Why won't Bethesda release any of their games for OSX?

I don't understand. They mention hard core gamers and then switch the discussion to consoles. Where's the connection?

/old
//biased

Lone Stranger: [www.toyday.co.uk image 300x300]

that's more of a rimjob.....

I used to be a hardcore gamer, then I took an arrow to the right hand.

xanadian: I wanted to play Skyrim, but then I took a lightsaber in the knee.

/SW:TOR is my addiction right now
//I don't need 2 of them

Trying to figure out if it's worth getting back into MMOs for.

I'd kiss that cousin.

66dude: I used to be a hardcore gamer fapper, then I took an arrow to the right hand.

FTFY

/ambidexterity FTW

In 2 weeks my wife and kids will be going to Vietnam for three weeks to visit family. I'll be stuck at home since I have to work. By stuck at home I mean I already have a copy of Skyrim and I'll just leave the fridge open so the dogs can forage without annoying me.

Stay at home vacations can be awesome.

LandOfChocolate: Why won't Bethesda release any of their games for OSX?

Because Steve Jobs took an arrow in the knee a few months back.

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I'd kiss that cousin.

Anywhere she wanted.

The guards say "in the knee" not "to the knee". Come on people, get your meme right.

I haven't seen a meme phrase get misquoted this much since the word "they" got thrown into Rainer Wolfcastle's famous "my eyes, the goggles do nothing" line.

Also, an Elder Scrolls game for a console? But then how will you mod it?

cbackous: I've been playing alot of Zork lately, but then I took a Grue to the knee.

/go west
//open door

You awake in a field. Your sword is missing....

/good times

xanadian: I wanted to play Skyrim, but then I took a lightsaber in the knee.

/SW:TOR is my addiction right now
//I don't need 2 of them

I've found myself just treating TOR as an eight-playthrough KotOR sequel, on those grounds it's well worth the 60, 80 bucks it'll probably take to run through single-player on all eight classes. The PvP is fun, too, but has almost nothing to do with other aspects of the game and is just designed to be enjoyable instead of more required grinding for gear.

I guess the analogy I'd probably make is Nox. It's like playing Nox on a monthly fee. With lasers.

I couldn't sleep last night. After hours laying awake, I started falling into a dream. Eventually, I realized I was dreaming in Skyrim. I was still lucid enough to have changed what I was dreaming, but I just sort of gave in and went with it. Got a couple hours of sleep and I'm pretty sure I completed a quest or two.

Welcome to The Matrix. It's just a matter of time.

LandOfChocolate: Why won't Bethesda release any of their games for OSX?

You do realize that any Apple machine capable of handling Skyrim's graphics can also have windows installed on it....All you need is a copy of Windows (XP, Vista or 7, legit or otherwise). Apple has a utility called Bootcamp that will walk you through the process.

//Playing Skyrim when I reboot!

I hadn't played any of the earlier Elder Scrolls games, so I didn't think I'd like this one. My wife got it for me for Christmas even though I hadn't asked for it.

Well, I was wrong. I'm having a blast. Most games suffer greatly if you don't follow a suggested path. This game actually gets better if you ignore it.

Trance750: Twigz221:
Also, an Elder Scrolls game for a console? But then how will you mod it?

Not unless you know of any reverse engineering, otherwise a mod on a console would be almost impossible

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LandOfChocolate: Why won't Bethesda release any of their games for OSX?

Boot Camp. You'll get back what you spent on Windows by not having to buy overpriced Mac ports years after the Windows release.

"Santa gave" my son Skyrim for Christmas and he was playing it pretty hardcore over Christmas vacation until one day he got really pissed off. I asked him what was wrong and he said "I just got on and all of my gear is gone and I'm an area surrounded by aggressive guards that kill me before I get can get out." He's been playing Bioshock 2 ever since. Now I'm guessing he just did something stupid and won't admit it. I'm betting if I start playing it though, his interest will be quickly renewed.

Skyrim bah, Urban terror is the way to go and it's free.

darcsun: I couldn't sleep last night. After hours laying awake, I started falling into a dream. Eventually, I realized I was dreaming in Skyrim. I was still lucid enough to have changed what I was dreaming, but I just sort of gave in and went with it. Got a couple hours of sleep and I'm pretty sure I completed a quest or two.

Congratulations! On behalf of all the Lore nerds out there, you've achieved CHIM. Link (new window)

ferretman: In just under 2 months I have almost completed everything in the game.

/no life

In just under 2 weeks (late to the game) I finally reached my first 'arrow to the knee' guard.

/fus ro
//I don't get to play that much

Had to take a break- got it for Xmas and have been playing nonstop. Finally came up for air and lent it to my roommate for a bit while I go and prestige MW III.

Level 20 Hammer Orc, no magic whatsoever. Hammers are the best!

amindtat: "Santa gave" my son Skyrim for Christmas and he was playing it pretty hardcore over Christmas vacation until one day he got really pissed off. I asked him what was wrong and he said "I just got on and all of my gear is gone and I'm an area surrounded by aggressive guards that kill me before I get can get out." He's been playing Bioshock 2 ever since. Now I'm guessing he just did something stupid and won't admit it. I'm betting if I start playing it though, his interest will be quickly renewed.

Two possibilities:

1) He's Stealy McThiefery and got caught stealing and the guards took away all his stolen loot.

2) There's a quest where you have to let yourself get arrested and they take your gear. There's a way out of it, and you'll get your stuff back, but you have to talk to the people in the prison with you.

Players can do just about anything, from picking mushrooms to buying a house to reading books to chasing butterflies to creating their own armor. For example, Powell trained his character in magic and now likes to cast spells that enrage people to start bar fights.

Shrooms and feuds, sounds like a natural for the Smokies.

My Skyrim disk is gathering dust in my PS3. Any game where you can kill a dragon with a few blows of an axe is somehow not that exciting anymore.

/would rather see Eye of the Beholder in 1080 HD

I used to tell the best "took an arrow to the knee" jokes in the Stormcloak army, until I took a sword to the chest.

Skyrim is the ultimate poster child for games that make good teaser movies and screenshots but don't have actual gameplay. The "story" is so thin its barely noticeable.

Its really like all bethesda games after daggerfall...you wait a year for all the dlc to be released, and wait for the modders to fix all of the broken things, clean up the interface, and add variety

unfortunately its a chicken and egg thing where you have to play though the game once to learn what mods you need to make it fun, and by then you don't want to bother playing through again

IMO one of skyrim's cardinal sins is the unkillable characters, the way they should have handled it is the vital character should fall over like he is dead, but when you come back to the cell he is alive again. It isn't "realistic" but its better than being permanently in combat with this immortal mook

You know, I played the hell out of Skyrim for weeks and weeks, and then a few friends picked up Battlefield and Skyrim kind of fell by the wayside because every time I got on to play they invited me to play with them, and I did. Couple weeks ago, I got back into Skyrim, and I realized that I hadn't completed a single major questline. I was level 58 or so, most of my skills are in the 70-100 range, I've got alchemy, enchant and smithing maxed, a full set of dragon armor that makes me damn near invulnerable, own all houses, have so many alchemy ingredients that I can't carry them all even though my carry capacity is like 600, have damn near explored the whole map, and played more hours than I can count. All without finishing a major questline.

I've since finished the Main line, and the Civil war line. I've barely started the mage's and thieve's guild, and done the first couple of Dark Brotherhood quests. I hear that's the best one. Now I'm just debating if I should start a new character, or use my current guy and try to hit the level cap.

The My Little Pony Killer: darcsun: I couldn't sleep last night. After hours laying awake, I started falling into a dream. Eventually, I realized I was dreaming in Skyrim. I was still lucid enough to have changed what I was dreaming, but I just sort of gave in and went with it. Got a couple hours of sleep and I'm pretty sure I completed a quest or two.

I've had a number of dreams like that. It started with just seeing the compass overhead and the arrow over random things in dream-land, then turned into full-on conversations with Aela the Huntress.

/Helped Sven win Camilla's heart so he would be my follower
//Then married Camilla

I've "conversed" with Aela in my dreams, too.

LandOfChocolate: Why won't Bethesda release any of their games for OSX?

There are apparently working cider and wineskin wrappers that will let you run Skyrim without booting into bootcamp:

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/But considering how buggy Bethesda's windows software is, do you really want them trying OS X development?

INeedAName: xanadian: I wanted to play Skyrim, but then I took a lightsaber in the knee.

/SW:TOR is my addiction right now
//I don't need 2 of them

Trying to figure out if it's worth getting back into MMOs for.

It's a good game but if you're still burnt out on MMOs it won't suck you back in. I mean, would I rather be home playing SWTOR than sitting here at work farking? Sure. But I could just as easily fire up Skyrim or read a book - it hasn't grabbed me the way WoW did, which didn't grab me the way EQ did back in the day.

Still, if you enjoyed KOTOR, you'll like this. IMO.

cretinbob: I used to play Skyrim, but then someone made too many arrow in the knee jokes.

I played Skyrim and now I shoot people in the knee with arrows.

CognaciousThunk: /would rather see Eye of the Beholder in 1080 HD

Oh, my. That is a damn splendid idea. I saw someone made a EotB set for Neverwinter Nights but haven't tried it. Mostly because I'd rather it be 3D like the original without the overhead POV (unless there's a first-person POV that I don't remember.) Just seemed more "real" I guess.

The My Little Pony Killer: amindtat: "Santa gave" my son Skyrim for Christmas and he was playing it pretty hardcore over Christmas vacation until one day he got really pissed off. I asked him what was wrong and he said "I just got on and all of my gear is gone and I'm an area surrounded by aggressive guards that kill me before I get can get out." He's been playing Bioshock 2 ever since. Now I'm guessing he just did something stupid and won't admit it. I'm betting if I start playing it though, his interest will be quickly renewed.

He hasn't figured out that he can reload from an earlier point? Or he doesn't want to lose whatever progress he's made between then and the aggo guards?

/admit it; you took his gear

To be fair, if he kept over-riding his previous saves he may be right. Similar thing happened to me with Fallout 2 because I was trying to save HD space on my old Xbox.

And to be fair subby, Skyrim hasn't really been out that long. Hell, I got it on release and am barely into it. Mainly because I know how this game could suck me in, and I don't have a lot of time for it these days.

Hey look, a thread about Skyrim. Its a good excuse for me to post a link to the greatest skyrim mod ever.

Link

/I have it, and I laugh so hard every time
//OHHHH YEEEAAAH

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