Bioshock for Mac on October 7th

Well I am tempted to get Bioshock for the xbox 360. I am just wondering if I have gotten used to it too much on the PC that I would hate the feel of it on the xbox. We shall see.

The original editorial position and most of the comments seem to be of one voice. I'm on the other side of the fence. The reason this game is so late is BECAUSE you all are torrenting or using Bootcamp. Apple is not the problem; Apple isn't "ice-cold to the idea of games". Macs are great gaming machines even with graphic cards that are a gen behind. Torrenters and Bootcampers are the problem. Blizzard and a few other companies are great about simultaneous releases, but as for the rest of the games, the only solution to the problem of games coming late to the Mac is to be willing to wait for it. In fact I can't even see why any of you are complaining because you've already played through a great game. The only possible editorial position I can see is "it's a bit expensive for a two year old game but yay, a great game is coming our way". Anyway, my pre-order is in, and I can't wait.

Wow. I guess they DO have games for Macs. ROFL.

I've been running Macs since 1998 (Blue G3 iMac). I now have a Nov '06 iMac (soon to buying a Mini). I only bought VMWare and Parallels just to see how Windows works on it. It worked as well as Windows can. I then deleted the partition and gave it back to my Mac and haven't touched Windows on my Mac since.

My last PC died in 2001. The only time I use Windows computers now is at work because, well I support the seriously flawed OS. Ok, it isn't "seriously" flawed but I'm serious that it is flawed. How's that?

Even when I had a PC I didn't run Windows on it. I ran OS/2 (now eComStation) and BeOS. When the power supply died I found that OS X was doing well enough and I really wasn't using OS/2 or BeOS much anyway so I didn't fix it.

Which brings me to BioShock. I've never played it, have never cared that I sort of knew it existed but didn't check it out. I just knew that my PC friends, yes I have some "despite" that, lol, have played it. I didn't go over and check it out. Instead I go motorcycle riding with them. Much better than looking at a Windows computer.

Now that Bioshock is coming out for the Mac I checked out the link and the promo video. Like all videos it doesn't tell you if the game play is any good or not. The very encouraging thing is that it is 3D and appears to be first person. Both of which are my favorite.

2D helicopter views and side scrolling console games stink as much as Windows does. At least for me. I tried them, don't like them, and unless you PAY me I'm not going near them.

By the way, I worked at a big org and am considered a guru so it isn't like I'm ignorant about XP, Vista, or 7, at least doesn't sucks less than XP which can't be said about Vista.

So ... I'm going to check out BioShock on-line and see if it looks interesting and buy it if it is. And I don't mind paying $59 if it is a good product.

Have I missed out on anything since I didn't play it on Windows? Yes. I missed out on having to use Windows to play it. I don't consider that a bad thing at all. I'd rather be late to a party than on-time or early before the party gets good.

I gave up on Mac gaming a long time ago. I spent $625 bucks and built a value-size gaming PC off of Tom's Hardware. They publish system specs quarterly on how to put together a nice gaming PC for a little cash. I've still got my Macbook for everyday computing but when it's time to kill some zombies in Left4Dead or crush the soviets in World in Conflict I fire up my gaming rig. One of these days I might even get around to making it a dual boot Hackintosh :-)

The problem here is that any moderately 'hardcore' gamer (who also strangely happens to have a Mac) knows that Boot Camp is the only answer for games on their mac. I bought Bioshock about a year after it came out for $5 on Steam on my iMac with Boot Camp, but I could have bought it the day it came out, and played it fine.

With some online games, timing is very important. If you get a port of an online FPS game 2-3 years after it came out for PC, the PC players will wipe the floor with you. Price is another issue: when you realize that you can spend either $5 for the PC version of the game, or $50 for the Windows version of the game, you start to justify the price of a Windows XP OEM disc...

Mac gaming was already kind of in the gutter, but the Intel move kicked it deeper and deeper in. One can only hope that the halo effect extends to ports or more full-featured versions of iPhone games making their way to the Macintosh. At least, that way, we'd have some unique franchises (remember Marathon, etc?).

It's not really an issue of us having played the game before, this brings the game to an audience that perhaps have never played games. If my mac had beefier specs, i wouldn't mind possibly getting this game again, assuming that it will arrive with extra content.

I want NFS Shift on my Mac!!

I wants it..My precious! :)

Hmm.. Thought it was Bioshcok2 coming up. Unfortunately not. Then what the hack am i gonna use this game for when i already have completed the game 1 year ago on PS3?