Whyyyyyyyyyy must you tempt us Mac users so?
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I mean, whyyyyyyyyyy? This is torture! First Sam & Max, then Bone and Wallace & Gromit, arguably some of the most lovable properties around! And now you manage the up-until-recently thought to be impossible: release a new Monkey Island game! And as a Mac user, I am supposed to remain still, watching the action from the sidelines, not able to play?! Aaaaaarrrghmgjfkltp! And now because of this, I'm starting to have… nasty thoughts… about… No! I will resist! Saint Steve, Saint Woz, support me in this test! Help me resist the temptation! My faith will be strong! I must remember the Apple II, the Mac, the PowerPC, the iMac, Mac OS X, the MacBook, '1984', Clarus, the Finder (back in the day), Happy Mac, the rainbow logo, XCode… I must remember these icons!
So there. You've done it. You've managed to get me, an exclusively Apple user for 25 years, to consider buying a PC (oh, I know I'll give in eventually. Give me some time) as a secondary computer, (almost) single-handedly. Curse you, Telltale!
P.S. Oh, and before anyone suggests it: I swore that I would never despoil any of my Macs by installing Windows on it, so don't even think about it. Even under temptation, I still have principles.
I mean, whyyyyyyyyyy? This is torture! First Sam & Max, then Bone and Wallace & Gromit, arguably some of the most lovable properties around! And now you manage the up-until-recently thought to be impossible: release a new Monkey Island game! And as a Mac user, I am supposed to remain still, watching the action from the sidelines, not able to play?! Aaaaaarrrghmgjfkltp! And now because of this, I'm starting to have… nasty thoughts… about… No! I will resist! Saint Steve, Saint Woz, support me in this test! Help me resist the temptation! My faith will be strong! I must remember the Apple II, the Mac, the PowerPC, the iMac, Mac OS X, the MacBook, '1984', Clarus, the Finder (back in the day), Happy Mac, the rainbow logo, XCode… I must remember these icons!
So there. You've done it. You've managed to get me, an exclusively Apple user for 25 years, to consider buying a PC (oh, I know I'll give in eventually. Give me some time) as a secondary computer, (almost) single-handedly. Curse you, Telltale!
P.S. Oh, and before anyone suggests it: I swore that I would never despoil any of my Macs by installing Windows on it, so don't even think about it. Even under temptation, I still have principles.
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So there..
Now seriously, this topic is the most hilarious IT-related thing I've read so far
PS/ We are not zealots, we're just happy enjoying our computers while other people suffer using them (not every PC user of course).
If not for yourself... for Elaine.
You can always go in the bathroom and cry it out worse comes worse. That is what I do, every time I go into windows.
You chose to buy a Mac because you cared more about the man in the commercial calling you a nerd than you did about playing games. You knew what you were getting into, don't be mad because a small independent developer isn't bending over backwards because you bought the wrong tool for the job.
I'm Nimeni, and I'm a PC.
It is not as if there are no solutions for most mac users to play the game, with bootcamp and other parallel solutions. Yes, it won't run at a native resolution and performance, but it is should be really good enough for a decent mac.
Recoding the entire game to native mac language must be economical viable. Something I really doubt a small studio such as TT can afford at the moment. Not when there are demands from PC users for more more more...
Edit: just to rub it in for the fun of it...
p.s. I'm smashing, a Mac, Ubuntu and Win7 user.
LOL. You seem to feel very strongly about this! Relax, stop trolling for a minute and realize that there are people who (gasp) actually like the desktop experience OS X provides. Shocking, I know.
Hey, could be worse! We could have been really unreasonable and asked for a PS3 port, or... yeah, I guess I shouldn't be giving people ideas.
I have an iMac with a 100GB windows partition just for games: no antivirus, no firewall, no software. If something happens, I just format it and reinstall all the games :P
Page file: 1+GB
GTA 4: 15GB
There's the problem with that 20GB partition of yours... and don't even try that with Vista...
Yeah, with a Radeon 4870 hardly any Mac should have trouble playing PC games, but for the premium you pay for all those upgrades you could actually buy a good PC yourself.
Have a look at the post count for this forum and for the Sam&Max one.
There are half as many posts/threads here in 4 days as there have been for S&M since the first episode has been released.
MI is a huge hit for Telltale, and a Mac port could be profitable this time around...
At least I hope so :-)
I feel for you OP. I myself have been a no-windows guy for at least 5 years (I'm a linux user, not a mac, but still), and I had to make a small Xp partition in order to play Tales....
It hurts.
But It would have been worse not being able to play it... so It was an easy choice.
Wine people have not been able to make any of the previous telltale games playable, so I didn't even try with this one...
Just put up an xp partition on that baby and monkey around to your hearts content, xp is fast and stable (under sp3) and will run pretty much any game you can throw at it
Personaly I'm still holding out for the amiga port of CMI
Yet, it would have been nice to have a native version of the game for OS X, or just a port ( e.g. like Sims 3 ) ..
By the way, I know better than to "plead" for TTG to release a Mac version: they've decided to concentrate on the PC (and a few other platforms) and lauch with only PC and WiiWare, and I respect that; plus, doing such "pleading" is a bit meaningless: even if you show you're super-fanatic about it, you're only ever going to net them one sale, perhaps a few if you can evangelise, but nothing more. However, I hope that when they check their referrers/advertising logs, they'll see a bunch of Mac users (it's in the user-agent string) and then decide it's worth it to make a Mac version.
Ooooo... such faith! Have patience then. I think the chances is quite high that you will see a Mac version of Monkey Island before 2015.
Anything on the pact about free games? If not, try this: http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/ I'm most certain that you can run Samorost on a Mac.
I don't think it's terribly unreasonable to let a company know that you don't intend to buy their product until they make a product you can use.
Telltale has expressed interest in Mac ports for a long time now, and their reluctance to announce actual plans or do anything other than say "Yeah, it would be nice to get our stuff on all platforms..." a few times a year is troubling. Not everybody wants to get expensive, occasionally unpredictable virtualization software or boot into a different OS to play some adventure games, and I don't think they should be expected to. Even Cider ports would be better than nothing.
I played the second season of Sam & Max, all my all scumm stuff and Tales of Monkey Island on my mac. Boot camp comes free with OSX, and allows you to install Windows on a partition of your hd. You can then choose the system at boot.
Tales worked flawlessly with graphic settings on 9 and very high resolution.
I've always used pcs, and always thought that mac was expensive, good looking crap for non IT-literate people. I was wrong.
I got my first iMac 6 months ago and it's the best computer I've ever had.
After my Amiga500.
PC users don't get it: A Mac isn't a pile of hardware.
A Mac is a bundle of software.
You can't go down into your parent's basement and build a mac...I'm sorry, but you can't. They are made by apple. End of story. And that is a good thing! That means you don't have to spend hours fixing drivers, bugs, incompatible software, etc.
It's not that Mac isn't a gaming platform, as a matter of fact, many games run better on mac! It's that the market for mac is smaller, and it's not worth it for the programmers.
So before you go on about how a mac costs more for the same hardware, might I remind you...
A MAC IS NOT A PILE OF HARDWARE!!!
Quit whining, buy a cheap copy of xp on ebay and install bootcamp. Welcome to the party.
And I do not "spend hours fixing drivers, bugs, incompatible software, etc." Linux installed in about twenty minutes with generic drivers capable of recognizing almost any hardware; all my programs are open source and wonderfully crafted by people who actually use them.
My OS is a tool, not a cult.
Macs aren't known as gaming platforms. Sure you can run Linux on an Xbox 360 but it isn't designed for it either, regardless of how well it does.
You're getting it wrong. I'm a gamer, but somehow stopped a bit due to professional issues and because I switched to a MacBook with a lame X3100 graphic card.
Now, with CrossOver and the new MacBook Pro with Nvidia 9400, things are picking up fast. My next Mac (yes, because Windowz / PC is a no-way) will be surely be a good platform for games. And I don't think we need a Mac version out of it - if game developers start adopting OpenGL instead of DirectX, problem is solved.
Why are people surprised / angered when they can't get their game of choice for mac?
I'm not mad, I completely understand why this game isn't for mac. I just think that some posters in this thread don't understand the point of a mac. Sure you can get "the same hardware" for much cheaper, but you don't get OS X.
Anyway, back to the point... If it's so easy to play in crossover, why can't they use Cider to make a mac port?
Nobody's asking for Crysis or whatever on Mac. If a Mac user is a hardcore gamer, they probably have Windows installed as well. Either that or they have a lot of consoles. (I'm guilty of this one...)
However, Telltale has put themselves in the awkward situation of offering minor Mac support with Bone, then expressing dissatisfaction with how it played out yet refusing to remedy the situation themselves. Every time the issue of Mac support comes up, they don't say that they're not interested and won't do it, they don't list reasons they can't do it now, they don't commit to a time when they will do it... they merely say that they "really want to" or are "very interested" in doing so but do nothing about it. This has been happening for years now. This is what's annoying people.
With the exception of Grim Fandango, I can't recall a Lucasarts adventure title that didn't hit the Mac as well. Could be wrong on that, but still. I wish the company that inherited the crown from them would treat us at least half as well.