BioShock Coming to the Mac Next Month

[teutonicman]

hahahahahaha! mac's don't have a right-click. The only other big name game I can think of for mac is WoW, any others that I missed?

 

[scotth266]

Oh it's on...
MAC/PC PICTURE WAR!

Spoiler: BRING IT!

(As a note people: me and Khell are not actually attempting to argue/start flamewars. We're just commenting at the poor situation Mac owners are stuck in, games-wise.)

 

[captain awesome 12]

hahahahahaha! mac's don't have a right-click. The only other big name game I can think of for mac is WoW, any others that I missed?

Actually it's just called secondary click...

 

[Ayjona]

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

That depends on what vintage, so to speak ;-) The latest normal macbooks certainly can. I think they are actually a tad bit faster than my first-gen MacBook Pro, even. Technical evolution is a wonderful thing, even if it does leave me feeling a bit silly for spending twice the amount for just a little less speed ;-)

I can only vouch for how the macbooks can run BioShock in windows, though. There have been quite a number of sloppy ports lately, in particular cider-ported games. Expect a, at least, small drop in framerates if you run most ported games under OS X.

(There have been a few very well-coded ports, though. In those cases, the OS X port runs faster than its windows counterpart. Yay for OpenGL, the few times it is actually used correctly ;-) )

 

[Ayjona]

(As a note people: me and Khell are not actually attempting to argue/start flamewars. We're just commenting at the poor situation Mac owners are stuck in, games-wise.)

Oh, you mean poor, as in being able to run every PC game ever made, in addition to exclusive mac titles? (Yes, those do exist, and in a far larger number than most would think...)

Yes, being cursed with the ability to run both operating systems is certainly a hassle.

 

[Shadowfaze]

thats nice. at last the mac owners can experience one of 2007's greatest games. i envy them, playing it for the first time is utterly epic.

 

[Erana]

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

That depends on what vintage, so to speak ;-) The latest normal macbooks certainly can. I think they are actually a tad bit faster than my first-gen MacBook Pro, even. Technical evolution is a wonderful thing, even if it does leave me feeling a bit silly for spending twice the amount for just a little less speed ;-)

I can only vouch for how the macbooks can run BioShock in windows, though. There have been quite a number of sloppy ports lately, in particular cider-ported games. Expect a, at least, small drop in framerates if you run most ported games under OS X.

(There have been a few very well-coded ports, though. In those cases, the OS X port runs faster than its windows counterpart. Yay for OpenGL, the few times it is actually used correctly ;-) )

Well, I just got this rig last month...
Lord knows, though, that they're going to charge us some obscene amount for this two-year-old game, though. I mean, they're selling Fable for $40 or $50, if I recall correctly...
Yeah, the first game. The one that came out five years ago.

 

[Amnestic]

(As a note people: me and Khell are not actually attempting to argue/start flamewars. We're just commenting at the poor situation Mac owners are stuck in, games-wise.)

Oh, you mean poor, as in being able to run every PC game ever made, in addition to exclusive mac titles? (Yes, those do exist, and in a far larger number than most would think...)

Yes, being cursed with the ability to run both operating systems is certainly a hassle.

When one of your selling points is "Oh, and we can run the other guy's OS as well." I can't help but wonder if that shows a more glaring flaw with your initial operating system to have to jump onto Windows just to play games.

And a list of these oh-so-many exclusive Mac titles would be nice. Closest I could get find on short notice was this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Macintosh_games] but anyone can see that most of those games are on the PC as well.

Seriously, I have never heard of any real exclusive A quality Mac titles.

 

[The Shade]

Well, I suppose I could do the ultimate cop-out in the Mac v PC war here and simply say:

Vista.

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Anyway, I'll probably just bootcamp Windows 7 onto my Macbook Pro when the time comes that I actually feel the need to. (Mmm... Fallout 3 with mods) Until then, my X360 does just fine.

I could also point out that Victor Lucas is a strong advocate of the Macbook Pro as a gaming laptop. (He uses one, anyway. Better than Alienware, certainly.)