Spore System Requirements Unveiled

The Mac requirements are brutal compared to the PC reqs. Requiring Leopard and an Intel Mac only is cutting a lot of people out.

I am appalled by these system requirements.

Modern games are supposed to have extremely high requirements to the point that we need to reduce the visual quality by 75% to get a decent frame rate. Who do they think they are? Going against the trend of forcing gamers to update their computers to play their game is a blatant bastardization of the development process.

I, for one, will not stand for this and am heading out to the store to update my computer regardless of this debacle. Making games playable on modern systems makes me sick.

First, I apologize for this being off-topic...explaination is at the bottom of the post.

2 games I want sequals to (excluding many other favorites...including a Freespace 3, and a System Shock 3 done correctly and not becoming a bioshock, dumbed down, etc. it has to give a sense of helplessness that you won't recieve any help or see any friends, etc. that was creepy, not bioshock, and I miss the multiple classes, RPGish stuff, and it being built with only the PC in mind, not getting consolized, etc., and I don't want it to get EA'd either, so they need to give up the liscense rights)...

I'd like to see a Dungeon Keeper 3, which they should have kept making instead of cancelling, and a Populous: The Beginning 2. I loved that game to death...land deformation to your advantage, fire warriors, lightning, volcanoes, etc. and of course in multiplayer: Ragnorok...so funny.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Heavy Gear 3, except that Activision canceled that many years ago(I played the first two to death).

And I would like to see a Simcity 5, Railroad Tycoon 4, maybe an Industry Giant 3 or something similar...where did all of the in depth, complex business/management/tycoon games go? And I'd like to have someone travel back in time and destroy the master copy of orange julius tycoon, or whatever it was called...someone took it too far by making that. There is a reason why I avoided it...take a guess.

I'd also like to see a sequel to Freelancer, and X3: Reunion, but with multiplayer as well.

Sequel to Jill of the Jungle by Epic Megagames anyone? haha, takes me back when they had a badass company name.

Sequel to Commander Keen...with current gen. graphics, and with devs that want to get it right, and a publisher that will give them free reign to their $$$ vault, as well as permission to freely manipulate space-time via atari-joystick.

more needed sequels:

Alpha Centauri 2?
Icewind Dale 3
Tachyon: The Fringe 2
Lemmings...add in physics please
Master of Orion IV...must not suck
Mechcommander 3
Myst VI: NOT ONLINE
Pharoah 2
Second Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Rome: Total War 2: Better AI, and better armies that can turn more quickly, instead of taking 2 minutes for my greek hoplites to simply face the other way and slaughter the calvelry instead of being flanked...wtf, and give an option to remove the time limit for games, and make maps larger...and make the greeks better than the romans...the greeks invented the wheel, the romans stole it :)

Savage 3: why? Because Savage:Battle for Newerth and Savage 2: A Tortured Soul are badass
Battlezone 3: why? Because Battlezone 1 and 2 were awesome...same genre as Savage, except no RPG elements.

Serious Sam III: if you've never played Serious Sam: First encounter or Second Encounter on hippie blood mode, you're missing out.

Sins of a Solar Empire 2: we're getting an expansion, but I'd like to not see this series end anytime soon

Jazz Jackrabbit 3
Supreme Commander 2: Don't f*** up the sound this time please...still not fixed for Forged Alliance, though the original is fine. They changed the sound engine, and it doesn't work properly with my X-fi Xtrememusic :( Anyone know Chris Taylors cell phone #?

Ever hear of Treasure Mountain? One of my first games...need a Treasure Mountain 2
Xenon 2 needs a sequal, that one took me a year to beat...took me until I was 6.
Need an Operation Neptune 2
Need an Ancient Empires 2This game REALLY takes me back... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_of_the_Ancient_Empires!
Treasure Mountain...yikes, talk about old
Total Annihilation 2: I WANT MY KROGOTH...f*** spiders
Dues Ex 3: Don't consolize this one...I know it's being made, but I won't recognize it as a sequel unless done right
Diablo 3: Carpel Tunnel
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic 2...or something like it. The melee in this game is the best I've seen.
Earth 2170: bring back the balance
Empire Earth 4: do better
Homeworld 3
am I the only one who liked Emperor: Battle for Dune from Westwood?
Ground Control 3( I got to beta test GC2 )
Hexen 3
heretic 3


Damn I went off topic...it was originally meant to be in a thread, but nobody would have seen/read it. So...why not take up half a page.

Any sequels you'd like to see, even if they're of damn old games you wouldn't necessarily buy, but would be nice to see that the game didn't die due to "old age" and not working on post-windows 98/ME?

ok i havent really been following this game but im starting to get interested. so could someone tell me the odds of this appearing on steam, thats the only way i can see myself picking this up...as i am lazy.

Can't wait. Creature Creator soon ^_^

For some reason, I feel like this game may end up being another "Black & White"

:(

I would think you'd need more than 768 megs of ram to run Vista in the first place.

What about the nvidia 9800 series? :(

more like snore am i rite

Any idea what the the optimal system requirements? I'm assuming these are the minimums...

Wow wtf? It runs on the GMA950 for Windows but not on OSX? That's kind of weird...I want Spore on my Macbook!

Wow, not bad at all. Should run like butter on my system. e6600, 8800gts.

I wonder if this is a game that requires antialiasing in order to look decent. You know how some games just don't need it? Like Mass Effect -- the jaggies were practically non-existent because the graphics were so well done.

finally, a new PC game i can actually play on my old system

Hows it gonna run on my system?

AMD fx-63
2 gigs corsair ram
Radeon 3850 agp
seagate raid hdds
WinXP

Im noping it wont chop to hell. Ive been waiting on this game forever and hope what Ive got is good enough

Creature Creation Question:

Can you add hair/fur in the game? As much as I've watched videos and whatnot I cant think of any creatures that had hair and/or fur. I guess I would be shocked if you couldn't. If so, does anytone have any links to pics/vids with fur in it (not to be confused with a NWS post)?

Question: Why are they supporting Nvidia's 5xxx series? Didn't they not meet all DX9 requirements in that line, just one of a few reasons for the Radeon 9700 and 9800's dominance in that specific generation of cards?

keep this out of the 6800 vs x800 and 7800 vs x1800 and 8800/8900 vs 2900xt/3870 and upcoming GX280 vs 4870 generations. I'm focusing on the 5xxx series from Nvidia here only. Just for clarification, and no backtracking in generations either, especially not as far back as 3DFx and VooDoo, etc.

It's also coming out on Mac, you know.

System requirements seem very reasonable to me. It is a breath of fresh air to see a game with reasonably good graphics support cards from 5 years ago.

That sucks, apparently my 7900GS on my laptop might have issues with this :(

So torn :( I hate EA. But this game looks super awesome.