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Darth Ruinus wrote: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.

Stark wrote:Of all the things in Spore to declare 'gay'... jesus. What's with people complaining about completely irrelevant or practical things, and ignoring actual, real problems?

Hotfoot wrote:Fair enough, it's still a stupid move on their part.

Seriously, who else is getting tired of being promised the world by game devs? Will Wright and Peter Molenuex are particularly heinous here.

Darth Ruinus wrote:You mean your comment where you said it basically looks like a bunch of simple flash games linked together?

Stark wrote:I was thinking more along the lines of having more cut features and 'reimagined' sections than I could count,

However, if their procedural animation stuff works ingame (ie, not just in the editor) with complex custom creatures, that's pretty impressive. A game can be a massively disappointing step down from absurdly over-optimistic claims and still have good features, you know.

Invictus ChiKen wrote:

Hotfoot wrote:Fair enough, it's still a stupid move on their part.

Seriously, who else is getting tired of being promised the world by game devs? Will Wright and Peter Molenuex are particularly heinous here.

Agreed. I was on the Fable board and the moron was promising shit that wasn't in there even after the game went gold!

If I have a better comp however I might just give this a try.

PS: E.V.O. rocked!

loomer wrote:What's really amusing is that a feature they had to drop is actually still in the game, courtesy of a glitch! Maxis looked at creatures made using the asymmetry glitch and a bunch of others, went 'hey, that's pretty cool' and stated that because it's completely harmless they're not going to patch it out.

Now if only all the other cut features were like that too.

Eurogamer: You describe yourself as an atheist; take the so-called militant atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who see faith uniformly as a bad, negative and dangerous thing. Do you see it more benignly, even if you don't necessarily believe?

Will Wright: Oh, I definitely see it more benignly. I see a lot of benefit and danger in religion like anything[...] I think our bigger fear was that we didn't want to offend any religious people; but looking at the discussion that unfolded from this thing, what we had was a good sizeable group of players that we might call militant atheists, and the rest of the players seemed very tolerant, including all of the religious players.

And most of the atheists were very tolerant as well. I didn't expect to hit hot buttons on the atheist side as much; I expected it on the religious side. But so far I've had no critical feedback at all from anybody who is religious feeling that we were misrepresenting religion or it was bad to represent religion in the game. It was really the atheists!

We have a number of team members that are pretty religious. And so in design, on the team, in our small, little microcosm of players out there, we tried our best to make sure we weren't overtly offending any religious people, but yet we wanted to include the idea, the concept of religion in the game.

loomer wrote:It's coming. Ten days for you Yanks.

For me? Only seven.

This commences the daily bump until I retreat from society on release day.

loomer wrote:I picked it up.

It is currently almost done installing. If I vanish, this is why.