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[RAM]

But won't because the game likes to have inhabitants that are as repetitive as its game-play...

Gah, my spellchecker doesn't like gameplay. game play, nameplate, gamekeeper, gameness, gamecock. I will give it a hyphen, but only because I am feeling pity for it...

[LASD]

If anyone's still playing the game, I launched the game for the first in ages and managed to gather together my 10 most creative or otherwise good creations in a sporecast called "The Best of SirLASDalot", so you can get my good creations without the trouble of buddying and getting all the trash Spore automatically puts out. Though the trash is clearly unavoidable as my Sporepedia has already 7 890 creations.

Nevertheless, here's two creatures that passed the filter. I proudly present to you, Mr Bobsled and Mr Crook.


Mr Bobsled even has a speed meter in his sled and Mr Crook walks in a delightfully shady manner.

[LegoLord]

Unfortunately, I probably won't be playing until the Galactic Adventures EP.  It adds in the stuff I was most hoping for when I first heard of Spore.  I had images of dragon people being beamed down to a planet and attacking buildings with flamethrowers.  Soon, this shall come true.

[Okenido]

I'm not playing until five expansion packs are released.

[Neonivek]

I am about to play again soon... My Username is Neonivek

Drop me a comment and Ill check your stuff out (I kinda got tired of going through comments after a while and reset them)

On a side note: I don't think there is going to be 5 expansion packs... Checking how long it took for the first expansion to come out... I am only guessing 3 expansions max.

[LegoLord]

Checking how long it took for the first expansion to come out... I am only guessing 3 expansions max.

Actually, they're getting their first gameplay expansion out faster than Zoo Tycoon 2, and that had four expansions.  Spore could easily wind up having five.

That said, I'm too impatient to wait for five.  I might to buy the third until the fourth comes, but I don't know.  I didn't do that with Zoo Tycoon 2.  As far as parts packs are concerned, I have no idea.  I haven't bought cute&creepy yet.

[Neonivek]

Yeah but I never was really into the Zoo Tycoon expansions anyhow since they never really sold how it really expanded gameplay. (Dinosaurs was pretty much the only one I would have bought)

A lot of them felt like the same animals with slightly different rules.

[lumin]

I have been waiting to buy Spore until the Galactic Adventures expansion came out because you can land on planets...that is until I found this little tidbit of information:

Features:

Beaming your creature directly down from the UFO
Adventure creator – where you can create your whole world and share it over the sporepedia for others to play.
Captain Editor – Make your captains with over 30 new parts to battle it out in adventures made by Maxis or the community.
Planet editor - This is a essential aspect of the adventure creator, where you can fully customize the planet your adventure will take place.
Players will be able to choose which flora and fauna they want on a planet using the Adventure creator.
When a player wins a mission with a number of points higher than another player has ever scored on that mission,they are rewarded with special badges which are shown on the players MySpore page. Badges can be lost when another player beats your record.
Modify the landscape with monuments and buildings and over 1500 Maxis made objects, including grenades, exploding barrels and more.
32 new creature accessory rewards to use with your captain, some of these are: Energy Blade, Jump Jet , Acrobat Dance, Hover, Stunning Charm and many more, all of these will have new abilities.
Player’s captains and missions will be shown on their MySpore pages along with information on how they played recent missions. It lists how many missions were won or lost,points earned on missions,rewards the player has earned for reaching a certain score before completing a mission and captain and mission stats.
Players can jump onto a moving vehicle and ride it, however you cannot drive the vehicle.
Players will be able to beam down only to mission planets.
New Achievements - Over 50 new achievements are coming with the expansion pack, but it is yet unknown what they are.
Players will be able to add allied creatures from a friendly empire as posse members.
Maxis-created adventures.

It's a little bit telling that they would bury the disclaimer about landing on planets at the very bottom of the feature list.

That little statement has pretty much put the nail in the coffin for me ever buying Spore.  Alas, perhaps I will buy it when the Super Double Deluxe version (aka Version 1.0) comes out in the bargain bin in 5 years.

[Servant Corps]

I'm taking a preliminary look a the Spore Gameplay trailer, the one in 2005. First thoughts.

Spoiler: "First Thought" (click to show/hide)

I hate canned laughter. Let me get that out of the way. This trailer's use of canned laughter drove me insane. Now, onto the gameplay.

1) Pacman: You go around eating things that look NOTHING LIKE YOU!
2) Second stage: Ocean Pacman. You go around eating things that look NOTHING LIKE YOU. In the 3D Ocean! Compete against other creatures!
3) Third Stage: LAND Pacman. You go around eating things that look NOTHING LIKE YOU. But this time, on Land! Compete agianst other creatures!
4) Interesting creature creator engine. Too bad I don't really care about creature creation, because I prefer to actually play a game.
5) The Interesting Leveling System within the creature creator engine seems interesting, you gain more creature body parts as you level up. Still, let see gameplay.
6) Sex. That was...unexpected. Um...
7) Finally. The game has mutated from "PACMAN" to "POPOLOUS"! Now, I run a tribe, and no longer have to go out and play Pacman.
The game designer has taught his creatures a war dance and gave them weapons. Now I'm getting interested.
9) Game morphed into "City" when you upgrade your little hut.
10) WOAH! Guy just clicks on "Build Stupid Building", and a "Stupid Building" pops right out of thin air! With nobody even building it! That's just awesome! I wonder what sort of 'procedureal generation' was needed to have my race learn how to pop stuff out of nowhere!
11) The developer is showing off a building editor. Eh. I'm a lazy guy. I don't like designing buildings that much...meh.
12) The developer mentioned about how happiness is the key indicator about the success of his city. Eh.
13) Developer just showed the enemy forces, which is the exact same species, only slightly modified, but running a very aggressive techno-futuristic dictatorship. And they are sending tanks our way.
14) There's an ARMY EDITOR? How many editors are in this game anyway? Are these developers thinking that there is a horde of people just wanting to tinker with itty bitty creations? Give me the defaults! Oh well, I guess an army editor is at least more functionally useful, since you will need to have a tailor-made army to take advantage of enemies' weaknesses.
15) Our new army are revealed to be "peaceful cowards". Idiots.
17) The explosions of my town getting blown up is nice. Very nice indeed.
18) Developer is revealing tha the City mode is turning into the Civilization Mode now. Developer states that you can control how much micromanging I want to do by zooming out or zooming in. Zooming out looks very...surreal.
19) The developer called it a day...even though his city was being blown up! Save the city from those tanks!Please, save them! Gah.
20) Anyway, the developer skip-fowarded. He bought the instant-win button, the UFO. The UFO magically appeared out of nowhere, clearly a sign of the hyper-advancement of my pacifist race.
21) UFO has abducted some creatures. What is he going to do with them?
22) WOW. Turns out that you don't have to beat the other civilizations to become a space-faring empire. All you have to do is buy that super-UFO. Then, say Tally-Ho to your civilization and set forth!
23) Planets in the solar system are being described as "sandboxes". That's never a good sign.
24) So he's going to use the creatures he abducted to...populate a nearby planet. He first has to give this new planet the ability to support life, of course.
25) I wonder what's happening to my own Civilization that I left behind back on my home planet. I hope they are doing quite well, and not standing there motionlessly while the techno imperimum bomb sends tanks.
26) The terraforming system seem actually very interesting indeed. Of course, I'm sure that's the first thing Maxis took out when releasing Spore.
27) By the time you can colonize space, you also can colonize the ocean, thereby removing the need to actually colonize space. Eh. As he said, the planets are "sandboxes". Not really important.
28) The Developer admits that the only reason to care about your civilization now (like building colonies) is to earn more money to upgrade the UFO. Wow. So the civilization exists only to fund the UFO? That's a rather...interesting..."concept". Talk about the UFO-industrial complex.
29) Terraforming is doing its job and looking pretty nice. Developer showcased the Genesis Device, a thing that allows you to instantly terraform a planet, but he said it would be very expensive.
30) I have to earn a ton of money to buy the Interstellar Drive, which allows me to travel around the universe. What's happening on my home planet?! Gah.
31) The developer has discovered another intelligent alien race by listening for radio signals. Time to send in the UFO to kill explore!
32) Developer plays the "First-Contact MiniGame". Developer loses the "First-Contact Minigame". Hilarity ensures. Developer then deploys the Planet-Killing Device, looking cool, but still...meh. It just means we have to find another radio signal. Would have been more impressive to have genocided those aliens peacefully and then placed more colonies so that we make more money.
33) Developer was happy that he created a ring of debris, but he himself stated that there was "Nothing more to see here". Meh.
34) The developer is just ranting at this point, talking about creating monoliths and making diplomacy. I guess those features hasn't been coded in yet. All the editors are accessible, meaning I can now create "hybrids" creatures...though I guess there is no reason why I should make them.
35) The Space Stage in Spore is supposed to be the main purpose of playing Spore. Everything else is just the 'tutorial'. The Space Game is the ultimate sandbox, filled with metagames such as diplomacy and creating zoo planets. The developer also handed out concept art, altough since I was looking at the gameplay video, I didn't see any concept art.

Wait. If the Space Stage is the actual game, and everything else is admittingly one long drawn-out tutorial...Oh god no.

Overall. I guess I wasn't that impressed. Then again, I spent $50 to play a game where I get to act as a bus running around and transporting goods from Point A to Point B in order to get "worshippers". Changing the terrain of an area for giggles seem interesting, but why can't you just have the Space Stage by...itself? Why the Spore, Sea, Creature, Tribal, City, and Civilization stages? What's the point of those stages anyway, other than being mini-games? I don't want to spend a long time playing Pac-Man after all. And the only really memorable and enjoyable thing in those stages was the "war dance", but, do they even use the spears to fight? Or do they just send tanks and jets instead and the spears are ceromonial?

At least now I got the guts to stand up against Ioric Kittencuddler. So there you have it, Ioric Kittencuddler. I took your challenge. And I'm still not in love with Spore 2005.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Um, what was the challenge?  To ignore enough of the details about the Spore 2005 video that it could be seriously compared to PACMAN?  I wouldn't challenge someone to do that.  That's easy.  I've seen it done before with GTA3 and it was just as unimpressive.  Every single game that allows you to control a single character and requires you to walk around and fight things can easily be compared to PACMAN if you just ignore everything that makes it unlike PACMAN.

[Micro102]

agreed....how could you not mention the physics in the 2005 version??? to have to create a creature based on his joins and mass distrubution and how it effects his survival is insanly amazing.....too bad EA murdered it. then skinned it, then stripped all the meat off of it and used half of the bones to make a money holder

[kcwong]

agreed....how could you not mention the physics in the 2005 version??? to have to create a creature based on his joins and mass distrubution and how it effects his survival is insanly amazing.....too bad EA murdered it. then skinned it, then stripped all the meat off of it and used half of the bones to make a money holder

I wonder if they have really created those physics and evolution code, and where are those code now...

[cerapa]

Servant corps: The game is the freaking creating part! Why are you even talking about spore if you say that you arent interested in creating things yourself?

I used to hype for spore. I was hoping that it would actually matter if you put all the legs in the back and it would fall over. The only fun part was tidepool in my opinion sine the placement of spikes actually mattered.

I think they thought that the physics and stuff were too hard/the game could sell as much without em.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeh. I prefer Robot Arena 2. Now THERE you have some goddam powerful creature creator!

[Rhodan]

I guess they removed all the fancy physics stuff to avoid people having too much trouble creating something both interesting and able to stand upright.  That and the animation generator probably only worked on 1% of the creatures they made.  The amount of work it would have to do with such physics would be enormous.  The only physics left is just some basic ragdolling for the tail and unused limbs.  Meh.
I suspect the Creature Creator they envisioned is just too advanced to create at the moment.  Any software capable of generating advanced, realistic and balanced walking animations would be immediately used for robotics instead of a silly game.