:17 Post subject: |
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Is this by the creator of TSP or not?
Also I'm not sure what that D2D tweet was about.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:24 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | https://twitter.com/HonestWilliam/status/651337703032791041
Yeah, no. I won't even insult my hard disk by pirating this.
~edit~
Never mind, this game wasn't by William Pugh, the person that created Stanley Parable, so no loss anywhere to be honest. |
Davey the guy who made this is the co-creator of Stanley Parable, but yeah he's got some issues as evident from this blog post.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:26 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:27 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | VGAdeadcafe wrote: | Is this by the creator of TSP or not?
Also I'm not sure what that D2D tweet was about. |
It's by ONE of the Stanley Parable devs, not the creator, and that Tweet was about D2D mocking a drunken abusive feminist that put out an industry-wide call, with all her SanFran dipshit journo friends, stating "gamers are dead, gamers are over, gamers don't have to be your audience" - well, D2D disagreed and it pissed off William, a modeller for Stanley Parable. Two guesses who William's friend is? |
I'm confused. Why did Pugh get mad about that tweet? Was is somehow directed at him? It's a dumb quote but still everyone can make their own games if they so desire and publish them or not. I guess it was directed at the story of the Beginners Guide and Pugh got mad because Wreden is his mate? And yes, I think that both TSP and this game show that Wreden is a bit of a loony or at least a dude who thinks too much but I found the games entertaining and interesting so whatever.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Oct 2015 23:34 Post subject: |
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Saw that Pugh dude retweeting those feminists cunts and I knew enough. Cunt. 
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So Davey Wreden and William Pugh made Parable, and Davey Wreden made Beginner's Guide. Gotcha!
