This is my front runner for game of the year so far. Gone Home is another example of this, and really, going in fresh to a new game should be the way to play that game. Stay as far as you can from spoilers, since going in blind is the best way to experience the game.
If you haven’t played the game yet, PLEASE AVOID FINDING OUT MORE BEFORE YOU PLAY. That’s The Stanley Parable in a nutshell, although no matter how I describe it, none of my words can do it justice it’s something that has to be experienced to fully understand. The Stanley Parable is a first person adventure game built on the Source Engine, and the best way to explain the actual gameplay is: imagine Portal 2, with an unreliable narrator and a maze of humorous predicaments, and now remove the portal gun, but replace that with an introspective script which unapologetically questions the nature of game design and choice. It’s a video game that is not just a collection of its parts, but a game about the parts. A game is merely the sum of its parts, those parts being what the game allows the player to decide, and ultimately do.Īnd that is the best way I can describe The Stanley Parable.
That dynamic needs to be there there has to be someone behind the controller actually playing the game and making the choices. Without the players, video games are nothing. If the player is not fully engaged, not entirely aware of how the game is played, and not willing to learn or participate, then the game has essentially failed to do its job. But there are too many nuances to games, and the nooks and crannies can be entirely missed by people who aren’t eagle-eyed. Sure, if you are a noob at Street Fighter and have no idea what you’re doing, yet have fun while playing the game, then that shouldn’t matter. But there are wrong ways to play games, and people can be very bad at them. There is no wrong way to watch a movie, as long as you aren’t texting in the theater.
If you think about it, there can’t really be a bad way to look at a painting, only bad interpretations (which are technically valid, in the eyes of the beholder, I guess). Video games are the only art form that requires the audience’s participation.
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