Who will buy Spore ??

On the bright side, your creatures (unless you design the same genitalia-based creatures) are likely to beat the living crap out of the poor limbless species.

 

I'm going to wait for some reviews to come out before I buy it.

 

I have a feeling they will have people vetting the creatures to make sure there aren't planets full of breasts and *****es with legs. Or else they will just call them "cow" species and let them act as feed for the real player creatures, heh.

 

I think I'm the only person in here who enjoyed The Sims, although it tops the list of best-selling pc games of all time. I still build new houses on The Sims2 when I'm bored of playing everything else, and can only hope that Spore will provide as much entertainment. The creature creator was interesting for about 5 minutes, and also a good ploy to make undeserved profit off a game that isn't even on the shelves yet.

 

I bought the Sims and played it for a bit and I was sorely disappointed, but mostly bored. I didn't want to spend my day watching something, having to make sure it ate, showered, slept, blah. Tried to sell it, but no one wanted it!

As for Spore, I was mainly looking forward to the civ phase where I could design the cities and vehicles to see if I can remake some of my fav machines from ExoSquad and Battletech. If I have my choice, I wouldn't put them on the Sporepedia and I do hope they give the players the choice of which creatures they allow into/from their game. The ability to terraform with your spaceships looks neat too.

I don't think I'll be wasting time anywhere else where there's no combat asides from exploration, which if you find things (don't remember what), you get added parts you can use for your creature's evolution. There's also the city theme creator where you can make theme music for your cities, hope that's easy enough or it's gonna sound crappy.

 

I dunno if I`ll get it or not, the demo didn`t seem to be able to keep me hooked up much. Sure, it looks fun, but besides stretching some limbs , adding eyes,and making the newly born freak dance like an idiot, what else is there?

I`ll wait for a review too...

 

Um, the creature creator wasn't a demo of the game. Saying you won't buy Spore because you didn't like the creature creator is like saying you won't buy a game because you don't like the map editor. I think they may have made a tactical error in releasing the creature creator...

 

That's why I`m waiting for a review to see.

 

Is there any reason to buy Spore from EA's store instead of another digital store, such as D2D?

If purchased from EA's store, you can only download the game for 6 months, unless you pay an extra fee. However, with D2D you can download for years down the road with no extra fees.

I am worried that D2D might suffer from late patches. Some steam games, for example Two Worlds, take forever to get patched up to the latest version. Are D2D games generally ready to be updated immediately?

 

Fair enough. I'm really hoping on (dare I say counting on) it being more SimEarth than The Sims. EA already destroyed SimCity with Societies, I hope they haven't corrupted Wright himself.

 

I've been waiting for this game for years, haha, so YES I will be getting it. I also love the Sims though, and I'm really looking forward to the building/vehicle creators, which are supposed to have way more depth than the creature creator.

 

Did anyone else hear the interview about Spore last night on NPR? http://marketplace.publicradio.org/podcast/podcast.php?show_id=14 (Market Place from American Public Mediais the show, there's a podcast you can listen to). I'm a little worried now. They said that EA has "learned" from The Sims and is following the business model to milk Spore to the bone with expansion packs with superficial changes. I really hope this isn't the bad omen it sounds like.

 

I'll be getting Spore if my comp. can handle it.

 

good question, i am curious too.

 

I've been waiting for spore for nearly two years. So I'm going to buy it for sure. I'm 98% a console gamer and haven't played anything on a pc in years Spore will having me gamin via PC for the first time in all that time.

 

I've been following the development of Spore for over 4.5 years. hELL YEAH I'll be buying it. They teased me at the end of 2003 saying it was an early 06 release, then late...

This game is MASSIVE.

Reason I've followed it so religiously=friend in the team of designers and hot damn... I played the demo the first day spore.com existed, and I was so hooked. It was the cutest graphics thing ever... just flying all around with bigger things and smarter things evolving and destroying.

Keep in mind that your world will, online, be interacting with the whole universe of spore players. That's the reason it's taken SO long... gonna be lots of updates to it. I'm so happy, though... it almost feels "old" already, but the elder scrolls game engines weren't exactly fast at getting released, either, and they rocked.

Will Wright, the creator of Spore (in the idea sense of the word at least, since there were hundreds of creators... and we're next), is pretty amazing, even to hear speak... he is a damn cool geek with a really good aesthetic sensibility... My equivalent for him= the same kind of genius the Pleo dude is... Furbies got on people's nerves, but man, wicked smart invention... and pleo was his redemption for sure. he needed it Will... just needs to stay perfectionistic (says me after years of punishment waiting and wondering when his staff would ever actually get to say "look! I did that!" which at least my friend and his team totally are showing off about).

 

Please excuse my ignorance... But what is spore?

 

I don't think anyone really knows how the online aspects of Spore will work. I've heard that you will be able to 'subscribe' to your friends content. But what does that really mean?

Personally, I would prefer some kind of automated system that just fills up my universe with random stuff from the rest of the community.

 

Then you'll probably end up exploring a lot of planets containing creatures with genitalia unless you don't mind that. Although it'll probably happen with whatever system they've got planned now. At least with a friend's content subscription you can be sure that you're not getting that kind of stuff.

 

That's true, but I want to be surprised by what is in my universe. Subscribing to dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of your friends content would provide plenty of diversity, but it would pale in comparison to the content you could have from tens of thousands of users.

 

I WILL!!!!!!! i've decided to get it since last year... and there's just so much hype (in the E3 and all)... I just can't help it!!!

P.S. So far i've loved the Creature Creator

 

I will definitely buy this game too. It's incredible ! They drew my interest only by launching a demo which only contained a creature creator.

 

when it comes pout all the people of nbr should subscribe to eachother and we would have universes free of genitalia and full of nbr creatures.

 

I wonder how many races of pwnies there will be at release.

 

I will too, I just realisesed Spore might be the relaxing game I need right now...

 

Same thing here, i'm done of gory games till Deadspace comes out xD