Spore

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:16 pm

It's a blast so far but it seems kind of narrow minded. I'm only at the tribal stage since last night. I put in a few hours worth of gameplay.

I liked the cellular stage the most so far. Creature stage was ok, and tribal stage is a bit annoying atm.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:14 pm

installing it atm

all the fanbois are crying and saying how it sucks compared to what was promised

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:38 pm

so I've beaten it twice already now

it's like a cutesy version of every other RTS out there, but with shitty controls

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:37 pm

Yeah, it's ridiculously customizable but the customizations don't really have much sway over what's going on.

The game went downhill after the cell stage.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:37 pm

I was REALLY disappointed when I built my first vehicle, loaded it up with a bunch of awesome weapons, and then discovered they were just decoration

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:10 pm

I built a replica of a star destroyer. /nerd

KaiineTN · Post by **KaiineTN** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:11 pm

So it's not worth buying?

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:13 pm

I wouldn't pay for it. Its novelty wears off after like 3 hours and it's done.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:54 pm

KaiineTN wrote:So it's not worth buying?

nope, not in my opinion

for some reason I was expecting it to take a couple of days at each stage to advance
not just minutes...

the very early stages are kinda cool, cause you're constantly working towards mutating/evolving to have better abilities to help you survive better

I dunno
I was entertained the first time time thru

then just realized after 3-4 hours that I was done with it, and probably will uninstall it tomorrow

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:54 am

Meh that's disappointing to hear.
Have either of you visited other player worlds and interacted with them at all?
We have the creature creator, but haven't bought the game yet - were waiting to see whether or not it delivered as it said it would.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:04 am

I think it technically delivers what it promised, but not what was expected? if that makes sense

there's a lot of weird looking shit out there, and it's semi neat, but the interface is so clunky that I spend most of my time zoomed out

so it wasn't like I was really spending alot of time looking at graphics

they REALLY should have done it like supreme commander/sins of a solar empire

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:43 pm

did you play homeworld 2? sins is basically a straight-up rip-off of that game and homeworld is probably 100x more in-depth/better

supreme commander is badass tho, i agree

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:30 am

I've read that Spore has a DRM that limits to 3 installs. It got bombed on amazon reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Spore-Pc/dp/B000F ... 040&sr=8-1

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:12 pm

i played it on hard yesterday for a while and it was great. i wanna go buy it kind of but i don't want to play past tribal stage tbqh

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:17 pm

It's just....a bland RTS that meets the Sims...IMO

Disappointing

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:02 pm

you're probably playing it for completely different reasons than i am

i could care less about the RTS elements or the "clunky interface"

i enjoy it 100% because of the editors. i'm the type of person that would play this game endlessly just to see what i come up with next. it already completely engulfed me for the whole day yesterday and i never even made it to the tribal stage of my first species playing on hard (yes, i only play games on hardest difficulty. why wouldn't you)

if you just wanna win win win and play an RTS then look someplace else. Spore isn't one and it's a very short game if you just running thru it. i don't even know why you'd want to play it like that

i'd definitely recommend this game to anyone with a sense of creativity because it's basically endless fun. if you don't like the creature creator or anything like that then i would definitely recommend playing some other game. there isn't that much to do in Spore aside from making stuff and seeing if it stacks up to your competition. i almost dropped an epic beast yesterday :\

my only real gripe with it is that dying has no penalty whatsoever. i don't like games that don't punish you for being wreckless heh. also i wish you could zoom out more in creature mode

Trielelvan · Post by **Trielelvan** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:23 pm

Hmm, maybe the game has some potential after all then.
We have been playing with the creature creator nonstop with our 6 year old, and it's been so much fun seeing the things we're making come to life... especially when they have like 8 sets of teeth. Too funny.
We want to play it for the exploratory and creative aspect. Definitely not looking for something to "win" at, so to speak. If I wanna kill everyone, I'll fire up UT and go frag people lol.

Thanks for the look on the other side Drem.

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:53 am

it's really fun to explore because every planet you create a new species on is pretty different from the rest. it's also got a lot of achievements to earn, which i like. there are a shitload of different parts for the creature editor and i only found about half in my one afternoon. the worlds are pretty big and it's really awesome to see all the other stuff people make, as well as what Maxis came up with. i spent a lot of time inspecting all the other creatures i came across. most of them are pretty stupid but sometimes you find really badass stuff. i published one of mine :ugh:

i'd imagine a 6yo would want to play this game non-stop. i probly would

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:16 am

if you've got a kid it's a lot of fun

KaiineTN · Post by **KaiineTN** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:22 pm

We just need to be able to stay on the first land stage, put in a longer exp/level type system, and throw in some raid content.

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:27 am

WTF? No timesinks? This game fucking sucks! I expected every creature would need to get flagged before you could progress, but no! That's just lame.

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:45 am

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... /218-Spore

-Arlos

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:58 pm

that guy's voice is seriously annoying

Post by **Martrae** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:09 pm

I love his reviews. I always get a good laugh from them.

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