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Five Games Worth Firing Up to Show Off Your New MacBook Pro

Naraxus said:
What a hysterical article. Nobody, and I mean nobody who is even remotely serious about gaming gets anywhere near a Mac. Macs are not for gaming.
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What’s up with this attitude? Where in this article did they say “throw away your hand built gaming PC and buy a Mac!”… it is simply showing that the Mac you already own (because they’re great laptops - especially for work) can now run these games much better than before.

What’s wrong with reporting that?

Those of us that have little time for gaming but also have MBPs will appreciate that we can now play some games respectably.
 
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TSE said:
It irks me. I know it's my problem, and it's unreasonable, but it's like watching someone buy a Jeep Wrangler to drive around the city. Macs are the most sophisticated tools in the design industry, and for them to be tainted by l33t g4m3r$ obsessing over "Max FPS" just sort of weakens the brand and everything it stands for.
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That is indeed an unreasonable problem you have with others
 
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toobravetosave said:
That is indeed an unreasonable problem you have with others
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I'm free to feel how I feel though, and I understand the world isn't mine, so I'm fine with it.

I'll just sit here quietly in my corner and enjoy my ultimate MacBook Pro and Xbox Series S while you all put too much hopes and dreams into Mac ever being good at gaming when it's literally been the same story since the 90's.
 
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Contrary to the article, my M1 MacBook Air never struggled with Deus Ex on high graphics settings.
 
ellsworth said:
Games.... on a MAC? pssssha right. Everyone says you can't play games on Macs.
With that said. A handful of old games are better than no games.
I remember when War Craft, Star Craft and Quake were finally released for Apple computers. That really made my year.
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Starcraft performance is terrible under macOS, compared to Boot Camp on the same Mac. And the issue is not with FPS but resource stalls, which makes it impossible to game competitively. Blizzard isn’t simply paying attention to their macOS games.
 
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I've just had a bizarre thought....imagine if playing games was just all about having some fun and not really caring about whether or not that blade of grass looks better than machine X.

I'm going to sound well old now and I can accept that but the likes of Monty Mole was great fun and the graphics were *****! ? Yet I had hours of fun being a mining mole!!

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LOL, no, what it is saying is that you need a decked out top of the line Mac to even consider playing games on it. Really, a low end PC can run these games... you need a flagship Mac to even be able to contend?

And lets not even get into the recent debacle with WoW in which basically all Macs have been crippled due to a bug in the graphics API. Prior to the latest patch, Macs could actually run WoW. That is the state of gaming on a Mac.
 
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Chrjy said:
I've just had a bizarre thought....imagine if playing games was just all about having some fun and not really caring about whether or not that blade of grass looks better than machine X.

I'm going to sound well old now and I can accept that but the likes of Monty Mole was great fun and the graphics were *****! ? Yet I had hours of fun being a mining mole!!

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Emulator on MacBook Air lets gooooo!!!!!! ? ? Finally M1 can do something iPad cannot do.
 
I personally am glad for these test - the fact that it shows how much performance these chips can push out for games that (if you are paying attention) are for the most parts ports by Feral Interactive which I personally find does a fantastic job with what they are given (These guys have to port windows games which have their own bugs and try to work around them for Mac)

I personally don’t own a Mac for work - I prefer the OS and the ecosystem. Now a lot of my gamer friends give me crap because I am not on some custom built PC rig. Yet, I have still found hundreds of different games over the years that I enjoy.

A lot of the nay sayers in here, seem to act like they are elite - not everyone is you nor do they want to be you. I personally enjoy my i7 2018 max mini with eGPU and my 1080 monitors. It handles the games I like pretty well - even better when the development company takes the time to release a native client.

I have said it before - CCP games put out a native Mac client for EVE Online no long ago. What little free time I have had to play, it runs better than the wine client - once my computer ran hot and struggled with two clients, I can now launch all six of my accounts and my Mac mini doesn’t struggle, it doesn’t want to fry eggs or take off with its fan. The Mac players of EVE Online got this wonderful upgrade because of developers and a development company that is passionate about bringing their beautiful universe to more people and wanting to have it last more many years to come.
 
Contributing to the original topic at hand:

Manifold Garden is absolutely spectacular on the M1 Max.

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‎Manifold Garden

‎Explore a beautiful Escheresque world where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction, and falling down leads you back to where you started. Manipulate gravity to change your perspective and see the world in new ways. Master the rules of the universe and...
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All the power of M1 Max, and no games to play with. Some may argue "Mac isn't made for gaming".. but then Apple spent the time and effort to design a 32-core GPU with 64GB unified RAM, just for FCP editing?

It's up to the user whether they want to buy this $4500 machine for productivity, gaming, or a simple web-surfing? Just provide the content and let the consumers decide.

A $4500 Windows gaming rig doesn't care if it's built for gaming, rendering, photo editing, or videography. It'd chug along either way.
 
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iSayuSay said:
All the power of M1 Max, and no games to play with. Some may argue "Mac isn't made for gaming".. but then Apple spent the time and effort to design a 32-core GPU with 64GB unified RAM, just for FCP editing?

It's up to the user whether they want to buy this $4500 machine for productivity, gaming, or a simple web-surfing? Just provide the content and let the consumers decide.

A $4500 Windows gaming rig doesn't care if it's built for gaming, rendering, photo editing, or videography. It'd chug along either way.
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Are you comparing a Windows desktop to a MacOS laptop?

Because that wouldn’t be a smart thing to do.

Edit: also if the only thing that is intensive you can think of is FCP I don’t think you have anywhere near the experience to talk about what makes a 4.5k Mac worth it.
 
elmateo487 said:
Are you comparing a Windows desktop to a MacOS laptop?

Because that wouldn’t be a smart thing to do.
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M1 Max chip is very capable and power-efficient to the point it's comparable to the mainstream desktop CPU and GPU. It's nothing less than admiration for the hardware achievement.
 
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Shirasaki said:
Their announcement of abandoning StarCraft franchise tells me they are not interested in porting more games to be M1 compatible, let alone optimising them.
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WoW has been on the Mac for a very very long time. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
 
Bandaman said:
Typing things doesn't make them true, nor is there any benchmark outside of gaming to even arrive at that conclusion.
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Those same games, the Xbox Series X runs them at 4K at higher fps. So it wins.
 
UBS28 said:
Those same games, the Xbox Series X runs them at 4K at higher fps. So it wins.
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At games ... and nothing else ... on a console in which developers are purposely coding to get every bit of juice out of the console ... and using non-native shortcuts to achieve 4K resolution such as checker boarding. Please don't spout nonsense and then feel like you've won an argument that nobody was even having.
 
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