It’s high time I bought myself a proper gaming PC. Since high school, I’ve been a dedicated Mac user. Growing up, my goal was to be a filmmaker and for aspiring writer/directors, there was nothing more appealing than iMovie. That was to be my gateway to Hollywood fame and fortune. It was the program of choice in my filmmaking class and I used it to create my very first short film. Don’t ask me what it’s called because I don’t remember. Something about me being a serial killer who cleans up after a kill. I don’t know, it was rubbish, I shot it in black and white, completed it at the last minute after weeks of completely rewriting my script and I pray to whichever deity actually runs things down here that all remaining traces of that short are gone.
But that dream was the catalyst that pushed me towards being a Mac user and I’ve been one ever since. Through thick but mostly thin, I’ve stood by this incredibly boring, trillion-dollar company while pining for the experiences found on a Windows PC. Sure, after the transition to Intel I can now run many more games on my MacBook than I could before when all the big hits arrived two years after the initial release and Aspyr never dropped the fucking price on their games, but there is still so much I’ve missed out on. I wrote about this previously in my Pathfinder: Kingmaker preview, but as I learned last Friday, it’s not just CRPGs that have passed me by. I’ve missed legitimately unique experiences that most likely can’t be recreated on a console, like the one found in Total War: Three Kingdoms.
Source: Destructoid Total War: Three Kingdoms is a more tactical take on the Chinese legend