k_trout
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What is the worst PC port of all time?
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maybe my intel quad aint up to scratch or something
The Dutch Slayer
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THIS ! you had to ALT+F4 to quite the game because it did not have a back to windows button XD
This changes *nothing*. The games wasn't exceptionally buggy, it was exceptionally bad ported.
Core 2 Quad is above the minimum specs, but it might be unless you have low RAM too. I do have an i5 2500k and 8gb RAM, so that will be helping.
New lighting FX? No.
Lighting effects that already existed in the PS2 version? Yes.
Controller support that didn't need two (or maybe three, I don't remember now) to suck slightly less (because even then you had to use third party programs to setup some of the controllers properly)? Yes.
Good performance (after all, it's a PS2 game)? Yes.
Oh, and if you wanted to exit the game, Alt + F4 was your only option. Nice, right?
It's a port of PS2 game, not NGC (it would be glorious if we would receive a port of that game). And, as was said earlier, when it was released in Europe and Asia it was graphically broken: there were no lighting effects at all. There was only flat, white ambient light (see the screens posted by me in this thread; in the image when Leon is sitting on the throne the room should be illuminated with a dimmed red light, not bright white one). It also had FMVs of much lower quality than the ones you can find in PS2 version of the game.
My problem with that opinion is it places unnecessary restrictions on the type of games that can be enjoyed on PC.
Beerman462
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Yep, certain games require specific control schemes and M/KB works great for FPS, RTS and MMO's, but suck for third person, racing, flight sims and fighting games. Would you expect a RTS to control well on a console....hell no.
k_trout
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KojiKnight
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And that changes the fact that it's a bad port.... how?
All ports released at around the same time are going to be ported from "beta code"... It's the nature of the beast if you want everything to come out together.
You play it on a x-box 1? I'd actually say they were on par with crashes, bugs, etc... The game was just broke.
k_trout
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i dont disagree, my taste in games is pretty thin to be honest
so i dont notice the games that i cant play without a controller
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Darks Souls uses your integrated graphics by default (which use optimus) on laptops which means it's virtually unplayable in most case unless you change it and realise that was the problem. (god help you if you weren't computer savvy).
Dark Souls of the games I've played. Not having native resolution options and unlocked frame rate is an absolute joke. It's a bare bones port without improvements in visuals. Even if you take into DSfix you only have a solution for the resolution(unlocking framecap causes problems afaik). Having to go through the GFWL login every time is pretty annoying as well. I still prefer it over the console version I guess.
Cannon Goose
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Unlocking the frame rate is fine, there's only one jump that you can't really make when the game is running at 60fps. Luckily you can easily set up a button that toggles the 30fps cap to get past that small part.
Can you spoilertext or pm where that is?
ChocolatePuddin
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GTA IV runs like Egyptian silk on my rig, and I have added all the ICEenhancer stuff, it looks like a next gen game and runs like it to, smiles from my side.
I think RE4 and SR2 are the worst. The former featured unplayable controls and utterly broken worse-than-console graphics, while the latter thought the usual ~50% inefficiency of PC ports was silly and instead demanded specs about 10x faster than consoles to run well.
That's not Dark Souls' fault though, but the drivers'. Applications generally aren't even aware of switchable graphics.
Frankenstrat
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Holy crap, I think this wins the thread.
Sapphire Dreams
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How can anyone say anything other than Resident Evil 4 boggles my mind. The game wasn't even playable for me...
DodgyGeezerFella
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GTA IV has always ran well for me (if left at the settings the game chooses), on any quad core + NVidia card. On AMD it has always ran like shit, low fps and very choppy. This has been on cards 4850/4870/5770/5870/6970/7850, to which something like my 8800GTS 512MB would just perform so much better. I'm currently running an i5 3570K & GTX 760, all settings and sliders on max, and it runs smooth as butter.
For me, the game has always ran like shit on AMD graphics cards, and that definitely makes it an inexcusable shit port. Its a shame too, because the PC version added so much good stuff (bigger online player counts, record and edit movies, then for those into it you can mod the shit out of it).
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Saints Row 2 is definitely a shitty bitty port.
I would also say CoD: Black Ops, that game runs so damn fucking shoddily on systems that could run all previous games without issue (including the sequels that followed !). Low FPS and stuttery mess, unless you had a near high end system at the time. The player counts reflected that too, and the devs never really acknowledged it (with them adding a shader warming thing to the options, felt like a sloppy way to try and help the problem). It runs like a dream on my current system, but by god on my old one, eeewwwwww. Everyone I knew had the same problem, it was only people with i5's and the like that seemingly had no problems. The PS3 version also looked and ran like shit, it seemed the 360 version was the only one that looked and ran like previous CoD games.
Fuck, I said something else. Lemme go edit my posts, even though I haven't played it.
Man, there are a fucktonne of arcade "ports" from that era(ish) on PC which are just as bad. IMO they don't really count as they're almost always completely remade (or if not, *just* use sprites, with the rest of the engine being done from scratch). Some examples from the top of my head (with links when I look for them):
Gauntlet
TMNT Arcade
Rush 'n' Attack (aka Green Beret)
Congo Bongo
Defender
lazorexplosion
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Dark Souls is perfectly playable with mouse and keyboard.... when you get the user made dsmfix.dll that makes the mouse actually behave like a mouse. Because the port is so incompetent and lazy that it just treats mouse input as thumb stick input.
The only thing I can remember was terrible performance on Ati cards due bug in video drivers. It took AMD years to fix that.
old manatee
Banned
Resident Evil 4.
Red Chocobo
Banned
Final Fantasy VII
Sentenza
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Not really, no.
Underwhelming in terms of options, sure, but it was at least rock solid.
And this is completely delirious.
Oh man.
- Doesn't support controllers.
- But you can't input text with the keyboard, lol (it's done with the arrow keys).
- It's a game that runs on Wii and DS but has nasty lagging / frame rate issues on some modern PCs that can run the sequel without issues.
Chairmanchuck
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I know its not really a port, but:
MaximoffZero
Banned
Pretty much any PC port made by Capcom prior to Devil May Cry 4.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Saints Row 2 was unplayable (where as I can get Saints row 3 running just fine on the same PC).
Thats the worst I have come across anyway.
Thats the worst I have come across anyway.
I wish there was one to hate on...Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
Sonic Adventure DX 2011 was already mentioned, it gets my vote to balance out GTAIV. I also want to sum it up/add my two cents.
-runs very badly (relatively)
-locked internal rendering resolution (vga my guess)
-omitted visual assets
-omitted content (game gear mini games)
-analog sticks are 8-way, only 4 of which are really analog
-configuration tool bug, users had to manually edit registry or move the settings file into a different folder
These may not be enough to make it the worst port ever, BUT:
-a perfectly good port already existed, there was no reason to produce this pc port of a x360 port of a gamecube port of a dreamcast game
It is playable, but so consistently bad that it needn't/shouldn't exist alongside the 2004 port.
Honorable mentions:
Sonic Generations with the Optimus incompatibility which gradually grew WORSE with every "patch".
Sonic Heroes with its broken special stages that are needed to complete the game. The later ones were simply impossible to beat without special knowledge of a speed glitch which you have to get around by COMPLETELY altering your playstyle. May sound like a minor gripe but it's not.
-runs very badly (relatively)
-locked internal rendering resolution (vga my guess)
-omitted visual assets
-omitted content (game gear mini games)
-analog sticks are 8-way, only 4 of which are really analog
-configuration tool bug, users had to manually edit registry or move the settings file into a different folder
These may not be enough to make it the worst port ever, BUT:
-a perfectly good port already existed, there was no reason to produce this pc port of a x360 port of a gamecube port of a dreamcast game
It is playable, but so consistently bad that it needn't/shouldn't exist alongside the 2004 port.
Honorable mentions:
Sonic Generations with the Optimus incompatibility which gradually grew WORSE with every "patch".
Sonic Heroes with its broken special stages that are needed to complete the game. The later ones were simply impossible to beat without special knowledge of a speed glitch which you have to get around by COMPLETELY altering your playstyle. May sound like a minor gripe but it's not.
DISGUSTING
I remember getting fooled thinking it was the same version as the console one, it was a completely different game, why the hell did they do that.
Still beat it to completion.
Majority of those DC-era ports were done very badly. DX, Crazy Taxi and Bass Fishing were all pretty bad. I would guess that Space Channel 5 II was a shocker as well.
PS. Nice username, BTW
Alcoholikaust
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the steam version is pretty great with some simple modifications its actually better than the psx original-
Cannon Goose
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For some reason playing at 60fps makes the distance you travel when rolling a bit shorter, making this one gap very hard to get across. It's not impossible to do it at 60fps but it will definitely take you a lot more tries.
The jump (or roll) required is to get back to the Undead Asylum, an optional area but it's definitely worth going back to. I'm not sure how much of the game you've played, so here's a video showing the roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6TRHRp2zs
The jump (or roll) required is to get back to the Undead Asylum, an optional area but it's definitely worth going back to. I'm not sure how much of the game you've played, so here's a video showing the roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6TRHRp2zs
MrCunningham
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I vote for Dead Space, if only for this travesty:
That is literally CAPCPOM.level bad, right there.
Oh god this. I remember giving this away to a friend after a few weeks of owning it. Though in hindsight, I wish I kept it, as there are fan patches to fix it.
MGS2, Only worked with Nvidia GPUs at launch
Then I placed it into my current PC around Christmas to replay, got met with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBnIf0YgWk&feature=youtube_gdata_player and the fixes online don't work for me
Then I placed it into my current PC around Christmas to replay, got met with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBnIf0YgWk&feature=youtube_gdata_player and the fixes online don't work for me
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Anyone who says Dark Souls is just plain wrong. It's the definitive version of the game.
Something that can be fixed by placing a DLL file in the game folder does not a bad port make.
Something that can be fixed by placing a DLL file in the game folder does not a bad port make.
spartanx360
Neo Member
i would say brink,
i litterally had to download a crack, just to install it, because the key codes they gave with it didn't work (bought them 3 times (money back))
when i finnaly got to play it, it was a piece of cr@pp.
i litterally had to download a crack, just to install it, because the key codes they gave with it didn't work (bought them 3 times (money back))
when i finnaly got to play it, it was a piece of cr@pp.
eot
Banned
I have to agree with SR2. Even turning everything down to the lowest setting, running it in a sub-HD resolution so that it looked worse than GTA:SA I still got second long stutters all the time. Finishing missions where you were supposed to use a motorcycle was almost impossible, because it would stutter for 1 second and by the time the game refreshed I'd have hit something and fallen off.
Thanks, I already did that part.