Games on Mac

[Filtertip]

what Chumba corssover is very good i use it on linux and its great sofrware. not as good as running my windows games in windows but if you dont have windows its a good program to use.

EDIT:

Wait, what about virtual box?

Virtual box is the worst way to play games on another os it just cant get the power needed. works fine for small web servers or getting some easy programs running like microsoft word or a VPN program but other then that its useless for gaming.

 

[Vern]

Well, the last time I was in a MAC store, they had Warcraft 2 and Quake 3, and that was a good seven years after Warcraft 2 had come out, and three years after Quake 3 had come out, so I'm pretty sure they have video poker, battle chess, and a knock off of minesweeper at this point. Not to make fun, but the MAC is a terrible gaming console, and the market penetration for gamers is almost nil, so most companies won't take the time to make a game MAC compatible. Some users will take the time to port a PC game to it, but it's not terribly common. The only devs I've seen that really care about the MAC platform are Id and Blizzard, hence you get Warcraft, Doom, and Quake. There's always WINE though.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Get Crossover Games and Steam.

You won't regret it

 

[Aeshi]

I didnt even know mac had and games. If you wanted to play games why did you get a Mac? seems wierd to me but what evs.

a)OSX is more reliable
b)OSX doesn't have a key that fucks over your game for no reason
c)OSX won't quit your game randomly because it considers some useless update to be more important

A couple of good mac games are:
Spore*
Homeworld 2
Multiwinia
Any game by Spiderweb Software,Ambrosia Software or Blizzard Entertainment
Command and Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars
Command and Conquer GeneralsZero Hour)

*of course I will now be swarmed by zealots demanding I mindlessly hate it because of DRM *shockhorror*

 

[CroMagnon]

I didnt even know mac had and games. If you wanted to play games why did you get a Mac? seems wierd to me but what evs.

a)OSX is more reliable
b)OSX doesn't have a key that fucks over your game for no reason
c)OSX won't quit your game randomly because it considers some useless update to be more important

A couple of good mac games are:
Spore*
Homeworld 2
Multiwinia
Any game by Spiderweb Software,Ambrosia Software or Blizzard Entertainment
Command and Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars
Command and Conquer GeneralsZero Hour)

*of course I will now be swarmed by zealots demanding I mindlessly hate it because of DRM *shockhorror*

... Sigh, thats about it. Run windows if you want to play games. Screw the erorrs.

 

[Lexodus]

Run bootcamp as long as you got this Mac in the last couple of years, and then you can play any Windows game on it.

 

[Chumba]

what Chumba corssover is very good i use it on linux and its great sofrware. not as good as running my windows games in windows but if you dont have windows its a good program to use.

As far as I'm aware, I wasn't saying it was crap. Just that it was an option for the OP. I'm glad you're finding it working well for Linux and that it's great software.

 

[Volafortis]

Get Escape Velocity, Escape Velocity Override, and Escape Velocity Nova.

The original is the best, and both the original and Override are Mac exclusive. Not to mention they are among my favorite games of all time. It's the only reason I regret not having a Mac anymore.

Also get Warcraft 3.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

In my experience on the mac you don't want to run Bootcamp or Crossover for anything more high tech than Starcraft era games.
There isn't that much you can play really unless you've got a iMac or something and have it maxed out in specs. I'm running a macbook and nothing runs at a decent framerate on it.
I spend most of my time playing browser games or actually using my consoles.
Good luck if you can get anything to work, let me know.

 

[Volafortis]

I got the original Escape Velocity to work on a 1989 original Mac OS with no drops ever in framerate, so it should work.

 

[Xaryn Mar]

i think the Neverwinter Nights series works on the mac. The first one did.

 

[Filtertip]

As far as I'm aware, I wasn't saying it was crap

Im sorry Chumba i missed a word in my post was ment to be "what Chumba said corssover is very good" sorry i do that sometimes. i don't use corssover all the time as right now i do have windows 7 RC installed so my upgrade to x64 so far has been free software wise. but as i like to use linux more then windows having crossover there to run a few of my fav games is great dos'nt force me to reboot.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

You could try getting something that isn't a mac.

Nowadays you can get software that'll port games onto a mac system despite them not normally running on them.
Otherwise try getting an emulator and playing some old classic games.

 

[Deef]

Games on a mac?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Companies are finally starting to port games to Mac more often, but I gave in and just installed Windows XP through Bootcamp. Most current games run fine enough, I just wish I could get a video card with more then 128MB x_x

Otherwise, I know Dragon Age, Force Unleashed, Prince of Persia, and Sims all have Mac ports. And I'm still crossing my fingers that OnLive will work...

 

[Contextualizer]

Porting games to Mac OS X made more sense when Apple's computers were still using PowerPC processors, but now with everything moved on over to x86, it's just easier to go through BootCamp.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

I didnt even know mac had and games. If you wanted to play games why did you get a Mac? seems wierd to me but what evs.

a)OSX is more reliable
b)OSX doesn't have a key that fucks over your game for no reason
c)OSX won't quit your game randomly because it considers some useless update to be more important

A couple of good mac games are:
Spore*
Homeworld 2
Multiwinia
Any game by Spiderweb Software,Ambrosia Software or Blizzard Entertainment
Command and Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars
Command and Conquer GeneralsZero Hour)

*of course I will now be swarmed by zealots demanding I mindlessly hate it because of DRM *shockhorror*

Yes, yes (I play on a brother's old PC occasionally, and that button is the death of me, not to mention hitting "Shift" 5 times brings up some stupid menu and suspends the game while you check "No, go away", and wait another 5 minutes for the damn game to boot up again!), and yes, it is just that only 1/10 of computer users have macintosh, so they don't bother making it for us. Jerks.

 

[WillBiro]

All the Warcrafts (except the 1st one)
Diablo 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Plenty of emulator stuff

I've been on focusing on consoles pretty heavily for awhile now so I'm not totally sure about any newer titles except Starcraft 2 when it comes out.

Some depend on whether you're rocking an intel based Mac or a Power PC

 

[Thaius]

Besides installing Windows 7 on a partition on your hard drive using Boot Camp? It's easy to do, I recommend doing it.

Anyway, Plants vs. Zombies (one of the best games of last year) is available for Mac. Anything Blizzard has made is as well (Starcraft, Diablo, etc.). Halo was ported to it. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is available free from the developer online for Mac. There's a freeware turn-based strategy game called Battle for Wesnoth that is surprisingly good. The Sims games are on Mac. I've heard good things about a game called Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

There are emulators too, but that's illegal.

EDIT: Also, search around the internet for freeware. Explore a bit. Mac has some amazing freeware, both in games and in other sorts of applications. If you look around, you'll find some really awesome stuff.

But if you want the same games everyone else is talking about on PC, you'll have to install Windows on it for most of them.

 

[Syntax Man]

Dragon Age: Origins exists on Macs, as does Halo:CE, Call of Duty 4 and pretty much all games made by Blizzard.