South Park

That snow bit was also in all the promotional material, so that is again rather shallow exposure.

You can tell when someone only knows a work from reviews when they only know some stuff from the first few hours of the game.

Edited by Redmess on Nov 22nd 2023 at 6:16:24 PM

That's something even their Production Lead Time can't overcome, you can't talk about the nuances of a game the day it releases if the game demands 120 hours of playtime to complete. You get the sense they know about the appeal of video games to lampoon it, but can't get more specific due to working 60 hours weeks making the show.

Even if you don't have time to commit to playing a game you can however watch youtube playthroughs to give you some idea of what it's like.

Same issue applies. Many people spend more time watching the Youtube content than actually playing the game. And the only impact is a few people not complaining about the dialogue mistakes.

Didn't they once accidentally plagiarize someone else's parody of Inception, because they hadn't seen the movie themselves, and thought a joke from a parody they saw was an actual quote from the movie?

Yeah, I'd rather they put that extremely short production time towards good sensible story than making sure their references are tight. Though I'm a little harder on the specials since they presumably take months, not one week. (Which is probably for the best. That six days to air stuff is impressive but cannot be healthy.)

It was a college humor video

this article goes into detail

Edited by Ultimatum on Nov 22nd 2023 at 6:03:04 PM

New gameplay for the next game:

Well, the graphics look a bit better, but the appeal was always playing through an episode of the show for me, so 3D South Park games just don't feel as enticing. Plus the multiplayer lobby will probably be full of kids.

I would just do single player.

That's begging the question: do they work 60 hour weeks on this show? Maybe years ago, but I have a hard time believing they still do.

When you're in full production nobody in Hollywood is doing 40 hour weeks. 12 hour days are standard but they may go 8 weeks on 2 weeks off. What made South Park unique was the turnaround, sending rough storyboards to animators on the first writers room meeting for the week. The speed forced them to make definitive decisions and move on, extending the deadline means more effort overall even if it's not quite the same crunch. We don't have definitive information on their current process but I imagine the specials are given three weeks while the 10 episode seasons take up about 4 months. The "6 Days to Air" documentary was when the show was doing 14 episode seasons and they needed some breathing room, especially as they started experimenting with more continuity driven stories that required a bit more lead time.

Sure, but I find it hard to believe that these two billionaires in their fifties are still crunching it like when they were piss-poor twenty-somethings cutting and pasting cartoons out of crafts paper.

Edited by Redmess on Nov 22nd 2023 at 12:57:19 PM

That's assuming they would ever let lead production management be handled by anyone but themselves, like Matt Groening did with The Simpsons. As is they are in charge of everything and you can't do that part time.

Yeah, but I doubt they're doing a lot of the animation themselves nowadays.

I assume they handle the writing but outsource the visual production.

They aren't keyframing every scene personally but everything is handled internally at South Park Studios. If you've never seen "6 Days to Air" I'd recommend it.

That's 13 years old, I hardly call that relevant to how the situation is now.

The process is basically the same: writing, storyboarding, animating and dialogue recording all at the same time. We just don't know the exact turnaround time for any given project.

Does this work for a potential Broken Base entry, (in six months) or have I left something out?

• Broken Base: Given how divisive the subject of Adaptational Diversity is in real life, it comes as little surprise that this episode which lapoon the practice has caused some discord of its own. While those who like the episode appreciate how it presents the case it makes, that adding diversity is a worthwhile practise but it shouldn't be done shallowy less the overall product suffer, there's also a strong argument from its critics that South Parks usual Both Sides Have a Point approach fails to properly take into account those who are against representation on principle. That by using Kathleen Kennedy as the symbol of those in the industry pushing for more diveristy, it feeds into the incorrect assumption that shes wholly responsible for cultural shift in media to be more acceptable to wider audiences, with even a sizable number of people taking the episode's parody at face value.

Edited by Avenger09 on Nov 25th 2023 at 3:42:37 PM

This question is better for the South Park cleanup thread or the Broken Base cleanup thread.

An interesting video about Wendy and how she got hated by the fandom.

I love her, she's epic and I like her better than both Stan and Kyle combined.

Stan and Kyle combined? I thought they were always combined. I kid.

I cant even object to that. They are THAT devoid of character.