31st May 2012, 6:41 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Huh, hadn't realized they'd released ANY of those on PC. I just always thought "Oh Capcom's a console company". Did Megaman 9 and 10 get ported to PC too? Heck for that matter did I miss some Final Fantasy XIII port to PC?Nope for all three of those.
Quote:Anyway, for games like those they just feel more... "actual" actiony so I tend to prefer the console versions.You can get gamepads for the PC, you know. Heck, 360 controllers can work on the PC too.
Quote:Plus, well, I just don't trust Japanese companies to know what they are doing when coding for the PC. I imagine it'll work with exactly one operating system with exactly one service pack and never again times infinity, like those ports of Megaman X games back in the 90's.Megaman X1 was a DOS game, so no problem there (and yes, I have it). X2 didn't have a PC port, but X3 through X8 all do. I have X4 and X5 for the PC; last I checked, both work on my 32-bit Vista system. Well, X5 does. I don't think I've checked X4.
Anyway, I see why you'd want that, but I really doubt Capcom's going to have any support at all for custom content, which is about the only reason to bother with a PC port.
It is funny how the main X games are mostly on the PC, while the main Mega Man games are not (indeed, none of the non-X Mega Man console games have a PC release, even though seven of the X games do), but that's how it is. Mega Man X5 did have some issues, but they released a patch shortly after its release that fixed them. (Oh, while the earlier ones did, I don't think X6, X7 and X8 got physical releases on the PC in the West, but I'm pretty sure that X7 and X8, at least, are are available online. All three were released on the PC in some markets, but I don't know if X6 ever was in English... I think X7 and 8 are though.)
Of course there are "Mega Man" and "Mega Man 3" releases for DOS, but those are entirely original, and fairly mediocre, titles. Most people hate them, but I've mentioned MM3 for the PC before, repeatedly I'm sure; that's a game I got back in the early '90s. It's far from great, but it's kind of fun, once you accept that it's a mediocre PC-style platformer and really isn't much at all like Mega Man.
Anyway, it's Sega that released some pretty iffy PC ports in the '90s. Sega released a lot of Saturn games on the PC, and some Genesis/Sega CD games too, and a lot of those ports don't work at all on a modern computer. Capcom was better, though. Capcom had some poor ones in the early '90s on DOS, when they outsourced stuff like SFII to mediocre developers, but by the mid '90s their PC ports were solid. Capcom's released stuff on the PC since the early '90s, too.
Oh, other Capcom series with some PC releases include Resident Evil - 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 all have PC releases, but not Code Veronica or the spinoffs; Devil May Cry (several of them do, I believe); Dino Crisis (1 and 2, perhaps? I forget); and more. Certainly they have plenty of console exclusives, but Capcom's been a bit better than many of the other Japanese developers at releasing PC ports of its games. For instance, there are PC versions of Street Fighter, SFII, Super SFII, Super SFII Turbo, SF Alpha 1, SF Alpha 2, SF IV, and Super SF IV Arcade Edition. Yeah, they skipped SFII Turbo, SF3 (all three of them), Alpha 3, and base Super SFIV), but apart from that the PC has most of them. Darkstalkers, however, has no PC releases. Nor do the Marvel Vs. Series games.
For Capcom PC games, I have Megaman X, X4, and X5, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (in one of its best versions), and Resident Evil 2 and 3.