From EGMR: "Yesterday I was speaking to a good friend of EGMR, Gaming Anarchist, via Twitter. He brought to my attention an error or misjudgment made on Rev3Games part in classifying South Park: Stick of Truth as a game reminiscent of a JRPG, or playing like one. The game is a turn-based RPG, a genre of videogame which Western developers have been making since the basic inception of the videogame. Many early RPG PC games were turn-based and early text adventure games could have turn-based combat if the developer so chose to. Rev3Games tries to put across that the game could appeal to a small section of hardcore JRPG fans. However, seasoned JRPG fans are playing JRPGs to begin with, perhaps if they were fans of South Park their attention may be peaked".
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
They said awhile ago that Ubisoft holds contract rights to the main flagship South Park games. So like stick, fractured and phone destroyer.
Snow Day was handled by THQ and Question and is a random spinoff. Hopefully Ubisoft is cooking something.
Loved the RPGs but never played the others. Have to track them down. Still not sure about Snow Day though.
The South Park series has somehow managed to stay relevant for over 25 years, but which are the best games based on the TV show?
The only two worth playing are Stick of truth and fractured but whole. The rest were garbage except snow day which I can't say anything about yet. But with that said, unlike stick and fractured which debuted as AAA full priced titles by ubisoft, snow day is a new developer and publisher and has a budget price at only $30 soooo
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I see Deadpool made the list. Also saw it in stock at the local game store. Second hand. Might finally pick up a copy.
Agree, JRPG's are synonymous with amazing storytelling, high level character development & very inspired worlds. Something that mostly isn't replicated when it comes to WRPG's
Regardless, I can't wait for this South Park game to arrive in my mailbox.
From the review it seems like south park has a bit of both WRPG and JRPG elements in the game.
JRPGS generally follow a linear story line with story driven characters. Usually they are told more like a story or movie.
WRPGs are more Sandbox driven
Edit: spelling
"Making broad statements that a game can be likened to a JRPG because of turn-based combat shows a lack of understanding about what a JRPG is, and a basic knowledge of turn-based RPGs."
It's South Park! You know, comedy...it's all a joke to anger people who take themselves too seriously. Mormons, Scientologists, Tom Cruise, and apparently egmr.net. Why so serious?
JRPGS can be many things