The cartoon series South Park is known for addressing current issues repeatedly, often in an exaggerated and satirical manner. Now, the series has incorporated the game Baldur’s Gate 3 – unfortunately with a factual error that the developers do not want to let slide.
This is what happens in the episode:
- In the latest episode, new characters from an alternate universe appear. The four protagonists (Kenny, Kyle, Stan, and Cartman) are replaced by “diverse” women.
- The series aims to comment on Disney’s “token” diversity and criticizes the practice of including People of Color in films merely for the sake of representation.
- The diverse version of Cartman enjoys playing Baldur’s Gate 3, but apparently, there are issues with the save file.
And here’s the mistake: In one scene, Cartman wants to start the game and is prompted to begin a new save file. The old one is no longer available, although more than 50 hours had already been invested there.
Cartman is annoyed: “There’s no cross-dimensional save feature?!”, to which Stan explains that there isn’t even cross-save between PS5 and PC. Expecting to save across universes is too much to ask.
On X (formerly Twitter), developer Larian acknowledges this, as Baldur’s Gate 3 does indeed have the functionality for cross-saving between PC and PS5. However, it didn’t work at launch because the PC version was released first and there were issues with the Larian Launcher shortly after its release.
The release on PS5 has already fixed numerous bugs:
South Park and Video Games – A Love That Rekindles
The creators of South Park have included numerous references to video games and gaming in their series in the past. The most famous scene is likely the one where the four boys play World of Warcraft in Cartman’s basement.
Back then, it was about taking down a nasty ganker. To do this, they killed wild boars in the starting area for days to level up, and they even received a sword that actually made it into the game from Blizzard.
The joke about the wild boars has endured over the years. In WoW Classic, someone even copied the idea and killed only wild boars for 10 days. However, there are errors in the series as well. At some point, enemies below your level simply give no experience points anymore.
Other series have also attempted jokes or references from gaming. The famous Leeroy Jenkins, for example, received his own scene in Family Guy but was not very successful:
