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Washac

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Hi

Sorry if you thought this was going to be a list of games.

I like playing RPGs Older ones can in my book be the better ones
on occasions so what I would like to know are peoples thoughts on
what RPGs I could try in Parallels.
Yes I know Games people run Bootcamp but I really do not want to take
that road unless I really have to.

So I am running Parallels 7/Windows 7 64bit on my MacPro (specs below)
and would like some recommendations for RPGS I could try.

I like the dungeon crawler type ones, but any pointers would be good.

Thanks for reading.
 

Thanks but out of all the wine skin games I have tried most run really really
badly with glitches and lock ups and are laggy.

What happens with skins and wraps I believe is that the person who makes it, makes
it to run on their system, when somebody else tries to run it if their system is not the same
or quite the same then the skin/wrap does not function correctly.
 
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Have you tried Torchlight, its very diablo like and its native to mac, try it out on steam of course steam still has stability issues but there not bad. Also binding of Issac is another one but its more of a rougelike, its fun but kind of messed up. Both don't require any windows and if you don't mind me asking, why do you not want bootcamp on your mac, you can always install it on an external hard drive, just use Carbon copy clone to clone the basics of Snow leopard to the external hard drive and install windows on that.
 
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What graphics do you have in your Mac Pro?

Gothic II is available for $9 on Gog:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/gothic_2_gold_edition

I've not tested it in parallels, but it's from 2004 so it should run well.
In my opinion it's perhaps the best RPG ever made, but it's hard and controls are a bit strange so it takes an hour or so to get used to.

Torchlight is also good and mac native.

Dungeon Siege I is also a great game, but have issues on 64-bit Win7, so unless you have access to a XP installation I'd stay away.
 
What graphics do you have in your Mac Pro?

Gothic II is available for $9 on Gog:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/gothic_2_gold_edition

I've not tested it in parallels, but it's from 2004 so it should run well.
In my opinion it's perhaps the best RPG ever made, but it's hard and controls are a bit strange so it takes an hour or so to get used to.

Torchlight is also good and mac native.

Dungeon Siege I is also a great game, but have issues on 64-bit Win7, so unless you have access to a XP installation I'd stay away.

Graphics card is - ATI Radeon HD4870
 
Wineskin can be made to run good. Some much older versions had more problems than more recent ones.

There are tons of good old DOS RPGs I love that run with DOSBox great too.
 
some of the best older RPG games in my book are the Baldurs gate series. You can play them natively on mac os x now thanks to GemRB.

you can play any of the infinity engine games this way. unfortunately its a bit of a pain to setup and you of course need the original game data (you can get them cheap on gog.com though)

direct link to gemrb downloads

they actually have a version for iPad/iPhone (or android) as well!
 
Thanks for the replies.

Since posting this I found on my shelves amongst loads of other stuff a copy of Dungeon Siege 1 for the Mac, forgot I had it, I know I had never played it, think I loaded it once years ago but my mac of the time was not upto playing it.

Quite enjoying it so far :)

Going to download the GemRB thing as well.
 
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