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| Mog
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|  "Re(2):For those looking forward to Half Life"
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Honestly, the next year is going to be really good for PC games... especially first person shooters.
Yup, I can't wait. I enjoy most game genres, but shooters are my mainstay.
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Doom 3, Deus-EX, Half Life 2... that's $150 for the games, and $1200 for a new computer =(
Yeah, that is a problem. Depends on how old your comp is though. All you may need is some more RAM and a new vdeo card. Still isn't cheap, but it beats $1,200.
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HL2 and Doom 3 make me want to build a gaming PC. Granted, for the few PC titles I'd actually want to play, I know I never will, and I can't afford to upgrade my graphics card monthly, so it's not gonna happen.
You're getting a new Mac though, right? Can't say if they plan on making a Mac version of HL2 just yet, but Doom III will definately be released for it, though they'll probably do it as a hybrid disc. I don't know the specs on the new Powerbook, but I'm sure it will have no problems running the game.
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GameStop customer quote of the moment: "A friend of mine is a professional assassin so I'm sure I would be good at Hitman 2."
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| Grave 395th Post
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| "Re(3):For those looking forward to Half Life" , posted Thu 3 Jul 15:07
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You're getting a new Mac though, right? Can't say if they plan on making a Mac version of HL2 just yet, but Doom III will definately be released for it, though they'll probably do it as a hybrid disc. I don't know the specs on the new Powerbook, but I'm sure it will have no problems running the game.
Yeah, I'm waiting until the new 15" PowerBook comes out... the first HL port never made out, so I'm not going to hold my breath about HL2 this early in the game. And I don't know about Doom III as a hybrid, usually only Blizzard does that stuff, but it'd be nice. As long as Apple doesn't skimp on the video in the new PowerBooks, perhaps that'll work out... I rarely get excited over PC games, so I'm not gonna be dropping a couple thousand bucks just to play these few, but it'd be great if they'd make it out on hardware I'm already gonna buy.
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| thebigword
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| "Re(4):For those looking forward to Half Life" , posted Thu 3 Jul 15:17
I can't wait for those games (HL 2, DOOM 3). I just built a new pc a couple of months ago, just because I knew these games were coming. If you look around a lot, and in the right places, you can make a killer pc for less than $1000. In fact, I made mine for around $800, and that's with a Radeon 9800 Pro. So, just shop around, you can find some really good deals. Oh, if you want to build a machine revolved around gaming, I suggest going with AMD, not Intel.
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| Mog
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| "Re(4):For those looking forward to Half Life" , posted Thu 3 Jul 15:31
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The first HL port never made out, so I'm not going to hold my breath about HL2 this early in the game.
The choice not to bring HL to the Mac was made by Seirra, and not Valve. Now that Seirra is owned by Vevendi, things may be different.
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And I don't know about Doom III as a hybrid, usually only Blizzard does that stuff, but it'd be nice.
id does it as well, though you probably won't know it given that it's been 4 years since they've released a new game (the current Quake III Gold edition disc is hybrid btw). If you remeber, way back in 1999 id released the demo for Quake III on the Mac first, Linux second, and Windows last. Granted the retail Windows version came out first, but the other two weren't far behind. Between their willingness to support the Mac in the past (since Wolf 3D I believe) to Carmack's rather low opinion of Microsoft, I'm possitive that the game will be released on the Mac in one form or another.
GameStop customer quote of the moment: "A friend of mine is a professional assassin so I'm sure I would be good at Hitman 2."
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| Grave 396th Post
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| "Re(6):For those looking forward to Half Life" , posted Thu 3 Jul 19:02
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I can't wait for those games (HL 2, DOOM 3). I just built a new pc a couple of months ago, just because I knew these games were coming. If you look around a lot, and in the right places, you can make a killer pc for less than $1000. In fact, I made mine for around $800, and that's with a Radeon 9800 Pro. So, just shop around, you can find some really good deals. Oh, if you want to build a machine revolved around gaming, I suggest going with AMD, not Intel.
Yeah, PC prices have dropped a lot... of course, I always get carried away building machines. I always did, and I doubt I'm any more frugal now, even though I know this machine would be for gaming and nothing but, because I don't like to work in Windows. Unfortunately, I just lost my job at the beginning of this week, so I doubt I'll be dropping $800 on ANYTHING for a while, especially considering I'm leaving for college at the end of August. So much for my plan to buy a Supergun so I can actually play with my arcade hardware.
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id does it as well, though you probably won't know it given that it's been 4 years since they've released a new game (the current Quake III Gold edition disc is hybrid btw). If you remeber, way back in 1999 id released the demo for Quake III on the Mac first, Linux second, and Windows last. Granted the retail Windows version came out first, but the other two weren't far behind. Between their willingness to support the Mac in the past (since Wolf 3D I believe) to Carmack's rather low opinion of Microsoft, I'm possitive that the game will be released on the Mac in one form or another.
Oh yeah, I have played a lot of id products on my Mac, though, none the way id originally packaged them. GL Quake for OS X, GL Doom II (!), and so forth. Things have changed a lot since Wolf 3D, though... the Mac version of that game was pretty odd. It had a lot of different artwork, and the enemies could only face in one direction: forward. The DOS version of the game played a lot better. I wasn't a Mac user back then, but I do remember it on one of the computers where my dad worked, and it just wasn't as good.
I wasn't a Mac user when the Q3 demo released, so I certainly don't remember that, but it is very cool... and yeah, I know Carmack isn't exactly supportive of MS, but it seems like software companies in large really are. I mean, Doom III's coming to Xbox, so... I don't know. But I'm gonna do whatever I have to do to play the game in some form or another, regardless. It does seem like a Mac version's a lock, and that makes me a bit happier.
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Yeah, I think a port of HL was almost done (or it was complete) but Sierra or who ever was in charge of distributing it just sat on it. There never was any explanation given. Which really sucked, cause Half-Life was one of the best PC games ever. Sad sad sad.
Yeah, I played HL back when I used my PC for everything, and I did like it a lot. My gripe about HL is not that the game wasn't ported because I want to play it, but because despite how much I like to tease my friends about playing CS so much, I'd probably be playing it too if I had the broadband connection for it and could still run it. But telling them that CS is for 13 year olds illicits amusing reactions.
Still, I can't believe Half-Life's Mac and DC ports were killed, and the PS2 one made it out. And the PS2 one blew, in my opinion.
Grumble.
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| Luisinan 366th Post
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| "Re(9):For those looking forward to Half Life" , posted Fri 4 Jul 03:51
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I like Macs for graphic design, but it's just hard to play games on them.
Apple doesn't push Macs as gaming machines, and I think because of that, they lose customers...
The only games I know of that are on mac are either on PC already, or are old school games like Marathon.
However, I hear that Macs can do fairly good PC emulation... so can you emulate a complex game like Half Life on a Mac using a PC emulator ?
Steve Jobs never wanted games on the Macintosh. Because of that, Apple has always been slow about giving developers the proper tools to make games on the Mac. It wasn't until last December that Apple added a component to OS X which would helped developers add force-feedback to gamepads and joysticks. Games have always been on the bottom of Apple's priority list.
As for emulating a PC on a Mac. You can get pretty good results on a modern Mac. The only problem is that the emulator only simulates a pentium processor with a simple video card. A new mac can emulate a relatively mid range Intel CPU but the emulator doesn't simulate a good enough video card. And to play games, a video card is as important as a your CPU speed.
But irregardless, I think Macs are getting a lot more PC games now-a-days. They still come in late, for the most part, but they eventually arrive. Heck! We just got Everquest on the Mac!
But yeah, I've also thought about getting a PC cause of some cool PC games.
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