It's actually not that bad when you give it the benefit of great controls. Which you can do with emulation but it's still a really bad game. It's like serious sam done completely wrong.
I have no idea how the hell I beat it originally. We had a trade day when I was in grade/primary school and I traded this for Turok 2 and a memory card. Made out like a king that day and he didn't even want to trade back.
>he didn't even want to trade back.
He probably got scared and filtered by turok 2, that game is intense. I tried playing it once when I was 7 or 8 and frickin scared the shit out of me, I would've kept south Park too.
The game is fine. Nothing incredible, but a good game to rent over the weekend and play, and the multiplayer is fun. Most people just hate it because they don't even understand how to beat the first level and think the entire game is just throwing snowballs at turkeys
It was good for what it needed to be - it accurately captured the look of the show in 3D, had crude huemer, and was an FPS, a genre which allows for a feeling of immersion (which can be a definite plus for people who wanted to feel like they were "in an episode," which is probably everybody who bothered to play an early SP game) and was at peak popularity with teenage boys.
DID YOU KNOW that Luv Shack originally had a minigame where you through waterballoons off an overpass? It was cut, I imagine because it was deemed too easily imitated
+decent music
+Decent models
+Decent textures
+Decent weapons
+Decent multiplayer
-worst level design ever made
If they could have actually made good levels maybe it could have been cool. It lives or dies on if it's actually fun to play. But the levels were atrocious. I still think if some fans could get their hands on tools and slap 5 levels together for a mini campaign maybe it could be a cool experience.
i don't know if it's a "gem" or anything but it captured the feel of the show and it played reasonably well, especially for a licensed product. something always kept me from getting very far before putting it down but as a child who was pretty into south park it was a treat
I remember sensible journalists being very hyped about the N64 version back in the day. I played the PSX version and was kinda atrocious and repetitive, but still charming enough for a few days
It's ok. Final boss sucks the big one, but otherwise, it's not bad. They scaled back the edgelord humor and give you some fun weapons to play with. My issue is you spend way too much time in the woods and it's just not that engaging.
When the show is just about the town or the kids being kids, it's really great. The "ripped from the headlines" episodes always suck because they age poorly by design and the writers can't really come up with anything original or funny to say about the topic.
People often say the show hits its stride around season 5, but I honestly think the show is at its peak in the first few seasons. It has an irreverent charm to its rapid-fire toilet humour that manages to feel genuine despite the absolute insanity going on. Later seasons would double down on stuff like making Cartman unapologetically evil which is funny in a vacuum, but it loses out on what feels like a more genuine friendship between the boys in the first few seasons. They would rip on each other, but they'd never be outright cruel. For all its toilet humour, the original seasons perfectly capture the feeling of being a small boy and the dumb shit you and your friends would do when adults weren't looking.
I think the Casa Bonita episode is Cartman at his best. A total lying, manipulative shithead whose schemes cause him to get in way over his head but doesn't cross the line into evil.
I stopped watching about 15 years ago during the episode where cartman tried to make butters suck his dick. I don’t know what they were thinking with that one, but it was creepy and disgusting
>For all its toilet humour, the original seasons perfectly capture the feeling of being a small boy and the dumb shit you and your friends would do when adults weren't looking.
It was way better than the "improved'" animation and over convoluted conspiracy and political plots that dominated later on, even if they still had some of it in S1-S3. Matt and Trey denounced the early show out of old shame but they never really matured, just became repetitive
Also the type of kid that those four were back then isn't really how they act now
There's some cool ideas there though. Rushed development to meet a christmas release, many such cases
It wasn't great or even that good, but I had fun playing multiplayer with my bros. Like said, there were some cool ideas. I liked some of the weapons.
It's only fun if you disable the turkeys and just roam around South Park
How do you disable the turkeys? And is South Park actually fun to roam around?
You have to hack the rom to just not spawn turkeys.
what style N64 game could it have been that would make better
obviously anything than first person shooter
Body Harvest but its South Park
It's actually not that bad when you give it the benefit of great controls. Which you can do with emulation but it's still a really bad game. It's like serious sam done completely wrong.
I have no idea how the hell I beat it originally. We had a trade day when I was in grade/primary school and I traded this for Turok 2 and a memory card. Made out like a king that day and he didn't even want to trade back.
>he didn't even want to trade back.
He probably got scared and filtered by turok 2, that game is intense. I tried playing it once when I was 7 or 8 and frickin scared the shit out of me, I would've kept south Park too.
The game is fine. Nothing incredible, but a good game to rent over the weekend and play, and the multiplayer is fun. Most people just hate it because they don't even understand how to beat the first level and think the entire game is just throwing snowballs at turkeys
It wasn't? I only ever played deathmatch multi-player with my cousin.
its my guilty pleasure,
What the frick were they THINKING?
It was good for what it needed to be - it accurately captured the look of the show in 3D, had crude huemer, and was an FPS, a genre which allows for a feeling of immersion (which can be a definite plus for people who wanted to feel like they were "in an episode," which is probably everybody who bothered to play an early SP game) and was at peak popularity with teenage boys.
imo if this game had coop on its campaing mode it would have been more enjoyable.
BOBBYBIRD
It’s literally Conker but actually good
Frick you
Frick you buddy
I'm not your buddy, guy
I’m not your guy, buddy.
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I’m not your bloody, friend.
He's not your buddy, FWEN.
>where dat gameplay teaser tho
in case anyone else was curious what dickhead OP is narking on - I think this is the gameplay
i can hear them going DURR
I like the draw distance and muffled audio of the PSX version.
Luv Shack is the good South Park game of that gen and probably the best ever
DID YOU KNOW that Luv Shack originally had a minigame where you through waterballoons off an overpass? It was cut, I imagine because it was deemed too easily imitated
The foggy environments filled me with this sense of unease and dread when I played it as a kid.
But it has that plinky-plonky music over it all the time.
The alien ship level scared me as a kid.
Very liminal experience, made me feel an unknown dread as a child. Only as an adult did I find out my dad was molesting me.
+decent music
+Decent models
+Decent textures
+Decent weapons
+Decent multiplayer
-worst level design ever made
If they could have actually made good levels maybe it could have been cool. It lives or dies on if it's actually fun to play. But the levels were atrocious. I still think if some fans could get their hands on tools and slap 5 levels together for a mini campaign maybe it could be a cool experience.
The gameplay just sucks and the town is too spooky without any of the comfy charm of the show
>too spooky
You're like 37 stop acting like a fricking zoomer whose scared of 3D spaces.
The pc port is fricked, the second episodes boss takes too many hits.
i don't know if it's a "gem" or anything but it captured the feel of the show and it played reasonably well, especially for a licensed product. something always kept me from getting very far before putting it down but as a child who was pretty into south park it was a treat
One of the comfiest games ever made. Still replay it every year. Eat shit, homosexual.
One of those games everyone owned but never played like Ecco the Dolphin
The frick are you talking about?
I remember sensible journalists being very hyped about the N64 version back in the day. I played the PSX version and was kinda atrocious and repetitive, but still charming enough for a few days
It's ok. Final boss sucks the big one, but otherwise, it's not bad. They scaled back the edgelord humor and give you some fun weapons to play with. My issue is you spend way too much time in the woods and it's just not that engaging.
early south park has a comfy juvenile vibe
these days, south park is too hyperfocused on the news and randy shouldn't be the main character
When the show is just about the town or the kids being kids, it's really great. The "ripped from the headlines" episodes always suck because they age poorly by design and the writers can't really come up with anything original or funny to say about the topic.
People often say the show hits its stride around season 5, but I honestly think the show is at its peak in the first few seasons. It has an irreverent charm to its rapid-fire toilet humour that manages to feel genuine despite the absolute insanity going on. Later seasons would double down on stuff like making Cartman unapologetically evil which is funny in a vacuum, but it loses out on what feels like a more genuine friendship between the boys in the first few seasons. They would rip on each other, but they'd never be outright cruel. For all its toilet humour, the original seasons perfectly capture the feeling of being a small boy and the dumb shit you and your friends would do when adults weren't looking.
I think the Casa Bonita episode is Cartman at his best. A total lying, manipulative shithead whose schemes cause him to get in way over his head but doesn't cross the line into evil.
I stopped watching about 15 years ago during the episode where cartman tried to make butters suck his dick. I don’t know what they were thinking with that one, but it was creepy and disgusting
he was only trying to fix the gay polarity, dont be a homosexual it was necessary
>For all its toilet humour, the original seasons perfectly capture the feeling of being a small boy and the dumb shit you and your friends would do when adults weren't looking.
It was way better than the "improved'" animation and over convoluted conspiracy and political plots that dominated later on, even if they still had some of it in S1-S3. Matt and Trey denounced the early show out of old shame but they never really matured, just became repetitive
Also the type of kid that those four were back then isn't really how they act now
I liked it when I was a kid, although I admittedly beat it with cheats.
nah the game was based for its time,i know cause i owned it.