Spore game static glitch5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Even that wears thin quickly though since there's no real point to any of it. You can do some fun shit once you've grinded the boring early quest like destroying and terraforming other planets. You encounter other species with basic good or evil personality types and such but that's completely pointless. You customize a ship and fly around a galactic map trying to make your way to the center. However even with the increased amount of choice it gets dull incredibly fast. The space stage is definently the most varied and "sandbox like" of all the stages. Unlocking a new stage once you get past cell is a maddening grind.Īfter the 4 years it took to clear the last stage we at last reach the final frontier. By the way don't think you'll be clearing any of these stages quickly. There is zero actually strategy involved and like every other part of the game, it becomes tedious well before you're allowed to advance. ![]() I should also mention that all the ai species during these phases start hostile to you and all dogpile you while ignoring each other. In both stages you do the exact same thing, you fling a group of units (or mechs if it's the civ stage) to the enemy camp and either be good and socialize or be bad and murder. The tribal stage and the civilization stages are both braindead takes on the RTS formula. I mean the combat literally has mmo style hotkeys for some fucking reason? (you just cue up your basic attack and watch your creature do a static looking bite over and over again) It's stunningly shallow in its design. Regardless of what you choose you won't be having any fun. You either play a pointless game of simon says and "socialize" with other species by dancing or you just disembowel them. Your goal is to interact with them so you can get points. You have a little tribe of your species on a bland open worldish map populated with other ai species. You need to accrue DNA points so that you can grow a bigger brain and progress to the next stage. Cool stuff right? Well it would be if what you were doing on land didn't play like a the world's simplest and dullest singleplayer RPG. You get to fully design your creature for the first time and walk around on land. After this stage ends the game's already low quality dives straight into the latrine and never recovers. In fact I'm fairly certain it's the shortest stage in the game. Despite its simplicity though, it's still oddly fun and relaxing. Even in 2008 this wouldn't have passed for anything more than a flash game. You just swim around and eat stuff until you get big and chunky enough to eat things that were bigger than you before. ![]() The cell stage is ironically the only semi-enjoyable one. Unfortunately Maxis and EA dumbed the game down from it's original vision soo much that each stage plays more like a mario party minigame with a biology theme rather than anything actually worth paying money for. Sounds cool right? Like you're going to be watching your creature evolve through different eras in a world that dynamically reacts and evolves with you. You've got Cell, Creature, Tribal, Civilization and Space. The main game (ignoring the stupid dlc) is broken up into five stages each representing a different gameplay style. It's incredibly unique (I can't think of a single other game that focuses on evolution as a core mechanic and has a premise like this) and it's charming (cute cartoony visual style) but the game lacks soo much it hardly even feels like a game at times. It hurts me to say that because I desperately wanted and still want to love this game. If I was lucky maybe it would be better than I remembered. I decided to see if the game was anything like I remembered. I remembered somewhat enjoying it but I never got very far and forgot why. A couple years later I was finally able to. I heard the hype and read the news and desperately wanted to create and evolve my own abomination. The project was helmed by Will Wright (a visionary who worked at Maxis Studios at the time)Īt the time of its release I was basically obsessed. For those not in know, Spore was planned to be a massive evolution based sandbox game taking place within an entire galaxy that evolved with you. I was randomly browsing through games in my steam library the other day when I came across something I hadn't thought about in years. Just a heads up in case you don't like long post. This is going to be a long review/retrospective thing.
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