BioShock Coming to the Mac Next Month

[Caliostro]

The sweet irony is that it's news when macs get ONE game.... two years after it was out for the PC...

Macs are cool.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Did anyone spot the irony of the mac responses were even late?

 

[Amnestic]

"Hi, I'm a PC."
*Two years later*
"And I'm a Mac!"

 

[AceDiamond]

I think this image from one of SplitReason's t-shirts sums it up.

 

[Rawker]

God hath mercy upon the Macs! sure, its only bioshock, but hell I'll take it.

 

[Ayjona]

PC: Sorry, could you repeat that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of Half-Life 2 and Pro Tools.

You are aware that Pro Tools have always been available for the mac, right? Given that it is being developed for both platforms concurrently, I'm sure you meant it as a sort of self-targeted form of irony. Otherwise, it would have absolutely wrecked the punchline of your joke, and surely no one would be stupid enough to include Pro Tools as a pc-only app when looking it up on wikipedia or the product homepage, and checking its possible availability for mac, takes only seconds...

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I feel like I'm working for Direct2Drive, as I've mentioned it about 3 times here now in various threads, but if you're PC and haven't gone for Bioshock, it's £5!

Skip one visit to McD's or two pints on Friday night and enjoy its retro underwater goodness!

 

[Metric Monkey]

According to Amazon.com, only 18 games have been released on the Macintosh in the past 90 days, as opposed to 203 on the PC.

Damn. I hate having a family that only uses macs.

I'm looking forward to bioshock.

 

[Ghost8585]

I'm a proud mac user and I still couldn't give a damn. As others have said, if I wanted to play games on my mac I would have loaded XP on it already.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I played it once already, but I may want to give it another go. Plus I could use a new game for my my Mac other than my SNES emulator.

 

[Eruanno]

Well, for me its:
Stationary PC: Games
Xbox 360: Games
MacBook Pro: Everything else

 

[Erana]

Hmm, what part of macs having intel processors and being able to run windows just as well as any PC did you fellas miss out on? I played Bioshock on my MacBook Pro back in 2007.

Mac ports have lost their value, not because macs have lost ground as a platform, but because we just reboot into windows to play games these days.

The mac as a platform and operating system is gaining ground, and spreading. Slowly, but steadily.

Do you think normal macbooks could handle it?
I killed both PCs in a weekend; I'm a little desperate.

 

[dthree]

Other than WoW, I thought nobody played games on PCs or Macs anymore.

 

[Amnestic]

Other than WoW, I thought nobody played games on PCs or Macs anymore.

Yeah, that 'Steam' program that Valve brought out is a flopping dead fish on an oil stricken shore. Mod communities? Don't exist! All a clever internet lie cooked up to troll you. It's really just one 12 year old kid called Tim with a load of accounts and a lot of free time on his hand.

 

[scotth266]

EDIT: In the spirit of Mac/PC rivalry, some good-natured ribbing.

I think this image from one of SplitReason's t-shirts sums it up.

Well, now I know what shirt I'm going to get for Christmas.

(My mother always gets me some clothes come Dec.24, so they might as well be something I'd wear.)

 

[Gariom]

I don't own a Mac but why does it take so long for games to be released for them, and sometimes (actually, a lot of the time) only the PC gets the game? Is the Mac's OS too complex to program games for?