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What games do you play on your Mac?

Hastings101

Hastings101

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Kind of curious to see what games Mac users play on their computers under OS X. Please don't include games played under Bootcamp/Parallels

I play:
Imperial Glory
Warcraft III
Civilization IV
Sid Meier's Pirates!
The Sims 3
Lego Star Wars
World of Warcraft
Starcraft II
 
Starcraft 2. I'm retiring my MBP from games because I now lag during 1v1 battles (not even full on 200 food vs 200 food). Just gonna build a gaming PC and then use my MBP as my carry along.

I also played:
Starcraft: BW
Diablo 2
Warcraft 3: TFT
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2: E2
 
In OS X only, mostly play:

AoE 3 + both expansion packs
AoE 2
Age of Mythology
Rome: Total War
Rise of Nations
Starcraft
Command & Conquer (Generals, Tiberium Wars & RA3)
Europa Universalis 2
Lego Star Wars, 1 & 2
Imperial Glory
Prey
Quake 4


Looking to get Starcraft 2 shortly. No rush as my time for gaming is limited these days.
 
Not a big gamer. I play X-Moto and EV: Nova (used to play the original Escape Velocity and EV: Override, but can't really play them anymore on my MacBook).

jW
 
no offence. but why all these strategy games do you play? no FPS, action? I have seen it is not coincident. I hate strategy game. it's boring. I don't get why people spend so much time for playing that boring game. game should be fun, get out of your stress. but strategy game? when I play game, I don't want to use my brain. I am so enough to use my brain for everyday very stressful job. for record, I am an architect.
 
Don't own any Windows games unless you count my SteamPlay games (although I do have a copy of Windows 7, just in case). Anyway...

Age of Empires 3
Rise of Nations
Team Fortress 2
Altitude
Counter Strike
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
FlatOut 2
World of Goo
Peggle
Diablo 2
Unreal 2004
Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein

I play all the PPC compatible ones on my PowerBook as well.
 
archurban said:
no offence. but why all these strategy games do you play? no FPS, action? I have seen it is not coincident. I hate strategy game. it's boring. I don't get why people spend so much time for playing that boring game. game should be fun, get out of your stress. but strategy game? when I play game, I don't want to use my brain. I am so enough to use my brain for everyday very stressful job. for record, I am an architect.
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You just haven't gotten into one. Sure they aren't for everybody, but there are plenty of simple minded RTS games. (World in Conflict comes to mind).
 
OpenArena and Urban Terror primarily, with some Tremulous and WarSoW on the side. All are free open-source clones or repacks of the ioquake3 game engine (from Q3A in 1999) and run quite well I might add. Hours of bloody, plotless fun.

I also have a port of Sid Meier's Civilization III which claims to be designed for OS 9 but runs on Leopard nonetheless. I've no clue where or how I got it.

But yeah, for me, mostly online multiplayer FPS games. :D
 
archurban said:
no offence. but why all these strategy games do you play? no FPS, action? I have seen it is not coincident. I hate strategy game. it's boring. I don't get why people spend so much time for playing that boring game. game should be fun, get out of your stress. but strategy game? when I play game, I don't want to use my brain. I am so enough to use my brain for everyday very stressful job. for record, I am an architect.
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I think the way you do... about FPS games. I find them stressful and confusing, I like to take my time in a game as well.
 
Straight out of my games folder in OS X:

Bioshock
Borderlands
CoD 1, 2, 4, and MW2
Chess
F.E.A.R. 2
Fallout 3
GTA San Andreas
Half Life 2, and HL2 EP1
Halo 1
Lego Star Wars 1 and 2
Mass Effect
Max Payne
N64 Emulation (sixtyforce)
NES Emulation (Nestopia)
Pac the Man X
Prey
Quake 4
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Starcraft 1

Total cost: $0 ;)

I only play Crysis and A.V.A. in bootcamp.
 
archurban said:
when I play game, I don't want to use my brain. I am so enough to use my brain for everyday very stressful job. for record, I am an architect.
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Please post a list of all buildings that you have worked on, in however small of a capacity. I, like many others on this site, need this list to determine which buildings to NEVER SET FOOT IN.
 
Imperial Glory

If you like Imperial Glory, try out any of the Total War series:
Rome Total War
Medieval Total War 2
Napoleon Total War
Empire Total War
Shogun Total War 2

I've tried Imperial Glory and find it clunky in comparison to the Total War series.
 
Starcraft 2. Then Starcraft 2. Oh and during breaks I play a little Starcraft 2. (I play it on the Windows partition too.)
 
PatrickCocoa said:
If you like Imperial Glory, try out any of the Total War series:
Rome Total War
Medieval Total War 2
Napoleon Total War
Empire Total War
Shogun Total War 2

I've tried Imperial Glory and find it clunky in comparison to the Total War series.
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Thanks, I'll take a look at those
 
Just loaded Halo and Quake 4 back on my Mac--fun stuff, but a better graphics card is in order if I'm going to play much. Trying to talk myself out of buying an X800 right now :D
 
sysiphus said:
Just loaded Halo and Quake 4 back on my Mac--fun stuff, but a better graphics card is in order if I'm going to play much. Trying to talk myself out of buying an X800 right now :D
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ew, you're better off playing on that ThinkPad right now. Its pointless to spend that much money on such an old graphics card with a very limited game library.

Well hell, who am I to tell you how to spend your money. Do what you want, but its just not a good idea.

On a different note, Quake 4 is awesome!
 
PowerGamerX said:
ew, you're better off playing on that ThinkPad right now. Its pointless to spend that much money on such an old graphics card with a very limited game library.

Well hell, who am I to tell you how to spend your money. Do what you want, but its just not a good idea.

On a different note, Quake 4 is awesome!
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Trust me, I know it's not logical--but I love my G5. Also, the X1300 in my IBM is underclocked, and only has 64MB of VRAM--pathetic for a card of its class. Heck, the 6800 GT I had in my dual 1.8GHz G5 way back when pushed out Quake 4 better than my CoreDuo MBP with the X1600.
 
sysiphus said:
Trust me, I know it's not logical--but I love my G5. Also, the X1300 in my IBM is underclocked, and only has 64MB of VRAM--pathetic for a card of its class. Heck, the 6800 Ultra I had in my dual 1.8GHz G5 way back when pushed out Quake 4 better than my CoreDuo MBP with the X1600.
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That's saddening. I used to have a T61 with an nVidia NVS 140m, and it was actually fairly decent for a business class card of its age.

ThinkPads and Mac's are the best. :cool:
 
xi mezmerize ix said:
Straight out of my games folder in OS X:

Bioshock
Borderlands
CoD 1, 2, 4, and MW2
Chess
F.E.A.R. 2
Fallout 3
GTA San Andreas
Half Life 2, and HL2 EP1
Halo 1
Lego Star Wars 1 and 2
Mass Effect
Max Payne
N64 Emulation (sixtyforce)
NES Emulation (Nestopia)
Pac the Man X
Prey
Quake 4
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Starcraft 1

Total cost: $0 ;)

I only play Crysis and A.V.A. in bootcamp.
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would you please explain how your running fallout 3 in osx?
 
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