spore ^_^

[.:kerrod:.]

what think you?

I wouldn't say it's a 'compelling' game but it's fairly entertaining...it makes me want to keep playing, but not to the point where i can't get off it, which is good, i guess

so yeah, how many of you have gotten your hands on this game already and what do you think?

[Roto13]

I haven't played it, but I've been paying attention to it. :P The general consensus of the reviews is that it's not nearly as deep or engrossing as a game that follows life itself from the primordial ooze all the way to exploring the universe should be, but it's still good. xP

[Psychotic]

My brother has it and I watched him play it for a while. Yeah, it's interesting and all that, but it's not earth-shatteringly brilliant.

[Moon Rabbits]

I thought it was being released on the 7th. Or the 27th ... something like that.

Anyway, I'm still excited.

[Roto13]

It was leaked a couple of days ago. :P

[Miriel]

The only reason I'm kind of interested in this is cause it's available for Mac. I watched my cousin play the demo on his Macbook Pro, and I was just like, "whoaa... a game. On a Mac!"

Not exactly sold on the idea that making little monster creatures is gonna be all that fun.

[Markus. D]

I think they maybe overhyped it just a slight.

But from what I've seen it looks like another solid Wright-brand game.

[Madame Adequate]

It got overhyped, but that wasn't exactly Maxis' fault. (They actually tried to dampen the hype down.) But if you discard expectations of game of the century or whatever, and just go in with the intent of having fun - you'll have a load of fun. It's not perfect, but yeah I spent about an hour tinkering around building a spaceship and I enjoyed every minute, and the last result.

General consensus seems to be think of Spore as a toy more than as a game.

[Yew-Yevon]

I have the creature creater but I got pissed off when it said I need internet to play it. I don't have an online conection I even have some animals I made in the trial virsion I wanted to upload through the library.

[DMKA]

I'm about to steal it and play it. Hasn't everyone been saying it'll hands down be the best game ever for the last two or so years?

[Yeargdribble]

I bought the game early in the morning of release (because I was up). It's a good game. It's fun if a bit repetitive. I'd have to say the hype may have been too much. The concept is awesome, but the result leaves a bit to be desired. I didn't believe the reviews that said early stages were a bit too simplistic, but they were right. These are still fun, but I could see people forgoing them on replays just because of the repetitive nature. Even with new creatures each time it's just not going to be that different because the game-play (most notably in creature and tribal stages) is going to be the exact same regardless of the variety of other creatures.

The big no-no is the DRM. You get 3 installations... period. This is not a purchase, it's a rental. If you are the type that changes hardware or likes to format their HD with any regularity I'd suggest not buying the game.

I'm not one for piracy, but honestly, the only way to get the 'full' version of this game is by pirating it so that you aren't limited. I'll probably end up pirating it to supplement my retail copy simply because I do tend to format at least once or twice a year and I have several computers I'd like to put it on and don't feel that I should be limited on where I'm allowed to play the game I purchased.


All that said, it is a good, solid game. It is enjoyable, but sadly I don't think it lives up to the hype and it has some costly strings attached.

[scrumpleberry]

My puta isn't new enough for it x) Played a friend's copy and loved it. Not the best game evar by any means, but very very good and fun nonetheless.

[smittenkitten]

I think it's awesome! It's just sooo huge, there's like over 500,000 planets or something. That's just crazy. I'm really enjoying it, I'm at space level and kicking galatic butt. :kaofight:

[Loony BoB]

Never paid a huge amount of attention to the hype aside from thinking "Hey, this game looks interesting and it's one of the few out there that I'd like to buy."

I love it. I don't care that it's extremely simple for the most part - I've been playing it on normal and it felt like easy until I realised that Danielle's game in the space stage was way more difficult than mine. She got surrounded by red in a very quick way and the amount of star systems she could colonise were extremely limited in comparison to my game. She restarted the space stage and had a relatively easy run, so I think a lot of it has to do with the randomised starting system layout and so forth. You could get a good or bad run depending on these sort of things.

To me it quickly became a sort of RP/RTS game once it got to the space stage. I'm ignoring the earlier stages because they are so tiny in comparison to this stage. But yeah, I enjoy it well enough. If you've seen some of my threads in this forum you know I'll love exploration-styled games, and this is right up my alley. I love that I can explore an entire galaxy and meet genuine aliens. I say 'genuine' in that there aren't just the same ten guys that most other games will restrict it to.

There could be a lot more to it, sure. But there could be a lot more to a lot of games. I think the pacing is actually perfect, really - particularly during the final stage (again). That helps a lot, because I haven't got to the point that I got to in other exploration-styled games (yet) such as Oblivion, where I just think "Eh, now for another pointlessly long journey to get to the next point of the game where I basically do the same thing I did just now (yawn)."

[Captain Maxx Power]

DRM is killing the reviews on Amazon and such for this game, the same way that Mass Effect did. I don't know when EA will get the message that we don't want to become part of their evil empire just to play some evolution simulator. I've refused to buy both Mass Effect and Spore because of these ridiculous draconian anti-piracy measures.