BF2S Forums [Spore] IGN previews all 5 stages in Spore

Miggle wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Miggle wrote:

MAG, Huxley(?)

I'm just saying it would be much easier to call it an RPG, considering it lacks the only important part of an MMO, the multiplayer

they should have just called it a MSO, it is a RTS and an RPG if you think about it

space stage...

and how is it a Massively Singleplayer Online game?

You just said it lacked multiplayer, whatever lacks multiplayer is a singleplayer game? Am I right?

Miggle wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Miggle wrote:

space stage...

and how is it a Massively Singleplayer Online game?

You just said it lacked multiplayer, whatever lacks multiplayer is a singleplayer game? Am I right?

Massively Singleplayer?

Online?

massive amouts of people playing single player online

whatever. I forgot what we were arguing about anyway

Last edited by Mutantsteak (2008-09-03 18:41:50)

Miggle wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Miggle wrote:

Massively Singleplayer?

Online?

massive amouts of people playing single player online

whatever. I forgot what we were arguing about anyway

You called Space Stage a massively singleplayer online game.

Which makes no sense.

I guess I misunderstood the space stage, you can interact with real people in the space stage?

Miggle wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Miggle wrote:

You called Space Stage a massively singleplayer online game.

Which makes no sense.

I guess I misunderstood the space stage, you can interact with real people in the space stage?

no

then how is it multiplayer?

Miggle wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Miggle wrote:

no

then how is it multiplayer?

it isn't.

That's why calling it a single player MMO when you mean RPG is so fucked up.

I guess

Whatever. <3 spore

GGF0RCE wrote:

But it is a singleplayer mmo. Like mutant said, there's massive amounts of people playing single player online.

Haha well that makes Half Life 2: Episode 2 a singleplayer MMO then Massive amounts of people playing the single-player game simultaneously and all uploading information / statistics to an online server (i.e. Steam achievements). It is true that Spore's generated universe is 'Massive', and it is also true that it uses online-elements to download planets and other races... but there's nothing integrated about those two elements. The game is massive; the game has online parts; but it's not massively multiplayer. It's no more Multiplayer than the Sims community sites were that allowed you to download custom houses/furniture/clothing etc.

That feature was really overhyped and misunderstood because I think in the very early press-releases about the game (several years back), the design team did actually make it out as if the Space stage and the inter-planetary stages were going to be Multiplayer and shared. The whole 'Multiverse' concept they had going on explained this pretty well, except they bailed on the idea when it became too much of a burden and time-consumer during development .

Uzique wrote:

GGF0RCE wrote:

But it is a singleplayer mmo. Like mutant said, there's massive amounts of people playing single player online.

Haha well that makes Half Life 2: Episode 2 a singleplayer MMO then Massive amounts of people playing the single-player game simultaneously and all uploading information / statistics to an online server (i.e. Steam achievements). It is true that Spore's generated universe is 'Massive', and it is also true that it uses online-elements to download planets and other races... but there's nothing integrated about those two elements. The game is massive; the game has online parts; but it's not massively multiplayer. It's no more Multiplayer than the Sims community sites were that allowed you to download custom houses/furniture/clothing etc.

That feature was really overhyped and misunderstood because I think in the very early press-releases about the game (several years back), the design team did actually make it out as if the Space stage and the inter-planetary stages were going to be Multiplayer and shared. The whole 'Multiverse' concept they had going on explained this pretty well, except they bailed on the idea when it became too much of a burden and time-consumer during development .

why waste money on cool gameplay when you can hype your game instead.

Last edited by Miggle (2008-09-04 15:09:14)

Peter wrote:

Uzique wrote:

GGF0RCE wrote:

But it is a singleplayer mmo. Like mutant said, there's massive amounts of people playing single player online.

Haha well that makes Half Life 2: Episode 2 a singleplayer MMO then Massive amounts of people playing the single-player game simultaneously and all uploading information / statistics to an online server (i.e. Steam achievements). It is true that Spore's generated universe is 'Massive', and it is also true that it uses online-elements to download planets and other races... but there's nothing integrated about those two elements. The game is massive; the game has online parts; but it's not massively multiplayer. It's no more Multiplayer than the Sims community sites were that allowed you to download custom houses/furniture/clothing etc.

That feature was really overhyped and misunderstood because I think in the very early press-releases about the game (several years back), the design team did actually make it out as if the Space stage and the inter-planetary stages were going to be Multiplayer and shared. The whole 'Multiverse' concept they had going on explained this pretty well, except they bailed on the idea when it became too much of a burden and time-consumer during development .

Half life series is the pinnacle of over-hyped. They're okay, but not as good as people make out.

yeah, because everyone knows about it.

It's hardly overhyped. Nobody who isn't into pc gaming has ever heard of valve, much less HL.

When the fuck was I arguing somehow that Half Life was a great game, or was better than Spore, or was more innovative?

Read much?

You took a bit of a random tangent then :\

I was using HL2 as an example of a 'Massively Single Player Online Game', in the same regards that SPORE is anyway haha. I wasn't really talking about how Half Life was overhyped, or how good the game is. You got a little bit too hooked on the HL2 thing ._.