8 Games that Got Terrible PC Ports

[dangoball]

I have never understood people's problems with Dark Souls PC, I've played through the whole game 4 times and never had any issues.
Same with GTA IV, played through it 2 times and no issues.
In both cases GFWL was annoying but bearable, and Dark Souls kicked that in the end.

Can someone explain to me why I constantly see people claiming that Dark Souls is unplayable without DSFix?

As someone who played without DSFix and attempted to play without a gamepad I have to ask - have you tried the latter? The keyboard controls are horrible and make my hands hurt more than playing DMC3/4 on a keyboard (I actually finished both games without a gamepad). Using a mouse is all kinds of horrible. Sure, most of glorious PC gaming master race owns a gamepad and some games are clearly meant to be played with one, but a good port means adequate K+M controls, see DS2, DMCMC, AssCreed and such. And since my gamepad is bust, combined with my impoverished university student status, I have no way to finish the damn game even though it's a blast and I have a great urge to play it.

Then there are the usual complaints about the graphical options or lack there of, but I don't really care about those as much. To be honest though, DSFix is mostly about those graphics and a lot of gamers have become graphic whores. Can't blame them, really. If I blew 2000 USD on a gaming rig, I'd want my games looking all kinds of pretty as well. But since my favourite games are Fallout 2, BG2 and MnB: Warband I never really cared much for graphics anyway.

One legitimate complaint I remember is the 30 fps cap. That can be bothersome in a game dependent on pattern memorisation and move telegraphing. And I seem to recall GFWL made PvP a glitch fest, exacerbating the fps issue.

 

[Kyrian007]

Except for enslaved (which I didn't play) unless the pub was Rockstar, all those ports worked fine for me on PC. Rockstar's never made a good port, so that's not unexpected. But the rest? Get better pc's or read a faq or 2 before just trying to plug and play and then give up. Watch Dogs ran perfectly fine for me on day 1 on the best video settings, (not the best example though, my copy of Watch Dogs came for free with the video card I had purchased a few weeks before.)

 

[ffronw]

I like how the article ends with "Tell us about it in the comments!" when Gallery of the Day has no link to the forum thread, and to my knowledge never has. Seriously, for what was once one of the most competently-designed and coded gaming sites out there, things have gotten pretty sad.

Actually, the Gallery of the Day has a link to the forum thread on every post. The difference is that because of the header image, there's only one button linking to the forum, instead of two.

I circled it for you using my amazing MS Paint skills. Don't be jealous of my amazing MS Paint skills.

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[Headsprouter]

Skyrim!

Beautiful game; painfully awful menu system if you're using a mouse on unmodded menus.

I was able to make do. Not having wait several seconds to autosave when I opened my inventory probably helped my patience though.

Can we mention the lack of an FOV slider for our Borderlands PC port? It might have been acceptable if it wasn't played as if your character was staring through a tin can.