South Park CoCreator: I Hope We Don’t Get a F****ng 4 on GS

Let's hope not, but we do have some controversial critics on this site.

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I'm more worried about the fact they've come out and said that. If you have a well built game, with solid mechanics, and a great story you shouldn't have too much to worry about (unless Mcshea is reviewing it), so they fact they are already worried that reviewers are gonna hate it makes me wonder if they're not happy with the game.

"Don't show that to GameSpot"

Haha, that was a good watch. I kind of have some more hope for the game. It won't be perfect or amazing by any stretch probably, but it looks like it should be a great game for fans of the show. I don't expect spectacular scores, but I'll laugh if GameSpot does give it a 4. I'll give the game a shot regardless of the scores it gets, but I think the fact that it was delayed for quite a while shows that they at least put forth some sort of effort into this game.

i thought more of it as a joke, since they have gotten a lot of exposure on this site

Just let Tom review it.

Tom will shred it to pieces, just to piss people off.

Probably a stab at McShea, yeah. The guy has become the unwilling champion of this school of reviewing bent of severely penalizing games for the most asinine personal reasons: "Supporting characters are not sympathetic", "Story refuses to explore difficult situations"

Hmm, strange he would think it would matter so much what it gets on Game"polygon"spot.

But of course South Park with its humour will get a low score by the hacks on Gamespot, i already see a Feedbackula in the future for the game and its review, Gamespot lives on controversy and i bet that South Park wont score above a 6-7 on GS

For gods sake, don't let Tom McShea or Carolyn Petit review this. They are going to butcher it and give it a 5 just because of the jokes and so called sexism

I'm sure the game will be fine no matter who reviews it. Good chance it's not gonna matter one way or another. People are going to get it if they want or avoid it if they don't want it. Thought, it would be funny to have Caro give it a low score for being misogynistic and insensitive, then have Tom do a second opinion and say it is shallow and doesn't explore the tough issues.

I wanna see Tom review the game just to see the comment section explode.

I am so getting it if they do out of spite :3

What dev/publisher isn't worried about the scores? low scores could easily kill a game series over night

haha i could see it

Ahaha. Excellent.

Too be honest, I don't care if this is a good or bad game. As long as it has an engaging South Park story I might find myself enjoying it. At the same time I think that the resources for this project are in the right place. The game developer and the studio behind the show have their own roles in the production of this game. The collaboration might be beneficial to The Stick of Truth and the burden isn't just on one team.

It's not a theory, i am 90% sure it's going to happen

worst reviews in the world on this site, so its probably getting a 4.

Their worried because GS doesn't know how to review games properly anymore. If they said they were worried about 4s across the board it would be cause to worry.

I think it was Super Mario Galaxy 2 that has been given a 10. Since then, Gamespot has been extremely harsh with their scores and has yet to give a new game a 10 at all. I wonder why the shake up with that? In any case, I think he was completely joking.

Because they want to look legit even so many years after the Gerstman incident. Looking at people like Carolyn and McShea that are so inconsistent and how people are assigned to review games on this site is stupid. Reviewers should be assigned to a specific genre or platform even to know what and how they rate games. The way it's handled now is horrible

hope they don't lower the score because the reviewer thinks there is too much toilet humour, or too many fart jokes.

Its made by obsidian, so its guaranteed it wont be a big hit or win any awards really. It will borrow a lot from other games in terms of gameplay, it will have its share of bugs, it will be underwhelming, and mediocre overall at best. That's pretty much the best you can expect from an obsidian game.

Any praise the game gets will only be about the story, dialogue or characters. Basically anything good someone mentions about the game will be because of matt and trey.

I think gamespot should jokingly give it a 4 for a day, and then revert to the score they actually give to it. Only because he said this.

@Gargus

I will agree that the best parts of Obsidian games have always been story, dialogue, and/or characters. This is one thing I love about Obsidian cause even despite this the gameplay is usually solid, though I will agree they usually contain a fairly large amount of bugs, but some games it makes sense do to development times, and rushes, but then again some it doesn't(Alpha Protocol for instance(loved it anyway though)).

Obsidian has been, and hopefully will continue to be one of my favorite western developers.

They aren't that bad mate

am I the only one who likes tom Mcshea?

yeah, you might be one of the few

I think he's reviewed a few games correctly. I've agreed to some of his points.

surely they must have a reviewer at this site that actually likes Southpark that could review it? thats the only way to get a fair review... if you hate the show you will hate this game.

@gameofthering: Me too, mostly Skyward Sword. Good game but it had its fair share of issues. Also, Knack. That game's one good looking POS.

GS sometimes gives low scores for sequels; or great but flawed games.

Both of these could apply to south park.

I am fine with him. Most people bitch about him because they think certain games are entitled to certain scores and therefore get mad when he goes against the grain.

@GreySeal9: From what I've seen, he just tells it like it is. I've actually agreed with several of his scores (although I haven't played TLOU yet).

I think he tells it like it is too. The idea that he writes troll reviews for website hits is a silly conspiracy theory.

I would have scored Skyward Sword much higher than he did, but I totally I understood where he was coming from.

@GreySeal9: I'd say his review of SS is correct. To me, the padding in the game was far too blatant to be enjoyable a lot of the time. Although the controls were a mixed bag (weren't great but weren't outright broken).

Most people don't like him because he is a bad reviewer. I couldn't care less about the score. But when you have inconsistency mixed with laziness and hipster opinions, you can't really disagree with that. All of his reviews are all over the place. It's expected that he will give good games lousy reviews. But in the end of the day it's his opinion. But he's paid for this stuff aswell, so keep that in mind

You just proved my point with the bolded bit.

When he votes for games just because he doesn't like character, themes or even the violence, then yes i call it that. I may have overdone it calling it that, but i had to get my point across

I haven't beaten Skyward Sword, but I remember after the review was posted, a lot of people were angry at Tom because he was apparently inconsistent about a few things in the game, one of those aspects being the controls and how it didn't serve him as well as it would. Other players, however, apparently didn't have a problem with the game's controls. So it makes you wonder...

I do not know much about South Park except that it is satirically vulgar. If the reviewer here considers that to be not politically correct enough, it might receive less than a perfect score like Grand Theft Auto V.

The main thing i have with him in that instance was that he praised Fable: the Journey for its controls, even though watching other reviews and gameplay videos that the game had clear flaws. It's this kind of stuff that makes me cringe everytime i hear him reviewing a game that people are interested in. That's why i have other sites i go to, because i just can't trust the guy