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#1 2007-01-15 7:47 am
- ckm
- f/k/a captkevman
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[MA] Prey ??
I'm downloading the demo now from MGF (LINK). The description sounds pretty cool, and if I like the demo, it might be a pretty spiffy replacement for WoW, which I'm probably going to quit (since it's pretty much a time vampire for me).
I just wanted to put a feeler out to see if anyone else was thinking about a [MA] Prey squad/division/whatever.
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#2 2007-01-15 1:13 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
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Re: [MA] Prey ??
/meChants Gow, GoW, GoW
Seriously I don't know many around here playing it.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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#3 2007-02-02 7:46 am
- ckm
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Re: [MA] Prey ??
OK. I downloaded the demo, and it played fine on my iMac Core Duo.
I really wanted to like the game. I really did. It was made by Human Head Studios, the makers of one of my all-time favorite games, Rune. It had an interesting premise (sci-fi shooter rooted in Native American culture/spirituality), but I just couldn't get into it; at least the single-player, anyhow. It didn't leave me wanting to play the multiplayer.
I just picked up the Burning Crusade expansion for WoW, so I'll definitely be playing that again soon...but I'm jonesin' for some FPS action. I *really* miss the old [MA] UT days.
Are there any good shooters for Intel-based Macs? I've tried Battlefield 1942, but it runs like ass on my hardware.
Oh, and:
LLEVIATHANN wrote:
/meChants Gow, GoW, GoW
While GoW looks great, I'm not purchasing a console (especially from Microsoft) just to play a game. Here's hoping UT III will be ready for prime time on the Mac in the near future.
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#4 2007-02-02 6:45 pm
- Bat
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- From: Björk, Björk
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Re: [MA] Prey ??
If bets were allowed, I'd take money against. Prey's the first shooter to be ported since the drought began, the Doom 3 engine was already ported, sys reqs for UT3 will be much higher, and Unreal Engine 3 will push a number of envelopes- hell, UT2004 didn't even get proper shadow rendering until v.3369. Apple's OpenGL support isn't good enough even if Mac publishers weren't more risk-averse than ever in these Bootcamp days. The profit margin was already razor-thin, and big title = big money = big risk.
And UT3 is headed to the consoles, too.
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