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'Duke Nukem Forever' Now Available for Mac

If anyone can answer me this

Do steam games bought on PC transfer over to Mac (and vise versa)?

I might scoop this game up to test out some light gaming on my mac, but most likely it won't run well (13" 2010 MBP) in which case I would switch and play it on my gaming rig.
 
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Don't buy it. Mac port gets even worst. In steam page, there is no system spec. You don't know whether your Mac can handle. Honestly gaming on Mac is really bad idea.
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Read the thread before posting.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13204569/

Navdakilla said:
If anyone can answer me this

Do steam games bought on PC transfer over to Mac (and vise versa)?

I might scoop this game up to test out some light gaming on my mac, but most likely it won't run well (13" 2010 MBP) in which case I would switch and play it on my gaming rig.
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Yes, they do so long as they support SteamPlay(which Duke Nukem Forever does, alongside every other Mac game currently on Steam).
 
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This game is horrible, the original was much better.. Do yourself a favour and don't buy it :p..

As far as Mac Ports go, yes in most cases games ported to Mac perform poorly, but thats primarily because they are made for Windows or Console first, so It's no secret the performance will suffer when ported to Mac..

But games that have been made for Mac OS from ground up perform almost as well as Windows as far as I know..
 
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Lost my eyesight playing it.
 
DiSTURBED-oNE said:
Let people make up their own mind.

I would watch this review, and then make your decision:
http://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee#p/u/13/q_EESRrn-Ck
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Great review that.

I did get the feeling at the time that most people only played the demo. The absolute best bits of the game are the in the later half. Some absolute genius moments with the only flaw being they didn't expand upon them.

Just behind Portal 2 in first person games I've played this year.
 
The Real Story

I bought on "Steam" and played through the whole game on Win 7 in Bootcamp. The first few levels suck really bad. (These are the levels in the Demo) The game starts to get better when Duke gets shrunk down. Some really cool levels while being shrunk. This game is about 14 years old, so keep that in mind while playing. I see a lot of parallels with the first version of Half Life. Like climbing a lot of ladders, and underground tunnels and caves and, other things. It's almost like the guy who coded this version quit and then worked on Half Life. If you liked the original Duke then you'll most likely enjoy this. It's not even close to the best new games. I still like the original FarCry best. I'd wait for the bargain price to buy this Duke version.
 
oiuh151 said:
Yes, it will.

http://www.gameagent.com/store/aspyr/en_US/pd/productID.230945100#system_requirements
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Surprising that it does, considering that the minimum stated was the geforce 8600, and the intel isn't as powerful as that. I guess it'll run, but very slowly.


macdevgame said:
Why didnt they release it on the mac appstore and get rid of steam?
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Steam is better for games than MAP. You can chat to your Windows gaming friends, whatever you buy on PC is free for Mac if it's available, and vice versa, join friends on multiplayer games, etc.
 
I received DNF PC thru Steam for free with some NVidia hardware I bought...
Even at free the game isn't worth it, I tried really hard to make a go of it and played for as long as I could, but it really is bad, one of the worst games I've ever played.
DN3D was fun in its day, but DNF is really tedious. Some may like it but for me even free was too much (it cost me time to download and install that I'll never get back).
 
roadbloc said:
I may pick it up if it lands in the Mac App Store.
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And in what way is that better than buying it on Steam? At least Steam is not as sluggish as the Mac App Store which I find very painful to use on my iMac i5 with Lion. It worked better on Snow Leopard.

And besides that, I'd rather support Valve than Apple with my money.

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macdevgame said:
Why didnt they release it on the mac appstore and get rid of steam?
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Because the Mac App Store does not run on Windows and the Mac App Store is not a gaming platform. When you buy the game on Steam, you'll get a cross-platform version of the game and can play it wherever YOU want - not where Apple wants you to play it.

The real question here is why gamers and game companies are not getting rid of the Mac App Store and focus solely on Steam which gives everybody much more for the same or even less money.

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Navdakilla said:
If anyone can answer me this

Do steam games bought on PC transfer over to Mac (and vise versa)?

I might scoop this game up to test out some light gaming on my mac, but most likely it won't run well (13" 2010 MBP) in which case I would switch and play it on my gaming rig.
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Steam Play titles are cross-platform, which means that YES, you can play those titles on both the Mac and the PC and your progress is synchronized across the platforms. However, not all games on Steam are Steam Play versions, most of them are still Windows only. But as the articles says, Duke Nukem Forever is a Steam Play title, so if you buy it now, you can play it on both a PC and your Mac.
 
Winni said:
And in what way is that better than buying it on Steam? At least Steam is not as sluggish as the Mac App Store which I find very painful to use on my iMac i5 with Lion. It worked better on Snow Leopard.
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It's interesting to see you say that, because my experience with Steam across three separate systems is that it's very slow and crashes a lot.
 
Nermal said:
It's interesting to see you say that, because my experience with Steam across three separate systems is that it's very slow and crashes a lot.
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This. I do however like Steam over the MAS due to Steamplay (and other things). I misread the article, didn't see it was available on Steam.
 
I loved Duke Nukem... When it first came out.

I am so glad to have tried the demo, because I was close to going out to buy it. After playing the first level, I knew this game wasn't good at all. The controls were terrible and the graphics, wow, the graphics were a joke. I enjoyed the gameplay from the original game more than I did with this one.

Or maybe I'm spoiled from how epic FPS games have become in the last 10 years. Actually no, I hate to say it... But this game SUCKED and should be AVOIDED. Sorry, Duke.
 
chocolaterabbit said:
On windows it's very good, i have never had any problems.
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Same. OSX version took some updates to become stable and now it seems to run perfectly.
PC version especially. I can't actually recall that version ever crashing for me (Steam user since HL2's launch).
 
re: Mac gaming in general, bad idea?

I have to disagree with you here. I've primarily been a Mac user since 1999-2000 or so, and while sure, the games available for Mac are few and far between? I've enjoyed most of them I bought over the years.

Steam is the best thing to happen to Mac gaming in recent years, because finally, you can buy a title and receive the ability to download versions for Windows too, at no extra charge. Plus, it keeps all of your content in one place. No more B.S. where you lose the original manual for a game that had the "CD key" printed on it, so you're unable to reinstall it.

My experience is, the Mac users who whine about how bad the Mac games are usually try to run them on totally inadequate hardware. (Ask *any* Windows gamer how they feel about Windows gaming on machines using integrated Intel video! They wouldn't even THINK of trying it! Yet a bunch of people who bought a basic Macbook a few years ago are trying to get the latest games off Steam to run on it, and whining how poor the results are! Same issue!)

I've using both a 2006 and 2008 Mac Pro as my primary 2 computers at home, and either one runs any of the Steam games I've purchased (Left for Dead 1 and 2, for example, or Civ 5) just fine. If you're one of those people fixated on benchmark scores, then no, the Mac won't give you as high a reported frame-rate as the right Windows system. So WHAT?! I don't CARE what the FPS number says, as long as the game is playing well and it looks good.

What I *do* want to avoid is having to reboot into Windows, which I never use anymore otherwise, and inevitably getting prompted to do 50 or 60 update patches to things before I ever get to play the 1 game I'm trying to launch. It's so much more convenient when I can just run a game inside OS X, where I do everything else anyway.


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Advice

Don't buy it. Mac port gets even worst. In steam page, there is no system spec. You don't know whether your Mac can handle. Honestly gaming on Mac is really bad idea.
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Horrid, HORRID game. I had fun with Duke Nukem 3D.... this is just awful. I can't even begin to describe how bad it is. Ugh.
 
MacSince1990 said:
Horrid, HORRID game. I had fun with Duke Nukem 3D.... this is just awful. I can't even begin to describe how bad it is. Ugh.
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Funny thing is, nobody who really hates it does give real reasons why they believe it's a bad game. Even professional reviewers.

Can someone who disliked the game write some valid reasons why you don't like it?
 
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