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

[Arkeus]

This...Actually looks fun.

EDIT: also, i am sure Roguey will love all the rape.

 

[Vibalist]

That video looks p. dope.

 

[DeepOcean]

And a video:

The gameplay looks banal, shit, boring but to watch South Park kids Larping is indeed fun. Ubsoft delayed a bunch of games, not only South Park, I don't know if this is the case of Obsidian being Obsidian.

 

[m_s0]

Dat bard.

That combat music wasn't bad, combat system aside. The rest of the music in the video sucked, but that song was alright.

 

[Rake]

 

[Shadenuat]

South Park, Mature 17: "Nudity", "Strong sexual content"

 

[Toffeli]

So this, WL2, Dead State, Divinity:Original Sin all pushed to next year, is there any interesting games at all coming still this year. X:Rebirth, Planetary Annihilation and maybe Banished. Still at summer I thought the end of the year would be glorious.

 

[funkadelik]

Holy shit, I will probably actually play this.

 

[J_C]

I can't believe they delayed it again. Sigh, guess there is no such thing as confirmed relase date for an Obsidian game. But the game look preeeetty good. Although the second battlemusic was bad.

 

[Kem0sabe]

That video looks so awesome... even more hyped now.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Shit looks very baed. Reminds me of that awful Penny Arcade game.

 

[Gord]

It's about 10 years late and I'm not really interested in it, but the vid looked as if it could be fun.
Better than I had expected.

 

[2house2fly]

I had a look on wikipedia and South Park gets 2 million viewers a week. If every single one of them buys the game it will be considered a colossal failure; isn't 5 million the absolute minimum in terms of publisher expectations these days? I guess that explains the delay- they want to do everything possible to ensure the game appeals to an audience at least twice the size of the TV show.

Looks kind of fun, the "press B to skip Jimmy's stuttering" bit got a giggle. I'm a Tumblr Social Justice type but I also got a chuckle out of Cartman yelling "How badly did they rape you?!" which I guess just makes me a bad Tumblr Social Justice type. I'm planning on buying it anyway, because after getting KOTOR2 and Alpha Protocol second hand, and getting months of entertainment out of each, I feel like I owe Obsidian an actual sale.

 

[J_C]

I had a look on wikipedia and South Park gets 2 million viewers a week.

It is not about TV viewers. I don't watch SP but I will buy the game.

 

[Arkeus]

I had a look on wikipedia and South Park gets 2 million viewers a week. If every single one of them buys the game it will be considered a colossal failure; isn't 5 million the absolute minimum in terms of publisher expectations these days?

Only for games like Call of Duty which sinks hundreds of millions into marketing. Even the most heavy of the Obsidian games wouldn't need that kind of sale to be called a ridiculous success.

Obsidian is kind of a studio that specializes in doing smaller-than-at-first-glance budget games.

 

[taxalot]

Just wait until South Park does a special episode about kickstarter.

 

[Tigranes]

2mil will likely be a good result - in-house engine, probably not the most ambitious scope & graphics wise.

 

[Rake]

2mil will likely be a good result - in-house engine, probably not the most ambitious scope & graphics wise.

Since Ubisoft didn't fund the majority of the game, it will be profitable for them regardless.

 

[Infinitron]

2mil will likely be a good result - in-house engine, probably not the most ambitious scope & graphics wise.

Since Ubisoft didn't fund the majority of the game, it will be profitable for them regardless.

This. THQ's investment isn't relevant anymore; for business purposes, the game will only have been in development for just over a year. Slam DUNK!

 

[Toffeli]

I had a look on wikipedia and South Park gets 2 million viewers a week.

In the US only. Surely there a lots of fans worldwide.

 

[PlanHex]

2mil will likely be a good result - in-house engine, probably not the most ambitious scope & graphics wise.

Since Ubisoft didn't fund the majority of the game, it will be profitable for them regardless.

This. THQ's investment isn't relevant anymore; for business purposes, the game will only have been in development for just over a year. Slam DUNK!

Didn't they pay lots of money for the rights to publish it though? At least as a part of some package deal?

Most of the "major overhaul" is probably just shoehorning in useless uplay features and DRM everywhere though. How expensive can that be?

 

[Infinitron]

Didn't they pay lots of money for the rights to publish it though? At least as a part of some package deal?

http://kotaku.com/5978425/thq-is-getting-sold-off-today heres-everything-we-know

Three million dollars. A paltry sum for an AAA.

 

[Crooked Bee]

What makes me wonder the most, is whether the overhaul of the game that the Ubisoft representative hinted at had to do with the gameplay (which really could've sucked, this being an Obsidian game) or rather the different ways Obs and Ubi view "RPG elements": i.e. non-linearity, exploration, etc.

In other words, I wonder if Ubi wanted the game to adhere to their own formula (see Assassin's Creed) or not. 'Cause if we assume Obs actually wanted to make it more like a traditional CRPG, that could be regarded by Ubi as taking away that "South Park episode" feeling.

I guess we'll never know tho'.

 

[Roguey]

The gameplay in the video didn't look any different from how they described it way back when during the Game Informer video previews.

The combat animations are too slow though. Obs should have looked harder at the timing of the Mario RPGs.

 

[Kem0sabe]

What makes me wonder the most, is whether the overhaul of the game that the Ubisoft representative hinted at had to do with the gameplay (which really could've sucked, this being an Obsidian game) or rather the different ways Obs and Ubi view "RPG elements": i.e. non-linearity, exploration, etc.

In other words, I wonder if Ubi wanted the game to adhere to their own formula (see Assassin's Creed) or not. 'Cause if we assume Obs actually wanted to make it more like a traditional CRPG, that could be regarded by Ubi as taking away that "South Park episode" feeling.

I guess we'll never know tho'.

Obisidan came up with Alpha Protocol all on their own, i doubt they have any problems making a level based world design and with light rpg elements.