Game News South Park: The Stick of Truth Released

[Awakened_Yeti]

C O N S O L E S ! ! !

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HEE HEE

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:kwafuckyeah:

 

[Volourn]

I think I'd have fun with this game but I'll wait til the price goes down. I'm just not sure $60 is worth the risk.

 

[Monty]

I'm just not sure $60 is worth the risk.

But they have this one scene with Leo DiCaprio and Dave Gaider...

 

[Volourn]

Why would I give a shit about Gaider? I'm not gay.

 

[Applypoison]

RPS is too edgy for PAX/SP humor. More people need to get on their level.

 

[Eyeball]

PAX has humour?

 

[lebe frei]

From overall impressions it seems to lack any real depth or challenge, and it's full of (unfortunately typical) Obsidian bugs.

The ONLY reason that any reviewers seem to really be recommending it is for the story. Now, I enjoy South Park well enough, but I wouldn't pay 60 dollars to watch it. I also know that if I were to do that, I wouldn't have to deal with JRPG combat. Also, the show (or movie) I am paying for would never crash and inform me that it has to restart, and I have lost progress.

I know that 60 dollars is some obsessive price point that major devs seem to think is the value of console games, but that pricing didn't belong on the PC version (nor does it likely belong on most any console game). I will pick this up when it is ≤$10 on Steam, and all the bugs have been ironed out (almost definitely by a fan patch, sadly). Until then, I just don't see the worth.

 

[aratuk]

If you examine everything in Cartman's yard, he'll call you a "hardcore gamer" when you leave his house :-\

Intro was buggy for me. Had to reload from save three times due to hangs during combat tutorials. That said, RPS & Kotaku make too much out of bugs because it plays to the "Obsidian is buggy" line. Haven't played very far yet, though.

RPS also engages in pearl clutching over the game being "offensive", but after whining about that and keybindings, eventually the reviewer admits:

However, the reality is I played every inch of it, collected almost every hidden item, completed every single side quest, and maxed out the level cap long before it ended. That’s partly out of the duty of reviewing a game with enough time to do so, certainly, but I can’t deny that I was dragged deep.

RPS's only real criticism is lack of balance, and I haven't played far enough yet to see, but I wouldn't be surprised. Easy mass-market licensed-content console cheese, what did you expect?

My appreciation for South Park is limited, but IMO the content here seems fairly solid.

 

[Duraframe300]

It's not full of Obsidian bugs. There's one really annoying one that artuk mentioned and many encounter. But, from that point on it's very scarce that you encounter one and nothing critical.

Also some stuttering on consoles, but its far from the only game to have stuttering ffs.

 

[Tigranes]

If it weren't SP, I'd probably have picked it up by now. And once again, I posted a coupon to make it $45 on Green Man Gaming for PC download.

Is there anyone who's enjoying it and would recommend even though they don't enjoy the TV show? Seems like combat is too shallow if you don't enjoy the setting. I don't give a shit that it's offensive, I'm on the Codex, I just rarely found it funny.

 

[Duraframe300]

If it weren't SP, I'd probably have picked it up by now. And once again, I posted a coupon to make it $45 on Green Man Gaming for PC download.

Is there anyone who's enjoying it and would recommend even though they don't enjoy the TV show? Seems like combat is too shallow if you don't enjoy the setting. I don't give a shit that it's offensive, I'm on the Codex, I just rarely found it funny.

No.

It's very much the ultimate South Park rpg. If you dislike it there's not much point.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

If you examine everything in Cartman's yard, he'll call you a "hardcore gamer" when you leave his house

Wow. That's just...sad.

Oh, Obsidian.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

the joke is that this is Cartman's idea of a hardcore gamer

edit: the game is also turn based because Cartman believes this is how people fought in ye olde times.

 

[Johannes]

If you examine everything in Cartman's yard, he'll call you a "hardcore gamer" when you leave his house

Wow. That's just...sad.

Oh, Obsidian.

I don't get what's the problem there? It's a decent joke.

 

[lebe frei]

If you examine everything in Cartman's yard, he'll call you a "hardcore gamer" when you leave his house :-\

It's important to remember that Cartman is supposed to be a child. In his opinion, you're DEFINITELY a hardcore gamer if you examine things, or even read dialog. I enjoy reading/am terrified of the articles and blogs of game journals who write about their children. Kids, especially under 10, that play games essentially see them as murder simulators. They love to get their kill on, and that is all that matters. When I was 10 I was playing Ultima IV and trying my best to figure out moral dilemmas. They are killing hookers and giggling as their meth dealing character commits murder after murder.

Many, many adults (if not most) pound furiously on the "skip" button as soon as dialog appears. Players often hate stories. That is why story driven RPGs are a niche genre that is selling well to adults on Kickstarter. Adults that actually have the money to fund these games. Kids, and semi-kids in their dorms and just out of school, don't give a flying shit about story. When story gets in the way of their murder sprees they press skip.

Examining items, looking for backstory, looking for clues, being interested in the world? That's a thing of the past. It's exactly why we have someone like Leonard Boyarsky working at Blizzard, a company that stopped really caring about delivering story years ago. We are relics to the mainstream, and that's why people post on a site like this and are seen as hostile and hating of modern gaming. Because modern gaming doesn't give a shit that we like choices, that we like intelligent game design and challenging, rewarding gameplay. We aren't morons that can't handle story and just need the rush of an exploding skyscraper and rattle of guns, so we don't matter. We're "hardcore" to children because we're actually interested in the game's world. It is an appropriate joke because it's coming from a child, not from the developer, who probably wishes that they could make more intelligent, story focused games.

 

[agentorange]

lol. shutup scrub. clicking on a bunch of shit in a video makes you more intelligent than exactly no one.

 

[Haba]

lol. shutup scrub. clicking on a bunch of shit in a video makes you more intelligent than exactly no one.

Thank you for proving his point in such... eloquent manner.

 

[RK47]

It's South Park. If you like South Park you'll like this. If not then simply don't bother.

Watched a few episodes, not exactly a fan but didn't hate it...
For 60 bucks...How does it fare as a RPG?

Better spent elsewhere.

 

[Metro]

If you examine everything in Cartman's yard, he'll call you a "hardcore gamer" when you leave his house :-\

It's important to remember that Cartman is supposed to be a child. In his opinion, you're DEFINITELY a hardcore gamer if you examine things, or even read dialog. I enjoy reading/am terrified of the articles and blogs of game journals who write about their children. Kids, especially under 10, that play games essentially see them as murder simulators. They love to get their kill on, and that is all that matters. When I was 10 I was playing Ultima IV and trying my best to figure out moral dilemmas. They are killing hookers and giggling as their meth dealing character commits murder after murder.

Many, many adults (if not most) pound furiously on the "skip" button as soon as dialog appears. Players often hate stories. That is why story driven RPGs are a niche genre that is selling well to adults on Kickstarter. Adults that actually have the money to fund these games. Kids, and semi-kids in their dorms and just out of school, don't give a flying shit about story. When story gets in the way of their murder sprees they press skip.

Examining items, looking for backstory, looking for clues, being interested in the world? That's a thing of the past. It's exactly why we have someone like Leonard Boyarsky working at Blizzard, a company that stopped really caring about delivering story years ago. We are relics to the mainstream, and that's why people post on a site like this and are seen as hostile and hating of modern gaming. Because modern gaming doesn't give a shit that we like choices, that we like intelligent game design and challenging, rewarding gameplay. We aren't morons that can't handle story and just need the rush of an exploding skyscraper and rattle of guns, so we don't matter. We're "hardcore" to children because we're actually interested in the game's world. It is an appropriate joke because it's coming from a child, not from the developer, who probably wishes that they could make more intelligent, story focused games.

Way overthinking things in a desperate attempt to rationalize a lame in-game joke.

 

[RK47]

 

[Infinitron]

This "joke" was also in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where you got an "oldschool gamer" achievement for clicking everything in Megan's office at the beginning.

(There was no item highlighting at that point because you hadn't been augmented yet, so it did point at a certain degree of observantness)

 

[nihil]

Oh, Obsidian.

I thought Trey and Matt wrote it.

 

[suejak]

The bitterness of the "I'll wait til it's shovelware" comments crack me up. You're playing to the system, not duping it. They sell at $60 so they nab people twice as rich as you who don't give two shits about $60. They don't and never expected you with your income to buy it at release.

 

[Monty]

The bitterness of the "I'll wait til it's shovelware" comments crack me up. You're playing to the system, not duping it. They sell at $60 so they nab people twice as rich as you who don't give two shits about $60. They don't and never expected you with your income to buy it at release.

Except that sort of 'system' also encourages people who won't pay $60 to torrent it so not sure it actually brings in more money overall.

 

[himmy]

The bitterness of the "I'll wait til it's shovelware" comments crack me up. You're playing to the system, not duping it. They sell at $60 so they nab people twice as rich as you who don't give two shits about $60. They don't and never expected you with your income to buy it at release.

Except that sort of 'system' also encourages people who won't pay $60 to torrent it so not sure it actually brings in more money overall.

Most people who would torrent it (for whatever reasons) would do so even if it was on a bundle.