SPORE discussion.

Just wondered what other people's opinions about spore was, i'm really excited for it to come out early 08, that was surprising and much appreciated, i think the creature editor will be my favorite part, care to discuss?

 

I think it looks gnarly, but I hate to burst your bubble, it is apparently going to be changed to Q4 of 08 or Q1 of 09

 

Should be neat if it ever comes out. I bet when it does that it looks nothing like the previews that are out there though.

 

wasn't it the end of EAs 08 fiscal year? which put it around april of 08?

 

well they say that its actually surprisingly close to the original demo of it so thats a major major plus

 

i've been waiting for it for ages. i remember when it was supposed to come out at the beginning of this year.

It's something new, so it should keep me interested for a long time.

 

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy...&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title;3

Maybe I'm just getting the word fiscal confused, but here is where it says it

 

Thats what i've been thinking, it will probably run amazingly well on almost any comp too i guess, any creature can be compressed to about 3kb i think which is ridiculous but its because like 80% of the game is code, not data

 

Thats just when the company does its year end stuff for taxes i guess, something like that, Will said aim for April 08, and i'll believe in him like a lost puppy

 

regardless, it's a cool game

 

I really think its going to be GotY no matter what else comes out when it does, that game will win a ton of awards

 

What about Starcraft 2?

 

i really think spore would beat it out, not just personal preference, i'll love SC2 but i think Spore has a bit mroe creativity in it to give it the extra goty push

 

starcraft doesn't come out for... a while

 

Q4 fiscal 2008 for EA is around late summer/early fall I believe.

 

Man, years mixed with video game years are now very confusing. They should just make it along the normal calendar

 

IGN: You said the DS is going to be shipping the same time as the PC. When is that exactly? There's been some confusion lately…

Patrick Buechner: So as our new CEO John Riccitiello said in his first call with Wall Street analysts back in May was that Spore was tracking toward the cusp of our fiscal year which ends in March of 2008. For business purposes we weren't going to play the launch in this fiscal year and so nothing has changed since then. It's still around that time frame but for business purposes it's being planned for next fiscal year, which begins April 1st.

IGN: So April 1st, 2008, or beyond.

Patrick Buechner: Yeah, but I wouldn't say too far beyond.

This is part of an article on IGN that is what i'm basing my opinions of release date on.

Link = http://pc.ign.com/articles/802/802448p1.html

 

Just puttin that out there

 

A game pushed back due to fiscal purposes? Wow, that seems the exact opposite of what normally happens, where the business end of a game forces it to 'erupt' earlier than it should. This is fine with me, more time for the designers to tweak and polish.

 

i don't think it was pushed back because of fiscal purposes probably the fact that EA's fiscal 09 is lacking so they need somethin huge to keep it afloat for that year, thats my guess...

 

i thought spore had gotten the axe?

 

NOOOOOOO! Its still alive, DS version is even coming too, which will make me twice as happy since i'll have 2x the spore...

But I was under that impression for a dark week during my life until i saw new life about it on their website

 

yeah looks pretty cool. there aren't many games like that out there. my friend says its gonna be "the breakthrough game. the one that will bring pc gaming back" sounds a little weird i know. but yeah, sounds pretty good.

 

they're even thinking about a mobile version of it too, but that would most likely be just the cell pacman style version of the game

 

Any predictions for what specs you will need to run Spore?

 

Judging from screenshots/video you will likely not need a very powerful video card to run the game. Given the nature of the actual game, I wouldn't expect requirements to be very high anyway. That being said, with all the procedural generation of content I wouldn't be surprised if the game required a dual core minimum. Anything made in the last year or so will probably be able to play it.

 

Sounds about right. I remember seeing a video where Will Wright promised to keep in mind systems that are not top spec. Or something to that effect. I would expect it to be pretty memory-intensive, though.

 

I'm really excited for Spore. I've been waiting a long time for it to come out...

 

Yeah, I've been waiting for years! I think I first heard about the concept about seven or eight years back. Not sure if my memory is betraying me there, but I remember hearing about it when the Sims was first big.

 

I remember wishing for a game like this a very long time ago.

 

i remember when, i remember when, i remember when i lost my mind. there was something so special about that daaaaayyyyyyyyyy.

something like that i think

oh yes. spore has the potential to be awesome. depending on whether they focus too much o nthe space bit or not.