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I'm currently scraping the Steam barrel and I could really use these ports:

  1. Gravity Rush Remastered/Gravity Rush 2: best traversal in gaming. Surprisingly fun combat too. Just pure joy all around.
  2. Viewtiful Joe: integral Kamiya core and probably the closest on this list to actually happening seeing the Clover revival.
  3. God Hand: I have nothing new to add here. All I can do is reiterate the "beat'em goat" claim.
  4. The Red Star: PS2 hidden gem—mix of beat'em up and twin-stick shooter. Proper action game rooted in arcade design principles.
  5. Ketsui: again, all I can do is reiterate the "shmup goat" claim. Criminal this is not on Steam. Come on, M2.

Alternate editions of games we already have on Steam:

  1. Catherine: Full Body: extra stages is cool, but I need the online Colosseum.
  2. Ninja Gaiden II: ugh, this one is obviously never happening at this point. I swear, even if they try a third time, they'll most likely find some way to mess it up.

Definitely never happening: Pikmin. Nintendo suck.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mohab@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Nah, best they can do is Concord.

[–] Cris16228 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. Astrobot: Yeah I know is exclusive because PlayStation BUT I would love to play it on PC ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  2. Infamous: Second son: Loved in when I watched a gameplay but it's a share it was never released on PC
  3. All the Pokémon games? Never happening tho
[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Final Fantasy Tactics, ideally the War of the Lions version.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rumors abound for a remaster of this one, but I'm gonna start thinking it was a casualty of SQEX's recent restructuring if it doesn't surface this year.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Those rumours are a decade old at least. I don't believe stuff like that anymore until its out, lol.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That one you could just emulate.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can, though from personal experience it can be a bit finicky if you're trying to emulate the better PSP version. There are some optional patches that can be applied to it to improve stability, but it still crashes on me a few times in PPSSPP.

A native PC release would have been nice to have. It's one of the few FF games still not available on PC/Steam.

Alternatively, one could grab the Android version and try to run that on PC through the now-deprecated WSA, but the mobile port is touch input only with no controller support.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I have the android port already and have tried to get a reliable way to play it on PC and it's just too much of a pain in the ass 😅

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'd prefer native.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jet Set Radio Future.

PC or console just give me something!

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you played Bomb Rush Cyberfunk?

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No not yet. It's been on my wishlist since release :/

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Go get it RIGHT NOW

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nine a winner. Pay the front line, take the don'ts.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

He's comin' out again with a good one. Place your bets now ladies and gentleman.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been going fucking wild with emulators lately.

I have Dolphin, Xenia, OpenGOAL, PCSX2 and RPCS3. I have Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Heroes, Sonic '06, all the Ratchet & Clank PS2 games, the Sly Cooper trilogy and Sly 4, all the Jak games, the first two InFamous games, the Tak trilogy, and even more.

I was wanting Sony (or someone) to port at least Sly and Jak to PC, so I got tired of waiting and just got emulators. Old games are super fun.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was wanting Sony (or someone) to port at least Sly and Jak to PC

Same for me on infamous. Come on Sony.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

With InFamous, RPCS3 works damn near flawlessly (some games need some tweaking individually to smooth out some kinks, but it's easy to do).

I ran into some issues late-game in the first one where if you attacked a certain enemy with your basic shock attack, it would totally freeze and crash the game, so you need to switch it to the ASMJIT recompiler. Which, if you do that, the game will run almost perfectly aside from minor audio and graphical bugs.

The second one has some framerate issues, but it's entirely playable. I'm on the last mission of my good playthrough now.

[–] Renacles@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Infamous 1 and 2, I'd love a remake to be honest but I'll take a simple port.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Crash Nitro Kart. Still stuck in exclusivity hell. Also salty Toys For Bob got canned for no good reasons.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

So yall don’t just play anything on your steam deck? I have viewtiful Joe on my ps2 emulator And the entire gba library on an sd card

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gravity Rush is such a banger I just downloaded the second one on my PS4. I beat the first one on my Vita a while back but I don't really remember how it ends so I might replay that before I start the second one.

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[–] matrixrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • Halo games after 4 (Just add them to the MCC, 343! Even as add-ons, FFS!)
  • Anything and everything by Vanillaware, but especially Muramasa: The Demon Blade
  • Rock Band 4 (I know Harmonix did a crowdfunding campaign for a PC port; I bought into it and I'm butthurt it failed)
  • Time Crisis (any and all of them, but 1-3 first)
[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

what other games besides halo 5? ~~Also why halo 5~~

[–] matrixrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also why Halo 5

Complete the collection.

Fireteam Raven could be fun, too, but that's a pipe dream

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[–] tal 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm currently scraping the Steam barrel

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/steam-released-a-record-number-of-games-in-2024-over-18-000-new-titles-were-added-to-the-platform

Steam released 18,825 new games in 2024, beating its previous record of 14,311 last year.

That's a pretty deep barrel. For comparison:

https://www.mobygames.com/platform/playstation-4/

There are 11,274 video games on PlayStation 4. They were released between the years 2013 and 2025.

Yeah, 18k games, but a lot of that is going to be shovelware. Steam has a big issue with shovelware designed to look like a good deal. They’ll release like 25 games, one will be priced at like $100, with the rest priced at like 50¢.

Then they do a publisher bundle, which marks all of those 50¢ games down by like 90%, but doesn’t touch the pricey game. So on the surface, the bundle is marked as like $100 for 25 games, at 87% off. Looks like a great deal. When in reality it’s just 24 cheap games marked down, and one super expensive game. And all of them will be shovelware. But it’ll be enough to fool anyone who doesn’t bother to dig into the actual bundle details.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Freelancer. No need for any remastered nonsense, just patched to work on modern systems.

AvP2, same deal.

Id actually like to try the mess of a SimCity game EA put out in 2013, for some reason it's still not on steam.

[–] Zaraki42@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Are you me?

Freelancer was my jam when it came out and my buds and I used to have massive LAN parties playing AVP, back in the day.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Any sports "video game". I'm sick of the "simulations". I miss games like Blitz the League and The Bigs

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Obviously the best game ever made.

[–] Lycaon@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Skies of Arcadia!! So much of the Dreamcast library is on Steam it's crazy to me they skipped out on this one. Yes I know I can just emulate it but I'd love to see it on Steam haha

Tales of Xillia 1 and 2 as well, as far as I know they've yet to be released from the PS3 prison. I do have some semblance of hope for these ones though seeing as Bandai Namco are pretty good about remasters/rereleases

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Mercenaries / 2

[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Puyo Puyo Chronicle, the last good installment in the series, don't @ me. I'd like Sega to make a proper new game, but they're clearly never ever ever ever gonna do that, so the next best thing they could do is port a good one. What I need most is a game that's on all major platforms with crossplay.

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The PS2 exclusive War of the Monsters

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Crush, puzzle/platformer only released on PSP and 3ds. It had decent reviews but I guess it didn't make enough money to get any ports. One of my favorites from the PSP along with Joan d'Arc and persona 3.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Going old-school for this one, but I remembered absolutely loving the RPG Story Mode in Point Blank on the PSX.

I would sell a kidney (not necessarily mine), if it helped produce a PC/Steam remake with mouse compatibility (seeing as Light Gun games have basically gone the way of the dodo).

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Viewtiful Joe is a good one.

I think I have an inordinate amount of nostalgia for Metal Arms: Glitch in the System and 007: Agent Under Fire. Both are locked to consoles. The campaign and multiplayer of Metal Arms are all-timers, and while the campaign is fairly basic for Agent Under Fire, the multiplayer, especially with all of the modifiers turned on, is some of my favorite FPS multiplayer ever.

I'd also like a PC version of Soul Calibur II with rollback, please, Bandai-Namco. I don't care if the series stops there; this is really all I want or need from this franchise. Especially if you can just reskin Link and put his functionality in the game alongside Heihachi and Spawn.

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