The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe | FULL GAME 

Something I think makes the skip button ending sadder is the fact that it takes place in the memory zone. What goes on in the environment is somewhat reflective of the narrator's mind and memories, so when the narrator fixates on the negative reviews and the skip button, the door leading out of the room disappears; he mentally and physically traps himself in the room. At the end through all the silence and suffering his mind goes almost completely blank, the memory zone is barren, the only thing left being a broken memory of the skip button.

the fact that when mark is in the elevator and you can hear narrator hum and say all together now very softly is a nice detail

I cant take it anymore, whenever I fall asleep at night with autoplay turned on. every single time I wake up it just appears.... every single FUCKING TIME IVE WOKEN UP THIS FUCKING VIDEO ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE PLAYING. IM CANT FUCKING TAKE IT ANYMORE

57:52 "in effect, we have demanded that our entertainment be the collapse of ourselves." that line actually goes so incredibly hard, like in the beginning of his speech i was like 'ok yeah i think a good majority of people are socially aware of this' but that line was just too metal to ignore

The scary part about the narrator going insane in the skip button ending is that the last time we see him he’s repeatedly saying the sentence “the end is never the end is never the end” But you think he’s only just now started but he’s been saying that for hundreds of years now on repeat

The fact that the first "ending" Mark got was the "broom closet ending", makes me happy.

24:47 The Dancing in the Elevator kills me everytime 🤣

“Don’t cry because it’s over, cry because it happened ” -Wise words from Mark

“I have made it and I’m not lying” Now please let my family go mark

Mark usually: finds any useless inanimate object, befriends it, and carries it around even if it causes insane inconvenience. Mark when given a useless object to befriend and carry around: "I could throw this across a room and couldn't care less."

I love that the narrator is British in the first and second game. You can tell when he yells "UNFUNNY?" That just cracks me up 😂

25:58 Mark really channeled his inner evil minion

I can just imagine Amy hanging out downstairs, and just hearing a muffled "I LOVE HOLES"

I can't believe Mark got the broom closet ending!

I finished it 3 hours 38 minutes and 29 seconds. That epilogue was brilliant, bewildering, beautiful. I’m so glad that we were able to go back to the hole and it was a fitting way to go. Speaking of which, I think it’s time for another visit down a wormhole with infinite choices in space.

Mark: I could throw this bucket down the hallway and I wouldn’t care less Jack: My bucket

I love that Mark keeps pausing what he's saying to let the narrator talk, like he's being so polite but keeps getting cut off bc the narrator never leaves a chance for him to respond. Highkey adorable

Fun Fact: The Bucket was originally only supposed to make the Narrator include it in every other dialogue in the game. Changes dialogue from "Stanley" to "Stanley and the bucket" but after awhile, more and more devs start getting more creative ideas on what to do with the bucket. In the end, all of that snowballed so much that it halted the game's development for an *_ENTIRE YEAR_* and is actually the reason the Ultra Deluxe version was delayed in the first place. All because of one singular bucket...

The explanation he gives around 23:00 reminds me so much of how Karen from Shameless talks 😭 the facial expressions are spot on.

1:01:11 one thing i wish the devs would’ve added is a short first-person animation of Stanley getting up from off the floor, because realistically he would’ve fallen over and been totally unaware until “waking up”

I want everybody to know that approximately 6 Minutes and 34 Seconds of the 3:38:28 long video was Mark dancing to elevator music while making caveman noises

Mark: *goes on a tangent about how we didn’t do what we were supposed to in “In Space With Markiplier”* Also Mark: *stays in the Broom Closet despite the Narrator telling him to get out*

The bits where you traverse the deserts and the fields, and where you get the test achievement, I never expect to feel such profundity in Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe of all games, but it gets kinda deep with the transition to the desert with the metacommentary on how we perceive the past with rose tinted glasses and it wasn't all perfect, and how time erodes everything away eventually when you use the skip button, even the concrete holding up the building disintegrates eventually, everything is temporary even concrete, so don't shy away from new trying new things, along with all of the other messages the can be gleaned from the skip button ending, like, damn that's so deep. You really feel some straight up majesty when you traverse the desert and instead of the narrator, there's the music. Kinda makes sense the game's creator's so capable of true profundity when you realise it's the same guy who made The Beginner's Guide which is even deeper, and much, much darker than The Stanley Parable, but still...

The most frightening thing happened to me while completing the skip button ending - after my first playthrough, popping up in the 427 room, Narrator's starting dialogue appeared to be that one in 1:43:07. It wasn't just chilling, it wasn't just the shivers down a spine, it was a complete terror for me to hear after all the happenings. At the time I didn't know the line appeared coincidentally, not related to the previously played ending.

When Mark absolutely lost his mind while jamming to the elevator theme is such a mood. I mean after completing an entire project like ISWM being able to just go caveman brain and not think about anything else but dancing is amazing

Mark trying to justify himself accidentally activating the nuke: "I'm not evil, I'm just stupid, really stupid"

I have come to a realization about this game. When the narrator goes on about needing a vessel..... What if Stanley is the narrator. Someone so bored with his life that he is narrating his imagination? A game developer at his desk, supposedly restricted in his creativity. Living through his dreams of making or playing a video game at the desk. The player is his invisible guest, or "vessel" for his narrations. Much the same as acquired DID, but much simpler. The ideals of simply sharing creativity. The game isn't a fever dream, or the possible ramblings of a serial killer. It's the story of the developer of the game. Lost in corporate policy and practice. And making this game in his head first. The game is making the game is making the game is making the game is making the game is making the game! The end is never the end is never the end is never the end because the end is making the game!

This is the first time I’ve ever seen The Stanley Parable. This was fascinating

I realize now why the Stanley button is so emotional. The narrator tells you to roleplay as Jim so that hearing the name makes you feel personally validated. But all this time, you've already been roleplaying as a man named Stanley. That's what the narrator called you. And now that he's gone, the Stanley button hits way harder. Because your name IS Stanley, and you didn't realize it until now. Sorry if this is phrased badly, I'm sleep deprived

The fact that he hit the narrator right back with the "He died on his keyboard, could the next narrator take over?" 😂

I watched Marks original lets play when it came out, but didn’t have a system that could play the game back then. Now I have watched this video and played the UD edition. It has all come full circle for me, and I also appreciate how you grew as a person and creator. You got a tremendous amount of recognition for these lets plays and you deserve it.

The Grinch: "I'm a psycho!" *followed by* 26:15

I love how most people go wild for the bucket the instant they receive it, but Mark quickly got sick of being told by the Narrator how much he (Stanley) apparently loved it

The Skip Button ending hits kinda hard. Imagine being stuck in a room for thousands of years being unable to leave and yet always being awake and aware. Given the narrator is a concept rather than a living person he couldn't really "die" but he clearly ends at some stage. All he had was his thoughts and the empty vessel of the only companion he knew in that universe. The fact that he stops reacting to Stanley coming back is probably the biggest indication of his insanity at that stage.

Thank you for blessing me with this video.😂 I was just saying yesterday that it is too cute when you’re having fun. From the bottom of my heart I genuinely love seeing you dance, act goofy, and play. The endorphins and dopamine hit different. I know making Iron Lung has been exhausting, but you’re almost there. You’ve got this. BEHOLD the dance of my people! 💃

Mark in the elevator was my favorite moment

and she backflipped all the way to work.

“What’s your favorite Markiplier moment little Timmy?” “I liked the part where Mark descended into madness from elevator music for a LONNNNNG time”

Watching this video late at night and passing out / waking up to random parts is the most disorienting experience ever but in the best way possible

I need the narrator to write my essays. He can yap infinitely and i need that.

I love how Jack was completely attached to the bucket to the point of worshiping it and Mark said “I’ll throw it down a hall and I won’t care.”

Mark: "Yeah, I don't really care about that bucket" Jack: *_"BABY WANT BUCKET"_*

Did anyone else notice that when Mark went down the infinite hole, the developers used a Shepard's tone in the background? It's very quiet, but you can hear it pretty good at 1:18:14 and a few seconds after that. You might have to listen close, but it's there! I just thought this was a neat touch, though Shepard's tones are used for psychological torture in most cases

24:40 Leaving this here so I never have to wonder where this is in the video because it speaks so deeply to my ADHD soul. I need to always know where it is in this video at all times.

“I have made it and I am not lying.” I am filled with the irresistible urge to draw Stanley falling in a void, reaching for his bucket.

Mark accidentally activating the controls when he wanted to follow the story properly absolutely killed me.

There are so many incredible quotes from Mark in this video you can put them all on mugs.😂😂

1:02:55 mark: “did you lose yourself-“ me: “lose yourself in the music the moment, you own it, you better never let it go”

This is the story of a man named "Mark". Mark worked in his house, where he was a RU-vidr by the name of "Markiplier." Mark's job was simple. He sat at his desk, playing video games and making videos. He played whatever games his audience wanted. Whatever they wanted to see him play, Mark did. This is what Mark did every day of every month of every year. And though others might find it tedious and soul-rending, Mark relished every game he was requested to play, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Mark was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened. Something that would forever change Mark. Something the internet would never quite forget. Mark had been recording a video for nearly an hour, when he got several hundred notifications from others about a new game release. Nobody had asked so much for one game. Never in all his years of RU-vid had this happened; this complete surge of requests. Something was very clearly wrong. Shocked, Mark decided to look up this game, trying to see what the want for this game is. But as he found the game, he saw it was a re-release of a different game. Nevertheless, Mark downloaded the game, and started to play.

Mark : I could kick this bucket across the hallway and care less Also Mark: I WILL GO TO HELL AND BACK for this tiny box 📦

"i have made it and i am not lying" probably my favorite line of dialogue in the whole game 👍

The " have made it and I’m not lying" will always be in my heart

I realized that the bucket destroyer ended up destroying everything. We also know from the “what is a bucket” ending that everything is a bucket. It achieved its purpose by destroying ALL buckets!

Jacksepticeye: omg bucket! I love my bucket! Mark: I could literally toss this thing down a hall and I wouldn’t care less

I like how he presses the butten to get out of the elevator hoping to go somewhere. When he saw the same room from befor he just went back in to dance. That was funny as hell

28:01 it’s been a year but I still come back to this vid just bcs the evalator scene makes me happy no matter how I was feeling before . Literally crying of laughter rn

"Have you ever sat down in one place and not moved for an entire year?" "Yes" Man covid really did a number on us all.

Mark: **sits in an elevator for 20 minutes listening to the same 4 minute song clip** Also Mark: **screams in pain while the narrator monologues about the skip button**

31:27 he sounds exactly like a horse in rdr2 when he makes that noise 😭

I think it's great how in a lot of Mark's playthroughs he will find a random prop that has nothing to do with the gameplay and give it a name and carry it around even to the detriment of the gameplay. A game finally gives him the opportunity to do that as an objective and he is like "Ehh I don't really care for it"

Narrator: "was this the only reason he was happy with his boring job? that his emotions had been manipulated to accept it blindly?" Mark: "I like this box"

I love coming back to watch this when I’m going to bed because of the narrator voice and marks voice it’s so soft and calming

So the creator of TSP is the brother of DougDoug, a youtuber/streamer, and he has a video where Doug plays it and they talk about the developtment, the narrator was a REALLY cool guy and the amount of voicelines they got from him is insane

The thing about the Stanley button, apart from the emotional connection the players get from rp’ing as Stanley all this time, is also; the narrator made the original button, meaning he made *all* the buttons. So somewhen along the skip ending, waiting decades upon decades alone while everything decays, he decided to make a Stanley button, just to be able to possibly hear his name again.

"You can't buy that sort of happiness Stanley, God knows I've tried" is such a criminally underrated line

Everytime when i fall asleep to RU-vid I wake up to this video

For some reason, this video is always playing when I leave RU-vid on after falling asleep. Now that I'm watching it, I'm glad it has been :]

432 is actually being experimented on, there’s several notes about them around the place, they were given nothing but a pencil sharpener with no pencils, and they eventually ascended to the person who you set the time for

55:30 MARKIPLIER JUST MOCKING THE NARRATOR'S PAST MONOLOGUE IS HILARIOUS TO ME 😭

I'm waiting for an elevator, going down. The bell dings. The door opens; MARKIPLIER is inside, sees me and raises an eyebrow... MARKIPLIER: Going down, bud? ME: Ummm ... yes but .. I'll .. umm ... take the next one... UNKNOWN DISTANT VOICE (10 seconds after door closes): YEEAA bvm BLAAA frit GLAA... bmm bmm BAAA FRUrum BLAaa blum blib GAA HYAEEAA numnum PREPGH dmdm SHOO yaa YAA BLOOF GLUIAGH dudim BLAAAAAAAAAAA ..........

24:50 this is the best part lol. I keep coming back to this

It is almost heartbreaking how you can tell the narrator is going utterly insane but you're forced to just sit and watch it happen. you can't respond, you can't comment, you can't comfort, you can't do anything you just have to let him lose it over someone's comment. It makes me think this is how the creator felt like they had failed to make the game and was trying their best to do what was right for the game.

"don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened" - Markiplier 2022

1:59:48 wasn't expecting Stanley to fall into an episode of the Magnus Archives

Bro I saw the comment that talked about the name buttons and I was like "yeah okay" then when I actually got to it I genuinely almost started crying at the same time as Mark 😭😭

Mark: “I’m going to follow what the narrator wants me to do” Not even 5 min later: *pisses off the narrator by going in the broom closet*

Narrator: **slowly losing his mind** Mark: **enjoys the beat**

25:00 is such a legendary moment

Watching Mark jam out to elevator music is officially now one of my favorite memories of him. 😂

I only just now realized the supreme irony that Stanley is only "free" if he does _exactly_ what the narrator tells him to. The final line of the vanilla ending, "and Stanley was happy," says to me that _the player_ is in the exact same situation as Stanley--they are told exactly what buttons to press, when, and for how long. They only know what the "good ending" it's because they are _explicitly told_ what it is. Man, I love it when a narrative has depth.

The Narrator: Is able to create an entire Memory Zone, teleport Stanley, insert the 3rd door at the two doors room, etc. Also The Narrator: "Stanley, the door is gone, it's completely gone."

7:06 narrator: why the fuck are you in the broom closet. Mark: B R O O M

Elevator dance sequence is the most relatable thing I've seen from Mark...

3:18:07 is something that not a lot of people see, and I think that’s a shame. Because to me I think it’s existence is one of the most heart-wrenching things in this game. I think it implies he cared more about Stanley than he let on, not just as a “figment of his imagination” but as another person, and he wanted to make something for him in particular. It’s the shock of that moment, after expecting nothing but more Jim, that really gets you.

Narrator: *dramatically explaining the horrors of mind control.* Markiplier: “I like this box..”

When I played the game and did the skip button ending for the first time, I just stopped for a good 10-15 minutes and sat there during the time period where there were plants growing in the room, trees up out the gap in the roof, and birds chirping in the distance I've never had anything illustrate the fleeting nature of life more than that moment in this game. I see the room Stanley was trapped in as a metaphor for his body, and him wandering around in the room being his soul: You can stop and smell the roses and appreciate life, enjoy the time you're blessed with when you're healthy and young and able to live and love and explore what the world has to offer, but at the end of the day we're all trapped in our own personal rooms with the only way forward, for better or for worse, being to press the button and advance time One day, pressing the button will inevitably lead to the decay and eventual ruin of your room (the button being broken and you being able to "leave" your room representing death). But until then, instead of living life on autopilot and going through the motions (pressing the skip button), it's good to look around, appreciate the beauty around you, and be in the moment as much as you can manage

another one of those games that I'm seeing for the very first time . It's a nice office no boss getting on your case about things and since it's empty you can take long lunch breaks here too .

Mark’s dedication to the broom closet everytime he steps into it is absolutely hilarious, it’s great to see that some things never change

"I have made it and I am not lying." Mark is really finding all the intense endings

Like how Mark is making a movie version of Iron Lung, someone needs to make a movie about the Stanley Parable.

At 26:15 Mark really shows that he loves The Grinch

That entire section with the skip button was more terrifying than like 90% of horror films

1:56:28 I love this part so much. He doesn't care about the bucket at all; He's just jubilated that he can see the hole again and thus figures out the floor is walkable 😆

‘heck yes’ said mariella ‘my life kicks ass’ and she backflipped all the way to work. WHATTT????? HUHHH

Markiplier in the elevator was peak markiplier content

imagine actually dying while in the broom closet and the next person to enter the player's foom just hears this, looks at the player, and is like "oh shit he's right"

The fact that you can witness the descent into madness of the narrator as you move through time until the heat death of the world, only to uncermoniously be brought back to the office with no further mention or acknowledgement is what makes the Stanley Parable great

I played this game, and it has a special place in my soul. 3:18:07, you can't explain it. There is no reason for why it is just a heartbreaking moment, but that doesn't make it less of one.

mark.... your dancing abilities are beyond human comprehension

That Stanley button is so damn emotional for me.. it’s like, he really remembered. He really remembered and cared enough to make Stanley’s special button. Even after all that time, it’s still true that we really *cared* about each other, gave our every thought to one another. And after years and years of desert and sand and skip buttons, that’s still so very apparent. The Stanley button materializes the connection we have with the narrator even in the face of the silence and seeming abandonment that comes with the failure of The Stanley Parable 2. It’s undeniable proof, among the remains of Jim buttons and dusty figurines, that it all happened and that it *meant something.*