Regardless of how funny this episode may or may not have been, one thing needs to be said...Their use of the WoW engine in the episode was AMAZING. Blizzard had to have given them a bunch of help, and for that I give Blizzard a lot of credit. A lot of companies would shy away from a South Park tie in, but Blizzard knows their target audience. Maybe this is why they make so much darn money.
As for the episode itself, while the plot didn't make a whole lot of sense from an actual game standpoint (and it doesn't have to, as this is, you know, a cartoon), they seemed to take care to mention actual places and keep things fairly consistent within the game. From Butters' frustration at only four Alliance races to choose from to bragging about questing in the Fargodeep Mine, they did a decent job trying to keep things grounded in the game. You can tell they have at least one WoW fan writing for the show. And who is betting we might see a Sword of 1000 Truths at some point in the WoW universe?
Of course, some things in the episode weren't consistent with WoW game play (human hunter?), but again, this is a cartoon meant to entertain the masses, not just the WoW geeks who tune in. The stereotype of the fat, lazy WoW player was out in full force, but if you are playing for 18 hours a day, everyday, it might be hard to be fit and trim.
All in all, I was pretty entertained. However, if I was not a WoW fan, I'm not sure if this would be among my favorite episodes. My playing WoW added a lot, and I don't think I'd have enjoyed it nearly as much as an outsider looking in. Either way, the marriage of South Park and WoW was certainly something to see, and will surely keep the WoW community buzzing for a while. What did you guys think? Funny? Lame?
Oh yeah, one more thing...you can rest assured we will be launching Hello Kitty Island Adventure Insider very, very soon.
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10-04-2006 @ 10:53PM
TwhiT said...
FIRST~!!!!
funny episode...go horde!!
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10-04-2006 @ 11:05PM
foghte said...
This was a great episode
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10-04-2006 @ 11:09PM
Jamus said...
No love for the Hordies?
Bah, it was a hoot anyway. The characters looked good, but the environments looked very static. No moving trees, grass, etc...
Still neat to see it though, but I could have done without the porto-toilet scene. UUUUggghgh.
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10-04-2006 @ 11:10PM
Scott said...
can i get a torrent link?
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10-04-2006 @ 11:12PM
Gala said...
Lol, I think some of the writers of that episode know a bit more that WoW than what was illustrated in the episode...
I mean, all the kids going on Alliance? (Heh, concidence? I think not...)
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10-04-2006 @ 11:20PM
Kyle said...
Human hunter with a shield no less, heh.
But nevertheless, it was great.
And we may see the Sword of 1000 Truths in game, heh. After all, they did put in Foxtrot's Doomulus Prime.
And I loved them using the game's graphics. Great work.
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10-04-2006 @ 11:28PM
snivlem said...
It was pretty awesome.
Two absolutely hilarious moments were Butters talking about not playing WoW, and then logging in and creating a character that's exactly the same as Cartman's.
And then the potable toilet scene.
I don't think I've laughed so hard at a South Park episode.
I was surprised at what they actually got right, so I could overlook the inaccurate things.
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10-04-2006 @ 11:51PM
Forest said...
It was hilarious, my friends mom who doesnt know what WoW is or southpark for that matter even found it hilarious
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10-04-2006 @ 11:56PM
Biddy said...
LOL, good episode. Killing boars for 2 exp.
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10-05-2006 @ 12:02AM
syu said...
dude, they shoulda done hogger!
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10-05-2006 @ 12:15AM
Chronos said...
Probably one of the best episodes i've seen in a long time. Great use of the game engine and some pretty interesting embelishments of how the game really is, all around hilarious
Clyde going afk to look at porn ftw
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10-05-2006 @ 12:41AM
swiftlydead said...
yeah they were making fun of how nerdy it was -- hence they left out the type of person that plays horde chars.
goddamnit, it's so gay when people do that "FIRST" shit. Get a f'n brain.
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10-05-2006 @ 1:10AM
skuska said...
torrent to the episode.
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10-05-2006 @ 1:12AM
skuska said...
Ugh, that was supposed to be a link. The torrent to the episode:
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/617807/South_park_season_10_epsiode_1
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10-05-2006 @ 1:24AM
Axium said...
That was the best episode of SP ive seen in awhile...best line imo is "Dude you just got pwned" by Cartman lol....just them saying 1337 speak at all was the best!
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10-05-2006 @ 1:42AM
Matt T. said...
#15,
I am getting HORRID speed using that with Utorrent
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10-05-2006 @ 3:56AM
Kailen said...
The torrent Skuska linked is of the -other- season 10 episode 1 (according to southparkstudios.com) "The Return of Chef". Stupid confusing Comedy Central... Thanks anyway Sku, but yeah. Wrong ep. Don't waste your time folks.
And to stay on topic... I haven't seen it yet but I'm sure it rocks. Yay!
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10-05-2006 @ 4:43AM
Jfk said...
I found this one for download:
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/874959/South_Park_Episode_1008_Make_Love_Not_Warcraft
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10-05-2006 @ 4:59AM
Jfk said...
Much better link and Xvid quality
http://rapidshare.de/files/35557512/south.park.1008..dsr.notv.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.de/files/35559251/south.park.1008..dsr.notv.part2.rar
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10-05-2006 @ 7:35AM
Trudie said...
I had a great time watching South Park last night. The only problem is that I would have liked to be playing WoW and watching SP at the same time (as many of you probably were), and seeing the obnoxious laughing in the LFG channel (as I predict there probably was).
Unfortunately I don't get Comedy Central at my house, so I had to go watch it at a friend's house.
I think the episode was great... although I agree with you, David, they probably needed a good bit of help from Blizz to make the episode (Right? My boyfriend said maybe not, since South Park uses trademarked stuff all the time and gets away with it because "parody" is covered under the law). Anyway, if Blizz cooperated with them a lot, it seems sorta strange that they would have no objection with cooperating with SP, whose episode perpetuates the stereotype of the fat, pimply WoW gamer. (Either that, or Blizz knows that so many of their customers ARE fat, pimply gamers that those people would prolly just laugh at the episode out of identifying with the situation).
Are there many of us who are fat and pimply with no lives? I know I hold down a job, and I'm relatively healthy, but then again I'm not a super hardcore player. I DO raid about four nights a week, but that's a far cry from people who do it every day.
Oh, and I play Alliance so it didn't bother me too much, but I'm sure Horde players were bummed that they were pretty much completely absent from the whole episode.
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