I Need Educating

[Jamshh]

Can anyone recommend some good filth that a Mac-user should look into? Alas, I'm settled into Fallout at the moment (after many out-of-ignorance restarts; actually, I need to start again, having deleted my save), but hopefully there are some prominent OS X worthy CRPGs that I shouldn't overlook/should have checked out before now.

 

[sportforredneck]

A Mac-user should look into suicide.

 

[Zomg]

Nearly anything I'd recommend for a PC user is probably functional in either Wine or Dosbox for OS X on a newish Mac.

 

[fastpunk]

I think Neverwinter Nights 2 for the Mac is out. Might want to check that one out. Though the first NWN2 expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, hasn't been ported. Don't even know if they plan to, but Mask is a really spectacular gaming experience. There's also Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and Baldur's Gate 2.

Also, what Zomg said.

 

[Jedi_Learner]

Eschalon: Book I is available for the Mac.

 

[Ogg]

Zomg is true, most oldies are available through emulation. Just think of Darklands, Wasteland, Wizardry, Ultima, Bard's tale... Well there are tons of topics on these boards about good old dos (and atari) games.

For more recent games, I'm pretty sure that NWN and its expansions are available for mac (skip directly to the expansions). Not sure about BG serie and NWN2 but it wouldn't be a surprise. I believe that most of Sid Meier's games are available for mac users (After some time plaing civilization IV, you should try Alpha Centauri). Many indie games are available for both mac and pc. I'm sure about Avernum, but you should look for geneforge too.

Oh and I'm sure I've seen King of Dragon Pass being played on a mac.

 

[Nedrah]

Don't those modern fancy macs (the kind that run OSX) come with that bootcamp thingy? Why don't you use that? Or, depending on the power of your machine, what's stopping you from running XP in a virtual machine?

 

[Fez]

Spiderweb Software's games are for both Mac and PC and are pretty good.

 

[Sir_Brennus]

Spiderweb Software's games are for both Mac and PC and are pretty bad.

Fixed.

 

[JarlFrank]

Spiderweb Software's games are for both Mac and PC and are pretty bad.

Fixed.

They're not bad ,they're actually fun once you get into them, but the graphics horribly horribly suck.

 

[Dementia Praecox]

A Mac-user should look into suicide.

/thread god damnit.

 

[Jasede]

Marathon 1-3. Think Halo, but good. Long before Bungee fucked up.

 

[The Dude]

I had great fun with a nice old school RPG by the name of Realmz way back. Sadly I found the Windows version to be a buggy and broken clusterfuck of immense proportions. Haven't touched a Mac in like 5 years though so don't know much about compatibility with OS-X.

 

[Elwro]

Download Avernum and Geneforge demos from Spiderweb Software page.

 

[Sir_Brennus]

I had great fun with a nice old school RPG by the name of Realmz way back. Sadly I found the Windows version to be a buggy and broken clusterfuck of immense proportions. Haven't touched a Mac in like 5 years though so don't know much about compatibility with OS-X.

It can only be run natively under System 7-OS 9 or Windows 98+, requiring Mac OS X-only machines to run it through the Classic environment or a Macintosh emulator

 

[LarsTheSurly]

Marathon 1-3. Think Halo, but good. Long before Bungee fucked up.

Marathon was awesome.

 

[J1M]

Can anyone recommend some good filth that a Mac-user should look into? Alas, I'm settled into Fallout at the moment (after many out-of-ignorance restarts; actually, I need to start again, having deleted my save), but hopefully there are some prominent OS X worthy CRPGs that I shouldn't overlook/should have checked out before now.

Install Windows, faggot.

 

[Jamshh]

Thanks for the responses.

/thread god damnit.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

Marathon 1-3. Think Halo, but good. Long before Bungee fucked up.

And on that note, Myth 1-2. I never got into Marathon (don't think Halo, but good, think System Shock. 1. But worse.) but Myth is awesome real time tactical action. It's kind of like Dark Omen but mostly just a great, unique game.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

I had great fun with a nice old school RPG by the name of Realmz way back. Sadly I found the Windows version to be a buggy and broken clusterfuck of immense proportions. Haven't touched a Mac in like 5 years though so don't know much about compatibility with OS-X.

I had a Mac in 1995 and Realmz was the hardest shareware game that came with it, by far. Goddamn spider tower. It's really more of a turn-based Diablo like game than a proper RPG with dialog and a plot and stuff.

 

[mondblut]

If Realmz was a "turn-based diablo", so were the Goldbox series Realmz were clearly inspired by.

Nice game it was. I wonder though, why many of the sprites were identical to Exile graphics?

 

[DefJam101]

Marathon 1-3. Think Halo, but good. Long before Bungee fucked up.

This.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Spiderweb Software's games are for both Mac and PC and are pretty bad.

Fixed.

They're not bad ,they're actually fun once you get into them, but the graphics horribly horribly suck.

I don't know, I played quite a bit of Avernum V, and I did not find a single interesting quest, a single interesting combat situation, or anything remotely fun.

 

[LCJr.]

If Realmz was a "turn-based diablo", so were the Goldbox series Realmz were clearly inspired by.

Nice game it was. I wonder though, why many of the sprites were identical to Exile graphics?

Because they were both published by Fantasoft?

 

[Fez]

I don't know, I played quite a bit of Avernum V, and I did not find a single interesting quest, a single interesting combat situation, or anything remotely fun.

Did you try any of the other series? Some people prefer them to Avernum.