You Can Play as a Female in South Park: The Fractured But Whole - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 June 2016 / 7,990 Views
You will be able to create female characters in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. In the previous South Park game, South Park: The Stick of Truth, you could only play as a male. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed the new feature in the game in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
"In Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls’ Quest halfway through it," said Stone. "[The Girls] were a faction in the fantasy world. And then someone’s like, “What if you want to be a girl?” Narratively, it didn’t work. We’d have to sh– can the whole game. So we just left it the way it was. This time, we obviously wanted to add that."
One of the cool features playing as a female is it will change the way characters will interact with you.
"But the boys are little boys, because it’s really a story about little boys running around. So they don’t care about [your character being a girl]? That seems weird. They always seemed to care about it in the show. Are they dumb about it, and they don’t know? So you’re in hiding? Or do they totally care about that, and totally treat you differently? So we ended up doing those things differently for different characters.
"It actually turned out to be quite a bit more work. I’m also playing The Division – I’m not just saying that because it’s Ubisoft. I made the character look like my wife, just because I thought that was funny, running around New York shooting people looking like my wife. But the game doesn’t treat you that differently. The guys still shoot you. The game doesn’t really react that much differently. That’s cool for that kind of game. It’s been a funny journey to go through, introducing something that we thought would just be a cool feature. You’re a girl! But now they’re going to treat you different."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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They bring up a pretty important thing. Adding a female playable character in a way to makes it meaningful, takes A LOT OF EFFORT. Well, not like we didn't know that before, but its important to adress in the world of SJWs...
"it makes sense to have OPTIONS in games."
You know what makes sense? To make money in a capitalistic market. You know how to make less money? By wasting time and money on your already finished product before selling it.
The fact that we have a so many games with only one gender as a playable character is not some big conspiracy aimed to opress women. Its because it requires extra work, i.e time and money.
I wasn't using any sarcasm.
You know what, I played Stick of truth, and I always thought you could play a girl. I was wrong.
There's a section of the game (spoiler alert) where your character is disguised as a girl so maybe you're thinking of that part lol
I like this, this adds replay value. I will do two playthroughts as male and female
It's a bit weird. Do girls play super-hero? Oh well... at least it gives a reason to go for a second play through for more jokes.
