Comments on: The Right Angle? Spore Adds Cubic Planets

By: Joe Thompson

Joe Thompson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:18:16 +0000

Huh Duh Morons.It’s the Bizzaro Cube from DC Comics

By: Carbo

Carbo — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:52:56 +0000

Since Sim Ant I have enjoyed Maxis games because of the sense of free-will I get from them. Spore is no different. You have to approach the game with an attitude that this is gonna be sand box gameplay so really the level of “fun” is up to you. Spore has more positives than negatives for me so I like it.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:22:50 +0000

He guys, you must check Framsticks. Is a old game, but is real artificial life emulation.

http://www.framsticks.com/

By: Rob Lang

Rob Lang — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:31:52 +0000

The reason gamers have different views to gamer reviewers is that gamer reviewers (especially the PC Gamer tainted types here) play A LOT of games. Not just the ones they know they are going to love but even those donkeys most would avoid. Gamers get to cherry pick and tend to obsess over a few. Reviewers need to move on. Thus gamers have a comparatively narrow point of view, which is fine. We need reviewers to be experts and have a broad POV, that’s how they earn their living.

By: Thermal Ions

Thermal Ions — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:25:47 +0000

Never happen Fomorian. EA would have to hand over some money to Terry first – like they’d ever do that.

That said it’d be a hell of a lot easier to navigate around a planet surface if it was flat. So maybe cubes would be better – don’t know how it would fit in the flattened surface scanner though.

By: Fomorian

Fomorian — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:08:52 +0000

Next patch, there’ll be a disc-shaped planet on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the shell of the giant turtle.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:07:08 +0000

I wonder if they had a similar outpouring of rage when human civilisation realised the earth wasn’t flat, many, many (cubic) moons ago… :D

For my penny’s worth- I like spore, it’s fun. Creating and sharing is just as much fun, if not more than the “game” part-it’s interesting to see what people do given SDK’s, level editors and character creators. Can we not appreciate that aspect of the game as being quite useful and interesting? A streamlined way of exchanging personal content from within the game is a bonus, I feel.

@ Yhancik: awesome list sir, i salute you.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:29:24 +0000

At the end of the year we gotta make a list of the 2008 Top 10 Gamer’s Moot Points.

A list that will include the words “pirates”, “fallout”, “brown”, “WAR”, “gay rainbows” and “cubic planet”.
:D

By: ACS

ACS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:14:23 +0000

As an Angry Internet Man, I prefer my giant sentient cockbeasts in their bewinged cockships to live on round planets.

I’m taking my money and going home.

By: RC-1290'Dreadnought'

RC-1290'Dreadnought' — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:15:57 +0000

RPS FOR SALE! €2 per word!

By: Cunningbeef

Cunningbeef — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:11:14 +0000

Eh. Based on Will Wright’s ramblings (I’ve probably listened to Will talk for longer than I played spore), I’d expected a much more sciencey game. I was a little disappointed at how it turned out, but at the end of the day it’s a business and they want to make money. I doubt a pure-science version of Spore would have so much as broke even, what with how fecking long they spent developing the game.

That said, I emitted a small squeal the first time I saw a binary system, and some of the other astronomical anomalies. And I’m very glad that children will get to see them and understand how this stuff happens.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:25:20 +0000

Nick: It keeps me sweet. Or, at least, in sweeties.