Video of "Spore" by Will Wright

#1 I want to play this game.

#2 Yeah, its the hotness.

Bye bye artiests thoe.....

#3 Wow that is amazing best game ever possibely

#4

Quote:Bye bye artiests thoe.....

We don't have to worry about being subjected to my programmer art anymore. Wooohooooo!!!

#5 Honestly, for a technological standpoint, this game is phenominal. Awsome stuff.
However, once you get past the "oh snap" of the dynamics of the game and look at the gameplay, you can start to critically look at it as a game.

I personally have really mixed feelings about this game. From a technological standpoint, this is a hands down glorious game. Gameplay wise however, i dislike the prospect that you'll eventually lose direct control of things and only get to have subtle influences in the way your species acts and grows. This was a big reason i never liked Majesty. It is awsome at the beginning of the vid, where you directly control everything about your little guy, but as it evolves into sentience, and gets smarter and more dominant, your control shrinks untill you really only get to just go "here's this building, do whatever with it". For instance, when Will gave the guys aircraft and tried to get them to defend themselves, they instead ignored him and fled, leaving his populace for dead.
This kind of non-control in that portion of the game gives me serious doubts that i would keep playing once the game reaches that point(though once you get the UFO, you regain direct control, which makes me happier about it)

's what i think. I'll likely buy it becuase it just is too awsome not to, but i dont think i'll end up "beating" the game.
-Reno

#6 Can you even beat this game, I mean eventually what control the entire universe, from what it looks like it doesn't really have an end game, you just play until you don't want to play that race anymore and start over.

#7 "Can you even beat this game, I mean eventually what control the entire universe, from what it looks like it doesn't really have an end game, you just play until you don't want to play that race anymore and start over." That's sort of the point of the game.
Almost every game Will Write has ever made had no end. Simulators usually continue forever, they're endless. In a flight sim, you can keep flying forever. In The Sims 2, your Sims died eventually but the family lived on. In SimCity your city grew into a giant metropolis, and continued on. There is no real end goal except to create the ultimate species.

#8 Crap this is incredible!

#9 Christ. Amazing, need to get that when it is released!

#10 IMHO, personally I don't understand the hype about the game.

Although it's a major feat in terms of breath of gameplay and sheer scale of the game, it doesn't strike me as being a fun game.
Sure you build up a civilization, and entire galatic race. But would the process be fun?

I keep on thinking I'd find myself having a lot of frusturation, and spending a lot of hours to get to one stage of the game to the next. Doing the same tedious click and move in other MMORPGs like WoW I don't find that fun either. Spending a great deal of time designing and building creatures and buildings, or getting enough "money" to shop doesn't sound like much fun at all either. There's just this certain gratification from building up your race/civilization/empire that follows suit from just simply building up your character in any other RPG that seems to get weary (for me) in terms of gameplay.

I'm sure tons of people are going to absolutely go nuts for the game. But will they be having fun?

Although I'm going to get completely bashed on this, I'm only trying to show a different perspective on this game.

- Eric

#11 I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see the video. The sheer amount of code that has to be behind that, must be mind boggling.

#12 "The sheer amount of code that has to be behind that, must be mind boggling."

You took the words right out of my mouth, haha.

It looks like a really neat game, but I'm sure like all games, some people will hate it and some people will love it.So I don't really think Eric would be "bashed" as he said, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I for one love it though, well from the videos anyway. I can't wait to get my hands on this game.

#13 I would think that players who bought the game first would have an advantage over players who didn't. What if someone goes around destroying all the planets that people are trying to start on? Do they just dissappear?

I can see this growing old real fast, but if they allow for some good modification of the game (like in Sim City 4 and The Sims 2), and update the game then I think it will turn out good. Another thing, The game will die if there's a monthy damn fee. Knowing EA it's always possible though. It happened in the sims online.

#14 Cameron, he mentions several times it will be asynchronous. It just imports other players information and the AI takes over. Its actually a pretty novel way of adding a community feel without the problems you mention.

#15 The game feels great at the start but the space part of the game just feels SO big that I think its a little overwhelming. Once you become the force in the universe then there's no conflict and the game just sort of drifts on... I don't know. I might buy it.

-Peter

#16 I prtetty much agree with Eric Roberts. I think the game looks cool, but will probably get boring pretty quick. There doesn't really seem to be any real gameplay in there. It's a kind of organic sandbox with the barest gameplay goals. And in my mind not much more than a tech demo.

I think games like Oblivion who's use of realistic procedural terrain generation combined with some manual editing is far more exciting and where developers are going to get the most use out of this tech.

#17 Looks cool but almost completley boring. Looks they built a game around of a tool like Z-Brush. lol Did someone say tech demo? Your not far off in my opinion.
-Ajari-

#18 I thought two things when I watched this video: first, this is the greatest game ever made by so far it's the Titanic of games; second, if I owned it, it would probably be one of those games that I brag about and love but never play. Why the second? It's not my kind of game. Why the first? Cause it's the greatest game ever made by so far it's the Titanic of games!!! This is the Michael Jordon, the Microsoft, the Superman of games. There is this game... and other games. But it looks like a lot of work to play. I'll say this much... this is the kind of game that I would love to watch other people play.

I actually like making games more than I like playing them... so, this is the kind of game that I would make, but it's hard to get me to spend the time it obviously takes to play this game. If I wasn't interested in making games... I'd love this game.

#19 Those are all very good points.

Yes, this game will be a technological breakthrough.

Will it be a sucessful product ? Most certainly.

I really don't know why, but people love The Sims, people love Black&White. But I couldn't play neither. I actually FORCED myself to play those games. I thouhgt "People love them, I must learn to love them also", but I just couldn't make it.

When this thing is released, I'll probably have to buy a new machine to play it. I'll do that, buy the game, and leave it aside. But I'll have to try it.

#20 Yea, alot of you guys that are saying it will get boring really fast aren't part of the group that this games targeting. You more then likely don't like playing simulators and never will. You end up being too objective oriented (especially ones with a end). You want to complete the maze for the piece of cheeze, you don't want to wander through the maze thinking you might eventually get the piece of cheese.


It will be a good game and worth buying and I will more then likely get bored of it quite fast (since I'm not much of one for replay nor creative enough to make new species constantly) but for the time I play it, it will be alot of fun. I just hope it has lan or online multiplayer of sorts where you can exist in the same enviroment as friends for a coop sort of gameplay. Groups of people Vs enviroment rather then just People Vs Enviroment. I could see it as being ALOT of fun if you have small lans or you have a group of close casual gaming buds online.

What I do like the most about this game is the ability for your species to learn and also the ability for you to develop a functional society. Definitely landmarks reguardless of it being a sim.


FYI. There was a guy that commented about getting a saucer and blowing up someone elses world before they even got a chance to get going. Will said the game was asyncronous. That means while you can change other peoples worlds on your box you won't effect everyone elses box. You'll just keep getting content and still be able to blow it all up without effecting anyone else.