I don’t know about you all, but I’ve been really excited for South Park: The Stick Of Truth.  Sadly, it just seems like this game keeps getting delayed.  Late last week Ubisoft announced that the game was shifting from its December launch date to March 4, 2014.

Ubisoft’s official blog gave some of the reasoning behind the delay of the game:

Originally scheduled to release this December, South Park: The Stick of Truth will now be available March 4, 2014.

Why the new delay? Well, when Ubisoft picked up the game, we thought: Easy. We’ll put some marketing muscle behind Stick of Truth, toss some additional development resources at it, then take it to the finish line with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The game’s almost done, anyways – so what more could we do?

Apparently, quite a bit more. “Within three weeks after acquiring the game, we sadly realized we had to turn this thing upside down if we hoped to deliver the experience everybody wanted,” says Ubisoft North America’s president Laurent Detoc. “It’s been such a major overhaul to get to the point where we are that we couldn’t let it go, even if that meant missing December.”

South Park’s creators wholeheartedly agree. “We always wanted the game to feel like you’re actually in an episode of South Park,” say Matt Stone and Trey Parker. “Getting the game up to the crappy standards of the show has been a real challenge and we’re excited to say it’s taken way longer than we thought it would.”

Personally, I’m really hoping this is just to fine tune things.  However, it seems that the more often a game gets delayed the more issues there are with it.  Invariably it seems like oft-delayed games end up being at least somewhat broken.  Fingers crossed this isn’t the case with this game.  Mixing South Park with old school RPGs is going to make for an incredible experience.  If you haven’t seen the hilarity that is this game check out the trailer below.