spoco2, you might be right, that is exactly what happened with spore...

I like Spore a lot, but he's almost spot-on with the review (except the balance between carnivores and veggies... bribing nearby villages makes all the difference!)

Something good made with Spore??

I dunno but with spore I can terraform pretty quick. Soooo lets get Will Wright on the phone, see what he thinks...

Peter Stormare playing a Soviet scientist? Close enough.

Lets see if EA dares do the same thing with this as with Spore. I am looking forward to it, but I WILL NOT buy it if it limits me to 3 installs on the same computer...

>> ^dannym3141:
>> ^Psychologic:
I didn't think the "nooooo" fit his particular style of humor (more of a Family Guy thing). It breaks up his normal rapid fire speaking style and after 2-3 seconds of that I'm thinking "ok, we get the joke, move on please".
I liked the rest of the review, but that part just doesn't fit his style.

It clearly does fit his humour style.. he thought of it and said it, therefore it IS his humour style.....? Or do you know more about his humour style than he does?
Sick of people ragging on ZPR's these days, for every 1 person making a good point there's 50 trying desperately to come up with something ANYTHING to complain about. Like "it doesn't fit his style" as though he's ??? replaced his writers (rofl!?) And "This is so obvious, he's just calling a bad game bad!" - OMFG he's a reviewer giving a review of a bad game and he calls it bad? WHAT A HASBEEN!!


Meh, no, he phoned this one in.

He ripped apart the first four stages and then skimmed over the MEAT of the fun part of the game, which was space.

Though the creature-non-space phases

I have to say, this time the audio from the warhammer ad was more impressive than the interview itself.

The DRM bitchfight (check out the amazon.com ratings) also feels more significant in a weird way than this review.

And his reviews generally cry out tears of significance.

His obsession over the SC2000 implementatin of SimCity was also kinda odd.

He got some good jokes in there but could've taken things further.

>> ^Psychologic:
I didn't think the "nooooo" fit his particular style of humor (more of a Family Guy thing). It breaks up his normal rapid fire speaking style and after 2-3 seconds of that I'm thinking "ok, we get the joke, move on please".
I liked the rest of the review, but that part just doesn't fit his style.


It clearly does fit his humour style.. he thought of it and said it, therefore it IS his humour style.....? Or do you know more about his humour style than he does?

Sick of people ragging on ZPR's these days, for every 1 person making a good point there's 50 trying desperately to come up with something ANYTHING to complain about. Like "it doesn't fit his style" as though he's ??? replaced his writers (rofl!?) And "This is so obvious, he's just calling a bad game bad!" - OMFG he's a reviewer giving a review of a bad game and he calls it bad? WHAT A HASBEEN!!

>> ^shuac:
Loved the "Noooo" part. The over-the-topness of it was the point, n'est-ce pas?


Indoubetably mon garçon, it had a certain je ne sais quoi quality to it.

oh im on it like white on rice!

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
We were all sharing our spore login names over here a bit back http://videogames.videosift.com/talk/VideoSpore

In reply to this comment by NinjaFish:
Send me a message if you'd like to see my spore creations :-P (cheesy self spore plug there) I've got some great aliens and predator stuff all you nerdy folk would love :-D

look me up! i am theninjafish! (my EA ID)

I think spore as a game isnt quite the awe inspiring end all entertainment, but for those that love to create things, it is what i like to refer to as

the new age digital legos.

there i said it. I dont actually play the game so much as I just sit there and make things. Then make them better. Then make other things to go along with it. Then make other things I wanted to create. Then make something completely different just for the hell of it. Then later when im not making things on spore I think of something else i want to create etc etc etc.

so basicly you have a sporegasm or you dont. Some people find its right up their alley as a creative outlet and others find that its not quite as great a game as it is hyped up to be.

We were all sharing our spore login names over here a bit back http://videogames.videosift.com/talk/VideoSpore

In reply to this comment by NinjaFish:
Send me a message if you'd like to see my spore creations :-P (cheesy self spore plug there) I've got some great aliens and predator stuff all you nerdy folk would love :-D

Send me a message if you'd like to see my spore creations :-P (cheesy self spore plug there) I've got some great aliens and predator stuff all you nerdy folk would love :-D

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Still can't stand the "new" corporate-induced logo sequence. Give me my old review openers, thank you very much.

You mean the ones featuring music clips in violation of copyright? Yes, I can see how that would be a sound business plan.


Well, they should have thought of that before creating the standard. Besides, if they didn't seek permission before use, they deserve to get sued. Regardless, they could have put their collective heads together and come up with something better than the craptastic opener they have now.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Still can't stand the "new" corporate-induced logo sequence. Give me my old review openers, thank you very much.


You mean the ones featuring music clips in violation of copyright? Yes, I can see how that would be a sound business plan.

>> ^cheesemoo:
... Oh and I think more than half of the video time here was spent on ads...


I think the ads are a good solution that lets the content provider make money and keep providing content, but elite users can just stop the video after the credits role.

Everybody wins.

Oh... except non-elite users?