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As you might know, South Park: The Stick of Truth is a long awaited RPG which has been developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Initially published by the now defunct THQ and slated for a March 5th 2013 release date, many people assumed the worst after THQ went bankrupt, the release date passed by unceremoniously and months of radio silence on details about the game ensued. But those fears of cancellation or development hell can be allayed, because South Park The Stick of Truth is back! It was at E3 this year and making the rounds with a hype building publicity blitz to remind everybody that this is still in fact a thing that's happening.  An abridged history for people who haven’t been following the developments around this game... -A South Park RPG developed by Obsidian was announced way back in late 2011 -It was shown off at E3 last year, where Matt and Trey took the piss out of Microsoft’s presentation and the first Stick of Truth trailer was revealed -On Nov 5th 2012 the game was delayed until 2014 fiscal year, aka April 2013 -On Dec 19th 2012 THQ officially filed for bankruptcy, though they still expected to survive by being sold to Clearlake Capital Group -January 2013 the judge handling their bankruptcy case kyboshes those plans, and forces THQs assets to be sold individually -January 25th it is revealed Ubisoft won the bid for the rights to publish South Park: The Stick of Truth -South Park Studios filed a court objection to stop the sale, arguing THQ had no rights to sell the publication rights -rumors of the game being rushed to completion by THQ emerge, Ubisoft delays the game indefinitely for quality assurance -months of virtually no word about the game, most people forget it exists -May 2nd Ubisoft assure Stick of Truth is still set on track for 2013 release date -June 5th new screenshots and details about the game are shown off from a demo event for journalists -It was shown off at E3 2013 during Ubisoft's presentation So the quick facts about South Park: Stick of Truth are Developed by - Obsidian Entertainment Published by - Ubisoft Written by - Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of the cartoon Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3 and PC Release date: Unknown, coming THIS holiday season, or some holiday season, hopefully kind of soon, you know how videogames are.  [i]But what about the gameplay? You play a new kid, a fully customizable character you create, who has just moved to South Park, your goal? To become cool. You do this by fighting, exploring and performing quests for the locals. There are many opposing factions you will have to unite, and throughout the game there will be critical decisions you have to make that will ultimately affect what happens to you. Fighting will consist of turn-based combat, Paper Mario style, with timed hits and specials.  But there will also be plenty of strategy for outside of battle too, such as magic to help you avoid enemies and such. The game will also feature a range of special summons to assist you in battle. These summons consist of popular characters from the cartoon’s history, examples including Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, Mr. Slave, and Tuong Lu Kim the owner of City Wok...  DLC Some sets of DLC and preorder bonuses have been planned, some parts reportedly exclusive to the Xbox 360. Unfortunately Ubisoft has taken the specific information about these plans down from the official Stick of Truth website, so we’re forced to rely on information from year old news reports about the issue. quote:
 Story quote:From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™. Link to trailers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJelM5KBX8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soKBSzj5Vtg New E3 2013 trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_H0qaJ3zUk Official South Park: Stick of Truth website http://southpark.ubi.com/stickoftruth/en-us/home/  Welp, and here I go loving up the title after being so careful, this thread is off to a great start... Pleasant Friend fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jun 11, 2013 |
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You spelled "cancelled" wrong in the title, why don't you have some pride in your work man
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Jun 7, 2013 16:05
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This looks like the South Park game everyone always wanted, basically just a playable episode with a create a character option. I'm glad this isn't vaporware.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:07
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I'm seriously embarrassed right now, as I deserve to be. I can't believe I only noticed it right after I posted, I even made sure to check my post for errors thrice, but I wrote the title very last...
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Jun 7, 2013 16:09
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I'm relieved this wasn't canned, kudos to Ubisoft. Going by the trailers this does indeed seem like a playable episode and a lot of effort went into it. I guess it helps to have the creators so closely involved unlike on pretty much every other South Park game in the past which were just complete garbage.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:11
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Pleasant Friend posted:I'm seriously embarrassed right now, as I deserve to be. It's okay man, be good to yourself
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Jun 7, 2013 16:15
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Really hope the PC version won't require Uplay as I'm getting sick of having to avoid Ubisoft games on steam.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:21
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Remember when South Park was relevant? No, me neither.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:29
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Remember when South Park was relevant? No, me neither. I don't know about their relevance, but recent South Park has been pretty good in my opinion and they've maintained their quality (despite occasional dips) and humour far better than The Simpsons or Family Guy. Anyway, kinda excited about this game, though to be honest I'm not sure why. I'm hoping it should at least be rather entertaining.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:43
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I'm mostly excited for an RPG that isn't Knockoff Tolkien or Knockoff Star Wars/Star Trek.
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Jun 7, 2013 16:47
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Pleasant Friend posted:turn-based combat, Paper Mario style, with timed hits and specials Oh awesome. I've been playing through The Thousand Year Door recently and I'm looking forward to these types of mechanics again (especially by Obsidian!).
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Jun 7, 2013 16:47
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the rpg where the best class is somewhere in the middle...
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Jun 7, 2013 16:48
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I'm glad to hear the Paper Mario aspects. I wasn't interested very much when I thought it was going to be final fantasy style. It looks cool as heck and now I'm excited to actually check it out.
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Jun 7, 2013 22:37
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Remember when South Park was relevant? No, me neither. South Park is the most consistent animated comedy currently on television, possibly ever. It's still great 
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Jun 7, 2013 22:50
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I stopped watching South Park ages ago, but just having Obsidian involved in this has me interested.
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Jun 7, 2013 23:09
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Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about the game. I'm really looking forward to reviews. I've never played the Mario stuff, so I don't know about that stuff. E3 is next week, right? That's when we'll find out?
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Jun 7, 2013 23:35
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Hakkesshu posted:South Park is the most consistent animated comedy currently on television, possibly ever. It's still great I'd like to introduce you to a little show called Archer. Anyway, South Park popularity aside, I'm still excited for this. It looks and sounds and moves just like the show, which is pretty cool.
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Jun 8, 2013 10:57
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Nice OP! Most South Park games I've happened to play were usually pretty terrible. When South Park for the Nintendo 64 came out, I thought it was the coolest ever, being a young piece of poo poo teen that I was thinking "omg South Park game so mature and edgy, man~". But it played like a terrible Turok. I remember Chef's Love Shack being awful too so I'm afraid to get excited for this. Though, with all those doubts, it looks like a well made game using the South Park IP and more than likely I'll buy it anyways because I am a fan of the show. With more than 10 seasons later worth of content compared to the original South Park games, I'm thinking it'll turn out well with Obsidian behind it. Ubisoft though? Sweet, can't wait to hear all the DRM bitching. 
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Jun 8, 2013 11:22
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Welp, we didn't get a release date, so that's pretty disappointing. Oh well, we got a pretty nifty video at least, with a few more brief glimpses of new content. It looks like for instance that your partner will get their own special attacks (Kyle and a band of elves firing a hailfire of arrows/Butters turning into professor Chaos) Huh... Anyway this is a kind of spoilery, but as more is revealed about the game the true plot beyond just being cool seems to be revealing itself, read ahead only if you don't care about spoilers. The first trailer gives us the most insight, the ruined desolate city, dead bodies everywhere, you have to wonder how it happened? Well Cartman's opening monologues seems to give us our answer, "We have been betrayed". But by who? It surprisingly seems to be by local South Park resident jock Clyde Donovan, the kid who was tasked with the job to guard the Stick of Truth, he betrays Cartman and steals the stick of truth for himself. Clyde Donovan apparently has gone crazy evil, declaring he will destroy the earth, and started his conquest by raising cats from the dead, turning them into zombie nazi cats, for his personal undead army of darkness, and from the looks of the latest trailer he seems to have moved onto raising humans from the dead too. How he is doing it is more interesting, apparently he found some toxic green goo, normally it'd be sensible to just assume was normal nuclear waste, but this fact probably ties into the other major mystery about this game, the alien dudes. You'd have to be blind to not notice that the alien dudes are going to play a pretty huge roll in the story of this game. Though we currently have no clue about if they will be Good or Evil, or maybe just loving with everybody for the fun of it? At the end of the first trailer, you see Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle all running away from the town hall which suddenly it explodes and out bursts a giant Clyde who somehow just outgrew the building, you'll also notice the aliens are there? Though I believe that's all we know for now.
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Jun 11, 2013 06:48
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I have a preorder for this one (from a few months before THQ went bankrupt and, yes, I should have known better) so I'm drat glad that Ubi Soft didn't let this one become vaporware.
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Jun 11, 2013 07:26
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Someone from my school who was working at Obsidian on this was apparently hired by Matt and Trey themselves later because he was so good and funny at boarding. (That's all I know. I only heard this secondhand from one of the instructors.)
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Jun 11, 2013 07:31
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Bukowski posted:the rpg where the best class is somewhere in the middle... No no, the joke goes The neutral ending is the best ending...
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Jun 11, 2013 08:44
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Pleasant Friend posted:Welp, we didn't get a release date, so that's pretty disappointing. This coming Christmas... or next christmas
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Jun 11, 2013 15:13
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I almost feel ashamed at how much I laughed at "the Nagasaki fart".
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Jun 11, 2013 15:13
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I'm tempted to name my character "Neuqid" 
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Jun 17, 2013 03:22
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The reports from people who saw this at E3 all said this is looking really good.
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Jun 17, 2013 03:25
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Please tell me Obsidian is being paid actual money to make this, and hasn't been roped into some ridiculous bonus scheme where if the game scores below 85 on Metacritic the whole team must commit seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide).
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Jun 17, 2013 03:36
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I'm pretty sure that they, from their time spent working, have been paid (given money for services).
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Jun 17, 2013 03:54
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Real potential for TF2 hat tie-in promos here.
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Jun 17, 2013 04:01
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Heran Bago posted:Real potential for TF2 hat tie-in promos here. Strange kenny hood, tracks how many times you've died.
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Jun 17, 2013 04:06
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Every south park game has sucked bad including (especially) the pinball table but drat this looks really hot
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Jun 17, 2013 04:33
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Typical Pubbie posted:Please tell me Obsidian is being paid actual money to make this, and hasn't been roped into some ridiculous bonus scheme where if the game scores below 85 on Metacritic the whole team must commit seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide). A bonus in a contract is usually something ontop of the agreed payment that is awarded based on conditions being met or exceeded. I don't think anyone was fooled or screwed over and if they were it was probably all parties involved being kinda dumb.
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Jun 17, 2013 04:41
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BAKA FLOCKA FLAME posted:Remember when South Park was relevant? No, me neither. You do realize it's still pretty much comedy central's bread and butter right? And despite being on for a million seasons It's still pretty funny (with the occasional dud).
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Jun 17, 2013 04:47
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goferchan posted:Every south park game has sucked bad including (especially) the pinball table but drat this looks really hot Counterpoint: 
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Jun 17, 2013 05:02
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I'm not sure why anyone though this game wouldn't get shipped. South Park, even if it isn't the hottest poo poo on TV anymore, still has a huge fanbase. Obsidian Entertainment has it's own fanbase as well. My point is this will probably sell like gangbusters.
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Jun 17, 2013 05:27
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Turtlicious posted:Counterpoint: I think I'm confused because that game was absolutely awful.
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Jun 17, 2013 05:51
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The PS1 version is superior and still loving awful.
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Jun 17, 2013 05:56
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Lord Lambeth posted:I'm not sure why anyone though this game wouldn't get shipped. South Park, even if it isn't the hottest poo poo on TV anymore, still has a huge fanbase. Obsidian Entertainment has it's own fanbase as well. It was for me less of a will it ship, and more of a god loving dammit how many more years is this thing going to take before it's finally released. I am not a patient man.
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Jun 17, 2013 06:03
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Heran Bago posted:The PS1 version is superior and still loving awful. The N64 version is still a useful learning tool, as you can demonstrate when and where Iguana decided that they were through having games that were 40% distance fog, and said "gently caress it, we're going for 75%". The whole thing felt like an ancient Serious Sam alpha that someone made a South Park mod for, while suffering from that really bleak and polygonal claustrophobia that most early 3D games are victims of. If you're looking for the closest example of the N64's elusive Turbo 3D mode in action, which Nintendo didn't let anyone use ever due it making games look like total rear end, SP64 is as good as you can get Turtlicious posted:Counterpoint: "Here's another warning message on the side, right here above the big M rating, just in case you missed the loving huge one of the front, AND just in case you forgot that South Park isn't a kid's show"
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Hmm, Saints Row was refused classification in Australia due to alien anal probes? Uhhh, well hopefully that's not going to be a prob-  Oh. Welp, it might be time to start learning how to import games form overseas.
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