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Will Wright (the famous game designer: SimCity, The Sims) sat down with the Guardian to answer questions about gaming, consoles, and his mega-hyped upcoming game Spore.
From the article:
What games do you play? And do you play for fun or research?
| Will Wright wrote: | I try to play innovative games that are coming out – I really love Guitar Hero, I play my Nintendo DS a lot, check out things on the Wii. With the exception of Advance Wars on my DS, there's no one game that I spend a huge amount of time playing. I love Advance Wars – I used to play all these strategy games as a kid… Panzer Blitz, and all these old Avalon Hill games.
Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii – the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. Bu tht eWii feels like a major jump – not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while. |
So what set-up do you have at home?
| Quote: | We've got an Xbox 360 collecting dust in the background, a Wii hooked up that we use quite a bit. I don't have a PS3. I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer – to me the mouse is the best input device ever.
Every generation it's like "the PC's dead! The PC's dead!". But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3.
We're doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant. PS3 and Xbox 360 are similar enough that you can. So it comes down to what the interesting major platforms are and which markets we want to hit. |
I agree with everything he is saying. And while the mouse is the best input device, it is not the best for all kinds of game interactions. I think the Wii Remote is the greatest balance between mouse and joystick.
Spore comes out in about 6 months for PC. Wii (and DS) version will probably come sometime later, but since he is such a fan, hopefully he gives it extra attention (and doesn't dumb it down like console versions of TheSims)
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Popple
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:18 am
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Spore is coming out for 360 and PS3? |
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Mariofan9
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:19 am
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I completely agree with the quoted statements! |
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Francis
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:28 am
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| Popple wrote: | | Spore is coming out for 360 and PS3? |
Hmm.. I thought I read in the past that it was... but apparently that was retracted. Maybe it will be PC and Wii and DS only? I doubt it though, EA loves to port. |
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Sind
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:17 pm
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I totally agree with that guy. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:24 pm
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| Sind wrote: | | I totally agree with that guy. |
me too the wii is better than the 360 |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:11 pm
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| Jet wrote: | | Sind wrote: | | I totally agree with that guy. |
me too the wii is better than the 360 |
It's more than that. That wasn't what the quotes were about.
Anyway, Will Wright is definitely on the right track with the way he thinks. Graphics don't matter, innovation does. And that's a great opinion, in MY opinion, haha. |
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I dun get it |
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LudwigVonKoopa
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:06 pm
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| Mama Luigi wrote: | | I dun get it |
*KILL MAMA LUIGI!*
seriously,what is spore? |
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Francis
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:26 pm
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Spore is kinda like a Sims game.. except you evolve your creation from the cellular level all the way up to controlling planets, and waging wars and stuff. |
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Meh..I'm not really into Sims games, but Spore seems interesting. |
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| Francis wrote: | | Spore is kinda like a Sims game.. except you evolve your creation from the cellular level all the way up to controlling planets, and waging wars and stuff. |
In other words, you play God. To the max.
Spore is going to be epic. |
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Flavio
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:20 pm
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Will Wright just likes the Wii cuz it starts with the letter "W". |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:40 pm
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| Flavio wrote: | | Will Wright just likes the Wii cuz it starts with the letter "W". |
You never heard of innovation. |
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OMFG SPORE... FOR... WII?!?!?!
GREATEST NEWS EVEEEEEEER!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD |
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