Spore

[zero]

Here's an interesting vid about a game called Spore. It's a god game that lets you control the development of a creature, starting at the single cell organism level all the way up to full size animal. You get to pick and choose what features they have, you can even mold and change your creature. Looks like it could be pretty cool.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore

It's by Maxis so it's sort of in the same vein as Sim City and the Sims, etc. Only this is like those games on crack. You once you get far enough you take your creature and start making tribes of them. After that you can build cities. And you can edit pretty much everything. Make your own buildings, etc. You can buy buildings, tools for your creations, all kinds of stuff.

Beyond this even you can start to take over other cities and eventually take over the planet. You can eventually get a flying saucer and pick up stuff from your planet, zoom out some more, and go to other planets. You can drop things you've taken from your planet to these other planets and create life on it. The more I watch this the more amazing it all is. And all the environments are generated. There aren't stock models from what I understand. And all the animations, movements, etc, are extrapolated from what you create, not much is hard-coded. The guy makes a 3 legged creature and the game figures out how it should move, eat, attack.

[Phenix]

i am going t owaste s o much of my life on that game. I watche the whol e35 minute video, and now I want that game

[zero]

I know, the more I watched it the more I couldn't believe it kept going farther and farther out. He even went to another planet by listening for life, then fought with the aliens and blew their planet up!

[Sammie]

very cool

I would definately play this game

"tens to hundreds of thousands of worlds"

*sweet

[zero]

He kept saying things about creatures, cities, and worlds created by other players. Makes me wonder if it'll online, or at the very least LAN capable.

[Sammie]

I definately got the feeling it was online

[Nebula]

wow... that games seems REALLY involved... pretty neat though.

I'll stick to B&W2 for now... great find Zero.

[Maull]

wow holy shit i am excited about this one. great find. from what i can see of the graphics it looks pretty good. the game play.... what can you say? i cant fucking wait

[JimbobSS]

Ya that game looks Fantastic, no if you were paying close attention when he said the world he was showing was from another player he said he downloaded it, and that the game is not online based.

[sylverarrow]

that does look freaking cool.. I'll have to watch the whole thing at home. Maxis for the win!!!

[Sammie]

awww crap, i really got the impression it was online. that's kind of disappointing but it still looks very cool.

[zero]

I think it is online because he said he was downloading the other world asynchronously, meaning his client pulled the other player's world at will with no intervention from the other player. And he mentioned playing against other creatures run by other players, which I would hope meant interactively.

[JimbobSS]

We shall see! whens this game due out anyway, I didn't see any dates.

[zero]

Well the description for the vid said it was at a developer's conference last year, so it's probably not even done yet, no clue on a due date.

[The_Machinist]

the info i've found is QT4 of this year. let's cross our fingers on this one guys.

[Sammie]

4th quarter of this year probably means we'll see it 2nd quater next year. or if they are like Valve, maybe 1st quarter 2010.

:p

[zero]

That's not as bad as the worst vapor-ware ever: Duke Nuken Forever. It's been in one state of production or another for almost 10 years now!

[The_Machinist]

maxis is pretty good about releasing games on time though. i'm a big fan of all of the sim games. all sim cities, all sims. they;'re great games. this one though, i am going to lose so much of my life playing this game. oh well.

[sylverarrow]

yeah maxis doesn't pull what valve or blizzard does... well yet at least.

[HHBizzle]

today

[Nebula]

holy shit dude, way to bring up a 2 year old post. lol

should have just started a new one.

you were waiting for this day just to do that, werent you.


OH

AND YOU'LL PLAY SPORE BUT NOT WoW!?

pshh... :wink:

[HHBizzle]

holy shit dude, way to bring up a 2 year old post. lol

should have just started a new one.

you were waiting for this day just to do that, werent you.


OH

AND YOU'LL PLAY SPORE BUT NOT WoW!?

pshh... :wink:



im sorrry

but you have to be


http://images39.fotki.com/v1284/photos/7/742185/3894600/icyhotstuntaz-vi.jpg




to play this game

[Nebula]

OH~!..

count me out then....

=P



on a serious note. might be cool. gonna watch Jb play it and see what I think

[Nimmy]

Crap, 49.95?.. wtf.

[McTucket]

matty bought it..

its sweet..

side note= check out sporn

spore porn lol

people made their things look like cocks and assholes or 2 people fucking... its great... just google search it!

[papa smurf]

Crap, 49.95?.. wtf. its called a torrent :lol:

[Nimmy]

Its called fake spam links. :D

[Nebula]

you're not gonna get this game on a torrent

[Nimmy]

I have a chicken breast cooking in my George Foreman grill, and for some reason instead of screams I just hear "Neb is a liar, neb is a liar." I keep telling it to shutup, but it keeps refering to some phrase that has the name "shaft" in it.

[Thunder]

Getting this game. Can't wait. Anyone want to send some money to me for my 30th?

[papa smurf]

you're not gonna get this game on a torrent ok then :cry: *takes off eyepatch, drops sword and cries*

[Nebula]

lol.

pirate on, just not in these waters =P

[papa smurf]

lol.

pirate on, just not in these waters =P why not on these waters land lubber?

[HHBizzle]

played it for a long time yesterday
got my "people" the bizzlenians
to their civilization stage
where i was conquered :(

I try again tonight, need to get to space!

[Nimmy]

This game bites.

[POOSTICK]

you're not gonna get this game on a torrent

Middlefinger and I have been playing it for over a week now (several days before it was in the stores).

got it from a torrent. -RELOADED had ripped it and put it up.

[Nebula]

yeah I was gonna take that back.

I was lead to believe the game was more online than it actually is.

Suddenly the ability to pirate becomes increasingly more possible

[Thunder]

Neb! Send a PM to Angel so you can give it to me!

[papa smurf]

Neb! Send a PM to Angel so you can give it to me! you dont know how to warez?

[Thunder]

Sure I know how.

But since Neb already paid for it and he still owes me for digging out that hamster family he can send it to me for my birthday.

Plus, I'll GLADLY put more money into Will Wright's pocket if he keeps making kick ass games like he has for the past 20 years. It's nice to not have to pay but the same principles I have for not paying to play also makes me want to pay full retail (or coupon discounted) price for game that is worth my money. If a game like Dawn of War: Soulstorm comes out I can wait until it hits the bargain bins for less than $20. I still want the people who made the game to get the message that I like it and want them to make more but I don't NEED the game to exist. So I wait until I don't have to fork over my gas bill for the month to pay for it.

[sylverarrow]

Fuck EA and their DRM!

<3 Maxis.

[HHBizzle]

fuck yo couch nigga

[Fraternalhero]

fuck yo couch nigga

well... have you seen this so called couch? do you have proof? Maybe... his couch has walken up the street and ran away...

Maybe.. you hurt the couch feelings... so now ... the couch is at ur back door :surprised waiting... *shivers*

better be careful :wink:

[papa smurf]

well... have you seen this so called couch? do you have proof? Maybe... his couch has walken up the street and ran away...

Maybe.. you hurt the couch feelings... so now ... the couch is at ur back door :surprised waiting... *shivers*

better be careful :wink: nigga fuck yo kool aid

[sylverarrow]

hahah good job frat.

[zero]

Yeah, def not going to buy this game, or Bioshock, or any other game infested with DRM, no matter how awesome it may be.

Especially anything that uses SecuRom, that piece of shit software can fuck your computer up pretty good.

[Nebula]

Thought this was interesting (especially the last line)


"There has been a small firestorm concerning the Spore Digital Rights Management system. Well Maxis has been listening and Caryl Shaw, Online Producer for Spore, sent me a note about these concerns:

Hey Spore Fans -
We wanted to let you know that we've been hearing your concerns about the online authentication mentioned earlier this week. I didn't want to head into the weekend without getting back to you with some information about how Spore is planning on using this new system.

A few things we wanted you to know:

We authenticate your game online when you install and launch it the first time.
We'll re-authenticate when a player uses online features, downloads new content or a patch for their game.
The new system means you don't have to play with the disc in your computer. And if you are like me, always losing discs, this will be a huge benefit.
You'll still be able to install and play on multiple computers.
You can play offline.
We do hope that players will play online - sharing creatures, buildings and vehicles with other players is something that is unique to Spore and one of the coolest features of the game. Every day, when I play the Creature Stage, I get to see wacky and awesome new creatures from my Buddies on the team coming over the hill at me and I can't wait to see what happens when our creative, passionate community starts sharing their creations.

I'd love to write more - but I need to get back to work. We've got a game to finish. :-)

-caryl


Personally I don't see the big deal about the online DRM, especially for a game such as Spore which all but requires you to play online and communicate regularly with EA's servers. Heck, Spore is almost an MMORPG in considering all the online content that will be available for the game once it's released.

Oh yes, and if you think EA's DRM is harsh wait until you see the new DRM that Blizzard is working on for S2 and D3...."

[Fraternalhero]

my friend is playing this.. well trying... he says he crashes all the time tho... interesting...

[Nebula]

hmm

typical IT people would tell him

turn down video settings

install latest video/sound drivers

buy new computer =P

hope he gets it workin

[Nimmy]

Mines running fine, and I just got the planet buster. If I don't like someone, I click the planet and burn the surface off the world. That pwns.

[Fraternalhero]

hmm

typical IT people would tell him

turn down video settings

install latest video/sound drivers

buy new computer =P

hope he gets it workin

lmao i'm not saying buy new computer =D he already is hounding poor girl for one... so... im not taking sides lol I think he got it working...dunno..

[Nebula]

is he running vista by any chance?

I hear vista and this game dont agree very well for some reason

just curious

[JimbobSS]

I currently own almost the entire arm of my part in the galaxy. JB's Empire FTW!! all bow to my all powerful military might!

[Unregistered]

I dunno, after 2 weeks of playing it, I'm not all that into it.

To me, its just a bad RTS.

So much the game revolves around the creation of creatures, vehicles etc., that when you strip all that out, whats left is not that great of a game.

I can see where this would have big appeal to "the sims" people who spent hours downloading and sharing wallpapers and shit..but I never got into that either.

It's creative and unique, just not my cup of tea.

[papa smurf]

I dunno, after 2 weeks of playing it, I'm not all that into it.

To me, its just a bad RTS.

So much the game revolves around the creation of creatures, vehicles etc., that when you strip all that out, whats left is not that great of a game.

I can see where this would have big appeal to "the sims" people who spent hours downloading and sharing wallpapers and shit..but I never got into that either.

It's creative and unique, just not my cup of tea. ugh? :question:

[Fraternalhero]

I dunno, after 2 weeks of playing it, I'm not all that into it.

To me, its just a bad RTS.

So much the game revolves around the creation of creatures, vehicles etc., that when you strip all that out, whats left is not that great of a game.

I can see where this would have big appeal to "the sims" people who spent hours downloading and sharing wallpapers and shit..but I never got into that either.

It's creative and unique, just not my cup of tea.


lmao well... what is their "Cup of Tea" ? We shall never know.....

[McTucket]

lmao well... what is their "Cup of Tea" ? We shall never know.....


not spore.

[MiddleFinger]

I dunno, after 2 weeks of playing it, I'm not all that into it.

To me, its just a bad RTS.

So much the game revolves around the creation of creatures, vehicles etc., that when you strip all that out, whats left is not that great of a game.

I can see where this would have big appeal to "the sims" people who spent hours downloading and sharing wallpapers and shit..but I never got into that either.

It's creative and unique, just not my cup of tea.

I think that was poostick. We were talking to Syndrome last night and he said the exact same thing. Although, I would disagree just a bit now that I've entered space travel. The game still hasn't made me go "Wow! This is friggin awesome". Although, it did make me tear down my PC and think I was having hardware issues. Something with the sound...High sound quality+my sound card = reboot loop.

[McTucket]

it reminds me of assassin's creed....

sooo much hype...

but generally a letdown.

[Vinanath Diesel]

So could we have a quick vote on Spore?
How many; "Luv IT! GET IT! GET IT NOW!"?
How many; "waste of time and money"?

[Fraternalhero]

So could we have a quick vote on Spore?
How many; "Luv IT! GET IT! GET IT NOW!"?
How many; "waste of time and money"?

haven't played it... but i say... waste of money! or does my vote count? lol

[Nimmy]

Here's my vote.

Pro: Spore is a flashy game with a good concept and wonderfully unique gameplay.

Con: The wonderfully unique gameplay isn't exactly, "in detail". Once you pass the cell stage, you pass the cell stage. Not much changes in each layer of existance. Even the ICBM's and such are pretty boring, and for some reason you have to hit a enemy base directly with a mega bomb and then still - you don't hit it half the time even tho its blowing a blast past the city.

But dropping bombs is sort of pointless, and the endless tools they have are repetative. I'd rate it up there with as much fun to play as Deer Hunter 3.

Then again it does enable you to have at least 10 wonderful hours of fun. Easily usable cheats. But if that's worth 50 dollars... you tell me.

[Thunder]

Ok, I played it for all of an hour and had a blast. But that might of been the stars in my eyes. Have a friend who got it and said that the non-space stages were pretty quick and did not have alot of depth. Seems to be the general issue everyone has. Not enough depth. The GREAT thing is this can be fixed with a content patch. As creative as the game is I think we can expect at least user created content. I still plan to get the game based on that hour of play. I've always enjoyed sandbox type games like this so it's what I'm looking for in a game.

[Vinanath Diesel]

Ok folks, I'm really intrigued by this game and would love to try it. However am loathe to shell out 50 bucks for a game with DRM in it...specially if it may turn out to be a dud. (Space Rangers II Cd is one of my fave drink coasters!) Any suggestions?

[sylverarrow]

I watched JB play for quiet sometime. Theroy is great but I wouldnt buy it.

[Vinanath Diesel]

Been playing it for 3 days now... I like it.

[Thunder]

My son and I love it. Enough for me.