Spore 2006

When I saw the first video of Spore (6 months ago?), I was really impressed. Now the effect is much milder, I wonder when it will actually be released. Spore is certainly not the e3 highlight game.

ps. No DNF at E3 2006? Why am I not suprised

Draw distance is like 2meters, cool! This doesnt even has a great graphics so what makes this game good in middle of next-gen games?

Spore doesn't appeal to me really - just not my sorta game. This video did nothing to change that.

csharp - this game isn't being hyped for its graphics

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Draw distance is like 2meters, cool! This doesnt even has a great graphics so what makes this game good in middle of next-gen games?

"L0L R0fL tHoSe gRapHicS sUcK" :roll:

Ever heard of "gameplay" you cs kiddy? Spore is one of the most interesting game projects of all times. Will Wright is really striking a new path with that game.

cs kiddy, jeah right

I agree, Spore looks great. The graphics aren't amazing (though it still has like a year of development left), but the concept and also the variety in gameplay sound stellar; just have to hope they can balance it so that the sandboxish nature of things doesn't work against it. But this is Will Wright, so I hold some faith.

Csharp you deserve to be called a cs kiddy when you say stupid stuff like that.

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I agree, Spore looks great. The graphics aren't amazing (though it still has like a year of development left), but the concept and also the variety in gameplay sound stellar; just have to hope they can balance it so that the sandboxish nature of things doesn't work against it. But this is Will Wright, so I hold some faith.Csharp you deserve to be called a cs kiddy when you say stupid stuff like that.

More like CSS kiddy, or maybe by now its UT2007 kiddy or Crysis kiddy

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Draw distance is like 2meters, cool! This doesnt even has a great graphics so what makes this game good in middle of next-gen games?

LORD KNOWS GRAPHICS MAKE THE GAMEPLAY IN ANY GAME 1,000,000xBETTER

Ungh, come on Csharp :roll:

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"L0L R0fL tHoSe gRapHicS sUcK" :roll:

Ever heard of "gameplay" you cs kiddy?

Watch the name calling and direct attacks. Flaming is not tolerated.

Heh its funny too see this much skepticism about Spore, thought I was the only one that was showing doubt about it.

My main problem is that this sounds like an amazing experience in the first say 2-4 hours, but after that, when you reach all the strategy and the exploration of alien planets parts it starts sounding a lot less exciting to be honest.

I hope I'm wrong and it's totally awesome all the way through, but it's not nearly as interesting as it was back when they first showed it off.

Regarding the graphics I have no problems with em, sure they're not very cutting edge but they look like they're functional enough.

I want interstellar domination to be involved!

give this one a chance. I admit it could flop, but just because they are trying something new, and Wil Wright has made some good stuff before, I'm willing to give it a shot. Gameplay > graphics for something like this. Give me something cool to do that I've never done before and make it fun, and I'll by your game.

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give this one a chance. I admit it could flop, but just because they are trying something new, and Wil Wright has made some good stuff before, I'm willing to give it a shot. Gameplay > graphics for something like this. Give me something cool to do that I've never done before and make it fun, and I'll by your game.

This is the only game I'm looking forward to and I can tell you with certainty that a lot of industry folks are looking forward to it with similar eagerness.

This won't flop at all.

I bet Spore would be fun on my DS

I doubt it will flop but there is the possibility that we might be disapointed, especially if you have very high expectations (HL2 )

I think the flop odds on Spore are rather low, too...though you never know until it we see more of it. However, given what I have seen and what I know about Wil Wright, I agree that's unlikely.

But anyway, the whole concept of the procedural systems to drive gameplay is a very very cool idea. In fact, the focus on gameplay innovation over ever increasing realism in graphics actually has me more excited than anything else, I expect this to breath some innovation into the industry, and perhaps even a new type of strategy genre.

If history has proven anything in gaming, it's that when something new becomes successful it is almost always copied. Doom spawned Dark Forces which was dubbed "Star Wars Doom" at first...and then FPS becomes a genre. Etc etc... to the point of all the GTA clones still being called "GTA clones" today when in fact maybe GTA spawned a new genre called "action/driving hybrid" or "sandbox game" or "open world game" or whatever. To that point, Mercenaries was sort of dubbed a GTA knock off, but you know, I love Mercenaries about 1000 times more than any GTA game.

Spore could have the potential to create a new genre of strategy games that are more "emergent behavior".

So I dubb Spore as the first "EBG"...Emergent Behavior Game.

Can anyone think of any such game that has come before? Seriously, list em if you know em...

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I want interstellar domination to be involved!

home-made species battling it out online ftw! that would be so awesome

I thought the term sandbox games was reserved for simulation games like SimCity or SimAnts.

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"L0L R0fL tHoSe gRapHicS sUcK" :roll:

Ever heard of "gameplay" you cs kiddy? Spore is one of the most interesting game projects of all times. Will Wright is really striking a new path with that game.

keep it chill, bro