Comments on: Spore: September 7th 2008

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:53:42 +0000

wooooohoooooo last post was FEBRUARY, NOW ITS 5 DAYS TO SEPTEMBER, 12 days till spore is out……!

By: KingMob

KingMob — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:58:12 +0000

Hm, the announcements for Mass Effect coming to PC and Spore finally coming out on the same day…
PC gaming is far from dead, it has metasized into a new and frightening shape.

Meanwhile… I agree with Zeno that the game will need some kind of screen for penis-and-other-naughty-bits shaped creatures…

By: Lightbulb

Lightbulb — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:53:46 +0000

I am not interested in playing the game and much as i am in how the procedural element of it will work…

The idea of a totally procedurally generated universe – even a fairly simple one as presented in SPORE is fantastic.

Just think about it:

A whole UNIVERSE generated automatically… Now if they can refine this and get it more detailed and less cartoony the possibilities are endless…

By: Zeno, Internetographer

Zeno, Internetographer — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:35:13 +0000

I really want this game to be good, but there’s just no way it can live up to all this hype. I really really wish that Spore had somehow snuck under the radar, instead of being at the top of everyone’s WANTlist for the past few years.

Not to mention that the more people that play it, the more penis-shaped creatures you’ll find. Search your heart, you know it to be true.

By: TreeFrog

TreeFrog — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:53:42 +0000

Mr. Wright is pushing a great many of my gaming buttons. Procedural generation = massive replayability! Science toys! Brian Procedural Eno Music FFS! I don’t care much about social networking normally, but I should be able to use it to drag a few non-gaming friends into playing this with me.

The bit about removing even the POSSIBILITY of competition by exploring the whole design space blew my mind. The man sounds like his head might actually explode if he doesn’t get all of these massive game design ideas out and onto paper. I mean

“[Laughs.] Oh, there are so many ideas and things to do, and so little time.”

Dude IS Willy Wonka. Only with less of the creepy moralising overtones.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:15:39 +0000

It seems to work, but it’s slow to load.. for a faster alternative, see youtube : http://www.youtube.com/results.php?search_query=spore+release+date

TreeFrog, that article is very exciting indeed. I had heard about the idea of massively single-player game, but social sporing sounds even better ;)

By: Talorc

Talorc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:37:32 +0000

Does the Gamespot embedded video not work for anyone else? I dont have a problem with any of the other embedded videos here at RPS :-(

By: TreeFrog

TreeFrog — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:25:48 +0000

I was all “meh”, and then I read MANY WORDS by Will Wright and now I’m all “WOO!”.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:38:04 +0000

@ born2expire :
You’re not alone. I’m sure we can find several aunties, monks, and a couple of New Guinea tribes who don’t give a rodent’s posterior about Spore. And those don’t even bother to comment about their uninterest on the internet.

By: born2expire

born2expire — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:00:17 +0000

am i the only person to have zero interest in this?

By: Doug Farrell

Doug Farrell — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:10:43 +0000

Okay, I was starting to believe that EA meant everything they were saying about being less diabolical, about scaling back the whole “evil empire” thing.

But releasing Spore the first week of the school year? That’s just mean.

By: Rich Powers

Rich Powers — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:27:40 +0000

I wonder what Will Wright will design post-Spore. Maybe helm a new SimCity, something he hasn’t really done since SC2k? And lord, after the embarrassment of SimCity Societies, that series could use some rejuvenating by The Man himself.