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On average, how many hours per week do you play games on your Mac?
1/1: On average, how many hours per week do you play games on your Mac?
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ID Games are the best (release the source)
I've recently played through Quake 2 and both it's mission packs and I'm now starting on the DOOM games (in anticipation of playing DOOM3 once it comes out).
ID Games are the best (release the source)
hiya,
Games? Who needs the distraction?
The reason I bought my PowerBook was because all my games were PC games. When I'm working on here, I never have to be worried about being distracted by wanting to play games.
Games? Who needs the distraction?
Amen!
Aspyr
Shout out to Aspyr (http://www.aspyr.com/) for porting some excellent games over to the Mac!
Aspyr, a great Gameing Company... But..
I wish they could make the conversions faster. I hate waiting so long after the PC versions come out. Though I do realize that it is partly the fault of the Mac Gaming Comunity not being as big as the Windoze Comunities. I just hate it when half the time I get a new game the Windoze players have already moved on to the Newest best game :(
But I do greatly apreciate the good work Aspyr
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I would like to play games. :-)
Well, I came close. I have Civ III somewhere, which is a quality game. Then I tried installing Escape from Monkey Island on Panther.
I would like to play games. :-)
They changed something in Classic mode in Panther that made a bunch of games unplayable. For example, Ferazel's Wand worked fine in Classic mode under Jaguar, but it became horribly choppy in Panther. You just have to persuade the developers to port the game to OS X. I think the problem is that Panther buffers the graphics in Classic so it doesn't smear like Jaguar did, but full-screen games update too often so the buffering slows them down too much.
I play games on my Palm
I play a lot of games on my Palm because I always have it with me. When I'm stuck somewhere waiting, or otherwise bored, I have something to occupy my time right at hand. I don't find that I want to play games much on my Mac any more - I'd rather edit a movie in iMovie/iDVD or some other more interesting and fun task. This is especially true with how it relates to current games as they're all the same (Doom 3? Snooze.) When I do play a game on my Mac it's usually some old arcade game in MacMAME such as Donkey Kong, Galaga, Dig Dug or something weird I've never seen before.
Games on a Mac?
I play small games on my Mac, mostly as a distraction from work, as a Mac is better for productivity.
Games on a Mac?
Hrm, Macplay shouldn't whine about the possible cost for supporting/updating a game that sold 50k units only ...
Games on a Mac?
Ah, but there you have a nice Catch-22 ... if everyone takes your approach, then the Mac market will never sell more than 50K units, because even as the user base increases, people still keep playing on their PCs. Mac game publishers won't be able to win.
Games on a Mac?
> Ah, but there you have a nice Catch-22 ... if everyone takes your approach, then the Mac market will never sell more than 50K units, because even as the user base increases, people still keep playing on their PCs. Mac game publishers won't be able to win.
Games on a Mac?
Oops, he was talking about no Linux boxed version... Mac will hopefully be boxed, and I'll definitely purchase it, even if I never play it on my Mac.
Classic games
I just got a new 1 gig iBook and spent about ten minutes playing Tony Hawk that came on it, and another ten playing Wingnuts I downloaded from dotmac. And then it occurred to me that I like simple, little games better (when I do play games, which is rarely). And so I've downloaded Cliff Johnson's incredible puzzle game, Fool's Errand (http://www.fools-errand.com) as well as some old Classic gems from the Macintosh Garden (http://mac.the-underdogs.org/). Escape from Monkey Island I: woohoo!
gaming on a mac??
other than the simple games... the only other games I even play on my mac anymore are CivIII and SimCity 4 (and rarely do I even play them).
Games on Mac, Hell Yes!!
I love gaming on my Mac. I Play the Following:
Battlefield 1942 (with Desert Combat, Red Orchestra, and pirates mods (more Coming)),
Call of Duty (Revolt Mod, and waiting on a half dozen others)
Unreal 2K3/2K4 (Jailbreak, Alien Swarm, FragOps, Air Buccaneers, Death Ball, Zombie Hunter, Un-Wheel, Troopers: Dawn of Destiny, and awaiting a couple others to be finished)
On a big Note Almost All of the Above Mods are total conversions and make the game a totally new experience like getting a new game for FREE!!!
I love even more when I show up to the local area LAN parties with my Dual 2gig G5 and 23" LCD and get the reactions from the win-kiddies (WK) like:
"Wow is that some new AlienWare hardware?"
"Wait, that's an Apple, you can't use that..."
"How come your screen looks so good, my 19"CRT set at 1024x768 looks nothing like yours... (Me) That's because your 1024x768 is not 1920x1200 try upping the res... (WK)!!!HOLY $#!+ !!! 1920x1200!!!",
"Hey that's unfair, you have a wider screen that lets you see more of the field of view..."
And the last was the best... "WOW, I never thought a Mac could do something like that, maybe I'll have to look into Apple again, I was always told by my friends that they were junk. (Me) do you jump off a bridge when your friends say it cool also? (WK) Well no, but most of them work in IT departments.. (Me) Truthfully, most of the people in IT love windows because with it they will always have Job Security fixing it, with Mac there are almost NEVER any issues, and on top of that I'm a Senior Network Engineer for the US Department of Transportation and I love my Mac, I can do nearly anything you can do on PC short of playing every game there is. BUT, admitting the truth, only the best games for the PC ever come out on the Mac and you usually have to wait a at least a little while for it. Example UT2K4 took less than a Month, but Neverwinter Nights took over a year. (WK) That Sucks!! But with all the other stuff you showed me about Mac OSX having the Heart of UNIX and an X11 windows manager, I wouldn't have to have my machines dual boot WIN/Linux anymore. The best of both worlds, a very stable UNIX environment and the ability to run Mainstream programs in the same interface!!!"
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Lots of games- not for me
I have hundreds of games installed (thousands if you consider carts for the various console emulators). I play only a couple of them once in a blue moon. They are all for my kids, who rarely touch a fraction of them.
Addicted..
I chose addicted, because I am, but I also beta test for the largest Mac porting house, so I have an excuse. I'm not addicted! Yeah.. that's the ticket. |
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