Title: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on September 30, 2006, 04:11:41 PM Here's (http://media.southparkstudios.com/downloads/download.php?file=/media/SPinWoW.avi) a short preview of the first episode of the 10th season, which airs October 4th. Not sure if this is the right section, but it was on the WoW front page. It should be pretty fucking hillarious.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Strazos on October 02, 2006, 12:05:21 AM Nice.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on October 02, 2006, 12:22:02 AM If you look carefully at the video you can see a whole host of problems... When it shows Kenny playing the computer he has arrows on his back, is wearing the Warlock starting robes, and he also has Energy instead of mana. Also, when it shows Stan talking as the human male he's wearing a Horde exslusive Frostwolf tabard. /geek
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: caladein on October 02, 2006, 12:27:28 AM The smart money (in my guild) is on Kenny being killed during the Onyxia event in Stormwind Keep (quest link (http://www.thottbot.com/?qu=6402)).
"Lol, Onyxia oneshotted Kenny." Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Strazos on October 02, 2006, 09:19:41 AM Aren't there items for Hordies to turn into Humans, therefore enabling them to be human and wear the AV tabard?
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: SurfD on October 02, 2006, 05:21:03 PM Orb of Deception on an Orc (i believe)
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Merusk on October 02, 2006, 05:58:01 PM I think you're looking at it a little too closely. They probably just borrowed the models and animated them rather than doing your traditional machinima. After all, Kyle's wearing the lunar festival dress. Being a show, they're more concerned with style and presentation than effective stats.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Lantyssa on October 02, 2006, 06:23:35 PM It would probably not be hard for them to get access to an internal server that lets them tweak most anything they wanted with Blizzard's blessing.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on October 02, 2006, 06:33:11 PM I saw a blue post on the WoW forums saying they provided SP with everything they needed.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Cadaverine on October 02, 2006, 08:06:01 PM Sweet bleeding jesus, as if the general chat wasn't already a morass of lameass Chuck Norris jokes, without adding a bunch of barely literate mouthbreathers fucking up South Park quotes.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Azazel on October 04, 2006, 06:03:07 AM Um, the only difference is that the retards will change the content of their retardery. The retardery is already there and it's not going anywhere, after all...
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Fabricated on October 04, 2006, 07:25:42 PM Watching the episode and it is hysterical. Of course all anyone is going to notice is how the MMOTard speak isn't quite right and how so and so has such and such an item that sucks or isn't available to such and such a faction, but goddamn it's funny.
edit: Okay yeah, that was some funny shit. I do however feel like the biggest fag on earth for understanding the nerd-speak. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Merusk on October 04, 2006, 07:48:07 PM Yeah I felt the same way, Fabricated.
Still, at least I wasn't the guy on my server who logged in as "lovestospooge" and /lfg'd "wts my name" I was also expecting a tube sock rather than a bedpan at the "Bathroom!" shout. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Threash on October 04, 2006, 07:51:27 PM I was very dissapointed that Hello Kitty island adventure was not in fact a real game :(
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on October 04, 2006, 08:13:32 PM Ahh, It was everything I had hoped for... And yes, I was ashamed I knew everything they were talking about... In fact, it kinda gave me the urge to Resub.. NO. MUST. NOT GIVE IN :evil:
I was very dissapointed that Hello Kitty island adventure was not in fact a real game :( http://www.sanriotown.com/onlinegame/index.php?s=introduction Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Fabricated on October 04, 2006, 08:18:31 PM Also, I went and looked at the official boards to see the stupidity.
I want to destroy some of these people's souls. For god's sake who cares what the dumb sword is Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on October 04, 2006, 08:25:12 PM The funniest posts were the people that were offended by the episode.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Threash on October 04, 2006, 08:31:01 PM I loved all the "wheres the horde!" whining, obviously this southpark episode proves the pro alliance bias!
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: CmdrSlack on October 04, 2006, 10:16:34 PM I have never played WoW, so I was thankfully able to watch without thinking about the breaking of canon or whatever.
I did feel like a horrid dork explaining "pwnd" to my wife. She also thought that WoW was "one of those games you played." So at least I have that going for me. Which is nice. I was also disappointed that there were no "catass" jokes. They had a cat orgy episode, dammit, I wanted to see something about catass. Since Cartman has a cat, and his mom was entirely devoted to his catass needs, she would have likely forgotten to sift. Just sayin'. EDIT -- well that blows...when you use the brackety thingies that are normally used to change a pronoun or whatever in quoted speech, subbing in an "I" adds italics that never close....and remove the letter from the post...dammit. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: penfold on October 05, 2006, 01:48:24 PM Catassing, PKs, exploits, carebears, noob jokes, boring grinds and even a poosock reference. It's like they distilled the very essence of this forum.
I liked it, although there were some cheesey lines which sounded more like a Blizzard marketing type wrote them. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: CmdrSlack on October 05, 2006, 03:16:52 PM there were some cheesey lines which sounded more like a Blizzard marketing type wrote them. I figured those were cheesy on purpose. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: schild on October 05, 2006, 03:18:56 PM Watched it last night. Didn't find it that funny.
Catassing, PKs, exploits, carebears, noob jokes, boring grinds and even a poosock reference. It's like they distilled the very essence of this forum. There was no poopsock joke. There was a pooping in a bedpan joke. But no poopsock. Very few people know what the poopsock is in the grand scheme of things, as in the 6 million people in WoW. Also, I wonder if the episode could have been more like .Hack. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Fabricated on October 05, 2006, 06:26:38 PM Watched it last night. Didn't find it that funny. .hack fucking sucked, this didn't.Catassing, PKs, exploits, carebears, noob jokes, boring grinds and even a poosock reference. It's like they distilled the very essence of this forum. There was no poopsock joke. There was a pooping in a bedpan joke. But no poopsock. Very few people know what the poopsock is in the grand scheme of things, as in the 6 million people in WoW. Also, I wonder if the episode could have been more like .Hack. And when I say .hack I mean all of it. Every single bit of the anime series sucked, every single game sucked. Period. (http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1196/test2xw2.gif) Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: hal on October 05, 2006, 07:15:16 PM Fab, you win the internet. I celebrate your awesomeness. I bow before you.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Threash on October 05, 2006, 07:26:35 PM I liked it, although there were some cheesey lines which sounded more like a Blizzard marketing type wrote them. Blizzard employee #1: do YOU have a world of warcraft account? blizzard employee #2: no, i have a life Clearly the kinda marketting they love, hah. I guess it doesn't matter how bad they made the players look, the game came out look pretty fun to play. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Lt.Dan on October 05, 2006, 07:55:46 PM No elf mangina love though, although they already did the NAMBLA episode.
The Wired parody/review of WoW was much better. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Toast on October 05, 2006, 09:15:31 PM I loved the episode. It was pretty revolutionary for television, in my opinion.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Chenghiz on October 05, 2006, 09:45:47 PM I didn't find it funny for the most part, but some of it was amusing. The archenemy guy looks a lot like a friend of mine who joined a bleeding-edge raid guild over the summer, and he was just about that messy-looking.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: raydeen on October 06, 2006, 03:33:23 PM Best line was 'How do you kill something that has no life?!'. Pretty much sums it all up there.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Morfiend on October 06, 2006, 03:37:06 PM I didn't find it funny for the most part, but some of it was amusing. The archenemy guy looks a lot like a friend of mine who joined a bleeding-edge raid guild over the summer, and he was just about that messy-looking. I agree. I thought it was ok, but I didnt find it that funny. They could have made it much more offensive. Maybe they where kind of going for the same thing as the mormon episode. They just put the facts out there, and let it be funny by its self. Overall, not one of the better South Parks IMO. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Nebu on October 10, 2006, 02:09:19 PM Come on. Who didn't laugh when Butters showed up? That was comedy gold.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Scadente on October 11, 2006, 06:02:54 AM Loved it :)
And the best South Park I've seen since I was... 16. Games beeing mentioned in popculture is always a good thing, in my book. But then again, I live in the fantasy world where everyone should love games. They also nailed down most of the oh-so-boring gameplay wow supplies you with, and the "excitement" it involves. 21st century heroes aren't firefighters, it's the overweight nerds! Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Llava on October 11, 2006, 10:15:34 AM I really think that once you get past the "OMG WOW IS ON TV" thing, it's not that great an episode.
Don't get me wrong. It was solid. They didn't drop the ball. But this doesn't come anywhere near something like the Scientology episode. For most TV, it was good. For South Park, it was okay. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Yoshimaru on October 11, 2006, 11:10:41 AM I was hoping for a little more Blizzard bashing, since they provide more than ample ammunition. Although, I guess if they went that way more people wouldn't have gotten it.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Typhon on October 11, 2006, 04:22:59 PM it's not that great an episode. I pretty much felt the same way. My wife, who doesn't play games (but is, obviously, aware of what's involved with MMOs because I play), thought it was one of the best episodes ever. She said Cartman going through the checklists reminded her of listening to me talk... now I'm wondering if I didn't think it was hysterical-funny because parts of it struck close to home. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Samwise on October 11, 2006, 04:36:43 PM now I'm wondering if I didn't think it was hysterical-funny because parts of it struck close to home. I've yet to hear someone who doesn't play a lot of WoW say that episode wasn't funny. Repeating for emphasis: (http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1196/test2xw2.gif) Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Typhon on October 12, 2006, 04:45:35 AM hysterical-funny being funnier then "funny". "hysterical-funny" being in the top ten shows, where-as "funny" is somewhere past 50% of the rest of the pack. I thought it was funny, I didn't tihnk it was hysterical funny. My wife was pissing herself. We generally find the same things funny. A bit of analysis occured, with me coming to the conclusion that a fair part of the jabs of that episode were directed toward the players of WoW. Then followed a bit of self anaylsis, with me wondering whether I didn't rank it in the top ten because some of the jokes were closer to home. I'm still not sure if that was the reason (, or was it just not a top ten show?). Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Azazel on October 12, 2006, 05:12:43 AM I really think that once you get past the "OMG WOW IS ON TV" thing, it's not that great an episode. Don't get me wrong. It was solid. They didn't drop the ball. But this doesn't come anywhere near something like the Scientology episode. For most TV, it was good. For South Park, it was okay. QFT. It's a weak way to post, but Llava nailed my opinion very well there. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: WayAbvPar on October 12, 2006, 11:54:18 AM Just saw it. I don't remember WoW looking that pretty, but I played on the dirt brown Horde side, so what do I know? I was well-amused by it.
Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Simond on October 12, 2006, 12:17:17 PM (http://xs307.xs.to/xs307/06414/WoWScrnShot_101206_065923_1000truths.jpg.xs.jpg) (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs307&d=06414&f=WoWScrnShot_101206_065923_1000truths.jpg)
:rock_hard: Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: bhodi on October 12, 2006, 01:03:11 PM They need to get rid of the rating crap. It's confusing.
Critical Hit rating? Critical Strike Rating? Hit Rating? What the fuck is Resilience? Percentages, I can wrap my mind around. What the fuck does 14 mean? 9? Bah. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Merusk on October 12, 2006, 04:16:23 PM They need to get rid of the rating crap. It's confusing. Critical Hit rating? Critical Strike Rating? Hit Rating? What the fuck is Resilience? Percentages, I can wrap my mind around. What the fuck does 14 mean? 9? Bah. Doesn't scale well at all, though. The Blackhand's Breadth I got at level 57 is still the best trinket I can possibly have in that slot. Unless they gave a lot more +crit (and then classes begin approaching 100% way too quickly) or a lot more stats on an item, it'd be an excellent trinket for a long, long time. Hopefuly they'll still show % on the spellbook when you mouse over the autoattack 'spell' That'll reduce a lot of confusion. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Llava on October 13, 2006, 06:20:33 AM I've yet to hear someone who doesn't play a lot of WoW say that episode wasn't funny. I don't play WoW. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Dren on October 13, 2006, 07:17:10 AM I've yet to hear someone who doesn't play a lot of WoW say that episode wasn't funny. I don't play WoW. Well, it should be stated as "doesn't play a lot of MMOG's." The same elements they poked fun at in the show are true for basically all MMOG's. Actually, it is true of any hardcore gameing, even single-player. Face it, when we get obsessed over one game or another, we typically play it like it was crack with a hard coat of meth. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Phred on October 13, 2006, 09:05:15 AM They need to get rid of the rating crap. It's confusing. Critical Hit rating? Critical Strike Rating? Hit Rating? What the fuck is Resilience? Percentages, I can wrap my mind around. What the fuck does 14 mean? 9? Bah. Doesn't scale well at all, though. The Blackhand's Breadth I got at level 57 is still the best trinket I can possibly have in that slot. Unless they gave a lot more +crit (and then classes begin approaching 100% way too quickly) or a lot more stats on an item, it'd be an excellent trinket for a long, long time. Hopefuly they'll still show % on the spellbook when you mouse over the autoattack 'spell' That'll reduce a lot of confusion. The way it works now is the crit rating scales to your level, so blackhand's is 1.2% crit at L70 supposedly. They've added a ton of info to your character sheet including crit % and to hit modifier too. There's a dropdown where you can select between ranged, melee,spell casting and defence with all you'd want to know listed for each. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: bhodi on October 13, 2006, 09:12:29 AM I know *why* they did it, but why did they come up with such a confusing system? there must have been an easier way of simplifying it...
and yes, BHB is STILL the awesome. Title: Re: South Park meets WoW Post by: Trippy on November 18, 2006, 06:53:50 PM Details on how the the WoW South Park episode was created (http://www.machinima.com/article.php?article=459). And no your browser isn't acting funny, they really did center justify all the text.
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