I'd say South Park has totally jumped the shark with this one...



But they did that years ago.

Metro09 refuses to even consider that any game on the Xbox could be of any quality what-so-ever, even on the PC.

I still remember South Park on the N64 by Iguana (of Turok fame); it was a good idea and had an interesting story and original voice acting, but was terribly marred by its bad game design. Draw distances were absolutely absurd, movement was painful, and it really wasn't worth suffering through just to find out what happens to the characters. I didn't keep up with future South Park games, but I don't believe they made an uphill climb.

In more capable hands South Park could have been a much better game, and I think of Obsidian as a pretty capable team, especially when dealing with established IPs (KotoR 2 and New Vegas, to name two). I'm certainly curious to see how they handle this, though I doubt that it'd be a day-one purchase for me; I lost interest in South Park a long time ago.

Damnit, i love southpark but i was hoping for something far more serious.

It's Obsidian. If it releases on PC I'll play it.

And I almost promised myself I'd buy the next Obsidian RPG on release, no questions asked. But South Park... I never liked South Park. I didn't even know the show was still running.

There's a PC version coming too, according to Gamespot and IGN.

The simpsons takes 8 months per episode to make. South park cranks out a new one in 6 days, and they still manage to be creative and funny most of the time. It's a great show.
Besides, when Obsidian releases a South Park RPG, you can bet that the show will become bigger than ever.

It's kind of weird. It's a license most would assume only worthy of shovelware.

It's not even an especially good show. It is good, it's funny, and on rare occasion it is deceptively thoughtful and informative. On less rare occasion, it's poop jokes and I go watch something else.

It's all over the place. If the cover is to be trusted, it looks like the kids are going to take on fantasy roles. Which gives it ample opportunity to not only integrate RPG concepts, but lampoon fantasy tropes. Will it do this? Will it just be fart and sex jokes? Who knows.

If it's anything near the quality of the series, I won't be playing it.

Impulse? But Game Informer isn't just published in the US...

Sounds perfect as an MMO... at least given the usual language of MMO players.

No but they are an advert for Gamestop and they now own Impulse.