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    Image of diagorus diagorus
    10/02/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    When its released on DVD/BluRay will I be able to play it on more than one system?
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    Image of DarkWolf7 DarkWolf7
    10/02/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    So.... the big question is, how can you go about making a 120 minute movie about a single cell organism that evolves into a space-traveling penis monster?

    Will Ron Jeremy get a role in said movie...?
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    thespyderboy promoted this comment Edited by DarkWolf7 at 10/02/09 6:38 AM DarkWolf7 was starred DarkWolf7 was unstarred
    Image of Tanneseph Tanneseph
    10/02/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    I swear, for every 100 videogame movie deals I hear made, only 1 ever hits the screen.

    And that one is really awful.

    I wonder why I bother to read movie deal stories, sometimes.
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    thespyderboy promoted this comment Tanneseph was starred Tanneseph was unstarred
    Image of Twik63 Twik63
    10/01/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    maybe a documentary on the game itself? idk how a real movie could possibly work.
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    Sarcasmancer promoted this comment Twik63 was starred Twik63 was unstarred
    Image of Sarcasmancer Sarcasmancer
    10/01/09

    @Twik63: From what I understand, Spore under performed when it was released. I think EA is hoping that a kid-friendly flick (something along the lines of Shrek or Ice Age) will help build an audience for the IP.
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    Edited by Sarcasmancer at 10/01/09 11:32 PM Sarcasmancer was starred Sarcasmancer was unstarred
    Image of Gruntybreath Gruntybreath
    10/01/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    Slated for release in 2026...
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10/01/09

    @Gruntybreath: It will also be incredibly ambitious but fall apart in the execution.
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    OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was starred OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was unstarred
    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10/01/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    Hooray! Talking penis monsters!
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    OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was starred OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear was unstarred
    Image of Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh
    10/01/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    Rosie O'Donnell in the lead role according to that screenshot.
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    Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh was starred Sobersean: aka Doctor Aquafresh was unstarred
    Image of (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD
    10/01/09

    @Sobersean: Rosie is not that sexy :P
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    Michael Dukakis promoted this comment (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD was starred (DEAD) Goldwings - Remembered for his bravery and heroism... xD was unstarred
    Image of glardchia glardchia
    10/01/09

    In reply to EA Finds a Home for Spore Movie Project
    Things to do:
    1. Create game based on evolution - CHECK
    2. Create movie based on that game - CHECK
    3. Piss off radical creationists - IN PROGRESS
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    Image of syafiqjabar of Mars syafiqjabar of Mars
    10/01/09

    @glardchia: Weird enough, creationist does not care for Spore at all. (Anti-Spore website was an elaborate Rickroll). Will Wright said some of his his fellow atheists (that he described as "militant") complained about the games use of religion from the tribal stage onwards.
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    diagorus promoted this comment syafiqjabar of Mars was starred syafiqjabar of Mars was unstarred
    Image of diagorus diagorus
    10/02/09

    @syafiqjabar of Mars: As an atheist I had more complaints about the cell stage lasting for 5 minutes, the draconian drm, and the all around terrible gameplay.

    I'm still trying to figure out exactly what a "militant" atheist is. Writing books and debating in universities is militant?
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    diagorus was starred diagorus was unstarred
    Image of Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
    08/29/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    The man screwed up Spore, a game that Maxis really needed to do well and develop the type of community around it that Sims had and he shat all over a system that EA is making multi-millions of dollars off of.

    GEE I WONDER WHY HE GOT LAID OFF GUYZ.
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    Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. was starred Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. was unstarred
    Image of DaveKap DaveKap
    08/29/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    Hecker announced on his personal site his follow up project, an indie game called SpyParty, which he describes as "a very different multiplayer espionage game" that apparently offers a level of excitement on par with ski jumping away from massive explosions.

    No go back and look. He says it is less ski-jumping away from explosions and more about classy espionage spies.
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    Image of anduin1 anduin1
    08/28/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    He deserves it, he was complicit in what happened to spore, possibly one of the most overhyped games in HISTORY only behind Daikatana. He deserves to think long and hard about what he needs to do in his life.
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    Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment anduin1 was starred anduin1 was unstarred
    Image of Lezard Lezard
    08/28/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    Well, this is one guy that won't be getting a job at Nintendo any time soon. I feel sorry for him for losing his job, but he probably burned a few bridges while he was still employed.
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    Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment Lezard was starred Lezard was unstarred
    Image of Yetanotheruninspiredscreename Yetanotheruninspiredscreename
    08/28/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    Hey people want to know who dumbed down spore and got rid of all the cool stuff Will was talking about in earlier videos shown off?

    It was Chris Hecker.

    [forum.spore.com]

    "Chris Hecker was having strong misgivings about how appealing all this hard science would be to the wider world. "I was the founding member of the 'cute' team," he says with pride. "Ocean [Quigley, Spore's art director] and Will were really the founding members of the 'science' team. Ocean would make the cell game look exactly like a petri dish with all these to-scale animals and Will would say, 'That's the greatest thing I've ever seen!' and some of us were thinking, 'I'm not sure about that.'"
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    Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians. promoted this comment Yetanotheruninspiredscreename was starred Yetanotheruninspiredscreename was unstarred
    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    08/28/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    Aw, I was expecting a long tirade on how EA is "a piece of shit" now that he was laid off. He has disappointed :(
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    Image of MasterOmega MasterOmega
    08/28/09

    In reply to Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker
    I can sum up everybody that has gotten laid off in the last year in the game industry...they actually know what the F**k they are doing and get paid a halfway decent wage. It's the same with every single layoff..they are cutting the legs out from under the talent that makes enough to actually support their family, and keeps a bunch of intern amatuers on staff because they work for peanuts.

    Good thing about all this, is that hopefullly....just hopefully, these people that get laid off and do like Chris and start their own game devs, smaller so they don't have to deal with jokers like EA and Activision. Benefits: Keep a small staff, keep a focused game, watch the overhead...oh yeah, and just make great, passionate games.
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    nipsen promoted this comment MasterOmega was starred MasterOmega was unstarred
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