Console exclusives that would have been great on PC

[infohippie]

I have only one title to add. Dragon's Dogma. If any console title in the last generation was crying out for a PC release it was this one. But Capcom evidently hate money and, in order to avoid making any they decided not to release it. Why on Earth would they want to make millions of dollars, porting the last bonafide great game they made to a platform whose players love that kind of game?

If they made DD and better yet, a toolset available on PC, the community would flock to it en masse. They'd have launched a franchise that would guarantee future sales on name alone, garnered considerable good will and released a game they can be proud of, unlike RE6 and other recent garbage. But again, it would unfortunately mean they would make millions of dollars and we know they hate money so it just won't happen.

I second Dragon's Dogma. That game just seemed so much like a PC game. I can't imagine how awesome that would be with mod support. A highly modable Dragon's Dogma would have been one of my favorite computer games of all time.

Actually, yeah. I would love the chance to play this, it seems like a great deal of fun, and a genre I enjoy. Sadly it looks like I will never get to play it until there is a decent PS3 emulator with support for some kind of alternative to a controller.

 

[SoreWristed]

A wall of text including a quote from me

Oh god, i'm going to get burned over a typo. Anymore, i don't own a gamecube anymore.
I know you aren't going to believe me, because this is the internet and everyone is sceptical, but i gave my gamecube and games away as a present. Same thing for my Gameboy games when the internal battery died, should that ever come up.

And no, the emulator doesn't need a bios. Either because the emulator is designed to produce one, or because it doesn't need one to run.

In truth, the emulation business is a bit of a legal grey area.

 

[Dalisclock]

Red Dead Redemption, because every other GTA type game is on PC or slated for it, so why not Grand Theft Horse? Especially since it can be shown that PC gamers do like westerns(and open world sandbox games). If this were a couple months ago, I would have said Valkeryia chronicles but that's been taken care of now.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

it would unfortunately mean they would make millions of dollars and we know they hate money so it just won't happen.

I... What? So spending a large amount of money to make a PC port of a semi-obscure game that didn't even sell that well on console and plays better with a controller, and further investing huge amounts of time and money to both somehow develop a mod kit and prevent the online from instantly being flooded with flagrantly hacked pawns, and then futility praying that your game that almost no one cared about the first time somehow manages to get both mad sales and and attract modders somehow equals "millions of dollars"? I thought DD was ok, but think you are getting hit real hard by wishful thinking there.

Firstly...Dude, commas! Secondly, not wishful thinking. DD is an ideal game for PCs and PC gamers. An epic, single player, sandbox RPG with immense nuance. It would work on PC, perhaps contrary to its console performance if you are correct about console sales. It helps that it's actually a good game too (arguably great). Yes, a PC port of this ~2 year old game would sell very well on PC. If it had a toolset, it would be a hit with an instant community, fanbase and huge lease of life. It would sell like Skyrim, even today.

The point is moot however. Capcom has no intention of porting it, most likely due to the fact that they hate making money, as I mentioned above. Why would they want millions of fans buying and playing their games, clamouring for a sequel? They are evidently happy to churn out RE games, reboots, remasters, HD remakes and so on, all of which are somewhere between sub-par and playable. Dead Rising 3, capped at 30FPS because their devs are actually incompetent. Remember Me and Devil May Cry, pure mediocrity.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I contributed, do not forget that. Don't mean that in a threatening manner or anything, just I did contribute and often when I get called out for these things I get painted as a monster who said nothing actually relevant.

the majority of your post was pre-disposed snark, and the last couple bits were references, not any personal opinions of yours that were the actual point of the thread. if you need an example, just look at the OP or the majority of the posts in the thread.

How would it translate to me saying that everyone doesn't have preferences? Take that sentence and hit me with where exactly I state that please.
I play PC games at my desk... people blow up over a whole lot of nothing. I was poking fun at those who state being at a desk is the true and only way games should be played and... well no need to go on further. I was being... "cute" shall we say

Er...because you said someone had to be a liar or have a fetish if they said they preferred playing at a desk...that's pretty extreme and paints the idea of playing at a desk "wrong", so yeah, that's how it translates. It's pretty obvious and is why you've been pinged on it by multiple people now in this thread.

Poking fun? ah so that's why you started out the thread calling out people and the OP as being dishonest or having some odd fetish..right... you can claim cute all you want, obviously if you've been called out this many different times, it didn't translate that way.

There is no grand meaning behind it. Someone posted something which the correct response to could be summed up as "Location", so I said it three times to reference a show on television.
Its a British show and this site has people from all over hence the footnote.

now this:

said it three times to reference a show on television.
Its a British show and this site has people from all over hence the footnote.

that is what I was looking for. I had no idea, and I didn't see how that a tv show related to the discussion at hand, but now I can at least see your connection.

Sorry I did mean to respond to this, but I got sidetracked as I got to it and than forgot to do so.
Its because I played the game myself and found it... boring as ditchwater would be putting it mildly, no amount of modding (and it'd likely be mod heavy) could save that thing in my eyes.

Yes I said people like different things, you'd think I'd leave myself vulnerable to that schoolboy blunder? I simply said I personally cannot discern where people get their enjoyment from the game, but people will like different things. Nothing wrong with saying that.

That might be one of the few things we agree on, I find the game to be the most boring thing on the planet, but did I come into the thread and piss in everyone's cereal? It wasn't necessary when no one had made even the slightest transgression yet.

but people will like different things. Nothing wrong with saying that.

I think everyone in the thread and ~90%+ users on this site would agree with this, yet you came in chest thumping like you were a lone terminator ready to wipe out any and all pc users

 

[Strelok]

I played most of them when multi-platform actually meant something, really only a corporate shill would recommend the "next" gen, in this laughable state. As for Red Dead Redemption I did not enjoy in the least, I found the main character so annoying I couldn't finish it. I had also played much better western games, like Gun and Call of Juarez (my personal favorite). Anyway, a while ago Rock Star was hiring to port games to PC and there was speculation one would be Red Dead Redemption.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rockstar-hiring-to-bring-latest-titles-to-pc/1100-6411194/

Now with the rumors of a RDR Remastered coming to PS4, XBone and PC this could happen, purely rumors at this point though. I wouldn't buy it again, not even on sale, but others may enjoy it.

Myself I would love to see Shadow of the Colossus on PC, that would be beautiful.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I like how this thread exists basically on the assumption that if a game is on PC modding is automatically possible, let alone practical, which could not possibly be more disjointed from reality. And even if the game is modifiable it has about a 1 in 100 chance of actually getting a talented mod community to grow around it.

Well, to a certain degree, it *is* the case that any game on PC can potentially be modded. We have access to two things that console gamers do not (in addition to a mouse and keyboard): access to the files on our hard drives and access to our RAM.

Access to files on the hard drive means we can edit ini files, replace DLLs, use custom loaders (eg. EnBs, SKSE), often modify textures/models, bypass intro videos and more. Access to RAM means we can use trainers, memory editors and other things to alter in-game values for many things.

I will grant that the majority of UGC (user generated content) isn't great. That's part and parcel of the scene...without financial incentive to invest many man hours, without the same level of skill as professionals it's to be expected that UGC will rarely measure up to professional standards. The same could be said of most amateur pastimes TBH. But then there are mods like VTMB Unofficial Patch, Falskaar, BG2 Darkest Day and hundreds more that are spectacular, often improving on the original or even simply reinvigorating it.

Even not including game mods as you're thinking, there are even simpler things like DOSBox and many initiatives to make old games playable, widescreen, etc. Almost every game currently on my machine has had some tweaks or modding, usually making a game more enjoyable (to me) including Skyrim, FO3/FNV, SR3/4, FC3, ME1-3, DE:HR, XCOM and others. All of these are on console and only the Bethesda ones had toolsets, yet all are modded.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

"i dont like X, therefore nobody is allowed to like X"

is that what you are saying?, why do you always come in defense of consoles each time someone mentions PC?

"well being dishonest to themselves, or have some odd fetish"

You see the above? Your barb at me was destroyed before you even launched it. I did not shoot an absolute, I said something which that will be true to many and for those that do I said had an "odd fetish"... forgive me for the odd language, there were of course much better ways to put it. However it doesn't leave me vulnerable to your statement.
If I had said "It is impossible to like X" than you'd have had me.

The above barb you tried to nail me with? The "I am completely correct" thing, you do plenty of times but I'll leave at that. I hate referring to the past unless its someone... "special" I guess.
Anyway that whole "You hate PC" is ineffective as I told you last time you used it... and the time before... and... I'm starting to take that as defamation at this point as you're trying to get across I'm a warrior... and you should know how droll I find all that business.

its hilarious you are trying to defend yourself with this, is like me saying

"i cant imagine anybody liking X, unless they have brain damage"

"see? i said 'unless they have brain damage' i did not rule out the possibility of someone liking X"

is fucking ridiculous, you implied that someone cannot legitimately like playing on a desk unless they have an abnormal sexual fixation with desks

i do like refering to the past sometimes, because anybody with any time in this forum knows what your deal is by this point, any thread that somehow, in any shape, compares consoles unfavorably to PC, will have you there

Spoiler

btw did you know hyperdimension neptunia was confirmed for PC? too bad you didnt accept the little bet i proposed a while back, but i guess deep down even you know you are wrong

 

[sagitel]

A Those who'd rather play at a desk are... well being dishonest to themselves, or have some odd fetish. Controller is also irrelevant as those you are playing with are using the same controller as you so you are at no disadvantage on that front for it to be a problem, K+M would thus be a lateral movement as than everyone you played with would also use K+M.

oh my god! you are right! i have been playing games wrong my whole life. why i didnt see it before? of course. i am playing in front of a desk because i have a weird "fetish". thanks for making me realize i have been playing wrong my whole life. the point about K+M is that i know a lot of people who are better with controller. they have spent equal time on both and are better with controller. so if they come and play using K+M they would be at a disadvantage.

OT: RDR! mods, comfortable desk (which i guess is wrong to want according to rozalia1) K+M and having the privacy of your own room. bayoneta 2 because im too poor to buy a wiiU (any console worth 1 exclusive for that matter) and GET THE GOD DAMN GTAV ON PC ROCKSTAR!

edit:

How would it translate to me saying that everyone doesn't have preferences? Take that sentence and hit me with where exactly I state that please.
I play PC games at my desk... people blow up over a whole lot of nothing. I was poking fun at those who state being at a desk is the true and only way games should be played and... well no need to go on further. I was being... "cute" shall we say

im sorry but i didnt see anyone saying that. ever. who exactly are you poking fun at? and how is that relevant to the thread?

 

[Rozalia1]

Who cares what you expect other people to be using? That is what is irrelevant. People ought to be able to use whatever control method they prefer, which is exactly what you get on PC. "Inferior" and "Superior" control methods are pretty subjective. I'm sure plenty of controller users can beat me in all kinds of games when I am using a mouse, and vice versa. But the option of what control device to use is extremely important to me because I simply cannot stand using controllers myself. I will not play a game at all rather than be forced to play it with a controller. And WTF is an "L2" button, anyway?

... ... ... I mentioned why I didn't mention them which was the general consensus. If I had said when you're on PC you're facing someone with K+M 100%, and did the same with consoles though with controller obviously I'd be incorrect. I mentioned simply so no wise guy would call me out for it. Nothing more nothing less.

Oh god, i'm going to get burned over a typo. Anymore, i don't own a gamecube anymore.
I know you aren't going to believe me, because this is the internet and everyone is sceptical, but i gave my gamecube and games away as a present. Same thing for my Gameboy games when the internal battery died, should that ever come up.

And no, the emulator doesn't need a bios. Either because the emulator is designed to produce one, or because it doesn't need one to run.

In truth, the emulation business is a bit of a legal grey area.

I did not "burn" you.

Depends.

Its a hell of tricky subject yes which due debating this in past I've gained knowledge on. You're listed as Belgium which means you fall under EU which last time I got through the mountains they have there in legality aligns with what I said. A lot harder to find than what the US says on the matter let me tell you.
To me even if we exclude all that is still a person playing a game they did not pay for... though doing legal emulation is possible of course so pipe down those sharpening their knives.

Moot in the end as you can't enforce it, and the common misconception rules the day.

the majority of your post was pre-disposed snark, and the last couple bits were references, not any personal opinions of yours that were the actual point of the thread. if you need an example, just look at the OP or the majority of the posts in the thread.

I am told Halos mods are really good... I shared that with the OP... what did I do wrong there?

Er...because you said someone had to be a liar or have a fetish if they said they preferred playing at a desk...that's pretty extreme and paints the idea of playing at a desk "wrong", so yeah, that's how it translates. It's pretty obvious and is why you've been pinged on it by multiple people now in this thread.

Poking fun? ah so that's why you started out the thread calling out people and the OP as being dishonest or having some odd fetish..right... you can claim cute all you want, obviously if you've been called out this many different times, it didn't translate that way.

It a shock if several people get the wrong idea? I did say there was no such thing as preferences as many have responded saying I did. I mentioned "being dishonest" themselves as that is recently came up elsewhere on here in regards to hypocritical opinions and wants people show. Fetish was in regards to what I responded to you earlier.

The "tone" of my paragraphs isn't all the same you know. You've grasped to that first paragraph too tightly, especially as I gave an obvious sign that such "nastiness" as you may put it was over and the rest wasn't going to be any of that.

that is what I was looking for. I had no idea, and I didn't see how that a tv show related to the discussion at hand, but now I can at least see your connection.

I could see where it may have confused you. I only included the footnote not because I wanted to go "look a reference", but because I don't want to offend people and saying a word three times consecutively with nothing after it can do that.
It had an unfortunate side effect in regards to yourself and for that I apologise.

That might be one of the few things we agree on, I find the game to be the most boring thing on the planet, but did I come into the thread and piss in everyone's cereal? It wasn't necessary when no one had made even the slightest transgression yet.

I think everyone in the thread and ~90%+ users on this site would agree with this, yet you came in chest thumping like you were a lone terminator ready to wipe out any and all pc users

I suppose in the end I sometimes get it into my head to be a sort of policeman or something like that you could say. Don't go out of my way to do it, but I can realise what my own actions can look like and can come from.
I've seen these things spiral before.

I don't have a problem with PC users/gamers, am one myself though I suppose with how people use those terms perhaps not. Its all that platform wars business that brings my problems.

its hilarious you are trying to defend yourself with this, is like me saying

"i cant imagine anybody liking X, unless they have brain damage"

"see? i said 'unless they have brain damage' i did not rule out the possibility of someone liking X"

is fucking ridiculous, you implied that someone cannot legitimately like playing on a desk unless they have an abnormal sexual fixation with desks

i do like refering to the past sometimes, because anybody with any time in this forum knows what your deal is by this point, any thread that somehow, in any shape, compares consoles unfavorably to PC, will have you there

I don't appreciate you using that as an example, sounds awfully similar to when those folk were constantly throwing around "retard".
I'm sorry I don't see how brain damage is valid and it comes off as offensive. People with brain damage can lead mostly normal lives if their situation allows it, they aren't different to you or I like you're implying... well of course there is the obvious difference but you should know what I mean by that.

Hehehehe I'm sorry that made me laugh. You shouldn't take it so straight bloody hell. Of course I didn't say people were having sex with their desks... though ultimately with everything out there we can't discount that as applying to certain individuals... anyway moving on.

You bring that up constantly and its really starting to not even be worth addressing at this point. I've explained why the probability of me "landing on" "warriors" who belong to that camp is skewed in their direction. Blame the demographics not me.

btw did you know hyperdimension neptunia was confirmed for PC? too bad you didnt accept the little bet i proposed a while back, but i guess deep down even you know you are wrong

I was aware and mentioned it in another thread when... something was ported to PC I think, and was surprised you didn't mention it. However as I said there where I didn't name you, but "pointed" it at you... It doesn't "count" by the specifications I set though granted that port job is newer than most.

No I didn't know deep down in my heart of hearts that NuclearKangaroo held the truth all along, that is ridiculous considering what you were coming out with (you are seriously the only one who has ever attempted to convince me that PC is where all the JRPGs release on). You heavily stacked things in your favour whereupon you would have "won" on re-releases of games some decades old. If when the game is getting preped it isn't a case of we'll be launching on X, X, PC than it simply doesn't count.
Did you see the "anime" sale recently by the way? What a mountain that was!

oh my god! you are right! i have been playing games wrong my whole life. why i didnt see it before? of course. i am playing in front of a desk because i have a weird "fetish". thanks for making me realize i have been playing wrong my whole life. the point about K+M is that i know a lot of people who are better with controller. they have spent equal time on both and are better with controller. so if they come and play using K+M they would be at a disadvantage.

im sorry but i didnt see anyone saying that. ever. who exactly are you poking fun at? and how is that relevant to the thread?

Clearly a bad choice of words if more than one is thinking I literally said people are having sex with their desks. It was simply the word that came to mind that fitted pretty well in my evaluation at the time.
Apologies.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

its hilarious you are trying to defend yourself with this, is like me saying

"i cant imagine anybody liking X, unless they have brain damage"

"see? i said 'unless they have brain damage' i did not rule out the possibility of someone liking X"

is fucking ridiculous, you implied that someone cannot legitimately like playing on a desk unless they have an abnormal sexual fixation with desks

i do like refering to the past sometimes, because anybody with any time in this forum knows what your deal is by this point, any thread that somehow, in any shape, compares consoles unfavorably to PC, will have you there

I don't appreciate you using that as an example, sounds awfully similar to when those folk were constantly throwing around "retard".
I'm sorry I don't see how brain damage is valid and it comes off as offensive. People with brain damage can lead mostly normal lives if their situation allows it, they aren't different to you or I like you're implying... well of course there is the obvious difference but you should know what I mean by that.

Hehehehe I'm sorry that made me laugh. You shouldn't take it so straight bloody hell. Of course I didn't say people were having sex with their desks... though ultimately with everything out there we can't discount that as applying to certain individuals... anyway moving on.

"i feel deeply offended by this non-serious hypothetical scenario you just presented"

"LOL U MAD BRO YOU SHOULDNT TAKE THINGS SO SERIOUSLY"

i see you are just pretending at this point so i wont even bother

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Games that are on an Xbone so I don't have to buy one because I've already bet on one horse and I don't have the kinda dosh to go spreading it around. Har haaarrrrr.

Console scrub so don't ask me, anytime I try gaming with a mouse an keyboard I become my mum slowly typing whenever shes trying to use Google. Nothing pulls me out of a game faster and kills the momentum.

 

[ecoho]

fucking halo wars its great RTS game with a lot of potential so of course its on the 360.........WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

em yeah also halo would be good on PC even if I do prefer my fps games with a controller.(don't judge me I have issues....)

 

[ceyan]

My contribution: Final Fantasy Tactics. I also support the idea of Dragon's Dogma and Red Dead Redemption. I will say the answer of "all of them" is a major cop out. There are plenty of crappy titles that have/had no business being made in the first place, let alone ported to another device.

I'm also of the belief that there are games that are playable on the PC (because you can do anything with it) but really wouldn't sell well enough in the PC market to justify the effort. I think the biggest example I can think of is any of the Just Dance style games. While there certainly are people who would buy and play those games on the PC, I find it hard to believe that number is significant versus the amount of already have a console and would get it for play it in the traditional environment the console is already in.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

My contribution: Final Fantasy Tactics. I also support the idea of Dragon's Dogma and Red Dead Redemption.

Not sure about RDR (I'm not really that into sandbox games), but I'm with you on the rest. I'd also really like to see some of NISA's SRPGs on PC, like the Disgaea series, La Pucelle, Guided Fate Paradox and such.

 

[Signa]

Final Fantasy IX. The rest of the PSX Final Fantasies made it to the PC, why didn't IX? With how Square keeps releasing games on the PC, I'd LOVE to see them port IX over finally.

 

[J Tyran]

Those who'd rather play at a desk are... well being dishonest to themselves, or have some odd fetish.

Well I prefer to play at my desk, even my Xbone and PS4 [http://i.imgur.com/W8EtiAU.jpg] are at my desk. Why? Its comfy, everything is there and I have a specialised gaming monitor thats simply better than any TV for playing games even on a console.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Final Fantasy IX. The rest of the PSX Final Fantasies made it to the PC, why didn't IX? With how Square keeps releasing games on the PC, I'd LOVE to see them port IX over finally.

Because the rest of the PS 1 games were on the PC when they were on the PS 1. Not to say I don't want FF9 done as well but I'm assuming that is the main reason why 7 and 8 are on Steam after being redone slightly and 9 isn't. Must be easier to do a port when you already have a port to work with but maybe one day we can have FF9.

 

[porous_shield]

I would love to play the Persona games on PC. The few consoles I've had access to have always been the wrong ones. Forza Horizon 2 would be nice and RDR. The only other game I could think of is Valkyria Chronicles and that got brought over which makes me happy.

 

[IceForce]

According to a certain someone in this thread, I'm dishonest and a fetishist because I like to game at a table instead of in a living room.

Apparently having a luxury computer desk with height adjustable everything, having an oversized leather executive office chair, and wanting to avoid a noisy living room with other boisterous people and a TV that's already in use, is a completely foreign concept to this person.

OT: All of them, because exclusives are dumb.