10 Worst Video Game Ports Of All Time

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The subtle art and exact science of video game porting can be a complete minefield, and though there have been a huge number of highly successful ports over the years, the likes of Street Fighter for the ZX Spectrum, DMC3 for PC and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 prove that it's a much trickier job than it seem. That or developers are lazy sometimes. Here are 10 Worst Video Game Ports of All Time!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo)
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@Highretrogamelord 2 года назад

Little error: The ZX Spectrum is a home computer, not a console.

@spoonhanz 2 года назад

*Micro computer*

@Highretrogamelord 2 года назад

@@spoonhanz Not wrong, but home computers are part of micro computers and the ZX Spectrum is also labeled as a home computer.

@Scautura 2 года назад

Not to mention "cassette tape like cartridges" - they were actual cassette tapes (although by that point, the +3 with 3" discs was available, so the game came on both tape and disc).

@d2factotum 2 года назад

@@Scautura He was referring to Microdrives there, but not sure why because (a) pretty sure the game never came on them and (b) Microdrives were actually pretty fast--you'd certainly only get a couple of seconds' delay loading from one.

@diecarro79 2 года назад

@@d2factotum I suppose that they searched for an image of a Spectrum-related media format and they didn't know better.

@aaronworthing1023 2 года назад

You know, I’ve gotten to the point where I almost never buy a game for more than 20 bucks. not only does that save me a lot of money, but by the time it gets down to that price, a lot of these problems have been patched out. It sucks that the people who get it on day one often don’t get an acceptable product, but at the same time my feelings about a lot of games, including Many on this list, is so much more positive because I waited.

@journeyman1218 2 года назад

Yep I wait until a sale is on and buy 5 or 6 cheap games to do me until the next sale.

@Mekasoundwave 2 года назад

Never Pay More Than 20 Bucks* For A Computer Game *Adjust for inflation.

@AliSubhi-xs4rn 2 года назад

Same. The only video game that I've purchased for more than that was Disco Elysium for 28$. I can't imagine why would anyone spend a full price for a video game nowadays.

@Mikebumpful 2 года назад

Porting SFII to the Spectrum is a bold move to begin with. I think it looks pretty impressive!

@jamesburchill7522 2 года назад

Given the detailed sprites, I don't think anyone that ever owned a Speccie ever had any misgivings about how it would perform

@journeyman1218 2 года назад

Yeah I'm sure it played awful but it looks great considering.

@diecarro79 2 года назад

They tried, but what really kills it in the tape version is, as mentioned in the video, the multiload in different parts of the tape depending on the character. The C64 version is even worse about this, as it requires to load the game from the beginning after each match (I suppose because loading the match overwrites the intro and character selection).

@PoutingTrevor 2 года назад

The video games industry crash of 1983 impacted North America only, but Europe and Japan were basically unscathed. It's a common misnomer that it was a worldwide phenomenon.

@GeovaneSanciniSR 2 года назад

and also only impacted the console market, because the game market on PC, with Commodore 64, Vic 20 and other machines, was very healthy.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@The Retro Speculative So why was the British industry of the 80's only saved by Japanese consoles and American PCs in the 90's? You going to ignore Sir Clive selling out to Sugar, Sugar leaving games, Flare tech selling out to Atari, etc? Or do you live in a fantasy world where the Sam Coup lead the way? Hell, even by the mid-80's, Europe was letting Atari and Commodore lead in 16-bit computers.

@elbiggus 2 года назад

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Sir Clive made a number of terrible business decisions that were completely unrelated to the video games market, and the sale to Amstrad happened long after the supposed crash of 1983, so I'm not sure how any of that is relevant. Also the British games industry of the early 80s was a) pretty new, b) growing at a phenomenal rate, and c) was not "saved" by Japanese consoles and American PCs - it was more a mix of "the British hardware industry was overrun by Japanese/American competitors" and "the gaming software industry had and continues to have a disproportionately high UK representation"; we didn't have the manufacturing capabilities, investment resources, or cheap labour to compete in the field of churning out physical goods, but we sure as heck made a hugely significant contribution to the games that ran on the imported hardware. The fact of the matter is that Atari made a series of poor decisions and they fell apart in 1983 but videogaming as a whole was already moving away from consoles by then, and sales of home computers and their accompanying software was growing rapidly before, during, and after the supposed crash, the NES was released in Japan at the height of the supposed disaster, and really if you didn't live in the US and own an Atari VCS *nothing changed* for you. But yeah, apart from everything you said being pretty much wrong, you make an excellent point!

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@@elbiggus If you're going to count the Atari shock as an American industry crash, then it's incredibly fair to hold the UK to the exact same standards.

@THENAMEISQUICKMAN 2 года назад

Hell, 1983 is when the Japanese NES came out in the first place.

@synthetic20 2 года назад

Skyrim for PS3 was unplayable at launch past 30 hours, and Bethesda only gave journalists the XBox version before release, hiding the fact that the PS3 port had such awful issues before launch. Still haven't forgiven Bethesda for that. Awful to see that they had the same issue with another port and didn't learn their lesson.

@nolagale 2 года назад

First, Bethesda didn't develop FNV. Second, there's a reason a lot of ports to the PS3 were subpar, and it was Sony's insistence on using a weird-ass architecture that made porting exceedingly difficult.

@Danielvincentgordh 2 года назад

10 Worst Ports of fairly recent console games to PC also Pacman

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Be fair, they also included one Spectrum game.

@EvilAng3la 2 года назад

Someone definitely has a bit of a chip on their shoulder about less than great PC ports of console games here. There are a ton of ports from the arcade to home that are decidedly much worse than many of the PC ports mentioned here. Look at Donkey Kong on the Intellivision, for example. Ikari Warriors on the NES.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Triplejump: "It was 720p and 30fps! One of the worst ports of all time!" Someone more qualified to make this list: "Let me introduce you to Tiertex..."

@MrPineapple045 11 месяцев назад

In most cases, there is a reasonable answer to why arcade ports weren't as good, and that's because the consoles were less powerful. PCs are more powerful than consoles generally, so they should theoretically run better

@Mikebumpful 2 года назад

Basically every 8-bit home port of every 80's arcade hit.

@etowngti 2 года назад

Nothing makes me happier than getting to watch a new Triple Jump video while languishing at work

@boomhaueruk 2 года назад

Wow, whoever wrote that Spectrum piece got a lot wrong. Firstly, the spectrum was a home computer not a console. Secondly, the picture shown was a microdrive, not a tape player. Thirdly, a fair amount of people feel the C64 version is much worse. And lastly, at the time, the spectrum port was received fine! "Your Sinclair issue 87 said “Staggering graphics and speed and a huge range of moves. It’s one of the best two-player games on the good ol "Speccy” gifting it 67%. Sinclair User gave it 89%." Sure it doesn't play fantastically with hindsight by 2022 standards, tape multi load was a bane of so many Spectrum games by that point it had gotten ridiculous (though disks were actually a spectrum format by this point) and there's absolutely an argument for not porting it at all, but top 10 worst port of all time? It's not even the worst port on the speccy! Check out Out Run, Jailbreak, Stun Runner or Double Dragon on the platform. All worse than this. Much worse in fact. Side note; the Spectrum +3 (released in 1987, five years after the 48k rubber model pictured and still the main model at the time of street fighter 2's release in 1993) had a built in disk drive which could have alleviated the main problem of loading as well. As far as I know it only got a 128k tape release, presumably to broaden sales.

@michaelplatt1959 2 года назад

Thank god somebody said all this!

@ToABrighterFuture 2 года назад

If you're going all the way back to the ZX and the 2600, you could find some low hanging fruit on the Commodore 64. The C64 port of Taito's "Rastan," for instance, was unfinishable as shipped, due to a bug that made a single specific jump impossible to accomplish. Nice cover painting by Tim Hildebrandt, though; I'll give it that.

@JJLiew 2 года назад

Surprised you guys didn't include Cyberpunk for PS4/ Xbone or the GTA remasters for the Switch

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

This was someone's really personal rant about the worst PC ports they owned, plus a few guest stars.

@richardwilliams877 2 года назад

FYI I don't belive From Soft fixed the original Dark Souls at all. Belive it was all fixed by Durante, lol

@mootang7349 2 года назад

Always confused hearing about the video games crash in the 80s. I was 11 in 1982. Didn't know anyone who didn't own a computer. Speccy, 64, Vic 20, BBC. Even had a friend who owned an electron. The Boots HMV W H Smith in Manchester that had whole sections dedicated to games seemed to be flourishing through this crash. As did Ultimate, Ocean, US Gold, Codemasters etc. I think the video game console crash of the 1980s has been misdescribed so many times as a games crash it appears to now be canon. Also remember borrowing my friends copy of pacman on the 2600 and thought it was OK. Certainly didn't expect it to look like the arcade version. Like asteroids space invaders defender etc. didn't either. I liked the crap intro though

@Scautura 2 года назад

The 'video games crash' of '83 was almost entirely a US based thing. Home computers (ZX Spectrum, C64, and the Amstrad CPC from '84) were all doing really well in Europe, although consoles took a slight downturn until the release of the NES. Unfortunately, every article about the crash calls it a worldwide phenomenon, adding to the US-centric view of the world.

@glencurtis6052 2 года назад

My pacman was fine

@Personano133 2 года назад

I seriously wonder why developers seem to struggle creating PC ports. Is the tech that much different? I mean, the very talented team at Rockstar were unable to launch a good port until 2012, and Saints Row 2's port done by CD Projekt was all sorts of awful. What's going on?

@Darkreaper1982 2 года назад

I remember getting a port of Street Fighter 2 for the Commodore 64!

@RudolfSikorsky 2 года назад

According to this clip, Your Commodore was a console. Millenials.

@fawfulmark2 2 года назад

There is one major omission on this list: *Sonic The Hedgehog* from 2006. No, not THAT Sonic 2006- the Sonic 1 port to the Gameboy Advance. An abomination all around.

@personatodo 2 года назад

No mention of Silent Hill 2+3 HD Collection on PS3 and Xbox360? Are you kidding? That's definitely on the very top list of one of the worst ports ever, awful new voice acting(SH3 has no option to choose the original voices), worst/misplaced/missing sound effects, performance issues and tons of bugs and graphical glitches that didn't exist on the original version.

@lpnp9477 2 года назад

Oh god you just had to remind us The PC ports of the originals were pretty decent though, a contrast to the Capcom/Ubisoft "efforts" of the era. I bring it up because with a couple of modernization mods, you can enjoy HD versions of the originals with no compromises.

@personatodo 2 года назад

@@lpnp9477 yeah I have both the PC boxed game with limited soundtrack. Pretty good port although it crashes a lot on modern PC

@JerichotheSplendid 2 года назад

Oh yeah... Here we go... Ports time!

@putowtin 2 года назад

Up to six weeks before being published the PS3 version of Fallout: New Vegas couldn't run for more than 30 minutes without crashing, and though it was Obsidian who developed it Bethesda only gave them 18 months in which to do so (No hate on Obsidian FONV remains my favourite game 12 years later)

@Rokabur 2 года назад

New Vegas has a 96% positive rating on Steam, Fallout 3 has a 78% positive rating on Steam yet on shill review sites 3 is rated higher then New Vegas. New Vegas only got an 84 on Metacritic because the shill sites lambasted New Vegas for the EXACT SAME bugs and glitches they gave Fallout 3 a pass for.

@putowtin 2 года назад

@@Rokabur it was revealed that review sites and magazines were paid to give New Vegas lower reviews so that the metacritic didn't go over 85 so Bethesda didn't have to pay Obsidian the bonus

@The_Farwall 2 года назад

The PC release of Fallout New Vegas was unplayabley bugged on day one too, btw, so that whole preamble about Bethesda PC releases being fine before the PS3 bit is nonsense.

@Thelodis Год назад

Ubisoft also made Onimusha 3 for the PC. I remember buying the game in 2007 and I was so excited because i didn't have a PS2 but I loved the first game when I played it on a PS2 kiosk, and the third game looked really awesome. But I couldn't even get the game to work on five different computers between 2007 and 2013, I just got an error trying to run it. And I also read some reviews of the game and it would probably not be good if I could play it.

@kisnyirati 2 года назад

The port that I had the most savage and brutal fight with was GTA 4 on PC... I remember it took me 4 days to figure out how to run the game in the first place and then I had to sort out the in-game technical issues which took me 2 more days. Since then I've beat the game several times, it became my favourite title in the series and these steps became a routine for me... Still it doesn't matter how strong my PC is today, GTA 4 still runs worse than GTA 5... For some reason...

@to0muchfreetime 2 года назад

"They're just lucky steam refunds weren't a thing at that point..." Speaking of Steam refunds, Arkham Knight!

@dragondude9637 2 года назад

I remember Angry Joe's review of Batman Arkham Knight for PC. Angry Joe : Batman Arkham Knight on Xbox One and Playstation 4 looks like this...(epic music and picture of Batman looking awesome)....while Batman on the PC looks like....(dopey music plays and Angry Joe dressed as Adam West Batman shakes about like he's having a seizure.)

@pchtommy1268 2 года назад

its very weird cause i never experienced any problem with double agent on pc (except for some corpses being weirdly stretched)

@megatron9339 2 года назад

WILDCARD ENTRY!!: Dragon Age Inquisition (PS3 Port) -- Whenever the Autosave or Save is happening and you try to move the game will freeze.

@Him525 2 года назад

Im shocked that Medal Of Honor: Underground's GBA port didn't make this list. One of the worst games I've ever played.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

That would require them to know it exists. Once you see number 10 on their list, it's pretty easy to guess they'll put Pac-Man as number one and do the bare minimum of research throughout.

@AstralPhnx 2 года назад

Oh god yeah that port was a shocker

@jadedheartsz 2 года назад

the PS2 ports of Max Payne 1 and 2 were absolutely awful, terrible frame-rate(even empty rooms were a struggle for the console to run)bad controls, shitty graphics, excessively long load times and no autosaves(instead you have to manually save, which is easy to forget to do).

@hygrave2892 2 года назад

Try porting a game yourself to fully understand why ports go bad. Transitioning one game from one system to another can be worse than finding a needle in a burning haystack, suspended over the Grand Canyon. Different systems have different nuances, and however slight those nuances are, make a world of difference. I worked on a team who ported x game to y system. It took more time and effort to port the game, than the initial game making process itself took. Unless you have actually tried to do this, you will have zero ounce of credibility to stand on. And I am not talking about porting a game to similar systems in different regions. Like a Famicom game to the NES, or Mega Drive to Genesis. I mean from PC to a home console system, or vise versa. Those are a REAL nightmare to do.

@ThaneDukeHeineken 2 года назад

I remember Borderlands 2 being terrible on PS3, especially with the splitscreen option dropping FPS to about 5. Never had such issues with New Vegas (or it was at least much more tolerable).

@TJDious 2 года назад

Can we get a "console ports better than the arcade version?". I'm looking at you, Contra.

@AstralPhnx 2 года назад

Oh god yeah the arcade version of Contra is actually quite shocking. NES version is SIGNIFICANTLY better

@Astolfo2001 Год назад

The Dreamcast port of Marvel vs Capcom 2

@BaronLector Год назад

It is nice to see the "PC MASTER RACE!" crowd get their just-desserts.

@bensonsj98 2 года назад

The "port crimes" joke was brilliant.

@RedRanger2001 7 месяцев назад

10:55 It's not a beat-em-up. It's a fighting game. Beat-em-ups (or bmups) are games like Double Dragon and Final Fight...

@fatherjack636 2 года назад

My family had an Atari 2600 back in the day and one the first games I played was Pac-Man. Never heard of the game before or seen the arcade game so I enjoyed it as I had nothing to compare it to.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Yeah, it's nowhere near as bad as legend suggests. But check out Pac-Man 8k to see what was actually possible on the hardware, if Atari management wasn't so short sighted and greedy.

@GeovaneSanciniSR 2 года назад

There's a lot of ports worse than those on the list. Like WWE 2k18 on Switch, a hot garbage. Donkey Kong on MS DOS/Apple II, Sonic Genesis for Game Boy Advance... Basically everything that Tiertex ported from arcade to PCs/consoles on 80's and 90's.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Amen. It's clear this was a "most disappointing recent PC ports I've actually played" list, which they sloppily covered up at the last second, by adding Pac-Man and mocking their idea of what a Spectrum was. (A console, really? "Cassette-like"?)

@andrealves3104 2 года назад

Great Video, but considering old school PC ports seems kinda off the purpose for this list. Ports for the 8 to 16 Bit computer era was extremely tough to deal with, and most dev companies would just release almost anything that resembled the originals in something, be it barely 'playable' or not. Were to consider ports from that era, there are actually way worse ports than the speccy SFII, tbh.... Apart from all of that, this video pretty much show how some devs seems to take less to none care when doing console to PC ports. Almost the entire list talks about this kind of conversion, and the bottom line conclusion is that PC games are still thought out as cash grabs, i.e. something that would not engage its gamer community.

@NaiveViewer 2 года назад

Oh yeah, here we go!

@RoyBatty16 2 года назад

While I appreciate the age of the micro computer is quite some time ago, but the ZX Spectrum port of Street Fighter II is very badly researched.

@3chambergamer 2 года назад

I never finished Fallout New Vegas because of the problems talked about in this video. I can't wait to play it on PC someday now that I play on that.

@PRYDEEE 2 года назад

Ive ported a port crime beport and im going to give port every porty port

@TheAmishGamer 2 года назад

Dante - “You were almost a Vergibble sandwich!”

@jaysmith2858 2 года назад

When I was a kid I asked my mum (RIP) if she'd buy me Pac Man when it was released. My mum said she'd buy me the game if she won at bingo that night, obviously not expecting to do so. Lo and behold she actually did win some money and thus had to buy me the game which cost a stupid amount of money, possibly as much as £90! 😱+🤯 Sorry mum. You did promise. 😉+😭

@IronsWorks1990 2 года назад

The Video game crash was an American thing and American only. I get sick to death of this misinformation circulating the internet.

@KatarnCrusader Год назад

Doom for the 3DO was a embarrasing failure and should have been on this list

@LexIconLS 2 года назад

Jokes on you, Peter! Ubisoft doesn't care about making good games for anyone anymore!

@RikiZ8 2 года назад

That SF2 port looks like a Tiger Electronics game, actually I'm not sure if the word "game" is proper, it runs but doesn't look like anyone would have any fun playing that.

@thatssoderek2188 Год назад

I remember playing the GOTY edition of Fallout New Vegas. It would crash every 5 minutes especially when trying to autosave. So I had to rely on manual saves, and it still would crash. Fallout 3 had the same issue when all DLC was installed. I was so angrythat they never fixed any of the issues with the games to this day.

@yourgameisstupid 2 года назад

I guess they wrote the script for this one before the news came out that hackers could take over your entire PC from Dark Souls' poorly-implemented multiplayer

@PeterRH432 Год назад

Honourable Mention? The PC Port Of Scarface: The World Is Yours. Yeah Yeah Yeah. There Have Been Alot Of Movie Tie-In Games That Tried To Search The Same Story As The Movie Itself Or Not, But Scarface: The World Is Yours Goes Through An Route That If The Main Character “Tony Montana” Survives The Attack On His Mansion From Sosa, And Then Goes On An Quest To Regain His Empire In Miami And Get His Revenge On Sosa, The Original Xbox And PS2 Ports Were Decent At Their Time, And Yes While The Wii Port Can Be Some What Controversial With The Motion Controls, Atleast The Wii Port Was Way More Playable Than The PC Port… Broken Textures, Input Delays And More Bugs/Glitches, There Are Mods That Fixes The PC Port Issues And Giving It An Much More HD Like Textures, Radical Entertainment Did Had Plans To Make Some Sequels To Scarface: The World Is Yours, But Because Of Activision/Blizzard, Those Plans Were Scrapped Like Skull Shooting Tony In The Back, With An Shotgun.

@Ozzy242 2 года назад

8:49 Bad pun guys... lol

@crsrdash-840b5 2 года назад

I loved Pac-Man for the Atari. When I couldn't get money for the arcade, I played it at home.

@Theottselmaster 2 года назад

Double agent on ps3 should NEVER have seen the light of day. Bloody hell.

@BrawlinEntertaintment2K 2 года назад

Where's the OG Xbox version of Half Life 2? Or the GBC Tony Hawk games? Or Double Dragon on Atari 2600? Or even the PS3 port of The Orange Box?

@heardofrvb 2 года назад

Did you just call Dante a "brooding blonde"?

@diezel308 2 года назад

"We didn't make it, we just published it lol" - Bethesda's response to New Vegas criticisms

@michaelwhite4608 2 года назад

Theses videos are on the daily Love it

@britneyspearsvillarosa Год назад

DOOM for the Sega Saturn was so horrible.

@stevolution7833 2 года назад

I'm surprised Sonic Genesis for the Game Boy Advance wasn't on the list, especially considering how easy it really *should* have been to make a perfect port, considering the age of the original and the GBA's capability, and yet Sega really screwed that one up royally!

@jamieoiler5690 2 года назад

no they never

@kevinrussell3501 2 года назад

I played alot of Pacman on the Atari 2600 as a kid, and I guess you just got used of the flaws. I remember playing it in the Arcade how different it was. I think I was lucky to play it at home first so I didn't know the letdown

@DragonGrafx-16 2 года назад

The 2600 was very capable of having a decent Pac-Man port... Ms. Pac-Man on the same system and the many homebrew ports of Pac-Man showed it was possible. It was more so time constraints and cartridge size limit the developer was forced to follow (Atari wanted to save money) that made the official port so bad.

@kevinrussell3501 2 года назад

@@DragonGrafx-16 yeah. On their lost, i think they said Atari rushed the developer. Not much that's rushed in life turn out to be great. I played it as a young kid, because it came out when I was pretty young. Seems like we stored the Atari completely when we got a NES, or at least a couple years after. It's a shame about the Pacman port, it could have been epic with PacMan's insane popularity at the time

@willmurrill3572 2 года назад

Champing at the bit

@thedrewdog 2 года назад

The SNES port of Captain America and the Avengers was a disappointment for sure -- enemies with invincibility frames? The Sega version was WAY better and more accurate to the Arcade original.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Yeah, but that's not a recent PC port. They included the Spectrum and the 2600. They gave a passing nod to the PS3. What more do you expect from them?

@thedrewdog 2 года назад

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Okay, didn't expect that reply, but it is the internet after all.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@@thedrewdog I was being sarcastic. This list is a bit brain damaged and a lot lazy.

@thedrewdog 2 года назад

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 My bad, these days? Hard to tell lol. Forgive me brother.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@@thedrewdog No worries. I gave you your thumbs up.

@timothylewis2527 2 года назад

Switch port of WWE 2K18. Pretty much killed the series that I had been playing my whole life. I swore to never give 2K another dollar!

@sb6482 2 года назад

also we’re in the uk, there was no video game crash anywhere except usa.

@colingznetworkplus4618 2 года назад

A graphical downgrade is fine as long as the rest of the game plays well I guess

@tripleparakeetshoes4613 2 года назад

WWE 2K20 on Switch should have been on this list for sure.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

That doesn't even exist.

@Colonel-Llama 2 года назад

Mr. Do’s Castle on the 2600 is much worse than some of the stuff in here

@1Tekkaman 2 года назад

The PC port of the first NES TMNT game really should have been on that list.

@diecarro79 2 года назад

Oh, yes, the one that is literally impossible to finish.

@donalcrowley7682 2 года назад

I thought Saturn Doom would be on here.

@wackywong Год назад

Mortal Kombat, or basically any port, on the Game Boy.

@Astolfo2001 Год назад

The ps1 ports of Capcom arcade fighters outside of Rival Schools

@misteraskman3668 2 года назад

I think that it is unfair to taint the Arkham series with a bad port of what was, honestly, a great story in a game. Yes, it is a bit lackluster, but I still think it is magnificent and a great finale for the series; really the only way it could end.

@GeovaneSanciniSR 2 года назад

And the Arkham Knight fiasco is WB Games fault who gave Iron Galaxy Studios (the dev behind the port) a tight deadline to port the game to PC, and at the time, the team was small.

@TwilightAdy 2 года назад

Might as well just have removed the three non-PC examples and made this a PC-only list, then done a separate one for consoles. Has an odd recency bias as well.

@dcflake5645 2 года назад

I love triplejump but they know sod all about the ZX Spectrum. Just me being a massive Speccy fanboy as everything else has been top!

@jimbobmccecil 2 года назад

Shadow of Mordor for 360 and PS3 was downright horrific

@bram5825 2 года назад

Best entrance! Pun approved

@Lighterfoxx 2 года назад

After hearing that one of my favorite game franchise is going to be ported on switch and seems to be a dissapointment so far with the demo, this is a perfect time to watch this video.

@Unorignality 2 года назад

Kingdom hearts?

@turkiedurkie4895 2 года назад

Same bro stuff is rough

@lpnp9477 2 года назад

Can that really be considered a port, though? If you are talking about the Kingdom Hearts games I'm pretty sure it's just streaming the PC versions with Switch button prompts swapped in.

@HeirofThorondor 2 года назад

Is no one gonna talk about how bloody awful the Switch port of OOT is?? And don't get me started on Subnautica: Below Zero for the switch.... That game crashed harder than the Hindenburg.....

@TKMRacer28 2 года назад

I bet you love a happy ending Peter!

@Wolfiegreenwood 2 года назад

Don't we all?

@TKMRacer28 2 года назад

@@Wolfiegreenwood true that!!

@elbiggus 2 года назад

Man, that made me sad to watch. The ZX Spectrum was not a console, it was a computer; while "cassette tape-like cartridges" (i.e. the Microdrive) were available for the machine they a) were pretty uncommon, b) didn't require manually fast forwarding, and c) SF2 didn't come on Microdrive, it came on an actual honest-to-goodness cassette. Please stop covering machines that were made before you were born unless you're going to actually do even the most basic research first; this is not the first time you've made a fairly embarrassing mistake when talking about old hardware or software, but it's pretty easy to make sure it's the last! (Also I get kind of annoyed by the whole "video game industry collapse" thing; people who owned a C64, Apple II, VIC 20, TRS 80, Spectrum, ZX81, BBC, Atari 8-bit, or any of the other myriad of computers that were available at the time were completely unaffected, if you lived outside the US literally nothing happened, and the whole thing should really just be called "the Atari mismanagement of 1983". Not your fault, though, it's a broader problem with the annoying US-centric nature of games coverage, and includes related nonsense like the NES/Famicom getting disproportionate affection given its almost complete failure to make an impact outside the US and Japan.) On a semi-related note, my family and I *loved* the 2600 version of Pac Man back in the day; we'd never played (or even seen) the arcade version so we didn't have anything to compare it to, and it's not a bad game in and of itself, and while it's a terrible port in the sense that it bears very little visual or technical similarities to the original it's a *fantastic* port given the limitations of the console, and still captures the spirit and essence of its arcade ancestor.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Check out Ms. Pac-Man on the 2600, if you think Pac-Man was the best an Atari 2600 can do. Or better yet, the homebrew Pac-Man 8k. Also, you guys had your own crash. It's why Sinclar sold out to Sugar, who had to leave the market himself. And why we don't talk about the exciting Konix multisystem, or how that evolved into the Atari Jaguar.

@elbiggus 2 года назад

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 I already replied to your similar incorrect comment below so I won't bother again. As to the Ms Pac Man port, that has almost all the same problems as Pac Man (stretched playfield, flickering sprites, etc.) so it seems like an odd point to bring up. I know the 2600 can do some pretty amazing things (HALO is a work of genius), but compared to other contemporary games on the system it's fine - almost every game back then for the wooden lump had crude visuals, terrible sound, and slightly ropey gameplay, but when there was nothing to compare it against those weren't as big a problem as modern revisionists seem to think.

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@@elbiggus Ms. Pac-Man has more intelligent sprite flicker management due to the 8k rom size. And, again, if you want to pretend the American crash was even a thing, then it's okay for me to claim your industry crashed in the 90's.

@elbiggus 2 года назад

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Wait, what now? I literally said that *there was no crash* in my original comment, so I'm not sure why you're under the impression I'm claiming the opposite. Are you feeling OK? All that happened was Atari lost a bunch of cash and had to sell up because they did some dumb stuff, and that's all. There was no "crash". The video game industry has seen upward growth since it was a twinkle in Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann's eyes. Oh, and as a bonus to why the whole thing is a crock of shit, Nintendo couldn't find a pot to piss in in the UK for most of the 80s - a combination of an embarrassingly inept marketing strategy (eventually resulting in two different variants of the NES with compatibility problems between them), the eye-watering price of games compared to the competition, and the fact we already had our own platforms and games that we were quite happy with thanks - meant that the NES was pretty much a zero here in its first few years; it did eventually just about catch up to the Master System (which isn't much of an achievement - neither did particularly well) but only due to massive cost reductions towards the end of its life. The NES didn't save squat for two reasons: one, outside of the US and Japan it was barely a blip on anyone's radar, and two, there was nothing to save. In summary, seeing as you seem to be confused: there was no crash in the US or anywhere else, and while Nintendo may have eventually reshaped the landscape they saved the video game industry in the same way my shark repellent spray keeps great whites out of my bath...

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

@@elbiggus Apologies, I thought you were someone else. And no, that's not an excuse for the quality of my post. That'll teach me to read names before responding. And to read all of a post. You won this debate, before it even began.

@jamesvancam 2 года назад

For me, it was NFS Most Wanted on the DS. Never and I mean never play this game.

@TheIllustriouBlueJay 2 года назад

Handheld versions of multi system releases don't really count.

@EoR_2B4GOT10 2 года назад

pacman selling 7 million copys was impressive no doubt except atari was fking high on shrooms or something when they made 12million copys of a game for a system that had only sold around 10million units. aweful buisnes practices I have to say. And the 2600 could play a decent port of pacman as proven by misspacman for the system

@juststatedtheobvious9633 2 года назад

Yeah, the flicker issue was due to the 4k rom size limiting sprite flicker management....and also, the man wasn't the biggest fan of Pac-Man, by his own admission.

@sb6482 2 года назад

you called the spectrum a console repeatedly

@faville 2 года назад

We had the 2600 and PacMan when it came out. Lol what a disappointment. Even as a kid I knew it couldn't live up to the arcade version, since nothing did yet, but I was still hopeful they had found a way to make it somewhat fun. (NOPE) I can still hear the twangy chomps in my head.

@necropink9200 2 года назад

I bought Crysis for the PS3 and that was practically unplayable.

@justin9181 2 года назад

HERE WE GO POOR MOD TIME IVE NEVER MODDED ANYTHING BEFORE BUT IM GONNA GIVE THIS EVERYTHING IVE GOT

@rodolfohernandez3303 2 года назад

Not considered worst but Ace Combat 7 console port to PC only had the flaw of not supporting a PC Flightstick controller, only allowing to play it with mouse, keyboard mapping (my case) and an Xbox Controller that's the only flaw

@fordprefect4728 2 года назад

double dragon on the c64, never been more disappointed in a port EVER!!

@Banquet42 2 года назад

I liked the ridiculous jumping that could be used to trap the enemies but apart from that.... poor... very, very poor....

@glencurtis6052 2 года назад

Seem to recall one of the 'Abobo' was completely green?

@Banquet42 2 года назад

@@glencurtis6052 There was a green one in the arcade as well, by the metal door in the mountains on level 3 I think?

@huntermanfortnite9934 2 года назад

What about WWE 2K18 for the Nintendo switch

@andu1854 2 года назад

I was just happy I got to play Pac-Man, even though the Atari version was bad, I didn’t have money to buy a machine (video games are better and easier to find w/o arcade these days

@BrotherMag 2 года назад

I liked pac-man . Atari 2600 was my gateway to video games 🎮

@joshemane 2 года назад

11:00 SF 2 is not a beat ‘‘em up.

@sushiifoxx 2 года назад

ok, _port crimes_ was amazing.

@zmbdog 2 года назад

E.T. and Pac-Man did not cause the game crash! Unrestrained shovelware flooded the market, forcing retail prices to plummet. How people can continue to believe that any individual games could cause the crash is baffling enough, but thinking said games somehow killed _competitor's_ platforms but not their own... Oy. And that's just one of many fallacies in this myth.

@SuperNuclearUnicorn 2 года назад

The PCMR types aren't gonna like this much when almost every game is a shit PC port of a great console game

@mattschmerbeck8375 6 месяцев назад

You forgot the Saturn version of Doom. One of the worst ports ever.

@retvik 8 месяцев назад

Saints Row 2, probably the best game in the series, is nigh impossible to play on PC without a community-made patch called Gentlemen of the Row.

@evolancer211 2 года назад

If you don't know why ports can be difficult. It's simple to see you didn't do one bit of research

@squemps1 2 года назад

Tomb Raider Underworld on ps2 is one of the worst ports I’ve played. Endless corridors, entire levels being replaced with cut scenes awful character models etc..

@baffledbrandon3132 2 года назад

Really, 30 fps, 720, 1080, 4K, what difference does it make as long as you get to play the game?

@yourgameisstupid 2 года назад

30 vs 60 FPS can, and often does, make an enormous difference in how smoothly the game plays. That might not matter if you're playing a turn based game, but it's important for anything that requires quick reactions.

@lpnp9477 2 года назад

Wow, this is the post. I'm flabbergasted.