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Thread: Spore hands-on: there's a game there!

  1. 02-13-2008, 10:04 AM #1
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    Spore hands-on: there's a game there!

    What do you know. Looks like they finally found the fun. bit-tech is seriously lagged at the moment.

    Seems like they've made the world diverse enough now that the creature design choices actually matter (e.g. put a herbivore jaw on and your creature can only eat plants). They also have DNA points which form the oh-so-critical-for-real-gameplay resource that you acquire through exploration and eating, and spend to evolve / customize your creature.

    I'm more excited now than I was. Up until this point it seemed like a purely ungrounded sandbox. Now there seems to be some momentum and direction to the experience.

    Don't snark me with a link to the other Spore thread, I know it's there.
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  2. 02-13-2008, 10:06 AM #2
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    Don't snark me
    I like this expression.

    Don't snark me, bro!
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  3. 02-13-2008, 10:08 AM #3
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    I would enjoy the construction: "snark me up".
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    Pretty much everywhere, there's gonna be snark.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RepoMan View Post

    Don't snark me with a link to the other Spore thread, I know it's there.
    Oooh.. Snark-blocked!
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  6. 02-13-2008, 10:23 AM #6
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    Shit, I meta-snarked my own thread.
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    Snark would be a good name for a Spore species.
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    Change my pitch up, snark my bitch up!
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  9. 02-13-2008, 10:38 AM #9
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    Did we already know that this was coming out for DS?
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  10. 02-13-2008, 10:42 AM #10
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    I can't wait!
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  12. 02-13-2008, 10:46 AM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fugitive View Post
    Snark would be a good name for a Spore species.
    Only if you can hunt them.
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  13. 02-13-2008, 10:53 AM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack LeMaster View Post
    Isn't this Snarf?
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    It's Pinky, Pinky and the brain, brain, brain, brain....Snarf!
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    Fugitive
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    Quote Originally Posted by extarbags View Post
    Did we already know that this was coming out for DS?
    It was news to me too, but it looks like the DS one will be significantly cut down, of course.
    Quote Originally Posted by Gordon Cameron
    Only if you can hunt them.
    Snarks, Snorks, and Snirks in a three-way race to be the first with the tentacle on the nuclear button.
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  16. 02-13-2008, 11:16 AM #16
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    Any word on the Wii version and will that be cut down as well? (A blown power supply has put my PC gaming behind me for a while.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Al View Post
    Any word on the Wii version and will that be cut down as well? (A blown power supply has put my PC gaming behind me for a while.)
    Not to snark you, but you won't fix that in the next 7 months...
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  18. 02-13-2008, 11:54 AM #18
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    I already fixed my PC. Replacing the motherboard and a stick of RAM was one thing. Replacing the motherboard, CPU, RAM and video card wasn't in the budget.
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  19. 02-13-2008, 12:03 PM #19
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    This thread brought to you by Frungy, the Sport of Kings!

    - Alan
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    Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot.

    This game just went from "What's all the fuss about an updated Sim Earth" to "MUST OWN NOW!"
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  21. 02-13-2008, 01:13 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Au View Post
    This thread brought to you by Frungy, the Sport of Kings!
    Frungy had nothing to do with it! This thread was about war, slavery, intolerance, heroism, justice and the inevitable triumph of good over evil!
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    WILL YOU SHUT UP ABOUT FRUNGY?! If you say another word about that STUPID GAME, I'm going to lose control and Sporecast at you!
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    Whatever happened to the Androsynth, anyway?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Al View Post
    Whatever happened to the Androsynth, anyway?
    I always thought they were eaten. I always secretly wished I would find a surviving Androsynth in some corner of the galaxy and the last survivor would tell me his harrowing tale.
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    Jesus Christ, it's not often a thread derails so far that I have NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE. Especially one of MY threads. I guess I should be proud, or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RepoMan View Post
    Jesus Christ, it's not often a thread derails so far that I have NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE. Especially one of MY threads. I guess I should be proud, or something.
    Don't snark me, bro!
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    Snark him up!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RepoMan View Post
    Jesus Christ, it's not often a thread derails so far that I have NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE. Especially one of MY threads. I guess I should be proud, or something.
    No need to get snarky about it.
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  29. 02-13-2008, 02:09 PM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by Al View Post
    Whatever happened to the Androsynth, anyway?
    I am say best word *frumple*. Maybe you do not know.
    *Frumple* be *round* and yet *lumpy*. So bad!!!
    The asking about Androsynth is so *frumple* we are not happy.
    Do not asking it so much.
    It is better not to *frumple* or else there is so much problems.
    No more Androsynth is better.
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  30. 02-13-2008, 02:09 PM #30
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    If you didn't attempt to sell your soul to Satan for a copy of this game immediately after that initial GDC presentation, you don't deserve Spore.
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