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

[J_C]

A few days ago Obsidian changed its Facebook profile picture to South Park. Maybe this is a sign of the release date being closer?

 

[Metro]

J_C is a professionally paid apologist... plus he just likes shitty games.

 

[Jaesun]

Interesting. Maybe they have an agreement finalized between UBI and Matt and Trey? IIRC they were not initially to happy with this move.

In before having to install shitty DRM application just to run your fucking game.

 

[J_C]

J_C is a professionally paid apologist... plus he just likes shitty games.

I wasn't apologising for anything, I just said what I've seen.

 

[Telengard]

It's not finished, even THQ said it had been delayed until May/June. The last few months of bug fixing are critical.

Whatever, they still won't let an almost finished game to go down the shitter. Especially a South Park one.

Obsidian apologists are so delusional.

This has nothing to do with Obsidian. It is pure business sense, which you lack obviously.

Already forgotten about Obsidian's Aliens: Crucible, have we?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming...or-xbox-360-and-playstation-3-emerges-online/

Spoiler

Aliens: Colonial Marines was, to put it politely, not well received when it released on Feb. 12. First announced in February 2008, it would be fair to say that the five-year wait for Aliens: Colonial Marines ended with one of the more spectacular critical bashings laid on a game since the 2011 release of Duke Nukem Forever. With Gearbox Software’s president Randy Pitchford indicating that Aliens: Colonial Marines will “lose a huge amount of money,” publisher Sega is likely wishing that it had released the other Aliens game it hired Obsidian to develop back in 2006. Even more so now that a leaked gameplay demo shows that Obsidian Entertainment’s Aliens RPG was all but finished when it was canceled in 2009.
Unseen 64 uncovered a 13-minute video of Obsidian’s game, called Aliens Crucible here demonstrating basic play and character creation. The build is said to be from between 2008 and 2009—the above screenshot is date December 2008—shortly before the game was canceled. It features full voice work and shows some of the basic actions player characters can perform such as hacking computers and healing. It all shows some of the character customization tools that are similar to Obsidian’s other Sega RPG from that time, Alpha Protocol, though no special skills or leveling is demonstrated. The game’s environments are less similar to the blue and gray tones of James Cameron’s Aliens and more readily recall Ridley Scott’s Alien and David Fincher’s Alien 3.
Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart told Joystiq in 2010 that Aliens Crucible was all but complete when Sega pulled the plug. “[If] you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was a finished game,” said Urquhart, “That’s how close we were. It looked and felt like it was ready to ship.” Rather than release the game, Sega said it had reassessed “the type of [Aliens] game we want to release” and canceled the game in June 2009.
This isn’t the first time that materials from Aliens Crucible have come out. Concept art produced for the game leaked onto the web in September 2011.
It’s unlikely, but Sega has rescued canceled Aliens projects in the past. Aliens Infestation for Nintendo DS by WayForward was rumored to be canceled around the same time as Obsidian’s RPG but it was ultimately released in October 2011.

There's also games like Star Fox 2 and ThrillKill.

 

[tuluse]

There's also games like Star Fox 2 and ThrillKill.

A large amount of Star Fox 2 was recycled into Star Fox 64.

 

[taxalot]

Obsidian Aliens was far from finished. I expect this game is almost done.

 

[Turisas]

In before having to install shitty DRM application just to run your fucking game.

Yeah but think of all the cool social 2.0 apps it can do! Share your achievements and screenshots on Facebook with all your friends! Why are you so anti-social?

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

This is Vegas was a title that got 40+ million dollars spent on it and was nearly finished when Midway sold it to Warner Bros. They canceled it.


Which pissed me off because I'd been following it for ages.

 

[toro]

This is Vegas was a title that got 40+ million dollars spent on it and was nearly finished when Midway sold it to Warner Bros. They canceled it.


Which pissed me off because I'd been following it for ages.

what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ...

 

[Tigranes]

This is Vegas was a title that got 40+ million dollars spent on it and was nearly finished when Midway sold it to Warner Bros. They canceled it.


Which pissed me off because I'd been following it for ages.

Arguably, it's easier for such a title to be cancelled when owners change hands, since Warner Bros hadn't spent a cent on the game, yeah? What Midway spent doesn't really factor into their decision making, only how much they now need to spend to get it out the door.

I'm not too worried about SP and I think it'll come out, but I hope nothing shitty happens with that process (e.g. AP-style delays). Not particularly excited about the game but wouldn't want to see more layoffs.

 

[Comrade Goby]

Vapor? Ware!

Somebody said this got a release date, was that more jew lies

 

[jagged-jimmy]

This says it will be probably December 31. Shit... Ubisoft picked it up, so they probably need the extra time to add uPlay features.

 

[J_C]

This says it will be probably December 31. Shit... Ubisoft picked it up, so they probably need the extra time to add uPlay features.

No. The article says that it is either Dec 31, april-may or september 25.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Ubisoft are a goliath. If they wanted to do more development on Stick of Truth (like adding in uPlay), they'd get one of their bazillion studios around the world to do it in no time. It wouldn't take until December for that, and nor would bug fixes/polishing. I'm expecting a Summer release for this (although an Oct/Nov release might be more profitable).

 

[Jaesun]

Oh it will have UPlay. That's why I no longer will be buying this. I went from PRE-ORDERING THIS BITCH NOW! to Fuck that DRM shit. Bye.

 

[J_C]

Oh it will have UPlay. That's why I no longer will be buying this. I went from PRE-ORDERING THIS BITCH NOW! to Fuck that DRM shit. Bye.

You do know that it is not an always online DRM, don't you?

 

[Jaesun]

Oh it will have UPlay. That's why I no longer will be buying this. I went from PRE-ORDERING THIS BITCH NOW! to Fuck that DRM shit. Bye.

You do know that it is not an always online DRM, don't you?

FORCING me to install that UPlay crap just pisses me off. Give me a STEAM option or a GOG option.

 

[DalekFlay]

FORCING me to install that UPlay crap just pisses me off.

Meh. I run Steam in offline mode closed to system tray with the in-game interface off and it is invisible. Uplay ends up being exactly the same experience with the same options turned off... matters little to me in the end. Also competition is good, I guess.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

This says it will be probably December 31. Shit... Ubisoft picked it up, so they probably need the extra time to add uPlay features.

No. The article says that it is either Dec 31, april-may or september 25.

Oops, stoped reading after "The "South Park: The Stick of Truth" release date is now December 31, 2013". Article critically hit my attention with that sentence.
Also uPlay might be alright, if you can decide to have it. But Ubisoft steam games also force you to install that shit.

 

[Jaedar]

They're delaying this shit to after summer? Wasn't it due for an april/march release ?

 

[Gurkog]

They're delaying this shit to after summer? Wasn't it due for an april/march release ?

Ya, they really pushed it back... probably so they have time to settle the lawsuit with the South Park owners.

 

[Jaesun]

Do we know if there was a lawsuit actually filed?

 

[Roguey]

I'd look it up myself but you have to pay a small fee to access court documents which is laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

 

[Jaesun]

Obsidian ‏@Obsidian3m
Hey folks, we're still working on South Park! Wish we could say more, but Ubi will announce new details as they are ready!