The function of Spore appears to be the generation of ridiculous Youtube clips like this. After having watched the demo videos of the game itself, though, I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would play it. But then, The Sims baffled me too, with all of its SimKafka tedium.
Spore Cthulhu
Tags: firstperson, mpegs, mutants, tentacles
Current Music: d.A. Sebasstian -- Monster Monster ♬
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#4 is Hello Cthulhu.
Spore is likely to be initially popular because of how many games it contains. Top down action? We've got that. Third-person puzzle platformer? We've got that. City/Civ simulator? You know we've got that, we stole it from ourselves. 4X Space Game? Better hope your creature keeps up with the neighbors, 'cause we've got that.
A week later, 4X players are going to be throwing this game out the window, because they're sick of playing action games and puzzle platformers to get to the game mode they enjoy.
The following week, action and platform players will toss it because they've been restarting every time they reach City Sim, and there's only so many times you can play as salmonella.
The City Sim players will keep it forever, because they'll play anything.
The 4X players can fast forward or skip the action games/puzzle platformers entirely.
This is interesting and would be very cool, but Wikipedia disappoints me with its lack of relevant references. There are two citations there, and I can't find anything to back that assertion in either the March 2007 TED Talk or the Newsweek interview. It could be that I'm staring right at it and not searching for the right word...
You were invited to help. Again and again, dull, barely-conscious web servers begged you to help if you could. Go on, get up, go to a really good library and give, give to the hive, give your contributions, your donations, your edits. And at the place and time you posted this, you were probably looking at one peeking out from behind your window.
Uuuuummmmmmkay.
People get pretty serious about their MMORPGS.
I'm pretty sure he was referring to Wikipedia's aforementioned "lack of citations" and not MMORPG's.
I'm pretty sure I was referring to Wikipedia.
I don't know what any of these Spore people are talking about. I played with the creature creator a bit, but the game promises to be an enormous time-suck. I already have enough things that drain my time away.
In the meantime, bask in the awesomeness of Shepard Fairey's covers for Orwell novels.