South Park: The Stick Of Truth Delayed Till March 2014
Bad news South Park fans (myself included), as South Park: The Stick of Truth has now been delayed until March 2014. It’s sad news to fans of the series that have been patiently waiting for a quality South Park game for many years and it now joins the other Ubisoft titles to suffer a 2014 delay with The Crew and more notably Watch Dogs.
It’s the usual reasons of wanting the game to be the best quality that it can be and the game fans truly deserve. I’m always as gutted as the next person when a game that I have been looking forward to playing gets delayed, but if it’s all for the right reasons, then who’s to argue?
But to help cushion the blow, they have released some brand spanking new gameplay footage.
Coming from the Ubi Blog, here’s what the developers had to say in regards to the delay:
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.”