Elderscrolls for Mac : V - Skyrim

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:49 am

Fast in a straight line, but crash at the corners?

Thems fightin' words. :toughninja:

Mustangs are uh... a certain kind of magnet. And they can match a Mercedes in the corners!

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:21 pm

Thems fightin' words. :toughninja:

Mustangs are uh... a certain kind of magnet. And they can match a Mercedes in the corners!

Whatever you say. :wink:

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:02 pm

I voted yes because if you pay that much for a computer, you should at least get some benefits.
Edit: I don't know what I just said. :sadvaultboy:

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:40 am

Yes, but your PC doesn't have a glowing Apple on it.

And the ladies love Macs, they are the Mustangs of computers. :hubbahubba:

Mustangs were known for their raw power and speed. Both the car and the plane. Macs have neither of those.

Honestly, macs are way over priced for the hardware. My sister payed $2700 for a mac that could have bought an amazing PC.

As for why more games aren't on Mac: The operating system requires special coding. Most developers don't want to mess with such things. Its more work for little gain. And if you think that is a cop-out, then please name 10 games that effectively use the PS3 cell processor? Thought so. More work for little gain doesn't fly with anyone.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:05 am

yeah........if your mac is 8 years old its not going to run skyrim anyways.

Yeah thats true...8 year old macs were packed with radeon 9800's. 5 year old Macs on the other hand were packed with ridiculous features like 32GB of RAM, 2 TB HDD, 12 processing cores, and 5770 cards.

...which ended up costing around $20,000.

That could easily slay Skyrim...however, its not intel based.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:55 pm

Thems fightin' words. :toughninja:

Mustangs are uh... a certain kind of magnet. And they can match a Mercedes in the corners!

Electro?

Temorary?

Superconductive?

I dint get it......ohh wait.....KITTY

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:48 pm

Mustangs were known for their raw power and speed. Both the car and the plane. Macs have neither of those.

Honestly, macs are way over priced for the hardware. My sister payed $2700 for a mac that could have bought an amazing PC.

As for why more games aren't on Mac: The operating system requires special coding. Most developers don't want to mess with such things. Its more work for little gain. And if you think that is a cop-out, then please name 10 games that effectively use the PS3 cell processor? Thought so. More work for little gain doesn't fly with anyone.

You win this time, but only because you complimented Mustangs! :vaultboy:

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:32 am

If you wanted to game, you shouldn't have bought a mac. Gaming is still possible, but just not as easy.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:02 pm

Breakdown (rough estimates):

PCs- 95% of the Computer Market.
Macs- 4% of the computer market
All others (such as Linux)- 1% of the computer market.

No company is ever going make games for Macs AND PCs because, with numbers like those, the costs of additional development aren't justifiable if it will only allow a tiny proportion of potental buyers to play it.

I think Macs may be up to 9% of the computer market, (and lowering PCs down to 90%) but the point still stands, currently the computer market is all-but-completely dominated by Windows and PCs.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:15 am

Bootcamp...Nuff said.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:56 pm

A Mac is better in every way imaginable than a PC. Why more people don't use Macs is beyond me. :brokencomputer:

Don't start flaming PC's. Especially not on a forum for a PC game, full of thousands of teenage PC gamers just waiting to flame back.

Don't.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:55 pm

I'm on a Mac right now and have every Elder Scrolls game ever made on this computer. :biggrin:

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:12 am

Don't start flaming PC's. Especially not on a forum for a PC game, full of thousands of teenage PC gamers just waiting to flame back.

Don't.

I'm not allowed to have an opinion other than that PC's are great? :unsure:

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:05 am

I'm not allowed to have an opinion other than that PC's are great? :unsure:

Obviously. :facepalm:

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:49 pm

A Mac is better in every way imaginable than a PC. Why more people don't use Macs is beyond me. :brokencomputer:

http://www.se51.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/double-facepalm.jpg

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 9:22 pm

A Mac is better in every way imaginable than a PC. Why more people don't use Macs is beyond me. :brokencomputer:

As a pc elitist I have but one thing to say.

Wanna know what games I've been playing? All of em.

Seriously though, OT there doesn't seem to be a large enough market for mac gamers to justify a port, although Valve did do it.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:17 am

Thems fightin' words.

Mustangs are uh... a certain kind of magnet. And they can match a Mercedes in the corners!

Well, a mustang will catch a mercedes coming around the corner, when the mercedes has lapped and hits the mustang's flaming wreckage.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:17 am

Yeah thats true...8 year old macs were packed with radeon 9800's. 5 year old Macs on the other hand were packed with ridiculous features like 32GB of RAM, 2 TB HDD, 12 processing cores, and 5770 cards.

...which ended up costing around $20,000.

That could easily slay Skyrim...however, its not intel based.

Then I build the same computer for under a grand.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:22 pm

Breakdown (rough estimates):

PCs- 95% of the Computer Market.
Macs- 4% of the computer market
All others (such as Linux)- 1% of the computer market.

No company is ever going make games for Macs AND PCs because, with numbers like those, the costs of additional development aren't justifiable if it will only allow a tiny proportion of potental buyers to play it.

I think Macs may be up to 9% of the computer market, (and lowering PCs down to 90%) but the point still stands, currently the computer market is all-but-completely dominated by Windows and PCs.

Blizzard makes mac versions.. And Civilization.. And uhh.. Valve.. :confused:

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:29 am

I'll be playing on console, but yeah I think it should be released on Mac. Bring TES to more people is never a bad thing.

» Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:26 pm

A Mac is better in every way imaginable than a PC. Why more people don't use Macs is beyond me. :brokencomputer:

This made me lol.

But sure, I know people who use Mac who would like to play it. Why not let them?

Then I build the same computer for under a grand.

This. Mac's are atrociously overpriced.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:55 am

I'm not allowed to have an opinion other than that PC's are great? :unsure:

You're allowed to have your own opinion, but an elitest statement like 'A Mac is better than a PC in every way.' is flaming, which 1. Isn't allowed on these forums. and 2. Is just asking for trouble.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:54 am

my buddy has a G5 and he boot camps win 7. Is that bad? He gets the both of both worlds, a 'superior' computing environment and a 'superior' gaming environment.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:14 am

Prefer Linux, Mac is great for schoolwork and other things... including not getting viruses like PC's.
I can't imagine they wouldn't make a patch for Mac.

» Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:05 am

You're allowed to have your own opinion, but an elitest statement like 'A Mac is better than a PC in every way.' is flaming, which 1. Isn't allowed on these forums. and 2. Is just asking for trouble.

That's not flaming, it's not targeted at a person but giving an opinion on a product. If he'd have said "you're an idiot if you think PCs are better than macs" that'd be flaming.