<![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Hookers, they needed to see real-life examples and well... They called John Romero, and next thing you know *COUGH* it's a party...

GOLD5

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> okay... this does sound awesome..

and @Bovius: ...i think i SHOULD be able to beat you... i'm thinking i could make one in 20-30 minutes.

joelface

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @thekoopatrooper:
Now taking bets on how long it will take after release before the race of giant shuffling male genitalia becomes publicly available. Maximum bet is at 1 hour, which is about when I'll finish mine. Entries that don't use testes as legs will be disqualified.

Bovius

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I'm still looking forward to it. And I'm glad he's putting time into the interface like that because most of his games I looked at, decided I didn't want to cram for a week to learn them, and moved on to others instead.

fuchikoma

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Hey, if this game pulls a Valve, the delay is forgiven.

Rebochan

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Kirbytheslayer: Awkward Phrase:

Streets of SimCity?

Ignatius

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> God I hope this game is good. I really mean that. I've been latching onto Spore updates like a dog to a leg.

But I keep getting this bad feeling about the game. I'm not quite sure what it is, I just can't shape the feeling that it's going to suck at launch. We all love innovation, but when titles try to be too innovative all at once, the final project is often uneven. Name ANY "big" game from the last 3 years, and how many of them tried to reinvent the wheel like Spore is doing? BioShock is System Shock 2.0, Portal is a FPS without guns, WoW is an EQ/D2 hybrid, Guitar Hero is GuitarFreaks with American/British rock, so on and so forth. I'm not saying that any of these games are bad, I just recognize that they are, in many ways, incrementally innovative. I can't help shake the feeling that Maxis has bitten off more than it can chew. Wright may be smart and all, but the Spore team is much larger than Wright.

thenino85

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @BornToFlail:
And what is wrong with this exactly? :)

KnightRider

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> My question is about kids playing in a universe surrounded by planets with all different kinds of penis creatures running around. Spore steps into this internet realm, and we all know rule 34 of the internet.

thekoopatrooper

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Well, my hype for this game has come back to me. I want it bad!

Irenicus-the one and only

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Morberis:
It is precisely for this reason that I am unexcited about Spore. :\ It would have been nice to play this on the Wii or 360, but the more we learn about it, the more I realize that it's "PC or Bust" with this title. And I was happy to move on from the woes of PC gaming ages ago.

Mind you, I ought to have the tech specs to play this game; it's just that I don't want to have to worry about those sorts of things anymore.

ryohazuki

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @baccardi84: I can't wait to hear this one. I'm a huge Pokemon fan but I know the absurdities...

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @comedy: but you don't get to make your own creatures in those games.
In wow, you kind of can. but not with the creativity you can input in this game.
Basically this game's big point is the editor.

Waka in Japan

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @comedy: Well damn, I guess I better get my pre-order money back.

Reuptake

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @baccardi84: oh, and pokemon diamond. game i've played a lot.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @baccardi84: i've played it, i know what i'm talking about.
actually, if you're not up for age of empires but wouldn't mind a taster then this game will be good. but if you want some depth then you soon find that just as it's getting good it's over.
admittedly i haven't played much of stage 5 - which had some real potential.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @comedy: you can take that attitude towards any game. you pick a game and i'll make it sound silly. go

baccardi84

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> After watching some of the videos of the creature editor and the MMO style content sharing, how is EA not concerned that there will be hundreds of thousands of planets populated with walking penis societies??

BornToFlail

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Too bad they made it sooooo damn ugly, with its way-too-vivid colors, plastic-y feel and looks. I prefered the 2006 previews, which, though less technologically advanced, had alot more style...

exeprime

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Well, lets all hope the wait was worth it

SumDum_Guy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> this game isn't all that. basically it's a collection of other games watered down:
phase 1 is flow but less interesting
phase 2 is wow but less interesting
phase 3 is settlers/age of empires but less interesting
phase 4 is civilization but less interesting
phase 5 is elite but less interesting

honestly. take phase 4 as an example, you're tasked with taking over your planet, you get a 'city' as your stronghold - ok, so the units you can buy? light tank, medium tank and defensive turret, 1 plane and 1 boat type. the good part about it is that you can edit your units to be however you like - oddly enough you can edit them with time paused so you could be in a fight and decide your units are a bit weak, so you just pop open the editor and give them more guns...

anyway, it's looking decidedly last gen and there's no real coherence. also the point in doing well in phase 1 is completely spoiled by the fact that phase 2 doesn't care how well you did. and so on in fact.

comedy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @JojoTheSlayer: the hardcore don't matter for this game. the sims sold close to 100 million units (greatest selling game of all time), and it wasnt made for the hardcore. Spore is in this vein, as Maxis/EA are trying to re-create a 100 million plus franchise.

baccardi84

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @RickyTV: This is off-topic, but your avatar is the same design as my favorite shirt. Awesome.

Sorry, everyone else, for the off-topic-ness.

Cathaoir

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Cola82: If Will Wright had a history of "hit or miss" games, I'd be concerned. I'm not concerned.

Reuptake

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> This is likely one of the most ambitious games to come out. I've been slavering over it for a long time now. I'm so glad it's actually, you know, coming out. That it will exist.

But it has a lot of potential to suck. I'm terrified of that chance.

Cola82

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Spore, eh? Spore, like mold. Mold, like what's grown over what has now become the fuzzy, sketchy, once ripe and full or delicious promise fruit that was borne of Will Wright's head like a hundred millenia ago.

Still... I guess mold won't kill me if I decide to eat it...

BambooCactus

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Will Wright is better than Santa Claus.

I love this quote: Recapturing that magic where come up to the computer, and in ten or twenty mouse clicks you've done something that really surprises you, that you didn't think you could do or the computer could do, but really the credit comes back to yourself, that "Wow, I didn't know I was so good at building cities or designing space ships or whatever." In some sense, it's a self esteem generator. You should go up to the computer, and you should walk away thinking, "Wow, I didn't know I was so good at that."

robotplague

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> "...keeping it very accessible to players..."

That usually means dumbing it down.
Like BioShock and, from the looks of it, Age of Conan (MMO) the games where economical wise to complex for the average/mediocre gamer. Which would mean it would sell less. Dumb down game = more buyers.

Just look at console history contra pc, where back in the day you had to have some brains just to get some games to start (Ref: Dos QuickMem, 4MB ram etc stuff.). While console dumb down everything pc had complex games, which they still do, but to allot less degree, apart from some niche game types like TBS (Turned based Strategy).

A sad fact of the games today, I think.
Spore could still be entertaining doh, dont get me wrong, but "The everything" of what hardcore gamers hope?

Am not to sure on that tbh...

JojoTheSlayer

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> After reading the interview and watching the video posted above, all I can say is "wow."

titletk

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Ive said before, like 20 times, Gods gift to man.

Ra is on House

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I never lost faith or hope in Will Wright or Spore. There are going to be so many nuanced, subtle little joyous things in this game that we don't even know about yet. I'm really looking forward to this year's E3, and the torrent of information that's going to be coming out over the next several weeks and months.

Like The Sims franchise, this game won't be for everyone, but I bet it'll have an even broader appeal than The Sims (which is gigantic), and it looks like it has something for everyone.

Hell, I'll probably spend two hours just using a tractor beam to fling my citizens into orbit alone.

Reuptake

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> This game is gonna be soooo epic, it's amazing.

RickyTV

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> This game will own the universe.

And it will show why PC gaming is, and will forever be, the best platform.

You all complain when games are released that have problems, holes, issues, etc, and then you bitch when a game gets pushed back a lot so it can be done the right way.

Bottom line: You're impossible to please, and your comments don't mean much.

So go ahead and keep being negative, I'll just patiently bide my time until the Game of the Year is released.

mva5580

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> This game tries to do too much...

TheHun

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Morberis:

Two words: Wii Version

Is there a DS version or something in the works too? This game is so long in coming I can't even remember anymore... PC gaming's time is coming, and come it shall. It's "revival" is a pipedream that will come as a result of a second console crash, which will likely come as a result of consoles making the same mistakes that the PC market is making now: Progressing too fast regardless of costs, making things too complicated with regards to system requirements (a weird forshadowing with the hard drive requirement for 360 games now) and/or requiring upgrades.

usfslacker

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Sub:
Thanks for the link! That video was amazing.

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> The Spore excitement is once again building.

God oh god oh god.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @willy626: @Aethyr: I agree...BUT, in all seriousness, it can only get that title if it does indeed deliver on all it's promises.

I'm right there with you in excitement & anticipation, but I for one still haven't forgotten how 'well' Fable delivered.

JerrD74: ..drawing a blank

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> i doubt my pc can run this >_> so wii version ftw!???? =(

Crazyeyez15

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> SPORE RELEASE DATE: SEPT. 7 2008

[www.spore.com]

TheCakeIsALie

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @tamago007: Nice VG Cats reference.

blackadvent

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Moonshadow101: Nah, at most, 50% a universe of disappointment.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> What's he mean by regular gamers? :P

Voteforme2020

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Just bring spore please! I want to make my city of Butt people >_>

tamago007

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Impurethinker: I wuz castin' mah spores LAST NIGHT! Oooh, burn.

Okay, now no more Spore innuendos. Ever.

Spiffyness

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @GHamilton: I'm not sure it's really like that, at least for me. Yes, I find the concept of this game quite interesting, and I'll more than likely end up picking it up when it drops, but I am certainly not waiting with bated breath for its release.

More to the point, I think it's more of a situation where developers feel pressed to saturate the media, and perhaps rightly so. And while it's not a Spore related issue, I can't help but feel a little befuddled when I see all these "developer diaries" for a game like Fable 2, which I'm sure will be delayed to the n-th degree in order to get the dog physics right or whatever.

I dunno... I think I'm fortunate not to work in an industry with as much community pressure as modern gaming.

kelptocratic

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Guys, it has something named 'sporecasting'. That is worth my $50 right there.

Impurethinker

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @Morberis: Im sure they'll try to port it to the consoles either way. I know im playing it on my new rig.

snakepliskin

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @ The people complaining about the wait...

Stop reading game sites and game mags now. When a game comes out, hear about it from friends and then go buy it or read reviews first.

Drooling over every little article about games in the making is only setting yourself up for personal disappointment somehow. You either wait too long, or get hyped up too early, or complain about all the features it is missing.

Seriously, if you browse a site like Kotaku that has all the latest scraps of news, are you really blaming the developers for the premature burnout?

DNF doesn't count. That game has dared us to make fun of it.

GHamilton

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I love the concept, too bad they made it so goddamn ugly.. I just hope I can stand looking at it long enough to enjoy it.

kyosen

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I know many people who are VERY excited about this game. Me? Not exactly...and I don't really know why. I will probably get it, but its not like "OMGZORZ!" or anything. I know the concept is really cool, but the hype has been lost I think with the fluctuating release date. I don't know, I'll check it out but I'm definitely more excited about...BRAWL! *Hahahahahah*

PaintedMidget

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Its games like this that'll revive PC gaming, you could never run something like this on a console with a gamepad without severe UI problems.

Morberis

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> It was a great interview. For anyone who cares, IGN just did an interview with two members of the Spore team, but the interview wasn't nearly as good as this one.

[uk.pc.ign.com]

Also, newish Spore video, it's from Feb 6th.

[blip.tv]

Sub

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I'm sure I'm reading this wrong, but does that quote imply the delay is due to simplifying the interface and adding what, in my opinion, seem to be the digital equivalent of Facebook applications? Oh well, I guess I'll have to read the article.

kelptocratic

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @willy626: Agreed. Looks like it's gonna be worth the wait. Until then...I still have The Sims 2 installed <.<

Aethyr

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> @willy626: You're setting yourself up for a universe's worth of disappointment.

Moonshadow101

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> It's been so long in development that the money i'd put aside to buy it was spent long ago. Looks like another one to queue up.

Sturm Truppen

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> And this is why I get pissed at people that complain about the release date of this game. Seriously? Its easily one of if not THE most ambitious games to date. I can wait for perfection.

willy626

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> I can't wait for this game. Very original.

homernoy

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Good things come to those who wait as they say.

Spore will be great, but my enthusiasm for it has degenerated much in the past.... 2 years?

Jashin

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> It was high on my radar two years ago.

This time around..meh.

Woo hoo!, 2008 is the year for DNF!!.

I was doing some cleaning on a old closet when I found boxes of old gaming magazines, i.e. EGM, gamepro and so on and found a CGW with DNF on the cover from 8 years ago.

I should scan/picture the stacks of magazines and create a blog of memory lane.

Fyren

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Anyone else think this game looks an awful lot like Gene Wars? Might not play the same but graphically it's somewhat similar.

Feigr

]]> <![CDATA[What's The Hold Up With Spore? Will Wright Explains]]> Obligatory Obscure Reference:

Are you sure he wasn't just street racing the whole time?

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

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