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See the spore video. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-394434397798392775&q=spore) Fall in love.

I mean, good god, I thought that this (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore) was hot shit, but I knew nothing. The GDC display was chump change in comparison.

I think I might start a religion, or a cult. The coming of the mesiah is Fall 2006. Prepare your system, and your souls, cause this game is gonna blow your mind into heaven.


Seriously, I find this really freakin awesome. It's basically the ultimate sandbox game, and it's name was originally going to be "SIM Everything"
But spore turned out to be much catchier.

For those not in the know and too lazy to watch the video, spore is a game being made by will wright, coming out this fall (or so Will tells us) in which you guide and evolve a single celled organism to multicellular life, to eventual life as an organism with limbs and bones and eyes, to cities, to civilizations, to space... And every ounce of it is player created!
Check out this video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4464314857469915663&q=spore) of what one fan was inspired to create from just the idea!

There's already a thriving community, and I'm preordering as soon as I can. This will be the first game I have ever preordered.

You make creatures in a system similer to working with clay, you design a skeleton and add limbs, everything is mutable, and the game figures out through algorithyms (sp?) how they should move. I've seen branching systems of six legs. I've seen awesome things.

Discuss.

Edit: More explanation about spore, from the mouth of Will Wright. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1787052479157847670&q=spore)
It is being called a "massively single player game" as other players creations are automatically downloaded to fill out the ecosystems of your planets.

Bah! Least you're getting it this year...2007 for Super Smash Bros. Brawl *sigh*

Pant-wettingly exciting. I’ve been looking forward to this for over a year now.

Nearly here... nearly here....

Yeah, this got me rediculously exited when I saw the new video from E3.

Just providing a little timeline here:
in 2005 Will Wright had an hour long presentation at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in which he detailed a game unlike the world had ever seen before. It was called spore and used "proceedural meathods" to determine from a skeleton and a body how something would move and act. This game can take nearly any skeletal framework and make it move fluidly and believably. The stuff that pixar artists took years to make can be done in minutes. Now, just recently, E3 went down, and there were a number of other presentations on spore.

It's coming out this fall, and I simply can't wait.

Wow, this looks sweet. I need to get this. Curse my laptop for probably not being good enough for this.

As a follower of Spore, I have to say it's not scheduled for a pre-2007 release. All the fall 06 info are older than the new ones saying April 2007. It sucks, I know, but there seems to be lots of issues to work out still. A friend of mine was actually invited to the E3 expo VIP room, and when he got to try the creature editor(LUCKY HIM!), it crashed.

After typing this I realize it looks like a big fat lie, but it's true.

www.gamingsteve.com

Yeah. I saw it on E3. I SO FUCKING WANT IT!

It looks neat. However, I won't buy it. It's not my kind of game. For the sort of people into the Sims, it will be awesome, but I spent about 5 hours on that game and by that point felt I had pretty much exhausted the game mechanics. I suspect Spore will fall prey to the same thing.

Hehe...

Fall prey.

...

*Eaten by large, multicellular organism designed in someone's model editor in punishment for the bad pun*

It looks neat. However, I won't buy it. It's not my kind of game. For the sort of people into the Sims, it will be awesome, but I spent about 5 hours on that game and by that point felt I had pretty much exhausted the game mechanics. I suspect Spore will fall prey to the same thing.

Hehe...

Fall prey.

...

*Eaten by large, multicellular organism designed in someone's model editor in punishment for the bad pun*

That's some harsh punishment.
*is also eaten*

I posted a thread about this last year, and I got pretty much the same responses :D

Anyhoo, I digress. I downloaded the 200 meg video from Gamespot, and I have to say...

Fucking Awesome!

This game is just going to blow my sox off. Unfortunatly, last year, Will Wright said the game would be coming out Q4 2006, but now it looks like Q1 2007...

THis game looks awesome

Unfortunately, its coming out in 3028, or something

Meh, it's being made by Peter Molyneux. I'll have to wait and see if it doesn't turn out to be crap as usual.

Meh, it's being made by Peter Molyneux. I'll have to wait and see if it doesn't turn out to be crap as usual.


Are you serious???

Black and White and Fable were great games....


BTW: SInce its possible to create ANY creatures can you recreate human beings??

My God.

Are you serious???

Black and White and Fable were great games....


BTW: SInce its possible to create ANY creatures can you recreate human beings??
Why would you want to? I'm going to make fucking orcs.

Are you serious???
Black and White and Fable were great games....
according to Molyneux. The guy is always promising the best game ever and always delivers mediocre crap.

Why would you want to? I'm going to make fucking orcs.


Hmmm...

Thats not a bad idea...

according to Molyneux. The guy is always promising the best game ever and always delivers mediocre crap.
Yep. I mean God, my eleven year old brother beat Fable in six hours. Ridiculous.

Anyone want to take bets on minimum specs? I have good odds on "Deep Thought". I never realised that it was possible for a game to look so tempting and yet so unattainable.

Anyone want to take bets on minimum specs? I have good odds on "Deep Thought". I never realised that it was possible for a game to look so tempting and yet so unattainable.
Deep Thought eh? Maybe those mice in my attic will come in handy after all.......

Why would you want to? I'm going to make fucking orcs.
I can see people spending hours trying to get perfect elven ears. Then making them super- strong, fast, etc.

I can see people spending hours trying to get perfect elven ears. Then making them super- strong, fast, etc.
Haha. Losers. I'm just going to throw a bunch of shit together and cross my figures.
Bah. The game won't even be this good, though.

Haha. Losers. I'm just going to throw a bunch of shit together and cross my figures.
Bah. The game won't even be this good, though.

Figures? I'm goning to make animals in the shape of letters. And, yanno, conquer the galaxy.

Figures? I'm goning to make animals in the shape of letters. And, yanno, conquer the galaxy.
damn it. Meant to type fingers.

Figures? I'm goning to make animals in the shape of letters. And, yanno, conquer the galaxy.
When The Letter People goes seriously, seriously wrong...

Meh, it's being made by Peter Molyneux. I'll have to wait and see if it doesn't turn out to be crap as usual.

it is NOT being made by Peter Molyneux!! why does everyone say that? it's by Will Wright and Maxis, the guys that made Sim City and the Sims. Will Wright != Molyneux.

*drool* *pant* *salivate some more* *hyperventilate*


Damn you, Will wright! You're going to amke me flunk out of school!

whoa, I'm preodering this shit

I think I will try to make a gazelle-like animal. Or a dachshund.

I can see people spending hours trying to get perfect elven ears. Then making them super- strong, fast, etc.

Oh, elven ears! Oh my...oh my.

What about a dozen mouths, four long legs, two long arms, and a neck for a head?

I'm gonna have so much fun making a race of phalluses.

What about a dozen mouths, four long legs, two long arms, and a neck for a head?
I'm imagining some kind of quadpedal sentient leech...and it scares me.

I'm imagining some kind of quadpedal sentient leech...and it scares me.

Now just add a shotgun to at least half of those mouths...

Seriously, I find this really freakin awesome. It's basically the ultimate sandbox game, and it's name was originally going to be "SIM Everything"


For those not in the know and too lazy to watch the video, spore is a game being made by will wright, coming out this fall (or so Will tells us) in which you guide and evolve a single celled organism to multicellular life, to eventual life as an organism with limbs and bones and eyes, to cities, to civilizations, to space... And every ounce of it is player created!
Check out this video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4464314857469915663&q=spore) of what one fan was inspired to create from just the idea!

There's already a thriving community, and I'm preordering as soon as I can. This will be the first game I have ever preordered.

You make creatures in a system similer to working with clay, you design a skeleton and add limbs, everything is mutable, and the game figures out through algorithyms (sp?) how they should move. I've seen branching systems of six legs. I've seen awesome things.

It is being called a "massively single player game" as other players creations are automatically downloaded to fill out the ecosystems of your planets.
That looks like a great game for sure. When and where can you preorder???

looks pretty cool. kind of like black and white with more scope and more interaction possibilities. looked a bit jerky at times but that could just have been the video. bet my laptop won't be able to run it :( .

Deep Thought eh? Maybe those mice in my attic will come in handy after all.......

Haha! I will have to make my computer better...faster...stronger...

...looks like I'll need to locate my towel for this one.

I wonder if I could make a civilization of dragons...
Hehehehe
That'd be sweet

Haha! I will have to make my computer better...faster...stronger...

...looks like I'll need to locate my towel for this one.
You mea you don't know where your towel is?!
I already have a fresh cup of tea made. Now all I need is an infinite imporbability drive and my computer should be able to play the game. That or it'll turn into some manner of crustacean.

I have been converted to this glorious game!

>.<

Need...super computer! NOW!

I will have to retire before I buy this game. I still have things to do with my life! :)

My boyfriend and I have watched just about every video going relating to Spore; it looks fantastic. He in particular is pulling his hair out cos he knows he'll have to wait at least a year before he can play it. He can't stop talking about it :)

The best bit, assuming they leave it in, will be putting your creatures online with everyone elses, and watching natural selection at work. My Gorillapotomus will kick ass. sadly not till 2007 if we're lucky.

And we can answer the age old question: If a giant vagina fought a gaint penis, which would win?

Well damn....there goes my free time for a long while when this comes out.

The best bit, assuming they leave it in, will be putting your creatures online with everyone elses, and watching natural selection at work. My Gorillapotomus will kick ass. sadly not till 2007 if we're lucky.

And we can answer the age old question: If a giant vagina fought a gaint penis, which would win?

Vagina covers penis. Vagina wins.

Classic Rock-Paper-Scissors reasoning.

And we can answer the age old question: If a giant vagina fought a gaint penis, which would win?

To paraphrase sinfest:
A boner is like a suicide bomber - once it completes its mission it is dead.

vagina wins.

I'd better get everything done that I plan to do within the next year, because when Spore arrives, I fear that I shall never leave my computer again.

My jaw hung open for the first two minutes of the video.

I

MUST

HAVE!

that video was... so. fucking. cool!

You mea you don't know where your towel is?!
I already have a fresh cup of tea made. Now all I need is an infinite imporbability drive and my computer should be able to play the game. That or it'll turn into some manner of crustacean.

That's what I'm missing...something that tastes almost exactly unlike tea.

This is going to be the best game in the history of games.

This is going to be the best game in the history of games.
Setting yourself up for disappointment. How sad.

Setting yourself up for disappointment. How sad.
Naw, that's me understating it. I came up with an idea like Spore years before it was first mentioned, so I already know how good it can be, as well as the practical limitations. I am expecting nothing more than what can be done.

Setting yourself up for disappointment. How sad.

http://mud.mm-a7.yimg.com/image/2448715677

http://mud.mm-a7.yimg.com/image/2448715677
I prefer the term cautiously optimistic.

My processor just melted after it saw the video. If it truly is THAT good, i'll upgrade my PC so I can buy that game.

I doubt it would be uber intensive.

I doubt it would be uber intensive.

Maybe not, but my computer is shite...

I'm getting a new compy this summer (with at least a gig of RAM and a 256 meg video card), so I think I'm set to play Spore when it comes out :)

I'm getting a new compy this summer (with at least a gig of RAM and a 256 meg video card), so I think I'm set to play Spore when it comes out :)

Git :p

I'll toddle along with my 256mb and 64mb graphics card...

(strikes a pose)
DAMN YOU 56k INTERNET CONNECTION! DAMN YOU TO THE LOWEST LEVELS OF HELL!
Seriously. I hate my connection.
*cries*

Edit: More explanation about spore, from the mouth of Will Wright. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1787052479157847670&q=spore)
It is being called a "massively single player game" as other players creations are automatically downloaded to fill out the ecosystems of your planets.
and Robin Williams! oh man that was fuckin hilarious!! :p :p

"this is a creature that can really kiss its own ass" :D