The Fifth RPG Class in Obsidian’s South Park RPG? The Jew

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December 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

Oh gawd. This is a Fox News story just waiting to happen. Obsidian recently revealed all of the classes in their upcoming South Park RPG. There’s the fighter, the thief, the mage, the cleric… and the Jew.

The other classes are self explanatory, but the Jew is apparently a Paladin style character who is at his most dangerous when he is one hit point away from death.

Wow. I don’t know what else I was expecting, but still… wow.

As a huge fan of South Park I’m really looking forward to this game — Obsidian has always done a great job of working on other people’s IPs — even when its games are flawed, they’re still worth playing! I have high hopes.

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Sam

December 15, 2011 at 10:02 am

Hahahahahahaahahhaah. Overblown media shitstorm incoming.

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Dean

December 15, 2011 at 10:02 am

Bahaha that is awesome.

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blaja

December 15, 2011 at 10:08 am

don’t people realise that this game is going to be a over-hyped piece of crap?

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1. Strange
  
  December 15, 2011 at 10:13 am
  
  And you know this how? Have you time-travelled into the future and played the game and know exactly how much hype it gets?
  
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  1. Stephen
    
    December 15, 2011 at 10:14 am
    
    Its South Park its destined hype goes without saying
    
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    1. Freeze S. Preston Icequire
      
      December 15, 2011 at 10:35 am
      
      Hype does not equal crap. And Obsidian make awesome games. They don’t always work but they are usually awesome.
      
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      1. sig
        
        December 15, 2011 at 12:02 pm
        
        obsidian games are NEVER awesome. They take good IPs and destroy them.
      2. Braaains
        
        December 15, 2011 at 12:22 pm
        
        That’s not COMPLETELY true.
        
        What about Alpha Protocol? That was their own, original IP. Which they destroyed 😛
      3. Alinos
        
        December 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm
        
        That’s garbage. The only game I can think they truely destroyed is dungeon siege 3
        
        And that was doomed as soon as it came out on console. Since the simplification comes from that
      4. Dmoli
        
        December 15, 2011 at 3:09 pm
        
        As does Neverwinter Nights 2.
      5. Matthew K
        
        December 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm
        
        Fallout New Vegas disagrees with you.
      6. Thom
        
        December 15, 2011 at 12:56 pm
        
        Neverwinter Nights and Kotor 2 also admit to being shit Obsidian sequels.
      7. Alinos
        
        December 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm
        
        What was wrong with new Vegas played that way more than I played fallout 3
        
        As for KotoR 2 well any title that has a release date forced on them and has to cut content in order to satisfy the publisher is going to have issues.
      8. Dmoli
        
        December 15, 2011 at 3:16 pm
        
        That above reply was supposed to be here.
Chuloopa

December 15, 2011 at 10:09 am

bahahahahahaha – pretty much exactly what you should expect.

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Crazyguy1990

December 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

I’m guessing this had something to do with Cartman.

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1. oggob
  
  December 15, 2011 at 10:57 am
  
  Correct, supposedly the game open with you (new kid in town) meeting the regular crew, they start playing a fake WOW type game that eventually turns real… You talk to Cartman about what class you are going to be, the 5th class is one that is made up by him.
  
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lambomann007

December 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

As Borat said, “Throw the”- erm, perhaps I shouldn’t quote that one…

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1. Kitty
  
  December 15, 2011 at 10:24 am
  
  Oh god, that song is hilarious.
  
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Lone Wolf

December 15, 2011 at 10:18 am

This actually fits with te humor of the series pretty well.
Still, a devoutly-religious class that are their strongest during times of hardship?
Sounds pretty accurate to me, and slightly complimentary.

Not that it matters to US media, oook at the reaction to Mass Effect and five seconds of implied nudity.

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Ruen

December 15, 2011 at 10:25 am

If the American/Australian/Wherever media stirs up a shitstorm about this then all that proves is they haven’t watched South Park. Calling Kyle a Jew is the basis of nearly all of Cartman’s communications with him. . . ever

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Thom

December 15, 2011 at 10:32 am

It sounds kind of complimentary to me. Also, other Christian-Judaic (sorry, I have no idea how to spell that word, I’m so off autocorrect won’t work) classes are common: templar, paladin, cleric, disciple, magus.

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Michael

December 15, 2011 at 10:37 am

Can’t be any worse than shooting giant dildos in South Park Rally…

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Paul Taylor

December 15, 2011 at 10:37 am

Oh please. This is mild for a series that, in the movie, had a song called ‘Uncle Fucker’.

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1. Angelo
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:03 am
  
  And scenes from an episode where Indiana Jones was raped by George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg on the top of a pinball machine.
  
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  1. DeeK
    
    December 15, 2011 at 11:30 am
    
    Metaphorically, that’s actually quite factual.
    
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Zwa

December 15, 2011 at 10:44 am

Never been much of a South Park fan, but with Obsidian behind it this could be pretty interesting.

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1. benikens
  
  December 16, 2011 at 11:11 am
  
  The only reason to play this would be because your a South Park fan, Wanting to play something purely because Obsidian is involved leaves me to believe your a masochist. They have a long history of taking something awesome and ruining it.
  
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Ynefel

December 15, 2011 at 11:10 am

I think if the media was going to get sad about this, they would have a long time ago. The ‘Jew’ thing has been a running joke in South Park since pretty much day one.

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1. Aliasalpha
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:28 am
  
  Yeah but this is in a GAME and remember that games are exclusively played by children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
  
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Simon

December 15, 2011 at 11:12 am

The fact that they actually made a class called the Jew shows they really understand South Park.

Can’t wait.

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Braininator

December 15, 2011 at 11:18 am

FYI, this looks to be a reworking of the characters/classes used in episode 6.13 “The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers”.

The quote is as follows.

Clyde: It is too far and too dangerous to go alone. Take with you the wizard, the dwarf, the warrior, the cleric, and the Jew.
Kyle: Paladin!

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1. Steven
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:32 am
  
  THANK YOU! I thought I was the only one who remembered that ep, and the characters look to have been pulled directly from it (which is totally okay with me)
  
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Josh

December 15, 2011 at 11:35 am

So does this offend you if you’re a Jew? I’d imagine it would. What if they made a class that offended African Americans? Would that still be considered cool?

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1. SE1Z
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:41 am
  
  Depends if there was an African American character in the cartoon from day 1 or not, like there is with a Jew – and all the quips that go with it.
  
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2. Adam
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:59 am
  
  Well say there was a class called token named after the token black guy on South Park called token than I doubt anyone would care, but if they made a class called nigger then yes they would care.
  
  I just think people should stop being so PC.
  
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  1. [Razor]
    
    December 15, 2011 at 7:10 pm
    
    I don’t think that’s a great example.
    Nigger’s a racist epithet, Jew’s just a race.
    
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    1. Sense
      
      March 16, 2012 at 7:04 pm
      
      Jew is a RELIGION not a race. Wow, how little do people know.
      
      Is Catholic a race? DUH!
      
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3. Trjn
  
  December 15, 2011 at 11:59 am
  
  You mean if they used Token Black? Or they made the game based on the “richers” episode?
  
  South Park’s humour is based on the idea that everything can and should be mocked. They’ve been doing it as long as I can remember (even the non-South Park movies and that Mormon musical) so I doubt they’re going to change tact just because they’re making a video game.
  
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  1. Alinos
    
    December 15, 2011 at 12:59 pm
    
    Indeed every religion has taken a beating in the show. And much like the hypocrite who played chef he had no problem dishing it out until they decided to bash Scientology
    
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Michael Zupecki

December 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm

The Jew should also get bonuses to loot;

50% more gold (or whatever the native currency is) and a 10% bonus for rate loot.

Bam.

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1. Joshy206
  
  December 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm
  
  Yay for racism. *groan*
  
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  1. Michael Zupecki
    
    December 15, 2011 at 1:18 pm
    
    Stereotypes exist for a reason; they aren’t invented.
    
    Yay for literalism and no sense of humour; *groan*
    
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    1. Trjn
      
      December 15, 2011 at 1:47 pm
      
      The Jewish one happened to be because of religious laws forbidding people from running interest earning banks with people of their religion. Jews, being a minority, were able to perform that banking service for gentiles.
      
      And thus an enduring stereotype was born!
      
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      1. Mic
        
        December 15, 2011 at 3:50 pm
        
        Always wondered where it originated from. Interesting, thanks!
      2. Mad Danny
        
        December 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm
        
        don’t forget those parts of history where Jews were arbitrarily prohibited from holding any more worthwhile positions and fell into banking because they weren’t allowed to conform to the internal stereotypes of becoming doctors or lawyers or comedy superstars or award-winning scientists!
      3. Joshy206
        
        December 15, 2011 at 6:44 pm
        
        Mad Danny, I love you.
  2. markd
    
    December 15, 2011 at 3:45 pm
    
    why is that racist? it’s like a Japanese character good at making swords or an Australian with..a large cattle..station?
    
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    1. Joshy206
      
      December 15, 2011 at 6:42 pm
      
      Jews were forced into these jobs and were expelled and massacred in part due to having them.
      
      I have no problem with the class being “The Jew”. It’s a paladin class; it doesn’t relate to negative stereotypes. I have a problem with people calling Jews greedy and Muslims terrorists.
      
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      1. Frank
        
        December 15, 2011 at 11:23 pm
        
        Give it a rest would ya
2. berg
  
  December 15, 2011 at 3:15 pm
  
  i was thinking the same as michael.
  
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Michael Zupecki

December 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm

*rare

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Matthew K

December 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm

I am totally rolling Jew.

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weresmurf

December 15, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Oh man this is gonna be a gas………..

Oh damn.

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DansDans

December 15, 2011 at 2:45 pm

what’s the big fucken deal, bitch?

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Jubs

December 15, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Why aren’t all the classes funny? Like, I don’t know, Chef, Ginger, 6th Grader & Towel Warrior.

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1. djmcbell
  
  December 15, 2011 at 6:51 pm
  
  Think about it – the Jew class wouldn’t be anywhere near as funny if they all were. It’s the odd one out.
  
  Imagine Noah letting animals onto his ark…
  
  “horse, bear, dog, cat, Godzilla…”
  
  vs
  
  “Mothra, Raptor Jesus, Lolcat, Thundercat, Godzilla…”
  
  It’s the odd one out – the punchline at the end.
  
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  1. Adam West
    
    December 15, 2011 at 8:31 pm
    
    You did an excellent job summarising http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers.
    
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Lazysleep

December 15, 2011 at 7:05 pm

oh fuck yeah! And so it begins!
This will be the next GTA as far as controversy in games goes. And I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg!
I really hope that Matt, Trey & Obsidian fuck gaming right up the ass with this

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hydrakana

December 15, 2011 at 7:28 pm

I’m amazed that so many people like Obsidian’s work. Obsidian are like Treyarch, they both make crappy sequels of other developers IP’s. I can never put my finger on just what is wrong with there games….they have all the elements of the originals yet they seem to miss the mark.

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