It's Time for Another Spore Thread. Again.

Ohma · Post by **Ohma** » 2008-06-17 12:30pm

Gentlemen, BEHOLD!

The Sharkape!

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-06-17 01:22pm

EA have really cocked up the release.

Ohma · Post by **Ohma** » 2008-06-17 01:51pm

loomer wrote:EA have really cocked up the release.

Eh? How so? After that bit where the fan site-o-sphere threw a little hissy fit because some people were downloading the free demo from sites other than the EAxis Spore page, which then got taken down for a few hours because they realized that their own servers wouldn't be up to snuff for the release as they were, things seem to have gone off without a hitch. Hell I was able to download the trial demo from the EAxis page, in like, less than 15 minutes (it's about 250 megs)! That's the fastest I've ever been able to download something that size for quite some time.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-06-17 02:01pm

Uh. You are aware that they bounced the (official) release from the 16th to the 17th, then to the 22nd, then back to the 17th, that the full version downloads don't work right and require the EA download manager to even run (they don't, but that's EA's official stance regardless), and that Direct2Drive started offering downloads of the full thing a day earlier than the official website?

EDIT: Oh, and throw in a shit load of website issues to go with it.

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2008-06-17 02:10pm

I tried to download it yesterday, but when I clicked the button to confirm that I wanted to start the installation, it wouldn't run. Thanks a fucking bunch, Internet.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-06-17 11:36pm

Can't damn download in aus at the moment. I'm guessing that's why Stark needed a proxy.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-17 11:40pm

loomer wrote:Can't damn download in aus at the moment. I'm guessing that's why Stark needed a proxy.

Right idea, wrong game.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-06-17 11:42pm

Yeah? Which one did you go for?

EDIT: Would any European be so kind as to buy the game for me? I'll pay back the cost and an extra euro for inconvenience.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2008-06-18 01:17am

Mr. Batou, what have you done?!

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-06-18 01:32am

Is that a penis?

Zablorg · Post by **Zablorg** » 2008-06-18 01:53am

Some guy tried to make the Fruit Fucker.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2008-06-18 03:12am

Stark wrote:Is that a penis?

The JSDF Repeating Bukkake Cannon.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-06-18 05:26am

No one? Please, peoples, all I need is the key they send you. Just PM me.

Edit: Offer no longer valid

chitoryu12 · Post by **chitoryu12** » 2008-06-18 01:27pm

Several people have already made a Goatse creature. It was inevitable, really. In fact, an early preview from Cracked.com predicted kids playing the game and coming on a planet populated by dicks.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2008-06-18 01:41pm

Dang, was that Tachikoma really made using only the limited parts available in the free demo?

Colour me impressed.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-06-18 01:48pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Dang, was that Tachikoma really made using only the limited parts available in the free demo?

Colour me impressed.

Oh yeah, I actually recognize all of those parts. It's really nifty.
Note that those are mouths on its arms, though, not actual hands. ^_^

Ohma · Post by **Ohma** » 2008-06-18 02:03pm

Yeah, do you have the .png for that Aaron?

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2008-06-18 02:40pm

Sure, download here.

It was only about 30 minutes of work, most of that figuring out the editor.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2008-06-20 03:33am

I hope there's a way to increase the complexity allowed in the game. The demo maxed out at seven heads and ten horns:

Now worship him! Who can make war with him?

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-06-20 09:15am

Jaepheth wrote:I hope there's a way to increase the complexity allowed in the game. The demo maxed out at seven heads and ten horns:

*snip cute hydra*

Now worship him! Who can make war with him?

Fear him...! As...he bounces around. Man, that thing is just adorable.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-08-15 09:07am

Time for a big old bump.

Spore just went gold, and there's less than a month until release.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-08-15 09:27am

loomer wrote:Time for a big old bump.

Spore just went gold, and there's less than a month until release.

Can't freaking wait...
My only real disappointment with the creature creator, though, is that if a critter has more than two arms it only works with them in sets of two - say, a three-armed creature will have two right hands that work in unison, and one left hand.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-08-15 07:53pm

Bah! Another game to get besides FO3 and GTAIV. But I do know that Spore is going to retail at $50 here in Canada, same price as FO3's collector's edition.

September...... Spore
October.......... Fallout 3
November....... GTA IV

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-08-15 10:49pm

Look on the upside, it'll keep you busy until FO3. The novelty will be wearing off, and then you can slide over to kill mutants, and then gangsters, before returning with the novelty fresh.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2008-08-15 11:34pm

Molyneux wrote: My only real disappointment with the creature creator, though, is that if a critter has more than two arms it only works with them in sets of two - say, a three-armed creature will have two right hands that work in unison, and one left hand.

What? That's pretty gay, you'd think they would have realized that people would have wanted to make creatures with odd numbers of arms or legs.