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Currently playing on my M1 MBA:

  • Minecraft, online server with some friends.
  • Hades, great fun trying to escape the depths of the underworld.
  • Tunic, just started this yesterday but seems rewarding and the aesthetic is spot on.
 
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SimCity Deluxe.
Takes me back. About 30 years.

I wish there was a good-looking, easy to use flightsimulator for mac though. But I haven't been able to find one. I loved both MS Flightsimulator and SimCity back then.
 
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Homeworld Remaster - Getting my ass handed to me in the Cathedral of Kadesh LOL. Is a pretty good package as has both remasters and OG 1&2 games included. Also have the prequel Deserts of Kharak as well, good but not as good as the first two.
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Homeworld is still best of it's genre and have the OG running on the Mx Mac :) OG Homeworld snapshot on the Mac, game engine can do both 64 bit Intel and Apple Silicon, not too shabby for 1999 :cool:
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Ironically it's the better engine for the original game as it scales better on modern HW and is still being worked on :) I only play the campaign as I enjoy the narrative, that and I'm far from a hardcore player of the franchise.

Industria short sweet Indie game on the lines of Half-life. Not great, but not bad for just a handful of devs. Really liked the artistic style. Done and dusted (about 4-1/2 hours with no peeks), might have a look at the 2nd if on a deal.

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SimCity Deluxe.
Takes me back. About 30 years.

I wish there was a good-looking, easy to use flightsimulator for mac though. But I haven't been able to find one. I loved both MS Flightsimulator and SimCity back then.
Mac Source Ports A way to play some old favourite's with new game engines and with a little imagination mods on the modern Mac...

Doom 3 as of June 2024
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This demon got more than he bargained for LOL
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n.b. You need to own the game, unless free as you need the game data. Site only provides the game engines which are Open Source.

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Currently playing M2 Pro Mac Mini;

  • World of Warcraft: runs great on medium settings @ 1440p. I've been playing for around 20 years so no chance I'll stop any time soon. Very pleased with the dev's support for Mac throughout the years.
  • WARNO: via GeForce Now. Sunk a solid 200hrs into this game during early access and having a blast going through the campaign now that it's fully released. GFN has been great, albeit a little expensive. This title does work via Crossover but there are some fairly significant performance issues so GFN is better for the time being.
  • Sims 4: An occasional guilty pleasure. I *hate* EA's predatory approach to this game but damn it's fun to play sometimes.
In the background, occasionally dipping my toes;

  • Hearts of Iron 4: well over 1500hrs into this over the years. Burned out a little, at least until the next expansion....
  • Minecraft: can't be beat, even if I don't play as much as I used to.
  • Diablo 2: after D4 was a major disappointment, I have been occasionally revisiting the D2 remaster. Even after being old enough to have a license, a mortgage, and a few ex-wives it's still a fantastic game IMO.
 
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Homeworld Remaster - Getting my ass handed to me in the Cathedral of Kadesh LOL. Is a pretty good package as has both remasters and OG 1&2 games included. Also have the prequel Deserts of Kharak as well, good but not as good as the first two.
1717094510939.png

Homeworld is still best of it's genre and have the OG running on the Mx Mac :) OG Homeworld snapshot on the Mac, game engine can do both 64 bit Intel and Apple Silicon, not too shabby for 1999 :cool:
1717098281096.png

Ironically it's the better engine for the original game as it scales better on modern HW and is still being worked on :) I only play the campaign as I enjoy the narrative, that and I'm far from a hardcore player of the franchise.

Industria short sweet Indie game on the lines of Half-life. Not great, but not bad for just a handful of devs. Really liked the artistic style. Done and dusted (about 4-1/2 hours with no peeks), might have a look at the 2nd if on a deal.

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Homeworld looks great!
GoG.com, Steam: Homeworld Remastered Collection $34.99 (Mac Compatible at least on Steam, did not check GoG). I've got this in my Steam Library, with no clue of what I paid for it. :oops:
 
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Homeworld looks great!
GoG.com, Steam: Homeworld Remastered Collection $34.99 (Mac Compatible at least on Steam, did not check GoG). I've got this in my Steam Library, with no clue of what I paid for it. :oops:
$34.99 too steep IMO at this point, mines off Epic on a deal pennies on the dollar. The Game engine for the Mac Open Source. That said is a deal compared to Homeworld 3 which is in the firing line for all the wrong reasons...:(

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I'm constantly rotating between FromSoft titles - Bloodborne, Sekiro, Dark Souls. I do one or two (or three) playthroughs of one game then move to the next, after several months return to the first again etc.
 
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Thanks. I don't know how I missed that.
Downloading the trial now, hoping my M2 pro will be able to handle it.
I'm planning to run it on my beautiful 55" LG OLED TV at my current resolution, 1600x900. Can't wait.
I bought it for my dad's 350 MHz iMac G3 and it ran fine on that back before 2000. After Microsoft bought Sub-Logic, I wouldn't even consider Flight Simulator.
 
I restarted Redfall on my Steam Deck last week with the 'final patch' dropping and ... it is actually kinda fun?!? Still not all that good - interactions are shallow, AI is braindead, and so on ... but I am enjoying it quite a bit more than the several hours I put in last fall.

One key thing for me was default offline mode - previously the game would fail to connect to the servers ~50% of the time which meant no game for me (despite me connecting to Steam, so not an actual issue). Now it defaults to offline for me and I can just play!

Last fall I paid ~$13 for the game ... I would not recommend paying much more than $10. But for a cheap game it is ok fun
 
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My issue with X-Plane, although a good, maybe one of the best home computer aircraft simulations, at least when I played it, there was no combat damage modeling, limiting its appeal.
Ok, why is this a funny post, cause I’m incredibly funny? Wait, because you can’t crash? lol. 😝
 
Red Dead Redemption II, just starting out. Good as promised so far. Play good, play bad, little of both? We'll see how the story develops...

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The solo story is best. Have you tried online? Granted that is better as a group, but some of the online stuff can be soloed. When I was hunting, there was a high value cougar (for its pelt) that spawned in the same place every 15 minutes or so. 😀
 
Has anyone been able to make Dragon Age: Inquisition GOTYE to work? I got it for free on EGS but can't install it with Heroic and Crossover. The installation file appears to be just 1 KB and installs and then nothing happens.
Since you mentioned Crossover and Heroic, I'm assuming you mean that you're trying to get the game working under MacOS. Though I haven't tried recently, I never could get it working with MacOS no matter what I tried. I believe the issue is with the Electronic Arts DRM loaded into the game. If you do get it working, please post here because I'd like to get it working as well. There's at least a chance it may work in a VM like Parallels or VMware Fusion, though I wouldn't put money on it.
 
My usual addiction of Final Fantasy XIV continues, and am greatly looking forward to Dawntrail.

For new games, after going completely nuts on Vampire Survivors, I picked up Death Must Die, another survival style game. This is in Early Access, but a lot more active than VS, and has been pretty fun.

Will also start Chained Echoes in a little bit. I've been itching for a old school JRPG styled game for a bit.

And finally going through Persona 5 Royal.
 
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I wish there was a good-looking, easy to use flightsimulator for mac though. But I haven't been able to find one. I loved both MS Flightsimulator and SimCity back then.

Luckily I have an Intel Mac which is quite overpowered. I've also got windows 11 so I ended up with Flight Simulator 2020.

It is beautiful:

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That's in 2D. When you switch to VR headsets (which Macs don't have, aside from Apple Vision Pro) it is incredibly immersive. You really feel like you are there. Sitting inside the F111 or a helicopter is just wonderful.

I've been in helicopters IRL quite a lot but unfortunately never managed to get myself inside an F111, aside from in a museum (and that was only the cabin module which was from an aircraft that was lost on takeoff). The module was restored to pretty nice condition. on the F111 that entire cabin module ejects, rather than just the pilots in their seats.

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That's the enormous Mercedes-Benz Werk Sindelfingen with the famous test track you can see near the middle, with the skid-pad with its different surface sections and the extremely banked corner. And this is the real thing:


MSFS has very high hardware requirements but it is so immersive, especially with the study-level addon planes. We have a couple of study level Airbus A320s, study-level Boeing 737-700 and 800, a 777 coming soon and the ultimate, a study level Airbus A380.

It would be nice if there was a Mac alternative at that level with VR compatibility, and I mean real look around VR, not just a 2D flight simulator screen shown inside Apple Vision Pro.
 
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