Has anyone gotten to the seventh restart of Confusion Ending?

[Kasha]

http://i.imgur.com/ckZeODd.jpg
I can only get as far as to 6. However, then I can't seem to find the line to follow again. :(

[Balyan]

The Stanley Parable | Explanation About Confusion Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_GjSbd4oo&index=3&list=PLZad1P5hEzxOxKwdiGcC1ZCwfhZip3TPw

[Zesc]

引用自 Balyan：

The Stanley Parable | Explanation About Confusion Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_GjSbd4oo&index=3&list=PLZad1P5hEzxOxKwdiGcC1ZCwfhZip3TPw

basicly there is a sixth restart. but we aren't in the confusing ending anymore, thats the point. okay, the restarts in the confusing ending were just mapchanges so basicly it is just one restart...

[abinmorth]

Note that the text for the sixth restart says "Stanley attempts to play the game but is prevented. Unable to move or to do anything" this is the only time Stanley is mentioned by name on this confusion ending board. From the real person ending we learn, that the player != stanley. we are a real person! So maybe Stanley can't do anything because we (the player) are absent? maybe we have to stay idle at a certain spot for extended periods of time. or maybe something will happen after those 5 years are over that you have to wait if you want to get that achievement.

another weird thing about the confusion ending is that the timer always seems to be around 16:00
(I even used the door opening cheat, using shortcuts to get to the confusion ending a lot faster and it still showed 16:00)

[Zesc]

引用自 abinmorth：

Note that the text for the sixth restart says "Stanley attempts to play the game but is prevented. Unable to move or to do anything" this is the only time Stanley is mentioned by name on this confusion ending board. From the real person ending we learn, that the player != stanley. we are a real person! So maybe Stanley can't do anything because we (the player) are absent? maybe we have to stay idle at a certain spot for extended periods of time. or maybe something will happen after those 5 years are over that you have to wait if you want to get that achievement.

another weird thing about the confusion ending is that the timer always seems to be around 16:00
(I even used the door opening cheat, using shortcuts to get to the confusion ending a lot faster and it still showed 16:00)

Things we learn in one ending can be wrong in another. that we learned frrom many endings, the confusing ending is one of them too. and the timer shows beetween 17:00 to 18:00, but that can be because i always stop and listen to that amazing song in the confusing ending. I think the timer is in a different map like the beginning and they don't transferit in a next map, so it first starts in that 5th map with an adiition of 14:00 or so... would be the logicst explanation i can find.

[Penroze]

I'm not sure about finding the line again, as that's BEFORE the 6th restart, but the deteriorating identical replica of the office may be from the "Broken/Not Stanley" ending.

[Omittance]

Okay so i understand now. The reason that there is no 6th 7th and 8th restart is because as it says after the 5th restart: the narrator forgets everything! That's why the game starts fresh. You can never finish the confusion ending because the narrator always forgets everything after the 5th restart and the game goes back to normal. After the first 4 restarts, the narrator always remembers what happened in the previous ones. But not now. So basically, the narrator is the game in the sense that, if the narrator forgets something, the game forgets it aswell. This makes sense because as said in the game. The narrator not only tells the story, but also writes it! So if the narrator forgets everything after the 5th restart. The game starts over fresh because the narrator doesn't write the story any further because he forgot what happened previously!!!


P.S. Jesus christ my hands hurt now! I basically smashed this story into my keyboard when it hit me! XD

EDIT: I got something wrong: The narrator DID write the story further, as you can see on the confusion ending scheme, the story is there. The reason the game starts fresh is because the narrator doesn't know the player did the first 6 restarts already, and he never will, because everytime the player gets to the 6th restart, the narrator forgets everything and starts the game fresh!

[Zesc]

引用自 Timo1241：

Okay so i understand now. The reason that there is no 6th 7th and 8th restart is because as it says after the 5th restart: the narrator forgets everything! That's why the game starts fresh. You can never finish the confusion ending because the narrator always forgets everything after the 5th restart and the game goes back to normal. After the first 4 restarts, the narrator always remembers what happened in the previous ones. But not now. So basically, the narrator is the game in the sense that, if the narrator forgets something, the game forgets it aswell. This makes sense because as said in the game. The narrator not only tells the story, but also writes it! So if the narrator forgets everything after the 5th restart. The game starts over fresh because the narrator doesn't write the story any further because he forgot what happened previously!!!


P.S. Jesus christ my hands hurt now! I basically smashed this story into my keyboard when it hit me! XD

Nice necro.

In fact this was what we all were thinking about, but you compressed into a single, "short" explanation.

[Omittance]

引用自 Zesc7：

引用自 Timo1241：

Okay so i understand now. The reason that there is no 6th 7th and 8th restart is because as it says after the 5th restart: the narrator forgets everything! That's why the game starts fresh. You can never finish the confusion ending because the narrator always forgets everything after the 5th restart and the game goes back to normal. After the first 4 restarts, the narrator always remembers what happened in the previous ones. But not now. So basically, the narrator is the game in the sense that, if the narrator forgets something, the game forgets it aswell. This makes sense because as said in the game. The narrator not only tells the story, but also writes it! So if the narrator forgets everything after the 5th restart. The game starts over fresh because the narrator doesn't write the story any further because he forgot what happened previously!!!


P.S. Jesus christ my hands hurt now! I basically smashed this story into my keyboard when it hit me! XD

Nice necro.

In fact this was what we all were thinking about, but you compressed into a single, "short" explanation.

Yeah i know, tbh i think i was mostly explaining it to myself rather than to others, that's how confused i was. XD

[cosurgi]

Uhh. Guys. I actually went past the fifth restart and I was unable to play, so I closed the door without leaving the office, then went to main menu and selected begin game again. :( That was before I knew how this game works - that was one of my first plays of this game. I should have waited for the narrator to restart for me.

Here's what happened: I did the confusion ending, reaching that "the confusion ending" text with 17:10. The narrator got killed by a train, the game restarted (5th restart), I was back in Stanely's office, but outside of his room there wasn't the other part of the office. There were just blue doors everywhere - was prevented from following the story. I didn't want to step out there, it seemed just too strange so I closed the door without leaving Stanley's room and selected "begin new game" in the menu. Then I had an officce with papers all lying on the floor. I tried to follow the confusion ending schedule, but it didn't work. I guess I broke the chain by restarting the game myself.

[Zesc]

引用自 cosurgi：

Uhh. Guys. I actually went past the fifth restart and I was unable to play, so I closed the door without leaving the office, then went to main menu and selected begin game again. :( That was before I knew how this game works - that was one of my first plays of this game. I should have waited for the narrator to restart for me.

Here's what happened: I did the confusion ending, reaching that "the confusion ending" text with 17:10. The narrator got killed by a train, the game restarted (5th restart), I was back in Stanely's office, but outside of his room there wasn't the other part of the office. There were just blue doors everywhere - was prevented from following the story. I didn't want to step out there, it seemed just too strange so I closed the door without leaving Stanley's room and selected "begin new game" in the menu. Then I had an officce with papers all lying on the floor. I tried to follow the confusion ending schedule, but it didn't work. I guess I broke the chain by restarting the game myself.

Fantastic necro, my pal.

The Narrator got killed by a train? Dafuq? That's the only new thing in your story.

The "blue doors" and "papers scattered everywhere" are random events which can happen randomly when starting a brand new game (e.g. not a scripted restart like in the confusing ending).

You just were very (un)lucky to have two of them occuing after each other.

And yeah, you broke the confusing ending by restarting yourself.

Edit/Further explanation: the "restarts" during the confusing endings aren't real restarts. Instead, a new map/area gets loaded, including certain wordportals and scripted changes like the adventure line. The final restart is an actuall restart instead, meaning you can do now any other endings, and additionally, those random events like the papers can happen too.

[cosurgi]

Oh, ok that explains a lot. But before I have seen your reply I tried to do the confusion ending from fresh start: uninstalled the game totally in steam, then redownloaded it. Then when game started I saw that it had the settings and previous savegames remembered. I was disappointed, so at least I disabled the "save game" in options. Then with intention to follow exactly the confusion ending schedule I got this - cannot go to the two-doors room (second 15 on that video). When I went back to the Stanley's office the door closed all by itself. The narrator is sitting totally silent. What is going on? I am not pressing restart. I am sitting for about an hour now in that room.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwV_L21Y8oc

Oh, about narrator being killed by train: I just heard the train siren (or horn) just before he died. So I assumed that he was killed by train.

[Zesc]

引用自 cosurgi：

Oh, ok that explains a lot. But before I have seen your reply I tried to do the confusion ending from fresh start: uninstalled the game totally in steam, then redownloaded it. Then when game started I saw that it had the settings and previous savegames remembered. I was disappointed, so at least I disabled the "save game" in options. Then with intention to follow exactly the confusion ending schedule I got this - cannot go to the two-doors room (second 15 on that video). When I went back to the Stanley's office the door closed all by itself. The narrator is sitting totally silent. What is going on? I am not pressing restart. I am sitting for about an hour now in that room.

See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwV_L21Y8oc

Oh, about narrator being killed by train: I just heard the train siren (or horn) just before he died. So I assumed that he was killed by train.

Erm... okay...

This is actually wierd.

The white thingy indicates the game kinda failed to load section of the map, but the door closing behind you... You#re sure you didn't triggered it by a mistake?

Else, this seems to me like the "unplugg the phone" ending.

Also, you just have to disab steam cloud connection to prevent the game from "rembering" your progress.

[cosurgi]

I am sure I didn't click on the door. You can see on the video that I start looking at the door and see that it is just finishing closing itself. I looked at the door because I heard that it started to close. But just before I heard the sound of it starting to close, I clicked on the computer - so maybe clicking the computer triggered the door closing. Narrator is still sitting silent, and I am still locked in this room - about 2 (realtime) hours have passed so far. I suppose I will leave it like this till tomorrow.

Also - apologies that there is no sound on this video. That's because I don't have the game-recording software on my PC, so when I saw that there is no two-door room I quickly pulled my tablet, went back to Stanley's office and started recording my LCD screen using the tablet. So what you actually see on this video is me leaving the Stanley's room for the second time. But I could not leave it for the third time.

EDIT: oh, on that video you can actually hear when I click the mouse. So you can hear that I did click on the computer, but not on the door :) 2 more hours passed and still nothing. Maybe Stanley will die after a long time? :) (but I've never seen a bookstore)

Update: the game restarted itself after 4 or 5 hours waiting in the office. I didn't see Stanley dying.

[energy]

Wow now this is getting interesting

[jolly]

引用自 GAKI NRG：

Wow now this is getting interesting

Is it actually because I've been subscriped since the first page, and proceeded to ignore 90% of the comments.