Which video games have been trapped on a hardware platform (console/handheld/headset/etc.) that you wish would be ported well?
I was reading about Oculus accounts that haven’t been assimilated into Meta accounts being erased, & it got me thinking about games trapped on hardware platforms again. What are some of the games you wish would have good ports across different hardware?
The ps2 gen had some great FPS games that were console exclusives since PC physical was dying, I wish I could play Black, urban Chaos Riot Response, Darkwatch, Timesplitters and Shadow Tower Abyss with a mouse and keyboard.
If you still have your game disk to rip you can use this to play it on pc.
I have an old pc with an i7-6700 cpu and older graphics card using a ps5 controller I bought from a pawn shop. Been playing OG God of war and Shadow of the Colossus on it. Plays just as good if not better than real ps2 hardware.
I would let you custom map keyboard keys to controller keys too
I know about that emulator, but the mouse functions like an analogue stick when mapped, feels so wrong that I played with a controller anyway.
Have a look at this for timesplitters 4k pc port
I saw it a while ago and remembered it whe i saw your comment.
I bought it for the TS2 port too, but ended up enjoying the main game anyway lol, was the urban far cry I expected 6 to be.
Call of Duty 3
I loved 2 and 4, but I think 3 only came out on the original Xbox and the PS2? I’m probably misremembering that, but I know a PC port was never made cause boy, I’d love to try it but don’t think it exists
I played Call of Duty 3 on my Wii, so that’s one more platform. It’s also the only CoD I spent a considerable amount of time with.
Megaman & Bass on Super Nintendo
Sega Rally Championship 1995 on Sega Saturn
Drakengard on PlayStation 2
inFamous on PlayStation 3
You reminded me of “Drakken” for the snes. Don’t think that was a very good game though.
As someone who played Drakengard, the story is cool but the gameplay is absolutely awful. The gameplay is repetitive and the game feels like trying to play a Dynasty Warriors game with the controls of Ace Combat 2, but only for the ground parts because the flying parts control nothing like Ace Combat. Even Yoko Taro agrees that the gameplay is trash.
Its a game with a cool story but youll have a 10/10 better experience just watching the cutscenes. If ever a game needed a remake where major gameplay systems are completely overhauled or changed, its definitely Drakengard.
Megaman and Bass made it to GBA I think if you want to play the worst port ever. So many blind jumps.
The old Uncharted games. Every other year I forget that the “Legacy of Thieves Collection” is not a collection of legacy games.
You can’t even emulate them without a proper PlayStation controller because they need the movement feature. And the Steam Deck’s movement feature isn’t supported by the emulators.
I’d also like to play Until Dawn but I guess that’s finally coming.
There’s the Nathan Drake collection for PS4, which has remakes of the first 3 games
This is what I was gonna say :/
Zelda.
Or the entire nintendo library.
3D Dot Game Heroes on the PS3. Forget good ports, this poor game didn’t get ANY ports.
Seriously, that game was a charming semi-parody of some RPG elements and aspects of classic Legend of Zelda.
One of my favorite parts was the character creator, such a smart integration of a voxel editor. It put me in the mind of RPG Maker’s pixel art sprite editor with how it had you make a small voxel spritesheet for the character.
Oh man one of the biggest regrets was me getting rid of this game so much fun.
I would like to play Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls. But I really don’t want to buy a PlayStation just for two games…
This but Last Guardian.
Secret of Mana HD and Adventures of Mana HD
Metal Gear Solid 4
Jade Cocoon. It didn’t even get the PS3 emulation port that a lot of PS1 games got.
Worlds Adrift. It was shut down by the creators partly due to funding another project but also partly because the serverside was built on a proprietary OS that isn’t supported anymore so there weren’t any options other than re-building it from the ground up
I’ve been wanting to play ghost of tsushima, hopefully they port it to pc.
You’re in luck. Apparently info is coming in the next week about a port according to Eurogamer.
I remember hearing about it in that nvidia leak a while back, so I was pretty sure they are actually going to port it, just don’t know when. Seems likely very soon though if eurogamer is right :)
Aside from everything Nintendo makes- with how they run the switch, I really wish they’d crash out of the console market- I would hope for the Bomberman Battle Royale game that was on Stadia only. It was some sort of deal to keep it there, but it was definitely a fun Bomberman game.
Metal Gear Solid 4.
Agreed. Hopefully they release it in the second part of the Metal Gear collection
Every single Nintendo first-party title.
In the meantime, thanks Ryujinx and Yuzu.
