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?
Gran Turismo. I really dont wanna deal with console obsolescence just to play a decent racing sim. Not like they need it to farm PSN subscriptions because people already pay more for iRacing
Fingers crossed. Kaz has been displaying interest in a PC version. His first early demo of Ray Tracing at a conference years ago used a PC fork of Gran Turismo because it didn’t exist on consoles at the time. With all of the relevant competing franchises existing on PC, they’re missing out.
Sony has been pretty good with porting games to PC but usually only the ones that aren’t “live service” titles like Gran Turismo has become nowadays.
For now, I guess Modded GT4 is the best im gonna get (which isn’t a low bar by any means, it’s great on steamdeck!)
As far along as emulation has come, I’d like to see a proper Little Big Planet port with multi-player and local server support.
Zelda.
Or the entire nintendo library.
Secret of Mana HD and Adventures of Mana HD
Megaman & Bass on Super Nintendo
Sega Rally Championship 1995 on Sega Saturn
Drakengard on PlayStation 2
inFamous on PlayStation 3
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.
You reminded me of “Drakken” for the snes. Don’t think that was a very good game though.
Megaman and Bass made it to GBA I think if you want to play the worst port ever. So many blind jumps.
Every single Nintendo first-party title.
In the meantime, thanks Ryujinx and Yuzu.
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.
Metal Gear Solid 4
I would like to play Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls. But I really don’t want to buy a PlayStation just for two games…
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 :)
Jade Cocoon. It didn’t even get the PS3 emulation port that a lot of PS1 games got.
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.
Metal Gear Solid 4.
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!
Xenoblade Chronicles X
I own it on the WiiU and yes I can use an emulator but a proper port which better integrates the content from the second screen into a one screen interface would be great.
Honestly, I feel like any manner of integrating the game pad screen is going to end up feeling like a downgrade, simply because of how information dense the map is compared to the minimap on the main screen. I’ve been emulating it, and playing it on a multi monitor setup has been absolutely amazing.