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Bad videogame ports Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 01:59:18 64c1ca No.16191854

Back when the Jak and Daxter port to the Vita was released, i was very excited, because the jak series has always been one of my favorite games of all time, but as you all know it ended up being a low frame rate stinky controls pile of shit.

Is there any other bad port that ruins the original experience?

it has been any port that you wanted to be good but end up bad? and why not, is there any game you would like to see on another platform?

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 02:05:19 6604d1 No.16191877

Battletoads on Amiga is embarrassing not just because of how bad it is but also by the fact it's on superior hardware. There was just no excuse.

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 02:19:45 f61245 No.16191939

That's a shame. It always seems like sony is onto something great, then they just shit the bed and it's embarrassing. Vita could've been a great mobile platform for ps2/ps3 ports like that.

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 02:20:16 ee50e8 No.16191940

>>16191877

I submit that fucking everything for eurocomps was shit ports. Most Amiga games were garbage that thrived on still photos and good music. There was really nothing that stood out as a masterpiece, and said "fuck you, Nintendo. This is how you do (X) kind of game."

I submit that the main reason eurocomps thrived was because it was so easy to pirate most of their games.

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 02:27:10 6604d1 No.16191978

>>16191940

>eurocomps

The Amiga was made in America.

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 02:30:20 daf50f No.16191993

the PSP version of final fantasy tactics is fucking garbage

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 03:10:20 7be2dc No.16192107

>>16191993

On the off chance you mainly mean the slowdown, there's a fan made patch to fix that for use with a CFW PSP or PPSSPP. Still says a lot that Square couldn't be bothered to offer an official fix themselves though.

>>16191939

In the case of HD compilations, using those are compiled/ported by a company uninvolved with making the original games anyhow. Jak and Daxter having been by Mass Media Games, and looking at their track record, seem to have had a lot more prior experience with the PS3 than Vita.

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 03:14:51 f61245 No.16192121

>>16192107

wwwwhat a shame. I noticed while emulating the ps3 hd versions of sly cooper, a new company is handling it called sanzaru. thats the first ive heard of them

Anonymous 03/02/19 (Sat) 03:22:19 7be2dc No.16192159

>>16192121

Some of those companies do better than others. Hexa Drive for example did solid work with Okami HD, and I recall hearing similar about their work with E.X. Troopers, and were even the ones Konami turned to to fix ZoE2 HD for the PS3, after they'd at least gotten the justification to shitcan the series after letting High Voltage botch the shit out of it.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 00:23:03 9330fd No.16195709

>>16192121

Sanzaru went on to make Sly 4, which is actually very good, except for being a bit too easy. I was excited for them to make Sly 5, but then they got busy making Sonic Boom and its sequel.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:25:39 e8dbac No.16196220

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Call of Duty 3 for Wii

>muddy graphics and spotty framerate

>poorly implemented motion controls make it virtually unplayable, especially the QTE's and vehicle sections

>no multiplayer at all

Soul Reaver for PC

>barebones port with none of the visual enhancements from the Dreamcast version, also locked to 30FPS (not counting a mod from recent years)

>lacks the dynamic music from the PS1 version

>controller support was completely broken, and was never fixed (not even mods could fix it), have to use shit like Joy2Key if you want to play with a controller

Shadow Man for PS1

>baaaaad bad framerate, barely fucking works on PS1, not to mention it just looks like shit

>almost no music, not even ambient level noise, sound effects are very sparse and often jarring

Saints Row 2 for PC

>code was basically just haphazardly copy-pasted to run on a PC processor, runs like shit on just about any computer that isn't running a 3GHZ Pentium IV or something

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:30:43 1b6cb1 No.16196249

>>16196220

Similar note to CoD3 is Budokai Tenkaichi 2 for Wii

I bought it because 3 for the same system actually had good controls. really good controls, which I guess means they learned from this shitfest

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:33:10 e8dbac No.16196262

>>16196249

Yeah, Wii launch games were mostly bad ports. The CoD games certainly improved on the Wii later on but the Wii port of 3 colored my impression of it being the worst game in the series (before 2011 or so anyway).

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:34:27 9ecba2 No.16196268

>>16196220

>Saints Row 2 for PC

the guys who ported it over haven't gotten any better at programming and just license shitty middleware to do the job for them, resulting in retarded bottlenecks, weird frame pacing issues and microstutters that can't be fixed on an engine level.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:41:55 e8dbac No.16196312

>>16196268

How the fuck are they still around? What have they made recently?

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:42:28 9ecba2 No.16196317

>>16196312

the witcher 3

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:46:03 e8dbac No.16196331

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>>16196317

I didn't know they were the devs, but I guess that shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 02:46:23 bb854c No.16196333

>>16191993

>>16192107

Was the slowdown worse than the original, because I remember thinking how did I put up with it back on the PS1?

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 03:52:58 9f7cfd No.16196657

Mega Man 64

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 04:11:31 01ae13 No.16196771

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>>16196317

>>16196331

HOLY SHIT! did not know this, Witcher 1 was pretty buggy but the others seem to run ok.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 04:13:19 805019 No.16196776

From what I heard, they were handed the game without any source code and told to port it. They basically had to hack it all together to have it in a barely working state.

Anonymous 03/03/19 (Sun) 04:14:32 9ecba2 No.16196783

>>16196776

Doubtful considering their history of licensing and middleware. Leaning hard more towards they don't know how to program.