{"id":88571,"date":"2026-08-31T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88571"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:36:35","slug":"south-park-the-stick-of-truth-is-the-funniest-game-ive-ever-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88571","title":{"rendered":"South Park: The Stick of Truth Is the Funniest Game I\u2019ve Ever Played"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><em><strong>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p>I pushed my way to the front of the line of IGN editors to review South Park: The Stick of Truth in 2014. I\u2019ve seen every episode of South Park before and since. I am of the opinion that show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the two premier satirists of our generation. In my view, the puppet-led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2004\/10\/14\/team-america-world-police\">Team America: World Police<\/a> is a comedic masterpiece. Heck, I even love the box-office bust the guys starred in back in 1998, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2000\/08\/07\/baseketball\">BaseKetball<\/a>. So yeah, I\u2019m a massive fan of these guys, and when I learned they were making a role-playing game with <em>Obsidian Entertainment<\/em>, of all developers (at Parker and Stone\u2019s request!), I couldn\u2019t wait to see the results of this match made in heaven. At least on paper. Because unlike previous infamous South Park video games like South Park Rally, Parker and Stone would be directly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. I pushed my way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":88573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88575,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88571\/revisions\/88575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}