May 13, 201015 yr So yeah. Torchlight and Civ 4 are among the games out for Mac. There's also the typical indie games - World of Goo, etc. Hot stuff since I already own them on Steam! The interesting points are: Portal is free till the 24th, and Valve are working on a Linux client which will be like the Mac client in that games you own in Windows which have a Linux version on Steam will be automatically added to your account (Steam Play). Steam for Mac: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/12/steam-fo...ilable-sort-of/ Steam for Linux: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...ement&num=1 Like on Mac, the Linux Steam client will get all Valve's games, so you'll be able to play things like World of Goo and Portal 2, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, etc natively on Linux this year. Edited May 13, 201015 yr by Krezack
May 13, 201015 yr Don't really care about Mac, I just want to see some games on Linux. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
May 13, 201015 yr Author Just tried Steam and Osmos on Mac. Downloading Torchlight now. I believe it carries over my Windows save games via Steam Cloud, so that should be awesome. WILL, it's all very well not to care about the Mac, but do you think a Linux port would be viable without a Mac port? Without a Mac port there'd be no OpenGL ports of Source (Portal, etc), so the success of the Mac port of Steam and Steam games is important.
May 13, 201015 yr Steam for Linux will be good, glad to see that they're going to try that out. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot
May 13, 201015 yr 'Bought' (doesn't really feel like it since it's free) Portal and playing it right now.
May 13, 201015 yr The end is nigh! Next cats and dogs will be living in harmony and it will be raining frogs.
May 13, 201015 yr Just tried Steam and Osmos on Mac. Downloading Torchlight now. I believe it carries over my Windows save games via Steam Cloud, so that should be awesome. WILL, it's all very well not to care about the Mac, but do you think a Linux port would be viable without a Mac port? Without a Mac port there'd be no OpenGL ports of Source (Portal, etc), so the success of the Mac port of Steam and Steam games is important. Ok so I don't personally care, then. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
May 15, 201015 yr And there's some issues with the port. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot
May 16, 201015 yr Author And there's some issues with the port. I don't know how much I trust that since it's on a hackintosh.
May 17, 201015 yr A fully-stocked Linux AND Mac version of Steam (ie, they have/get all the games pc-steam does, not some watered down piddly collection) would be the one thing that might get me to start using Steam. Because then I could move away from Windows as a main O/S if I wanted. I don't have anything particularly against Windows at this point, but I like having choices. The kind of gamer I am, for years I haven't felt like I had any. Still gaming with my 9900k/2080ti/32 ram. One day I suppose a game may inspire me to finally upgrade. Maybe.
May 26, 201015 yr Just released Halflife on Mac, and are having a deal on HoI3 and EU3 as a package. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
May 27, 201015 yr Author That includes the two episodes for HL2 and the Orange Box. Eve is also out on Mac. Apparently it's a fun MMO - my work-mates like it.
May 27, 201015 yr Just released Halflife on Mac, and are having a deal on HoI3 and EU3 as a package. Damn you and your sales pitch, I couldn't resist!
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