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Spore Is EA's New Ace

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-soul-sucking dept.

BusinessWeek reports on EA's Next Big Thing. From the article: "EA is stumbling, and a big part of its time-tested strategy is about to change. The company hopes that its next mega-franchise will revolve not around a football star, a boy wizard, or a dashing British spy, but...a microbe. The game is called Spore. Developed by Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and The Sims, it lets players design an invertebrate in its primordial stages and then guide its evolution until the creature's offspring develop into a thriving civilization with cities, religion, and spaceships. EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."

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  1. obl. gary larson by pimpimpim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of a "far side" cartoon: Movie Concepts Walt Disney Never Brought to Cinema:
    "Bert the adventurous amoebe"
    "Andy the sandworm"
    etc :)

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    1. Re:obl. gary larson by clem · · Score: 4, Funny

      So until next time, "Adios, Amoebos!"

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  2. Spore's orginal name was: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Billy and the Intelligent Design workshop.

    They had to tone it down a little.

  3. Intelligent Design Simulator by withears · · Score: 5, Funny

    Conservatives feel that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into the Intelligent Design movement.

    1. Re:Intelligent Design Simulator by shelterpaw · · Score: 4, Funny

      Conservatives feel that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into the Intelligent Design movement.

      Liberals hope that Spore will open the way to fully immersing our youth into bi-transsexual organisms with no morals or values. :P

  4. Re:Spore looks to be GREAT by G)-(ostly · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're just waiting for it to mutate into Duke Nukem Forever.

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  5. Cheat codes? by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if Spore will have an Intelligent Design cheat code that would skip you right to homosapien and win the game.

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    1. Re:Cheat codes? by Peteresch · · Score: 2, Funny
      I think you want a God-mode where you simply go from dirt => to sentient species.
      Get your own dirt. - God
    2. Re:Cheat codes? by Gulthek · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude. Bacteria. The planet belongs to the microscopic.

      They survived billions of years without us, yet we wouldn't last a minute without them. All macroscopic life is an evolutionary abberation.

  6. To hell with Spore... by SaDan · · Score: 2, Funny

    FIX BATTLEFIELD 2!!!

  7. Outragous! I must protest! by jandrese · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm, this game sounds like Evolutionay propaganda to me. I demand that the game include a "truth" mode where your civilization simply appears as fully developed humans (minus one rib in the male model) and goes from there. :)

    Actually, that would be a clever little joke on the creator's part. Perhaps include a "-dogma" commandline switch that does just that. If they really wanted to get some reactionary types mad, they could even include various modes for all of the crazy creation myths from various world religions.

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  8. Re:Spore video by johneee · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife saw that video, turned to me and said, "we're getting this game, right?"

    I'll give her this, when I told her it would cost us somewhere in the region of $2000 she actually had to consider it for a full second and a half before she said ok.

    So, I'll get a new computer, but I won't be able to use it for six months, and I won't actually see my wife for that time either... Thanks Will Wright.

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  9. Thank the friggin' Lord (or maybe FSM) by coinreturn · · Score: 2, Funny

    I quit playing games awhile back because I was sick of the selection being limited to Hollywood Crap, Sports Crap, and tired FPS. Let's get back to the innovative games that are fun to play instead of just franchising the same old shit.

  10. Can't wait for the expansion packs by dalleboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spore: Hot Date
    Spore: Bustin' Out
    Spore: Nightlife

  11. I think that boycott comes on other terms by Opportunist · · Score: 1, Funny

    I mean, after all, this game is about EVOLUTION! The horror!

    Unless of course there is some way to do god-like things like planting an Adam and an Eve somewhere... which, of course, would be kinda blasphemous...

    Guess EA can't win that one 'gainst the religious right, huh?

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  12. Re:Outragous! I must protest! by Carthag · · Score: 3, Funny

    If so it would be hilarious if they included the Norse mythology. Giant cosmic cows & people coming out of salt/armpits/etc & skulls being used to create the firmament!

  13. Re:GTA model by sehryan · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Or is it Intelligent Design? I can't really tell."

    I guess it depends on who is playing it.

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  14. A God game about Evolution??? by RandomBitFlipper · · Score: 2, Funny
    that ought to get some fundamentalists' heads spinning.

    [ducks]

  15. Re:Outragous! I must protest with fish sauce by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, that would be a clever little joke on the creator's part. Perhaps include a "-dogma" commandline switch that does just that. If they really wanted to get some reactionary types mad, they could even include various modes for all of the crazy creation myths from various world religions.

    I for one am looking forward to the -noodly version, where Pirate Fish roam the seas, preventing Global Warming, as our Great Noodly One, the Flying Spaghetti Monster invisibly floats overhead.

    My catma ate your dogma. Yum!

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  16. Re:Outragous! I must protest! by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 1, Funny
    If they really wanted to get some reactionary types mad, they could even include various modes for all of the crazy creation myths from various world religions.
    You're very clever for getting modded up, young man. But it's no use - it's turtles, all the way down.
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  17. Re:GTA model by yppiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait until someone discovers the Hot Chordate mod.

    --Pat "mod +1 Evolutionary Biology / GTA tie-in"

  18. Re:Spore video by Eightyford · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spore video on Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330 420559198&q=spore

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