I need a new Mac rpg

Cuchulain82 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 10:06 AM

I'm not sure if SYM is the best place for this question, but I don't really know where else to put it. We don't have a general forum for games (only for specific titles), so if this should be somewhere else, then mods... please move it! On to the question:

Can anyone recommend a game for my computer? Here's the specs:

Mac iBook, 1.33 ghz g4 processor, 1gig ram, OS 10.4, relatively modest gaming hardware otherwise.

You see, I'm starting a new job soon at my local gym. The gym does not have internet, and the job is ridiculously boring. Basically I just sit at a desk. I took the job because I plan on getting a lot of reading done for school. However, I'm sure that I'll want to play a game or something from time to time, so I need a new game for my laptop that I can just use to kill time.

I have already played through NWN and all it's expansions as well as BGII. I haven't played SOA in two years but I still know it inside and out. I'm not a big fan of real-time stragedy games (I always get sidetracked by building aesthetically pleasing cities and have to use god-mode because I don't have any troops). Anyway... can anyone recommend a new game? I'd really like one. Thanks!

Edit: After Kipi's posts, I remembered a few other games I'd played- all the warcrafts except WoW, both Diablos, KotOR I and II, and Halo.

Kipi · #2 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 10:24 AM

What about Diablo 2? I'm pretty sure it should work on Mac as well, as I recall that there were instructions on the manual on how to install it to Mac...

Cuchulain82 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 11:02 AM

Thanks Kipi!

I played Diablo 2 through and through, but that was years ago, when it first came out. It actually isn't a bad idea, although I'd have to buy the game again. Any other ideas?

Kipi · #4 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 11:17 AM

Well, not sure if the following games work on Mac, or if there is separate versions for it, but here goes:

Fallout -series (1, 2 and Tactics)
Planescape Torment
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 & 3
SimCity series

dragon wench · #5 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 12:40 PM

I can't remember now which Macs have the new Pentium chips.. but if you have one of those you can also download Boot Camp and run pretty much any PC game you want.

Or, if you can manage WoW on it, that is designed to run on either Mac or PC.

Vicsun · #6 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dragon wench

I can't remember now which Macs have the new Pentium chips.. but if you have one of those you can also download Boot Camp and run pretty much any PC game you want.

Or, if you can manage WoW on it, that is designed to run on either Mac or PC.

G4 processors are PPC.

Cuchulain82, I'd recommend Darwinia. It's a relatively strange game, but it definitely has its moments. Other than that, Heroes of Might and Magic V is mac-compatible as are all the Civilization games.

Cuchulain82 · #7 (**permalink**) 08-14-2007, 05:19 PM

@DW

As Viscun said, I don't have a new Powermac, although I wish I did. They are pretty amazing- my roommate has one and it's a spetacular computer. I have a dinky laptop that's about two years old; it's not exactly an uber-machine.

@Viscun

I didn't know Heroes of Might and Magic was on Mac. Will my computer be able to run it (hardware- wise)?

Darwinia does look weird, but I loved ambrosia games when I was younger. I played Escape Velocity for hundreds of hours.