THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: GilloD on May 31, 2008, 08:21:07 PM

Title: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: GilloD on May 31, 2008, 08:21:07 PM

I didn't know Gametap had Planescape and Baldur's Gate. What the fuck. Ugh.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: GilloD on May 31, 2008, 08:23:15 PM

:(

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 31, 2008, 08:30:28 PM

I would just torrent Planescape and torrent/buy Baldurs Gate

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: Draft on May 31, 2008, 08:32:51 PM

Breakout.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: archie4208 on May 31, 2008, 08:33:29 PM

I just finished playing some Galciv 2

:bow PC :bow2

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: Vizzys on May 31, 2008, 08:39:51 PM

what the fuck is a mac

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: bork on May 31, 2008, 09:02:50 PM

No Intel Mac?

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: demi on May 31, 2008, 10:25:43 PM

:lol Mac

Can't wait to play GameTap on my NEW PC

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: Van Cruncheon on May 31, 2008, 11:30:42 PM

:lol :lol mac :lol :lol

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 31, 2008, 11:47:10 PM

Quote from: BlueTsunami on May 31, 2008, 08:30:28 PM

I would just torrent Planescape and torrent/buy Baldurs Gate

Oh wait, hes using a Mac :-/

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: Rman on June 01, 2008, 12:52:03 AM

Intel macs are the way to go if you wanna play games.  Seriously, I'm a mac user and if you are remotely into pc gaming, you are better of with a pc, or add xp or vista on partition using bootcamp if you have an intel mac.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: CurseoftheGods on June 01, 2008, 03:13:17 AM

Bootcamp. It works like a charm.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: T234 on June 01, 2008, 03:14:39 AM

Didn't you bitch me out in one of my Anti-Mac threads, GilloD?

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 01, 2008, 03:59:32 AM

Non-Mac for games, works like a charm. I have a mac book, aside from the 'oooh look I have a mac', its not all that useful for me.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: chronovore on June 01, 2008, 07:52:44 AM

It all depends on what you want to play. There's several great Othello clones, and with a little work you can still get Typing Tutor going.

I kid, I kid. There's no way to get Typing Tutor going.

I love my Mac, but I'm not going to expect a PC gaming experience on it. Even when Gabe and Tycho switched to Mac, as stoked as they were with the OS experience, they still found that WoW operated a LOT better on the Windows partition of their Mac, than running natively on OSX.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: BlueTsunami on June 01, 2008, 08:40:04 AM

Macs are cool for like fucking with everything media related (Video, Music, Pictures) but if your a gamer you can't quit Windows cold turkey.

You's gots ta' Dual Boot dat' shit

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: Bildi on June 01, 2008, 06:59:14 PM

I loaded SimCity 2000 on my Mac a couple of months ago.  It's still awesome.

Title: Re: Having a Mac sucks
Post by: bork on June 02, 2008, 12:20:56 AM

OSX is fan-fucking-tastic, but some hardware problems (related specifically to my Alienware) and Norton (what a piece of shit) aside, I can't say I really ever had a problem using Windows XP for the past (almost) four years.  I am glad to have a Mac again, but I'm not a PC gamer.  I gave PC gaming a try and found I always went back to consoles for the most part.  If you're into games, you don't get a Mac, it's that simple.  Even with Boot Camp, you're really going to need an Intel Mac with a good graphics card to run anything recent (and some stuff from a few years ago won't even run on my MacBook) and decently.  I like OSX, and I don't want to sound like an advertisement, but the main reason why is because it just "works."  It's also never crashed on me once, something I cannot say about Windows.

I doubt I will ever go back to a Windows-based PC as my main computer, but if some PC-only game comes along that just cannot be missed, I'd get a PC that could run it as a gaming-only machine.  But the way PC gaming seems to be going, with more and more devs going to or releasing their games for consoles, I doubt I'll ever have to.