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I wish developper would start to port their engine to MAC OSX.
Apple sells so many laptops it is incredible. You got a big market there. No need for Crytek graphics for a good game, thing civilization, sims, Galactic Civilization erc.
Apple sells so many laptops it is incredible. You got a big market there. No need for Crytek graphics for a good game, thing civilization, sims, Galactic Civilization erc.
Listen. I'm a long, long time Mac user. A "macfag" from way back.
I'm not optimistic.
Every major keynote there's something about how "this is the time" for the Mac to catch up to Windows and have all manner of games. Back in the big thing was AppleOpenGL, and how games like Quake3 and Halo were going to rock our socks. We did get Quake 3, but Halo slipped and slipped and slipped, and landed on Xbox instead. And it did pick up some. We got Quake3 as promised, and it was good. We had Red Faction, we had Blizzard and all of it's Warcraft/Starcraft games.
Then OS X happened, and every single OS9 game (which was all of them) stopped working. You could still use OS9 if you wanted, but it meant restarting your computer every time you wanted to play a game. There was Classic, a sort of virtual machine that let your run OS9 apps inside of OS X, but most games didn't work well in it. Gaming grinded to a halt, as developers had to pretty much start over. OS9 and OS10 (X) are as different as Windows and Unix, hell, OS X is Unix. Square 1 again.
Then our savior was going to be the G5, and it's super-omega-fuckingawesome-99core-madness that was going to be just "so awesome". It was awesome, mind you, but it was still PowerPC, so all that power was for naught. Enjoy your speed-demon PhotoShop, because damn if they wrote any games for it. Sure, we still had Quake4, Doom3, and every OSX game, but none of them were optimized for the G5 instructions that were supposed to turn it all around for us. Foiled again.
Now the switch to Intel is supposed to be our tonic. It is actually possible, with things like Cider making it easy to get a Windows game working on a Mac, and the familiar architecture. Good ol' x86. It actually could turn around for us, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I've held it too many times.
Now, I love Macs, but they are not the weapon of choice for gaming. They're not. Haven't been since OS9. Hell, even then they weren't.
That's why I have a separate gaming computer.
I'm not optimistic.
Every major keynote there's something about how "this is the time" for the Mac to catch up to Windows and have all manner of games. Back in the big thing was AppleOpenGL, and how games like Quake3 and Halo were going to rock our socks. We did get Quake 3, but Halo slipped and slipped and slipped, and landed on Xbox instead. And it did pick up some. We got Quake3 as promised, and it was good. We had Red Faction, we had Blizzard and all of it's Warcraft/Starcraft games.
Then OS X happened, and every single OS9 game (which was all of them) stopped working. You could still use OS9 if you wanted, but it meant restarting your computer every time you wanted to play a game. There was Classic, a sort of virtual machine that let your run OS9 apps inside of OS X, but most games didn't work well in it. Gaming grinded to a halt, as developers had to pretty much start over. OS9 and OS10 (X) are as different as Windows and Unix, hell, OS X is Unix. Square 1 again.
Then our savior was going to be the G5, and it's super-omega-fuckingawesome-99core-madness that was going to be just "so awesome". It was awesome, mind you, but it was still PowerPC, so all that power was for naught. Enjoy your speed-demon PhotoShop, because damn if they wrote any games for it. Sure, we still had Quake4, Doom3, and every OSX game, but none of them were optimized for the G5 instructions that were supposed to turn it all around for us. Foiled again.
Now the switch to Intel is supposed to be our tonic. It is actually possible, with things like Cider making it easy to get a Windows game working on a Mac, and the familiar architecture. Good ol' x86. It actually could turn around for us, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I've held it too many times.
Now, I love Macs, but they are not the weapon of choice for gaming. They're not. Haven't been since OS9. Hell, even then they weren't.
That's why I have a separate gaming computer.
I'm with Doomtrain on this. I'm an Apple fanboy, however Mac OS is just not good for gaming right now. If you want to game on a Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows via Boot Camp. And if you don't want to do that, I just recommend sticking with the console. I really hope Apple listens to the game developers and makes the necessary changes to get more games for the platform, but I just don't know if that will happen.
I'm with Doomtrain on this. I'm an Apple fanboy, however Mac OS is just not good for gaming right now. If you want to game on a Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows via Boot Camp. And if you don't want to do that, I just recommend sticking with the console. I really hope Apple listens to the game developers and makes the necessary changes to get more games for the platform, but I just don't know if that will happen.
All I ask is that I be able to run Spore on my GMA 950 integrated gfx mac mini. Please o Please o Please.
The only game I have ever played on my Mac is WoW, and I ain't touching that again.
The only game I have ever played on my Mac is WoW, and I ain't touching that again.
Check out Edge magazines article this month on iphone/touch games, they have screenshots and info on a shitload of interesting titles (I have never even seen some of the better looking games). The desktop market is not even worth the bother in my opinion. The business model for the iphone/touch is as good as was announced, it seems like a great little gaming machine for certain types of games. Apple will be a gaming platform worth looking at - but only on portable devices.
"Apple are a computer company, they no nothing about music."
Never underestimate the shiny factory.
"Apple are a computer company, they no nothing about music."
Never underestimate the shiny factory.
I love my Powerbook, but I never used it much for gaming. I use it to make music & designs, along other computer-things.
I don't personally mind the lack of games on the mac. Sometimes it sucks, but I'm a console guy!
I don't personally mind the lack of games on the mac. Sometimes it sucks, but I'm a console guy!
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