
The Fractured But Whole launches on December 6 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You can read the full Entertainment Weekly interview here. "We figured everyone's gonna pick it," he said. He think it will be popular for The Fractured But Whole, too. Stone went on to say that he tends to play as a female character in other games when the option is available. You're a girl! But now they're going to treat you different." It's been a funny journey to go through, introducing something that we thought would just be a cool feature. "But the game doesn't treat you that differently. 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," Stone said. "I'm also playing The Division-I'm not just saying that because it's Ubisoft. He referenced how in another Ubisoft game, The Division, characters treat you basically the same if you play as a man or woman, but you can expect a tailored experience depending on your gender choice for The Fractured But Whole. 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."Īs he's alluding to, this led to "quite a bit more work," Stone said. They always seemed to care about it in the show.

"So they don't care about ? That seems weird. "The boys are little boys, because it's really a story about little boys running around," Stone said. This time, we obviously wanted to add that."įor The Fractured But Whole, introducing the ability to play as a girl came with a number of complexities not present in the first game. "And then someone's like, 'What if you want to be a girl?' Narratively, it didn't work. were a faction in the fantasy world," he told Entertainment Weekly ( via Kotaku).

"In Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls' Quest halfway through it. Now Playing: South Park: The Fractured But Whole Stage Show at E3 2016

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