huge game comes to the Wii in 2008 and the Gaming Community doesn't even notice?

Spore has been one of the most anticipated games of the last couple of years, garnering many best of E3 awards and recently it was confirmed that it will be coming to the Wii. Why has this announcment been glossed over by the gaming media and many hardcore gamers? When I found out I remember thinking holy crap, this is going to be huge news but it seems like it just slipped under everybodies radar and not even many Wii owners are aware that they have one of the biggest titles of next year coming to their system.

Why woudl u wanna play a game like spore on the wii? ... and the game is not very graphics oriented ... so peopel wont have to upgrade their pc's to play it ...

i think thatswhy a lot of people are not talking about.

there will probablybe a lot more hype closer to the release date

Spore for PC>Spore for Wii

I may pick it up for Wii though.

I think it's cause people are anticipating it more for the PC. I know I am. Spore Wii is kinda meh to me unless they change it up a bit.Zhengi

It's also coming to the DS. The main factor that will play into whether I get it for the Wii or the PC is whether or not Maxis will include connectivity to the DS version, e.g. being able to continue to evolve your species on the DS on the go, then wirelessly update your game on the Wii when you come back.

because will wright said him self it will be coming to all platforms even cell phones (video interview don't have a link... was a long time ago)

Remember this is EA and from the creator of The Sims

[QUOTE="Zhengi"]I think it's cause people are anticipating it more for the PC. I know I am. Spore Wii is kinda meh to me unless they change it up a bit.mjarantilla

It's also coming to the DS. The main factor that will play into whether I get it for the Wii or the PC is whether or not Maxis will include connectivity to the DS version, e.g. being able to continue to evolve your species on the DS on the go, then wirelessly update your game on the Wii when you come back.

OH! Now there is an excellent idea. If it does have DS to Wii connectivity, I'll definitely get these two versions. I find myself being on the road a lot more and my DS is an awesome companion. This is a great idea. I hope Maxis is working on it.

Spore for PC>Spore for Wii

I may pick it up for Wii though.

Xire_XII

It's stupidity on your part that you bgase that on nothing at all.

I think it's cause people are anticipating it more for the PC. I know I am. Spore Wii is kinda meh to me unless they change it up a bit.Zhengi

I didn't know there was any info about it yet...

So what can they change?

because will wright said him self it will be coming to all platforms even cell phones (video interview don't have a link... was a long time ago)

Remember this is EA and from the creator of The Sims

zero9167

Did the Sims go to every console? Other than half-baked mission-based versions, not really. Sims 2 Castaway was as close as any Sims game came to being on consoles.

And Will Wright said more recently that the Wii would be the only next-gen console to get Spore. I was surprised at that myself.

EDIT: Never mind. I guess it's still undecided.

[QUOTE="humber_matus"]

Why woudl u wanna play a game like spore on the wii? ... and the game is not very graphics oriented ... so peopel wont have to upgrade their pc's to play it ...

i think thatswhy a lot of people are not talking about.

brettlee01

do u need to upgrade a PC to play spore ???

nope, not really, at least from what i saw of the game. the only think the game will need is a pretty decent CPU ... but most peopel have those.

i thought i was the only one hyping spore :D

[QUOTE="Zhengi"]I think it's cause people are anticipating it more for the PC. I know I am. Spore Wii is kinda meh to me unless they change it up a bit.GundamGuy0

I didn't know there was any info about it yet...

So what can they change?

Well, there definitely isn't any info out on the Wii version yet, but I think being able to do more with the PC version seems more appealing. But if they do add what mjarantilla suggests, then that can sway me because of the portability and connectivity between DS and Wii.

[QUOTE="brettlee01"][QUOTE="humber_matus"]

Why woudl u wanna play a game like spore on the wii? ... and the game is not very graphics oriented ... so peopel wont have to upgrade their pc's to play it ...

i think thatswhy a lot of people are not talking about.

humber_matus

do u need to upgrade a PC to play spore ???

nope, not really, at least from what i saw of the game. the only think the game will need is a pretty decent CPU ... but most peopel have those.

Most nerds here have that yes. Not most people.

I think it's cause people are anticipating it more for the PC. I know I am. Spore Wii is kinda meh to me unless they change it up a bit.Zhengi

What he said.....unless they market the hell out of it on Wii as a fun cutesy game with cute little aliens, it won't sell.

I plan to buy the PC version,

unless the Wii version turns out to be really good, or for some reason my computer can't run Spore. >_>

[QUOTE="humber_matus"][QUOTE="brettlee01"][QUOTE="humber_matus"]

Why woudl u wanna play a game like spore on the wii? ... and the game is not very graphics oriented ... so peopel wont have to upgrade their pc's to play it ...

i think thatswhy a lot of people are not talking about.

Ho-t-Gu-Y88

do u need to upgrade a PC to play spore ???

nope, not really, at least from what i saw of the game. the only think the game will need is a pretty decent CPU ... but most peopel have those.

Most nerds here have that yes. Not most people.

no, most peopel have decent cpu's ... most computers nowadays are being made with dual core

You're right. I forgot that Spore was releasing the same week as Duke Nukem Forever... Velric

[QUOTE="Velric"]You're right. I forgot that Spore was releasing the same week as Duke Nukem Forever... Zerostatic0

Any game with the number of delays that Spore has received is vaporware until its release. Its an amazingly ambitious project and there have been numerous showings, but that doesn't save it from possible cancellation or shelving.

[QUOTE="Zerostatic0"][QUOTE="Velric"]You're right. I forgot that Spore was releasing the same week as Duke Nukem Forever... Velric

Any game with the number of delays that Spore has received is vaporware until its release. Its an amazingly ambitious project and there have been numerous showings, but that doesn't save it from possible cancellation or shelving.

We don't even know if it will be the SPORE that was shown on PC, a Wii specific spin-off is much more likely than a port.AdrianWerner

Why?

One reason that it's not hyped much at all here is that it is on the Wii and most ppl here really hate the Wii and think it's the anti-christ of gaming.arinya

Screw the graphics, if it has all the same content, then that would be freaking awesome.

Whatever. Not my type of game.

Plus, the Wii version could be different.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]We don't even know if it will be the SPORE that was shown on PC, a Wii specific spin-off is much more likely than a port.mjarantilla

Why?

couple reasons



-Wii is too weak to handle direct port

-That's what EA has been doing lately with Wii versions of their franchises

-SPORE is a bit more complex than typical Wii game, which might scare customers off

-Maxis previous IPs also went the spin-off route on consoles instead of direct port

-Wright said console versions will be quite diffrent.

[QUOTE="arinya"]One reason that it's not hyped much at all here is that it is on the Wii and most ppl here really hate the Wii and think it's the anti-christ of gaming.Jandurin

Screw the graphics, if it has all the same content, then that would be freaking awesome.

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"]

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]We don't even know if it will be the SPORE that was shown on PC, a Wii specific spin-off is much more likely than a port.AdrianWerner

Why?

couple reasons



-Wii is too weak to handle direct port

-That's what EA has been doing lately with Wii versions of their franchises

-SPORE is a bit more complex than typical Wii game, which might scare customers off

-Maxis previous IPs also went the spin-off route on consoles instead of direct port

-Wright said console versions will be quite diffrent.

1. Based on what we've seen of Spore, ridiculous.

2. Of pre-existing franchises, yes. Of new IPs, no.

3. It's no more complex than the Sims, which has a similar target audience as the Wii. It has a large scope, but don't confuse scope with complexity.

4. Maxis' previous IPs were announced PC-exclusive. Maxis has never announced a multiplat game before until now.

5. Show me the quote, and show me how he meant "spinoff" instead of simply meaning different/added features.

1. Based on what we've seen of Spore, ridiculous.

2. Of pre-existing franchises, yes. Of new IPs, no.

3. It's no more complex than the Sims, which has a similar target audience as the Wii. It has a large scope, but don't confuse scope with complexity.

4. Maxis' previous IPs were announced PC-exclusive. Maxis has never announced a multiplat game before until now.

5. Show me the quote, and show me how he meant "spinoff" instead of simply meaning different/added features.

mjarantilla

"We're certainly looking at [Spore] as a franchise. The PC [version of the game], for me, is the tip of the iceberg. You can imagine Spore in a lot of different variants, because we have all these different types of gameplay. We can pull out individual levels; we can use the editors in totally different ways; and so on."

AND

"We're doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant re-thinking to work out how you're going to do it"

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"]

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]We don't even know if it will be the SPORE that was shown on PC, a Wii specific spin-off is much more likely than a port.mjarantilla

Why?

couple reasons



-Wii is too weak to handle direct port

-That's what EA has been doing lately with Wii versions of their franchises

-SPORE is a bit more complex than typical Wii game, which might scare customers off

-Maxis previous IPs also went the spin-off route on consoles instead of direct port

-Wright said console versions will be quite diffrent.

1. Based on what we've seen of Spore, ridiculous.

2. Of pre-existing franchises, yes. Of new IPs, no.

3. It's no more complex than the Sims, which has a similar target audience as the Wii. It has a large scope, but don't confuse scope with complexity.

4. Maxis' previous IPs were announced PC-exclusive. Maxis has never announced a multiplat game before until now.

5. Show me the quote, and show me how he meant "spinoff" instead of simply meaning different/added features.

you dont seem to understand the point....what led to the console versions of the sims sucking so much was that they were designed completly differently from the PC version....they were not even similar.

I would expect this to happen to spore as well....for some reason, games without actually goals to fufil have never really been that popular on consoles...while being very big on the PC.

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

BigGimp77

The entire game is procedural, remember? The entire philosophy behind Spore is that the entire game can contain an entire universe with an incredibly tiny amount of data.

Think of The Sims for PC, then think of The Sims for any other console.0bscurity

[QUOTE="BigGimp77"]

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

mjarantilla

The entire game is procedural, remember? The entire philosophy behind Spore is that the entire game can contain an entire universe with an incredibly tiny amount of data.

you dont seem to understand the point of the game...everything that you see is generated by other players, and then downloaded unto your hardrive (at least with the PC version), the lack of a hard drive, is deffinetly gonna cause problems, along with the lack of a strong online setup.

this is part of the reason, you can expect the Wii version to have a totally different design to it. Similarly to the Sims on the Consoles, which is completly different from the PC version.

[QUOTE="0bscurity"]Think of The Sims for PC, then think of The Sims for any other console.BuryMe

ths Sims has always done poorly on consoles....due to the fact that they always take out the freedom that makes the PC version so good in the first place.

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

BigGimp77

You were right until you said "Think". There is No THINKING involved. THE WII COULD NEVER HANDLE A DIRECT SPORE PORT.

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="BigGimp77"]

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

cobrax75

The entire game is procedural, remember? The entire philosophy behind Spore is that the entire game can contain an entire universe with an incredibly tiny amount of data.

you dont seem to understand the point of the game...everything that you see is generated by other players, and then downloaded unto your hardrive (at least with the PC version), the lack of a hard drive, is deffinetly gonna cause problems, along with the lack of a strong online setup.

this is part of the reason, you can expect the Wii version to have a totally different design to it. Similarly to the Sims on the Consoles, which is completly different from the PC version.

Err, no. Nothing is ever permanently stored to your hard drive for the online aspect. Everything is interacted with on the fly, so when you visit a planet, you're actually navigating the online portal. When you select a planet to visit, the basic values for that planet (contained in a tiny file no more than a few megs in size, if that) are temporarily downloaded to RAM, where they are stored in a segment of the memory. Then the game engine takes those values and plugs them into the game engine (loaded from the disc) to generate the planet. There are no textures to download, no sounds, no character files, nothing. Just mathematical "seeds" which the Spore engine uses to recreate another user's planet.

Think of them as save files. When you want to continue your campaign on a different console, you don't copy the whole game. You just bring your save file, which stores a few essential values (where you currently are in the game, your equipment, your current health, etc.) in a few kilobytes, and then you import that save file onto the other console.

[QUOTE="cobrax75"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="BigGimp77"]

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

mjarantilla

The entire game is procedural, remember? The entire philosophy behind Spore is that the entire game can contain an entire universe with an incredibly tiny amount of data.

you dont seem to understand the point of the game...everything that you see is generated by other players, and then downloaded unto your hardrive (at least with the PC version), the lack of a hard drive, is deffinetly gonna cause problems, along with the lack of a strong online setup.

this is part of the reason, you can expect the Wii version to have a totally different design to it. Similarly to the Sims on the Consoles, which is completly different from the PC version.

Err, no. Nothing is ever permanently stored to your hard drive for the online aspect. Everything is interacted with on the fly, so when you visit a planet, you're actually navigating the online portal. When you select a planet to visit, the basic values for that planet (contained in a tiny file no more than a few megs in size) are temporarily downloaded to RAM, where it is stored in a segment of the memory. Then the game engine takes those values and plugs them into the game engine (loaded from the disc) to generate the planet.

I am fairly certain its downloaded...so that you can actually play the game offline when you need to.....

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="cobrax75"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="BigGimp77"]

And alotta the cool stuff in spore is going to other planets that people make and those are automatically updated into ur solar system. Which takes harddrive space which the Wii doesn't have. So to port it to the Wii it HAS to be dumbed down.

And even though the graphics arent 'OMFG SDFKAOPSDOK awesome' I dont think the Wii could handle a direct port.

cobrax75

The entire game is procedural, remember? The entire philosophy behind Spore is that the entire game can contain an entire universe with an incredibly tiny amount of data.

you dont seem to understand the point of the game...everything that you see is generated by other players, and then downloaded unto your hardrive (at least with the PC version), the lack of a hard drive, is deffinetly gonna cause problems, along with the lack of a strong online setup.

this is part of the reason, you can expect the Wii version to have a totally different design to it. Similarly to the Sims on the Consoles, which is completly different from the PC version.

Err, no. Nothing is ever permanently stored to your hard drive for the online aspect. Everything is interacted with on the fly, so when you visit a planet, you're actually navigating the online portal. When you select a planet to visit, the basic values for that planet (contained in a tiny file no more than a few megs in size) are temporarily downloaded to RAM, where it is stored in a segment of the memory. Then the game engine takes those values and plugs them into the game engine (loaded from the disc) to generate the planet.

I am fairly certain its downloaded...so that you can actually play the game offline when you need to.....

Even if they were downloaded, the files in question would not be any more than a few megabytes in size, if that. In fact, I'm willing to bet that an entire "planet" in Spore can be stored in a file no larger than a single megabyte.