South Park: The Stick of Truth Comic-Con Panel Reports

Some articles have started popping up, summarizing Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s recent Comic-Con panel on South Park: The Stick of Truth, the upcoming RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment, with Parker and Stone penning the script themselves.

Polygon has a write-up (spotted on Obsidian Entertainment forums):

“I really loved playing Skyrim, as many people did,” Parker said during a Comic-Con panel today. After getting lost in the expansive world and huge cast of characters of Bethesda’s game, “I was like ‘Let’s do this. This is easy.'”

That led to a script that Parker said ballooned to some 850 pages filled with “just about every character” and element from South Park. He said that when the South Park team and developers at Obsidian Entertainment tracked the release of the game based on Stone and Parker’s ambitions, they were targeting “holiday season 2032,” he joked.

Parker said they were urged to “cut it down, cut it down, cut it down,” and that everyone kept saying to us [make that extra content] DLC” drawing jeers from the crowd “and I agree… fuck that.”

“Somehow or another,” Parker said of what was ultimately trimmed from The Stick of Truth, “this shit will get out there,” perhaps in the form of a TV episode or multiple episodes.

While Collider has a bullet-point list:

• The game will feature lots of songs from the show.
• south-park-video-gameParker cites Earthbound and Skyrim for his inspiration while Stone cites Paper Mario and Zelda.
• The player’s character will be silent.
• The game isn’t going to be set in any particular storyline of the show.
• Parker confirms that Chef will make an appearance in the game.