Giant Bombcast Spore Edition

Finally! Woot! Any time there is an extra Bombcast, everybody wins!

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Great podcast, guys. I mirror your mixed reactions to Spore. I enjoyed the experience but was somewhat disappointed by some of the simplicity and superficiality of the game mechanics.  I look forward to more special podcasts dedicated to some of the big releases this holiday season. Go bomb! 

I love you, and you're very smart. All of you. :)

Yes extra super edition cast of the bomb type.

Great discussion guys. I just started playing Spore and I'm halfway through the creature phase. And I have been having some mixed feelings. But the way you guys described the other phases, I'm definitely going to stick with it.

I never payed much attention to Spore but hearing you guys explain it in depth makes it seem really interesting, unique if nothing else, and I could probably look past some of your criticisms. I may pick it up some time.

Great job!

"I want more legs..." "NOW HE'S FASTER!"

Rofl Jeff!

I really love the idea Giant Bomb doing one episode of a podcast dedicated to a single title. Its a really uniuiqe thing you guys do, and although games dont come around to often that deserve it, I would love to seen it a little more.

LETS ROCK!!!

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later

Great podcsat - great game too. My purpods have just got into space at the beginning of stage 5. I've enjoyed it so far, tho it sounds like the space stage is the main focus for the game.

The game book says "beware the Grox - they don't understand relationships". has anyone met any Grox yet?

Awesome podcast as always.

The one stage in Spore I really didn't like was the Civilization stage...pretty lame.

1st post hoes.
Excellent podcast, informative and fun to listen to. :D

Here's the thing they should have done with Spore:

YES, SPORECAST!!

"You encountered Man. You're dead."   Awesome.

So I actually have an online shopping cart set up with Spore in it. My decision to buy rests upon my feelings about the game after this Bombcast.

Your regular shows need as much anti religion as this one had. Awesome job!

great podcast, wow, now that's how you discuss a game people!

Well done again! It was a great podcast about a game I knew nothing about annnnd you've convinced me not to buy it.

Congrats to its four stars but I'll leave others to play the first three modes and then have a ball with the last ones, good luck.

Great spore-cast, good way for indept reporting on games that is not an actual review. (spore review was excelent though :)

Wow, you guys raped this game. If Will Wright was dead, he'd be turning in his grave.

I went out and bought Spore immediately after listening to this. I was kinda conflicted on whether or not to buy it after reading the somewhat lack-lustre reviews around the net. But it's your word that counts the most and I am sure I won't be disappointed.
Thanks guys and keep it coming.

The Civilization stage is totally making me its bitch right now. Fucking orange team...

Spore sounded really cool, but I knew I would never play it since it's PC only and had been passing this podcast up for about a week. Listened to it last night and really enjoyed it. I guess I just find the Giantbomb crew's take on games and life fascinating. Probably won't play Spore but enjoyed the show.

P.S. I guess I'll just be the first one to say: Hey where's this week's Giantbombcast? I'll be checkin' in every half hour or so 'till it's up.

Bombcast! Bombcast! Bombcast!

DUDES!!! 15 more minutes and you would have convinced Jeff to keep playing Spore.  YOu almost have him. I just hope you convinced him during office hours. =D

Is it tuesday? Why isn't there a bunch of crazy people here yelling "Bombcast!".

WHERE MA BOMBCAST I WANT TO SLEEP WHERE IS IT!? *CRIES*


HAPPY NOW CLEVERLOGINNAME?

Yes, actually... *cough*

Just waiting, not complaining...

ryans profile has the pic for the mainpage and the smaller one up so it should be any minute now

damn, not up yet...guess i'll DL it in the morning.

Shoulda been up 15 minutes ago.

this is real fun show to listen to.

@Anwar:

I felt like they were bringing up the games low points very often, but as a whole (and lets be honest we don't play games as much as they have to) it really is just a fun game to pick up and play through. And at a discount price the game is well worth playing if you haven't yet. There is nothing quite like it, but like they said the only really interesting part of the game that holds up on its own is the ending of the game where you are basically playing civ in space terraforming planets and blowing up other aliens, otherwise it tries to clone other styles of games (and not very well). The game as a whole just has this undeniable charm when you look back at how you grow up from a single cell, to mastering the universe. I've already beaten it twice, and re-listening to this is just making me want to reinstall it again.

It's 2018. What are you doing in the comments reading this?

Man, when Spore was supposed to be the next big thing and turned out to be nothing more than short-lived fuel for stupid videos of space-dick-monsters and horrible anti-consumer DRM. But has the industry learned anything from Darkspore? (Spoiler: no.)

Praise Spode!