Will Spore be a good game?

[DarkCloud]

Well... If they can't get the AI right, then the game won't sell... so at least it's comforting that it's being worked out.

Without believable character interaction models, then the whole conceit really falls flat.

This game, in my opinion, will do about as well as Sim Earth or Sim Life, or Impossible creatures- similar games- it might be ballyhooed, but it will sell a mediocre amount.

It may be a solid game, but games taht are too large are difficult for consumers to "get" ... and its cartoonish ways make it seem like the 10000001 tycoon games... which will turn off core gamers...

Thus, without amazing AI- the game will probably be a disappointment.

[Proteus_MST]

Maxis Sim-Games were published at a tme where computer games were things that were played by (mostly male) geeks.
Someting that has changed considerably since then.

There is also a diference between Sim Earth or even Sim Life. Especially the latter culd be considered to be a rather hardcore ecology/evolution simulation (even among geeks) that was very hard to get into.
Spore on the other hand has graphics that were made to appear cute and (probably) is more like a game than the Maxi-titles you mentioned ever were.

I think it might very well attract female Sim players and will definitely sell better than Sim Earth or Sim Life

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Maxis Sim-Games were published at a tme where computer games were things that were played by (mostly male) geeks.
Someting that has changed considerably since then.

There is also a diference between Sim Earth or even Sim Life. Especially the latter culd be considered to be a rather hardcore ecology/evolution simulation (even among geeks) that was very hard to get into.
Spore on the other hand has graphics that were made to appear cute and (probably) is more like a game than the Maxi-titles you mentioned ever were.

I think it might very well attract female Sim players and will definitely sell better than Sim Earth or Sim Life

I’m quite certain that they are doing everything thy can to make the potential demographic as diverse as possible.


Who knows maybe there will be a few players of The Sims who will start playing Spore. The reason this is a very interesting prospect is because if you like the civilization phase of Spore you are likely to like Civ. So in the long term we may see some people exposed to strategy gaming that otherwise would not be.

[EternalSpark]

Well... If they can't get the AI right, then the game won't sell

Bad AI hasn't stopped a vast majority of games from selling. Hell, Maxis has made some of 'em!

and its cartoonish ways ... which will turn off core gamers...

This is a Maxis game. The only response to that assertion is "So?"

[Ninot]

If they make the game hard enough, it will be good.

If you can create a race of slugs with no inherrent dominant traits, that can dominate the galaxy, it will suck.

[Metaliturtle]

my "Wiggaslug" will dominate the Spore o sphere!

[aarathy]

Re: Will Spore be a good game?

In my opinion, spore is a good game. It is a single player online game. It must be work on the platforms like Windows and MAC OSX. It is very long game.

[Metaliturtle]

Behold the Wiggaslug!

[Unspeakable Horror]

I see a blue square but there's nothing inside

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Unspeakable Horror
I see a blue square but there's nothing inside

Perhaps we have just gotten the definition of what a Wiggaslug is. It's a blue square

Asmodean

[Unspeakable Horror]

That's probably it