Reasons to buy spore.

#1 Posted by natural_deadhead (272 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

I have been following spore for a while and, I don't know if I should buy it now or not. Some people say its great, others say it sucks. Then there's the DRM issue. I hear if you install it like 4 times you cant use the cd key again? I guess what I really want know is if there is any reson to get this game.

#2 Posted by Demilich (2598 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

You'll like it if you're a casualfag.

#3 Posted by natural_deadhead (272 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

A casualfag?

#4 Posted by KindGalaxy (429 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

It's fun. It's hard to quantify it any other way, it has alot of customisation, not just the creature creator/vehicle creator/building creator stuff but in space stage you can blast planets with various shaped meteroites, raise and lower ocean levels, even paint the terrain and skies with your ship's abilities. It automatically populates you game on every level with other people's user generated content, you can updates on your Spore Page on other people encountering your creations, it's fun.

#5 Posted by breton (1426 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

It's hard to recommend the game. You won't really be missing much by skipping it, but it does give a reasonable amount of entertainment. It's really 50/50. If you want to spend, spend. If you don't, then don't regret it.

#6 Posted by coakroach (2383 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

Its a toy, not a game.
The cell stage is a wicked awesome version of pacman, creature stage is a watery action game, tribal is a strange rts involving your seemingly eternally hungry tribe of three eyed morons, civilization is a "spam units, build standard buildings repeat until victory" style of rts featuring your own potentially badass or hysterically retarded veichles.
And then theres space.
Ah yes, space.
You can fly around grinding delivery quests for moody alien warlords OR you can abduct entire cities, fly off to a volcano planet and drop the miserable alien bastards into a pit of hellfire.
Or you can fly around tribal planets, creating rivers where you see fit, isolating the small helpless villages as you ponder how you can exploit and/or bruttaly murder there race.

The game is only as fun as your mindset allows it to be

#7 Posted by Gamer_152 (13243 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

I think people here are being overly-critical of the game because they were expecting more from it. Of course the main fascination is the endless possibility which comes with the creation tools which can create an amazing amount of content to play with in your game and that can be shared with others, Brian Eno's music is all very atmospheric, the game provides a lot of variety in the different stages, the scale of the space stage gives you a ridiculously huge universe to explore and although the game is somewhat watered down for a more casual audience at its best the gameplay is very fufilling and addictive.

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#8 Edited by banned8921 (1246 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

Out of all the games made spore hardly needs any help to make a profit Id prefer to spend my time trying to get games like Logul mogul some sales, i doubt anyones even ever heard of this game i bets its got like 2 sales so far lol.

#9 Edited by breton (1426 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

Levio91 said:

"Out of all the games made spore hardly needs any help to make a profit Id prefer to spend my time trying to get games like Logul mogul some sales, i doubt anyones even ever heard of this game i bets its got like 2 sales so far lol."

... what?

#10 Posted by Sparky_Buzzsaw (4916 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

I've been thoroughly pleased with the game. From a pure creative standpoint, it's sheer genius. I spend hours just tinkering with the creators alone. However, I'll agree that the gameplay is a little weak, and I'm also a little frustrated with not being able to play the space stage without a dozen different alien attacks on my homeworld in a ten minute span.

If you have a creative mind, love to tinker with your games, and are willing to look past some weaker gameplay elements, Spore's really a fantastic game.

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#11 Posted by Roger_Klotz (705 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

Spore is fun. Even though their is some things you have to put up with, the game still achieves the status of a fun game. The creature creature has countless creations you can make and making your own vehicles and buildings brings another special magic to the game.

#12 Posted by baller (42 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago

Sounds. Fascinating.

Spore

Simulate the development and progression of an alien species as it evolves from a single-celled organism to a sapient level, rises up through various stages of civilization, and eventually becomes a space-faring species.

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