Comments on: Field Studies 6: The PC Gamer Sporecast

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By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:03:03 +0000

Craig’s seen it – everything I’ve heard sounds like exactly what I want them to do with it. Namely, actually advance the game rather than trying to make more content for it.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:56:25 +0000

Have you seen the new expansion already?
“Galactic Adventures”

It looks pretty cool.

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:54:33 +0000

Woe! The patch complains I have insufficient disk space, when in fact I have ample disk space!

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:07:22 +0000

Oh thank Bob for that. The thought of installing EA’s download manager made me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:46:30 +0000

Nope – they do claim that, but even on their official patch page there’s a link at the bottom to just download the freaking file and skip the freaking middleware.

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:19:44 +0000

Is it really, truly the case that the only way to get the Spore patch is to install the EA downloader-majig? Because I used that program once before, and it was filled with pain and torment.

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:05:01 +0000

Finally caved and bought the game, as my reservations about it's qualities as a actual game were overcome by my desire to see deformed sniper rifles battle giant chairs.

By: The_B

The_B — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:49:08 +0000

Your Stompwings are causing me endless grief. Damn you and your competent God like powers.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:01:53 +0000

The sad thing is, this is the second time I’ve got it.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:57:37 +0000

I saw you got the Spore fan achievement. Haven’t got it yet but it won’t be long lookng at the crazy amount of time Spore consumes.

23:00 : annoying empire annoys me, time to die.

1:00 : just the homeplanet left..

2:20 : Finally!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:55:26 +0000

Yeah I should really just play without AA but I’m a pedant like that.

The forum’d be the Something Awful forums. I can’t find the link but someone posted a few times that he’d added the Sporecast and then a few hours later ‘these bastards have taken over my galaxy!’ With all his colonies getting constantly attacked.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:29:43 +0000

Heh, which forum?

I play without anti-aliasing, by the way. Never looked into turning it on, it doesn’t bother me.

It does bother me a little that even if you play full-screen, you can’t set Spore to a res higher than your desktop one.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:54:12 +0000

edit: meant to add relevant link:
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-technical-support/337043-planet-graphical-bugs.html#post5705771

Oh, and thanks for the sporecasts anyway, those creatures have been popping up now and again, and also annoying people on another forum because silly creatures are ruling their universes :)

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:52:04 +0000

I bought Spore and I wish I could play it – well I have, upto a bit of Tribal – but the trouble is that anti-aliasing is completely broken on (most if not all) ATI graphics cards. It makes the terrain go funky.

I want to like the game, but a game that doesn’t have native anti-aliasing and won’t let me force it is plain rubbish, really.

EA are doing nothing about this as you would expect :(

By: J-Man

J-Man — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:51:21 +0000

You just can’t handle the truth, Tom!

By: Ledundead

Ledundead — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:45:15 +0000

Spy’s sappin’ mah will to live!

Anyway, Day 13 of Plan B isn’t up yet for me. What’s up with that?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:09:24 +0000

You two have gone wrong.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:57:15 +0000

I regret nothing!

By: Valve

Valve — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:55:02 +0000

Ludo and J-man,

If by some freak event we have hired you, you are now fired. If we have not, then please do not apply for any positions, we know who you are and we know where you live.

The Valve is always watching.

Over and out.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:21:06 +0000

And the G-Man is played by Ralph Fiennes from In Bruges! GENIUS!

And of course, the pyro will lose his flamethrower, the taunt for that being replaced by kneeling on the floor, begging for mercy from the spy.

I wonder if Tom reads this.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:08:34 +0000

Then Meet the Spy will come out, which will be a live action drama in which Tom Francis plays the spy, it’d be shot in grainy monotone, with film noir stylings and Miles Davis on the soundtrack. At the end the spy would remove his mask to reveal that HE IS THE G-MAN!

By: J-Man

J-Man — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:57:01 +0000

And if he saps 3 or more players in one life, he feeds off their souls to make himself invincible for the rest of the round.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:57:04 +0000

Of course! Facestabbing in the face: a devastating strategy. I also forgot the part where the spy would get sappers he could put on other players which SAPS THEIR SOULS

By: J-Man

J-Man — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:31:24 +0000

You have it all wrong, Ludo. The Spy will just be able to shoot while invisible, facestab, he’ll get a silenced scattergun instead of the pistol and engies won’t be able to knock off his sappers. Duh.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:57:36 +0000

Nyoooo, don’t do that! Think of the children! And the James readers! And the PCG readers! And that kid who wrote the letter you read out on the PCG podcast!

I can see Tom joining Valve, then two months later the next TF2 update would come out and the Spy would be two hundred feet tall shooting lazers out of his eyes. Fun times.

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:38:40 +0000

So when will you be upping sticks and becoming Stardock's PR guy?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:05:35 +0000

Hurrah! Plan B: selling far more copies of GalCiv than of PC Gamer.

By: DiscountNinja

DiscountNinja — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:43:58 +0000

I must say Mr. Francis, both articles on Gal Civ 2 have actually motivated me into first (many moons ago, when your Spectres of Agony were crushing the universe under their lucky feet) downloading a demo.

No sooner had I read up to day 4 of Plan B I had purchased and downloaded Gal Civ 2 and both the expansions from Stardock :D

So thank you :D

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:48:59 +0000

Endless Universe includes the two expansions, which are strongly recommended.

By: audiman

audiman — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:47:30 +0000

Off topic: are there any differences between Gal Civ 2 on Stardock’s website and the Gal Civ 2 Endless Universe release.

By: J-man

J-man — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:26:52 +0000

Off topic; saw ‘In Bruges’ on a plane back to Heathrow form JFK. Fuckin’ excellent.

Plan B was fantastic as well, I’m gonna go buy GalCiv.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:54:21 +0000

That image worked fine for me

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:34:17 +0000

@ Zombuster: You'll need to deal with his crowbar first.

By: Mr. Brit

Mr. Brit — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:58:12 +0000

Yeah, I should have realised my /b/ wouldn’t work….

By: Mr. Brit

Mr. Brit — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:57:24 +0000

Dear God! That picture! I now /b/need/b/ Spore!!

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:40:12 +0000

Man, Spore and month-old babies are mighty hard to reconcile. I’m trying my best, though. My loyalties are divided between my squealing realword progeny and my tribe of hooved scorpions.

By: Dante

Dante — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:31:45 +0000

Ah right, I assumed it’d share anything dropped in your ‘my creations’ folder.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:36:14 +0000

Yay, I think I’ve figured out how to make an updated post re-appear in the RSS feed. If this annoys you: oh well.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:28:47 +0000

Oh good God, that's the best, worst Spore creation I've ever seen. Definitely warrants an embed: I'm idly searching for Earth, too. Keep meaning to look up on Wikipedia wherabouts we are in the galaxy and see if that helps. Just unlocked the ultimate interstellar drive, so I can go anywhere it's theoretically possible to go now.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:09:55 +0000

My antlions finally got to the center (with a bazzilion grox after them) and found *censored*.

Now time to find Earth and forfill our destiny.

Kill freeman!

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-freeman%3Asast-500003550632

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:31:37 +0000

The only drawback to that plan is that I would have to manually make all the most ingenious and meticulous creations on Sporepedia myself. It would be like Be Kind, Rewind for zombies, dragons and 1950’s robots.

Put like that, of course, it’s not a bad idea.

By: Slamhound

Slamhound — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:26:13 +0000

@Lack: Interesting proposal. Would top hats be mandatory on all creatures?

By: Dante

Dante — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:26:56 +0000

Pentadact, would it be easier to share stuff if you created a PC Gamer account and had people add it as a buddy?

By: James

James — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:45:48 +0000

Congrats on securing the name for the spore cast ahead of the PCG US guys, they yet again have to put up with “the REAL PCG sporecast”, and it the way it should be considering that the uk version is the realer and thicker version of the 2. (and if you ask to me define “real”, I will just shrug my shoulders)

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:50:08 +0000

We should do a sporecast of the people who post here’s, creatures, that would be interesting.

By: Tux

Tux — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:52 +0000

That C18th antlion is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever seen on the internet.

By: Chijts

Chijts — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:51:23 +0000

I agree, any game that let’s you team up with sophisticated antlions to wipe out a race of moustache-wielding bananas gets my money.

By: spuzman00

spuzman00 — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:53:56 +0000

I’m becoming more and more convinced that I need this game.

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:07:47 +0000

Yeah I’ve ordered it from Play, along with an Eee 1000h and a mouse. Can’t play Spore on the Eee, but apparently i can create creatures on it. Probably start playing on my desktop by Friday.