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Giant Bombcast Spore Edition ep.36 -- 9.12.2008

• Ryan Davis
• Vinny Caravella
• Jeff Gerstmann
• Brad Shoemaker

Location

• Giant Bomb Basement

Names Dropped

• Will Wright (25.09)
• Kevin VanOrd (47.32)

Companies Mentioned

• Maxis (36.42)

Games Mentioned

• Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (30.54)
• World of Warcraft (46.10)

Out of Context Quotes

• Vinny's pregnant. He's a teen mother, and you guys are going to talk me into keeping the baby - vinny (.29)
• I'm keeping the baby - vinny (2.01)
• You put spikes on a guy, you hit guys with your spikes - vinny (2.54)
• As we go along I will point out all the things I don't like about Spore - jeff (4.58)
• Being an herbivore makes you religious - brad (5.45)
• They'll give you their parts - vinny (7.44)
• I roleplayed Spore - vinney (9.48)
• Oh wait I can totally drag the spine around - jeff (10.29)
• Paws to claws baby - vinny (11.47)
• Tell me more about dancing - ryan (13.30)
• i thought it was really funny, graphically, the image for proselytizing to another city is like, all your vehicles kinda mass and project this huge hologram version of your creature like preaching to the city in simlish - brad (29.28)
• And its insta build baby, just pop the button and it goes wopwopwopwopwopwopwopwopwop - vinny (30.14)
• He who controls the spice - vinny (30.54)
• What do you think the shortest speed run for spore is gonna be? - ryan (33.42)
• Then you hit space, and then the game starts - vinny (37.30)
• It's like, dirt in my fingernails, one atom, that could be an entire universe - ryan (48.20)
• There are about 100 different ways you can piss people off - brad (51.26)
• I have accidentally launched my planet destroying bomb twice now, and people don't like that - vinny (53.30)
• I don't know if you know this about space, but it is really big - jeff (1.00.34)
• IKEA ships, obviously - jeff (1.02.14)
• Kill everyone, the Vinny way - ryan (1.06.28)
• What if the Cheetah was the dominate species on earth? Go - jeff (1.07.08)

Definitive Quotes

• As a reviewer, everyone knows you don't go back and play a game again unless you like it - brad (1.20)
• It's weird to me to see that they tried to spin that game as science - jeff (11.02)
• If Spore were an MMO, it would be amazing if there were the limiting factors to keep out the griefers - brad (17.47)
• I came to this part where a alot of game reviewers probably struggle with, and thats the like, how much uninteresting or unexciting gameplay are you willing to put up with before the game "gets good" - jeff (23.38)
• It seems like a real time strategy game for people who don't play games - jeff (24.33)
• "We wanted the metacritic and sales of The Sims, not the metacritic and sales of Half Life" - brad (25.17)

Timestamps

• Cellular Phase (2.08)
• Creature Phase (4.04)
• Tribal Phase (18.07)
• Civilization Phase (26.44)
• Space Phase (35.53)
• Wrap-up (1.03.50)

General Notes

• Ryan was the only one who didn't play the game, so he's primarily playing the role of moderator during this one.