Worst Port You've Ever Played

I got my new phone a few days ago and Yes I did and still do find it much harder on the mobile.. you just don't have the same feeling as you do in the computer.. then again I don't like touch that much

Weird, I had it on iOS for a while and got used to it. Bought it on steam and had trouble playing it.

I think you pretty much summed up this topic with Sonic Genesis. Nothing can beat it. NOTHING.
Seriously, you should look it up if you don't know about that game.

You're supposed to name the worst port you've played. But +1, Fallout 3 is so much better on my PC than when I used to play it on xbox.

^this
I'm not able to play DarkSouls without a gamepad.

Thankfully there's a fix that makes it perfectly natural with a keyboard and mouse.

+1 Same here, without a gamepad its pretty much impossible :/

Actually there's a warning at the steam store page: "Microsoft Xbox 360® Controller for Windows® (or equivalent) is strongly recommended."

+1, Dark Souls is a horrible, horrible port.

+1, though for different reasons. I fell through the earth 5 times. Got stuck in an elevator once, with it juddering around like it was on the end of a rubber band. Got knocked into the wall once and couldn't get out. All progress lost in all of the previous. Plus, eventually had my save file corrupted.

2nd worst game experience for me ever.

+1 Fantastic game, absolutely awful port... But, be aware... Last time I said this on the forums, I got a lot of hate... xD

Well, as I mentioned before, that may have had to do with my crummy laptop. If I had played Psychonauts on Xbox or PC before playing it on PS2, then the PS2 port might have been written here instead.

As it stands, Superbrothers was the only game that I remember playing on multiple systems. So I'll chalk up the "bad port" part on my laptop. If it were bettter, this thread might not exist.

And I think Void was originally for the Wii, and I agree, it is somewhat hard to control with a mouse/keyboard. Maybe that's what the devs intended, to make it challenging...

No,the game work good.

It's a great port I think

Thank you +1

Dead Space on PC was real good, cant remember any issues at all.

How come?

I don't think it was a bad port per se, but I just didn't like the FOV at all.

car driving sucks in PC version of Saints Row 2 : /

This.
I dont think I'll ever play a worst port than Saints Row 2, but probably because i wouldnt bother with such a bad port if SR2 wasnt so fantastic

I can't even run the game at low at 10 fps. It's truly horrible.

Don't forget the Windows 7 speed issue, where the game runs faster proportional to how different your CPU clock speed is from the Xbox's clock speed.

Agree, worst 2.5 euros ever spent

THIS!

And RE4 was quite good port, maybe i played patched version.

Oh god, that was horrible. Biohazard 4. It didn't stop me from completing the game, but that was horrible. Mostly for the clunky aiming, no mouse support and wrong keys for quicktime events displayed. Press A B to dodge the ball...A and B? Please...

+1

Indeed. The game is amazing imo, but, sadly, the port is just... awful!

Yeah, this for me as well. I actually won Darksiders here on SG (TY!!) and I was excited to play it, My friend has it on his ps3 and I thought it was pretty cool back when I first tried it.

After trying it on my PC it's a whole different game, clunky and just bleh.

How is Darksiders a bad port? I'm asking because I finished it twice and thought it was awesome (I used a 360 controller though).

I can't think of any problems with it...

Does it REALLY run so bad? Because i have the PS3 version and on Steam, and i thought about deleting the PS3 version from my HDD (so i can install Uncharted 3) and installing the Steam version on PC.
My PC is a high-end one, i think. I got it like two weeks ago and i can run mostly anything on 60 fps (30fps on PlanetSide 2, but never below that). Maybe i can run it well on PC?

Really? Worked great for me

I don't know what's wrong with you but Sleeping Dogs runs pretty fine on my medium range laptop.

Only some people had problems with Sleeping Dogs, others were fine. Often for those who had problems they sometimes could not even play a mission otherwise it would crash.

I remember this one, graphics were messed up real hard.

Never had any problems with that game :O

Disagree. I've never had any issiues with BD. It's really good optimized on PC and you can redefine controls without problems.

+1 Terrible port....

GTA4 you say, but GTA3 port was WAY worse. I thought its fine but couple of years later i tried it on new PC and it was a completely different experience. Insane performance problems.

The controls feel so broken because the game is broken on a far more fundamental level. Game speed is directly linked to processor speed, so if your processor is not exactly as strong as the game expects it to be (360 processor speed), it will run faster.
This makes actually controlling things really hard (in particular cars). Also, it causes issues if you try to play the game in multiplayer (certain missions are on a timer, and the person with the faster processor will see his/her timer move faster (and thus this can end the mission even if it says that there are several seconds left on the other player's screen)).
Also, moving at super speed means that your computer will have a hard time actually keeping up with you, so you'll see horrible popin (in particular if you are in a fast car) and you'll also probably suffer from bad slowdown.

So yes, SR2 is one of the worst ports I've ever played, at least on this side of 2000.

Saints Row 2 got ported by some obscure cheapo European developer THQ outsourced it to rather than have Volition do it. I think they disappeared or something and that's why no more patches ever came after the first one.

Because of how that whole thing was handled (apparently THQ just dumped them the console assets and said "make it work") is a big reason why Volition had their friends (former coworkers) do the port for RFG and then brought them all in house.

i had samurai showdown on the Panasonic console.. cant remember its name

2D fighting games on the PS1 in general had issues. The system wasn't made for 2D graphics and lack of RAM meant animation was cut. I want to recall Samurai Shodown 3 was a pretty bad port, but I don't remember what they messed up.

As for KOF's load times, that was just an issue with disc games in general, made worse by KOF's team format. If you want bad load times in an SNK game, play the Samurai Shodown RPG on any system. You were sitting at a load screen for a half minute just for entering or exiting a shop. (But that was apparently true even on the NeoGeo CD, so it wouldn't technically be a port issue.)

Do you refer to that auto side-stepping issue? Have you tried to use x360ce?

I'm using a 10$ controller and works great