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| C4bl3Fl4m3 |
Lack of games for the MacExcuse me while I bitch a bit.Bitch, whine, moan, kvetch, complain. Ok... who's up for discussing? Who else is pissed off that they can't play their favorite games on the lovely Apple platform? I can't be the only one. |
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| nekotine |
Mmm...I'd say it'd be more...'convenient' for me if a lot of PC games had a Mac version as well so that when I go to my friends' place, I could still game with them on Hellgate or CoH/V on my Macbook but for the most part, I'm fine with the arrangement. As I've said before, my Mac is pretty much my 'work' machine and my PC is my 'play' machine. I love them equally for different reasons. | ||
| Jude |
Start a thread about this in the Mac section, too, with more content, and maybe we can get an in-depth discussion going. 
Jude |
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| Gadget Girl |
Why don't you run leopard and play pc games on it? That's what I"m doing at the moment with SimCity Societies. I loathe to do it as I'm a mac girl through and through, but I'm doing it because I want the game. | ||
| C4bl3Fl4m3 |
Because my mac isn't new enough. I don't have an Intel mac. Also, because I played with Leopard for an hour the other day in the Apple store, and I really wasn't impressed. I didn't really like it that much at all. |
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| C4bl3Fl4m3 |
I didn't even realize there WAS a Mac section. /me goes to look for it now. |
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| nekotine |
Quoi? Leopard enables Intel Macs to play PC games? I might have a reason to upgrade then... |
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| Jude |
No, no, wait! What enables Macs to play Windows games is:
1. Must be an Intel Mac (the new ones are) 2. Make sure it's got a good graphics card (not the onboard type) 3. Must buy and install a copy of Windows (and it's got to be the full version and a certain type of Windows--check the Apple.com site for specifics about it under "Boot Camp") 4. The installation must be on a separate partition or hard drive. I haven't done it, so if you need more info, I would suggest asking at an Apple store or look at Apple.com, or find someone who has done it, like Gadget Girl. Jude |
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| Maylani984 |
My solution was to buy a gaming laptop with windows, and forego trying to play any games on iMac. | ||
| PsychDyke |
Windows XP with service pack 2. Or Vista, but since even the Windows lemmings don't seem to much care for that, I'd likely forgo it. I downloaded the beta version of Boot Camp but my wife's PC doesn't have a seperate disk w/ XP on it that I can find so I didn't get it used. I'd still rather they just made the bleeding games for the Mac. Windows makes my teeth hurt. |
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| kep |
macs and games...i think the main reason why there is so few games for the mac platform is that it has been mainly used over the past 20yrs as a work horse for the publishing industry. since the off macs were used becasue of their fantastic capabilities in DTP and Design and video production. I remeber being blown away by a designer friend of mine who showed me the cloning tool on Photoshop 2.5...lol yeah it did not just start at CS
anyways becasue the majority of folk who have been die hard mac users have their macs for these reasons...or just to have it stood on the tables looking all cool and stylish
i have both pc and mac although being a die hard Pc user sine windows 3.1 wg i find the mac filing system a little weird so i just use it for video production
I have always beleived that the best and most affordable way to enjoy games is on the dedicated machines build for nothing else than to - play games...least you dont have to worry about upgrading graphics cards and memory to the tune of a few £100 every few months just to play a £30 game.! kep |
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| Jude |
I'm a die-hard Mac user, and I am an artist and writer, but the real reason I is because it does what I want it to without driving me crazy, like Windows does when I am forced to use it. Also, it has been much less invasive than Windows, up to now, although with OS X 10.4 --> I am getting somewhat disillusioned with the new Mac OS.
Jude |
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| nekotine |
so what games would you want available for Mac? specifically. :3 personally, i think at least MMOs should be available for Macs. or anything that you can play multiplayer. it just seems a little silly to make something multiplayer and then seclude Mac users.
...of course, this might overflow frustration from me being irked that i can't play multiplayer games on my PC with people on Xbox 360s. 
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| kep |
AH WELL..... according to Mr Gates and his team the next big thing going down with the new "Windows Live" set up is just that...you will be able to play cross PC>360 games. I think from what i remember is that all the new games titled "Games For Windows" with similar packaging to the XBOX360 games will be the games that work. I am not sure if its not already happening but i think LOTR & Halo 2 are already cross platform, or atleast have the "live" achievements in place - but dont quote me....but take a look here http://global.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/live/aboutLive.aspx Keppy
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| nekotine |
too bad i'm not really all that interested in Shadowrun since they refused to make female avatars, nor am i running Vista on my PC for Halo 2. 
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