Another Day, Another Beat Game

Hail to the Spambots.

Well, Stick of Truth is now officially on my kill list.  The game was a load of laughs, though honestly the most laughs I got was from burninating a rat with a fart-splosion.  I'm a bad person.

In all honesty, while I do like a bit of South Park now and then, I got this game based on some Let's Plays I saw.  The whole concept revolved around kiddies tearing around and LAPRing, which is something I've wanted to see in a damn video game for close to 20 years.  Finally got to lead an seige on a damn school.  Now we need an RTS version of this crap, and we'd be golden.

This is probably the best "entry level" RPG I've seen that didn't involve Mario, possibly even best ever.  The only real complaints I have is that it's short and has some obvious missing elements (which is easily explained by the THQ bankruptcy fiasco), and the lack of a crafting system,  It's really just a personal bugaboo, but the level of cleverness inherent to the little game going on could have been extended to some nifty craftables.  They could be nasty weapons and horrible traps and toxins, basically what would happen if...

Oh hell, this shit is pretty much 4chan The Video Game anyway.  The crafting thing is still pretty much something I'd want personally, but things are just fine, and don't need any more breaking.

Some of the combat mechanics are hilarious in and of themselves.  You want to see your enemies under bleed and burning DoT effects, while also barfing their guts out as another DoT?  In Stick of Truth, you can, and it's a viable strategy to the point where BOSSES are best put down this way,  Let's see Final Fantasy do that, huh?  They're all "Nope, Bosses are Immune To Everything, Screw You!"  Here you can poison and burninate to your heart's content.

Next on the list is hopefully Borderlands the Pre-Sequel,  Until then Legate Wulfe the Unhinged is going to got smack on Ash Spawn with sharp objects.  GRARGH!

Rated E For Elf Stabbing

Blarg to the spambots!

Got my hands on Stick of Truth on the cheap.  I'm not all that much of a South Park fan in general; didn't watch the show very much, but I did watch the movie a lot back in the day.  I still think that cover of "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" on the CD is the shiznit.  Screw "Let It Go."  Anyway, this game is a hoot and a half, with the wonderful bonus of being a great entry-level RPG.

Two thirds of the game is devoted to fighting the elves (arguably just one, but whatever), and while its quite fun, I'm wondering where the hell all this hatred for pointy ears came from.  I'm probably wrong, but this seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon.  Nobody in my little nerdy circle of friends hated elves like this back in the day.  I understand hatred of elf factions like The Elder Scrolls' Thalmor bunch (fuck those guys with a chainsaw) or pretty much every Wood Elf faction ever after Tolkien (which are either grimdark, cannibals, or grimdark cannibals).  Those guys are like a Fifty Shades of Gray/Cupcakes/Captain Planet crossover.  Yes, I know exactly what I said there.

However, even fairly decent portrayals of elves are pretty much fire magnets these days.  What the hell happened?  Personally, I blame Orlando Bloom.