South Park: The Stick of Truth (PRE-RELEASE DISCUSSION)

[Roguey]

Well, I imagine certain things won't take very long (visual design, graphics)

Oh hey, another upside: the first game of theirs that can't be criticized for ugly graphics. Shouldn't be any problem at all nailing that art style and simple animation.

 

[Eyeball]

Once again, I am puzzled by the Codex. Bethesda releases a surprisingly playable Oblivion 2 and the RAYGE is so thick you can cut it with a knife but when fucking OBSIDIAN signs on to make a cocksucking SP RPG, you actually have kind words for it?

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Is it because it's December? Did Skyrim make your rage reserves run dry? This piss and shit-stained abortion of a game deserves twenty million times the ire and fury of ANY bashed and blasted game of the past five years.

Except maybe when FO3 was announced to be an FPS, that still pretty much takes the cake, to be frank.

Come on guys, you can manage one more burst of rage this year! Obsidian has blessed us with a fantastic opportunity to rage and shake our fists uselessly here - don't let it go to waste.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

 

[Stinger]

This piss and shit-stained abortion of a game deserves twenty million times the ire and fury of ANY bashed and blasted game of the past five years.

Except maybe when FO3 was announced to be an FPS, that still pretty much takes the cake, to be frank.

Lol what.

How is Obsidian making a South Park based RPG anything like the godawful rape of Fallout that Bethesda did?

If you give a shit about the license then the whole "Creators are working closely with the devs" thing shouldn't bother you.

If you don't give a shit about the license then this whole thing deserves apathy at worst.

The rage over Skyrim, over Oblivion over all the other abominations we've put up with were deserved. It was the messing up of an otherwise decent RPG franchise, turning it into a glorified action game while the derpiest retards played it and acted like this was the future of rpgs- shitty action/fps knockoffs that were bad shooters and terrible rpgs. These games encouraged the idea that rpgs were about making shit up and playing pretend and just general LARP retardry.

We have no details about this game beyond the license, it'll probably be just another action game with maybe good writing and decent quest design given the developers behind it. No one's going to be claiming that the future of RPGs is licensing from franchises that have nothing to do with games. No one will say that the graphics of RPGs have to be shitty paper cut outs.

Jesus, enough with all the edginess.

 

[Jaesun]

Obvious dumbfuck is obvious there Stinger.

 

[Serious_Business]

I don't get the rage here.

The rage comes from the fact that some thought Obsidian were a bit (if only a tiny bit) more than an ice cold dead-inside business.

Your pragmatism is banal and you should be ashamed of yourself. You can't even play these cards proprely without sounding like you're on your period.

Altho I'm not sure this is done out of pragmatism really, maybe they do think South Park is cool. How 'bout that

 

[PorkaMorka]

I never understood why people held out hope when Obsidian announced it was going to be developing an RPG based on a leading animation franchise.

Which animation franchise did you expect it to be? I don't watch any leading animation franchises, but my understanding is that they're mostly even worse than South Park.

 

[waywardOne]

If we bitch enough I hope we can get a mention on the show.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Dungeon Siege 3 was business. WH40K RPG (THQ owns the license) would have been business. South Park RPG is "what is this I don't even". Would this shit even sell?

 

[MMXI]

Dungeon Siege 3 was business. WH40K RPG (THQ owns the license) would have been business. South Park RPG is "what is this I don't even". Would this shit even sell?

Of course it'll sell. South Park is a hugely popular franchise and the RPG label is something every marketing team wants to attach to their games these days.

 

[Infinitron]

Has somebody made an animated gif of Matt, Trey and MCA bobbing ther heads with earphones yet?

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Why an RPG, and not an adventure game?

Whatever. Shit developer so the game is going to be shit, I give it two PS3 analog sticks out of five.

 

[Aldebaran]

It could be interesting, but it is the strangest news that I have heard in a while.

South Park's animation style doesn't lend itself to, well, anything--except maybe an indie game. They will have to be very creative if they don't want this to look like a five dollar iphone application. It's an optimistic observation, but this kind of situation can be for the best. Of course, it could also be a spectacular failure.

At the very least, Matt Stone and Trey Parker have an acceptable taste in movies (so far as I know), and they do satirize modern events often, so we might see a few swipes at the industry. This all depends on their taste in games, but using this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9fHF4NaxM

as evidence, it can't be all that bad.

 

[commie]

Dungeon Siege 3 was business. WH40K RPG (THQ owns the license) would have been business. South Park RPG is "what is this I don't even". Would this shit even sell?

Of course it'll sell. South Park is a hugely popular franchise and the RPG label is something every marketing team wants to attach to their games these days.

It will sell more than the last Bioware effort that's for sure.

 

[Jaesun]

And probably a better RPG as well.

 

[jancobblepot]

Once again, I am puzzled by the Codex. Bethesda releases Oblivion 2 and you jizz all over the place, but when OBSIDIAN tries to make something different you actually rage?

Same here, bro.

 

[MMXI]

At the very least, Matt Stone and Trey Parker have an acceptable taste in movies (so far as I know), and they do satirize modern events often, so we might see a few swipes at the industry. This all depends on their taste in games, but using this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9fHF4NaxM

as evidence, it can't be all that bad.

Aren't there sound clips from the Heroes of Might and Magic games scattered throughout some South Park episodes or am I totally misinformed?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

this has potential....need gameplay vids though.

 

[mck]

hopefully my dream of a Cleveland Show RTS can finally come true

 

[Aldebaran]

At the very least, Matt Stone and Trey Parker have an acceptable taste in movies (so far as I know), and they do satirize modern events often, so we might see a few swipes at the industry. This all depends on their taste in games, but using this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9fHF4NaxM

as evidence, it can't be all that bad.

Aren't there sound clips from the Heroes of Might and Magic games scattered throughout some South Park episodes or am I totally misinformed?

Yes, I am sure that I have heard some clips in various episodes. I have no idea how widespread it is.

EDIT: Evidently, they sample one of the battle themes from the third game in the episode where Chef dies.

 

[Forest Dweller]

So did anyone call this?

 

[Wyrmlord]

Dungeon Siege 3 was business. WH40K RPG (THQ owns the license) would have been business. South Park RPG is "what is this I don't even". Would this shit even sell?

It's a direct consequence of the pro-choice-and-consequence, pro-computer-simulated-live-action-roleplaying, pro-narrative thinking that polluted the genre. Real RPGs, games about complicated management of statistics and making trade-offs of one strength over another while applying them in excruciatingly difficult dungeons with a variety of dangerous enemies, have been marginalised in the favour of the pretentious KotOR 2-Dragon Age-Xenogears triumvirate style of gaming.

The trend towards RPGs entering rather frivolous territory started not recently, but was pushed full throttle after Fallout 2, a game involving fourth wall breaking jokes, pop culture references, and lame fetch quests that were justified on the grounds of being clever.

In the days of Champions of Krynn or Betrayal at Krondor, it would not have been feasible to make a comical television cartoon into a videogame that was of the style of the former. But in a genre about talking nonsense to virtual people with a dialogue hyperlink minigame, about having "wildly different" things happening due to choosing a different hyperlink, and about making pretentious stories underlying it - something like a South Park RPG seems nothing less than the most appropriate thing to make!

 

[Azrael the cat]

they could have done better only if they got futurama.

You're damn lucky that you phrased that in a way that emphasises Futurama's superiority, or there'd be some mean internet gangstery coming to beat you down right now

 

[Wyrmlord]

You guys take your TV shows really seriously. Not that I am a contrarian hipster or anything, but I don't have or watch television - which is why the emotional investment of people in TV shows surprises me.

 

[Oriebam]

who is taking TV shows seriously?

 

[Forest Dweller]

I guess it's that whole "narrative" thing you don't like so much.