Spore - the Action-RPG

<p>While <a href="http://www.spore.com/" target="_blank">Spore</a> disappointed many folks interested in more than just creating dickmonsters, apparently enough people bought it to justify EA expanding the franchise into other genres. The <a href="http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_search_results.php?strShow=27&chkCat[]=242" target="_blank">San Diego Comic-Con 2010 schedule</a> indicates that Maxis will use the gathering of various nerdly types to reveal action-RPG <strong>DarkSpore</strong>.</p>
<blockquote>6:00-7:00 Video Game Reveal: Maxis Studio&mdash;  Maxis Studio (The Sims and Spore video games) has just announced their next project, a brand new, Sci-Fi Action-RPG based on the DNA of Spore. Join key leads from the dev team, Thomas Vu, Paul Sottosanti and Lauren McHugh, for the first game reveal to the public! Room 3</blockquote>
<p>If you can't make it to Room 3, more info can be gleaned on the <a href="http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/59345.page" target="_blank">Spore Forum</a> and <a href="http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179204" target="_blank">1UP</a>.</p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com/">Blue's News</a></p>

 

Darkspore :shock

 

This seems like a sign that Spore wasn't nearly as successful as they hoped, so now they need a quick way to cash in on the development money they've already invested.

I am morbidly curious as to what form this will take. After all, the "Creature" stage is already pretty much WoW-lite.

 

Speaking of Obsidian, will they be granted the rights to make the sequel? DarkSpore 2: New Orion

 

Spoiler: It will have a shitty camera.

 

That's a gameplay feature dude.

 

Maxis is dead.

In fact Maxis was dissolved after The Sims 2, that is why after a few expansions the Maxis logo was removed.

Spore was created by a newly established Studio they named Maxis, also it was hit by massive lay-off at the same time as Pandemic.

http://kotaku.com/5406830/confirmed-ea- ... ll-live-on

EA now does not "close" studios, just fires most of the workforce, re-assign the rest and keeps using the studio name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgYJ9iz47c

Video related.

 

Fixed...

 

I don't see the problem. When you're already at the bottom, the only way to go is up.

 

If you have a rope or a ladder.

 

Bullshit! Probably no where enough people bought that POS even AFTER seeing Robin Williams fuck around with an alpha copy YEARS before they finally shit it out to be worth making spinoffs.

Point of fact, EA just does what it usually does, fucked up things and spent WAY too much money on it so they try to make "good" by milking it to death which is why they driver EVERY SINGLE STUDIO that they buy into the grave shortly thereafter...

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EA of today is COMPLETELY capable and willing to explore new depths of mismanagement, along with their erstwhile platonic brother jowood... (and their adoring fan, 1C)
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spore was pretty lame and extremely basic. hell, the first "evolutionary" step is pretty much a rip-off of flOw.

 

YOU CANT CRITICIZE IT UNTIL YOU PLAY IT!

 

AND YOU ALSO CANT CRITICIZE IT UNTIL YOUVE PLAYED ENOUGH!

 

so you'd think... but track-records are a pretty good litmus.

 

BULLSHIT

YOU JUST CANT TALK CRAP OUT OF YOUR ASS BASED ON MEANINGLESS ASSUMPTIONS! THAT'S PREJUDICED THINKING AND WE DON'T TOLERATED SUCH BEHAVIOR AROUND HERE!

 

haha, what is this, china?!

 

It never ceases to be hilarious how game publishers misread public sentiment.

Gamers: This Spore game sucks - it's just a series of simplistic and unrelated minigames with a WoW-lite and a RTS thrown in for good measure. Where's the complex creation of a life form using Darwininian evolution and modelling its progress that I was promised?

EA's interpretation: Spore was way too complex. Need to streamline the gameplay so gamers don't get confused. Just as fucking well we overruled the original design - players would NEVER have gone for something with that kind of complexity.

 

yes, dumbing-down is a plague among the gaming industry and EA seems to loooooooove it.

 

WHAT KIND OF HATER ARE YOU? IF YOU DON'T LIKE GAMES WHY DO YOU POST ON GAMING SITES?!?

 

well that was a dumb sentence, but partially correct... i don't like shitty games that are targeted at the lowest common denominator of consumers. i happen to love games, preferably strategy and rpg's. even so much that i spend a fair amount of time working on them.

and wherever would you get such a silly idea as i don't like games?

 

YOUR STANDARDS ARE FAR TOO HIGH! YOU HAVE TO LIKE GAMES FOR WHAT THEY ARE INSTEAD OF WHINING AND MOANING LIKE A HATER! I'LL BE HERE PLAYING AWESOME NEXT-GEN GAMES WHILE YOU SIT IN YOUR BASEMENT BITCHING!

 

You're new, obviously confused and an easy target.