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

[Snozgobler]

Not sure if anyone's posted it, but: https://twitter.com/Obsidian/status/440551062731100161

"Near OC, CA? Buying South Park when it comes out tomorrow? Come meet the devs and win stuff! Tomorrow, 6:30 PM! http://media.obsidian.net/images/spsot/spsot-gamestop-flyer.jpg"

 

[Tribal Sarah]

What if they added thirty hours of grinding and fetch quests, would that make the price fairer

you're from neogaf aren't you

 

[Castanova]

15 hours doesn't bother me because of the price. It bothers me because that means it's probably a shallow RPG. Not that I expected anything different, honestly.

 

[Tribal Sarah]

Not sure about the game length. 15 hrs for a $60 rpg sounds like bullshit.

Well, if you don't want to pay monies for a game, you might consider begging, sucking dick or pirating.

if you're begging and sucking dick for video games, you might want to get a life coach or something

 

[Renegen]

Who said 15 hours? I heard 50.

 

[tuluse]

15 hours doesn't bother me because of the price. It bothers me because that means it's probably a shallow RPG. Not that I expected anything different, honestly.

I think the fact that's South Park meant it was going to be shallow right from the get-go.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Not sure about the game length. 15 hrs for a $60 rpg sounds like bullshit.

Well, if you don't want to pay monies for a game, you might consider begging, sucking dick or pirating.

if you're begging and sucking dick for video games, you might want to get a life coach or something

That's a big IF you're throwing at me. Might as well be projecting.

 

[Lerk]

Not sure about the game length. 15 hrs for a $60 rpg sounds like bullshit.

Well, if you don't want to pay monies for a game, you might consider begging, sucking dick or pirating.

if you're begging and sucking dick for video games, you might want to get a life coach or something

That's a big IF you're throwing at me. Might as well be projecting.

Attempts flaming, gets burned with own insult, pisses pants.

On topic: why should I care about this game? South Park hasn't been funny for years and Obsidian..well, yeah. Looking forward to the Hivemind's opinion when it's released.

 

[Trash]

Picked up my boxed pre-order this afternoon. The girl behind the counter immediately went into a rage about her own console copy being censored. Totally went against the whole South Park idea and all that according to her. Plus she wasI did point out that I had to wait for march the 6th to play this thing. That seemed to soothe her somewhat.

Boxed copy isn't worth it btw. Dvd case, dvd and a small leaflet with a steam code and a short message telling me that there is an ingame manual. It's so insulting it almost becomes funny again. Goddamn, I remember when game manuals had over a 100 pages and they threw in a cloth map.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I thought it was supposed to come out tomorrow?

use spotflux or some other proxy/vpn to unlock tomorrow.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

I remember when game manuals had over a 100 pages and they threw in a cloth map.

That was like, 20 years ago?

 

[SuicideBunny]

u7 was the last game i bought that came with a cloth map.. and a fellowship amulet and some other stuff..

 

[sser]

Yeah they ditched the badass paperwork years ago, sometime after the switch to smaller PC boxes (which, to be fair, really can't fit those oldschool manuals to begin with). Last 'great' manual I got was from Homeworld - it came with a giant manual and a novella-esque book full of backstory and history and all kinds of goodies. A lot of RTS/RPG games had huge manuals and big, cardboard DM-style sheets that had all the units and what not to look at. Even craptastic games like the Braveheart RTS did that. I don't even remember the last time I bought a PC game in an actual store, though. I think it was Civilization 5 at a Gamestop. The guy said I was the only person who preordered it.

 

[Eyeball]

Picked up my boxed pre-order this afternoon. The girl behind the counter immediately went into a rage about her own console copy being censored. Totally went against the whole South Park idea and all that according to her. Plus she wasI did point out that I had to wait for march the 6th to play this thing. That seemed to soothe her somewhat.

Boxed copy isn't worth it btw. Dvd case, dvd and a small leaflet with a steam code and a short message telling me that there is an ingame manual. It's so insulting it almost becomes funny again. Goddamn, I remember when game manuals had over a 100 pages and they threw in a cloth map.

South Park RPG is a faggotass Cash grab based on a popular franchise that was really funny about a decade ago. How, exactly, can any of this be surprising to you?

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Europe needs more Freedomz.

 

[Grimlorn]

What if they added thirty hours of grinding and fetch quests, would that make the price fairer

you're from neogaf aren't you

 

[Eyeball]

Europe needs more Freedomz.

OH MY GOD SUCH WIT SUCH QUALITY WRITING GOTY 4 SHO 11/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You faggots deserve this shit.

 

[Duraframe300]

And ignored eyeball.

Thread improved tremendously.

 

[imweasel]

Europe needs more Freedomz.

OH MY GOD SUCH WIT SUCH QUALITY WRITING GOTY 4 SHO 11/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You faggots deserve this shit.

Europe is the homeland of white people. You dirty nigger.

Anyway, it's only for the euro console fags, the PC version is uncensored.

 

[Eyeball]

Joy, you get to see the spectacular writing involving a poorly animated cartoon character getting raped in the ass.

In this case, consoles win. Or actually, everybody paying Money for this inexcusable dogshit loses.

 

[Liston]

New trailer:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?ref_=tsm_1_fb_s_vg_n1vmot&node=8606803011

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

So, since Ubisoft keeps its shitty price policy, guess I'll have to wait for a sale.

Not sure about the game length. 15 hrs for a $60 rpg sounds like bullshit.

Well, if you don't want to pay monies for a game, you might consider begging, sucking dick or pirating.

if you're begging and sucking dick for video games, you might want to get a life coach or something

That's a big IF you're throwing at me. Might as well be projecting.

Attempts flaming, gets burned with own insult, pisses pants.

While you attempt to play a smart knight, see witches and black magic insults and flaming everywhere, you don't notice your own blasphemy shitposting.

It's a really good way to go, peasant bro.

 

[Minttunator]

u7 was the last game i bought that came with a cloth map..

There are more recent examples as well.

I agree in general, though - I'd definitely like some more maps, proper manuals and other physical stuff if I'm buying a physical copy of the game.

 

[Roguey]

Contrary to Pale Basement Virgin Matt MacLean's claims that they weren't making a "push a button and watch something funny happen" game, posters at Something Awful are claiming that it's incredibly easy to break and create a character who can destroy all bosses in just a couple of turns (also health and energy regenerate after every battle so there's no reason not to go all out every time). The producer over there is confirming it and saying it's better to pretend to be bad so you can see all the bosses' funny attacks.

Once again it looks like everyone at Obsidian who isn't Joshua Eric Sawyer is completely worthless when it comes to gameplay, and that includes Tim Cain-and-unable, who also worked on SP's combat. Nathaniel Chapman was all right and Josh-approved but he's gone.

 

[Eyeball]

Don't honestly think anyone was expecting anything different - it's simply using a JRPG frame to support telling a South Park story, not an earnest attempt to make a genuinely good computer role playing game along the lines of Baldur's Gate.