2nd November 2008, 12:02 PM
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list...5F0.240061
It appears they actually had a team division, and "cute" won out. Now I'm fine with a game looking unrealistic, but the extent of "cute" apparently didn't stop there, it went into the gameplay. A few years ago, the game was actually far more in depth, and they spent the long delays all this time effectively REMOVING content!
I still don't have Spore. I've seen how it actually plays now and a lot of my past interest decayed. It's sad really. It isn't Will Wright's fault it seems, but other forces in the company.
I can certainly hope that, if not resolved via expansions, a "Spore 2" (or a full rename, perhaps actually calling it "Sim Everything" as they originally wanted to) would be far more faithful to the original vision.
It appears they actually had a team division, and "cute" won out. Now I'm fine with a game looking unrealistic, but the extent of "cute" apparently didn't stop there, it went into the gameplay. A few years ago, the game was actually far more in depth, and they spent the long delays all this time effectively REMOVING content!
I still don't have Spore. I've seen how it actually plays now and a lot of my past interest decayed. It's sad really. It isn't Will Wright's fault it seems, but other forces in the company.
I can certainly hope that, if not resolved via expansions, a "Spore 2" (or a full rename, perhaps actually calling it "Sim Everything" as they originally wanted to) would be far more faithful to the original vision.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)