Spore Meets Diablo: EA Announces Darkspore Action RPG

[rsvp42]

Just so long as they implement it well, this could be really cool. I really enjoyed Spore, but I agree that it didn't reach its potential. The character creation was always fun, but the everything up to the space mode went way too fast... but whatever, you all know that. I'll be interested to see how this works.

 

[Jared]

Dark spore, the evil cousin! Hehe...Looks intresting, something like Spore, and Diablo could make a real evil combnation!

 

[Megacherv]

It's not called DarkSpore by any chance? I read that EA might be making something called that in OPM

*ahem* Called it (with help from OPM).


Right, now this looks pretty fun. I enjoyed Spore Creatures for DS, which was kinda RPG-ish, and I really liked Torchlight so much that I'm thinking of getting the old Diablo games to try out. Let's hope that they make something good out of this.

 

[jamesworkshop]

This might possibly be quite good
-General Vague

Now this does look interesting the spore creature creator tech built inside an actual game this time around

 

[Kimarous]

Spore's Creature Creation (like)
Spore's Actual Gameplay (dislike)
Diablo-esque Gameplay (like)

Sounds like it has potential. Given my disappointment with the original game, however, I'm still a bit wary...

 

[Assassin Xaero]

After seeing some screen shots, I have to say... what the hell is with all these colorful "dark" games... Where are the good old gray, dark gray, darker gray, super dark gray, red for blood, and more gray colored games?

 

[findler]

I want to play this, and I wanted it yesterday.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

"focus on online" is code for "no meaningful single player" and "$ub$cription"

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

This has the potential to be my favourite game ever.

 

[Rarhnor]

Darkspore meets my raised thumb: Rarhnor announces genuine exitement

 

[FinalHeart95]

This is actually a good idea, I think. They're taking the one thing they did really well with Spore, and putting it in a new environment that has been proven to work with games like Diablo. I'm gonna keep an eye on it.

 

[Kris015]

UADTOIDPTAUDTST HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

I hope they don't fuck up my expectations like they did with Spore. It looked so awesome at the begining, but they just started changing everything.

This could actually turn out both ways, but since it's Maxis it'll probably become something like a kids version of Diablo..

 

[Doug]

Hmmm.... If they revamp the creature creator so that it's actually more than a sub-standard number game, excellent.

 

[Nixzilla]

Might be good as long as spore keeps to creature makeing and doesnt leave it

 

[Internet Kraken]

Spore may be my most hated game of all time, but I will always defend one thing about it; the creators. I thought these were very well designed. They were simple and easy to use but still allowed for the creation of complex and interesting creatures and objects. Had the actual gameplay been decent, Spore would have been great. So the idea that they are taking one of these creators and infusing it into a game with solid gameplay elements sounds very appealing.

Still going to remain skeptical though. I'll not raise my hopes again only to have them smashed to pieces.

 

[BlindTom]

So it's Evolva.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Ok. Amazing concept. Now they need to make sure they don't fuck it up quite as spectactually as Spore.

I still think the creature creator is amazing, and in fact still play around with it today. Apply it to gameplay that doesn't make you want throw yourself off a cliff and it would be brilliant.

 

[Doug]

Spore may be my most hated game of all time, but I will always defend one thing about it; the creators. I thought these were very well designed. They were simple and easy to use but still allowed for the creation of complex and interesting creatures and objects. Had the actual gameplay been decent, Spore would have been great. So the idea that they are taking one of these creators and infusing it into a game with solid gameplay elements sounds very appealing.

Still going to remain skeptical though. I'll not raise my hopes again only to have them smashed to pieces.

Whilst I admired what the creators tried to do, the game mechanics where designed to reduce creativity for people playing through it - for example, having multiple copies of the same limb/piece cost DNA points, but had no impact on the stats; this meant having more than 1 pair of hands and feet of the same type was discouraged.

 

[SaunaKalja]

The concept sounds pretty cool and it could be a great game, but knowing EA they will fuck it up somehow. I refuse to believe otherwise, unless I witness it with my own eyes.