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Just started fooling around with Spore yesterday and having a ball so far... seems too cool for words... I have tried a carnivore and an herbivore so far...  alot of cool toys to play with, you can make all kinds of different critters and even design their outfits and buildings and vehicles as you get into later stages.

I love the customization options... just amazing to look at.

Dave 

Edited by Kliebor2 - 09 Sep 2008 at 3:05am

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Kliebor2 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 22 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 656	Quote Reply Topic: Spore Posted: 08 Sep 2008 at 11:33am
	Just started fooling around with Spore yesterday and having a ball so far... seems too cool for words... I have tried a carnivore and an herbivore so far... alot of cool toys to play with, you can make all kinds of different critters and even design their outfits and buildings and vehicles as you get into later stages. I love the customization options... just amazing to look at. Dave Edited by Kliebor2 - 09 Sep 2008 at 3:05am
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Rolet Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 283	Quote Reply Posted: 08 Sep 2008 at 6:36pm
	People say its too simple, but I expected sim type game with creatures. So I'm all happy.
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Kliebor2 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 22 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 656	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Sep 2008 at 3:07am
	Simple does not have to mean bad. I do not understand why people take a game with simple relatively intuitive controls and spurn it because there are not 100 different keyboard shortcuts that you need to use to play the game. It is not supposed to be a frantic keypress game, it is supposed to be a fun diversion game, that can be lighthearted or a bit more combat oriented depending how you feel about it. Dave
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Clinton Members Profile Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 298	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Sep 2008 at 5:57pm
	This game looks really cool. Might have to pick it up sometime.


skyR Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Digital Storm Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2222	Quote Reply Posted: 09 Sep 2008 at 6:27pm
	evolution removed & renting a game = absolutely terrible good thing I didn't pre-order it..
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workingman Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 411	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:14am
	well i think it will be interesting...great change from see it..kill it..see another ...kill another mmo...............we all need a break now and then

Kliebor2 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 22 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 656	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 4:06pm
	So far I have enjoyed it alot... I am not fond of the copy protection, but it has not harmed any of my PCs and I have thus far had no issues with it. I will let you know if I do, but so far all it has been is fun. Dave
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SunfighterLC Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1527	Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 9:14pm
	Spore is so freaking broken right now its stupid, and its been so dumbed down that..its just horrible...I recommend you dont even bother until its tuned or patched..or just like sims releases 10,000 expansions to actually maybe add a little depth to a game completely lacking My gripes with spore: Cell stage: 1) Since when do cells have eyes? 2) It doesnt matter anyways remove the eyeballs and you can still see, just with a slightly smaller field of vision. 3) eggs and mates? We are freaking CELLS! Wasnt expecting much from this stage, so i dont have any technically grips with it, its probably the only stage that feels like it was actually complete. Creature: 1) Im getting DNA from bones? 2) 2 types of gameplay only. Run around and sing to creatures or kill them. 3) Too static, while some creatures do sometimes roam around, most of them are bunched up around nests that are just randomly thrown around. Think of it like MMO packs of mobs..thats basically what it is, its really bland and shows little life to the world... 4) kill a certain number of the same type of creatures and they go 'extinct' even if there are some left....the rest that are left just spin up into the air and vanish... ooookay.... 5) ZERO penaltiy for death...nothing...zero...in fact dying is a great way to get a free trip back home. This is a gripe for the whole game actually. 6) I have to eat...but i dont have to drink.... 7) Zero depth. Here is the layout. Your nest, walk 10 paces another creatures nest with random rep with you and a few bones for DNA. Go 10 paces from that, another creatures nest with random rep and bones, repeat till you hit the ocean. 8) scripted events, every game ive played there has been a meteor shower at the same time, and a spaceship showing up at the same points in the stage.....no random events, its all scripted....scripts are a no-no for a supposed 'sandbox' game. 9) Stats giving to parts, in increasing number...meaning basically the actually list of parts somebody will want for their creature is very limited. Creature stage is the begining of the slide downhill. Its not terrible, and in fact can be fun at times, especially if you make a creature that can glide. Tribal: 1) Just awful, I cant even put into words how bad this stage is. Just amazingly lack of depth and really seems to have a primitive (no pun intended) AI. About all it can do is randomly pick jobs for its tribe. 2)The attacks or raids are triggered scripts with a random % chance of happening, its obvious. So its not the AI doing anything, its just the AI responding to a command like a puppy. 3) The only editing you can do to anything is clothing and other nicknacks most of which will not look right on your creature unless you made them human like. And give perplexing bonuses....yea this hat gives gathering 3 and this other one gives combat 1....okay....what the hell does that mean? What is the difference between 1 and 3 other then 2? Its just a mystery other then knowing that 3 is better then 1..i guess. 4) Kill or sing......again.....but now in group form....great...and sing is stupidly mind numbingly easy. 5) If you are friendly and ally with everybody those other races just vanish when you enter civ stage...apparently you still killed them off....maybe with music. 6) everything in the early demo was gone, the original dancing around the fire, everything...now its just a generic mexican dance...which strangely i can only get one guy to do at time. Im gonna stop right there on tribal...just...its bad... Civ stage: 1) wow cool, I can make a factory, house or entertainment place...and somehow thats an entire city, so you end up with a repeatitive as hell looking city 2) Can the city builder get anymore basic? I think not. 3) Same generic goal of kill everything. You can kill them off with money bullets, religion bullets, or bullet bullets. Which btw...it doesnt matter how many guns you put on your cars, planes, or boats....or what types of weapons, they will shoot some genetic for their type weapon. 4) Cool..I just conquered a city using nothing but airplanes....Im sure the US would love that idea! 5) Your creatures stats and items all that time you spent in the editor are useless now, in fact you probably wont see your creature up close ever again, unless its in a diplomatic window. 6) Again, mind numbingly easy.... You know how if you have a 5 year old child/family member that plays computer games and they have their own little set of simple games they can play? and they wanted you to play their games and you were bored out of your freaking mind because it was just so damn easy....well that is how easy im talking about. I just dont wanna write anymore about civ stage...its stupid. Space Stage- 1) completely random if you can survive or not. Sometimes they put a stage 5 empire with military agressiveness right next to you...if that happens, youre dead..doesnt matter what you do. 2) Sandbox my ass. All youre doing is putting out stupid little fires eveywhere, you cant do anything you want because youre apparently the only ship in your entire freaking empire that can do anything..so you spent probably about 75% of your time putting out these fires everywhere...eco disaster this!! invasion that!!! sometimes it will pop up again before you can even leave the fing planet. and it just gets worse the more you expand because now you have more planets to get random crap. 3) oh...and if that isnt bad enough, you have to respond to your 'allies' eco disaster and other bullsht too....yea great...if you dont they hate you and will eventually probably declare war on you.....lovely AI there...it has an empire but damn it if it could handle its own affairs. 4) You can ask for peace by giving money to the guy to end the war, but even if you do sometimes they wont accept it, but still take your money. Alright well here is 90% of my money please stop attacking me....they take it* nope! kills you....So yea..now youre dead and broke. 5) you cant rename your planets. Great....I just love getting the warning eco disaster on planet Generic jumble of letters on system i cant even say it out loud. yea great..where the hell is that.... 6) no search function for star names.....yea great...i get to play hover around the dots to see what the name of each tiny dot is....fun.... 7) Its impossible to play peaceful...IMPOSSIBLE unless you cheat yourself to tons of money to pay off people that randomly DoW you. 8) After learning the quirks, space stage becomes once again stupidly easy...The AI loves to colonize T0 planets, which just means they get a city hall...guess what...forget the attacking defenders, just bomb the city hall..and since buildings are so weak in this game, it takes all of 2 bombs to destroy it..and TA DA they lose the system. Basically it takes less then 10 seconds to destory an entire colony on a T0 planet. yes that applies to yours too.... I just cant comment anymore..i just REALLY REALLY REALLY hate this game...it was such a let down.....its been so dumbed down that its just...dumb...
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Rolet Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 283	Quote Reply Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 10:21am
	This game was meant for casual people, not hardcore. Thats way many people are complaining, cause that harmed any depth the game had.
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SunfighterLC Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1527	Quote Reply Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 2:26pm
	Being for casuals shouldnt mean it has to be dumbed down to like a 2 year old intellegence level. To me casuals mean somebody that just doesnt have the time to play a lot, but they arnt stupid when it comes to games. Sims is a casual game as well, but it has a lot of depth and open ended gameplay, Spore on the other hand is just horrible. Basically the only way to survive more then 5 minutes in space stage is to just be aggressive as hell to everybody you see and clear out a buffer zone to sustain in for a while.
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widdlecat Members Profile Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 840	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 10:26pm
	The copy protection of only writing 3 times to a pc sux! WTF?


Nomak Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 444	Quote Reply Posted: 15 Sep 2008 at 11:34am
	I didnt buy the game on basis of DRM, waiting for hacked version here. Dont support EA! http://www.tomshardware.com/Spore-DRM,video-301.html Edited by Nomak - 15 Sep 2008 at 11:36am


SunfighterLC Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1527	Quote Reply Posted: 15 Sep 2008 at 3:37pm
	yea my bought version failed to install twice..so luckly it installed on the 3rd try or i was about to send it back to the store for a refund. Seriously though, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME...youll be extremely dissapointed....well not at first, like the first time you play though it will be fun...then when you blow though everything in like maybe an hour or two...youll be like....Is that it? Like i said.....it doesnt matter what you do with your creature, in the end, the space stage, everything is the same reguardless of what you did or how you designed your spacecraft..it doesnt matter at all...you bought a shallow weak ass game where all you get to do is the 3d models yourself...so now that i think about it...they did EVEN LESS work then a normal game does because at least on a normal shallow game..they had to take time to do the models...
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Duke Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Digital Storm Customer Service Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 262	Quote Reply Posted: 15 Sep 2008 at 5:26pm
	I agree. The game got very boring after 40 minutes, because thats all the time you need to beat the game. Or actually, thats how many game minutes are in the game. The only hours you will be spending, is in the editors making all your creatures, city halls and vehicles. Besides that, the game downright sucks. The tribal stage is the most enjoyable to me. Civilization was only fun because i enabled nukes and just demolished all rival civs. So after that 2 minutes, it got back to being boring. I took a nap. End Review. 2 out of 10 Edited by Duke - 15 Sep 2008 at 5:26pm
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SunfighterLC Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1527	Quote Reply Posted: 16 Sep 2008 at 1:52pm
	Oh by the way, if anybody wants my content on there ill be under the name Sunfighter of course =P just look me up and add me to buddies. I still play it just for something to do since i havent gotten a new game in a while... I cant find any game out right now or coming out in the next month or two that im excited about..so im just sorta wondering around. I might just reactive my WoW account again to kill some of the computer boredom ive had lately. All the games out right now can only hold my attention for a couple days at most =(
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MightyImp Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 8:12pm
	My 3 year old loves making creatures with me. It's not for the hardcore but if you have young kids it can be a lot of fun. If you want to see my creations look me up as ANDY1974. They are not that great compared to some but we had fun.