explanation of full story

[Hashlamon37]

hi everyone

I have just finished the game, i looked at the internet for explanations and all i see is explanations for the endings only, and i didn`t see any trying to explaing the story itself, so i will share with you my idea about the story and see your opinion.

first I want notice you who the narrator is addressing, sometimes he addresses stanley and sometimes he addresses the player, and that makes a big difference, for example when you enter the broom closet he addresses the player, but in most other time he is addressing stanley, so when the narrator is saying "game" to stanley he is not referring to "stanley parable" that the player installed, he is addressing stanley, in other words stanley is playing a game inside our game.

Story:
stanley is the worker who only have to press buttons as the instructions he receives, this boring work made him daydreaming all time in order to pass time,however doing so everyday separated him from reality,he don’t have anything in real life,all he got is his dreams during his work.

The narrator is a doctor who wants to help stanley recover his real life and differentiate between it and his dreams.

At the time of the story the visual reality devices were more advanced than our day,the narrator asked a designer to make a game that looks exactly as Stanley's company, and he told him what areas should be accessible and what should not.

The narrator put the visual reality device on stanley while he was day dreaming or sleeping,so when he woke up he was in the game,but since it looks exactly as his company and he didn’t know that he was in a game he thought it was real!

The narrator made the story of the game in order to help stanley,he wrote many scenarios depending on stanley actions,if stanley follows the narrator instructions exactly it will lead him to freedom ending,in which stanley realizes his boring work and when he sees the mind control facility,so he destroy the machine and he goes free, then the narrators plan is a success and he is healed.

If stanley chooses to take control of the facility, the narrator realizes that stanley is not a good person and he don’t deserve saving, hats why he kill him in the game, but in real life he is ok but not healed.

At the mind losing ending it was a mistake from the narrator, he didn’t explain well to stanley that this is a game, so when stanley didn’t see his feet, he levitated and saw stars he went crazy and died.

The wife ending: the narrator wanted to show stanley how boring his life was by making him see himself from other person prospective.

When stanley plugs the phone power supply he did something that was not intended in the narrator’s game, hats why we see bugs and game crashing, and its not the game we installed, its the narrator’s game, hats why he gets angry at stanley for destroying his game, because the narrator wanted to help stanley and use this technology to help others, but the carelessness of stanley ruined his work.

In heaven ending, stanley can’t live without taking orders, hats why he uses his boss and assistances computers to send orders to his computer to push more and more buttons.
Confusion ending: in this ending the designer of the game made changes that he didn’t inform the narrator about, the narrator is the confused one here, the narrator asks stanley if he moved the story or did something, and he didn`t recognize the other building.

What makes me think this is correct:

1- The narrator tells stanley sometimes that this is a game, and he tells stanley not the player, if you tried the broom room the narrator is actually talking to the player not stanley, notice the difference.
2- The game glitches that means its a game not real life, and again the narrator’s game nit the game we installed.
3- In the confusion ending stanley goes to a strange place the narrator don’t know about,that means either a glitch or the designer made changes and didn’t inform the narrator.
4- When in game he don’t have feet, but when stanley dies at madness ending his body has feet,which means the body is in real life while his consciousness is in the game.
5- The narrator says he will restart the game and he means his game,because he is addressing stanley not the player .
6- Sometimes the narrator and stanley have memories from previous games if the narrator restarts it, after you put the password in stanley`s boss 2 or 3 times, for the next time the narrator don`t even wait for you to put the password, he says something like :secret door,password bla bla you know it, also in confusion ending the game restarts many times yet they have memories, but if the player exits "stanley parable" next time you play they will not remember a thing and you start from the beginning.
Other endings can be explained with this idea as well, I think if there was a story behind the game then its something like what I said, waiting for your comments or ideas about the game.

[JKerman511]

Originally posted by What Would Spock Do:

Originally posted by SmashIt6:

dude, it technically is not a story game - and IS a story game. actually, i got it for like 3 bucks on humble jumbo bundle 4.

That sounds right. I think whether or not The Stanley Parable tells a story depends on whether or not you consider the narrator to be reliable at least some of the time.

well, i consider the narrator to exist and not exist simultaneously, but the way you word it, you probably don't.

[PiCookie]

That wouldn't explain why the narrator tells Stanley that he mistakened him for a real person. Nor why the serious room ending is a thing, nor the knocking of room 430. It doesn't explain why the narrator says he raised the others, nor why he said sometimes he'd sink it into the ground. It doesn't resolve much anything however, like who the other man was. It's as useful as saying a dinosaur is having a hallucigenic experience for an explanation. I applaud your effort, I really do;but it leaves too many holes and solves nothing more than is given.

[Hashlamon37]

Originally posted by PiCookie:

That wouldn't explain why the narrator tells Stanley that he mistakened him for a real person. Nor why the serious room ending is a thing, nor the knocking of room 430. It doesn't explain why the narrator says he raised the others, nor why he said sometimes he'd sink it into the ground. It doesn't resolve much anything however, like who the other man was. It's as useful as saying a dinosaur is having a hallucigenic experience for an explanation. I applaud your effort, I really do;but it leaves too many holes and solves nothing more than is given.

you are correct, what i wrote was my first thoughts of the game, but after going with many discussions with people here i am not sure the game has a solid story behind it.
however if you are interested in being closer to the truth, then check the thread about "Employee 432" he is more interesting than stanley...or maybe he is the real stanley, there are many clues and strange things related to this guy:
- in the monitor room all screens are same size except stanley and Employee 432, they are bigger, means more important.
- Employee 432 has pencil sharpener and no laptop on his desk....why?
- in one note it says that Employee 432 escaped the effect of mind control, and he is asking strange questions like "what are we doing here?"
- there is a whole room only for "Employee 432 peer reviews"

there are even more strange stuff related to this guy,a thread of more than 1000 comments is made only for him, check it if u didn`t, the people threre also have new theories regarding the story.

[IRememberYou......]

Simply Beautiful, I am a huge fan of TSP and I love explanations such as this!

[Hashlamon37]

Originally posted by IRememberYou......:

Simply Beautiful, I am a huge fan of TSP and I love explanations such as this!

thank you, reading your comment put a smile on my face :) , i am happy you like it!