Comment by bsimpson
1 day ago
Deus Ex and Alice were both games I wanted to play when I was in high school, but they didn't have Mac ports.
I tried playing Alice a couple times when I got Steam in 2023, and I couldn't get into it. Tried another game from that era: Made it about halfway through Half Life 1 on a long flight and couldn't get into it either, even after I'd played Alyx.
It's wild how games that were considered state-of-the-art when we were kids can feel unplayably unpolished today.
Deus Ex absolutely had an official Mac port at the time! It worked on OS 9 as well as Classic mode in early OS X. Came out a month or so after the PC version in 2000.
I've still got an old G4 tower with a working install.
> https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3777-deus-ex
> https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/mac/562944-deus-ex/reviews/108...
Edit: Quick google suggests Alice also got ported by Aspyr (same people who did the Deus ex official mac port), released 6 months after PC version in 2001.
It is funny to go back and play some classics like that.
IIRC Quake used “a” and “d” to… turn, instead of strafe, by default. Absolute madness. Can be played without a mouse I think(?).
On the other hand, it is still very cool that you can get the bad guys to fight each other sometimes. That should be a feature in every game really.