Horibble Ports for PC

[craftomega]

Greetings and salutation my fellow escapists.

Today let?s talk about the worst ports in gaming history. I would like to start with a relatively new game called "Binary Domain"
-This game uses a voice command system, that doesn?t work, to talk to your allies and make choices.
-It uses 360 control buttons images for in game tutorials.
-It uses non-standard default controls, F is back and sprint, shift is turn left (wtf?), enter is menu... Which works great with the 360 images and a keyboard.
-The third person controls do not work well for a mouse since so aiming is annoying.


The list goes on... But enough of that have you played any really, really bad ports?

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Strangely enough my worst experience has been with one of the reportedly best ported games. DMC3 on the PC is supposed to be an excellent translation, but using a controller only half the buttons actually work even when correctly configured (and the controller is perfect all other times). Just that one game...

 

[Luftwaffles]

Toy Soldiers.

Recently came out on steam from xbla, looked interesting BUT

No resolution support (as in you cant change it)
Doesnt support key remapping
Has audio problems
No tweakable settings
And from what i can understand, no multiplayer, even though it was advertised as such on the steam page. Which means someone just copypastad everything from the xbla page to the steam one.

I didnt buy it though, its just a real prime example.

 

[josemlopes]

Saints Row 2... Yeah, thats a hard one to beat.

 

[Sixcess]

Saints Row 2... Yeah, thats a hard one to beat.

Ninja'd. SR2 was almost unplayable on my old pc, which more than met the 'recommended specs' for the game. Even on my newer PC it can still grind to a near halt when things get chaotic - which being Saints Row, is all the freaking time.

An older title would be Civilisation 2 on the PS1. Kudos to them for even attempting to port a game in that genre to a console and I absolutely loved the game itself, but in the late game it would take 5 or 6 minutes for the AI to complete its turn. I used to read a book while I was waiting...

 

[AndrewF022]

Metal Gear Solid 2 was pretty bad, graphical issues, bad controls, the lot. Resident Evil 4 was pretty bad out of the box as well, no mouse support, thats terrible. Although both of those games could be fixed with community patches/mods, so its not so bad.. not as bad as the aforementioned Saints Row 2, it was nearly unplayable.

 

[craftomega]

Saints Row 2... Yeah, thats a hard one to beat.

You know alot of people conplain but I never had an issue... I guess I was just lucky.

 

[Vuliev]

Normally I'd offer something that was just poorly optimized (ME1, AC2/Revelations), but Dark Void takes the cake for me. Everything is (more or less) fine until you hit the section where you have to take out a bunch of the alien fighter things in extended flight combat. For whatever asstarded reason, the mouse acts like a joystick (movement is tracked as displacement from a central position as opposed to the standard of registering mouse velocity), so it's literally impossible to progress past that point.

 

[DazZ.]

The only one other than Saints Row 2 I've not been able to play is Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, it wasn't just the port that put me off though.

FOV needs to be scalable, not everyone has the same size screen and sits exactly where you set the FOV to be natural, and something that I just can't stand to play with is different mouse sensitivities for horizontal and vertical in an FPS, it's incredibly off putting.

 

[wintercoat]

Does the interface for Skyrim count? God, I just wanted to punch whoever thought that that implementation was a good idea.

 

[josemlopes]

Saints Row 2... Yeah, thats a hard one to beat.

You know alot of people conplain but I never had an issue... I guess I was just lucky.

Not even the fast motion bug?

Your computer shall be praised.

 

[Tayh]

Resident Evil 4. Press square to dodge boulder!
Also ME3 with it's sticky cover.
Battlestations Midway/Pacific - weird, unintuitive controls.
Saints Row 2. Almost gamebreakingly bad driving controls.
Overlord 2. Also Overlord 1, but to a lesser degree. Specifically, I'm thinking of

Spoiler

the part where you have to climb up a shaft with your spider mounted minions. That part is almost impossible to do with a mouse. I never actually got past it.

 

[OSHarlequin]

Does OFDR count? That was pretty bad. Its a shame, it could of been great.

 

[Jynthor]

Does the interface for Skyrim count? God, I just wanted to punch whoever thought that that implementation was a good idea.

Agreed, that's why you get SkyUI [http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863]
And yeah, Saints Row 2.

 

[craftomega]

Not even the fast motion bug?

Your computer shall be praised.

Well once in a while I had the fast motion bug but it only lasted 10 seconds at the most. But the game was very playable 99% of the time. So better then almost all of EA's games XD.

 

[Paladin2905]

Just about any elder scrolls past daggerfall was an ugly port, particularly oblivion. Thank god those games have an active modding community to fix them.

Otherwise I'd say metal gear solid was the worst pc port I ever saw, no work put into making it friendly at all, just remapped the buttons.

 

[distortedreality]

Surprised GTA4 hasn't been mentioned yet. I personally never had any issues with it, but there was so much rage at release, it was pretty freakin nuts.

 

[TehCookie]

Devil May Cry 3, it's so terrible you can't even configure a controller with it. I never personally tried it I just hear a lot of people complain about it.