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If you haven't experienced The Beginner's Guide - I highly recommend. It's one of my favorite experiences. I look forward to playing through his new game, even

If you haven't experienced The Beginner's Guide - I highly recommend. It's one of my favorite experiences. I look forward to playing through his new game, even if it's a bit different! I'm fully aligned with the goal of trying to convey your sense of self through artistic creations and think he's in a league of his own in his attempts to do so.

bigstrat2003 2y ago
Would you still recommend it to someone who didn't like Stanley Parable? I must admit I found his prior game to be extremely boring and pretentious, but I'm willing to have an open mind about the new one if it's different.
- dartos 2y ago
  I’d say the beginner’s guide is more pretentious, but it’s not as funny. I still really liked it, though.
- JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
  I'm not too keen on the Stanley Parable and enjoyed the Beginners Guide. It's definitely something that could be called pretentious but I feel like it's a lot more interesting with how it does it. There's less of a fixation on humour too which is a plus for me because The Stanley Parable's humour grated on me a lot of the time. It's a walking simulator though, if you're not into those kind of things in general then you're probably not gonna be into it.
- BalinKing 2y ago
  FWIW I strongly disliked The Beginner's Guide—I wasn't a huge fan of the Stanley Parable either, but The Beginner's Guide was significantly less enjoyable even so. I know the game gets a lot of positive reviews, but if you're on the fence already, I'd strongly caution you against blindly trusting the reviews. There's definitely an element of personal taste, though—I tend to really dislike media that I find overly philosophizing (i.e. when I feel like the authors' arguments are too confident, or otherwise discourage the audience from thinking themselves about the arguments or conclusions). That is to say, I might be precisely the wrong target audience for this sort of game :-P
  - shalmanese 2y ago
    > (i.e. when I feel like the authors' arguments are too confident, or otherwise discourage the audience from thinking themselves about the arguments or conclusions) The intention of the game is to analyze this and ask why the narrator is so confident and dogmatic and to see a layer underneath, it's not to take the narrator at face value.
    - BalinKing 2y ago
      I suppose I should also add that I struggle a lot with picking up on subtext :-P
- gs17 2y ago
  > I must admit I found his prior game to be extremely boring and pretentious, You definitely won't like it. The Beginner's Guide is much more in that direction than Stanley is.

bigstrat2003 2y ago

Would you still recommend it to someone who didn't like Stanley Parable? I must admit I found his prior game to be extremely boring and pretentious, but I'm willing to have an open mind about the new one if it's different.

dartos 2y ago
I’d say the beginner’s guide is more pretentious, but it’s not as funny. I still really liked it, though.
JansjoFromIkea 2y ago
I'm not too keen on the Stanley Parable and enjoyed the Beginners Guide. It's definitely something that could be called pretentious but I feel like it's a lot more interesting with how it does it. There's less of a fixation on humour too which is a plus for me because The Stanley Parable's humour grated on me a lot of the time. It's a walking simulator though, if you're not into those kind of things in general then you're probably not gonna be into it.
BalinKing 2y ago
FWIW I strongly disliked The Beginner's Guide—I wasn't a huge fan of the Stanley Parable either, but The Beginner's Guide was significantly less enjoyable even so. I know the game gets a lot of positive reviews, but if you're on the fence already, I'd strongly caution you against blindly trusting the reviews. There's definitely an element of personal taste, though—I tend to really dislike media that I find overly philosophizing (i.e. when I feel like the authors' arguments are too confident, or otherwise discourage the audience from thinking themselves about the arguments or conclusions). That is to say, I might be precisely the wrong target audience for this sort of game :-P
- shalmanese 2y ago
  > (i.e. when I feel like the authors' arguments are too confident, or otherwise discourage the audience from thinking themselves about the arguments or conclusions) The intention of the game is to analyze this and ask why the narrator is so confident and dogmatic and to see a layer underneath, it's not to take the narrator at face value.
  - BalinKing 2y ago
    I suppose I should also add that I struggle a lot with picking up on subtext :-P
gs17 2y ago
> I must admit I found his prior game to be extremely boring and pretentious, You definitely won't like it. The Beginner's Guide is much more in that direction than Stanley is.