South Park - The Stick of Truth

Game is out and live. Had a chance to create my character this morning and play around a bit for a few minutes before work. I've been watching South Park since I was a teenager in the 90's, so I am really excited about this game, especially since it's in my favourite rpg style and obsidian is involved. Also, hooray for no Uplay.

Anyone else get it or have a chance to play a bit more than I have?

Edit: Had a chance to play a bit more.

Had a chance to play some more, wanted to give a few impressions. For general gameplay impressions/reviews/etc feel free to check out metacritic and select your reviewer of choice

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/south-park-the-stick-of-truth

TLDR - Lifelong South Park fans should purchase the game and view it as a chance to play yourself in a 14 hour South park episode.

Good - See TLDR. It's your own episode of south park. Classic RPG Turn based style - think S/NES Final Fantasy. No Uplay.

Bad - No customization on pc for controls, graphics, anything really. Not even v-sync. If you have a gamepad plugged in, you can't use your mouse as well. If you don't like the style of gameplay or the show, you won't enjoy the game.

Gameplay recommendations - I prefer mouse/keyboard over controller for this game, which is the opposite of what i expected. Take your time when creating the name of your character, you can't go back to edit it when you think you can (you'll see what i mean, d-bag)

 

I too am a huge South Park fan and I'm really excited about this game.
So far I heard only good stuff about it (it must be - no wonder it's censored in Germany ), apart from "gets a bit repetitive towards the end". We'll see - first gonna wait till it goes on sale .

 

It is live? OMG, yep def buying that game. But I`m a little busy with Borderlands 2 DLC`s and I have plans to play D3 now that Loot 2.0 is live plus the new expansion is right around the corner.

Can`t play South Park until March 6th here in Norway.
2 days and 3 hours according to Steam

 

Green Man Gaming has 25% off on the game, which makes it 30EUR total... Tempting... Very tempting...

 

Here's a good review of it: South Park: The Stick of Truth review | PC Gamer

And the launch trailer (NSFW of course):

 

It's the HL3 of Ubisoft, finally out!

 

More T&P or Obsidian than Ubisoft. Originally it was supposed to be published by THQ.

 

I am just glad it does not use Uplay, at least for now!

 

Had a chance to play some more, wanted to give a few impressions. For general gameplay impressions/reviews/etc feel free to check out metacritic and select your reviewer of choice

South Park: The Stick of Truth for PC Reviews - Metacritic

TLDR - Lifelong South Park fans should purchase the game and view it as a chance to play yourself in a 14 hour South park episode.

Good - See TLDR. It's your own episode of south park. Classic RPG Turn based style - think S/NES Final Fantasy. No Uplay.

Bad - No customization on pc for controls, graphics, anything really. Not even v-sync. If you have a gamepad plugged in, you can't use your mouse as well. If you don't like the style of gameplay or the show, you won't enjoy the game.

Gameplay recommendations - I prefer mouse/keyboard over controller for this game, which is the opposite of what i expected. Take your time when creating the name of your character, you can't go back to edit it when you think you can (you'll see what i mean, d-bag)

 

I never could enjoy South Park as much I'd like to. It has funny episodes and moments, but I don't find it to be a very attractive TV show. I've been watching game-play videos of this and they're pretty funny. It will be interesting to see how it ends...

 

I saw PewDiePie play it, looked pretty funny.

 

How closely does it match the Final Fantasy game play style? I am not really a fan of the FF turn based combat. I played FF7, and the combat became very repetivive.

I plan to get the game, but I will wait until a major sale comes along. Now to avoid spoilers for a year or so...

 

In all honestly the combat is not super impressive but then I'm not really playing it for the gameplay. The story and jokes more than make up for non-dynamic turn based combat.

 

That seems to be the impression I am getting. I do look forward to playing it someday since I like SouthPark.

 

I believe it's more akin to the Paper Mario series vs just old school FF. You have a chance to hit a button at a specific time to increase yoru damage, block an incoming attack, etc.