The worst PC game port of all time?

[Thorney]

Being one of the only people that has had no issues with BAK especially after the increased FPS tweak. For me it was GTA4 so annoying that you had all these memory limits even when I got a new graphics card, still couldn't play it with fully pretty but more annoying than that are console games that give us keyboard controls but take away or screw up the controller option. I wanted to play Mass effect with XBOx controller, Dead Space 1 was practically unplayable on Pc. That was my pet hate.

 

[fimbles]

Arkham knight runs pretty good on my old pc. Watchdogs takes the prize for me. unplayable FPS.

 

[Laithes]

Halo 2 was pretty bad, mostly because of Games For Windows Live, but it's the only game to-date that I've spent more than 2-3 hours trying to get it to even start.

 

[Spykezxp]

My opinion (because I have not yet tried BAK) would have to be Dark Souls. It originally rendered at 720p, had the awful Windows Live DRM and the mouse/keyboard controls were horrible.

 

[Cryio]

Assassin's creed 1 and 2. 1 was unplayable unless you had a controller. Even at that you still had to map your own controlled. I had a generic controller and everything came up as Xbox icons. I think that was the case with keyboard and mouse, too.

AS2, on the other hand, just crashed frequently and that always on DRM stunt they pulled was a nightmare. Their servers kept crashing kicking everyone one out of game for weeks. You had to download a crack for the game to play it

Haha, I consider AC1 a great PC port. Great resolution support, proper DX10 render with better visuals than DX9 (better lightning and shadows), a lot of options to tweak, option to have better visuals than on console, great PC and controller implementation. Absolutely marvelous performance AND with Nvidia GPUs option to use ambient occlusion.

As for Assassin's Creed II ... it's not that the port was bad, the core game was technically wonky, even on consoles. Poor shadows, poor draw/render distance, lower polygon count for playable characters and NPCs ..., poorer textures.

 

[Zenodroid]

Nothing will beat wow sure it gives money, just like crapple does. but that doesnt mean its good. just show mindless and zombie ppl.

60% of the wow ppl, still thinks wow is the first mmo and 50% of those ppl arent even trolling

 

[Adhmuz]

Thinking back a couple years, Rage, what a disaster, that was the last pre-order I ever placed for a game because of how un-playable the launch was, and it was a hefty 25GB if I'm not mistaken to boot. I was never able to go back and enjoy that game by the time they patched it, if they patched it, I don't know it was a very linear open world game.

More recently just about any console port to PC that isn't optimized, so probably about half the games coming out now a days, hoping for the day I can buy a PC game and get what I paid for the day I paid for it.

 

[amstech]

People are mentioning Rage, GTA4 and Halo 2?
God I'm old.

I was going to mention Drakan: Order of the Flame (especially Multiplayer), Hexen, and a few other classics but nahh, you kids today don't know what a bugged launch game is. You think this new Batman is bad? Sheesh.

 

[Guest]

I don't agree with GTA 4 as I was playing it at max settings and averaging 80-110 fps as everyone around me complained about it running terribly. Not sure what my magic 2600k and GTX 680 were doing.
My nomination for worst port would be that Dark souls game (dark souls 2?) I can't even remember which one but it was capped at 30fps and felt like 5fps with some god awful up scaled resolution. It lasted a grand total of 15 minutes on my hdd before it was uninstalled but it was only an unofficial 'demo' before money was to be spent (thank god for 'demo's')

 

[Guest]

I'll have to say Dark Souls was the most horrific port I've seen. You really need dsfix to even touch it. But as far a modern marketing blunder/disaster, Batman would take the cake. Pulling it from the virtual shelves is just...wow. I'm very curious to see how they band-aid this one.

 

[gradius]

Fable 3.

 

[elTano06]

I dont know which one is the worst, but this are the ones I played, ACIII, gta iv, watch dogs, AC unity, arkham knight.

 

[Cryio]

I dont know which one is the worst, but this are the ones I played, ACIII, gta iv, watch dogs, AC unity, arkham knight.

Assassin's Creed III, what? The port is perfectly fine. There is nothing wrong with it.