Comments on: Spore Tribal Stage Screenshots

By: bethany

bethany — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:31:22 +0000

I opted out of functional legs/wings/arms and made a rolling ball, shrunk all the arms and several pairs of wings, mouth and other necessities in favor of huge cythes on the sides. It bounces!

By: RedRum

RedRum — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:37:17 +0000

You’re all wrong.

Best chocolate bar is, without doubt, the Starbar. Hard to find i’ll admit but that just makes it even more worthwhile when the peanut-butter and caramel goodness covered in chocolate finally hits the back of the throat. Mmmm

Boost second, Double Decker third I’d say…

Spore: Cant wait. Legs tho? Who needs legs, I want wings!!

By: Derek K.

Derek K. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:24:25 +0000

“Spore: Tentacles, Tentacles, Tentacles!”

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:15:53 +0000

No doubt EA will have a slew of shameless expansion packs for Spore.

“Spore: Hairy Fun Stuff Pack”

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:55:44 +0000

Chalk one up for the Boost fanclub.
Double Deckers are of course second in the hierarchy of “BEST CHOCCIE BAR”.

By: AWS

AWS — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:59:01 +0000

As a public relations professional, the poor grammar and typos in that press release make me want to cry. Whoever approved that release before it went out to media should be fired.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:53:32 +0000

GT now have a video up.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:19:06 +0000

I’ve had hands on with the creature creator and I can confirm it’s pretty hard to make a creature look furry. There are lots of different kind of skin, but little to no hair.

Expansion pack, perhaps!

By: Vollgassen

Vollgassen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:33 +0000

decent fur shaders have been around for several years now! no excuses!

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:59:45 +0000

Eh. I was initially very excited about Spore, but the more they talk about how it’s actually shaping up, the less excited I am. This whole “stages of life” business with the very hard gradations and shifts in gameplay sounds pretty rubbish, to be honest.

I’ll still give it a look when it comes out, but my hopes are no longer high. Though, to be fair, I suspect I’m not the target market. I used to really dig the various Sim titles, as well as related titles like LucasArts’ Afterlife (love that game) but as I grow older my patience for that sort of sandbox simming has all but vanished. The Sims 2 is in every way a dramatic improvement over the first, for example, but while I spent hours and hours with the original and the first expansion, I only fiddled with the sequel for a day or two before shelving it. I’ve never even really spent any time with the expansions . Though I think that’s probably just as well – EA has managed to make the process of installing them a hideous, lengthy nightmare, from what I’ve heard.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:35:26 +0000

@ Schmung: Tim Edwards has made an early belegged penis in this months PC Gamer (I would say first, but I have a feeling there are some suspicious Maxis creations out there already), aptly named the Freudian Nightmare. The lack of fur is made up for by the addition of some errant curly hairs and purple speckling to its bulging ballsack (complete with a solitary staring eye).

Is it possible to edit any of the tribal stage tools? I can’t recall there being any mention of this as much of the focus has been on creature design and making stuff at the civilisation stage, but it’d be great if you could. It’s still shaping up nicely in my eyes, even if most of the appeal currently lies with the editors.

Also, Snickers are best.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:18:02 +0000

Sim Earth was bomb shit. Perhaps nuclear annihilation will be an option in Spore? I think Will Wright should talk to the Soviet Assault guys and make it happen.

Oh, and Pearson’s Salted Nut Bars. I don’t even know if they exist outside of Colorado.