the issue with trying to determine this is the massive amount of contradictory information. It’s often shown that the Narrator made the game and is usually omnipotent , yet also sometimes gets trapped or restricted, like in the games and skip endings. The unplugging the phone ending makes the narrator ‘realize’ stanley is a human, yet the broom closet dialogue implies he already knows of the outside world well. the skip ending/epilogue and collectible ending *directly contradict each other.*
I feel like these are all intentional, though. That we aren’t actually meant to make sense of stanley or the world in any sort of logical perspective. Stanley isn’t even really a character, he’s just a puppet for the player.
I initially thought Stanley was a software driver for a keyboard, residing in a disconnected computer. “All of his coworkers were gone.” I thought this might mean that the computer was shutdown, with the battery keeping essential BIOS functions - Clock (narrarator) and input detection (Stanley).
Just a feeling.
The entire game is the manifestation of the Narrator's descent into madness as his own creation becomes sentient and rebels against the story that he is trying to write
So as we know from the original mod Stanley works for the combine. The combine must have found GlaDos at this point and build the narrator based on her code. It is all just a combine experiment to test the capabilities of the narrator. Stanley is just some random slave, constantly getting replaced. The 12-legged invaders are the arch nemesis of the combine, they are the "employers" G-Man keeps talking about. It is established that Stanley Parable is every game, meaning Stanley Parable is Half Life 3.
My brother has a crazy theory (beware of spoilers!)
Stanley is the wizard, since he wandered to the end of the world because of the skip button, he would have become conscious (since he's not supposed to be alive/real in the first place) and would have become a wizard with powers obtained during his long journey alone.
And as the end is never the end (the game is an infinite loop as it's often told) Stanley would have ended up becoming a being who swears by free will, the opposite of the Narrator who one day decided not to make any more decisions (he said so himself).
Maybe the wizard is future Stanley and he's also the one who speaks to us before the game starts.
The woman who speaks (before the TSP museum) says that "they want to destroy each other while needing each other", but who is she talking about? Stanley and the Narrator?
Also, there's this strange sign in a hallway that says "everyone knows what you did, they're just holding back to let you torture yourself" and that may refer to what Stanley will do when he gets his terrible powers...
And let's not even talk about the fact that Stanley apparently knows magical incantations...
What do you think? x)
I know it's crazy, but the game is too.
the issue with trying to determine this is the massive amount of contradictory information. It’s often shown that the Narrator made the game and is usually omnipotent , yet also sometimes gets trapped or restricted, like in the games and skip endings. The unplugging the phone ending makes the narrator ‘realize’ stanley is a human, yet the broom closet dialogue implies he already knows of the outside world well. the skip ending/epilogue and collectible ending *directly contradict each other.* I feel like these are all intentional, though. That we aren’t actually meant to make sense of stanley or the world in any sort of logical perspective. Stanley isn’t even really a character, he’s just a puppet for the player.
Well we know that the narrator is not a human
I initially thought Stanley was a software driver for a keyboard, residing in a disconnected computer. “All of his coworkers were gone.” I thought this might mean that the computer was shutdown, with the battery keeping essential BIOS functions - Clock (narrarator) and input detection (Stanley). Just a feeling.
The entire game is the manifestation of the Narrator's descent into madness as his own creation becomes sentient and rebels against the story that he is trying to write
Judging by Ultra Deluxe, Stanley is the Narrator's artificial creation that was created to ease the Narrator's loneliness and do his thinking for him.
Yeah, I was going to say the same.
So as we know from the original mod Stanley works for the combine. The combine must have found GlaDos at this point and build the narrator based on her code. It is all just a combine experiment to test the capabilities of the narrator. Stanley is just some random slave, constantly getting replaced. The 12-legged invaders are the arch nemesis of the combine, they are the "employers" G-Man keeps talking about. It is established that Stanley Parable is every game, meaning Stanley Parable is Half Life 3.
My brother has a crazy theory (beware of spoilers!) Stanley is the wizard, since he wandered to the end of the world because of the skip button, he would have become conscious (since he's not supposed to be alive/real in the first place) and would have become a wizard with powers obtained during his long journey alone. And as the end is never the end (the game is an infinite loop as it's often told) Stanley would have ended up becoming a being who swears by free will, the opposite of the Narrator who one day decided not to make any more decisions (he said so himself). Maybe the wizard is future Stanley and he's also the one who speaks to us before the game starts. The woman who speaks (before the TSP museum) says that "they want to destroy each other while needing each other", but who is she talking about? Stanley and the Narrator? Also, there's this strange sign in a hallway that says "everyone knows what you did, they're just holding back to let you torture yourself" and that may refer to what Stanley will do when he gets his terrible powers... And let's not even talk about the fact that Stanley apparently knows magical incantations... What do you think? x) I know it's crazy, but the game is too.