What're some decent Mac titles?

Fandyien

So after six years of exclusively using my PC for gaming, it's finally kicked the bucket and I'm stuck with my little MacBook.

My question is, what are some decent games I could acquire for this? I already have all the blizzard titles kicking around.

Jutranjo

You could try booting windows on it.

Fandyien

I'm not really familiar with bootcamp and I suspect this thing isn't powerful enough to run most of my pc titles.

ZackSchilling

In general, it's not worth playing the Mac ports of modern games. Most games just use some middleware to run the PC version, giving you a shitty all-around experience. Pony up for Windows, install it and play your games there.

musanman

ZackSchilling wrote: »

In general, it's not worth playing the Mac ports of modern games. Most games just use some middleware to run the PC version, giving you a shitty all-around experience. Pony up for Windows, install it and play your games there.

yeah that's wrong, plenty of new apps are native clients

ZackSchilling

Fandyien wrote: »

I'm not really familiar with bootcamp and I suspect this thing isn't powerful enough to run most of my pc titles.

Bootcamp couldn't be easier, so don't even give it a second thought. If you had a gaming PC, you have a valid Windows license, so that's all set. Now which Macbook do you have. The old plastic one with Intel integrated graphics or the new metal one with the GeForce 9400M?

TheBog

Well Blizzard releases all their stuff for macs, if I remember correctly.

PMAvers

ZackSchilling wrote: »

In general, it's not worth playing the Mac ports of modern games. Most games just use some middleware to run the PC version, giving you a shitty all-around experience. Pony up for Windows, install it and play your games there.

You'd be surprised. I'm pretty sure the Mac version of City of Heroes actually runs *better* frame-rate wise than the Windows version, probably due to better driver support.

Back to the OP, though, what game genres are you looking for?

Figgy

World of Goo has a Mac client. If you don't have that game otherwise, grab it on Mac.

ZackSchilling

musanman wrote: »

ZackSchilling wrote: »

In general, it's not worth playing the Mac ports of modern games. Most games just use some middleware to run the PC version, giving you a shitty all-around experience. Pony up for Windows, install it and play your games there.

yeah that's wrong, plenty of new apps are native clients

All new games published by EA, Ubisoft, or THQ use middleware. I think that covers enough to say "most".

You might be surprised: http://www.transgaming.com/products/cider/

LewieP

Alpha Centauri came out for macs right? It's a brilliant game, it's like the Civilization series (same developer) but a Sci-Fi.

World of Goo is on the Mac, but you'll be wanting a mouse for sure. Probably one of the best games of last year, a really fun puzzle game.

N is an excellent platformer (It's a shame there is not a PC/Mac version of N+, the console sequel)

All of Introversion's games are available on Macs, the most recent being the multiplayer centric RTSish action game Multiwinia (it is excellent), and all of their other games are great too. IIRC, tney all have demos.

Lot's of people have said good things about Aquaria, although I've not gotten around to playing it myself, it's an underwater 2D metroidvania.

august

Quake 3?

LewieP

august wrote: »

Quake 3?

Or, if you prefer, there is a thread here for the new quake game beta (based on Quake 3), I assume the beta is mac compatible, but if not, the full version is planned too.

You'll need an invite, but it looks like they are giving them out pretty fast now.

Fandyien

ZackSchilling wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

I'm not really familiar with bootcamp and I suspect this thing isn't powerful enough to run most of my pc titles.

Bootcamp couldn't be easier, so don't even give it a second thought. If you had a gaming PC, you have a valid Windows license, so that's all set. Now which Macbook do you have. The old plastic one with Intel integrated graphics or the new metal one with the GeForce 9400M?

Unfortunately, I have a plastic one with integrated graphics. It ran WoW okay on low-medium when I tried that once.

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00

Thanks for the suggestions thus far. I'm looking for pretty much any genre of game, honestly, so long as it's good.

Cinders

Fandyien wrote: »

ZackSchilling wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

I'm not really familiar with bootcamp and I suspect this thing isn't powerful enough to run most of my pc titles.

Bootcamp couldn't be easier, so don't even give it a second thought. If you had a gaming PC, you have a valid Windows license, so that's all set. Now which Macbook do you have. The old plastic one with Intel integrated graphics or the new metal one with the GeForce 9400M?

Unfortunately, I have a plastic one with integrated graphics. It ran WoW okay on low-medium when I tried that once.

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00

Thanks for the suggestions thus far. I'm looking for pretty much any genre of game, honestly, so long as it's good.

Baldur's Gate came out for Mac if I remember correct. Pretty low system requirements so you should have no problem running it.

PMAvers

If you're looking for RPG's, I'd check out Spiderweb's line. They're a bit "classic" looking (the games are mostly done by one person), but they're huge and awesome.

august

Deus Ex had a mac release.

Fandyien

PMAvers wrote: »

If you're looking for RPG's, I'd check out Spiderweb's line. They're a bit "classic" looking (the games are mostly done by one person), but they're huge and awesome.

Oh, man, awesome. I played this when I was a kid. I swear Avernum had an OS9 release.

august

There's also free Marathon via Aleph One. You might be able to get the originals working without it but it would probably be cooler to use it.

I think there are mac source ports for doom and quake 1 & 2.

PMAvers

Fandyien wrote: »

Oh, man, awesome. I played this when I was a kid. I swear Avernum had an OS9 release.

I'm pretty sure it did. Probably version 1.0, since 2.0's the current one and it's OS X native.

PMAvers

august wrote: »

I think there are mac source ports for doom and quake 1 & 2.

In regards to Quake 1 and 2, you would be correct. Naturally, though, you need to supply the data files yourself.

EDIT: Regarding a comment higher in the thread, here *is* a Mac version of Alpha Centauri, but good luck finding a copy since it's long out-of-print. (There's copies on Amazon starting at $84.) But if you can, there's a OS X patch floating around. Havn't checked to see how it's running lately, though.

Sir Carcass

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Dixon

Marathon, and yeah any blizzard game is Mac compatible so grab warcraft 3 + TFT and Diablo 2 +LoD

gilrain

Civilization 4 and its expansions have Mac releases. That's a few years of your free time gone, right there. I am waiting for them through Goozex, myself. In general, while gaming on Mac is still a crapshoot, I tend to wind up surprised at what's available more often than not.

Cinders

Sir Carcass wrote: »

Breakout


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corcorigan

Warcraft 3!

Nimble Cat

I've been playing Spore on my new Mac.

A Bear

I enjoyed Neverwinter Nights on my Mac. But the real issue at hand is if you want to pay to build a whole new Mac game library, or just pick up a throwaway PC and play your Windows titles. I'm mostly a console gamer these days, so much of my computer library is older, but when faced with a similar dilemma I ended up just picking up a $400 last-gen PC over buying a dozen or so Mac games.

Kalkino

Hmm, I'd spring for a copy of Alpha Centauri if I were you (assuming it can be found) - I spent god knows how many hours on that back in the day.

Edit - Amazon US has this fo $85 USD for the core AC game, then about the same for the expansion - although I may be reading that wrong as $170 is a lot to pay even for a great game

JerikTelorian

august wrote: »

There's also free Marathon via Aleph One. You might be able to get the originals working without it but it would probably be cooler to use it.

I think there are mac source ports for doom and quake 1 & 2.

Aleph One is the Fan-written Windows engine; since he's on a Mac, he can just run the original game.

august

JerikTelorian wrote: »

august wrote: »

There's also free Marathon via Aleph One. You might be able to get the originals working without it but it would probably be cooler to use it.

I think there are mac source ports for doom and quake 1 & 2.

Aleph One is the Fan-written Windows engine; since he's on a Mac, he can just run the original game.

Or he could just get Aleph One for Mac.

Seeing as how it has major engine upgrades and built in multiplayer. And is designed for a modern Mac OS.

Shadowfire

Sir Carcass wrote: »

Breakout


Super Breakout


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That puzzle game with the apple logo

Seriously though, everything from Blizzard? Pretty sure there are mac versions of Age of Empires 2 and 3 as well.

Sir Carcass

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GreasyKidsStuff

Nimble Cat wrote: »

I've been playing Spore on my new Mac.

How's that working for you? I've been meaning to check it out, and it's for Mac so I'd be able to get it. I have the newest Macbook, the one with aluminum casing and all that. Think I should get it?

Iceman.USAF

Fallout 1 and 2 were made for mac. They work on OSX, as I played the shit out of both of them while I was away from my desktop for the past 5 months.

ZackSchilling

MH79 wrote: »

Nimble Cat wrote: »

I've been playing Spore on my new Mac.

How's that working for you? I've been meaning to check it out, and it's for Mac so I'd be able to get it. I have the newest Macbook, the one with aluminum casing and all that. Think I should get it?

I have it.

It's passable in Mac OS, lost of weird texture pop in, generally decreased performance. I initially installed it on Mac OS, got tired of it, and tried it in boot camp. 100x better.

pabh

august wrote: »

Deus Ex had a mac release.

Alas this was back in the macOs 9 days, so even if the OP could find it he couldn't run it. There are ciderized versions though I hear.

Fatty McBeardo

AOE 3
Battlefield 2142
All Blizzard games
Spore
Sim City 4

There are many others I'm forgetting. But honestly, bootcamp is the way to go.

Fallout

Fandyien wrote: »

So after six years of exclusively using my PC for gaming, it's finally kicked the bucket and I'm stuck with my little MacBook.

My question is, what are some decent games I could acquire for this? I already have all the blizzard titles kicking around.

get leopard and bootcamp and use your copy of xp or whatever

trust me, i am a mac gamer, it is the only way unless you are going to be happy forever with WoW and flash games on the internet

Zombiemambo

I've never seen decent Mac titties.

this is how I read the thread title at first

Elaro

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