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[xaritscin]

been running this old game again and i think it was worth to mention it in the forum, specially seeing that its getting close to 10 years since its release.

so, for those that dont know it (or in the rare, very rare case that it was forgotten).

SPORE is supposed to be a Life Simulation-style adventure game (calling it a Life Simulator is a matter of debate, mostly for those that know the development history of this game). in the game you start from a humble cell brought by an asteroid into an habitable planet and and climb throught five stages from cell/fish to land creature to tribal society to civilization and then to space empire. each way you play on each stage will have permanent effects on the next one with several end game archetypes for spacefaring races depending on your decisions.

the game's main hook however is that allows players to design almost everything in the galaxy (flora not counting, unfortunately). you can create from cells to buildings and spaceships, and even customize your race's clothing at the different civilized stages, with the Galatic Adventures expansion you can also make a personal space captain and design planets for making customized adventures (player designed missions basically). all this can be shared on a global collection in the game's website (which is still running) and you can too download player created content to add into your personal collection.

the game uses all these assets as they are added, making the galaxy much less "generic", if you want to look it like that.

the game was made by Maxis and published by EA so you can expect a lot of stuff was cut out or sold as "expansions" (too short, should be taken as DLC instead). but the game is still recommended to play, mostly because no other game has tried to go into this lvl of player derived content (its not mandatory anyways, there's a large collection of prefabs to choose from in the base game, but you would be missing on a lot of fun trying to make your own stuff).

for those wondering, yes, the game is in Steam too. and mods are a plenty (they're also easy to install).

anyways, i leave the thread open for discussion in case of questions about it or if you want to show some media of your own shenanigans with the game. i dont think there's a recent thread about it and dont want to do necromancy.

[MrRoboto75]

A while back I tried to install a hard copy of spore I owned.

Apparently, you're only allowed a few installs before you can no longer do that and the hard copy is completely fucking useless.  I don't feel like paying full price (again) for a game, were if it was any other hard copy I own, should just own and be able to use in whatever personal way I want.

I haven't even turned on the computer it was originally on in half a decade.  Hell, I probably uninstalled it from that computer at some point anyway.  But no, I don't own spore.  I own a disk that says "spore" on it, but I guess EA stopped caring about that disk I payed them 20 dollars for.

[Hanzoku]

haha, really? That's really sad.

That said, you can legally yo-ho-ho and go download it from a pirate website. You have the physical media to prove that you have the right to own it.

[Neonivek]

Spore was disappointing but it wasn't bad.

[Teneb]

Spore was disappointing but it wasn't bad.

The best way I've heard it put was something similar to this.

It wasn't a bad game, but it didn't live up to the expectations raised.

It's because it, much like a certain game about Skies that belong to no Male Humans, played pretty differently from what was shown. Unlike NMS, however, it was still pretty decent and a solid 7/10.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

Spore was supposed to be a serious evolution simulation but the contents got cut down and kiddified.

[Neonivek]

Spore was supposed to be a serious evolution simulation but the contents got cut down and kiddified.

It was the game that killed Will Wright's enthusiasm.

[Sirus]

I can't believe the Sporepedia is still up and running.

I was one of those kids that made really terrible creations, but I almost always used the description box to give them a small amount of lore. I still remember a good number of the critters I made, along with buildings and starships.

[Neonivek]

I would totally buy a Spore Sequel...

I would totally want a Will Wright Version of Spore as well (His vision, more directed by him) as he wanted the game to have more of an educational bend... something that is severely underappreciated and pretty much dead in modern gaming. (Some of his games actually taught advanced concepts and had pages and pages of scientific text on topics involved in the game)

I mean YES! 100% Will Wright's version might have been less fun than the Spore we got. Yet I'd have appreciated it more, it would have been an experience, it would have been art.

[Weirdsound]

I was big into Spore when I first made my steam account...

My steam Avatar is still a nearly 10-year old Spore critter.

Edit: It was also Yahtzee's review of Spore that lead me to discover Zero Punctuation, which I still watch every week. I guess Spore played a pretty decent roll in my life.

[Dansmithers]

fun fact: SPORE is the most-pirated game of all time

[Aoi]

fun fact: SPORE is the most-pirated game of all time

Wouldn't that be Solitaire or Minesweeper, since it comes bundled with practically every version of Windows for something like the last 20 years?

And, actually, taking a look around the internet, it appears that it doesn't even crack the top ten (2011) -- http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-pirated-games-time/

There's an article from 2008 that says it was the most pirated game ever, but that pegs the number at 1.7m, below the 10th on the previous site. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2008/dec/09/games

[MrRoboto75]

fun fact: SPORE is the most-pirated game of all time

Probably because you can only install it like three times.

[Nerjin]

Ah, the Golden Business Strategy: Make your product so annoying that no one will want to pay for it.

[xaritscin]

I can't believe the Sporepedia is still up and running.

I was one of those kids that made really terrible creations, but I almost always used the description box to give them a small amount of lore. I still remember a good number of the critters I made, along with buildings and starships.

yup, the game still has a good amount of followers and it even gets daily submissions, even when the fandom is pretty thin nowadays (allthought some youtubers make gameplays from time to time most published stuff in Tumblr is from Markiplier's playthrough).

i learned of the game from one of my brother's friend back in the days, got hooked mostly because of what people could do with the editors. Parkaboy is one of the most prominent inspirations for my creations, there were others but i dont remember their usernames anymore. thing is, you can learn a lot just by looking at other people's creations or guides/tips. it really helps to create something unique.