Would love a good FPS

ilesal

After my Son was born in August I have had little time for gaming so sold my PS3.
If only I could get a few good FPS with online multiplayer like Black Ops. Would look super good on the Retina, I do not want to dual boot with Windows.

brownlee

Are you willing to install Windows to Boot Camp? That would open your options substantially.

iSmHi

Get steam..

zanegentry

I agree with iSmHi. Steam offers awesome games that work straight on the Mac platform plus you can jam with the community of established gamers who play many of the same games on the PC. There is nothing quite as rewarding as pwning a PC gamer.

Soundcloud Forwardslash GenthenaZero

Retina would not look much better tbh. Mac supports it through Aqua and Quartz Extreme, which are two engines that make up your interface, games dig a lot deeper into the system, so your game would still just see your display like a non-retina screen and play games at an old resolution.

You probably want it that way anyway, playing Black Ops at retina detail online would probably make Black Ops very laggy, you don't see that kind of detail level much in Windowsland, and Black Ops likely isn't very well optimised for it... not to mention Blops 2880x1800 maxed out would fry my gaming PC so it would definitely melt your Mac.


Having said that, get Steam! Get Team Fortress 2 for free and see if it runs in retina! If it does, I'll be first in line when the Retina Screens arrive in Cinema Displays! :D

ilesal

I would not want to run Windows on my Mac...but out of interest does steam store games on local HDD or can you run off external drive?

TheNickSalazar

I'd recommend getting Counter Strike: Global Offensive when it launches in August. It's a great competitive multiplayer FPS franchise.

bowbe

ilesal said:

I would not want to run Windows on my Mac...but out of interest does steam store games on local HDD or can you run off external drive?

IIRC, It stores everything locally in your user Library.
I agree with the CS:GO rec, released today and plays well on my MBP.