[South Park: The Stick of Truth] Still coming!

C2B

Team

Project Director: Zane Lyon (Artist)
Lead Designer: Matt McLean(Technical Designer on AP and DSIII, Also known under various Beard related Puns)
Senior Designer role: Erich Fenstermaker (Did Stuff in NWN2, MOTB and FNV (Vault11!). Don't really know his exact role here.
Other (maybe) known names include Tim Cain as a senior pogrammer and Chris Avellone for Narrative Support

Tertiee

This is probably the biggest WTF news story of the year by far. I'm somewhat interested but sadly there's no PC version.

PotatoNinja

What is this

I don't even

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...............

Alright Obsidian. Your move.

MagicPrime

This is disappointing.

joshgotro

Paper Mario can't be topped.

TychoCelchuuu

Haha, not sure that anyone guessed that this was the franchise they were talking about. It's Obsidian so I'm on board but it's maybe not for the PC so fuck me.

Jam Warrior

Reminds me of the confusion when Bioware announced a Sonic RPG.

I predict similar results.

Sir Carcass

No mention of PC....

TychoCelchuuu

There's some funny stuff in that full sized cover. Kenny's a princess, for instance.

cloudeagle

Tertiee wrote:

This is probably the biggest WTF news story of the year by far. I'm somewhat interested but sadly there's no PC version.

Naw, I'd say Capcom doing a Sour Patch Kids game featuring a song by Method Man and voice work by Creed from The Office is a little more WTF.

Barely. Huh. Obsidian's been pretty hit or miss; I suspect they don't handle deadlines well. Let's hope they don't have a strict one.

Skull2185

Ha ha

WAT

A (most likely) decent RPG based on South Park. I can get on board with that.

Edit: Oh shit... Sean Connery dragon and ManBearPig

C2B

cloudeagle wrote:

Barely. Huh. Obsidian's been pretty hit or miss; I suspect they don't handle deadlines well. Let's hope they don't have a strict one.

If anything Dungeon Siege III proved that they improved tenfold in the project managment department.

Dunxco

Interesting, very interesting. And on consoles you say?

Huh. Will have to keep an eye on this one.

... Why isn't Butters' reflection Professor Chaos.

MagicPrime

cloudeagle wrote:

Tertiee wrote:

This is probably the biggest WTF news story of the year by far. I'm somewhat interested but sadly there's no PC version.

Naw, I'd say Capcom doing a Sour Patch Kids game featuring a song by Method Man and voice work by Creed from The Office is a little more WTF.

Barely. Huh. Obsidian's been pretty hit or miss; I suspect they don't handle deadlines well. Let's hope they don't have a strict one.

Nah, it will be all right. If they still have a quarter of the game unfinished they'll just chop it off and end the game with a long dialog sequence and a 10 second cut-scene. Gold, Print, Ship.

reVerse

C2B wrote:

cloudeagle wrote:

Barely. Huh. Obsidian's been pretty hit or miss; I suspect they don't handle deadlines well. Let's hope they don't have a strict one.

If anything Dungeon Siege III proved that they improved tenfold in the project managment department.

... great?

corin7

Is it wrong that I would trust Rainbow and Slash with this more than Obsidian?

vsove

An Obsidian game where they aren't doing the writing?

That seems.. counter intuitive. I mean, that's their biggest strength.

Rather odd. Hope it's good, though.

TheBenjomonster

cloudeagle wrote:

Naw, I'd say Capcom doing a Sour Patch Kids game featuring a song by Method Man and voice work by Creed from The Office is a little more WTF.

Sour Patch Kids are awesome. Method Man is awesome. Creed from the Office is awesome. This one is a lock.

Also, avatar above me =O

Captain Carrot

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

joshgotro

vsove wrote:

An Obsidian game where they aren't doing the writing?

That seems.. counter intuitive. I mean, that's their biggest strength.

Rather odd. Hope it's good, though.

Parker and Stone can write though. Really well.

C2B

vsove wrote:

An Obsidian game where they aren't doing the writing?

That seems.. counter intuitive. I mean, that's their biggest strength.

Rather odd. Hope it's good, though.

My guess is they still write on Quests and so on. If its actually the project Tim Cains working on he said that ideas were treated pretty openly in the team.

Drez

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

I thought the Buffy video game on the original Xbox was actually pretty damn good.

reVerse

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

Turtles have had several decent-to-good games made out of them.

vsove

joshgotro wrote:

vsove wrote:

An Obsidian game where they aren't doing the writing?

That seems.. counter intuitive. I mean, that's their biggest strength.

Rather odd. Hope it's good, though.

Parker and Stone can write though. Really well.

Oh, I know they can. That's the thing, though - Obsidian's gameplay has never been their strong suit. I suppose they're one of the few well-known RPG developers who'd actually be willing and able to work on something like this, so that makes a certain amount of sense, but still. Just strikes me as odd. Though I guess they have experience writing for an interactive medium, which Parker and Stone may not have, so maybe there's something there.

Drez

And a lot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games were great.

edit: Beat by reVerse.

Dunxco

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

Checkmate.

RainbowDespair

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The exclusive XBox one. It's a very good 3D brawler/adventure game.

http://www.gamerankings.com/xbox/524512-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/index.html

Is it wrong that I would trust Rainbow and Slash with this more than Obsidian?

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but my opinion of South Park is very low (and my opinion of the creators is even lower) so there's no way on earth we would have accepted such a job.

vsove

I mean, I hope this turns out well. Alpha Protocol was one of my favourite games in a long time. Thing is, that was because of the writing, and in spite of the gameplay continuously infuriating me. So I view this with a little trepidation - but I have faith. Just struck me as a bit strange.

Skull2185

Also, the South Park tower defense game seems alright. Though, I only played the trial.

Badwrong

Ive always thought South Park as an MMO would work wonderfully.

Mecha-Strissand as and end game raid boss.

Classes based off the Coon and Friends super heroes. Mint-berry-crunch is a healer, Tool-Shed tanks... it works great.

Enemies all bases off the celebs that south park makes fun of. Half the game is practically done from the start if the ideas from each episode was used. Sword of a thousand truths would be a piece of loot at some point.

Character creation is a drag and drop of south park character parts so everyone can make a unique looking south park toon.

Honestly it works better than most of the shitty ass MMOs out there...

joshgotro

Character creator already exists as well.

http://www.sp-studio.de/

Dunxco

I enjoy South Park, and with Parker and Stone writing this I'll be sold on the script in a heartbeat.

But.

Having never played an Obsidian game outside of Neverwinter Nights 2 (garbage) I'm cautious about being burnt. I'll wait and see further developments.

Warlock82

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

I actually liked the recent Simpsons game (the 360/PS3 one). Then again, I only paid $10 for it. It was definitely fun at that price though.

Skull2185

All I had to do was read the name "Mintberry Crunch" and was sent into a barely controlled fit of laughter. The Coon and Friends story arc is one of my favorites.

jclast

Captain Carrot wrote:

To paraphrase Yahtzee, you have three seconds to name a show that was made into a decent video game. Time's up. Oh, nothing? Yeah.

oakke

This was really unexpected.
But yeah, no mention of PC.

Sir Carcass

Since it's Game Informer, I don't find the non-mention of PC to be too worrying. Most console-specific publications don't mention it.

Tertiee

Now that the shock has worn off time for rampant speculation. THQ and RPG together sounds a lot like Costume Quest. Obsidian's job openings did mention for an XBLA programmer but since the article says "full-scale RPG" and mentions voice work I'm guessing this will be a retail product.

Local H Jay

if it's half as good as the south park FPS ill buy it twice

maximumzero

Odd to think there's a possibility of good South Park games in our future.

RainbowDespair

From Twitter:

EverymansReview: "Don't forget THQ as a publisher. Now all we need is Bethesda for QA."