Spore space phase is 15-20 hours, has one ending
by Ross Miller 
{ Jul 17th 2008 at 7:30AM }
Unsurprisingly, Vu said the game has a twist ending. Also unsurprisingly, he was mum on what that twist is. We'll have more from our exhaustive session with Spore later this week.
Update: Vu contacted us to clarify that the ending is optional and wanted to stress that, if anything, the space phase is sandbox like the rest of the game. The 15- to 20-hour statistic is an estimated minimum to reaching the end.
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Ethan @ Jul 17th 2008 7:38AM
Do you always evolve into Will Wright?
jynxycat @ Jul 17th 2008 7:52AM
Meh.
Rather the game have one good ending, than multiple endings which are lackluster... *coughbioshockcough*.
Michael @ Jul 17th 2008 8:14AM
I think you either meet God, get crushed or you ascend to a higher being like an ancient in stargate. But thank you for ending my simcity 4 city is still going with 9 million people all complaining about something.
Luke @ Jul 17th 2008 9:49AM
I always get bored and go Godzilla on my city.
Dale Massey @ Jul 17th 2008 7:59AM
Hmm... could the universe implode on itself, starting the game again with a single molecule spore?
OMGOMG @ Jul 17th 2008 10:41AM
Oh god.
mr mobius @ Jul 17th 2008 11:10AM
It obviously something on a universal scale and that would make sense. Big Crunch.
It wouldn't be some Biblical ending like an apocalypse because that would cause too many protests from different factions. Taking a scientific theory is the least controversial route to take.
RyanTheHeretic @ Jul 17th 2008 3:52PM
Escape would make me god.
BigD145 @ Jul 17th 2008 1:50PM
@mobius
It's only the least controversial if you live in reality. Not many people do.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Jul 17th 2008 8:53PM
What is the Universe zoomed out the point that you realized that the entire Universe was all just but a Spore atom?
Neil @ Jul 17th 2008 8:06AM
iMac with a Core 2 Duo processor can run spore?!
Dale Massey @ Jul 17th 2008 8:16AM
Seeind as it can run on an XP machine with a 2.0GHz P4 processor, I'm gonna go with "yes".
Nathan @ Jul 17th 2008 8:59AM
I'm running the creature creator on a iMac 2GHz Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) so I'm going to assume the full game will run on the same.
Okänd @ Jul 17th 2008 12:14PM
The game is being made for both Mac and PC so yeah, an iMac can run it.
ogvor @ Jul 17th 2008 12:39PM
I'm running it on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, though I'm in Bootcamp since I don't have OSX 10.5
Mromson @ Jul 17th 2008 8:13AM
My first guess is...
a) There's a god. (You)
b) Big Bang crap, everything starts anew.
Habiib @ Jul 17th 2008 11:10AM
c) both
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Jul 17th 2008 8:54PM
In that case, Will Wright is the God of Gods?
ZEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSS
Monkeys Suck @ Jul 17th 2008 8:17AM
Anything good always ends with everyone dying at the end.
tc @ Jul 17th 2008 8:29AM
at least this does imply something more of a linear gameplay system.
Don't get me wrong, i love this open ended stuff. But there needs to be some kind of narrative.
ballistic3188 @ Jul 17th 2008 8:32AM
i believe the will be the reapers come in a destroy all life on all the planets
j.howlett @ Jul 17th 2008 8:37AM
a universe within a universe. it can go on forever like two mirrors facing each other.
Jomolungma @ Jul 17th 2008 8:56AM
Does it end in some South Park Guitar Queer-o way?
Dan @ Jul 17th 2008 9:19AM
Ok, as long as we're guessing the end: Your entire universe turns out to be a tiny spore of a new one (start over at germ stage).
Blazur @ Jul 17th 2008 9:44AM
Oh that would be so golden.
mr mobius @ Jul 17th 2008 11:13AM
That would be a brilliant ending. It would also be the least controversial.
aristokrat @ Jul 17th 2008 11:27AM
That's what I was thinking: infinite reducibility.
Blazur @ Jul 17th 2008 9:01AM
Excitement++
Bobobobby @ Jul 17th 2008 9:05AM
How does a game that let you fly all around space exploring planets and has no story ends? Simple. Some thing happens where every thing dies. Now is that thing a god? A robotic force coming back after so many years of hiding to wipe the universe of life? Or the universe falling apart and imploding on itself? Well that we will have to see, but every things going to die. That is my guess, thats the only way a "sandbox" game like this can end, unless they add a story line that you follow.
I am rather disappointed though, is this guy telling us that when you get to the space stage, the number 1 thing Will won't shut up about, is that you only get 15 hours of game play and you are forced to start over? That is the way it comes off when you hear "only 15 hours of game play before the game ends."
I hope the ending is optional, I would rather like to keep my universe for more then 1 day. Since I know I will be playing this game a lot when it comes out.
DoggySpew @ Jul 17th 2008 11:37AM
Actually, the game does not end after the "ending".
After the ending, you can just continue with the game.
Ranus Studios @ Jul 17th 2008 9:06AM
It turns out it's man.
Habiib @ Jul 17th 2008 11:11AM
You are ... obsolete!
Vladeon @ Jul 17th 2008 9:10AM
Spoiler Alert:
The supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy is actually Will Wright's head, the game ends with your planet/species getting consumed by Will Wright.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Jul 17th 2008 8:56PM
OM NOM NOM NOM
MrSpaceCowboy @ Jul 17th 2008 10:07AM
My prediction: After a few millenia, your creatures will lose all faith and belief in you (their god) and you will cease to exist.
It's preaching atheism! :D
SkreeHunter @ Jul 17th 2008 12:49PM
The game ends up being very pro... uh... you know. Theistic since you kind of are their god.
Jyrrah @ Jul 17th 2008 10:13AM
My guess would be you try and reach the center only to find out that the stars supernova'd. The resulting radiation wave will destroy all life in the universe.
dustandechoes91 @ Jul 17th 2008 10:22AM
The Real Ending:
Despite whatever cool creatures you make, the humans still come out of thier caves and steal all your creations' ganmen. Then they get a giant spaceship and go kill the anti-spirals.
Jfk Aok @ Jul 17th 2008 10:24AM
Wait, games like this shouldn't have endings?!
Danieru @ Jul 17th 2008 10:46AM
This sounds like a diversion to me. At the game's 'end' I'd bet a bundle that it starts all over again in some way. Perhaps there is a big-bang type event, but more likely the camera will continue its panning out, only this time from the player's perspective it will look as though the universe is suddenly contained inside a single cell, a cell that once again starts the beginning of a new game. An infinite zoom-out if you will. It goes out so far that it starts back at the beginning.
Badger_badger_badger @ Jul 17th 2008 11:02AM
SUCKED INTO BLACK HOLE
Cynic @ Jul 17th 2008 11:17AM
The game ends when all the creatures in your civilization decide to accept a buy-out offer from EA.
KarlW @ Jul 17th 2008 1:22PM
And they release a rubbish port of themselves on the PS3
macshome @ Jul 17th 2008 11:32AM
Well, SimCity 2000 actually had an ending you could reach as well. It was more an easter egg though as I don't see how anyone could reach it without cheats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6RT5ooUW-g
Mitch @ Jul 17th 2008 12:10PM
how about an ending similar MIB. Where this huge universe you have been growing through and exploring all this time, is on the back of another amoeba based lifeform and the game will give you the option to continue with the existance of your spieces or start a new organism in this new "larger" galaxy.
SkreeHunter @ Jul 17th 2008 12:49PM
It's been said before but I definetly call that you're just like an atom of a large universe and so on.
Crazylink @ Jul 17th 2008 12:58PM
Of course! The life forms you create evolve so fast and have so much spiral energy that they can't help but cause the spiral-nemesis, sucking the whole universe into a giant black hole.
Only a hot-blooded speech could possibly save them.
hhhenryhhh @ Jul 17th 2008 1:03PM
zoom out to see aliens playing with marbles
Poisoned Al @ Jul 17th 2008 1:35PM
There will be a sign in huge, flaming letters:
"WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"
BigD145 @ Jul 17th 2008 1:51PM
Can't we turn the ending on or off? I want more than 20 hours of universal play.