Reiisha
Splint Eye Probabilities Inc. Dawn of Transcendence
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Posted - 2008.09.03 05:32:00 -
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Playing the game for the last 10 hours or so. I'm at the beginning of the tribal stage (tried to find everything i could in the creature phase... Otherwise it won't take you that long :P)
The gameplay is entirely brilliant if you take it away from the editors and... Bla bla bla. Spore is just a bit of fun... Don't expect it to be worth thousands of hours of longetivity - That is, if you don't play around in the editors too much.
The cell phase just looks frickin brilliant. It really is a simple game, but it *works*. Needs a bit of skill aswell to be able to kill certain other cells. It's over very quickly though.
The creature phase feels a bit like a drag after a while. All you do is eat, and fight or befriend other small packs of creatures. It feels a bit stretched out, and for some reason i am locked out of certain body parts (omni/herb mouths, i chose carni at the start, but took an omni mouth in cell phase). Still, you'll see a moon and some planets in the sky - Those are actually *there*, waiting to be colonized in the space phase. If you get jump/glide on 4 or 5 aswell, you can jump high enough to see the curvature of your planet... It's just a really nice look to it, so nice that you'll forgive the gameplay shortcomings, really. It did make me think of Populous 3 sometimes, though :)
So far, it's everything they said it would be - An "evolve" game, which is centered around it's editors. Don't expect a depth of gameplay like Civ or whatever in any of it's phases, but that's exactly what Wright said it would be in the original GDC video - A stripped out version of the gameplay of many other games.
It's still pretty fun though, worth the wait :)
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Reiisha
Splint Eye Probabilities Inc. Dawn of Transcendence
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Posted - 2008.09.05 05:22:00 -
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Originally by: Atomos Darksun Edited by: Atomos Darksun on 05/09/2008 04:06:20 Called it.
Said that I wouldn't buy into all the hype and that there's still the possibility that it wouldn't live up to it.
Name one game that lived up to the hype. X3 doesn't count.
What hype were you exactly trying to not buy in?
Spore turned out exactly like they said it would turn out. No one created a hype except some people who made up stuff that "will be in the game". Reread all the press releases, watch all the presentations (by wright himself), and you don't find any "broken promise", nor any kind of hyping.
I for one am finding stuff that they didn't talk about (specifically) before release, and i'm thoroughly enjoying it for what it is.
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