What's nice about the soon-to-be departed Intel Macs is that you could play PC games like RDR II and COD in BootCamp. Resident Evil the Village and X-Plane 12 play great on my Studio. Apple just needs to bring some game developers in house to release a couple of AAA games for Silicon and show them off at something like WWDC. That might get the ball rolling. Until then it's tic-tak-toe from the Arcade.
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Apple Launches 20 New Games on Apple Arcade
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Junk. Utter Junk. Not enough to make me divert 5 min of my time while on the toilet. Apple doesn't understand gaming. Where is the AAA title? Where is the multiplayer sensation? Where is the next Twitch streaming phenomenon? What are your exclusives and franchise tentpoles? What, Angry Birds and temple run again? 2009 wants its apps back.
I don't understand how Apple keeps dropping the ball on gaming.
I don't understand how Apple keeps dropping the ball on gaming.
Wonderful, iteration n of temple run. I'll stick with Steam Link (for streaming from the pc) and Xbox game pass (for streaming without pc).
There are some interesting iOS games, Thimbleweed Park, Stardew Valley, FTL, The Witness... but I am not purchasing them for the Apple platform when I can instead spend that money for streaming access where I can play all of these games and literally hundreds of really good ones more.
There are some interesting iOS games, Thimbleweed Park, Stardew Valley, FTL, The Witness... but I am not purchasing them for the Apple platform when I can instead spend that money for streaming access where I can play all of these games and literally hundreds of really good ones more.
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Yeah, no. I'll just keep funneling the substantial money I spend on gaming to my Series X and Switch. Not one dollar to any iOS game developer, ever. I won't support mobile gaming mechanics or dumbed-down gameplay. I'm 52 years old and even I can't stand what Apple has done to gaming with the App Store and Apple Arcade. Insanely profitable for them? Great, my investment portfolio appreciates the attention to stock price. But my enjoyment of immersive gaming as an art form is not going to humor or reward Apple's timidness.
The SongPop is multiplayer. Your family members can use iOS devices as their remotes.
Via a service that doesn’t include in app purchases or micro transactions? I doubt ANY of those publishers would be interested in THAT.
So 20 flash type games. Yawn...back to my Series X & a scotch.
I have Apple Arcade because of Apple One anyway so I don't mind more games.
I think part of the problem here is that Apple Arcade games are foremost for ”mobile gaming” and the devices with the stronger hardware (the Mac) comes in as an afterthought. Which is something I find a bit sad. But I'm assuming those with Macs are not that often interested in gaming with it – at least not compared to the amount of people on ”mobile” Apple devices that are.
That said – I like to game on my Macs.
And for example the racing game Gear.Club Stradale on Apple Arcade is pretty nice to play with a PS4 controller. After I've tucked the arrow pointer aside (for some reason it's not hidden when racing). And there are a bunch of other games on Apple Arcade that feels like ”console class” i.e. not just like a mobile game slapped on a Mac.
I think more couch co-op games would be something to aim on for the Apple TV.
I see they're out now, and at least seven of them released with Mac versions – going to try them out.
Oh, well… I'll be quiet now.
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I wanted Diablo 4 to come to Mac, but that is also not happening.
Try Lowlander and Lowlander II. It’s more Ultima II, because it’s a single character, but it’s the closest to an Ultima clone I’ve played.
I really hope Apple will bring a new AppleTV with M3MAX and finally AAA games. I thought the power of the M1 similar to the Switch or PS4. So where are the games?
Next week, Zelda will coming out on Switch and it looks great. I don’t understand why no one is able to bring something similar to Arcad. It doesn’t has to mess with Zelda, but when I see the game how it looks and than Apple Arcade…….
Next week, Zelda will coming out on Switch and it looks great. I don’t understand why no one is able to bring something similar to Arcad. It doesn’t has to mess with Zelda, but when I see the game how it looks and than Apple Arcade…….
Apple please, if this is how you’re gonna play, release some Mac specific games that flexes on the M-chips and their capabilities. License some old games, and really clean it up and upgrade the graphics.
Zelda is a $70 game, AA is a $5 monthly service. I doubt the economics work out to release those kinds of games on a larger scale. Unless of course Apple invests quite a sum of money to persuade good developers.
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2023/05/04/new-apple-arcade-games-may-2023/
links for app store for each new arcade game
Then make it at the pricing level to Xbox game pass and give us more BETTER games.
But why buy a PC for that? Games are optimized for consoles most of the time and are then ported to PC which causes performance loss.
There are people with a RTX 4090 that cannot even run the latest Star Wars game properly, but on consoles there is no problem.
It's because they consider themselves to already be successful in gaming. They make billions a year on gaming.
It's all from casino games for children, but financially it's a success and that's what the top brass cares about most.
I don't get it either but Apple seems to have always had an adversarial relationship with game developers and video card makers. It's Apple's typical attitude of "our way or the highway" but in the case of gaming, developers take the highway because there's no reason to bend over backwards to rewrite everything in Apple's APIs.
Look at No Man's Sky. Already an old game, promised for over a year now, nowhere in sight. Not that it's a bad game but it's a bit of a niche choice and just highlights how many other games are not and never will come to Apple platforms even though Apple constantly touts the hardware power.
As with so many other things with Apple today, the hardware is there but the software story from both Apple and external developers is just not a happy one.
These games would’ve been so much better as $1-5 purchases. Octodad is available on Steam so playing it through Apple Arcade on Mac is pointless