Spore, why I like it

[Mrsoupcup]

So I've heard alot of people say spore is a bad game so as I play it I try to keep the Zp review in mind since yahtzee is what got me to but Saints row 2 and I loved it. With his review in my head I couldn't convince myself its a bad game. Its not the best but it does do somthing well, creation. Most games are about killing and destroying, but Spore is a rare game where your action are caused by how you create you species. Theres not a whole lot of options to move on kill , befriend... or both, but the game was always fun in a wierd sense. Its not game of the year but definatly a p.c. game worth buying. If you don't like Spore I can't blame you, but if you haven't played it, drop the fps and give it a try because there is nothing like it out there.

(On reflection Yahtzee did make valid points but his opinion isn't always mine I had a good time with is and you might to, also I found and blew up Earth and all the primative life on it: two words FUCKING AWSOME)

Edit: If this has been done whatever, I just bough Spore and wanted to discus it.

 

[Symp4thy]

I haven't played Spore and I probably won't for a while because my computer is too old. It does look like a lot of fun though, IMO. I agree with you about it being refreshing to have some games that aren't all about killing and destruction.

 

[LiL'Tic]

I agree with you, I played a short demo of spore and i found it to be amusing, i never ended up actually buying it (too many games on my "to get" list) but i found nothing wrong with it

 

[Abedeus]

I agree with you, I played a short demo of spore and i found it to be amusing, i never ended up actually buying it (too many games on my "to get" list) but i found nothing wrong with it

Play the demo, you played the best part of the game.

Space stage is pointless and poorly designed...

 

[Silver]

Spore WAS a bad game, but not because of the reasons Yathzee pointed out, his review of Spore was uncharacteristically bad, and not really about the game.

If you want to play The Sims and go buy Spore, of course you're going to be disappointed. But if you want to play The Sims and go play Portal you're also going to be disappointed.

The only thing actually good about Spore is that it tries something new, and that it's something fresh. The execution of that is horrendous though, which sadly still makes it one of the better new games on the market now. If there is every another game released in the same genre though, it's going to be better.

 

[Locastus]

Yep, the space stage was really underdeveloped, especially considering that it constitutes more than half the game. It should have had:

- A wider variety of missions
- A longer storyline
- A better end-game
- The ability to turn off random events

I heard about people who conquered the entire galaxy and all I could think was 'Damn, you must have a lot of patience. That's some serious grind.'

 

[Jovlo]

Although I think the creator tools in the game are fantastic, I think Spore is a terrible game.
There was no real connection between what you created and the gameplay, except whether your creatures were warmongering bastards or peaceful hippies. What I mean is that you could make creatures that defy the laws of gravity and it doesn't matter at all.
All the phases (my favourite being cell phase) were to short, to shallow and mostly to easy and space age felt rather pointless.

The automatic creation sharing sounds nice, but very often other people's creations are awful and you want them out of your game as fast as possible. For some reason, in space age, the starsystems near my creature were all filled with recolored versions of my creature with the same name, made by my 8-year old cousin. Not fun.

I was very excited for it at the beginning, but I was bored with it after two days.
In the end, I've had more fun with the creature creator then with the actual game.

 

[Zethos64]

I liked spore. The space stage was lacking but I made my ship look like the Enterprise from the first series. But it is a bit annoying with the random attacks. Though if you think about it what other life creation simulating games have even got as far as spore did?

I played Spore more for the beginning stages of actually creating your creatures. Thats why over half my planets are filled with odd creatures.

As for listening to Yahtzee's review, Hes a critic its his job to point out every bad thing in a game thats what they do. So I dont always listen to him and often give things a try anyway.

 

[uberpoi]

I rather enjoyed the fact that you got to create your creature anyway you wanted but the space stage was lacking.

Maybe if the makers didn't settle for mediocrity it would have been better.

 

[P1p3s]

i wished the opening level - 'primordial soup' stage was more involved coz you can move past that in about 5 mins, if there was more to it then that'd be a better 'in' to the game but I don't hate it, I won't spend hours playing it but it was worth a go.

 

[Maze1125]

I find the people who dislike Spore are the same people who dislike Wii-Music, i.e. people who decide what the game is meant to be and then get up set that the developer wanted it to be something else.

 

[Ghost]

i liked it, but really couldn't be arsed with the last bit, the space portion of the game..

 

[Tegual]

Speaking as one of those who conquered the entire galaxy, after making several species then conquering the qalaxy i said to myself, 'well that was interesting, time to move on' speaking of which how manty people have gotten to the centre of the universe and found that it was a waste of time and effort.

 

[Zenn3k]

The problem with spore is that it tries to do a little bit of everything, and does ALL of them very very poorly.

I played it for 2 days (3-5 hour sessions each day), once for carnivore and once for herbivore. The game is incredibly shallow and I never cared enough to try and beat space because it was so damn annoying. As soon as I got to a mission planet, I'm under attack, I fly all the way back to save my planet (because they are completely incapable of doing it themselves), kill the baddies, and leave to go back to the mission planet...and once I got there, I'm under attack AGAIN. It went on like that for about 30 minutes becfore I just said "screw this" and moved on to another game.

While the creation aspect is OKAY, its still shallow. It doesn't matter what you create its still the same creature. There is absolutely no difference between my 1 inch tall, 1 eyed, 1 legged, 2 armed (I would have used 1 if I could have) creature and my 10 foot tall, 10 legged, 10 armed creature (taking into account using the level 5 pieces), they play, act, and respond exactly the same. Sure, they look different, and walk different (although at the SAME SPEED!!) but as far as game mechanics go, there is no difference between them.

What's the point of having nearly unlimited creature creation possibilities if in the end, they are all the same creature?

Spore could have been a GREAT game, but they dumbed it down so my 2 year old niece can play it instead of making a game that was actually fun to play more than once (if that).

It was by far one of the biggest let downs of 2008, and in my humble opinion the worst game Will Wright has ever been involved in making.

 

[lightingbird]

Personally, I really enjoyed it. Well...

At least up to the tribe part of the game. After that it wasn't all that fun to me. Once I finally got to the space age on the hardest setting. I wasn't all that impressed. Keep in mind, I didn't put much into after this but I just didn't enjoy the game all the much. The city part of the game to me was kinda lame. I was expecting something hardcore along the lines of a real RTS. It just wasn't like that to me. It is a good game but unless I didn't play it long enough. Not enough to be great like the sims or pc game of the year.

 

[hamster mk 4]

Spore could have been a better game, but I was not incredibly disapointed in it. The ZP review gave me the expectation that it would be child's toy of a god game. Pretty colors, not much depth, and virtualy impossible to totaly fail. With that in mind spore met and exceeded my expectations. I found it to be fun on the same level as Loony Toons and Legos. Granted if I had gone in with the expectation of a functionaly complete life simulator I would have been disapointed.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Spore isn't TERIIBLE. Alot of it is pretty enjoyable. It's just a little underdeveloped imo. And disapointing cause the end version was alot different then alot of us were expecting from teasers and earlier footage....yea yea i know...i"ve read the other spore threads. With that being said in a very simplified manner the RTS sections are simple but fun and the mmoish first part all and all is pretty fun. Space is TERRIBLE and just as good a spot to stop and start re-playing as any. It's an okay game but was def either rushed through development, or butchered somewhere along the way and diced up into tiny expansion boxsets.

 

[gamshobny]

There's nothing wrong with it... if it would have been an indy-game. Seriously, it focussed on one gameplay element and stuck to it the whole time. There isn't anything specificly wrong with it, but with 4 years or so of development by profesionals, with a multi-milion dollar funding, I would have expected more varried gameplay.

 

[meglathon]

I liked it, but mabye, it need some more thing and way to creat.