Facts Vs. Rumors I thought it'd be a nice idea if some members here will contribute a nicely implemented "Facts Vs. Rumors" post that will explain what is confirmed and what isn't.... So, yeah, let's roll it and create a good starting point for the Spore-newbies The gathered posts will form a one long and very productive post that will be stick-ied later. Heat
Fact: Robots are going to be in the game Rumor: Cyborgs are going to be in the game Rumor: Players will be able to completely build their own star systems and entire sections of space (W.W. said he wanted to include this feature but it might not be possible) Fact: Creatures can be on land, in the sea, and in the air Fact: Cities are in the oceans and on land only; there are no floating cities Fact: Only one creature can naturally evolve intelligence on a planet. Rumor (that is most likely fact More than one intelligent species can exist on a planet, if they are made artificially or if they are brought to the planet from elsewhere Rumor: in the tribal stage, you can command your creatures around RTS style, telling them where to go and what to do in mass. Fact: There is no main storyline to Spore. Fact: The player can blow up planets Rumor: The player can blow up star systems Rumor: The galaxy is run in real-time, which means suns and nebulae age and eventually go nova (Again, this is something W.W. mentioned, but did not confirm or deny) Fact: The game will alter itself to your play style, IE. Aggressive races will find that the game will be more focused around combat, while players who explore a lot during the game will find an overabundance of interesting planets Fact: Earth is the Kingdom of 'Who Gives a Shit?' I'll post more later when I think of more.
What I meant was Maxis will make this game and it will kick ass but then Blizzard will make a game like it and it will be everything the original was supposed to be.
Blizzard doesn't make sims games, and I've been playing their games since warcraft I... they're busy with world of warcraft and starcraft ghost. Blizzard copying Maxis in a sims game? HAH!
Where'd you hear that..? I'm one of their biggest fans and they havn't mentioned anything of the sort. You're thinking of starcraft ghost, the 1st person shooter.
No, I'm thinking of Starcraft 2. Gaming Steve sat down with them and they mentioned it, he talked about it in one of his podcasts. It is several years from completion, but it is still in the works; it's merely taking a backseat to Ghost and to WoW at the moment.
Rumor: (Almost fact) The game will be released in Fall of '06 Fact: Once you get advanced enough you gain access to 'developer' editors, which are like the normal editors except with much more power, and no resource requirements (This might be false, but it has been mentioned so much by credible sources that it's almost 100% guaranteed)
Universal domination and genetically altering your former foes aswell as your future slaves/pets on other planets, of course.