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Game News South Park: The Stick of Truth Trailer
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Hey, you're a newfag too as far as I'm concerned.
If you buy it for console and pay 60 dollars, you are an idiot. I buy it for PC for much less.
villain of the story
Arcane
$60? WTF, Fuck That Shit. It most likely won't sell well and drop to $20 in two months. Then I'll get it for $10 or less during a discount.
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Isn't every new release $60 suggested retail? Not sure what the issue is.
Perfectly reasonable to expect to pay the normal price for a new video game if you want to buy it from retail on release day. I do it from time to time. It's nice to buy something shiny and new on day 1 once in a while.
Perfectly reasonable to expect to pay the normal price for a new video game if you want to buy it from retail on release day. I do it from time to time. It's nice to buy something shiny and new on day 1 once in a while.
waywardOne
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Hmm. If two people can play coop, I just may get this. As Stan would lament, "Goddamnit."
Azrael the cat
Arcane
I still want to know two aspects:
- the combat system. Doesn't have to be great, as really it's more of a Trey Parker and Matt Stone vehicle than an Obsidian one, but I want it to at least be either passable or minimal (being a Parker and Stone vehicle, I could happily see an 'occasional combat' crpg take back seat to the writing);
- how the general 'wandering around town' integrates with the stuff we've seen in the trailers. I'm of the view that South Park passed its peak years ago, BUT Parker and Stone have most certainly NOT lost their talent for writing - they just broke the record for the number of fucking awards a musical can be nominated for at the Tony awards (the world's most presitgious musical theatre award show, where their schtick managed to crap all over all the uber-serious tragic love romance musicals). They've obviously ran out of South Park inspiration ages ago, but if they can hit a similar run to Book of Morman by treating a computer game as an all new challenge to get worked up over, they might be capable of some darn good writing.
BUT that all counts for nothing if all of that material is cutscenes. For example, I lolled at the bit where the kid got his fantasy and sci-fi references mixed up, but it would be pretty shite as a cinematic. A lot of that kind of humour depends on the protagonist being able to wander around, hear that stuff in the background and occasionally go 'they just said WHAT!!!?????'. Setting jokes (or drama for that matter) up by cinematic is the equivalent of saying how awesome the joke is BEFORE you've said it - you've already put the audience in a frame of expectation and 90% of the time the joke is going to sink, even though a lot of those jokes would work just fine if placed outside the cinematic for the PC to just walk past and hear.
- the combat system. Doesn't have to be great, as really it's more of a Trey Parker and Matt Stone vehicle than an Obsidian one, but I want it to at least be either passable or minimal (being a Parker and Stone vehicle, I could happily see an 'occasional combat' crpg take back seat to the writing);
- how the general 'wandering around town' integrates with the stuff we've seen in the trailers. I'm of the view that South Park passed its peak years ago, BUT Parker and Stone have most certainly NOT lost their talent for writing - they just broke the record for the number of fucking awards a musical can be nominated for at the Tony awards (the world's most presitgious musical theatre award show, where their schtick managed to crap all over all the uber-serious tragic love romance musicals). They've obviously ran out of South Park inspiration ages ago, but if they can hit a similar run to Book of Morman by treating a computer game as an all new challenge to get worked up over, they might be capable of some darn good writing.
BUT that all counts for nothing if all of that material is cutscenes. For example, I lolled at the bit where the kid got his fantasy and sci-fi references mixed up, but it would be pretty shite as a cinematic. A lot of that kind of humour depends on the protagonist being able to wander around, hear that stuff in the background and occasionally go 'they just said WHAT!!!?????'. Setting jokes (or drama for that matter) up by cinematic is the equivalent of saying how awesome the joke is BEFORE you've said it - you've already put the audience in a frame of expectation and 90% of the time the joke is going to sink, even though a lot of those jokes would work just fine if placed outside the cinematic for the PC to just walk past and hear.
UnknownBro
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What... $60?
Damm greedy high elf jews.
Damm greedy high elf jews.
Woah. No way $60. I was thinking this would be similar to Costume Quest both in gameplay and in price. Seems like only in gameplay now.
This will be an awesome game.
St. Toxic
Arcane
But it doesn't look like a AAA title.
Shannow
Waster of Time
And I don't accept this new "standard" which is just another sign of consoltardation polluting PC waters. 40-45€ was an ok price. I won't pay more. (Not that I'd even consider buying this game.)
Why, because it has 2D graphics?
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http://www.ign.com/games/paper-mario/n64-453
MSRP: 59.95 USD
http://www.popmatters.com/multimedia/reviews/p/paper-mario-1000.shtml
Platform: GameCube
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Intelligent Systems
ESRB Rating: Everyone
October 2004, RPG, 1 player, $49.99
St. Toxic
Arcane
There's certainly that (though 2d could mean anything, let's say Flash-level graphics), the cheap non-action/non-strat combat and because it's based on a shitty animated comedy series.
The highly anticipated console-only spiritual successor to the SNES best-seller Mario RPG released 8 years ago still sold for 10$ less than MSRP? I'm shocked.
Economics. How does it work?
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MSRP is a fluctuating thing. GameCube games had a $50 MSRP.
Also right now one can pre-order the PC South Park for $50. That might change on release, I dunno. More publishers jumped on the $60 bandwagon after Starcraft II got away with it.
St. Toxic
Arcane
Why does it say 60$ in your quote? Did you mean to say "Generally, when it wasn't an expected hit product." or something?
The same question probably ran through the mind of whoever priced Paper Mario that year.
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That's Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64. It was actually $10 more than most N64 titles. I remember that being a thing back then, console RPGs costing more than other genres.
St. Toxic
Arcane
But why does it say "Platform: Gamecube" ?
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