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Surfheart said:
Same specs here, good to know how well it runs that helps ease my worries
When are they gonna' have this bitch at the Mac store?
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Same specs here, good to know how well it runs that helps ease my worries
When are they gonna' have this bitch at the Mac store?
Mr_Appleby
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no kuiper belt objects??? sales -1 death & wee etc.
nah but seriously. i didn't realise this was out. and it is. how...... anticlimactic.
nah but seriously. i didn't realise this was out. and it is. how...... anticlimactic.
Revolutionary
Member
Get with the times, man!!!Sharp said:
But yeah, on topic: I just finished the creature stage...
Um.. I'm not sure how to feel about the game so far.
It's interesting, to say the least... but it's not very deep. The thing I like the most in the game is the creature creator and the evolution of your species. It's awesome.
The cell stage was pretty uninspired (flOw), and the creature stage was just monotonous.
Still, it's not without it's charm.... and I've only scratched the surface, so to speak.
Well, back to the game!
Earth? Wow. I wonder if its populated with normalish animals when you land. Not prehistoric since it doesnt look like Pangaea...Why didnt he land? Ugh game is taking too long.
The creature creator was a huge success here, I just hope enough people get the full game to make a GAF universe. If not...then guess i'll make due :lol
The creature creator was a huge success here, I just hope enough people get the full game to make a GAF universe. If not...then guess i'll make due :lol
I'm like 90% sure it's just your creatures and other content, but there's a distant possibility that planets are involved as well. But I get the impression that the service is tied to Sporepedia, so since planets are not in Sporepedia they're unlikely to be shared.Teknoman said:
Mdk7 said:
You can't play as any of the creatures you've created in the Creature Creator. Well at least to start with, as you have to start as a cell and then you gain other parts along the way, that you can add to your creature. I think you can possibly play as one of your Creatures if you decide to replay a stage later on again, but I'm still going through it all for the first time so haven't explored that much yet.
The species I've encountered in the Creature stage have been a mix of Maxis created creatures as well as those that I have downloaded from the Spore site (you can download creatures from the Spore site from within the game's Sporepedia.. you don't need to actually go to spore.com in a web browser and download the images, etc), as well as creatures from people I have chosen to be 'Buddies' with. I haven't looked much into the sporecast system yet, I find it ok just to be buddies with people so far.
Oh and yes.. I have encountered one of the creatures I created as well, so it was good fun befriending them!
If anyone is interested in seeing my progress (along with the pretty cool achievements) so far my profile is here:
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/farronfox
Stryder said:Hey guys, loving the game so far, nearing the end of the creature stage but want to get my guy just right before moving on.
My Spore id is "Denright"
Feel free to add me! The more user-created creatures in my worlds the better.
Same! I've already completed the Creature stage and so can progress to the Tribal level, whenever but I'm just enjoying hanging out in the Creature stage as long as possible to find as many parts as I can, gain as much DNA and befriend as many creatures as I can.
Just noticed the Spore site is down though and so I can't even log in properly to the game. I'll check your creatures out when I next go into it. Can be quite fun to find other people's creatures playing the role of 'Epics'!
Stoney Mason
Banned
Thread needs more impressions from the people who have bought it...
Well I 've only played for avout 10 hours so far.
The early stages are pretty much preparation for your space age .The choices that you make early in the game will of course be carried to the latter stages. For example ,early in the game ,my creature was fitted with a body part that gives stealth ability. Later on ,in the tribal stages ,where it plays like RTS ,my creatures are able to launch a sneak attack to the nearby villages .
I find the early stages to be quite short .Heck, you can even fire an ICBM missile which instantly destroys all the civilization in the map :lol .
my account: Kleopard
The early stages are pretty much preparation for your space age .The choices that you make early in the game will of course be carried to the latter stages. For example ,early in the game ,my creature was fitted with a body part that gives stealth ability. Later on ,in the tribal stages ,where it plays like RTS ,my creatures are able to launch a sneak attack to the nearby villages .
I find the early stages to be quite short .Heck, you can even fire an ICBM missile which instantly destroys all the civilization in the map :lol .
my account: Kleopard
Revolutionary
Member
My impressions pt 2:
The Tribe stage has to have THE worst pathfinding AI in the history of videogames. It's godawful and absolutely frustrating at times ("WHAT THE FUCK! There's nothing in between you and the enemy, fucking attack him!").
Ugh.
Thankfully, I just reached Civilization, so here's hoping it gets better.
Overall, the game is alright.
I absolutely love the evolution bit in the Creature stage... it's excellent. However, it's clear that the MAIN focus of the game during development was customization (Cell/Creature customization = evolution; Tribe customization = equipment), because most of the other game mechanics seem to be afterthoughts or not thought out very well at all (Tribe = worst RTS ever; Creature = food chain simulator, with a rhythm game if you choose to play it out peacefully; Cell = flOw).
Meh... I'm starting to regret my purchase...
Again, here's hoping it picks up.
The Tribe stage has to have THE worst pathfinding AI in the history of videogames. It's godawful and absolutely frustrating at times ("WHAT THE FUCK! There's nothing in between you and the enemy, fucking attack him!").
Ugh.
Thankfully, I just reached Civilization, so here's hoping it gets better.
Overall, the game is alright.
I absolutely love the evolution bit in the Creature stage... it's excellent. However, it's clear that the MAIN focus of the game during development was customization (Cell/Creature customization = evolution; Tribe customization = equipment), because most of the other game mechanics seem to be afterthoughts or not thought out very well at all (Tribe = worst RTS ever; Creature = food chain simulator, with a rhythm game if you choose to play it out peacefully; Cell = flOw).
Meh... I'm starting to regret my purchase...
Again, here's hoping it picks up.
Revolutionary
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Is that when the game is supposed to pick up?MMaRsu said:
In the very last stage?
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It only takes about five or six hours to get there, and then the stage itself lasts way longer than all of the others combined. The other four stages are basically preparation for Space, and at least according to the developers their goal was that over 50% of people who played would make it to Space. Space actually has a sort of endgame goal that is fairly difficult to achieve.Revolutionary said:
Again--everyone's supposed to be in space now. We're all gamers, we get through the tutorial-esque stages relatively quickly. But the first four stages were designed specifically to make it relatively easy to get to Space (which is also the part that Will Wright actually spent the most time on), even for people whose only other gaming experience was something like The Sims.Farnack said:
Revolutionary
Member
Hmm.Sharp said:
Well then... I look forward to finishing Civilization tomorrow and entering the Spage Age.
TheHeretic
Banned
Sharp said:
Oh god, its happening all over again!
Stoney Mason
Banned
Sharp said:
Funny enough I just got through reading the AU IGN review where they gave it 9.2
http://pc.ign.com/articles/907/907287p1.html
These number systems are so arbitrary.
This sort of thing is exactly what I was afraid of from everything I heard about this game - that it would be a creature sandbox with a thin gameplay shell rather than an actual full-fledged game. I'm skeptical about a purchase at this point, sandboxes don't tend to keep me entertained very long. I hardly even touched the creature creator.
The whole point of the game is really to go from structure gameplay to the huge sandbox / game of the space stage (which from all the reviews and impressions I've heard is pretty deep) so if you don't like exploration, creating stuff and sandbox gameplay then you probably shouldn't get the game, since that's really what it's fundamentally about. The sandbox aspect is one of the big reasons I've been excited for the game so long, but it seems like some people were not expecting one even after everything else Will Wright has created.Zek said:
I got the game yesterday and I'm a bit disappointet. The first two stages were really boring. Just walk around, eat monsters, kill you neighbours. You don't have much money / DNA to improve your creature. The tribe stage was a bit better. Really good was the civ stage. I love to create my own car, house, ... now I'm in the space stage and the game is getting again boring.
The game isn't shit, but it's not a big hit. Sure, it is fun to create a own species but the game is to linear. And every single stage plays like the light version of games like AoE, ...
The game isn't shit, but it's not a big hit. Sure, it is fun to create a own species but the game is to linear. And every single stage plays like the light version of games like AoE, ...
Stoney Mason
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Zek said:
I love sandbox games. The Sims, SimCity, etc. The only thing that turns me off potentially is having to go through some of the phases I might not like although I guess people say you can skip them although that would feel weird to me.
The first stage and the last stage sound terrific to me but the RTS stages not so much.
My biggest issue so far is the fact that while there's a wealth of things you can put on your creation in the creature stage, there's really no reason to do anything other than constantly upgrade to the most powerful parts. In fact, there's not even any point keeping the old parts, because they're worth more as trade-ins.
Just seems to suck a lot of the life out of it.
Just seems to suck a lot of the life out of it.
Stoney Mason
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alistairw said:
How do you mean most powerful?
I was hoping it was more like customization where it's like any choice is potentially valid...
HarryHengst
Member
This is my biggest disappointment. I hope its a bug, in the creature creator adding more things added the score together. So you could add 4 armorpieces for health + 4, instead of health +1 from the first one and the other three are cosmetic as it is now. :/alistairw said:
So far i find cell the best stage, together with creature. Tribal & civ are boring pieces of shit and space is frustrating thanks to all the goddamn pirate attacks all the time. Stupid homeworld which cant defend itself.
Each part has a score (like bite +1 for a mouth, or bite +5 for another mouth). This is the biggest problem, there is no reason to use the bite +1 mouth except for aesthetic reasons. But if you do that you're making the game much harder for yourself. It's so fucked up stupid that i have no idea why Maxis thought this was a good idea.Stoney Mason said:
If you used the creature creator, you saw that there were stats on the right. In the vehicle editor the parts are just applied proportionately, but in the creature stage there are certain parts that are definitely better. But I also feel that choosing your creature's parts solely based on their stats in the creature stage is missing a big part of what Spore is about.Stoney Mason said:
I'm pretty sure Maxis did it because otherwise there was no incentive to find more parts later in the Creature Game. I know there are Space phase upgrades for dealing with the pirate attacks issue, but the general aggression of the AI is I think something that is likely to be patched quickly since a number of people have complained about it.HarryHengst said:
Rentahamster
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:lolSharp said:
I'm still buying it, dammit! I paid $10 for the creature creator too! I will see my max stat realistic PEINS monster in the wild, so help me...!
HarryHengst
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The incentive should be finding parts for their aesthetic quality to give your creature the exact look you want it to have. Now its the other way around, you keep searching for things to improve the skills, not the looks of your creature.Sharp said:
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