Comments on: Spore: Cell Phase Trailer & Screenshots

By: Tei

Tei — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:19 +0000

Have you guys played flOw latelly? is a f*** good game.

http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:08:18 +0000

Oh hindsight, I wish I had you then.

By: fullere10

fullere10 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:52:26 +0000

alright people, you keep complaining that Spore looks like a rip off of other games and yadda yadda yadda

but seriously, what the hell are you guys talking about? i HATE computer games, seriously hate them, however Spore has enthralled me to the point of actually buying a thousand Dollar computer, just for one game

(obviously ill find other games like Civ IV and Empire Earth, RTS games are the shit)

this game is absolutely amazing, from the creature creations to the space age. I see absolutely no reason why not to be excited for a game this complex and unique

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:29:05 +0000

I must admit the eyes are somewhat overdone it seems. Somewhere in between now and the original footage, someone went crazy in Maxis with the eyes and colour saturation (maybe they need to calibrate their monitors or something). The great problem with everything being near luminous is nothing stands out against the other, and it’s going to be migraine inducing after a couple of hours….

By: Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:17:03 +0000

That stage in the game seems the most interesting

By: Cunningbeef

Cunningbeef — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:27:57 +0000

I’m on the train the dislike of eyes. The early previews (oh GDC 05, how I pine for you) of the cell phase looked amazing in their stylized-but-fairly-realistic way.

Hoping there’ll be an option to turn them off.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:43:15 +0000

Coming late to the party – I know it’s superficial, but the eyes kinda spoil it for me.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:07:16 +0000

In that case, he entered Maxis and developed the idea of Cloud, and flOw while working there, influencing that phase of Spore. You don’t think Jenova ripped Wright’s idea for his thesis and then made a game from it, don’t you?

Who can honestly say, I don’t see them competing in terms of what they do though, so the issue is moot tbh. I just think it’s important that the course of events is clear. People are all ‘Wright ripped off fl0w’ but that’s an assumption based off of what got out the gate first, which isn’t necessarily a true reflection of events as they happened. Personally I have to be more than a little skeptical, but as I said, ultimately they are very different games in terms of what’s going on.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:02:12 +0000

Seems like there’s no love for Spore.

I haven’t seen a good (and exciting) “sim” type game for PC like Spore in ages. It’s what brought me to the PC table as a kid, and it’s really what has kept me there. FPS, RTS, even MMO, all just acronyms. Simulation is the name of the game; to me, it’s what makes PC gaming singular and unique, being the only platform capable of handling the genre effectively.

By: Acosta

Acosta — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:29:55 +0000

Spore was already well underway before he’d even finished his thesis.

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/03/pictures_of_wil.php

In that case, he entered Maxis and developed the idea of Cloud, and flOw while working there, influencing that phase of Spore. You don’t think Jenova ripped Wright’s idea for his thesis and then made a game from it, don’t you?

By: Vis

Vis — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:07:00 +0000

I want it, I really do! But they’ve annoyed me so much with the DRM thing that I don’t know if I can bear to buy it…

Am I alone in this? :p

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:00:50 +0000

I think you are getting your facts wrong. fl0w is part of the thesis Jenova did for his university, and he entered in Maxis because of that work, before creating thatgamecompany.

Spore was already well underway before he’d even finished his thesis.

http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2005/03/pictures_of_wil.php