Tales of Graces Recall Humiliates Namco
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 23, 2010 20:57 JST
- Tags: Bugs, Marketing, Namco Bandai, Ports, PS3, RPG, Tales of Graces, Tales Series, Wii
Bandai Namco has finally announced a humiliating official recall of its notoriously buggy Wii title Tales of Graces, a mere three months after release.
Bugs include a wide variety of issues with second play-throughs, a number of non-appearing enemies and items, and most critically several bugs which can break the game by preventing progress.
Whether they have tackled alleged Wii crashing bugs is not mentioned.
Sadly, the Wii’s inability to handle heavy patching seems to have slipped their QA department’s mind – the disc swap will be by direct mail at an unannounced date.
Namco’s policy of beta testing its Tales games on secondary systems seems to be paying off – a bug-free PS3 release incorporating user feedback, new characters and plenty of DLC will doubtless arise later in 2010, much to the delight of Wii owning Tales fans.
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Sad for people that bought it and live overseas I guess.
Namco, I am disappoint.
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Why am I getting so hard from the opening picture!? It's not too revealing or anything!
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Seems open betatesting is normal practice now, like broadcasting half drawn anime on TV.
Thank goodness we have systems to test out the beta games for the final version product to be imported into the PS3. PS3 owners can't have nothing but the BEST! ¯¯ω¯¯
PS3 fanboy smells bad.
This is what happens when you release RPGs for a Nintendo console that isn't the SNES.
When will they learn? The Wii is even more of a POS than the Gamecube was.
In that the Gamecube was not a POS it all while the Wii is? It was more powerful than the PS2 you know.
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
Not at all, if they knew enough to import it then they should have read enough to know that it was buggy
i put bad mojo on them just like i did eidos.
which mean now final fantasy finally got friend?
I see what you did there
which is why piracy in some cases prevails.... the hassle and bustle of original disks and its fatal flaws can sometimes can cause harm to a company namely one of them is NISA... sad to say..
Man, these guys test less than Super Mario World ROM-hackers.
That's what those bastards deserve for not localizing the PS3 Vesperia game. Racist pricks...
hell yeah
hell yh!!
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
To me it looks like the Wii is to blame for its inability to patch the games. In former generations the non-patchable mentality was so big, no one even dared to release a game full of bugs, now we even have such a thing as gamma testing for the real release.
oh yes lets blame the system for the stupid testers at namco, oh come on dont be a moron.
so now since you can repair games and add content latter its okay to release shitty games?
One of the presumed advantages of using a console vs using a PC (for gaming) is that it's Plug-and-Play; the devs have a standardized, non-changing hardware base, the user doesn't have to hassle with patches, etc.
Now that consoles are becoming more like PCs (hard drives, OS updates, etc.), those "advantages" are lessening.
I expect that some time soon, game A's patch will conflict with game B's patch, and people will be in the equivalent of "MS Windows DLL Hell".
It fucking better not.
I switched from PC Gaming and Consoles to Console-only simply because I can just stick the disc in and play.
Great this is all we need for namco to justify their atrocious VESPERIA INCIDENT.
It's one thing to beta test under the table it's another thing to not release the perfect copies outside of japan.
Hopefully they shape up or angry people will commence whooopings of the butt.
Please Namco...I want my loli pirate girl...
Please for the love of Martel, send the PS3 version of Tales of Vesperia to the US already..!
most fo the games for wii suck anyway, its not surprising
But they usually suck because the game itself is just-follow-the-leader cheap shovelware. I heard this game was actually good aside from bugs.
YOU WII BETA TESTERS CASUALFAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
When will they learn not to release a Tales of BETA???
more like Tales of disgrace.
Wow I've never heard of a game recall before. Is it that uncommon?
Cough cough Grand Theft Auto: San Andres
Even though "Hot Coffee" wasn't all that "Hot". But at least Rockstar handled the issue effectively. Unlike "Stingy-Co"(Stingy Namco).
I'd never heard a single thing about Graces being buggy. That's a bit disappointing, I was really getting excited for it...
Namco can eat my dick.
now why would you want that. Don't you ever use it?
no one on this board uses their dick properly, no one has a girlfriend
Your mom is my girlfriend.
DADDY?! Why don't you ever call?
another beta test ... wth. ps3 's final ver plz .
You might wanna re track that and just say you want a US release. We all know what happened with Versperia.....
I got through the first playthrough without too many problems. The only thing that showed up were a few sound problems. Its too bad it got recalled. Its a really fun game!
The RPG glory days of Square Enix and Namco are over, the time of Bioware abd Atlus have come!!
The article make it sound like they were just throwing ToG out there and going to patch it later. That is a dangerous attitude to have. It's thinking like that that's going to drive the industry down.
I always disliked the tales franchise, every game is the same fucking thing and the characters all look gay
except this one has a shit load of bugs included, fuck you namco
360 fans be happy, karma has bitten.
No, karma would have bitten if it happened to the ps3 version... this was the wii
Why do I get the feeling that this is becoming an uncomfortable habit for game developers these days?
They'll release a title that hasn't been properly tested, then release a patch a month or so later to fix what should not have been there in the first place.
Other examples of this include the PS3 port of Bayonetta and the general release of Fallout 3 (that game still has a ton of bugs lying around well over a year after it's initial release).
This case where the hardware limitations meant the problems couldn't be patched comes as a well deserved bite in the ass for Namco.