I know very little about this. Once they're created, can you actually DO anything with them, or do they just caper for your amusement? Part of the appeal of the sims to the rabid fans is in getting them to do stuff, and designing places for them to lie and planning out their lives in horrifically tedious detail (where a casual player like me wil have a vague plan, but really just do whatever seems funny at the time).

Considering this and the blinkered closed minded nature of the general public, I figured Spore isn't going to work no matter how good it is.

I do not think that the 'general public' are as close minded as you perhaps think, and I think the game will be a success. People on this board often talk about the general public as if we are not all a part of it

I predict it will be a flop. It's not going to have anywhere near the mass appeal of the Sims. To me it always seemed obvious the Sims would be a big seller because it reflected what people know. It reflected life and domestic situations (sort of) so people could relate to it.

Considering this and the blinkered closed minded nature of the general public, I figured Spore isn't going to work no matter how good it is.

I would be quite happy to be wrong, it would be great seeing something fun and original (ish) become really popular.

I bet their already working on the inevitable expansion packs already.

Nah, they'll release it with bugs and omissions, let the fans mod it for free, then hoover up the mods and release them in bundles for £20 a go.

After dealing with 'the general public' for the last 13 years or so, I feel there are no limits to how close minded and stupid they can be. I hope it's a success but it doesn't look like one to me.

Isn't this going to be released on all consoles too?

I predict it will not be a retail success because it's called "Spore".

I predict it will not be a retail success because it's called "Spore".

Of course this will all be irrelevant if it is killed by piracy like Crysis.

Are links to some of the astonishingly rude creatures people have made allowed here?

Are links to some of the astonishingly rude creatures people have made allowed here?

I think text links with a NSFW warning where appropriate should be ok.

I would have thought that the reason Crysis failed was two fold - the pre-release hype saying that you really need a stonkingly powerful PC running Vista and the fact that it is completely aimed at the sort of nerds who will be able to rip it off anyway.

The Sackus looks better in game (you can see his chompy sack, for a start). If you have the CC demo then just DRAG AND DROP these images right here from your web browser and into Spore. You can then start making my creatures dance! Awesome.

That's what I did, I made it into a window and simply dragged the picture into the Creature Creator page (where you have the generic blob floating about) - my only problem now is wondering how to save the creature as an image and put it in a post. I can't seem to register due to it blithering on about invalid keys. I have saved my creature to the Sporepedia however.

I still can't get it to work! Do I have to be running it in windowed mode or something?

Spore Creature Creator keeps your creatures, movies, pictures,
and animated avatars in a folder called "My Spore Creations".
The location of this folder depends on your OS:

Windows XP:
* “My Spore Creations” is located in your "My Documents" folder.

Windows Vista:
* “My Spore Creations” is located in your “Documents” folder.

Mac OS X:
* “My Spore Creations” is located in your “Documents” folder.

This folder also keeps a cache of the graphics assets for creatures
you have downloaded. If you are short on disk space, try reducing
the size of that cache in the graphics options.

Read that, without looking at the pretty pictures, and it seems like something thrown out of Dulltown for boring the other citizens. Might give it a miss, unless they add a blisteringly fast bullet-hell section.

Where are the links?

Here's a goatse one:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... 30422.html (Really NSFW. Probably NSF Anywhere)

I'm really excited about getting the demo version of this now. I love drawing absurd disturbing monsters, and the idea of doing it in animated computery form makes me very happy indeed. I will make many turnip-monsters and post them here, and you must all pretend to smile.