Steam/gaming on a mac

[Turkish]

Anyone bother using their mac for occasional gaming? If so any opinions on mac specific titles on steam or am I better off just going the route of bootcamp or parallels + windows and getting the PC variant?

Before any of the owners of uber PC rigs decide to chime in I'm not interested on your opinion of the unduitability of a mac vs a PC build. I'm asking with the intention of occasional use and am well aware the Mac is not the best choice for gaming.

 

[Adam.]

Boot cam tbh. I've got steam on my work MBP and none of the games I have are compatible.

Only game I play on my Mac is COD4 and that's in the office with the guys when the boss is out.

 

[welshname]

Boot camp is the best way, a lot of titles aren't playable on the Mac. Although when I can't be bothered bootcamping it I'll just play Counterstrike: Source on os x

 

[Turkish]

So even titles on the mac specific section of steam wont run in OSX? If that's the case then it looks like bootcamp then.

 

[Adam.]

Yeah they do but there really isn't a great deal of them!

 

[Turkish]

I'd noticed that it was generally valve titles and a handful of others that looked more like basic ios type games. I was pretty much expecting to have go the route of parallels/bootcamp if I wanted to open my options up.

 

[welshname]

Yeah they do play on OS X but the titles are pretty rubbish to be fair.

 

[SamP]

Steam. They do some fairly decent games for OSX that run well. Portal/TF2/Left 4 Dead all come to mind. Civ 5 as well?

 

[CountryBumpkin.]

Fm2012 need I say anymore.

 

[Turkish]

Barking up the wrong tree there, I don't do kickball in any format.