Baffled by the lack of GTA 4 on this list, A game that my i5 2400 processor still cannot seem to wrap its head around. I also would still appreciate a bare bones port of Spider-Man 2 and with Disney recently resorting to just licensing out their IPs I think its the perfect opportunity to at least ask.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50908910]Baffled by the lack of GTA 4 on this list, A game that my i5 2400 processor still cannot seem to wrap its head around. I also would still appreciate a bare bones port of Spider-Man 2 and with Disney recently resorting to just licensing out their IPs I think its the perfect opportunity to at least ask.[/QUOTE]
I still have PTSD from trying to play GTA IV for the first time
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50908910]Baffled by the lack of GTA 4 on this list, A game that my i5 2400 processor still cannot seem to wrap its head around. I also would still appreciate a bare bones port of Spider-Man 2 and with Disney recently resorting to just licensing out their IPs I think its the perfect opportunity to at least ask.[/QUOTE]
GTA IV was the first one I thought of coming into this thread, odd how they didn't put it in the list at all
Red Faction Guerilla was kinda bad too right? As a port.
Also Prototype 1 had an awfull release from what I can remember. I struggled to get 60 FPS on an HD 4850 and on an 9800 GTX.
The first Bioshock was also pretty horrible.
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;50909167]Red Faction Guerilla was kinda bad too right? As a port.
Also Prototype 1 had an awfull release from what I can remember. I struggled to get 60 FPS on an HD 4850 and on an 9800 GTX.
The first Bioshock was also pretty horrible.[/QUOTE]
The only issue with RFG was GFWL and that was removed
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;50909217]The only issue with RFG was GFWL and that was removed[/QUOTE]
Back then it had large framerate issues. From what I've seen JoWood now improved things around and the hardware also got better.
Batman 2015 in its rightful place.
Though I'd have to say, they left a lot of games out in their quest to keep the list small.
On the not so popular side there are almost all of the Non-Star-Wars Disney games on Steam.
Some of the games are supposed to be decent (Toy Story 3, Cars 2) but they ported the Wii versions instead of the PS3/360 versions. Pirates of the Caribbean (PS2 version ported instead of drastically different PS3/360) doesn't even run on anything beyond Windows XP.
One of the Cars games allows you to rebind the keys on the gamepad but you can't save it because it tells you, you haven't set up a key for all the actions, even if you did. With the default gamepad configuration of that Cars game, you have to steer with the trigger buttons and accelerate and decelerate with A and X on the 360 controller.
Only Split Second and Disney Universe are ported acceptably.
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;50909217]The only issue with RFG was GFWL and that was removed[/QUOTE]
Until a recent patch, unless you played it on Windows 7 and below the game's speed would be dependent on your CPU clock, it was pretty much unplayable
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Saints Row 2 has the same issue, actually
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;50909519]Until a recent patch, unless you played it on Windows 7 and below the game's speed would be dependent on your CPU clock, it was pretty much unplayable
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Saints Row 2 has the same issue, actually[/QUOTE]
I never encountered that issue even though I played it pre-patch.
Guess I just got lucky
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50908910]Baffled by the lack of GTA 4 on this list, A game that my i5 2400 processor still cannot seem to wrap its head around. I also would still appreciate a bare bones port of Spider-Man 2 and with Disney recently resorting to just licensing out their IPs I think its the perfect opportunity to at least ask.[/QUOTE]
GTA 4 wasn't a bad port, it was just poorly optimized, there's a different. Other than the optimization, the PC version is perfectly good.
Saint's Goddamn Row 2.
Seriously, it needs to be Re-Ported. The only good Saints Row PC ports are of the two shitty tryhard sequels.
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Tryhard sequels that have the stench of being underbudgeted as THQ collapsed like a building in RFG, with a billion and one last desperate attempt at saving THQ DLCs to boot.
[QUOTE=simkas;50909583]GTA 4 wasn't a bad port, it was just poorly optimized, there's a different. Other than the optimization, the PC version is perfectly good.[/QUOTE]
so other than what bad it a bad port it was a good port
what the fuck is this circular mind gymnastics
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;50909222]Back then it had large framerate issues. From what I've seen JoWood now improved things around and the hardware also got better.[/QUOTE]
JoWooD? Are you sure you're not confusing it with anything else? RFG was made by Volition and published by THQ.
Also I never had any performance problems with RFG on release, but I had a pretty beefy PC back then (core 2 duo e8500, gtx260)
Yeah and simply bad performance does not indicate a bad [B]port[/B]. Usually lots of things that apply only to consoles and simply unacceptable on PCs (fps caps, upscaling from internal resolution, inability to change resolution or other graphics settings, clunky UI made for slow gamepads, unchanged graphic assets, not to mention missing graphical/gameplay features, bugs and crashes) do.
Yea Saints Row 2 is fucking terrible
But i'd have GTA IV on the list too. I can run GTA V at Very High on a constant 60 FPS but my machine refuses to run IV on fucking lowest settings at 20+ FPS
GTA 4 is so bad it seems like its performance got worse as I upgraded my hardware
I had no problems running it on a GTX280, but when GTA 5 was about to come out I figured I'd replay 4 and it was barely playable, looking at water brought my framerate down to single digits, and that was on a GTX970.
Or maybe it had more to do with the OS, either way it was an awful port.
I can play GTA IV just fine.
I mean, I can't max it at all, and have to play at very custom settings to get the best balance, but I remember playing it just fine. Not amazing balls to the wall perfect, but then again, I'm doing that on a 9 year old computer that was outdated even when I had bought it.
[QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;50909167]Red Faction Guerilla was kinda bad too right? As a port.
Also Prototype 1 had an awfull release from what I can remember. I struggled to get 60 FPS on an HD 4850 and on an 9800 GTX.
The first Bioshock was also pretty horrible.[/QUOTE]
Never played Prototype but I don't know WHAT games YOU were playing when it comes to the other two.
The biggest issue I had with RFG was that the audio all kinda sounded like it was coming through a walkie-talkie. But Bioshock always played perfectly for me, across plenty of hardware changes.
They only mentioned Pandora Tomorrow in passing but that game had (until last year) the same issues with no shadows. It's the only Splinter Cell you can't buy digitally because of that.
Oh man, Saints row 2 was absolutely terrible. Only played it for a couple hours and didn't really want to go any further. Both SR3 and 4, maxed out, on the same hardware ran at like double the framerate SR2 did for me. I've no idea how they could manage to screw it up that badly.
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[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;50910193]They only mentioned Pandora Tomorrow in passing but that game had (until last year) the same issues with no shadows. It's the only Splinter Cell you can't buy digitally because of that.[/QUOTE]
I remember having some similar issues with the first Splinter Cell, IIRC I only needed some ini tweaks to get the shadows working. Is that not doable in Pandora Tomorrow?
[QUOTE=certified;50909634]Saint's Goddamn Row 2.
Seriously, it needs to be Re-Ported. The only good Saints Row PC ports are of the two shitty tryhard sequels.
[editline]18th August 2016[/editline]
Tryhard sequels that have the stench of being underbudgeted as THQ collapsed like a building in RFG, with a billion and one last desperate attempt at saving THQ DLCs to boot.[/QUOTE]
I will give you SR3 but SR4 is a lot of fun, especially with a friend.
[QUOTE=J!NX;50909730]so other than what bad it a bad port it was a good port
what the fuck is this circular mind gymnastics[/QUOTE]
Bad optimization =/= bad port. There's a lot more going in to make something a really bad port. GTA4's only issue on PC was optimization.
I don't understand why people keep saying Dark Souls is one of the worst ports out there. I mean it was incredibly barebores, but even the base version of the game without DSFix was superior to the console versions. It certainly wasn't a good port, but there are so many absolutely horrid ports that something as mild as "It's the console version but with a stable frame rate and no other changes" seems like a misdemeanour compared to some of the shit out there, and definitely not "The worst PC port of all time" like Totalbuscuit likes to claim.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a MUCH worse port than half this list. It runs like shit, it doesn't recognise your controls most of the time, it barely supports a controller, and when you try to exit it it can cause your PC to crash.
Most of these "Worst ports" lists are more "Here's some popular games we can be bothered to remember which run poorly." If they were looking for the actual worst ports half the list or more wouldn't be up there.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;50910378]I don't understand why people keep saying Dark Souls is one of the worst ports out there. [/QUOTE]
Probably because it's so difficult for newcomers on it's own, and even more for those who tried to play on keyboard and mouse like every other PC game out there.
Hitman 2016 is another terribly optimized game.
[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;50910742]Hitman 2016 is another terribly optimized game.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but it doesn't run well on any platform
[QUOTE=simkas;50910260]Bad optimization =/= bad port. There's a lot more going in to make something a really bad port. GTA4's only issue on PC was optimization.[/QUOTE]
if that's true then dark souls was a perfect port despite not being able to run above 15 fps without a fix
I'd mention broken controls too but that's not really a game that works on KB/M to boot
though at the same time gta4's optimization really wasn't as awful as other games, at least the game [I]runs[/I].
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[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;50910378]I don't understand why people keep saying Dark Souls is one of the worst ports out there. I mean it was incredibly barebores, but even the base version of the game without DSFix was superior to the console versions. It certainly wasn't a good port, but there are so many absolutely horrid ports that something as mild as "It's the console version but with a stable frame rate and no other changes" seems like a misdemeanour compared to some of the shit out there, and definitely not "The worst PC port of all time" like Totalbuscuit likes to claim.[/QUOTE]
without dsfix i literally cannot run the game even on a 970, and if I do it does maybe 30 fps some of the time
if it wasn't for dsfix ds1 on pc would have been a lost cause
I remember in saints row 2 coop my friends cars would always go faster than mine because he had a better cpu.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50908910]Baffled by the lack of GTA 4 on this list, A game that my i5 2400 processor still cannot seem to wrap its head around. I also would still appreciate a bare bones port of Spider-Man 2 and with Disney recently resorting to just licensing out their IPs I think its the perfect opportunity to at least ask.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the framerate is even lower on newer hardware and doesn't recognize over 1GB of VRAM etc.
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