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[drabyss78]

Hi all.

Was planning on picking up a copy of this tonight, but noticed that several App store purchasers have mentioned the game crashes.  I did notice one was specific enough to mention they ran 10.7.  

Questions: Has anyone here purchased the game?  Did you purchase App store or Steam version and how does it run?  Are you running 10.7 or 10.6?
Is this mainly a Lion problem?


I am running 10.6.8 on an iMac, and obviously want a version most likely to run well.

Thanks for any help!

Jim

[Eric5h5]

Steam, 10.6.8, completed game with no crashes or glitches.

--Eric

[drabyss78]

Belatedly...

Thanks for the response.  I actually downloaded the game last night--took all night with my built in aircard!  Question: early on, how do you change direction when swinging on those poles.  They are side view and you have to flip your way to the top.  Struggling a bit here, and saw in a walkthrough you can change direction.  Did I miss this earlier??

Thanks again!!

[TG_Thakkar]

Pressing the 'F' key should do the trick.  

[bobbob]

It should even you to use the F (talk, use, etc.) key to switch direction.

[bobbob]

Costume Quest is on Steam, now, too. Get both and be happy.

[Hansi]

Win only, but I'd so buy that if it was Mac. I tried the PS3 demo and really liked it

[mindnoise]

Eric5h5, on 08 October 2011 - 09:57 AM, said:

Steam, 10.6.8, completed game with no crashes or glitches.

--Eric

Well I STARTED the game with the same specs and no complains here, also.
I am finished the first "mission" without tech problems.

[lewdvig]

I'd get the Steam version. Because it is a steamplay title you have the added bonus of the windows version in case the game runs poorly on your Mac.

The game uses Transgaming after all.

[teflon]

Definitely go with Steam. One of the major flaws with both of Apple's App Stores is that you cannot perform delta patches for apps. That means that any patch is just you downloading the entire thing again. Not so bad when you're looking at a 10-20MB twitter client or something, but a royal pain in the backside when it's a 3GB+ game. It just doesn't make much sense in that instance, as patches can just be a new binary, a lot of the time.

Steam, though, is all about Delta patches, and since it's a Steamplay title, you can download it onto a Windows machine too, and Steam does have some rather awesome sales quite regularly. Win, win, win.

[Eric5h5]

teflon, on 22 October 2011 - 12:35 PM, said:

Definitely go with Steam. One of the major flaws with both of Apple's App Stores is that you cannot perform delta patches for apps.

Third, often better choice: macgamestore.com.  Although if you insist on achievements, then Steam it is.

--Eric

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Not just achievements... but steamplay which lets you optionally download the same game in windows if you ever want to switch to that side or if you are staying over at someone's place who only has a PC. Although in my opinion it'd probably take a really crappy Mac to not be able to run this title even with the cider wrapper they used.

What makes macgamestore.com better than anything else anyway? The way I see it the only thing that is better is it helps fund this site.

Also didn't Apple recently update the Mac App store so they can do delta updates? I'm pretty sure I was hearing about this.

Also I've had Steam malfunction and I had to download more than just a delta update for some of my games sometimes especially for the left 4 dead series.

[Eric5h5]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 22 October 2011 - 04:09 PM, said:

What makes macgamestore.com better than anything else anyway?

No Steam DRM.  I don't refuse to have anything to do with Steam like some people, but not having games tied to Steam is preferable.

--Eric

[rhywun]

Steam, 10.7, works fine.  I don't necessarily like having to open the Steam app all the time (or leave it open), but the other benefits mentioned pretty much mean I will always go Steam if possible.  In fact I have recently bought a couple games on the App Store only to watch them appear on Steam a couple weeks later.  So much for instant gratification

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Eric5h5, on 22 October 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

No Steam DRM.  I don't refuse to have anything to do with Steam like some people, but not having games tied to Steam is preferable.

--Eric

OK so why exactly is it so bad anyway? Steam isn't exactly going anywhere and you can download the games as many times as you want to any of your computers (although admittedly you can only play it on one at a time unless you take it offline). I guess I could see it for ideological reasons but really is steam all that evil?   Besides some games on the MGS have to be activated with the DRM they come with anyway. [sarcasm]I don't like having games "tied" to the Mac (by buying it on a store that only offers it on the Mac especially Apple's) when I have a choice. [/sarcasm]

Yes, DRM free is preferable (especially for music) but Steam is a market leader in digital distribution for games for a reason and that reason is not because they brainwashed us.  

Also you don't have to leave your steam client open all the time unless you want to be available in the steam chat client all the time.

[Eric5h5]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 23 October 2011 - 03:59 PM, said:

OK so why exactly is it so bad anyway?

Starting the Steam app when you want to play is kind of annoying because it takes forever (at least it seems like forever, when otherwise you'd be going almost instantly).  Occasionally it glitches and won't let you play at all.  A few games have disappeared from Steam...too much control in the hands of one company. They're not being evil now, but there's no guarantee that it will stay that way....

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really is steam all that evil?

No, I bought a bunch of games on Steam.  I'm not against it.  But it's just a better experience generally to not have games tied to it.

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that reason is not because they brainwashed us.

Suuuuuuuuure.  

--Eric

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Eric5h5, on 23 October 2011 - 06:24 PM, said:

They're not being evil now, but there's no guarantee that it will stay that way....

You cherry pick stuff from posts (which is pretty irritating by the way). So so can I...

You can say the same thing for just about any company.

For example, sure the Mac platform is relatively open right now but Apple may decide to make OS X a walled garden that only allows you to run apps bought from the mac app store some day. There's no guarantee they wont.

The rest of what you said is anecdotal.... and there are probably more satisfied users not having those problems than the vocal ones who do. Any problems that I personally had where easily resolved.

[Janichsan]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 24 October 2011 - 12:09 AM, said:

The rest of what you said is anecdotal.... and there are probably more satisfied users not having those problems than the vocal ones who do.

Judging from the sheer number of crybaby threads in the Steam forums whining about problems with Steam, I have my doubts.

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Perspective my friend, the internet is like an echo chamber especially at forums. People whining at the forums qualifies as the vocal minority. How many people complain when everything is going right for them? That's right... none. So it's hard to tell exactly what percentage of people are having all those problems or even the same ones.

[the Battle Cat]

Eric5h5, on 23 October 2011 - 06:24 PM, said:

way

So you are saying there is only one way and that's it, nobody gets to decide for themselves.  That's what the notsees used to say and now look at them, they are the bad guys in all the games.