The NZA Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 source Received my GameInformer magazine here are the details, hopes it has not already be posted: 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 -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. -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. -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. -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 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!!!!) -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.” Update: Originally Posted by flashbandit16: Here are some things I missed. The editor says the game look like an episode of southpark and there is one screenshot that I am not sure if it is a cut-scene or in-game but it definitely looks like it could be a screenshot of an episode of southpark. Also you can explore the town between quests its a little vague it sound like walking around the town is 2D the writer mentions "exploration takes the characters from the left to the the right(and vice versa), but branching paths occasionally take them in the background or foreground to prevent the game for m becoming overly linear". There are a few screenshot of combat, the editor mentions that encounters are like classic Final Fantasy that are presented from a side view. With every combat screenshot there is only the player and one other party member(Cartman, Kyle, or Butters), fight 2-5 enemies(Girls, Gingers, Hippies, Fantasy style, and Goth) at a time. Originally Posted by flashbandit16: The screenshots in the article show the player in a tree house and fighting on a top of a, different?, tree house or fort, fighting in a backyard, a cave, a forest, and a cemetery. Also in the article they mention the insides of Stan's house and just now looking at the screenshot of the tree house there is a map that I could replicate that might be layout for the town. Replication of Map(Spoilers?) sounds a little Paper Mario, a little Earthbound (and 2D, apparently!)...i'm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Oh, hell yeah! Plus, it's Obsidian, so what could possibly go wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 haha, very fair point. i'm honestly hoping this being 2D keeps the bugs to a minimal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 The important thing is that it'll be better than that piece of shit FPS for N64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 That game was the shit. So was the cart racing one. SHUT UP I AM CORRECT. You wanna talk shitty South Park games, there was that repetitive trivia/mini game on on the Dreamcast, Chef's Love Shack. It was one of the games I bought with it. Horrible mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 jesus, i forgot about that one. sad that the kart one resonated more. *edit JINX MOTHERFUCKER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Simultaneous posts. /high five Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maldron Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 So nobody's been here to comment on the fact that the fifth character class is "The Jew?" Because fuck, this seems the classy place to discuss such things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiis558 Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Oh, they released what the 5th class would be? lol "The Jew" Still, I think this may be both a good South Park game and a decent rpg! Hopefully... And I also think the person playing as the wizard should get a summon for the Cuddly Christmas Creatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Well shit. I guess in a few years we can just merge this thread into this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 last i read, the canned title was looking to be a nextbox exclusive though? i thought this one took a hit but was still in the cards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 We have cover art. We have a name. Maybe this will work out after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Kewl... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Yeah man! That in gameplay footage (sparse though it was) looks pretty perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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