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?
Red Dead Redemption
They never made a PC port
I hear the switch version runs decently on yuzu
I’m sorry, they made a fucking Switch port but not PC? That’s very Rocktendo of them tbh.
I’m pretty sure the PS3 version runs well on RPCS3 with a very small amount of fiddling.
Every single Nintendo first-party title.
In the meantime, thanks Ryujinx and Yuzu.
Metal Gear Solid 4.
Agreed. Hopefully they release it in the second part of the Metal Gear collection
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.
I would love to see the old PS2 third person platformers ported/remastered onto PC. Sly Cooper 1-3(Sly 4 I guess), Jak 1-3(And Jak X I guess), and all the Ratchet and Clank games. You can play them via RPCS3 and PCSX2, but that’s not a substitute for a proper port imo.
Fuck, YES. These and the InFamous games, honestly.
Come the fuck on Sony, you’re leaving money on the table!
The Infinity Blade series on the iPhone. You can’t buy them anymore and I’m not sure you can download them even if you own them. They wouldn’t work on a modern iPhone anyway because you need some old version of ios. You can’t really emulate it them a useful way either. So the only way would be to get an old iphone/iPod touch, jailbreak it and sideload the .ipa if you can still find it somewhere.
Shame because I really enjoyed those games and anything remaining of the franchise has been absorbed into fortnite meaning there will never be another sequel.
Imagine taking the best game on the platform in its prime, locking it up, and making a fucking fortnite skin out of it. That is the sad tale of Infinity Blade.
That is amazing! Gonna get this on steam deck! I’m very excited, thank you for sharing!
Got lucky, I saw an article yesterday!
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.
This is what I was gonna say :/
There’s the Nathan Drake collection for PS4, which has remakes of the first 3 games
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.
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
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.
mass effect 3 multiplayer. absolutely loved being a krogan vanguard or a geth prime w siege pulse.
it still connects… sometimes. i usually try once a day. fucking ea.
I was just talking about this with a buddy last night. Mass Effect 3 MP was fuckin amazing. Playing the Krogan Warlord was a fantastic time.
oh if only I could have my beloved Bloodborne on PC
I’ve never played it, but I am curious about it : I wonder why SEGA never ported Jet Set Radio Future on any other platform. It never left the original xBox.
It’s a bit weird because SEGA is usually not against getting a few quick bucks from the old catalogue. The first Jet Set Radio, along with a couple other Dreamcast games, has a PC version, and it’s at least playable, if not absolutely perfect.
Jet Set Radio Future not appearing on another platform or being rereleased does not have an officially known reason, but I 100% personally guarantee you its about music copyright. Either a license for a sound sample used in a song expired, or the license for a song expired. There is no other reason.
That or something with a contract with Microsoft to be exclusive to the Xbox, barring it even from releasing on Windows. Or both.
Microsoft wanted the Xbox to succeed and guaranteeing exclusives, especially a sequel from SEGA from their previous console for a game that had some popularity, would be a step in guaranteeing that. If the game were also released on PS2 and GameCube and even Windows, it would have hurt the Xbox from players who wanted to play JSRF.
I would agree, except that Future also does not appear as a port for any other Xbox console except for the original. The only way to play it is either an original Xbox,
or backwards compatibility with an original Xbox disk[EDIT: JSRF is not backwards compatible on any Xbox platform, meaning the only way to play is on an OG Xbox or via emulation]. There are no ports or remasters of Future, despite wider availability of Jet Grind Radio.It is of note that Sony is the most aggressive with purchasing exclusive rights to third party games, a practice they still continue to engage in to this day that is incredibly infuriating.
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Yeah, I got JSRF and Sega GT Racing with my OG Xbox. Both stayed Xbox exclusive.
Just Bloodborne
Not a game per se, but the Kinect. I loved the sports games, and it was my wife’s favorite way to play Just Dance, but they axed it midway through the Xbox One cycle.
I would legit buy an Xbox if it had Kinect and back catalog support. But alas, I only have the Xbox 360 and didn’t upgrade once they killed it in the next console.
There was one really underrated feature in the Kinect and that was its microphones. It allowed for voice commands and interactions in games.
And with how popular LLMs have gotten, wouldn’t it be amazing to have an actual conversation with an NPC? Imagine LA Noire where you can ask any question you want. Or Bethesda games where you’re not limited to 4 or 5 canned responses. Natural language conversation with NPCs would be such an amazing feature and I thought that’s where Kinect was going to take us.
