A 30-50 hour South Park game sounds awful and pretty tedious. No matter how good it is those characters and those jokes and that setting is going to get stale after such a huge amount of time. Turning something that's based on 20 minute episodes into 50 hours is too much. 10-20 hours sounds like a good length for a game like this.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth |OT| Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (In select regions)
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A 30-50 hour South Park game sounds awful and pretty tedious. No matter how good it is those characters and those jokes and that setting is going to get stale after such a huge amount of time. Turning something that's based on 20 minute episodes into 50 hours is too much. 10-20 hours sounds like a good length for a game like this.
The disappointment at the rumored 15-20 hours seems very weird given I just went through Paper Mario: TTYD, and that took about 27 hours. And I didn't rush through the thing either, in fact:
1) I did a lot of star piece hunting (which involved mostly methodically spin jumping and covering like every single area in the game). I even went to the fortune teller several times to get hints for that, which involves quite a few overly long animations every time.
2) I always went out of my way to get item upgrades and such, which included lots of backtracking to previous dungeons.
3) Three of the main chapters involve a lot of backtracking, and one of them is just a lot of guessing and backtracking through every single city in the game.
Not to mention that the game is pretty slow-paced compared to what I've seen from South Park so far. If this has such a quick pace like the show, I would expect a lot of value in those hours.
I did most of the side content as well, but I feel it's more important to point out the stuff I just didn't enjoy in this case. While it's not impossible this game ends up with some similar flaws, it does seem pretty unlikely given that most of what they had to do was cut content from the game, not pad it out even more. I haven't played the game so playing defense force right now might bite me back later, but I just find the current general view about the gameplay hours a bit weird.
In fact, I might've even done away with some of those extra hours in Paper Mario TTYD, given the design of the chapters gets a lot worse after
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1) I did a lot of star piece hunting (which involved mostly methodically spin jumping and covering like every single area in the game). I even went to the fortune teller several times to get hints for that, which involves quite a few overly long animations every time.
2) I always went out of my way to get item upgrades and such, which included lots of backtracking to previous dungeons.
3) Three of the main chapters involve a lot of backtracking, and one of them is just a lot of guessing and backtracking through every single city in the game.
Not to mention that the game is pretty slow-paced compared to what I've seen from South Park so far. If this has such a quick pace like the show, I would expect a lot of value in those hours.
I did most of the side content as well, but I feel it's more important to point out the stuff I just didn't enjoy in this case. While it's not impossible this game ends up with some similar flaws, it does seem pretty unlikely given that most of what they had to do was cut content from the game, not pad it out even more. I haven't played the game so playing defense force right now might bite me back later, but I just find the current general view about the gameplay hours a bit weird.
In fact, I might've even done away with some of those extra hours in Paper Mario TTYD, given the design of the chapters gets a lot worse after
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-MD-
Member
Is the 20 hours too short or too long?
This 15-20hour thing, you've got to remember some early players just like to speed through for bragging rights.
Not excusing or downplaying reports, just saying in my exp these early reports don't actually tally to either my first play through or general time walking through and digging deeper / enjoying the atmosphere
I could have finished the main game / story in Skyrim in 7-10hours if I'd been inclined on my first play
Not excusing or downplaying reports, just saying in my exp these early reports don't actually tally to either my first play through or general time walking through and digging deeper / enjoying the atmosphere
I could have finished the main game / story in Skyrim in 7-10hours if I'd been inclined on my first play
Alcoholikaust
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While this game has those elements, this game def doesn't seem to be as slow as most other RPGs.
There aren't any random encounters, most enemies seem to have deliberate placement, and it looks like you can avoid a lot of the combat by triggering things in the environment. The town is pretty small compared with other RPGs, fast travel is available right from the start, and you have infinite sprint.
They could easily have tweaked all those elements to raise the length of the game, which is why I suspect the game's length is meant to be fast paced compared with traditional RPGs.
Daffy Duck
Member
You only have fast travel once all flags are discovered.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Watching a stream of this and good lord its every thing I wanted
-MD-
Member
I just clicked the first thief vid I saw on twitch and it is glorious.
I doubt Matt/Trey and even Obsidian would have spent 3 years working on a $20 XBL game. Scott Tennerman's Revenge is what you get for XBL release.
Yeah but it looks like you unlock them very quickly.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Yea this was never a PSN/Arcade game.
Ravensmash
Member
What's given you that idea?
-MD-
Member
Was $50 to preorder it when THQ was still around so nope.
bloodyroarxx
Member
I dont understand how people are complaining about value/playlength
Seems like this was made specifically for multiple playthroughs. I can only image some of Cartmans dialog weather you are black or a Jew or good lord BOTH.
Seems like this was made specifically for multiple playthroughs. I can only image some of Cartmans dialog weather you are black or a Jew or good lord BOTH.
I don't think they thought it would have been as much work as it was
It was suppose to be 20$ now Its 60$
Unless I'm not remembering correctly here (which could be the case) it was announced as a 20$ arcade type title and always seemed to be under THQ.
EDIT: I'm not complaining about length btw. 15-20 hours is perfect imo
90TilInfinity
Member
I found The Simpsons Game from 2007 to be pretty funny with their video game references and parodies but it was a bad game to play for the most part.
http://www.thq.com/us/south-park-th...ins_forces_with_south_park_digital_studios_on
It was never announced at $20. Quick check of all articles show no pricing was confirmed, and a Google search of "$20 south park game" comes up with nothing relevant. You are mistaken.
-MD-
Member
Must be mistaken because I've been following this game since the day it was announced and it was always intended to be a full priced retail game.
Are you thinking of Rayman Origins? That's the only Ubisoft product I remember being upgraded to a full priced game.
SweetChill
Member
What does that mean exactly? Possible censorship circumvention?
bloodyroarxx
Member
OMG the Bard intro cutscene is the most amazing thing EVER
Yes, it has always been a full retail release.
Dr D Wayne Love
Banned
Well, I stand corrected, but I coulda' swore...
Just to rub it in here is another article
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/01/tech/gaming-gadgets/south-park-game/index.html?_s=PM:TECH
Well, I stand corrected, but I coulda' swore...
Drugs are bad, m'kay. You shouldn't do drugs, m'kay.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
Even if the game is 12 hours long, that's still the equivalent of 30 24 minute long episodes of South Park. If that doesn't sound fucking amazing to you then maybe you should be playing another game.
I wonder if there's any cheesing in the game...
-MD-
Member
Big mistake, my friend. PS3 is still the place to be on consoles.
You'll probably have a next gen version somewhere down the road depending on if the game is a success or not.
Diprosalic
Banned
i would love it if they kept it under 10h.
It would be funny if it was a buff of some sort
-MD-
Member
I can safely say I don't have a whole lot of interest in 10 hour RPGs. Especially $60 ones.
Falcs
Banned
Where'd you learn this??
I need more info stat!!
Mmmm those port begging tears are delicious.
It's just a list of the files and the contents of the config files. Not a lot of settings but they should all be easy to edit.
You can specify your cencored archive file or leave it empty to have it uncencored.
There are various graphical options such as the anti aliasing, motion blur etc..