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    Venture into the mysterious, Utopian underwater city of Rapture and discover what has turned it into ruin in this first-person epic.

    So, Mac Users Are Just Getting This Today...(3/10/09) How Does This Make You Feel

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    #1  Edited By mattysen
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    #2  Edited By mattysen

    Typo on C: Should be 'gaming' instead of 'gamig'

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    #3  Edited By Jolly_Lolly

    biocock? really?

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    #4  Edited By jakob187

    Makes me feel like MAC users should learn how to get a REAL gaming PC.

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    #5  Edited By mordukai

    This thread will go into the gutter real fast. 

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    #6  Edited By jeffgoldblum

    They should be glad they get anything at all.

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    #7  Edited By mattysen

    Sorry peeps it's not today, it comes out on the 7th. Oh well; pretty much the same scenario

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    #8  Edited By Hitchenson

    YO DAWG, SO I HEARD YOU LIKE MACS...

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    #9  Edited By the8bitNacho

    I have a Mac because I do absolutely zero PC gaming aside from WoW.  And also, it's awesome for school/work. 
     
    B is the only option.  Also, if you have $2,000-$3,000 to spend on an Apple computer, you probably have $300 with which to also buy a 360/PS3

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    #10  Edited By captain_clayman

    great if you have a mac pro, lol
    i don't use my mac for any heavy duty super graphics gaming.

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    #11  Edited By LordAndrew

    Good for them. They can probably run it better than I can.

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    #12  Edited By oldschool
    @Mordukai said:
    " This thread will go into the gutter real fast.  "
    Mac threads share that with Wii threads.  People who don't own it and no nothing about it always seem to have an opinion that no-one wants to hear, but, hell, they are going to tell you it anyway............ z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z ......................
     
    I have it on the 360 and if I wanted to play it on my Mac, I would have done it ages ago, on my Mac.  I played the demo on my Mac when the game was released on PC.  I just played it on my Windows side of my Mac.  My Mac ran it fine, but I didn't care enough to buy it, but got the 360 version because it was cheap.   I really don't know why they bothered to make a Mac specific version.  What would be better is when Bioshock 2 is released, it should be like Sims 3 and Spore, and run on both platforms from scratch.
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    #13  Edited By rjayb89

    F. made me laugh, so I chose that one.

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    #14  Edited By Seedofpower
    @Mordukai said:
    " This thread will go into the gutter real fast.  "
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    #15  Edited By Red

    How to games on the Mac work with only one click? 
    Do you have to hold down the bloody Apple button every time you want to alt-fire?

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    #16  Edited By BrainSpecialist

    Have a Mac Pro.
    Want to clear up a couple of things.
    1. We have right click.
    2. I have an 8800GT. It's pretty sweet.
    3. I boot camp my Mac. It becomes a gaming PC.

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    #17  Edited By oldschool
    @BrainSpecialist said:
    " Have a Mac Pro. Want to clear up a couple of things. 1. We have right click. 2. I have an 8800GT. It's pretty sweet. 3. I boot camp my Mac. It becomes a gaming PC. "
    Ignorance cleared up.  
     
    Also, I just use a Microsoft wireless mouse model 3000- on both Windows and OSX.  It is just a non issue.
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    #18  Edited By Diamond

    OMG 2K GAMES AR TRAITORS.  I WILL NEVER BY THERE GAMES AGAIN.  HOW DARE THEY BETRAY THE PLATFORMS THAT MADE THEM, PC, 360, AND PS3?  NOONE WILL TRUST THEM AGAIN HOW DUM AR THY?

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    #19  Edited By Captain_Insano

    I have a Mac Pro laptop. 
     
    Who uses Macs for gaming anyway?
     
    This Mac craps all over any PC I've ever had but the question of games never entered into the equation. That's what my 360 is for

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    #20  Edited By damnboyadvance

    \@Kombat said:

    " I have a Mac because I do absolutely zero PC gaming aside from WoW.  And also, it's awesome for school/work.  B is the only option.  Also, if you have $2,000-$3,000 to spend on an Apple computer, you probably have $300 with which to also buy a 360/PS3 "
    this
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    #21  Edited By Darniaq

    I did enjoy option C, but otherwise, who cares? Seriously, PC or Mac, if you need to experience games the moment a new one comes out, there's a better than average chance you have a PS3 or an X360 anyway.  We're a decade late for Mac vs PC, especially since it's Apple that actually dominates the >$1,000 computer market anyway, with a 91% market share.
     
    I find my aging Mac very productive, and really love Leopard. But I'm an old skool PC gamer at heart, so am part of that 9% :)

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    #22  Edited By RsistncE
    @Darniaq said:
    " I did enjoy option C, but otherwise, who cares? Seriously, PC or Mac, if you need to experience games the moment a new one comes out, there's a better than average chance you have a PS3 or an X360 anyway.  We're a decade late for Mac vs PC, especially since it's Apple that actually dominates the >$1,000 computer market anyway, with a 91% market share.  I find my aging Mac very productive, and really love Leopard. But I'm an old skool PC gamer at heart, so am part of that 9% :) "
    Those NPD numbers are EXTREMELY flawed. The vast majority of people who are going to spend over $1000 on a non-Apple made PC are power users/gamers and know enough to build their own PC. Those numbers don't take that into account because there is no way of tracking who is using a part for building a sytem from scratch or simply just upgrading any old PC. In other words that 9% is people who buy a pre-built PC that's over $1000 which no one in their right mind would do anyways.
     
    Regardless even if those numbers took into account what I say they didn't then you could also easily make the argument that it wouldn't be very hard to dominate that sector of the market if ALL your shitty computers are overprices since every hipster douche out there with too much money owns an Apple made PC.
     
    Also I find it quite funny that there are so many Apple fanboys trying to defend their system in here when no one has even made fun of them. It's like an auto-self defence mechanism and it's pretty cute. Outside of that anyone that says an Apple is better than any PC they've ever used obviously haven't ever used a PC that wasn't a pre-built one.
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    #23  Edited By RHCPfan24

    I am going to paraphrase Jolly_Lolly. Did you seriously just say "Biocock"? *insert obligatory Star Trek facepalm pic here*

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    #24  Edited By MeierTheRed

    What a shitty topic, but to answer it. I feel fine about it, already played it on my 360 and PS3.

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    #25  Edited By Darniaq
    @RsistncE said:
    The vast majority of people who are going to spend over $1000 on a non-Apple made PC are power users/gamers and know enough to build their own PC.  
    Err, isn't the point of building a gaming PC to try and get it under $1000? It's so easy to do that, especially for people on their second or third build who have some of the stuff already, that I'd think anyone spending over $1000 is either doing it for bragging rights alone or needs to be on such a bleeding edge of emerging tech their sheer (lack of) size doesn't even count as a target market.
     
    Of course the NPD numbers are going to be about pre-builts. Because that's what the Macs are too. So in the market of people will to spend that much on a PC, the vast majority of them are buying Macs.

    @RsistncE said:
    Also I find it quite funny that there are so many Apple fanboys trying to defend their system in here when no one has even made fun of them.
    I haven't seen of that 90s-era knee-jerk reaction in this thread. The only people I encounter who still have that Apple-can-do-no-wrong attitude aren't gamers anyway. Nor really the sort of clear-thinking people I like to be around :-)
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    #26  Edited By beargirl1

    biocock made me lol hard 
    SEE WHAT I DID THAR? 

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    #27  Edited By ArchScabby

    I feel stupid, because for about the last hour I thought this thread was from March 10, 2009.

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    #28  Edited By jonnyboy

    I didn't really think it but let's face it how can you not pick F with a title like that? When I start my new band our first album will be called Biocock.

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    #29  Edited By RsistncE
    @Darniaq: That's not the POINT per se, but that's the goal of someone who is on a budget. It all depends on the user. I don't know if you've heard of NCIX but they're a major computer parts retailers (along with computer based electronics in general) in BC (Canada). I worked with them for a Summer and on average I would say most people that got us to put together a system for them or order parts to build an entire system from scratch were spending around $1500. 
     
    Also again it isn't very hard for Macs to be dominating that sector when the cheapest Macbook is $1200 and the cheapest iMac is $1400 (CDN prices). Taking in consideration that most pre-built PC's are under $1000 it's no wonder that they're dominating it; there's no damn compeitition in that price range. The sad fact is most people who are buying Mac's don't care about the price, they're buying it because it's attained fad status, much like the ipod (ie. better alternatives exist and for cheaper, but the status symbol one get's from an i-etc. is why it's being bought). It's conspicuous consumption simply put.
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    #30  Edited By captain_clayman
    @Red: no dude, the standard apple mouse has a right click.
    and you can use any mouse you want.  it doesn't have to be an apple brand one.
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    #31  Edited By CL60

    B.!

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    #32  Edited By TheMustacheHero

    The mac mouse has right click, the buttons just aren't separated visually. Ignorance at it's finest.

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    #33  Edited By Geno

    Lol what do Macs have to do with video games? 

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    #34  Edited By flaminghobo

    Good for Mac users, but I'm happy with my PC/360 version.

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    #35  Edited By Darniaq
    @ArchScabby said:

    " I feel stupid, because for about the last hour I thought this thread was from March 10, 2009. "

    LOL yea, I still sometimes get tripped up by dates from my UK partners (who also put the day first, month second). And that's years into working with them. Old dogs and new tricks...
     
    @RsistncE said:

    The sad fact is most people who are buying Mac's don't care about the price, they're buying it because it's attained fad status, much like the ipod (ie. better alternatives exist and for cheaper, but the status symbol one get's from an i-etc. is why it's being bought). It's conspicuous consumption simply put. "

    I dunno about the fad status being the main reason anymore. Back a few years ago, sure. But nowadays consumers are getting pretty smart about what they want. Yea, the iPod/Tunes success has helped market the Apple label more than they ever were able to before it. But that only serves to bring people into the store. Once they're in the store though, a fully loaded Mac sells itself as a pretty complete package of never-needing-anything-else, as long as they don't want to go very deep into things of course. Your average unconditioned end-user can do almost anything they want in the iLife suite and whatever they're peddling for productivity software these days. Meanwhile, I'm not sure what Windows 7 is going to come with except for the usual amount of bloatware from whatever distributor throws crap atop whatever OEM parts they import :-)
     
    This doesn't apply to educated consumers conditioned by years of doing certain things certain ways of course. But those people generally know what they want before they buy it anyway, and are more likely to buy it online where they can get exactly what they want. I completely believe you about your NCIX anecdote; however, I'd be curious how many actual units they turn around each year. The total size of the PC games business seems to be hovering around the $2bn mark at the moment, a far cry from the total size of the video game industry, even after the deflation from last year. There just aren't that many people building uber rigs to play Crysis at SuperCrazyMode anymore, considering a chunk of the PC games business is online, and itself is from recurring fees collected for decidedly lower-tech games like WoW or even the Flash stuff.
     
    In general, I feel that while PCs are better for gaming than any Mac running Boot Camp/Parallels/whatever, and Macs are much more a niche gaming machine than PCs if someone were going to look at it just as a gaming device, this doesn't discount that "PCs vs Macs" is an irrelevant argument nowadays. It's Wii, then X360 vs PS3, then "online", then PC vs Mac.
     
    (ok, and jeezus, could this post have been any longer?)
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    #36  Edited By deadmonkeys

    Silly Mac, computer games are for PCs.

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    #37  Edited By TwoOneFive
    @jakob187 said:
    " Makes me feel like MAC users should learn how to get a REAL gaming PC. "
    obviously mac users dont give a shit. therefore if they see this theyll be like o0o0 looks neat ill buy it. 
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    #38  Edited By Addfwyn

    I laugh at people whose best argument against Macs is the old one about Macs only having one mouse-button.  I can't recall the last time I've seen a one-button mouse, and it's not like PC users keep the mouse that's bundled with their computer in any scenario anyway either. 
     
    But yes, I use a Mac, and I can game on it quite well if I feel like it, it's called Boot Camp.  That said, I barely do any computer gaming period, Mac or otherwise.  I have a console for my gaming needs.  I use my computer for work and productive tasks, therefor OSX.   The only computer gaming I really do is RTS, so I appreciate it when companies like Blizzard recognize us, because it does save us from having to reboot, but that is about it.    
     
    Since the main RTS-franchise creators (Blizzard) do native Mac client of all their games, I don't really care much about other mac releases. would be my answer.

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    #39  Edited By TheHBK

    Dude, its called and Xbox 360 or Bootcamp.  Either way, anyone can play Bioshock if they want to.

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    #40  Edited By TheGremp

    And for just a moment, everyone wondered, "Why would anyone in the right mind buy a mac?"

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    #41  Edited By HandsomeDead

    It makes me realise I'm not an idiot and separate my computing from my gaming.

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