The Stanley Parable

2013-12-07 08:55:43 am

i liek swimmiming

Here's a game that came out about two months ago, and has grown in popularity since. I know this is a bit odd, but after seeing the speedrun achievement, it kinda sparked the idea. Has anyone gotten anything lower than 4 minutes?

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Onin

2013-12-07 09:31:36 am

Stanley Parable doesn't really qualify for proper speedrunning.

Either way, the only way to speed up the speedrun achievement even further is to reset until the game puts your starting position in that corridor just before the two doors room. I have no idea how to make it do that reliably.

Marche_Fighter_Paladin

2013-12-08 02:51:53 pm

Claimh Happy

As far as I know, it's just a random chance after completing a certain ending (not sure which one. I think it's one of the telephone endings but I'm only ~20% confident in that).

Anyways as much as I love this game, I don't really think it works for speedrunning. ~~You can't really say that any one ending is the true ending~~, doing all of them would take 4 hours or the Baby game (not to mention one of them is for activating cheats, and you get to do it several times in a row) (and one of them technically doesn't even end on its own), and doing the shortest one would take a few seconds. It's also hard to say whether you should be allowed to do some endings ahead of time to prepare the alternate starts.

Somehow forgot about the actual true ending. Anyways I don't see the point in speedrunning this game. It can obviously be done, but the difference between runs will never be more than some seconds (unless you do all endings which has a few other problems to work out).

DarkOrbX

2013-12-30 09:03:57 pm

I disagree about this, the game can definitely be run. All it takes is a little work to compile an actual category. I took the liberty of finding the best endings to run (i.e. those which either reset themselves or led to you resetting) and made a category for it. In all, these 12 endings create a run that lasts around an our and 10 minutes. Here's a video of my fastest time so far on the category.

(Another great thing about it is the endings can be played in any order I suppose, really the only requirement being you end with the one where you unplug the phone.)

Onin

2013-12-31 03:00:13 am

I don't see the window ending nor the cheater ending anywhere in there Sad

Stupid

2013-12-31 04:18:02 am

defying gravity

Yeah, if you do just some of the endings that's pretty arbitrary. And, as I recall, there is one ending that requires you to play a minigame for 4 hours. So there's that.

Onin

2013-12-31 04:28:47 am

Wait, the baby game actually has an ending? o.o

Stupid

2013-12-31 04:46:32 am

defying gravity

DarkOrbX

2013-12-31 12:20:29 pm

I mean, in theory you COULD do all of them (Minus the one mentioned above, of course).

Onin

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2013-12-31 02:49:31 pm

You could totally host a 14 endings Stanley Parable race on SRL. For an SDA submission, it's too arbitrary a category. The game doesn't track endings, it doesn't even call anything an ending, several endings have different ending-like characteristics (one concludes the story, another shows credits, etc).

Rainbow Pancake

2014-01-03 08:48:25 am

i liek swimmiming

There is one ending that actually shows credits after completing it, which leads me to believe it may be the true ending since it's the only one.
Confusion Ending:

But since the only way to get the speedrun achievement in the game is by following the narrator to the freedom ending, it leaves me to believe that it the true ending (Even though it brings you back to the beginning)

Another interesting thing I've noticed, is that the Museum Ending (at least to my knowledge) Doesn't bring you back, but instead stays at a black screen. This leaves me to believe that this could be the real ending as well, and if one were to speedrun all the endings, this would haft to be the last one they choose.

Onin

2014-01-03 09:01:14 am

The fact that you could argue for any of those three endings to be the true ending, means the game doesn't have a true ending.

ShadowDancer

2014-01-03 11:06:07 am

Actually I don't think this game can have a proper speedrun.
There are at least 2 endings that come to my mind that show the credits and an "all ending run" would be terribly tedious just because of the fact that you have to spend 4 hours trying to save the baby and the dog (that shows up after). Plus I don't see much room of improvement after you do the run once (unless you count that for some crazy luck you get the short way to the doors every time, but that's it).

Stupid

2014-01-04 04:33:01 pm

defying gravity

The true speedrun ending is of course the one that says "You won the game!" or whatever it was. In all seriousness though, pick a better game to run imo.

ShadowDancer

2014-01-09 06:45:26 am

Fun fact, after the screen shows "YOU WON THE GAME" in red capital letters the game doesen't end at all and continues for several minutes then resets itself without even show the credits Wink

that's the confusion ending, and it's a very fun ending

Blees

2014-02-01 11:20:00 pm

I've worked up a run that shows off 3 of the endings. It's about 18:30, and I hope it will be accepted for SGDQ.

Also, my best time on the Good Ending (with fast office, fast boss's office, and 1 chair skip in the screens room) is 4:18. I think I can drop it to 4:12 by getting both chair skips, but one of them is still inconsistent, and resetting to get the fast office breaks flow, so you can't get in a good rhythm.

Plumato

2014-07-13 08:48:16 pm

I actually ran the same 12 endings that DarkOrbX did, and there definitely are skips and such to get through it. I don't see why this couldn't be speedran, given these are categories and actually a few skips and such to get through. But that's just my opinion, as I used a few skips and beat his time by a minute.

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2014-07-17 09:18:01 pm

I had also considered running an "all endings" type category for this, although not including the baby game.
The Stanley Parable subreddit has a flowchart showing which ends are "true endings" (red circles) and which ones are partial or non-autorestarting endings (orange circles): http://shadohs.be/StanleyParable.pdf (Massive Spoilers if you haven't completed all endings yet)
~~I don't have time to look through those 12-ending videos right now~~, but I'd assume that it's comprised of just all the red circle endings without the baby game?

I do however feel like there's a ton of downtime in a run of this, considering all the narration you will have to wait through at every ending.

I'd also not be opposed to something like a 99% category, wherein you do all red and orange endings not including baby game or the sv_cheats/Serious ending (since console commands aren't typically allowed anyway).

EDIT:
I watched Plumato's video, and while it was a good run, I do have a couple gripes with the routing.

I noticed that the secret door in the boss's office opened immediately after he entered the room the first and second times. This should only happen after you've gone through that section >2 times in the same session, which means that Plumato didn't fully reset before his previous attempt. This also means that he didn't have to turn to the left after the very first beginning cutscene (or click to skip it), and that the cutscene of riding the boss's elevator down is also skipped.
IMO you should have to start from a brand new session every reset/attempt ("quit to main menu"+"begin game"[start new session] instead of "begin game again"[stays in current session]), so that previous sessions don't affect each new attempt (it's also possible that you could have a greater chance of less beginning rooms before the left/right door choice if you don't fully start a new session with each attempt).

Also, during the Museum ending, directly after getting crushed, he hit Esc and clicked on "Begin game again" instead waiting for the black screen to fade into the autorestart.

I do however like that the "Choice" ending is last, with the The End text being the final split.
As for the "Escape Pod" ending, I'd do it on any split that has the shortest length of beginning rooms since you have to walk through them twice, so my splits wouldn't all be named; they would just be generic "ending 1," ending 2," etc. so that it's possible to do the escape pod on any one of them. It might be best to start new sessions until you get a short set of beginning rooms just to do the escape pod first, although I don't know if it's possible to get anything but the default set of beginning rooms in the first session after hitting Begin Game.

I had also considered running an "all endings" type category for this, although not including the baby game.
The Stanley Parable subreddit has a flowchart showing which ends are "true endings" (red circles) and which ones are partial or non-autorestarting endings (orange circles): http://shadohs.be/StanleyParable.pdf (Massive Spoilers if you haven't completed all endings yet)
[s]I don't have time to look through those 12-ending videos right now[/s], but I'd assume that it's comprised of just all the red circle endings without the baby game?

I do however feel like there's a ton of downtime in a run of this, considering all the narration you will have to wait through at every ending.

I'd also not be opposed to something like a 99% category, wherein you do all red and orange endings not including baby game or the sv_cheats/Serious ending (since console commands aren't typically allowed anyway).

EDIT:
I watched Plumato's video, and while it was a good run, I do have a couple gripes with the routing.

I noticed that the secret door in the boss's office opened immediately after he entered the room the first and second times. This should only happen after you've gone through that section >2 times in the same session, which means that Plumato didn't fully reset before his previous attempt. This also means that he didn't have to turn to the left after the very first beginning cutscene (or click to skip it), and that the cutscene of riding the boss's elevator down is also skipped.
IMO you should have to start from a brand new session every reset/attempt ("quit to main menu"+"begin game"[start new session] instead of "begin game again"[stays in current session]), so that previous sessions don't affect each new attempt (it's also possible that you could have a greater chance of less beginning rooms before the left/right door choice if you don't fully start a new session with each attempt).

Also, during the Museum ending, directly after getting crushed, he hit Esc and clicked on "Begin game again" instead waiting for the black screen to fade into the autorestart.

I do however like that the "Choice" ending is last, with the The End text being the final split.
As for the "Escape Pod" ending, I'd do it on any split that has the shortest length of beginning rooms since you have to walk through them twice, so my splits wouldn't all be named; they would just be generic "ending 1," ending 2," etc. so that it's possible to do the escape pod on any one of them. It might be best to start new sessions until you get a short set of beginning rooms just to do the escape pod first, although I don't know if it's possible to get anything but the default set of beginning rooms in the first session after hitting Begin Game.

hypotheticalTiger

2014-09-22 07:22:48 pm

Variety Speedrunner

I beat the game in 2:53 seconds here is the link