Duck and Cover

This was actually fun, for about three hours until I had to design buildings and tanks, and play some dumbed down RTS.
After that the space-missions begin, and... it becomes like a grind for creatures, plants whatever, and you get nothing to show for it, other than a decked out spaceship.

Your uniquely designed creature becomes totally irrelevant around the village phase, and your armies (tanks/ships/airplanes) as well, when you enter the space-phase.

The whole "choice and consequence" is designed about way of life, rather than anything unique.

I think it goes something like this:
Cell: Herbivore / Omnivore / Carnivore
Creature: Social / Amenable(I think?) / Predator
Village: Friendly / Spur of the moment-esque.. whatever fits the moment / Aggressive
Civilization: Economical / Militant / Spiritual

I did a lot to stay friends with races, while I only wiped out those who attacked me first, and still I got the most aggressive path through all of those. After the village phase I thought "Fuck it" and went all out militant.

But other than that, there's no real consequence.. My people doesn't seem very powerhungry or militant now that I'm in space. The speech my people use isn't hard, ruthless and demanding, but cute and happy.


So in other words, it's like some of us predicted, lots of interesting elements, clashed together to become a chaotic mess without meaning, consequence or reward.

The game doesn't meet it's own standards at all, and the potential is utterly wasted.

havin fun with it atm, not bored yet

Im in space too whiping out the Gnoxx. I thought it was a good idea untill I found out that they own every planet next to the center of the universe where you are suppose to get to.

I just blow up planets and whatnot and man after conquering some 60 of their planets.. it does get booring.

i think this game would have been better off as a dedicated strategy game sorta like empire earth but more epic in scale. Discuss

i'm more excited about what someone else is going to do with the ideas. the game itself looks meh.

I thought the cellular stage was pretty fun, but then it went downhill. I barely made it to the civ section where it asked me to design my house, factory, car, toilet, etc. I quit after that. Just felt like The Sims with monsters and minigames.

It's retarded how the only difference between military and religion is the animations. If I get really bored I might download Spore later. But 99% of the impressions I'm seeing are all terrible.

once again. Told you so.

It's ok. I honestly think the worst part about it is the DRM. Gameplay is passable, not nearly as revolutionary as Will Wright hoped it'd be.

Wolfman Walt wrote:It's ok. I honestly think the worst part about it is the DRM. Gameplay is passable, not nearly as revolutionary as Will Wright hyped it'd be.

fix0rz

Have any of you bought it, or are we talking mainly downloads? The stock creatures / worlds don't really fit in well with my schemes. Also, it's certainly repetative as fuck in its' tasks, so in a sense I'm thinking it borrows that bit from Oblivion, where the shitty mmo-style objectives are supposed to push you out to try shit that's out of context with what you're supposed to be doing, thus increasing the funzies of the game. Never really went well with me, and it gets harder to do the further into the game you are, but it's a somewhat decent timewaster.

I always had a problem understanding what spore is and I guess its because it looks like a whole bunch of different games smashed into one giant game but watered down. It never looked interesting either but maybe when they release a ton of expansions packs it will become good?

edit; @toxic

I was honestly going to. I was hoping that this would be Maxis' big comeback.

But I got it from a friend who'd finished the download at my place, so I thought I might as well try it out.

2 things about it.

No DRM, which is a good reason NOT to buy any game.
And I found out the game didn't really have any replayability value...

I finished from cell to spaceship in one setting again yesterday, and again I ended up feeling cheated for the cell - village phase where you create your creature.


Meeting new ones doesn't have any surprises at all...
I would have imagined that a flight based race would have some vicious air-superiority, or one based on poisons and spikes would have some bio weapons..

Granted, that wouldn't be as kid friendly, but there's hardly any variation.

St. Toxic wrote:Have any of you bought it

There was a discount of -21% at a local store if you'd preorder it... I did. I'm starting to regret it now, though.

the hype got you

Kashluk wrote:

St. Toxic wrote:Have any of you bought it

There was a discount of -21% at a local store if you'd preorder it... I did. I'm starting to regret it now, though.

You could just cancel it, y'know.

The galactic conquest mode is like XXXX for people with ADD, and for those without, it forces it on you. What I been seeing, has issues.

Everything feels like it was stopped way short of the initial design specs, and then polished to a high gloss. Granted, I haven't seen too many bugs, but at the expense of a real game.

I think pooper's take is just about perfect.

Wow i bought it too, and from all of this im regreting it. OMG fucking hype.
i too thought this was going to be maxis's comeback. fuck.

I'm still curious to hear how auto-downloading content impacts on the game, or rather, "toy" as it were. The idea of altering the universe with subtle actions, while contributing to the multiverse at the same time, is still intriguing and is an idea worth supporting.