Ultimate Civilization game.

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Ok, mix Civilization and Gal Civ. You have to start on a world living in daub and waddle huts. To space, where you meet the Dread Lords !

Then once in space. Let Aliens try to take over planets by populateing them along side you and you go back to war ala Civ style.

I'd lose my job, heh. That would be a game I couldnt stop playing.



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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is such a game coming.... in fact, the scope is vastly greater than that!!

In the game Spore, you start as a really basic blob in the organic soup of life (pacman-ish). Eating things lets you gain experience and lay an egg. The egg lets you build new adaptations to allow you to eat more things and defend against others.

This happens until you reach a critical size where the game becomes 3d. Here is the same deal except you can put your development points into a massive range of things. You can switch flippers for feet and go on land for example. You also need to save points to put into brain development. The creature development looks fantastic, everything is proceduraly modelled, whatever you create, no matter how crazy, the computer works out how it moves and animates is.

So, you slowly build your creature up - when you finally evolve a big enough brain your creature is complete and now forms a basic society. You lose control over an individual character and take control of a more RTS style tribe of your creatures.

Eventually this develops into a city builder like Simcity or something..... and relations with other civs and cities makes the game develop into a Civilisation style game. Finally you achieve conquest of your homeworld and you can go out into the solar system terraforming new planets.

It doesnt end there.... ultimately you can buy interstellar drive and go off into a more 4x type space game, meeting aliens, abducting them, invading them, trading with them.

The game looks mind numbingly awesome.... beyond awesome.... beyond anything! I downloaded last year's GC presentation and I have watched it so many times.... can't wait to see what they come up with this year!! It should be released by the end of this year!

Might as well put your resignation in now!!
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh god, stop this thought right now!
We DO need people to pay taxes at least, you guys will never have a chance to maintain personal hygiene, let alone pay the tax office!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If I wanted to play GalCiv, why would I want to waste hours of play on the boring Civ part? Bearing in mind that I was sick of the Meier Paradigm more than a decade ago.

And Spore... deary me. It's been in development for YEARS, and all we've got is a bit of promo and a whole lot of 'it will be the bestzor!!!!1' from THE DEVELOPER. I'll wait on some actual results before I judge.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And Spore... deary me. It's been in development for YEARS, and all we've got is a bit of promo and a whole lot of 'it will be the bestzor!!!!1' from THE DEVELOPER. I'll wait on some actual results before I judge


Being in development for years is not a bad thing in my books!

You should be able to get an update soon.... very soon, the Gaming Developers Conference 2006 started today!! There are going to be 2 presentations on Spore, so hopefully we will see what a year has done for the game.

Considering Will Wright, one of the biggest names in gaming design, is doing this, he is basing much of his reputation as an analyst on the outcome. He's given talks to the gaming industry decrying the lack of scope, innovation and freedom and used Spore as an example. Now, while that might be good PR, he is really going to look a fool if it either doesn't come out or is total crap.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
BTW... wasn't GalCiv2 in development for years? Still, I have to praise any game that tries to be different - something that is a seriously rare commodity nowadays, and spore certainly meets that criteria in spades.

Let's just hope it doesn't follow in duke nukem forever footsteps...