Mac & Windows Games with Low Requirements

Endaro

This is one of those threads that straddles the G&T/H&A line, but I figured my specificity and the lack of possible discussion would put it here. Here's the situation:

My GF is leaving town soon and will be gone till the end of the year. While she is gone, we would like to continue to play games together. Buying a second wii/360 is a bit ridiculous for only a few months, so we'd prefer to play together on our preexisting computers. Unfortunately, she only owns a PowerBook G4, and I am on a fancy Windows PC. I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions for cross platform play(as in between Mac and Windows obviously) with relatively low system requirements.

The first games to spring to mind are Blizzard titles, which were released on both Mac and Windows but also have low enough requirements to run on her laptop. Beyond that, and cheap multiplayer flash games, I am at a loss. Steam was recently released for Mac, and games like TF2 with it, but her Powerbook G4 (10.4.11 OS, 1.67 GHz processor, 512 MB SDRAM etc etc) cannot run steam, and I'm also under the impression it is too old/weak to run window's games directly through bootcamp and such.

Any suggestions?

tl;dr: games on both windows and mac that can still be played on a PowerBook G4 10.4.11?

admanb

I'm stretching to go beyond Blizzard games, but not having any luck. The big problem is that a lot of games that would run (Civilization, for example) are incompatible for multiplayer because the developers are fucking lazy.

(She can't run Steam or dual-boot Windows because that depends on running an Intel processor, which the G4 is not.)

baudattitude

Marathon? I don't know for sure that it supports cross-platform multiplayer but I'd be surprised if it didn't, and it should run on a G4.

KalTorak

I used to have a Powerbook G4, and play 2v2 games of the original Call of Duty, cross-platform.

Whether you'll be able to find copies of it is another question.

Iruka

I guess she cant do worms reloaded without steam, but maybe one of the older versions and Hamachi? Call of duty was my college "lets all play a game together!" game, but it was more fun with 2 people teams.

DekuStick

It's hard to recommend this because it's pretty mind numbing but Cartoon Network has a browser based MMO called Fusion Fall. It runs on Unity so it's prone to crashes but it's something. And if cartoons are your thing there are a zillion CN characters spread out in the world. Just don't expect anything fantastic in terms of gameplay.

Endaro

I appreciate the suggestions. I was sure there must be more significant titles than those by Blizzard. It's like some pocket in history of untapped market.

DHS Odium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC

The last release for the Mac was free and is for PPC computers. All you need is a Windows XP disc, then she can install that, divert most of the memory to the Windows side, and you guys have access to a lot more games, albeit they will be very old games and rely on software rendering most likely.

Joe Camacho MKII

I remember I could play Quake III and Bid for Power (Dragon Ball Z look-a-like mod, if you search hard enough you might even find the DBZ one, if it's something you two like) a couple of years ago, I was using a PC and my cousins were using a G4 Powerbook, so maybe you could look into QIII?

NightDragon

DHS Odium wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC

The last release for the Mac was free and is for PPC computers. All you need is a Windows XP disc, then she can install that, divert most of the memory to the Windows side, and you guys have access to a lot more games, albeit they will be very old games and rely on software rendering most likely.

This seems like the best option, really. With computer specs like that, I can't imagine she'd be able to run too many of the newer games, anyway.

KalTorak

Joe Camacho MKII wrote: »

I remember I could play Quake III and Bid for Power (Dragon Ball Z look-a-like mod, if you search hard enough you might even find the DBZ one, if it's something you two like) a couple of years ago, I was using a PC and my cousins were using a G4 Powerbook, so maybe you could look into QIII?

Can a g4 run QuakeLive?

corcorigan

A G4 can run barely anything. It can barely run the internet (Flash anyway).

Big Red Tie

flash doesn't run well on any mac