Spore Hands-On Impressions 57
Spore is being kept locked down on the show floor, available for preview only to members of the "Best in Show" committee, but there is still some information available for the rest of us. The official Spore site is now available for your examination, including an option to sign up for a newsletter. For hands on impressions, we turn to Gamespot and Gamespy. From the Gamespy article: "The game opens within the primordial soup, which absolutely teemed with blobs and squiggles of prehistoric life. As your creature evolved into a 3D environment and swam around in the sea, the water swarmed with life: plants, bubbles, little microorganisms. That same detail carried out once your critter walked out onto the land, where tiny insects buzzed around. Outer space was cluttered with comets, meteorites, gas clouds, and all sorts of interstellar phenomenon. Visually the game is a treat, not from state-of-the-art graphics but simply from a standpoint of detail and variety." Update: 05/20 15:43 GMT by Z : Wired has an interview with Wright at the expo on the game and what it means for gaming in general.
I can't wait! (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't think it will take on the level of popularity with "non-gamers" like the Sims did. It seems a little more "geeky" than the Sims. I can't wait for this.
Re:I can't wait! (Score:1)
The obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
The concept for this game is just plain silly, there is not such thing as evolution!
Re:The obligatory (Score:1, Flamebait)
If they want to believe Monkeys didn't tur
Re:The obligatory (Score:1, Insightful)
And it is OUR chioce to mock them relentlessly for being such asshats. As for the post,it obviously ISN'T a troll because lots of people here find it funny to mock them. (hint: it's because they are dumb)
Re:The obligatory (Score:1)
weird side note: I have a compulsion to type their as thier.....I know how it is spell, but my fingers don't care....I re-typed it wrong like 3 times in this message...sigh...
Re:The obligatory (Score:2, Insightful)
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Re:The obligatory (Score:2, Informative)
Sure, so long as it's not in a science class. They tend to be more effective if you restrict the instruction to science.
So, just to recap: Faith and belief are fine, awesome even. But they're not scientific. I don't want science classes comprimised by lessons in bullshit and woo-woo, for the same reason Christians don't have guest sermons on taxonomy by Stephen Jay Gould.
This "equal time" argument from the creatio
Re:The obligatory (Score:1)
They're quite welcome to teach religion in a science lesson if that is what they want to do. It only ruins a bunch of Kansas kids' educations; there will be plenty of people from other places to fill all those jobs that require a decent level of scientific knowledge.
Re:The obligatory (Score:2)
I don't have a problem with people believing in creationism, provided they are clear that this is stems from a *religious* belief and has no scientific basis in fact. I don't have a problem with people objecting to evolution, provided their arguments are relevant
Re:The obligatory (Score:2)
Absolutely. And it's the right of posters on Slashdot, authors, major media outlets and all major non-US governments to hold that decision up to the light of day and laugh at the silly people who are so threatened by real science that they have to ban (or otherwise cripple) its teaching.
You have to admit it's kind of funny... well, unless you have the misfortune
Re:The obligatory (Score:4, Insightful)
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Damn! (Score:1)
Another game not like other games... (Score:1)
But perhaps this will be another Katomari like hit.
Either way, I'm sure it will be a blast.
I have a feeling (Score:1, Funny)
DEVO rules! (Score:1)
Maybe I ought to ask the biggest DEVO fan [boingboing.net] in the universe-- he ought to know.
Re:DEVO rules! (Score:1)
SimCity what? (Score:2)
I know they're both EA companies (Maxis and these other people), but it's still disturbing
Re:SimCity what? (Score:1)
Video games are bad enough, but a video game about evolution? Forget ever marketing it in the midwest.
Re:SimCity what? (Score:1)
That's called SimEarth (and God, was that an awful game).
Re:SimCity what? (Score:2)
Re:SimCity what? (Score:1)
I guess they took a song they already had a license too and didn't want to make a new one. It's fitting anyway.
Re:SimCity what? (Score:1)
Yay for off topicness.
Must have (Score:1)
I've sworn off "revolutionary" gaming... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I've sworn off "revolutionary" gaming... (Score:1)
Re:I've sworn off "revolutionary" gaming... (Score:2, Interesting)
What is REALLY weird is that B&W flaws didn't show up when you first played it. For the first 20 hours or so your learning the interface, how to get things done, ect....and then realize there is nothing more. The game never comes.
Spore could TOTALLY be the same way OR it could b
Re:I've sworn off "revolutionary" gaming... (Score:1)
E.V.O? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:E.V.O? (Score:1)
http://www.atari.st/view.php?id=498 [atari.st]
Re:E.V.O? (Score:2)
Saw it above, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
The only reason I am even bothering to follow this one is that it's Will Wright. C'mon, anyone who can turn out good games on a track record like his deserves some anticipation.
Just don't let him know, or he'll get caught up in the hype himself (Ahem, ahem, Fable? The entire freaking lionhead team???)
What's really so bad about hype? (Score:1)
However, I don't see hype as such a bad thing. Sure, it gets everyone's hopes up and then crushes them like a fat chick in a vat of popcorn. The good thing it does, is encourage innovation. Even if the game itself can't live up to the innovation, the ideas it puts into the gaming industry can be very valuable, even if not realized for several years.
People just need to t
Great game (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't want to evolve (Score:5, Funny)
Of course to get the full benifit of the game, my microbe army will develop thriving civilisations, with advanced technology like all those other multi-cellular organisms that think they're better than us microbes.
They will feel the wrath of our doomsday device... or maybe just a runny nose - haven't decided yet.
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-Don
Orbulus, look! (Score:2)
hrmpf
If this game is so open-ended, then how to I build my ownUnicron? [unicron.com]
man... (Score:1)
Too bad it's from EA (Score:2)
I do.
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Will Wright's Spore demo at GDC (Score:2)
The Future of Content
...and why it's driven me to procedural methods.
...And what I now plan to do with them. .html [donhopkins.com]
What I learned about content from the Sims.
Will Wright
Game Developers Conference
3/11/2005
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/WillWrightSporeDem o
"Advice: If you have a weird idea that's so outside of the box, don't forget it. You should go back and revisit your weird ideas later
Will Wright's Spore demo at GDC (Score:2)
The Future of Content
...and why it's driven me to procedural methods.
...And what I now plan to do with them. .html [donhopkins.com]
What I learned about content from the Sims.
Will Wright
Game Developers Conference
3/11/2005
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/WillWrightSporeDem o
"Advice: If you have a weird idea that's so outside of the box, don't forget it. You should go back and revisit your weird ideas late
Re:Will Wright's Spore demo at GDC (Score:2)