Developing South Park: The Stick Of Truth

I tell stories about the development of South Park: The Stick Of Truth.

[Gamescommentary]

I wish more high profile devs would do these types of blogs.

[joshjames]

The final boss fight from this game has stuck with me to this day. I have the Princess Kenny song stuck in my head often.

[Rustvaar]

Your videos cheer me up, no end. They make me think about a lot of things; life choices, appetite for risk, personal goals. I just can't comprehend how anyone can decide "well, I'm moving to Seattle". I can barely decide what I'm having for lunch and here's someone who will move around the country and juggle multiple projects. It's amazing how determined you are, how intelligent and personable you are in your videos. You're a real community treasure. Thank you.

[ManOfParody]

Aw man. You said Chris Avellone and immediately reminded me of the crap that poor guy had to go through.
I feel so sorry for him. Genuinely seems like a good guy. He didn't deserve that.
But on South Park Stick of Truth, I think the final product was amazing. It was a SP version of Paper Mario TTYD. My only complaint was how incredibly short the game is.

[terminallumbago]

2:41 “it didn’t always stop where you put the breakpoint”. I can see myself being driven mental by that!

[DylonDylonDylon]

Such a good game! Glad you worked on it!

The sound is better too!

[astrahcat]

This was my favorite game in the last 10+ years due to having a great balance of narrative and rpg. Loved this game.

[MFKitten]

Sounds WAY better with the lav mic! Nice and warm and clean.

[Pedone_Rosso]

Really a fun game!
Lots of South Park in it,
straightforward and yet satisfactory RPG mechanics,
and so much variety in all aspects of the game play
that it kept being super interesting for me all the way through despite the (relative) simplicity of its combat system and progression.

Even if I only managed to play some 80% of it before a bug locked me off from finishing it
(as an obsessive completionist, that meant too many hours for me to go back and replay it from scratch),
I remember liking it more than the still very good second chapter of the series
(which I had actually played right before the stick of truth game, btw: couldn't have had a more direct comparison than that!).


Thanks for your videos and games!

[NathBeLive]

I knew that South Park the Stick of Truth was made by obsidian and I loved it because of that, however I had no idea YOU were apart of this game! This means that this was my first game I played of yours way before I played fallout. I absolutely love this game and now I know why. I absolutely love fallout, fallout new vegas, and this game and its cool to see same faces in these projects.

[diegofigueroa]

Yooo the mechanic you mentioned where a character stays after he moved seems to be a similar thing to what they did for the South Park The Fractured But Whole game.

[gils]

I'm a long time fan of south park & a gamer, The Stick Of Truth was amazing thanks for being involved!

[GypsumGeneration]

I don't say it often enough, but thanks for sharing Tim.

[thewastelandarchitect]

So cool to hear about all the cut content, sounds like it would of been really good! I wonder if modders could put it into the game like they did with all the fallout 2 cut content 🤔 also would of loved to hear about your interactions with Matt and Trey, what are they like in person and what are they like to work with etc.

[elroma]

"There was a werewolf and Michael Jackson was involved" ajajajaja i never thought I would laugh at that.

[jameshanson]

I love watching all of your videos. Thank you for sharing so much.

[kip_c]

Gabe Newell wasn’t lying when he famously bemoaned the PS3 architecture

[tribbergrips]

"Badass Smartass, and Kissass" are all stats in wasteland. Badass is intimidation, kissass is persuasion etc.

[ytubeanon]

argh, release the Stick of Truth cut content as a DLC or bonus or a youtube video, it can't just remain unseen
from another video: "eventually a bunch of content was cut from the game this included a battle with vampire kids a quest to save Carmen's doll from the gingers a whole Christmas town and a huge underground world where gnomes and crab people lived"

[exarkann]

Mic needs some tweaking, sounds a bit muddy, like the middle-high and high end has been damped. Previously you sounded more bright and lifelike on my Klipsch system.

That said thank you for this series! I love listening to professionals talk about the thing they are passionate about.