Spore: A Failure?
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sucksforyou112
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To the OP- I agree with the second post. It was really dumbed down, and I hate how good it could have been, 'cause I can't have it now! 
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You also have: "Kill your enemy by luring an epic creature to their base".
Maxis really took the "E for Everyone" rating to heart, unfortunately.
Daftpanzer
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Its like a good meal, tasty to begin with, but somewhat less tasty once its already passed through you.
After massive anticipation, I thought it was going to be great. Well, the cell stage was great, but it should´ve been a LOT longer, and they missed a couple of stages out in there. Creature stage was good at first, but got boring later. Tribal Stage was pure 
. Civ Stage involved too much creating stuff, but it was OK I guess. I never went past the beginning of the Space Stage, it takes way too long to do anything.
. Civ Stage involved too much creating stuff, but it was OK I guess. I never went past the beginning of the Space Stage, it takes way too long to do anything.
Daftpanzer
canonically ambiguous
Same here, I did some random exploring to see how far I could get before my ship blew up, but that was it.
Angelscotboi
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I just want to add my opinion.
Spore is the worst game ive ever bought. Even considering Master of Orion 3.
Its just terrible. Made worse by the fact that it COULD have been so much more than what it is. In each stage you can basically only do 2 things. Ally with everyone or conquer everyone.
There is no other strategy.
The game is so simple a 3 year old could play it. My nephew at 9 years old had a shot of it - was on space stage within about an hour - and after a few hours playing it he stopped and declared it the most boring game ever and asked to play Star Wars Empire at War (which is quite a bit more complicated than Spore).
They took out all the potential, all the cool functions, in order to make the game appeal to "everyone" and instead rendered it utterly bland and boring.
I got talked into getting the Galactic Edition as well. Biggest waste of money ever.
Eugh.
Spore is the worst game ive ever bought. Even considering Master of Orion 3.
Its just terrible. Made worse by the fact that it COULD have been so much more than what it is. In each stage you can basically only do 2 things. Ally with everyone or conquer everyone.
There is no other strategy.
The game is so simple a 3 year old could play it. My nephew at 9 years old had a shot of it - was on space stage within about an hour - and after a few hours playing it he stopped and declared it the most boring game ever and asked to play Star Wars Empire at War (which is quite a bit more complicated than Spore).
They took out all the potential, all the cool functions, in order to make the game appeal to "everyone" and instead rendered it utterly bland and boring.
I got talked into getting the Galactic Edition as well. Biggest waste of money ever.
Eugh.
with pretty much everything in the post above.
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Cool 9 year old. Empire at War is a great game.
Angelscotboi
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I like EaW/FoC especially since u cant get a shedload of mods for them yay.
But we dont want to get off topic.
Spore sucks. As someone said earlier I think Maxis took the Universal/E For Everyone rating far too seriously and ended up stripping out any of the content that the various groups likely to play this game would find fun.
The Sims folk would play it cos hey its near to sims. The Grand strategy folk would play it cos hey its supposed to be grand strategy. The casual gamers would play it cos hey its really cute.
Everything got taken out and now no one is able to enjoy it. I defy anyone to say Spore is a GOOD game. Not just okay or playable but actually GOOD and enjoyable.
There are only 2 games in my life that ive actually wished I hadnt bought and considered a waste of money.
This first was Spore which was appalling. And the second was Empire Total War; steamworks gave me nothing but bother and I object to being forced to install and run a 3rd party program (and be online - before anyone says "you can set it to offline mode" that only works if you are online in the first place to set it to offline mode and offline mode still periodically demands you go back online to verify your game) for a single player game. Its stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
But we dont want to get off topic.
Spore sucks. As someone said earlier I think Maxis took the Universal/E For Everyone rating far too seriously and ended up stripping out any of the content that the various groups likely to play this game would find fun.
The Sims folk would play it cos hey its near to sims. The Grand strategy folk would play it cos hey its supposed to be grand strategy. The casual gamers would play it cos hey its really cute.
Everything got taken out and now no one is able to enjoy it. I defy anyone to say Spore is a GOOD game. Not just okay or playable but actually GOOD and enjoyable.
There are only 2 games in my life that ive actually wished I hadnt bought and considered a waste of money.
This first was Spore which was appalling. And the second was Empire Total War; steamworks gave me nothing but bother and I object to being forced to install and run a 3rd party program (and be online - before anyone says "you can set it to offline mode" that only works if you are online in the first place to set it to offline mode and offline mode still periodically demands you go back online to verify your game) for a single player game. Its stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
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Come on, Steam isn't that bad. Why does everybody hate it so much? It's served me well for Napoleon Total War.
Steam is like marmite - You either love it or hate it. I personally love marmite but hate steam. Steam forced auto-updates when you don´t want it to (it should at least ask), is unneccessarly compulsoryin some games, and you need an internet connection, and a username and password you need to remember. And there´s a max of 3 installs. And it might make the game slower (I´m not sure). And some simple mods could be messed up by the auto-updates to an already very heavy game.
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Wait, theres a max number of installs?
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What if you don't have the disk? Will it still have that rule for a download off Steam?
