HUGE Spore gameplay video with Robin Williams!

[Molyneux]

Bearing in mind hype will always be hype, I'm fairly excited after having watched this. Mainly I'd say the video demonstrates two inescapable truths.

1. Robin Williams is not well. There's something gloriously yet fundamentally wrong with that man. The fact that he served as enough of a chaos factor to make the game go belly-up should come as absolutely no surprise. I have to pity the creature, though. It should never have seen the light of day.

He is a living avatar of sheer benificent chaos. Mr. Williams embodies all that is awesome and cool about bizarreness ^_^

[*]If this game makes good on its promises, it should kick warehouses worth of ass. Even if it doesn't, the inherent ideas will serve to push the creative envelope of designers and programmers for years to come.[/list]

Ohhhh, yeah.

One has to wonder about what specs will be necessary to run this, and at which point evolution of creatures and colonies will progress beyond the computer's ability to keep up, though.

If I remember what Will Wright was saying last year, this actually shouldn't require high-end systems; it's not nearly as graphically intensive as, say, Doom III, and hopefully there should be detail sliders to dial down for lower-end systems.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

I'd imagine that qith all the procedural creation of entire worlds in real-time, it might be heavy on the RAM. (which is really the only thing I'd care to upgrade on my computer)

[weemadando]

The fucking E3 demo was being run off a laptop. That's gotta say something...

[InnocentBystander]

The fucking E3 demo was being run off a laptop. That's gotta say something...

That laptop was a dell xps gen 2; nothing to spit at.
On the low end it could have a last generation P-M and a mobile 6800Ultra, though I'll wager it has mobile 7800gtx. It *could* have a mobile 7900gtx and high end Core Duo processor; though I'm sorta doubing that, as I don't think they're shipping machines with those components just yet.
Granted, it's not a desktop with 2 x1900xtx's, FX60, and liquid cooling, but it is high end.

[Master of Ossus]

The fucking E3 demo was being run off a laptop. That's gotta say something...

That was an XPS laptop, which is a serious gaming rig that outperforms most gaming desktops.

[Coalition]

The one potential flaw I can see is that you're apparently stuck with a single starship. Then there's that apparently the game updates with new NPCs based on the creations of other people, I could see the galaxy turning nasty pretty fast as players churn out xenophobic and militaristic races.

Three rules of an alien race:
1) They will value their survival over your survival
2) They did not get to be in charge of their planet by being nice
3) They will assume the same about you.

Two races with similar environments will have it fairly easy to communicate, but will see each other as competitors to living space. Two races with different environments will find it difficult/impossible to communicate, but may eventually work out a 'compromise', where they colonise their selected environments, and only fight over the asteroids for mining.

Usually followed by the loser (but in possession of the asteroid) going, "You want it? You can have it!" and firing the asteroid at the other side's ship.

edit1: Just watched part of the video. Spore: CCG?

[InnocentBystander]

I'm not sure about the CCG deal; it could be an attempt to draw in a broader audience, maybe just a money maker. Though it looks like someone was designing it and said "Wow, you know this could be a card game..." I'm willing to bet that right now there is no game, just cards on a computer, and an idea.