Sexy New iMac

Hey Guys,

I just got a sexy new iMac (see specs below) and have been out of the loop on PC games for the last 5 years or so as I've been mostly playing console games. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on the PC and really liking the user created maps where you could walk around places like Disneyland and such. Does anyone know of any great games now that have a lot of user created content? (besides Oblivion, which I already own). Thanks!

24-inch iMac (3.06 ghz, 4 GB ram, 1 TB Hard drive, nVidia 8800 GS, Mac OSX, Windows XP and Windows Vista 64-bit)

Nice for an IMAC, I bet that cost you a bombshell :P

Are you using WINE? otherwise the games available to you are still pretty limited. Seeing as alot dont support MAC.

Nothing about MACS are sexy. Overrated by fanatical mac fanboys. leper-messiahs

Lets not go down that road :P

Yes let's not go down the Mac vs. PC road but Macs (especially mine) are undeniably beautiful to look at and use. I dropped about $2,700 on it but it was worth it to get a free iTouch. I am using Bootcamp for Windows games so there really isn't much difference between my computer and a regular PC as far as gaming goes. I'm not an intense gamer but would love to pick up a good FPS with a lot of user-created content like maps, etc.

Macs are not more powerful, they have the same hardware, shows what you know, and the kicker is you can get a PC as powerful for less. leper-messiahs

Actually hes somewhat correct, the way the OS uses RAM for example is abit more efficient.

I still do all my graphics design, video design, games design on windows, even though our UNI uses macs, simple because Ive grown up with windows, and I like the OS better ( beyond the flash ) and I like custimizing my machichine.

Back on topic, Massive back catelog bigger than any singular console, we cant really point it out to you, because youve got everything open to you, look at the lists, most shooters have mod support like DUKE NUKEM did, there are litterally thousands of mods out there across many genres.

The Half Life Games especially, download STEAM, a digital download software ( Required for all HAlf Life and similar games) and you get your own profile ect much like XBOX LIVE. though its only for windows, so use bootcamp. SOURCE games ( HAlf-LIFE 2 and ORange Box ect" have the biggest communitys and modders.

Yes let's not go down the Mac vs. PC road but Macs (especially mine) are undeniably beautiful to look at and use. I dropped about $2,700 on it but it was worth it to get a free iTouch. I am using Bootcamp for Windows games so there really isn't much difference between my computer and a regular PC as far as gaming goes. I'm not an intense gamer but would love to pick up a good FPS with a lot of user-created content like maps, etc.

ND4Life

"cough" ripoff "cough"

>_>

and Really why buy a mac for gameing? its not worth it its like spending 2700$ on a consle when a Pc can cost around 785$ but also can be upgraded so you don't have to throw away your PC when the graphics card is outdated and such.

Also Mac gameing is very bare at the moment theirs not many supporting the system and you will have to use Bootcamp with windows to play anything else.

Sounds good, I'll pick up the Orange Box and see what I can find. I was going to buy it on the PS3 but it seems it will be better on the PC.ND4Life

Good Choice, this is not my typical biased response, but all VALVE games are so much better on the PC, in performance, Community, online gaming, mods.

24-inch iMac (3.06 ghz, 4 GB ram, 1 TB Hard drive, nVidia 8800 GS, Mac OSX, Windows XP and Windows Vista 64-bit)

ND4Life

"cough" ripoff "cough"

>_>

JangoWuzHere

Yes I love the new Mac. I was never a fan of Mac and Apple in general last time I bought a PC in 2000 but they have really improved the operating system and the way everything functions so well together is just awesome. I have a little clicker if I just want to watch podcasts or listen to music - I don't even have to touch the keyboard. Now that's easy.

Now it's time to buy some video games. I was thinking Orange Box, Elder Scrolls Oblivion and possibly Crysis or the Witcher?

Poor Lepper, so uninformed, But Hey, I gues he knows enough too let him fire up The Sims. I get such a kick out of the un-informed :) Especially when I was working on computers when he was probably still in diapers sucking his thumb :) MrUnSavory1

LOL, the old insult the other poster because you have no leg to stand on and try and change the subject. Other then saying I am uninformed, you never made one good point. i have worked on MACS, Unix, Linux, AS400, Windows for years (Gaming since Dos games in the 80's, kings quest, Space quest, Quest for glory), try and not be so ignorant. The only uninformed post is the mac fanatic spreading his MAC propaganda.

$2700 is a MAJOR rip-off, you could build 3 windows PC's of the same specs for that price and the ability to upgrade and have more compatibility and choice. Hell, for that much you could build a Pc with 2 GTX 280's, 1 terabyte of HD space, and still have money left.

And again Leper shows his lacking abilitys. Please keep posting, It is giving me a laugh :)MrUnSavory1

Again, he posts nothing of relevance only to try and goat me into a childish name calling fest. Thanks for showing you were wrong, as you have said nothing but an insult. Fact is, you're post was incorrect, and it shows by your lack of being able to back it up with anything of relevance. BTW, it is abilities, learn to spell. I will post your trife on some hardware forums so they can laugh at the ignorance. leper-messiahs

$2700 is a MAJOR rip-off, you could build 3 windows PC's of the same specs for that price and the ability to upgrade and have more compatibility and choice. Hell, for that much you could build a Pc with 2 GTX 280's, 1 terabyte of HD space, and still have money left.

Yes but then I'd only have a Windows computer, and I only want to use Windows for video games. For everything else I'd rather use the Mac OSX.

$2700 is a MAJOR rip-off, you could build 3 windows PC's of the same specs for that price and the ability to upgrade and have more compatibility and choice. Hell, for that much you could build a Pc with 2 GTX 280's, 1 terabyte of HD space, and still have money left.

leper-messiahs

See, and it worked. Look, being a fanboy and denying facts just makes you look silly so you should really give it up now. I repeat, I have PC's because I left Macs in the 80's because of lack of software. That doesn't mean I will be dumb enough to deny the facts. It's too bad you can not see past the end of your own nose. So please keep posting, It gives me amusment :)MrUnSavory1

See, and it worked. Look, being a fanboy and denying facts just makes you look silly so you should really give it up now. I repeat, I have PC's because I left Macs in the 80's because of lack of software. That doesn't mean I will be dumb enough to deny the facts. It's too bad you can not see past the end of your own nose. So please keep posting, It gives me amusment :)MrUnSavory1

You havnt given any facts, so how about doing so instead of rubbing it in his face? Show him how its beter instead of saying so. its pointless spamming othrwise.

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

ND4Life

Yes, although Counter-strike Source and Team Fortress 2 are great additions aswell ( well TF2 is in orange box )

[QUOTE="MrUnSavory1"]See, and it worked. Look, being a fanboy and denying facts just makes you look silly so you should really give it up now. I repeat, I have PC's because I left Macs in the 80's because of lack of software. That doesn't mean I will be dumb enough to deny the facts. It's too bad you can not see past the end of your own nose. So please keep posting, It gives me amusment :)PC360Wii

You havnt given any facts, so how about doing so instead of rubbing it in his face? Show him how its beter instead of saying so. its pointless spamming othrwise.

All he can do is flame, he calls me a fanboy, yet he is the one who stated Macs are more powerful and imagine where we would be if Macs were the only PC's around, he has no facts, just flames and trollish posts. That is what they do when they have no valid points to come back with.

[QUOTE="leper-messiahs"]Nothing about MACS are sexy. Overrated by fanatical mac fanboys. PC360Wii

Lets not go down that road :P

so u have windoews installed? With bootcamp?

thats cool but why a mac?

looking at your specs you could just get a PC and put OSX on it, for half the price

Why are people so fixated on the price? It's not as overpriced as you may think, anyways. Don't forget it comes with a drool-worthy 24" uber-flatscreen monitor with a built in webcam, and a huge software suite. musicalmac

The amount of software that works and comes with MAC still pales in comparison to Windows, and even with those features that price is assinine, that is one of the reasons macs are a niche, very small market.

The amount of software that works and comes with MAC still pales in comparison to Windows, and even with those features that price is assinine, that is one of the reasons macs are a niche, very small market.

leper-messiahs

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

ND4Life

It's not your fault. Flame wars are inevitable here

I would definatly get the orange box. All of those games have a dedicated community.

I would also get the original half life. (not halflife source) It has one of the most extensive mod community i have seen. Great mods for half life include Sven Co op and Natural Selection.

[QUOTE="ND4Life"]

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

Ninja_Dog

It's not your fault. Flame wars are inevitable here

I would definatly get the orange box. All of those games have a dedicated community.

I would also get the original half life. (not halflife source) It has one of the most extensive mod community i have seen. Great mods for half life include Sven Co op and Natural Selection.

You may have talked me into re-installing the orginal Halflife... assuming it will run on Vista... That will be an interesting experiment....

[QUOTE="Ninja_Dog"][QUOTE="ND4Life"]

I didn't mean to start a flame war with my post. Getting back to my original question - so is Half Life 2 pretty much what I'm looking for as far as depth of the modding community?

Fraustbite_0

It's not your fault. Flame wars are inevitable here

I would definatly get the orange box. All of those games have a dedicated community.

I would also get the original half life. (not halflife source) It has one of the most extensive mod community i have seen. Great mods for half life include Sven Co op and Natural Selection.

You may have talked me into re-installing the orginal Halflife... assuming it will run on Vista... That will be an interesting experiment....

What the HELL is the matter with some people?! MrUnSavory1 and leper-messiahs don't either of you have any manners whatsoever?! Someone bought a new cool computer and is looking for advice on games and the two of you turn the thread into a poo flinging match and a 'mine is bigger than yours' argument that would have seemed embarrasing and imature in a kinder garden.

So you have diffrences of oppinion regarding Mac's and PC's why the hell are you spitting you venom in someone elses thread? Take it to the 'system wars' forums and join the 'My PS3 is better than your X360' threads. They should provide a perfect backdrop for your continued 'debate'.

@the OP

Grats on the new machine :)

As for games (shooters specifically) as someone mentioned,The Orange Box have a crazy number of mods and variances. Aside from H2 I know someone has been working on some pretty cool looking crysis mods (Mechwarrior based mod for example).

$2700 is quite a lot for a computer with 8800 GS.

But anyway, Morrowind and Half-Life 2 (and Counter-Strike: Source) have tons of user created content.

Shows what you know Lepper. Actually, Macs are the most powerful computers. They have much more power then Windows based PC's and that is why they are used in the graphics industry. They are also used in marketing departments that create circulars and other graphical media. And before you bash me I am a PC user not a Mac user and have been in the computer industry for over 25 years. It is known through out the computer field that macs are more powerful then PC's and always have been. The only reason PC's ever even survived is because Bill Gates ripped off the Mac operating system and there has always been more software support for PC's then Mac's. When you think about it as gamers it is sad we are not all on Mac's as our games would probably be much more advanced then they are now.MrUnSavory1

Really? Macs are built from the same off the shelf parts as PCs. They contain Intel processors, motherboards designed by Intel, graphics chipsets by either Intel, ATi, or NVIDIA, hard drives by Western Digital, etc, etc. The only difference is that PCs ship with Linux or Windows, while Macs have Mac OS X.

The graphics industry only use Macs because they are elegant to look at, which reflect the values of the artists that work for such companies. It's really more of a political thing that they use Macs instead of PCs in their work.

Please stop spewing out uninformed nonsense. For a person who claims to have "been in the computer industry for 25 years", this is seriously misinformed and misleading.

Leper sir, you deserve a hi five. Unsavory should go back unto the bridge to terrorise the billy goat. And @ OP, I know you said you only game on windows and do everything else on the mac OS. But is an OS really worth like $1000?

On topic I'd suggest going back a few years and replying some of the great games. Such as SS2/Escape from butcher bay/Deus Ex then theres the new games such as crysis/orange box/css/oblivion it really depends on what type of games you into

[QUOTE="ND4Life"]

24-inch iMac (3.06 ghz, 4 GB ram, 1 TB Hard drive, nVidia 8800 GS, Mac OSX, Windows XP and Windows Vista 64-bit)

musicalmac

"cough" ripoff "cough"

>_>

JangoWuzHere

that's a great computer, but I want to point out 2 things.

1. I completely disagree with you musicalmac, beacuse first off, you name has mac in it. =] and second off, while being a great computer he could have EASILY gotten the same computer for $1000 less somewhere else.

2. For the TC, when buying games, make sure they support the 8800gs, I know quite a few good games that don't