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 May 8 2007, 01:56 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 113 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Butte County, CA Member No.: 3,836  |
Heard about the PC game called Spore? It should be coming out this Winter.
Here's one of the most in-depth articles (from 2005) and its companion movie. 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 :cyber: The official site is here: http://www.spore.com And the unofficial site is here: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/spore/ http://totalspore.com/ |
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May 8 2007, 01:29 PM
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Cybernetic Blood Mage Group: Members Posts: 3,472 Joined: 11-March 06 From: Northeastern Wyoming Member No.: 8,361 |
That is alot for any one game to live up to.
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May 8 2007, 02:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 14-January 07 From: Zurich Orbital Member No.: 10,642 |
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. |
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May 8 2007, 03:07 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
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. |
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May 9 2007, 02:00 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
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. :) |
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May 9 2007, 03:23 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Hey, as long as you're having fun you can't be playing it wrong, right? ;) |
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May 9 2007, 07:24 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
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. |
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May 12 2007, 04:20 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Do you remember SimLife? ~J |
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May 15 2007, 04:21 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
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. |
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May 19 2007, 02:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 227 |
Combines cad with sim with emergent behavior. 3 of my fave things. Bitchin. But I think I'll need a new computer...
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May 19 2007, 02:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 113 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Butte County, CA Member No.: 3,836 |
Mongoose - Can ya run Sims 2? They're gearing it for those system requirements, nothing too high end. Which might save you some $$$ :D
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May 20 2007, 04:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 227 |
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.
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