It's already available for Mac since 2009.This game is an absolute masterpiece. Glad it’s coming to Mac.
No, this is just Bioshock 1.
Sweet! The first Bioshock was an awesome game. As was Bioshock 2, but the original caught me off guard with it's seriously creepy atmosphere and morality play. For anyone who's never played, would you kindly pick up this game and reward Feral's dedication to Mac gaming.
Bioshock Infinite never got an HD version, as it already was running on the latest consoles. Only Bioshock 1 and 2 got remastered.Thanks! I thought it was a collection of all the three games, since they were released together in HD versions similar to this.
Technically it is a mix of FPS, RPG, and Survival Horror... but it's sooooooooooo much more than the totality of it's elements.I thought about purchasing the Bioshock collection that released last year for my PS4 Pro. I have never played any of them. So it's a essentially a first person shooter with RPG elements?
Up until now, Mac gaming hasn't been anything to write home about. However, Apple are hinting that it might change with things like Metal and support for external GPUs. I sure hope that I'll be able to get rid of my clunky desktop PC in the future in favour of an eGPU and just having my MacBook Pro as a gaming device.I wish I could get excited about MacOS gaming. There is nothing wrong with Mac gaming, as long as you do it under Windows. But having played the same game on a Mac both under Windows and then on MacOS and seeing how much worse it runs has kept me in the Windows world for gaming
It's like putting galoshes over your track shoes. Maybe titles using metal will fix this, but better to boot into Windows if you want to game and even better to have a dedicated machine that can take a real video card.
Yeah, that would be great, I'd really like to see them go all out on the Apple TV hardware, even in "loss leader" style. Unfortunately, we'll probably just get an A9 based 4K Apple TV this year, and then nothing at all next year.
Yeah, that would be great, I'd really like to see them go all out on the Apple TV hardware, even in "loss leader" style. Unfortunately, we'll probably just get an A9 based 4K Apple TV this year, and then nothing at all next year.
Up until now, Mac gaming hasn't been anything to write home about. However, Apple are hinting that it might change with things like Metal and support for external GPUs. I sure hope that I'll be able to get rid of my clunky desktop PC in the future in favour of an eGPU and just having my MacBook Pro as a gaming device.
Your riMac is perfectly capable of running 5K games already. Both XCom:EW and Civ V happily ran in full resolution for me. As does WoW with Metal.I just got an ad from Nvidia with a Titan in an eGPU case and was wondering if I might be able to run games in 5K on my riMac using that since it is such a spectacular display. I haven't got to the price part which might be where the concept breaks down first.
Your riMac is perfectly capable of running 5K games already. Both XCom:EW and Civ V happily ran in full resolution for me. As does WoW with Metal.
I just got an ad from Nvidia with a Titan in an eGPU case and was wondering if I might be able to run games in 5K on my riMac using that since it is such a spectacular display. I haven't got to the price part which might be where the concept breaks down first.
So yes, I can play at 5K at say low to medium settings on my retina machine, but after hearing the fan howl trying to keep it cool, I realized it was not a good idea.
Amazing game and story, keynote worthy in all aspects not like those crossy road 5 year old looking graphics. I hope they fully embrace Metal 2.
EllieFeral said:Got some news for this thread, folks -- we're working on the macOS version of BioShock Remastered, which will use Metal.
Runs 5K is probably technically correct, but when I say play a game in 5K I mean 5K, with settings on ultra with a minimum of 60 FPS.
My GTX 1080 can barely accomplish that at 4K with the twin Frozer Fans at 100%. I really need the GTX 1080 TI to max out all modern games at 60 FPS at 4K. But the difference in price if I sold my 1080 for the TI doesn't warrant doing that. I will have to wait till the GTX 1180 before the difference is worth it.
So yes, I can play at 5K at say low to medium settings on my retina machine, but after hearing the fan howl trying to keep it cool, I realized it was not a good idea.
No question that the game is about the story, but it just didn't grab me. I'm probably 1/2 done, i.e. in the Farmers Market and I just put the game down.
If you run 5K native, you can drop anti-aliasing completely.Happy thing about retina-resolution displays is that you can drop in the in-game resolution a fair bit from native and it will still look rather good. Turn those settings down to High or Medium-High (oh, the horror...), keep SS/MSAA capped at 2x (or just go with FXAA/SMAA instead), target a resolution between 1440p and 4K (maybe 1800p? Not sure what the display supports), and see how you get on. You might need to drop to a 30fps target to keep things stable...myself, I don't think that's much of a penalty. 60 fps is really nice to have, but I've never considered it essential.
I gave up on the computer gaming tweak-and-upgrade cycle about a year and a half ago. Too expensive for a hobby that only turns out four, or maybe six games a year that I'm interested in, and the little technical niggles (like stuttering in GTA 5 and Far Cry 4) just became too much of a nuisance. Bought an Xbox One on sale about a year back and I've been a happy camper since. Will probably pick up the One X when it comes out, hold onto that for a few years. I love the idea of playing games on my Mac (even if just through Bootcamp), and I love tweaking something to get it juuuuust right, but it's often been an experience that punishes as often as it rewards.