Expectations and popularity have always been massive seen late 90s whenever something has been mentioned with South Park in it, and a new video game for the same shouldn’t expect anything less or different. And similar is the deal with Ubisoft’s upcoming RPG South Park: The Stick of Truth.
At the recently concluded San Diego Comic-Con, "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were present to fill in with more details about the game for its fans. To begin with, both of them agreed that games like The Legend of Zelda served as major influences in their decision to make South Park: The Stick of Truth a reality. Later the duo drew inspiration from those games, and led to that ambitious drive which helped them achieve the target.
"I really loved playing Skyrim, as many people did," Parker stated during a Comic-Con panel. After he got lost in the expansive world of Bethesda’s game, alongside the huge cast of characters in the game, "I was like 'Let's do this. This is easy’."
Going ahead from that, both of them charted out a massive script for the game that, according to Parker, filled some 850 pages detailing just about every character in the series, alongside all the elements from "South Park." Parker went on to joke that when the team and developers at Obsidian Entertainment came to know about the release of the game based on Stone and Parker's ambitions, they were targeting “holiday season 2032.”
While there was a decision creeping somewhere in the corner that all that extra content would be available later in the form of DLCs, somehow sensing the disappointment of the crowd, both of them chucked off that idea.
“We did have this whole delusion of actually incorporating the game into the season," Parker stated, as scripted by Polygon, "but that sounds like a bitch. We really just wanted it to be that you could pick it up anywhere and it would kind of make sense."
Later, when a fan asked the duo as to how they felt as the game's original publisher, THQ, dissolved and whether both of them feared the game would be canceled, the duo joked stating that they felt relieved, thinking, "Oh, good, it's over!"
"We really just read about it in the news," Parker said, "that they were going bankrupt, that someone else bought [the rights to] the game. Once we heard who had bought it, we got really excited. We flew up to [Ubisoft] and all that momentum picked up and we got really excited again."
South Park: The Stick of Truth is currently set for a release in the fourth quarter of the year for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.