South Park: The Stick of Truth Lead Designer Digital Dragons Talk

With the news of a new South Park RPG coming from this year’s E3, it’s worth going back to a talk Obsidian’s senior designer Matt MacLean gave at Digital Dragons, a games industry conference held in Poland. During his talk, MacLean talked about the difficulties the developers at Obsidian encountered while designing the game, and the design choices they had to make during development to facilitate the delivery of the game’s comedic elements, which are arguably the draw of a South Park game:

While South Park: The Fractured But Whole is developed by an internal studio at Ubisoft, I do hope they learned their lesson from The Stick of Truth and will be able to improve on its template.