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Does anybody still play games (regularly) on the mac?

Halo all the time. HaloMoto is the name. Being a noob is my game.

I have a TON of other games but Halo is all I play. It's the only game where I can just jump right in, bust a cap in a coupla masterchiefs then just get off when I'm doing badly. :)
 
I play games quite a bit on my mac as it's my only machine. I know "macs aren't for gaming" etc but it's such a shame that this is the accepted norm. Is the platform really that unsuited?

My favourite game (RtCW) runs well so I can't complain. Would like to give Halo a go but it's SO expensive for a game that's really quite old.

I've got several of the mac ports of old games that I use with files from my old windows disks like Doom & Quake

And I love the little free games that exist for the Mac:

Aqua Mines
Quinn
Pac the Man X
Soliatire XL
SuperTux
 
Yeah I still play games in OS X regularly.

I play...

Mac:

Call of Duty 1 & 2

Reckless Drivin'

FreeSpace

Halo

Postal 2

Starcraft

Urban Terror

Warbirds 2007

Boot Camp w/Vista:

Battlefield 2

Armed Assault

Counter-Strike Source

Day of Defeat Source

Garry's Mod

Call of Juarez (demo)




Lots of games lol
 
Macmaniac said:
I stopped my Mac gaming about 4 months ago. I built myself a PC because I was tired of the performance issues I was having with my Mac gaming. I still play starcraft on my powerbook from time to time, but if I play Warcraft III I play it on my PC because it lags less, and has better compatibility with certain mods I play.

I got my PC to play games, that was the bottom line, games like Company of Heros, Dawn of War, Battle For Middle Earth II, Command and Conqueror Generals, and FEAR. I might use my mac again for gaming if I get an Intel Macbook in the future and use BootCamp, but for now my Mac is for work lol.
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I may be doing likewise in the next few weeks. My PPC Mac is good for pretty much all I need...bar gaming. So I've been wavering about what to buy next to cater for some serious gaming &, as much as I'd like another Mac, a PC will be the likely choice.

Boot Camp is fine if you can afford a Mac Pro. I can't, & the graphics on consumer Macs just aren't good enough for some newer games.
 
Late to the thread . . .

I am still working my way through LEGO Star Wars, and regularly play the Big Bang Board Games.

I used to play WoW and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but haven't had the time to play those now that I have a small kid.

As for Windows games I play on my Mac, I play an older version of Microsoft Flight Simulator in VMWare, and the newest version in Boot Camp. (Along with Vista Ultimate's Texas Hold'em.)
 
Armed Assault

Nylock, what Mac are you running Armed Assault on, and what kind of performance are you getting with what settings?

I have an Alienware P4 3.6GHz laptop, with 2GB of RAM, and a 256MB GeForce 6800 Go and the game slams back and forth between 2fps and 25fps with 640x480x32 Very Low settings. It's more or less unplayable.

I have a new (refurbished) 15" 2.33 GHz C2D MacBook Pro, with 2GB of RAM, and a 256MB ATI X1600 coming. I already have Boot Camp 1.2 /Vista (I am using Vista on the laptop getting replaced) ready to install, and I am hopeful that I will get some decent performance with this game, as I like playing with the group of guys I play with; but then again this game is a resource mangler, and I worry about the X1600 being able to run it...

Other than that I only really want my Boot Camp install for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and IL-2 1946... Diablo II and World of Warcraft I imagine will do just fine on Mac OS X.
 
pgc6000 said:
Ok, not to sound anti-mac or pro-windows gaming, but does anybody still game regularly on their apple machines? I know, I know, the Mac is not a gaming machine. I've heard that plenty of times. But after getting a PC for gaming, sad to say but true gaming is an over all more enjoyable experience on it than my lovely powerbook. With the new consoles out to, I plan on also getting back into console gaming, which I haven't for awhile. I know my PB (specs below) isn't a fit gaming machine, but even if I had an intel mac I couldn't see myself playing games on it all to often (however, you never know). I used to have a joyous time playing games like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and Halo on my mac, but I've since seeked elsewhere for gaming options (though I've started playing Halo on my PB again lately). So, with the new consoles out, will any of you still be gaming on your mac?
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I've always thought PC gaming was better because of market share..OSX isn't bad for gaming because of the way its works, but because of market share.


Personally I think Console are where its at
 
If WC3 lan parties and bootcamp PC games on Mac count then yes, I game regularly on my Mac :)

The thing is, Windows is just a much better gaming OS than OSX, performance, features and flexibility are just much better on Windows.
 
Chone said:
The thing is, Windows is just a much better gaming OS than OSX, performance, features and flexibility are just much better on Windows.
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The thing is, OSX is technically a better gaming OS than Windows - it has many advanced built-in and tightly integrated features and uses OpenGL for ALL of the graphics.

But the problem is, Win is much more widespread, so game developers release/optimize their games only for Win, leaving OSX with all its advancness unnoticed.
 
I only play UT2004 sometimes. I don't play games that much, but UT2004 is enough to keep me out of Windows. So, no Windows installed on my Mac. ;)
 
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