Zero Punctuation: Spore
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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You peaked with your digs at Devil May Cry and just got less funny from there. Not only because you wasted weeks complaining at Nintendo but because you didn't bother playing Brawl you review fighting games in general and the box art. Some point after that you said "hey if I can get all those comments not playing a game why don't I just fake it every time?" And here we are watching a review of spore where you shout "NO" for 3 minutes twice and you become a hypocrite making fun of a game for its art when that was the credit of your first good review. Y, your like a child doing book reports without reading the books now. The enter class can tell you we your pants.
Reading through this thread about people's opinion on the drawn out no's...
Overreact much people?
The first d.o.n. was only 15 seconds long (yes, I timed it)
The second one was only 4, and was cut off at the end of the video.
Not THAT much time, if you ask me.
Oh, and after rewatching...I do get a chuckle out of the Bat-UFO in the end credits.
Overreact much people?
The first d.o.n. was only 15 seconds long (yes, I timed it)
The second one was only 4, and was cut off at the end of the video.
Not THAT much time, if you ask me.
Oh, and after rewatching...I do get a chuckle out of the Bat-UFO in the end credits.
This didn't feel like a review at all.
Sure, Spore has problems, but why compare it to the Sims, when it doesn't actually have much in common with it? Hey, I have an idea, let's compare it to Tetris and complain how much the puzzle aspect sucks and how Spore totally failed to recreate the glorious experience of Tetris. Guess what? It didn't try to.
Yes, it's a designer tool game. And it should bloody be reviewed as such.
Sure, Spore has problems, but why compare it to the Sims, when it doesn't actually have much in common with it? Hey, I have an idea, let's compare it to Tetris and complain how much the puzzle aspect sucks and how Spore totally failed to recreate the glorious experience of Tetris. Guess what? It didn't try to.
Yes, it's a designer tool game. And it should bloody be reviewed as such.
I disagree ihave both the sims and spore and spore is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much fucking better for a couple of reasons you get to control a entire race it's more interesting than the sims and you didn't mention the omnivore option but i agree that charels dickens would turn in his grave propoley
Well its to bad that the people who were looking foward to spore half to crawl under a rock and die of disapointment.
As long as Saints Row 2, Far Cry 2, and anything eles thats still lasting dosen't fail i'll still be here.
P.S.- No offense to Rockstar but if you come out with something like GTA Tokyo i'll still buy it.
P.P.S.- I fear for half life but it definately lived up to its name in the long run.
As long as Saints Row 2, Far Cry 2, and anything eles thats still lasting dosen't fail i'll still be here.
P.S.- No offense to Rockstar but if you come out with something like GTA Tokyo i'll still buy it.
P.P.S.- I fear for half life but it definately lived up to its name in the long run.
Was kindof expecting this one to be on this week, and after playing spore, I'm not surprised yahtzee doesn't like it.
For me, spore was incredibly disappointing. The editors are all awesome, very nice job there. The game just isn't making me want to play it for much longer. There were a few very cute things that I really liked, the impressing creatures/tribes for example, that was somewhat challenging at times.
All in all, my feelings about spore can be summed up as: "I got the the space age, yay for me, now back to Civ IV where religion isn't just an excuse for harp shaped guns."
For me, spore was incredibly disappointing. The editors are all awesome, very nice job there. The game just isn't making me want to play it for much longer. There were a few very cute things that I really liked, the impressing creatures/tribes for example, that was somewhat challenging at times.
All in all, my feelings about spore can be summed up as: "I got the the space age, yay for me, now back to Civ IV where religion isn't just an excuse for harp shaped guns."
The thing that shits me off about people here is that no one ever really seems smart enough to accept something for what it is, and instead applies disappointment for it not being what you wanted. Assassin's Creed was the most prevalent game to suffer this petty inanity recently. You all put it on this giant pedestal of the purest shimmering samite and chased silver so when it didn't meet your lofty expectations you suddenly get all butthurt and claim it was crap.
The same goes for Spore. You're all here bitching about how much of a letdown it was, but whose fault is that? Will Wright's fault for not making it as good as you wanted? No, it's YOUR fault for having impossible expectations and then whinging because it's not everything you assumed it would be.
Spore is a GREAT game, technically (if not graphically) brilliant and a whole lot of fun. It's not the super single-cell-to-space-age sim you were expecting, but it's well worth your time and dollar.
And the same goes for Ben's reviews. You're all having a cry because it doesn't cover points of a game, or doesn't address certain things, or doesn't sound like an impartial review. Well here's the thing - he's not here to write unbiased, impartial reviews of the good and bad points of games. His reviews are entertainment, because people like listening to an irate Englishman rip the shit out of games while making dick jokes. Take them for what they are, not what you think they should be.
The same goes for Spore. You're all here bitching about how much of a letdown it was, but whose fault is that? Will Wright's fault for not making it as good as you wanted? No, it's YOUR fault for having impossible expectations and then whinging because it's not everything you assumed it would be.
Spore is a GREAT game, technically (if not graphically) brilliant and a whole lot of fun. It's not the super single-cell-to-space-age sim you were expecting, but it's well worth your time and dollar.
And the same goes for Ben's reviews. You're all having a cry because it doesn't cover points of a game, or doesn't address certain things, or doesn't sound like an impartial review. Well here's the thing - he's not here to write unbiased, impartial reviews of the good and bad points of games. His reviews are entertainment, because people like listening to an irate Englishman rip the shit out of games while making dick jokes. Take them for what they are, not what you think they should be.
I knew he would hate it and i figured he would review it. I personaly like Spore but then again i have a better grasp of the social mechanics than Ben seems to. I played an herbivore race that tore the shit out of the other races in the creature stage, lulled them into musical complacency in the tribal stage, and finished with a big heaping helping of aerial bombardments and ICBM launches. Which is far from the way he paints herbivores.
Now i would have liked more in the first few stages and less gameplay piled up in the Space stage, which is also the point the games gets bogged down and tries its best to stop you from expanding beyond a few planets.
Now i would have liked more in the first few stages and less gameplay piled up in the Space stage, which is also the point the games gets bogged down and tries its best to stop you from expanding beyond a few planets.
Yes! I had a feeling you would be doing Spore. Or maybe it was just wishful thinking because of all the wank over the game with it's securom and such. This just wraps it all up for me nicely because no one has really wanked about the game itself that I have seen. Though the fact it has Securom is enough to turn me off of it.
Enjoy your work, you always manage to make me laugh.
Enjoy your work, you always manage to make me laugh.
