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Cross-Platform LAN Gaming Suggestions?

Posted by simoniker on from the living-together-in-harmony dept.

darkstar2a writes "Back in the dot.com boom years, a bunch of us would crash the empty customer service department for some fun LAN gaming. Nowadays, though, we use our own computers, and have a significant ratio of Mac users - about 55%. This has brought up a huge frustration in finding games that work cross-platform (PC and Mac), and what exactly we need to make them work. We've only been reliably able to get the following working: Unreal Tournament (but the same game can get kind of old after hours of play), 4x4 Evo 2 (which we got cheap and was a great change of pace), Descent 3 (out of print and relatively difficult to locate.) This has to have been covered somewhere, but we've been unable to locate a resource for it. Can Slashdot Games readers help?"

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  1. Ditch the Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How can ya play those games with only one mouse button anyway?

    I mean if you can find enough free PCs around the place then use those. Also ty to convince your boss you need better video cards so you can run the monitors at a higher resolution (both in 2D and *cough* 3D).

    Sweeet.

  2. Buy a fucking PC. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [pc gamer rant mode, pissed at Mac users for whom I have no sympathy when it comes to lack of software on their platform]

    Buy a fucking PC and stop it with the "I'm so artsy and better than you because I use a Mac" crap. When you get a PC you'll be able to play:

    * Battlefield 1942 (plus the excellent Desert Combat modification)
    * Planetside
    * Tribes 2
    * Counterstrike (ancient but goodie)
    * Half-Life (superb for straight-out deathmatch)
    * Half-Life 2 (when it's out and kicks ass in a few months)
    * Unreal / Quake / Doom anything ..or many other shooters among the thousands of fine videogames that you can buy for the PC.

    In conclusion: Stop whining. Anyone with a Mac is a lemming for buying into an overpriced, overhyped proprietary system that's way back from the bleeding edge when it comes to technology (just like the upcoming "64-bit" Macs can't actually run 64-bit code and will be stuck in 32-bit mode; older PC graphics cards being rebranded and resold for $100 more because it has the Apple name on the box; lack of letting companies produce Apple clones, etc, etc.)

    If you want to blame anybody - blame Apple for keeping such a tight grip on their platform that nobody can do anything interesting with it.

    Can't use a computer? Get a Mac. Want to play games? Get a PC. Think PCs are too complicated? You're buying into Apple's FUD. They aren't too complicated for millions of people. (What are you, retarded? - get a Playstation 2 or an Xbox and shut the fuck up).

    [/end rant]