Spore out soon

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Am I wrong or are the Epic Creatures in the Creature Stage impossible to kill unless you're willing to spend 2+ hours shooting it and running away? The game says they're not to be taken on without a pack of serious motherfuckers, but even the special rogue creatures die in two in two hits. I've also tried with a pack of my own species which have level 5 of every attack, ability, health, speed, and 4+ diplomacy, but even the alphas die in one hit and can't drop it more than 100 health before all dying.

Yeah, no fucking idea on that one either. I had about the same luck as you.

Goddammit, Jimbob. Those aren't multi-headed dicks. They're just giant dick shafts with four other giant dicks sticking out of them but none of are multi-headed.

It was a compromise between look and ability okay
You do better

So is the game terrible or what? I'm downloading it now and it's at 90% or so, should I keep going? :aiee:

It's not bad, just average and incredibly shallow. Might as well keep going.

 

[Lord Chambers]

So is the game terrible or what? I'm downloading it now and it's at 90% or so, should I keep going? :aiee:

It's Oblivion's facegen on top of SimEarth and Civilization. Keep going, just know what it is.

 

[Kingston]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54595

Somehow I'm under suspicion that Will Wright is more of a businessman than a game designer.

 

[PennyAnte]

I'm so glad I waited on this one and didn't pay $10 - for the right to pad out their content! - by buying the creature creator either.

Nooo thanks.

And I had such high hopes.

 

[shihonage]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54595

Somehow I'm under suspicion that Will Wright is more of a businessman than a game designer.

Ah, the last salvo of epic, yet vague, claims to boost the sales. Figures.

Both Wright and EA hope that Spore will be another cultural mega-hit, much like Wright's ultra-successful The Sims franchise.

The Sims attracted humongous numbers of women. Spore lacks that appeal completely. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Cultural mega-flop will be more like it.

 

[thesheeep]

Naah, it won't flop.

It just won't be as successful as the Sims in the long run.

 

[PennyAnte]

Cultural mega-flop will be more like it.

Still, the preorder sales and initial rush sales will give them enough incentive to expand at least once or twice. Plus, they've poured so much into the IP already they won't let it die just because it didn't fare so well after the initial sprint out the door.

 

[shihonage]

It depends on how you define the fate of Black & White. B&W didn't really flop, because they made enough money for the sequel (which no one played). In that sense, this game won't flop either.

However its not going to be a phenomena, especially one comparable to Sims in popularity.

 

[Kingston]

I don't see it becoming a phenomenon either. I don't see non-gamers buying it. It'll sell millions, sure, but nowhere near the numbers of The Sims.

 

[sportforredneck]

I'm really enjoying it, myself. I'm the 3rd brain size or so on the creature stage. But I also decline the Codex, so my opinion holds no value.

Plus I feel some amount of disgust that I have murdered and eaten the babies of creatures in front of them, and killed parents in front of their children..before killing the children. Seems wrong when given deeper thought, but fuck diplomacy, the world is mine by the sword.

 

[DefJam101]

moar liek snore amirite?

 

[kingcomrade]

Okay, so....Spore sucks, it seems like. It's kinda fun up until you get to the tribal stage. Then it's a shit sandwich.

 

[Inziladun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvmA93D ... re=related

best game eva. Just look at all the related videos too.


personal fave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6dVbutY ... re=related

 

[Lord Chambers]

Am I wrong or are the Epic Creatures in the Creature Stage impossible to kill unless you're willing to spend 2+ hours shooting it and running away?

I finally killed one. How? I backpedaled while spamming spit all the way across the continent and back. Eventually it got stuck or decided not to chase me through some trees, so I continued to pelt it while wondering if I was going to starve to death before I could finish it. As I got it into the 600s another Epic came up behind me and almost got me. I ran away, and while they were both following me it appears one struck another, and they started fighting. The 1000 health one killed the other one and started eating it. I yelled "counts as mine" and advanced to the tribal stage.

Here's my entertainment building. It's really cute when it shows up as a thumbnail on the regular menus screens.

 

[Naked Ninja]

Anyone else have the game immediately crash to desktop on trying to startup the cell game? I can access all the editors, play around creating things, but the minute I try to, you know, play, it bombs. So much for the collectors edition, fuck it.

 

[Fez]

I've had the odd CTD too, NN.

I wouldn't go out of your way to buy this one. It seems unfinished. Makes me think of that time one of the developers mentioned a later release date and the publishers quickly stepped in to say it would be out on schedule for this month. It could have done with a little longer by the look of things. Maybe a Christmas release.

If you get to the space stage then have fun with the endless waves of pirates and other nonsense that keeps you too busy to do any of the experimental stuff that you remember from the teaser trailers and so on with Will. There isn't enough content and what it is there gets dull too quick, I feel. If nothing is removed from an inventory then you may see some of the problems for yourself. Give this one a miss, at least until there has been an expansion or two and you can get it all as a "gold" edition or some such.

 

[SuicideBunny]

I yelled "counts as mine"

only does if you got the achievement for it.

 

[Kingston]

Well, I managed to create a race of Baatezu and some other PST characters. Then I got kinda bored.

 

[RK47]

raised a bunch of carnivorous cow people and given them some shamanistic tribal civilization before crashing to bed at 4 am. Uh....what a weird game, can I add udders on them? It looks weird when my cow lays eggs.

 

[Kingston]

Watching that 2k5 GDC video again, oh what could have been...

D;

 

[kingcomrade]

Ok, uninstalled. I suppose I had it for three days before I decided it kinda sucks. The creature creator is the good part of the game, even though it doesn't have much balance or anything. The rest of the game is just trying to find something to do with what you did in the creature creator.

 

[sportforredneck]

There's a lot more structure than The Sims. It actually gives you things to do. So it's not randomly running around except for maybe the space age which I'm almost on, just not yet.

 

[Heresiarch]

This is a good game for kids and girlz and for a little lulz. Personally I really really really hate the Sims ("WTF why not get a real life instead of playing a virtual life blah") but I don't hate Spore so far. It's like reviving a bit of my long dead childhood part of my brain. It's been dead since I've touched the horrible Rofl Pussy Gayme two decades ago.

 

[Jeff Graw]

Tribal and industrial sections are worthless. The space portion is actually somewhat cool, and if there was some kind of a plot, it could be a good game by itself. You just know that a couple years and a half dozen expansions later this "game" is going to be fleshed out and awesome.

Now, if someone could only mod the planets to be about 10 times bigger.

 

[Balor]

Tribal and industrial sections are worthless. The space portion is actually somewhat cool, and if there was some kind of a plot, it could be a good game by itself. You just know that a couple years and a half dozen expansions later this "game" is going to be fleshed out and awesome.

Now, if someone could only mod the planets to be about 10 times bigger.

Indeed. Space stage actually reminds me of SC a little... indeed, flesh it out more, add some more plot and more/better trading and diplomacy options... and you have a winner.
And I also second the 'half a dozen expansions'.
Though, since it kept me intertained for a weekend, I think I'll buy it - space age was a really pleasant surpize.