Pro Wrestlers. With Lightsabers. For hands.

Mindless self indulgence? HECK YEA! >:P

Can't. Wait. Until. Fall. Oh my god, I want this game right now. I'm imagining cute fuzzy little balls with huge carnivourous teeth and furry little limbs. They would initiate a galactic wide campaign of stability, a "galactic empire" if you will. Of course, i would have to exterminate many of the more violent species not willing to be assimilated. Multiple war campaigns... Wait! Can you use other species you've assimilated to do your dirty work! :O Rule your species from the home planet, and crush rebellions with your frontier species/planets that you don't really give a damn about. Hmmm... okay so maybe it's not such a peaceful empire.... but still. So awesome.

This is more of the same stuff that creeps me out about knowing Locke. He opens his mouth, words come out, and I go, "Who is this person, and why is it he talks, acts, and sounds just like me?"

But enough about my pseudo-gay-forum-lover thing.

What gets me about Spore is the clay/lego/Construkts thing. It looks so utterly phonomenal I just can't help myself. This is how awesome computer gaming is; this is the kind of shit that, when people say, "Well what did video games teach you," I say, "Well, I just populated an entire world and generated my own species of mammals."

By good time had by all I meant every one in MY tribe and my space buddies can't leave out your space buddies.

I bet i can make a Full race of those on Spore! *drums*

Phil: Since I'm recognising the spoiler text, I have a solution to your problem
considering that this game has that wonderful clay molding system for the flesh of your creatures, you could just extend the flesh out in the crotch area like an abnormal growth, then mold to your satisfaction.
Always glad to help. I wonder if there are dimension averages for this game. Because I'd love to make Who's a tiny race of peaceful sentient biengs small enough to build their cities on the head of a pin. One thing I dislike about Will Wright is his love of the whole command control system. I wonder if once you reach civilization levels could you still take control of individuals and cause msicheif on that level.

I don't think Spore's creature editor can accomodate the size of my wang.

Actually I'm pretty sure I read in the transcript interview of Will Wright that you can scale the objects down pretty small. There's hope for you yet!

Zing.

My newest concern is that the game is too good to be true. The day before it's scheduled release date, there will be an unscheduled spacecraft launch at Cape Canaveral, and perhaps a few high-res photos of someone who looks remarkably like Will Wright peeing down on us puny mortals.

Premonitions, you assume that I want to do that. Frankly, my idea horrifies me as much as anyone, and I'm surprised that my brain allowed me to think it. I'll just let some weirdo implement it for me.

Though, I wonder exactly how much sculpting we'll be able to do. On the tripod, he just adds and subtracts girth by rolling to mouse-wheel, but the Care Bear doesn't look like its face could be created like that. Also, how much control will we have on the shape of the Mr. Potato Head parts? Will we be able to sculpt them like the torso, or just stretch and bend'em?

I guess we'll find out eventually, won't we?

And it's either (spoiler) or (color=111111), not (color="black"). Just so ya know, Premonitions.

I imagine advanced creations like his care bear and such are actually rather difficult to create. He said he likes making fairly user-friendly editors (see: Sims). I can believe at this point it will take people a few weeks, maybe even months, to become really proficient in the editors such that they can actually create pretty much whatever they want (within the confines of the editors, whatever those are).