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Dumpshock Forums _ General Gaming _ Spore by Will Wright/MAXIS

Posted by: ShieldT May 8 2007, 01:56 AM

Heard about the PC game called Spore? It should be coming out this Winter.

Here's one of the http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595975p1.html and its http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198.

I've chosen that article/movie because it builds up and up and up, without letting you know how far it's gonna go or how deep the game is going to get...

Which is probably the best way to be introduced to the game

Let me put it this way. You start out as a hungry single-celled feeding off its environment, kind of like PacMan. As you eat, you get to upgrade your creature with different parts and you increase in size. Eventually you become a swimming creature and then move onto land, where every place is populated with animals, predator and prey. Your guy is made of modeled clay/snap on parts that change its behavior and locomotion, chosen and colored by you. Once you increase its brain size enough, it discovers fire and forms a tribe, allowing you to access the building editor and the vehicle editor (think Play-Doh on steroids) and then the scope of the game just gets bigger and bigger and bigger

The official site is here: http://www.spore.com
And the unofficial site is here: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/spore/ http://totalspore.com/

Posted by: Ravor May 8 2007, 01:29 PM

That is alot for any one game to live up to.

Posted by: cristomeyers May 8 2007, 02:35 PM

If anyone can do it, it's Will Wright.

From everything I've seen, this could be one of the greatest, most expansive games to date. Building from one celled organism to space-faring race and beyond...the possibilities are incredible.

Posted by: Moon-Hawk May 8 2007, 03:07 PM

I can see myself playing that game for hours and hours and hours and not getting past the creature building.
Build it....see how it walks.
Build it....see how it eats.
Build it....see how it swims.
Build it....etc.

Posted by: eidolon May 9 2007, 02:00 PM

That's the trouble I see with me and this game. I rarely have time to run around hacking up some monsters these days. While this game really interests me, I just don't see putting that kind of time into a video game.

I may still buy it, if only to build critters over and over.

Posted by: Moon-Hawk May 9 2007, 03:23 PM

QUOTE (eidolon)

I may still buy it, if only to build critters over and over.

Hey, as long as you're having fun you can't be playing it wrong, right?

Posted by: Lindt May 9 2007, 07:24 PM

Thankfully the community at large has been very kind, with a lot of "No problem on the delays Will, we can wait 'Till its Done".
I have been keeping tabs on this since E3 last year.

Posted by: Kagetenshi May 12 2007, 04:20 PM

QUOTE (cristomeyers)

Do you remember SimLife?

~J

Posted by: Moon-Hawk May 15 2007, 04:21 PM

QUOTE (Kagetenshi @ May 12 2007, 11:20 AM)

Do you remember SimLife?

~J

Yes. This is basically the same concept of SimLife, but I think it's going to be better this time around.
I like the idea of focusing on a single species, rather than SimLife's approach of, "Aw, my dudes all died off... wait, the Trichordates are inheriting the planet!? WTF!?"
SimLife was on the right track towards being a really cool model for an evolving planet. Spore, OTOH, will hopefully be a more fun game, rather than working towards being a better evolutionary model.

edit: Wait, am I confusing SimLife and SimEarth? I've played both games, but now I'm all confused. I'm thinking of SimEarth, I think.
SimLife was similar, though. More tinkering with the genetics of each creature, IIRC. Oops.

Posted by: Mongoose May 19 2007, 02:10 AM

Combines cad with sim with emergent behavior. 3 of my fave things. Bitchin. But I think I'll need a new computer...

Posted by: ShieldT May 19 2007, 02:53 AM

Mongoose - Can ya run Sims 2? They're gearing it for those system requirements, nothing too high end. Which might save you some $$$

Posted by: Mongoose May 20 2007, 04:57 PM

I probably could run sims2, yeah. Though I really need to re-install win98 (or something better) and get a new HD. Mine has bad sectors, and findfast goes into a noisy ass loop every time it runs. Plus I need more ram - 128mb sucks. Oh, and a cd player that actually works, so I can install software that comes on CDs, instead of down my cable.