South Park : Fractured But Whole

[MMaRsu]

Anyone pick this up? Im about 6 hours in and so far it's a lot better than Stick of Truth which was good in its own right.

The combat system is more Fire Emblem than Paper Mario which imo is a lot better.

[demi]

Hoping to pick it up this weekend. Is the hardest difficulty a challenge?

[Raist]

I think it's actually just a joke.

[desert punk]

Still haven't finished Stick of Truth. The writing is spot on and wandering around the town and engaging with the peeps there was exactly what I always wanted from a South Park game. But the gameplay is so fucking tedious that I lost interest somewhere after you escape from that alien ship.

[MMaRsu]

Hoping to pick it up this weekend. Is the hardest difficulty a challenge?

I'm playing on the hardest combat difficulty, and it's a lot more tactical than SoT. It's not really hard though. The general difficulty is supposedly just a joke, and doesnt affect anything but I'm not a 100% sure.

So far it's more enjoyable than SoT, but the joy of walking through South Park is less than in SoT because that isnt actually new.

Some good stuff in there though, I especially liked the "stop screwing around" teacher .

[demi]

I think it's actually just a joke.

I know the black scaler is a joke. But there is a "Mastermind" difficulty.

https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole/achievement/141332-The-Token-Experience.html

[MMaRsu]

I think it's actually just a joke.

I know the black scaler is a joke. But there is a "Mastermind" difficulty.

https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole/achievement/141332-The-Token-Experience.html

Im playing on that, not so hard in the first 8 hrs.

[TVC15]

I just finished the first day and night, and so far I'm digging this. Not really a fan of the show, but I like it in vidyagame form. I think because it has to make an effort to be less immediately topical about things.

[Raist]

I think it's actually just a joke.

I know the black scaler is a joke. But there is a "Mastermind" difficulty.

https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole/achievement/141332-The-Token-Experience.html

No, as in, not just in the "it's harder so you get a black character"-joke sense, but also that it's not actually changing anything in terms of difficulty.

[demi]

But this says otherwise:

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole/318189-how-difficult-mastermind-difficulty.html

[TVC15]

But this says otherwise:

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole/318189-how-difficult-mastermind-difficulty.html

So far it's really easy on normal, and you know I'm a wuss. A man gamer like you can probably handle hard easily.

[CatsCatsCats]

I bought this shit forever ago because they were giving out stick of truth with preorder, haven’t played it yet

[demi]

Do all copies come with Stick of Truth?

[CatsCatsCats]

Dunno breh I bought it like three delays ago

[TVC15]

Do all copies come with Stick of Truth?

I bought it the day of release (no preorder) on PS4 and Stick of Truth came with it.

[Stoney Mason]

Played about 2 hours today. Game is fucking funny. Which is all I really wanted.



Contextually in the game very funny.

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He's not a drug dealer of course

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[demi]

My copy did come with Stick of Truth and Towelie.

[CatsCatsCats]

Played a bit today, funny stuff

[zomgee]

I 100%ed it. I only have 2 cheevos missing - The Token Experience and a super hard optional battle with a story character, and I probably won't do either of those.

Loved the game. Maybe more than the first. The end game got a little sloggy and there is a heal ultimate that is WAY overpowered but overall I thought it was great.

And that Gay Fish/Sea Man/get mama to heaven side quest was a fucking riot.

[MMaRsu]

About eleven hours in, I'm still loving it but I'm noticing I can only really play for a few hours before I get kinda bored of the humor? The battle system is pretty sweet though.

[demi]

Was there anything missable? I think Stick of Truth had an issue where you couldnt get some Chinpokomon after a certain scene.

[Pwnz]

About eleven hours in, I'm still loving it but I'm noticing I can only really play for a few hours before I get kinda bored of the humor? The battle system is pretty sweet though.

I thought the funniest parts were the first day and last part. The middle isn't as good, and if you're playing 8+ hours in one sitting you may just be tired. This happened to me lol.

[DarkStream]

I got the game on the cheap for ps4 last night.
Only played up to after you can pick classes. Been a little busy with going to every house and punching every object and NPC.

Haven't played since and I'm not really feeling the pull. The Stick of Truth was novel at the time so maybe that is that.

[zomgee]

Was there anything missable? I think Stick of Truth had an issue where you couldnt get some Chinpokomon after a certain scene.

No except for the Token achievement. You have to do that from the beginning of the game.

[demi]

I changed it to Mastermind & Black character immediately

[Joe Molotov]

the title makes it sound like you're saying butt hole

[chronovore]

the title makes it sound like you're saying butt hole

[demi]

I just identified myself as a cisgendered boi

[headwalk]

go forth and oppress.

[zomgee]

the title makes it sound like you're saying butt hole

I swear to god I want to say something about this... but it's a spoiler. And a very good one.

[CyclopticTendencies]

I just identified myself as a cisgendered boi

We don't take kindly to yer type round here!

This game is such a blast

[FatalT]

Y’all gonna make me end up getting this outside of a rental. I loved the first. What’s the length on this? I read 15 hours if you plow through the main story and 20-25 if you do all the side quests. Considering it took me 18 hours to finish Evil Within 2, that seems okay for a rental though.

[MMaRsu]

I just identified myself as a cisgendered boi

I can identify with that

[demi]

This game has been hilarious so far. Curently with captain diabetes, the minigame rofl

[zomgee]

Y’all gonna make me end up getting this outside of a rental. I loved the first. What’s the length on this? I read 15 hours if you plow through the main story and 20-25 if you do all the side quests. Considering it took me 18 hours to finish Evil Within 2, that seems okay for a rental though.

I did absolutely everything except a side battle in 23.

[Cravis]

I think the writing in this one has been consistently more funny than Stick of Truth.

I do miss the zombie Nazis.

[Pwnz]

Y’all gonna make me end up getting this outside of a rental. I loved the first. What’s the length on this? I read 15 hours if you plow through the main story and 20-25 if you do all the side quests. Considering it took me 18 hours to finish Evil Within 2, that seems okay for a rental though.

20 to 25 hours for most. And there appears to be a couple of 3 hour DLCs over the next year.

[demi]

Some clips I made:

Boogers n Cum
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195363

Who keyed Randy's car?
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195388

Mid-battle CAR
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195421

Facing your fears
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195442

[zomgee]

I am really happy they gave us some more Randy Marsh in this game. TSOT didn't feature enough of him.

It'd be useful for people to know about Cat Pee Cheesing from the episode Major Boobage and Kanye West from Fishsticks.

[FatalT]

I think the writing in this one has been consistently more funny than Stick of Truth.

I do miss the zombie Nazis.

We’ve got Wolfenstein 2 for that

[Pwnz]

Some clips I made:

Boogers n Cum
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195363

Who keyed Randy's car?
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195388

Mid-battle CAR
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195421

Facing your fears
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/demi/video/38195442

The Randy quest was amazing.  I hope one of the untitled DLCs is Randy DLC.

[Cravis]

I love how the bus line is DLC bus lines.

“I’ve been waiting for this bus since December!”

[owlyOOP]

I still think SOT is better but I'm only about 9 hours in or so. It feels like a chore traversing the town now since the fast travel stations seem so spread out. I also don't enjoy the battle system much more, but that could just be because I enjoy straight turn based a lot more. Sometimes battles feel like they drag on way too long in FBW compared to SOT. It's still funny though, and worth it for the south park humor.

[Para-Medic]

For those who think they'd like to try before buying, PSN and XBL now have free-trials available starting today. Though it should be noted that these trials are limited to 1 hour.

[Kurt Russell]

For those who think they'd like to try before buying, PSN and XBL now have free-trials available starting today. Though it should be noted that these trials are limited to 1 hour.

Fantastic. Thanks!

Is this region-specific or global? Also, are any of the versions censored this time around?

[Para-Medic]

For those who think they'd like to try before buying, PSN and XBL now have free-trials available starting today. Though it should be noted that these trials are limited to 1 hour.

Fantastic. Thanks!

Is this region-specific or global? Also, are any of the versions censored this time around?

http://comicbook.com/gaming/2017/08/30/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole-won-t-be-censored-in-any-regi/

No censorship.

Also pretty sure the trials will be global, but availability might depend on when your digital storefront updates.

[Tucah]

loved SoT but never really liked the superhero stuff in the show so kind of ignored this. really glad to hear it's as funny/funnier than the first game, will grab when it's on sale for the holidays

[TVC15]

The penultimate boss of night 3 was annoying. Hopefully that's the worst of it. Only annoying part so far, really. It only took me 3 tries, but it ended up being a long fight each time.

[zomgee]

The penultimate boss of night 3 was annoying. Hopefully that's the worst of it. Only annoying part so far, really. It only took me 3 tries, but it ended up being a long fight each time.

It was the toughest fight of the game in my opinion.

[demi]

Just did the

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Raisins / Mosquito

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fight, with it being 100+ might above me, had to employ TACTICS

[TVC15]

Finished this last night. 19 and some hours. Did all of the side quests except the collect-a-thon stuff, and I think I only had to find one more cat and put up one more poster.

Good stuff. Liked it. You can tell it's good because I finished it.

I might try Stick of Truth. I liked it at launch, but I hit a buggo that halted progression and never went back. I think it may have had annoying load times or something too.

[owlyOOP]

I think it may have had annoying load times or something too.

FBW has longer and more loading times from my experience (played through SOT the weekend before FBW came out)

[Pwnz]

Just did the

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Raisins / Mosquito

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fight, with it being 100+ might above me, had to employ TACTICS

I think that was the first fight I died in.

[Pwnz]

I think it may have had annoying load times or something too.

FBW has longer and more loading times from my experience (played through SOT the weekend before FBW came out)

They were brief on PC. Guessing difference is CPU and SSD

[Pwnz]

loved SoT but never really liked the superhero stuff in the show so kind of ignored this. really glad to hear it's as funny/funnier than the first game, will grab when it's on sale for the holidays

Yea the superheroes is just a skin. Nothing like the episodes about Cthulu and BP spill. Just good old South Park, and quite a bit original. I would say Parker nearly put 2 seasons of writing into this game.

[Kurt Russell]

So I played the 1 hour timed demo. 15 minutes of it was introductory stuff, 20 minutes of it was playing the game and the remaining 25 minutes I spent walking back and forth trying to figure out how to get more instragram followers. I got one. Nobody else would take a picture with me. What did I miss?

[zomgee]

So I played the 1 hour timed demo. 15 minutes of it was introductory stuff, 20 minutes of it was playing the game and the remaining 25 minutes I spent walking back and forth trying to figure out how to get more instragram followers. I got one. Nobody else would take a picture with me. What did I miss?

It's a lot like Instagram, you get grandma first and then other randos until you get enough followers where more popular people want to follow you. They'll come naturally in the game.

[demi]

Miss... in the game? 1 hour really isn't enough to enjoy the game.

You get instagram followers by holding LT (or whatever is on PS4) and you'll see an icon above people's heads. Then you walk up, and press the button for a selfie (it'll be at the bottom of the page). Some people in the city won't selfie you unless you do something for them or have more followers.

[Kurt Russell]

Miss... in the game? 1 hour really isn't enough to enjoy the game.

You get instagram followers by holding LT (or whatever is on PS4) and you'll see an icon above people's heads. Then you walk up, and press the button for a selfie (it'll be at the bottom of the page). Some people in the city won't selfie you unless you do something for them or have more followers.

Right I think I figured it out. I was just walking upto people, like Butter's Dad and the mailman and taking selfies. I wondered why my follower count didn't increase from 1.

[demi]

They just dropped a Gurren Lagann reference

Tool Shed: "We proceed forward with each turn, that's how a drill works!"

Even his ultimate is the drill move