What are your Mac gaming habits?

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txa1265 Posted: 06-01-2007 9:12 PM

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I got rid of a lot of my Mac games when I got my Macbook Pro and installed XP on BootCamp.  Thing is, I prefer OS X so now I'm rebuilding my collection ;)

 
What about you?  Are you gaming on an Intel system where you have a choice or a PPC?
 

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NinjaJ replied on 06-01-2007 9:46 PM

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Best of Both Worlds......... 

I just got a Macbook last week so I work with the team on that, barely run any games on it. My Desktop is a 5 yr old Alienware that can still run WoW and DoD HL- mod at max capacity which is damn nice. I am spoiled in the sense that I have the best of both worlds, windows for gaming and now bomb OS X for work. Since Im new to this Mac life, any Mac exclusive games that I need to try? I don't know of exclusives, doubt there are any.

I can tell you that anything by Blizzard is badass and runs on Macs, and try Myth from Bungie, its an oldschool game, but awesome. 

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txa1265 replied on 06-02-2007 7:21 AM

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No big exclusives anymore that I know of.  I do know that Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software releases his Mac versions  first (indie RPG dev).

 I've had Macs since ... well, since my Apple ][+ which I bought new ... took a break in the mid-late 90's, but am back as fully multi-platform once again.
 

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naytk replied on 01-11-2009 2:37 AM

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Swordmaster:

As of now I play Sauerbraten(aka Cube 2), Open Arena, and Nexuiz. Freeware at it's finest!

Good games... and great examples of the strengths of open source.

I don't have a mac, but I can relate because I greatly prefer Linux (specifically Gnome) interface over Windows.  Personally, I dual boot.

A great option is to check out Linux Open-source (also some not open-source, but free) games.  If there aren't precompiled packages for Mac (there usually are), there is always the possiblility of getting the source and compiling them yourself.

A selection of free games I enjoy:

• Battle for Wesnoth
• Flight Gear
• Nexuiz
• Open Arena
• Super Tux (you'll have to dig to find the binaries, start in the Downloads section)
  
• Secret Maryo
• Wolfenstein:  ET

Also:  Exult (updated graphics engine for Ultima 7, but requires the original game to play)

All of the above games have pre-compiled mac packages.  And that's just the free ones (some of them).

Enjoy!