ty2, i wasnt the one that brought it up, tiefighter-whatever did... so dont just assume everything.

Ugh...WTF did I do this time?

Crap. I'm always forgetting to use my inside voice.

Another reason is that games are so expensive, and take so long to make now, that its not worth making a game unless it will appeal to the mass market. Which means churning out tried and proven games like Battlefield 2142. Consider the Xbox 360s launch lineup:

    * Amped 3 (2K Sports)
    * Call of Duty 2 (Activision)
    * Condemned: Criminal Origins (SEGA)
    * FIFA Soccer 06 Road to 2006 FIFA World Cup (Electronic Arts)
    * GUN (Activision)
    * Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft)
    * Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)
    * NBA 2K6 (2K Sports)
    * NBA LIVE 06 (Electronic Arts)
    * Need for Speed Most Wanted (Electronic Arts)
    * NHL 2K6 (2K Sports)
    * Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft)
    * Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft)
    * Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft)
    * Quake 4 (id Software and Activision)
    * Ridge Racer 6 (Namco)
    * Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06 (Electronic Arts)
    * Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Activision)

As you'll notice, almost all of them are sequels. A new console, and what do they launch with? Sequels! The PS3 launch lineup was just as bad.

I think social gaming needs to improve. There aren't many 4 player games around, but FIFA and Pro Evo are both excellent examples of how good 4 player local games can be. A TV-share gadget, which could put half the players on another screen while still using only one console, would be very good.

i thought that they were very fun to play

EA makes some of the most boring games in the industry. I also love how they enjoy soaking up smaller companies, and then using that manpower to further fuel squeezey pooh games.

Now he's talking about making games "EASIER". His games are already easy. So much so, that they are squeezey pooh. Yay for EA ruining the industry!

Just to point something out...EA DOESN'T make games...They publish them...If a crap game comes out published by EA, its not thier fault.

For example- Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, etc. made by DICE, published by EA...

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it doesnt matter what type of costomiseation they give you... you will at the end of all things to exactly the same thing you did before.... kill other tribes.... kill other tribes on other planets... so on and so forth blah blah blah till you are the most powerfull thing alive... BOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRIIIIIINNNNG

go play Sim city..... they are already evoled for you and you can interact more with them..... rarther than just see some dope on three legs walk around till a bigger thing comes and you have to kill it or try to reason with it.

lol if i have my way the 'easy' and 'normal' setting wouldent exist.....
what bungie have done with halo is quite smart.... at first it was going to be a RTS type game... saw other compition....saw the Xbox.... and said ok... lets make it a FPS (all the ones around at that time where crap) and lets put it on the Xbox... hence its status today... now the FPS is getting a little bit tired if you ask me.. so now they are putting it back to RTS and bringin out Halo Wars (which looks pretty cool)... it will however have some tough compition with C&C3 and COH.
*enough halo Rambling.. this is a Star wars site*

anyway.. i dont care what they tell me how and what you can do with spore... i look at it and just see Sims or Sim city... just like Enemy Territory Quake Wars... i look at that and see ETW.....

same with BF series.... only set in differnt times...

and the funny thing about BF2 and BF2142 is its the same engine...BF2142 might as will be a mod for BF2.

in fact.. thats why manufactures are putting modding capbabilities in games of today... they know that poeple like the one here working on FS will make things that will impove and make a reason to by this game...

if i was you i would forget about Spore... i might seem the best thing in the world when you play it the first time..... but over time... you will lose intrest... and not bother with it.

but then again... im not here to make you desisions for you.

happy gaming

as cool as spore looks (and it looks very cool) i can honestly say that if i go through it once and complete it... i will probably never go through it again.

Really? One of the things I love about Spore IS the replayability, cause each creature you evolve can turn out so RIDICULOUSLY different.

they would be the best games out... because they are (at the mo) the most closest thing to being in that universe and type of play....

as cool as spore looks (and it looks very cool) i can honestly say that if i go through it once and complete it... i will probably never go through it again.

put that game online however... it makes it far more interesting.... Diplomacey with other players Civilisations.... Alliances between planets... wars fought between entire univerces.

that sounds cool to me.... but with todays pay to play stuff... im suprised that even the BF Franchies
isnt pay to play.

im all for making new games that look all spectacular and wonderfull and oooooo ahhhhhh

but i tell you now.... when halo came out i played it to death and still do.. halo 2... im board with

halo 3 looks awesome but i cant help but feel that i will play through it once and then pffft.... never again.

STBF 1 i love.. and i still do for the fact that i am put into the actual battle with as much odds as surviving as the other guy.

i hate have special powers that develop over time..... i have being the ultimate warrior at the end.

I love proving myself with equal chances.

Bring on this mod

Yeah, whatever happened to games like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island?

Especially Monkey Island.