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

[toro]

Here's another report, this one focusing on THQ's financial situation.

THQ is the Distributor, not publisher for this game. Just FYI.

And who is the publisher?

 

[DwarvenFood]

All major news sites cite THQ being the publisher of South Park RPG so far..

 

[IronicNeurotic]

All major news sites cite THQ being the publisher of South Park RPG so far..

I think what he means is that the game is not beeing funded by THQ or at least that THQ doesn't have the rights. The game has a really high chance of coming out as Matt and Trey put so much work already into it. If THQ doesn't work out they will just look for another way.

 

[Stinger]

Here's another report, this one focusing on THQ's financial situation.

THQ is the Distributor, not publisher for this game. Just FYI.

And who is the publisher?

Viacom iirc.

 

[Jaesun]

Here's another report, this one focusing on THQ's financial situation.

THQ is the Distributor, not publisher for this game. Just FYI.

And who is the publisher?

Viacom iirc.

Yeah. That is my understanding as well. Viacom own South Park, and are producing this. If THQ goes under. It's no big deal or will even effect the game.

 

[Outlander]

I guess it'll become clear once we know the actual reason of this delay.

 

[Jaesun]

The question is, are they allowed to continue to work on this, during this "hold" or not (like SEGA did not allow them to with AP when it was delayed).

 

[Stinger]

Sega are a bunch of fucking idiots who screwed up AP by releasing it after ME2 and around the same time as Splinter Cell Conviction. Delaying it for 6 months for marketting and then proceeding to not market it is incredibly stupid.

I doubt THQ/Viacom are stupid enough to delay the game for any reason other than more devtime to finish and polish the game.

 

[Jaesun]

Sega are a bunch of fucking idiots who cancelled the only decent cRPG Obsidian was ever able to design under the fucking shitty Developer/Publisher model Aliens: Crucible. They need to fucking burn in fucking hell for that. BURN IN HELL! And then the fucking faggots screwed up AP by releasing it after ME2 and around the same time as Splinter Cell Conviction. Delaying it for 6 months for marketting and not paying them to continue and polish it, then proceeding to not market it is incredibly stupid.

Fixed and

I doubt THQ/Viacom are stupid enough to delay the game for any reason other than more devtime to finish and polish the game.

Does anyone have an actual example when a Publisher actually does something smart? I can't think of one instance. I doubt Viacom are any different. And IIRC they have published other terrible games before. They only look at the bottom line. Not the game.

 

[Stinger]

Square Enix said they delayed DXHR and DS3's release by a few months to improve the devtime and polish.

DS3 only got an extra month so I think it was just for bugfixing but I think DXHR got around 3 months extra.

If it wasn't for extra content then it would've been for QA testing which is still a good thing.

 

[thesoup]

DXHR got like 5 months. Was supposed to come out in March, but instead it came out in August. And yeah, they said it was for polishing the game, though the release date of some other games probably also had something to do with that. Was not a dumbass move at all.

 

[Stinger]

though the release date of some other games probably also had something to do with that.

Ah that's right, at DS3's initial launch date it would've been coming out with high profile titles like LA Noire. Quite smart of SquEnix to carefully place their games outside of release windows of higher profile titles.

 

[toro]

... BURN IN HELL! And then the fucking faggots screwed up AP by releasing it after ME2 and around the same time as Splinter Cell Conviction. ...

A real fag hatting faggots. Now I've seen everything. Time to check out

 

[Roguey]

Sega are a bunch of fucking idiots who cancelled the only decent cRPG Obsidian was ever able to design under the fucking shitty Developer/Publisher model Aliens: Crucible. They need to fucking burn in fucking hell for that. BURN IN HELL! And then the fucking faggots screwed up AP by releasing it after ME2 and around the same time as Splinter Cell Conviction. Delaying it for 6 months for marketting and not paying them to continue and polish it, then proceeding to not market it is incredibly stupid.

Fixed and

On his formspring George Ziets said that Aliens was not in a "good place" when he returned from his Zenimax hiatus. Perhaps Sega was partially to blame for that, perhaps not. Anyway it freed up Obsidian to work on their Fallout 3 spin-off so I'm sure it wasn't a big loss for them, Avellone even said it was a good thing overall.

Also it's totally easy to fall in love with hypotheticals. Never a chance of disappointment.

 

[Infinitron]

... BURN IN HELL! And then the fucking faggots screwed up AP by releasing it after ME2 and around the same time as Splinter Cell Conviction. ...

A real fag hatting faggots. Now I've seen everything. Time to check out

Jaesun is gay because he's just too manly for women.

 

[Johannes]

I'm sure some projects just deserve to get canned.

 

[toro]

I'm sure some projects just deserve to get canned.

If Southpark gets canned, Obsidian is history.

 

[Haba]

Might be already history, from the looks of things.

 

[IronicNeurotic]

I'm sure some projects just deserve to get canned.

If Southpark gets canned, Obsidian is history.

South Park will not get canned. The South Park guys are too involved for this to happen in any way.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Seems like the programmers at OE are usually shitty on release for any game they touch. I don't know what their problem is, but they better polish South Park so it isn't a glitchy mess. If they need to take longer than FUCKING take longer, don't use me as a beta tester.

Anyways, does anyone think this game will tank?

 

[IronicNeurotic]

Seems like the programmers at OE are usually shitty on release for any game they touch. I don't know what their problem is, but they better polish South Park so it isn't a glitchy mess. If they need to take longer than FUCKING take longer, don't use me as a beta tester.

Anyways, does anyone think this game will tank?

DSIII wasn't buggy. This won't be too.

That will depend how much Matt and Trey will rally their fans.

 

[toro]

I'm sure some projects just deserve to get canned.

If Southpark gets canned, Obsidian is history.

South Park will not get canned. The South Park guys are too involved for this to happen in any way.

I hope so.

 

[Azalin]

The debut trailer for the game has been released

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/04/e3-2012-south-park-the-stick-of-truth-revealed

Suprisingly the trailer looks good

Also Jesus with a machine gun

 

[joeydohn]

The debut trailer for the game has been released

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/04/e3-2012-south-park-the-stick-of-truth-revealed

Suprisingly the trailer looks good

Also Jesus with a machine gun

I'm guessing the game has an isometric view in the world (school on fire at the beginning) and final fantasy combat. Perhaps they'll have C&C and lots of RPG character progression. It really does look like South Park: The Game rather than a game loosely based on South Park though, I guess that's good for fans.

 

[Jaesun]

It has Mr. Slave?

Will pre-order right now.