MULTI South Park RPG (Obsidian/THQ, 360/PS3/PC) [Up1: New details from Gameinformer]

[GoldenHawk]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/01/cover-reveal-south-park.aspx

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have never been shy about their love of gaming. From Randy Marsh playing Guitar Hero in his underpants to the legendary "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode, the comic duo have demonstrated an obvious familiarity with the medium. Now that they've conquered television, film, and Broadway, the next target on their hit list is the gaming industry.

Thanks to a collaboration with THQ and Obsidian, Parker and Stone are writing the script, performing the dialogue, and overseeing the development of South Park: The Game. Unlike the cash-in Acclaim titles from over a decade ago, this ambitious project is a full-scale RPG for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. As the new kid in South Park, it'll be up to you to make friends and defend the town from a wide range of threats. Be sure to check out our January issue for all the details, as well as an interview with Parker and Stone themselves.

Congratulations Game Informer, you just trolled everyone!
Massive meltdown incoming!

PS: Why is Kenny a girl in his reflection

 

[Gizmo]

Keeeeeewl.I think Mani will be excited.

 

[cobby]

lets see , sounds kool hope it looks kool as well

 

[R3Z0N]

Holy fucking shit what?!!!!?!? O_O

Best news of the week so far, the South Park tower defense game was really awesome and since this is an RPG I'm even more excited.

 

[manigamer]

Keeeeeewl.I think Mani will be excited.

oh oh yeah RESPECT MA AUTHORITA !

nice, an rpg based south park, tho im not interested in rpgs but this one is gonna be fun !

@GH: ITS THEIR alteregos in IMAGINAAAATION LAAAND

 

[Chandoo]

I think this has great potential, especially since this is being written by the show people themselves.

 

[DevilsDAD]

Looks Nice Lets Wait And See

 

[Lars]

This is gonna be awesome. Don't screw up, Obsidian!

 

[GoldenHawk]

Details from a gaffer who got Game Informer

Basics

-The first game Parker and Stone have directly participated in, writing the script and the dialogue.

-Parker has always preferred silent protagonists in RPG's, so the player’s character will be silent.

-The player’s character will be fully customizable.

-Your character has a smartphone that acts as the primary game menu and has a facebook-like app show your number of friends you have and your current standing with the various kid factions.

-There are five classes, which are wizard, paladin, adventurer, rogue, and a fifth unannounced class.

-Obsidian is using the Dungeon Siege III engine.

-Obsidian developed a dynamic lip-syncing tool to accommodate changes to the script.

-Parker and Stone gave Obsidian 15 years of assets used during the show and a detailed list of approved textures and colors.

-Critical hits, cash rewards, experience, and consumables are in the game.

-Parker hates unskippable cutscenes.

-The humor will be more focus on the games they have played in the past but Parker mentions that games have lampooned other games before so they don't want to do exactly that instead they are focusing more on RPG's on how big and bombastic they can get sometimes.

Story

Spoiler: show

-The player will play as the new kid in town, the main theme of the game is fitting in and being accepted.

-The story begins with your character participating in a live action role-playing game that the neighborhood kids started, which eventually evolves into a real adventure.

-Eric Cartman will greet your character and help you decide your class, which are wizard, paladin, adventurer, rogue, and a fifth unconventional class made up by Cartman.

Combat

-Many elements of the combat system are like Paper Mario and the Mario & Luigi games.

-If player initiates combat they will attack first and vice versa.

-X button is for melee attacks, pressing it in well-timed succession will result in multiple hits.

-Timed inputs occur for defense as well for reduced damage.

-Obsidian doesn't want the player to have to sit and watch animations play out; they're incorporating dynamic camera angels at certain times, such as a Ro Sham Bo attack that stuns an enemy.

RPG

-Enemy encounters are visible on the map.

Spoiler: show

-Soda are health potions and Tweak's coffee is a haste item.

-There are melee and ranged weapons, as well as a lightning powered Okama Gameshpere that is a magic item.

Spoiler: show

-There is a Final Fantasy Materia like system in the game to augment weapons with various abilities like fire, poison, and electricity.

-There is a Summon System but they are not able to talk about it.

Collectibles

-There are collectibles to look for in the environments, some appear throughout the game while other are in specific areas.

Spoiler: show

-An example of a collectible is a Chinpokomon doll and a magazine, Chinpokomon dolls are not all the same model Obsidian are using various models that appeared in the episode.

Other

-When Obsidian were first coming up with ideas they show Parker and Stone a quest where you go into a cave and fight a giant bat boss that Ike is riding on, Parker and Stone said that the quest wasn't Southpark, that it was a generic video-game. Parker and Stone then mention a quest to get Kung Pao Chicken from City Wok, to readjust Obsidian focus.

-When they start making the town hub Parker and Stone realized that they did not have a true layout for the town, so they had fun figuring out where everything went.

-There will not be any platforming, they tried jumping early on but it didn't seem right.

-They talk about how they have had to scrap level because the perspective wasn't right because everything is hand illustrated and hand animated.

-They talk about the challenges of making a comedy driven game, Portal 2 is mention, they say if Portal 2 dialogue was on top of a shitty game it wouldn't be as good, so they want to make a game that is as good as the dialogue.

Concept Art (Massive Spoilers!!!!)

Spoiler: show

-The first concept art is a 'Gnome Mine' a concept, my guess underpants gnomes.

-The second concept art is 'UFO Crash Site', it shows Kenny, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle in front of a military fence with a UFO further away in a forest surround in mountains.

-The third concept art is a 'Gnome/Crab People D.M.Z.' label as a rough concept, it show a border fence with gnomes on one side and Crab People on the other side.

-The last concept art is 'Christmas Town' a concept.

Interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone

-Parker and Stone really enjoy rpgs and they do think that rpgs are the best fit for southpark.

-They were asked of how making a rpg story differs for an episode, they say that the learning curve was be bigger than anything they have done other then their Broadway musical.

-Visual and Visual style seen in episodes like “Good Times With Weapons”, or the live action hamsters in “Pandemic” will not be in the game they want to keep a simple 2D style.

-Parker has been a lifelong gamers, he really likes rpgs because he like the singleplayer nature of them so he doesn’t like or get MMO’s. His favorite game is Oblivion.

-Matt when he was young used to play the old Infocom game and Wizardry and likes open world games like Arkham City, Infamous, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and also hockey and soccer games. He mention that he is more of a button masher and remember Serious Sam because he likes to shoot shit and blow shit up but he is now more interested in games like Arkham City and he hasn’t play a RPG in year because he got tired of walking everywhere. His favorite game is FIFA and he mentions getting his ass kick online by kids with English Accents.

-Lastly they joke how this Southpark game will be a cross between Obilivion and FIFA were “you gotta go kill a bunch of monsters and shit but you can only use your feet.”

 

[Gizmo]

^^Sounds exciting.I just can't wait to see Cartman in Video Game form. heh

 

[HOTSHOT]

A game based on pathetic cartoon. Duh <_<

 

[manigamer]

^^ i DEMAND A DISLIKE BUTTON ! where is it

 

[R3Z0N]

A game based on pathetic cartoon. Duh

 

[Lars]

 

[Hacks]

haha didn't GI totally hype this saying it was going to be the most surprising cover of the year
Thought it was going to be HL3 or something. Trolls.

 

[arafat]

wow, a south park RPG, big fat Oprah tits

 

[manigamer]

South Park: The Game Becomes South Park: The Stick of Truth


According to an updated Xbox.com Marketplace page, it appears as if THQ and Obsidian's South Park RPG has been rebranded.
Ladies and gents, from this moment forward the unoriginal South Park: The Game name has been thrown to the wolves and the new name, South Park: The Stick of Truth, has emerged as the new victor.What that means, we're not quite sure yet, but we assume - and we're clutching at straws here - it has something to do with a stick that makes people tell the truth. Sherlock would have been proud!If it was a fishy stick of truth, we could have busted out the infamous "Do you like fish sticks?" line. Good job it isn't, I guess, as Kanye would probably have killed us. He's a regular around here, apparently... okay, he isn't. What's with the Spanish inquisition!?
That's about it though, folks. No new info, no new screens, just a new name. Whether you think it's newsworthy or not, the truth remains: I was sat here waiting for a video interview to upload and I was bored.Now that's proper journalism! Or should that be jernalisms?

 

[manigamer]

[h=1]WhatwhatWHAT?!? South Park's RPG Delayed Until 2013[/h]

South Park fans who have been praying and hoping for someone to finally give them a good South Park game will have to wait a little longer, now that THQ delayed its release to next year.

Gameinformer posted a short blurb on its site confirming THQ's announcement about the game's delay. Now the game won't ship until at least 2013, sometime during the company's fourth fiscal quarter. An official release date hasn't been set.

It's also not a full blown cancellation and THQ would be crazy to let the project go under the bus since the series has one of the most loyal cult followings in television history.

Still, this news might have dealt a bit of heartache to the show's hardcore fans who have been hoping for a good game since the dismal first person shooter for the Nintendo 64 and Sony Playstation that still haunts our darkest dreams. It shouldn't be that big of a surprise since Obsidian, the company working on the game, suffered a massive round of layoffs awhile back (or to put it another way, "They took their jobs!").

Gameinformer: South Park: The Game Delayed to 2013

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itss OFFICIALLY a trend now to delay games !

 

[Hassan]

A good south park game, definitely surprising.

 

[TrueCoolGuy]

A game has been Delayed! Yet Again.............