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[Deon]

Rough but right.
That's what it feels like for me.

[lumin]

I'm actually really surprised someone hasn't tried to remake Sim Earth, or something close to it.  I bet people were waiting until Spore came out to see if it would do Sim Earth justice.  Now that we know it doesn't even come close, I'd be willing to bet that we'll see some indie developers take up the challenge.

[Sean Mirrsen]

There's another fun fact: There's another jumbled mess of minigames strung together with a weak storyline and "content editors", that's so good that we PC users wept when were deprived of its glory. Raving Rabbids 2. Here's the difference - RR2 is a jumbled mess of HILARIOUS minigames. Spore is just, well, a jumbled mess.

[olemars]

I'm actually really surprised someone hasn't tried to remake Sim Earth, or something close to it.  I bet people were waiting until Spore came out to see if it would do Sim Earth justice.  Now that we know it doesn't even come close, I'd be willing to bet that we'll see some indie developers take up the challenge.

Check out the "Spogue" thread

[Capntastic]

I liked Spore because it is exactly what is was described as.   It is also pretty fun.   It has a few problems with stage complexity and length (they both need to be cranked up), but aside from that it is a very solid and amusing game.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

If something is disappointing, we must just be looking at it the wrong way? 

Say you were promised a hundred dollars, but instead you got ten rupee.  What other way is there to look at it?

I wasn't saying that you were wrong because you hated Spore. There was, I thought, an implied Mileage May Vary. I was merely stating that perhaps, if you approached Spore from a different angle - for example, what the game actually is, rather than what you wanted it to be - then you might find it somewhat more enjoyable. You may not have noticed the trend, but many people posting in this thread who liked Spore have basically said that it's not as great as everyone made out, but it's got some entertainment value, if only for a few days.

Anyway, that's my opinion. In case this gets misinterpreted again, YMMV. Now I'm off to play Spore.

Where'd you get the idea I hate Spore?  All I did was point out that you're basically saying, 'Yeah, we were promised a hundred dollars and were instead given ten Rupee, but if you just pretend that you weren't promised anything at all, that ten rupee doesn't seem so bad.'  Just because someone isn't happy doesn't mean they're looking at it the wrong way.  Just because someone is happy doesn't mean they're looking at it the right way.  I'm not happy about pinching my fingers the other day with a shopping cart.  Am I looking at it the wrong way?

[McDoomhammer]

I don't believe he said anything about a right way or wrong way, only that it might look different viewed another way.

The gist of my post was that I am unable to do that, but I respect those who can.

[MeshGearFox]

Even sim Earth had it's problems...
might have been my crappy gaming, but I had serious trouble with tectonics swallowing all my land and with monocultures of maple-like trees taking over my ecologies.

Sounds like you're getting SimEarth and SimLife confused. Earth didn't really monitor individual species and I don't think there was a biome icon that looked particularly maple like. Also never had a problem with plate tectonics eat all of the land. Too much water + too little heat, yes. That did it every time. Need to go lighter on the ice meteors or something I guess.

Also for that matter what's all this stuff about doing SimEarth justice? Since when am I not the only person that liked SimEarth?

You may not have noticed the trend, but many people posting in this thread who liked Spore have basically said that it's not as great as everyone made out, but it's got some entertainment value, if only for a few days.

Yeah but since when did "some entertainment value, if only for a few days" come to mean "good?"

I'm not happy about pinching my fingers the other day with a shopping cart.  Am I looking at it the wrong way?

Yes.

It wasn't your groin.

[Geofferic]

I don't really understand the statements that Spore is exactly what it said it would be.

This implies that those of us, and there are an awful lot of us, who feel otherwise are incapable of reading with any comprehension and incapable of listening and viewing videos of Will Wright with any comprehension.

The fact is that Spore purports to simulate various stages of development of a sentient, social species.

This it does very, very poorly.  Some stages of the game are so shockingly thin and uninteresting as to render them completely pointless.

The final stage is the best, and is by design the deepest and that's fine - but it's also just plain awful.  It's not a good 4x at all.  That would be happily forgiven if there was some other game mechanic going on. 

If there was some actual game play reason to modify the planets and favor a species with sentience, etc, then the shallow 4x would be fine.

But sadly the game is just 'rush around trying to prevent your carefully managed planets from being demolished by 5 sick herbivores'...

That's freaking laughably awful.

[Servant Corps]

Unlike most people, I dismissed Spore as a bunch of mini-games before it was even released, but said that since I love minigames and incredibly simple 4Xs (Let it be known, I want to conquer the universe, not handle budgets. If I wanted to handle budgets, I'd play Quicken), I should go out and buy it and at least see the storyline they have planned.

However, since that Spore has gotten so many bad reviews, maybe I shouldn't actually buy these mini-games. But I am still interested in the story. Can anyone who play it tell me the storyline of Spore, please?

[Tormy]

Unlike most people, I dismissed Spore as a bunch of mini-games before it was even released, but said that since I love minigames and incredibly simple 4Xs (Let it be known, I want to conquer the universe, not handle budgets. If I wanted to handle budgets, I'd play Quicken), I should go out and buy it and at least see the storyline they have planned.

However, since that Spore has gotten so many bad reviews, maybe I shouldn't actually buy these mini-games. But I am still interested in the story. Can anyone who play it tell me the storyline of Spore, please?

Spore Storyline? What? 
Check out this video maybe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iYoRihRno

[Cthulhu]

    Even sim Earth had it's problems...
    might have been my crappy gaming, but I had serious trouble with tectonics swallowing all my land and with monocultures of maple-like trees taking over my ecologies.

I had the tectonics problem too, I'd get a great set of continents set up, and then a few minutes later continental drift would reduce it to hundreds of one-tile islands which would then sink and rise with the fluctuating ocean-levels.

[Areyar]

I predict this comment in review sites:

"If you liked Dogz, you'll like this game too."




I liked the 'terraform Mars' scenario in SE, that worked wonderfully well.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I got my dirty hands on Spore Creatures for the DS. So far it looks interesting, despite the slowdowns on the emulator, but the creature creator looks almost exactly like that flash mock-up created by fans. It does look nifty in-game though, despite all creatures being technically flat.

[Tormy]

I predict this comment in review sites:

"If you liked Dogz, you'll like this game too."




I liked the 'terraform Mars' scenario in SE, that worked wonderfully well.

Eh, correction:

Conclusion:
"Spore gameplay is extremely simple and repetitive. Warning: Your balls explode in total boredom if you happen to play too much!" 

*edit*

..and also what the hell?? 
http://antispore.com/