Why did Spore never make it big?
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Ultimately, Spore failed because it was marketed as a scientific evolution game when, in reality, it was little more than creationist propaganda for children.It's why the abiogenesis start of the game, featuring a "molecular" stage, was dropped entirely for the more Bible-friendly panspermia opening cut-scene.
>>734174675It had a good push and was popular enough to have lasting cultural relevance up to the mid 2010s.But the lack of a true follow-up meant that stuff to talk about ran out.
>>734174838Don't bait nigger
boomer uncs pretend they got BETRAYED and got their booyholes RAPED by this game that's whythe literally liken it to the biggest betrayl they ever faced in their life that led them to becoming cynics thats will never trust a videogame again
>>734175085>>734174883
>>734175254im not baiting
>>734174883I'm not baiting
>>734174675Maxis got fucked over by EA.
You want a real answer? It looked stupid. Look at those aliens, they look retarded. Gay and lame.
>>734174883>>734175254I'm baiting
>never heard about spore until I got to play it at a friend's house >never saw any commercials>never got disappointed over spore>loved spore>still love spore
>>734174873>up to the mid 2010s.it's genuinely still popular now. there are, of all things, still youtubers who make all their money from playing spore for people.
>>734174675EA supported their games for a very short time back then, Spore only got one expansion and one stuff pack before they decided to just shelf it, later they released Darkspore, whateva happened there, and the whole franchise was abandoned.
>>734174753challenge everything
>>734174883The hero we all needed
Spore is a dogshit idea for a game and no amount of cope will get around it.Any retard trying to suggest that it was just one Puyo Puyo minigame away from determining if you permanently have diarrhea from being salvagable is a fucking retard.
>>734176993This being said, making little space ships and creatures is fun.If the models weren't watermarked it would be a fun tool to make silly little creatures to put in animations, but unfortunately they're all watermarked to fuck and it'd be a legal nightmare to use any of that shit.
>>734174675The game is kind of fun for a few hours. Not sure why anyone would have gotten that excited about the marketing for it.
>>7341746753 hours to go from cell to space, 40+ hours on space travelall DLC made space travel longer.
>>734177145>all DLC made space travel longer.It glued the creature stage gameplay which was the only actual fun game idea to the space gameplay and they were too lazy to make actual shit to play or even get procgen for missions working so you were fucked.
>>734174675>Bunch of fun minigames in each stage, ultimately to lead to 'the actual game' which is the most boring. The Space StageGive someone a multi-hour-long Cell Stage and they'll have way more fun.
>>734174675>5 half baked game ideas glued together
>>734174675It did initiallyEA just fucked it
>>734174838I believe you are this stupid and it's not bait
>>734176937I heard it involuntarily too bro
>>734174675Even if they stuck with only the stages we got and kept its goofy, cartoonish style, if those stages were fleshed out more, I'd think it would have stayed relevant a lot longer.There's some promising stuff buried in space stage if they were just fleshed out more and the stage as a whole had more depth. For me, it was being able to run a huge empire while still having a very high diplomacy rating / not being seen as a threat whilst having allies that I could convince to start wars with other empires without being pulled into it myself and being able to outright buy developed star systems and then paying other factions, pirates, etc to destroy the rest of the faction I bought the star system while I myself look like a saintbasically, I need more space games where I can RP as Israel
>>734174675Spore was outlandish, Molyneux levels of overambitious. They realized during development that they couldn't even come close to making the game they promise and any enthusiasm for the franchise died then and there.
>>734174753fpbp
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>>734174675the space stage was a mistake + interference from EA made them scale down the scope of the game overall
>>734174675One of the producers fucked the game over and turned it from the original Sim-Everything concept to a funny monster designer where everything looks like it was designed by Luigi Colani.Wish I still remembered the full story, but there was apparently a very big producer level fuckery to make the game different from the developers original visions.
>>734174675Is this game as crazy as I thought? As a kid I never got to play it, but I used to read in magazines how you could make a near infinite amount of aliens and it blew my mind.The concept sounds too damn advanced and cool to be a real thing in a pc game 20 years ago.
Has anyone else only played Spore Hero Arena on the DS?
>>734174675It's 5 games stuck together and none of them that good. Cell is just a flash game you play for 20 minutes, creature is really the fun part but it's still a relatively simple game that couldn't stand on its own, tribe is filler, civilisation is just bad. Bulk of the game is actually space stage, but space is mostly tedious fetch quests and pest control. Terrafoming planets gets boring after the 3rd one setting up the same spice mining colonies again with the same plants and animals because you need to fill large carnivore role and can't be bothered to use up 2 equipment slots for it and it's not like you will ever see it.The game has pretty good editor to make all the assets yourself but the gameplay is kinda meh.
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honestly, the spore creature creator was the best part, and they released that for free before the game came out.the actual game couldn't compete with just one part of itself
>>734174675Conned again by the Master Conner. Unlimited possibilities, he said. Evolution is fun, he said...
>>734184020The creature-creator also let you stack stats with more pieces. A creature with lots of mouths actually did more bite damage.Then the actual game releases and somehow a creature literally made out of mouths can barely bite worth a shit, unless it had a tiny hidden level 5 mouth somewhere in it.
>>734176548>Hear about spore from a friend maybe a year before it comes out>The way he talks about it makes it seem like it's going to be the greatest game of all time>He won't shut up about it, he's insanely hyped.>Get pretty excited for it myself, end up picking it up a day or two after it comes out>Have fun, game isn't the best but I enjoy it>See friend a few days later, ask how he's liking it>"It's.. ok I guess.." I still remember the palpable disappointment in his voice. That same friend started gaming less and less in subsequent years. I think Spore broke him.
>>734184208Spore was the Trespasser of the 2000's (literally 10 years after Trespasser). It's understandable why people got so upset.
The creator was great, everything outside it was shallow and retarded. EA would later pull the same move with sims 4 ten years later
>>734174675It’s been a long ass time since I played it but I remember each of the phases taking barely any time to blow through and feeling incredibly shallow. Like others have said, it was closer to a flash game than any kind of in-depth simulator.
>Game was supposed to have neato inverse kinematics so your actual physical shape of your creature would affect how it fights>Stuff like tails, extra limbs, etc would actually make for a more combat-oriented creature>Game releases>Literally WoW for kids
>start playing a fun character creator game>it quickly turns into the shittiest RTS I've ever played
>>734184775>Literally WoW for kidsWhat does that even mean? ToonTown was WoW for kids if anything?
>>734184993The combat system is just auto-attacks with a few 'skills' to use. It's babby's first MMO.
>>734174838Good take
I remember making a cool bird people race in Spore and going through the whole game with themWatching them evolve and grow was fun and when I got to the space stage I was amazed at first but then got really disappointed. I genuinely have no fucking clue what they were thinking when they were making a space 4x game taking place in a huge galaxy where you control the ONLY armed fleet in your whole empire AND can only be in one place at a time. Wtf?
>>734184208lol poor bastard. I can’t help but wonder if he got caught in the hype for No Man’s Sky, only to get burnt yet again.
Interior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterNow, Groxxy, I'm the rulerYour eggy creature's worst nightmareCatch me by the core, from the game Spore'Cologists copy everything we slayGetting slain, need a mouth or an NDA(Uh!)Flying and swervin', spice, I'm blownGenocide, my violence jump like a 'the toad' (Haha)I don't bake pies, I never live in splendorI'm rich, bitchBut you can call me Grox Empire(Hahaha)Shell thrown, yes, DNA lessThere's a tribe making a course, the way to my nest (Okay)Electro fresh, I got ze mindI be grand, dunking diplomat's ships with Skuther (Haha)Told bards to keep it more mellow, okay?Rolled past Steve, told him "ERROR, NO WAY"Me and Spode in something old on 42's, hoBack window says "Organics can't go" (Haha)Traders will grind, I grind, tooThat's why you can't catch me with T3 tools (Llama)I hit your dreams but believe I'm Groxxin'1 universe, put an embassy or quit calling (Haha)Dirty are the zealotry, call me super duper (Ah)Barrage with shoots, I got more ships than huma's (Haha)Toxic air abducting all your species nest roomersY'all still riding boats, and being troopers (Woo!)Wars raged on empires that got rad behaviorMy four two's woke up the neighborsInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blasterInterior Grox-style invaderI shoot a planet busting laser blaster
>>734174675simple. it wasn't funall these fags regurgitating quotes from video game blogs they read in high school. simple answer it just wasn't fun to play
>>734179448Stellaris
Any good mods for Spore?
>>734174675Because it's five mediocre games stapled together.
I remember sitting in the dark of the computer room as a child, illuminated only by glow of my fathers Mac OS X Leopard, putting hours into the Creature Creator demo, sharing everything on Sporepedia. I was so amped for this game, the sound of the opening title sequence would send electricity up my spine. The theremin, the violins, the swirling galaxy brightening the room.When the full game out, I discovered they had replaced the old opening title music with goofy garbled alien gibberish. It sounded awful, and a small part of my excitement to play the game died. Every subsequent experience with it echoed that opening change, and I wound up just going back just playing in the Creature Creator.
>>734178152Spore the Hedgehog
Did anyone ever notice that you don't actually start on your planet but are instead an outsider species that takes over?Kinda weirdWhat did they mean like that?
>got a random YT recommendation>it's a slav with autism recreating train stations
>>734187086Impressive.
>>734174675It gets fucking boring after creature stage and after tribal stage it doesn't matter anymore if you literally made crawling poop or literal masterpiece of life evolution.
>>734186165yeahhttps://youtu.be/dA89IATqwgI
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>>734186924this honestly sounds even worse
>>734174675Firstly, every part of it was gimped in the name of accessibility. The "cute" faction won and stripped it of simulationist elements in favour of perceived marketability. Secondly, it was strangled by the DRM; limited amount of installs means limited longevity and no second-hand market.Thirdly, almost no follow-up. The Sims gets dozens of expansions and content packs. Spore got like one content pack and an expansion and that was it. Still spent many hours in the creature, spaceship, and building editors though, despite its limitations.
>>734179448I knew where that was going before I got to the last sentence. Happy Purim.
>>734185607invader and blaster don't rhyme you absolute doofus. not even gonna bother reading the rest
>>734174675It's not a proper Spore thread without cock monsters. Or "cocksters', if you will.
>>734174675i had fun with it, even the space stagethere's no feeling like getting to the center of the universe
>>734182841This design sounds really stupid now but back in the day the 5 minigames in 1 game markeded for kids was normal.
>>734174675Forgot the guys name but the second hand man convinced Will Wright to change the theme and presentation of the game to be more childlike and less scientific and realistic, including simplifying game play and era stages.Will didn't stick up for his own vision and the managers under him basically ran away with their infantile version of his idea.Not sure if the forum threads and news articles are up anywhere but there used to be old input from people on the team about this internal struggle, Spore and Mirror's Edge are why EA reduced producing new IPs for a while and focused on heavy micro transactions and familiar safe titles.
>>734187847>>734187875>>734187906I genuinely laughed hard at thisThanks for posting friend
>>734177926They have that, it's called Thrive. They've finalised cell stage and are now doing multi-cell stage which they expect will take a year, bringing stage dev time from 10 years to 1.
Lesser known are the titty monsters.
>>734174675They kinda forgot to add any gameplay after you get bored of customizing shit.
I fell for the spore hype but was too stupid to realize it didn't deliverHad too much fun making bulborbs
>v3 when?
>>734174675The average post-2000 born retard thinks it's a good game.
>>734174838>marketed as a scientific evolution gameIt was marketed as sci-fi, nigger. No one playing thought it was an accurate simulation to evolution.
>>734174675I have to play this again.
>>734185407No Man's Söy was finished the moment I heard what it was supposed to be like and then saw the devs. I underwent söyshock and had to be hospitalized.
kinda wierd how they tacked 5 different terrible minigames onto this really fun creature designer game.
>>734174675I am still mad that they cut the aquatic portion of the creature stage
Here's a compilation of an Anon who made truly alien-looking creatures.
i remember when i played this game as a kid i was assmad that i took the game seriously and in space stage all my neighbors were creatures that looked like fucking mario kart character with a gokart and allit took me for ever to kill them all
>>734174675what happened to will wright anyway?
>>734174675What's the appeal?
>>734188890I played spore the day it came out, it was bad then too.
I'm in awe at the size and muscularity of the thigh muscles on Will Wrights creature in this beta screenshot. Absolute melon crushers.
I like the game a lot as a kid. They should really make spore 2 and just have it end when you discover fire or something. Focus on the creature creation and evolution and just forget all the half baked strategy game stuff
I'm still mad..and still coping some nigga one day will leak this build...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMqW1FCbG6A
>>734185607We're too old to be posting on this site. Do zoomers even know about chip the ripper?
>>734174675I think it did. Ask anyone who was either a kid or playing games around that era, and they'll have played Spore or at the very least heard of it.As to why it got criticised and didn't stay relevant for a decade, is because Spore is just four different minigames; absorb-blobs-to-grow minigame - very simplified singleplayer mmo herd minigame - two layers of RTS - and a rather simple but very long space-exploration game. The first stage and the last are the only good ones.
>>734174675>>734190334Also, there is a game that aims to do what Spore promised it would be, but was not. The game has only completed its single cell stage at this point, and is working on multicellular stage. Thrive is the name of the game. It's pretty good
>>734189851If you weren't sitting in your room as a kid drawing all kinds of monsters and alien creatures while imagining elaborate backstories for them you will never understand
>>734190407>>734190465>>734190369>>734190296>>734190261>>734190026>>734189901I forgot how bad the creature creator was>>734189694GROOXA!
Is it possible to play out NTR scenarios?
>start nuking planets>groxs like you now>start nuking them toowish is still had my save from back then i swear i nuked half the galaxy
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>>734190193Do you mean Jeff?
>>734174675>>734189721imagine what could've been
>>734186165They can get pretty wild.https://files.catbox.moe/m023ye.webm
>>734174675It really upsets me that no major game has ripped off the creature creator. I know it must be such a pain to implement that you end up building a game around it rather than vice versa, but that level of open player creativity is wonderful.
The game should have just been the creature stage alone but polished. Who even gives a shit about tribe or space age?
Sporn.https://files.catbox.moe/waeiwb.mp4
>>734190865Exploring the full evolution trajectory is the main selling point. I could ask you, what would be the point of just ending at the creature stage?
>>734190865I liked making space ships and buildings more than creaturesNone of the actual game parts were deep enough to hold my interest though
>>734181943In theory you can, but if you're playing it normally, it annoys me how in the creature stage you're kind of forced to use certain parts because of stats. You'll end up making samey creatures so you don't get raped. You only get actual freedom to design any alien you want if you make the creatures separately from the story mode.
>>734191065Physical volution essentially stops there in the first place. Adding clothes is not evolution. And the selling point was designing your own creatures.
>>734186920It's panspermia theory. I read a horse show fanfic about this once.
>>734191158Clothing is supposed to convey culture - which is certainly part of evolution - but I'll agree that clothing alone is just idiotically simplified. Creature evolution should also still be possible through civilization and space stages. But at the end of the day it's a hugely flawed game that was also made for kids, so it has to be more gamey than make-sensey
>>734187369Molecular stage is that deep but aquatic stage is near the top? Also why would the grox be the good guys?
>>734191405:'(
>>734174675Thinking back, the problem wasn't the cuteness but that the environments didn't push for change. Real evolution is about an organism adapting to an environment over multiple generations, but Spore didn't have anything to adapt to. Yes, you could make your creature taller or give them flight so they could reach fruit in taller trees, but you could also find food elsewhere. You could give them hands to pick stuff up, but throwing shit wasn't very useful. There was no weather to adapt to. No point. Be a slug! No point. Get level five parts, wings, legs, and eyes and you're good to go.
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>>734184775If you ever thought that was going to run on a home computer of the time, you're out of your mind.
I didn't like galactic adventures at all desu. I thought it was just going to let you beam down onto planets to explore them on foot again like in creature stage and add more content to them, but all it did was spawn designated adventure planets where you just go down and do some dumb scripted sequence and leave.Making your own adventures was also way too fucking complex so anything you downloaded online was always complete shit made by an 8 year old.
>>734191860Sexo
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>>734189851Don't answer my bait thread with another question cunt
>>734174675It was hyped like how Peter Molyneux hypes games, completely overpromised. Now it was a fun game but after playing through it once I didn't feel the need again, and the final space stage is like wtf is this bro.
>>734174675It was too dumbed down compared to the earlier builds shown off. This is a good example of corporate meddling ruining good games but Will Wright never had the balls to admit it. EA wanted it's mechanics simplified, art style made cuter and content like the aquatic stage cut for expansions. No option to grow underwater made this a massive disappointment from the get go.
>>734179141I heard "It's in the game" even if it's properly the EA Sports slogan
>>734190296Oh fuck, this screenshot is mine. This is what they eventually evolved into.
>>734192564Though they look better with clothes on.
Can you quit wasting posts with these dumb pictures?Anyway, Spore was NEVER going to work as a "build your wildest creature game" and an evolution sim. They should have either leaned harder on more interesting game elements, like some sort of tech tree in the creature-civilization stages, or it should have been more of you as a passive observer watching simulated creatures interact, like a big ant farm.
>>734174675The last pre-ordered game I ever bought.A good lesson.
>>734183950lmao
>>734192637Same.3 install DRM was a bitch.
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>>734192564Oh shit I think I remember you posting these dudes before. They kinda looked like space bikers or something in one picture with goggles and stuff.
The nigs doing push-ups is some fucked up shit.
>>734192837Oh yeah.
>>734192907And then they become some 1950s pulp alien invader.
>>734174675>pretty good flash game>okay-ish rpg that lasts maybe one hour>mediocre flash game>mediocre flash gamethe first four stages are so shallow they might as well not exist. creature stage is the only stage with a bit of breadth to it, and even that ends way too early before developing any depth. the space stage is 95% of the game, and it's just>Pirates are attacking! Drop everything you're doing NOW or we WILL rape you.every twenty minutes.
>>734174675It was 5 games stuck together with no depth. A better idea would been making them into a series with 5 games, each with a difference genre. However, if they can only pick one, they should focus more in the creature state. Give more body parts with unique bonus and downside.>Feather allow your creature to fly but you need hollow bones so you creature have limited size >Venom is strong but cost a lot of stamina. >Intelligent is expensive to spec into
Butchered from its original vision, everything after creature stage is awful and boring.Etc
>>734193874Is this a heavily modded or do I just not remember these parts
>>734193874holy sexowhich digimon game did this thing crawl out of?
>>734194000It's from the "Cute & Funny" DLC parts pack.
>>734176140No, the real answer is that securom or whatever it was using was so fucking bad it was banning people with legit copies of the game for reinstalling it etc
Looked like a pc game from 1998Dogshit for retards too poor for a console
>>734194159I haven't played this in over a decade so I can't entire write off this being true
Sexo con la creatura Spore.
>>734194737>>734194645>>734194525What are these renders from? Certainly not spore.
>>734194816Guy called MrLarions made models of his spore creatures.
>>734194159meds it's Dark InjectionToo bad it was abandoned though
>>734189504god damn
If it came out in 2020 for the mobile market it would have made fucking quintillions.
>>734189729Reminds me of corru.observer.
>>734192873They look like they go snibbedy snab :DDD
>>734189901You can still make limbs like that in the game
>>734196227amble-piggies look scary, but seem to be reliant on you being too spooked to bother them
>>734174675To be honest I probably could get back to it more often if I didn't lost my creations
>>734190593GROOTY
The worst part of Spore is when you get to civ stage and the game forces you to make four buildings and two vehicles right away before you can do anything. If you don't already have an idea of what you want to make it's tedious as hell, they should have tried to do something to space that out better.
>>734187464It's really like a funny microcosm of why this game was always a terrible idea.
Wish a space age spore game existed by itself. Was fun terraforming planets
>>734174838>it was little more than creationist propaganda for childrenbelieve it or not, but atheist don't care in reality, barring some basement neckbeardnormal people see>hey cool a protozoaand start playing a fun game in stead of seething>noo I wanted random UV radiation and lightning strikes to form basic proteins first!!so that's def not the reason
>>734194565how do you make boobs on a spore creature?
>>734174675Normal spore was popular enough I think, but got boring rapidly when the technology advanced. I am however kinda sad about Darkspore failing and dying. That game was fun man.
>>734200339Well, I heard that the people that were behind Dark Injection are now focusing on reviving Darkspore
>>734190828This jit cracks creatures
>>734200276Just add extra limbs and align them close to the body so they blend in. if you do it right you can kind of achieve jiggle physics since limbs without a hand or mouth on it just sway around when the creature moves.
>>734174675Because the only fun parts were in the beginning, literally everyone dropped every run and creature they made when it turned into a shitty game of civilization. People probably have more time in the character creator screen than any actual gameplay part of spore.
As apparent from this thread everyone made funny dick monsters because the rest of the game was boring
>>734202484Turning the game into a shitty RTS for two stages was probably the worst thing. Tribal and Civ could have worked a lot better if you played as a hero unit accomplishing goals with a little army under your command, and it would have actually resembled the gameplay of the rest of the game.
>>734202484>>734202862Tribe and City stage was underdeveloped feature but Space stage was still fun in some way
>>734186924>buy spore>"oh boy I cant wait ti make funny creatures">boot up game>"PSYCH YOU PLAYING TETRIS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF, HAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT THE FACE ON THIS MOTHERFUCKER AHAHAHAHA KEEP ON STACKING THEM BLOCKS BITCH, I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU DONEsounds kinda meh actually
>>734174838They just didn't want to drop you into the game with a Tetris style puzzle game that would have permanent consequences for your creature. The idea was that fucking up the molecular stage would give your creature inherent debuffs for the rest of the game. Which wouldn't have been true of any of the other stages. It would basically force you to get good at an entirely unrelated game just to be able to play the rest of the game without a handicap, which is completely backwards. A new player should get the default experience, and an experienced one should get bonuses for playing well. They also cut back the cell stage for the same reason. It doesn't really have any bearing on the rest of the game, but it teaches you how the creature editor will work, and it teaches you how unlocking new parts will work. You'll either get them by killing other creatures, or by scavenging them in the environment.
Why isn't there any good mods for this game? I always felt like there was huge potential.
>>734192213Molyneux has disappointed so many people, not even public prostration and suicide by setting on fire would save him from Hell.
>>734195136too few people tend to realize just how many character designs (and sometimes whole species) have grown out of this editor
>>734189003>finalized cell stagewell, good for them, even if they had to keep the feet on the ground and make the game a simple cell sim->still aiming for ALL 9 stageswhat the fuck
>>734174675The whole game is really just a few shallow mini games, and the space stage is the least fun and longest of all of them
>>734181529Cute
>>734178152there's a timeline where this shit shit didn't release, spore got the fucking aquatic stage dlc or even a sequel, and it would be a very popular franchise
>>734174753EA was clearly aiming at another dlc printer a la sims with this game, but will wright dropping out and maxis throwing their hands up changed their mind
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>>734207484In retrospect it really looks like base game of one of those with shitton of DLCs. Shame expansions they released were not gameplay related
>>734196227Indeed.
>>734208030dazai clearly has the staff of life, grox simply didn't stand a chance
>>734174838I can't tell if you're serious or if this is bait, but either way, I laughed.
>>734208343Galactic Adventures was but it was really damn weird. I think the last thing the game needed was a level editor and random shit tacked onto space stage while everything else continued to be neglected.
>>734210162Space stage was the end game so it was really the only stage that made sense to have a gameplay expansion for. Too bad Galactic Adventures was basically just creature stage gameplay shittily grafted onto it, and creature stage gameplay isn't even fun without being able to evolve your creature.
>>734190056damn you just reminded me we had that prototype releasing exactly at christmas, or new year's eve? i dont rememberwas pretty letdown it wasn't this one, or even the 2007 build
>>734210431I feel like they could make gameplay expansions for creature stage even if the stage doesn't go on forever, add stuff like biomes and all that.
>>734193769>>734193874>>734195136didn't know you could do actually cute and hot creatures in spore(i think there was actual support ingame to straight up export the models into a file that you could use in maya too)>>734192564>>734192748 damn i remember downloading this guy from the sporepedia as a kid
>>734189003Thrive is pretty neat, but the tips the game gives are weirdSome are very sensible, but I also got a very aggressive tip to get a nucleus, but right after getting a nucleus the cell couldn't get nearly enough ATP anymore.It's not that it didn't warn about making sure to get some ATP, but that was not nearly made as abundantly clear as getting that nucleus was made.
>>734191145>you're kind of forced to use certain parts because of statsUsually I'd get the parts I want, and also the parts that were actually good but hide those inside the limbs and such
>>734210162Well, GA was technically gameplay related but not in sense I was talking about. It didn't really expand gameplay, just added missions based on earlier stages to last stage and level editor. None of stages was really expanded much
>>734174675The Robin Williams demo of it was infinitely better than what the game actually was.
I remember when they added cyborg parts exclusive to a Dr. Pepper promo and it was the only way to make something similar looking to the Grox without modsGlad the DLC locked behind goyslop gimmick didn’t really stick
>>734182270Zoom zooms too young to live through this hilarity.
>>734212370You can export the models to blender pretty easily apparently
>>734191145>>734212530The worst is when you connect online and half the shit that gets downloaded in your game is just a cube covered in every level 5 part in the game.If all you're doing is fighting maxis creatures you don't really have to use all level 5 parts since the maxis creatures are generally pretty balanced and usually designed for aesthetics, but there's nothing to balance anything the 8 year olds are making.
>>734212734That Dr. Pepper promotion must have been the most regional and limited run promotion ever because I've literally never seen anyone with an account that actually has those parts.
It was unironically too early. The technology didn't exist to make Will Wright's vision accurately without it being way too expensive or taking way too long to develop. That being said, if the game did come out now or EA made a sequel it would probably be garbage for other reasons.
>>734178152OK so I don't know how to explain this but I was a "Darkspore Kid". when all the other kids were playing real videogames, I was obsessed with Darkspore.
>>734178152enjoyed the beta, never played the game and now it's dead lol
>>734190193Your baby daddy's worst nightmare?
>>734212370>>734214086>You can export the models to blender pretty easily apparentlyCan confirm. I'm 99.99% sure they aren't exported rigged with skeletons and stuff, just the model. Here's some renders I made of my critters from 2013.
>CTRL+F YouTube>this wasn't postedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dvMDFOFnAThis video and knowing what the final product is are all you need to understand why Spore failed.
>>734217680That video had me so hyped.
>>734174675>Big kid>Poor so live in a trailer with no computer or internet access>Finally get a computer with a bunch of cigarette pack upc codes rewards catalog>Go to store to get a game>Use the little birthday money I have>Buy spore creature creator>Pop it in>You must connect to the internet to play this>Walmart will not accept an opened game as a return:(
>>734218023>You must connect to the internet to play thisAnd it's only gotten worse since then.
>>734212381The game literally tells you that it is very expensive and you can back out with the undo button (which the tutorials then mention a second time) and that you should focus on ATP production. Doing a second run because I tried thermal and photosynthesis but the game never gave me the upgraded ones and what it didn't tell me about was that temperature goes down. Adapt in the depths and then slowly advanced once you can chow down on everything else. New game plan.
>>734178152I remember almost buying this and putting it back when I saw the online requirement thinking that it would be gay if my game stopped working when the severs died
>>734181771They fucked over Will Wright so badly he left games industry entirely
>>734174675It was dumbed down from the original vision. I knew so many people who were insanely crushed.
https://youtu.be/wiMyCzezfTg
>>734178152>>734207214But there is also timeline where Darkspore was first and eventually it become standard to have game what you can play once (pay again if you want to play more)
>>734217680Yeah, that video was breathtaking. The scale of the game was insane.Hell, I don't think there's been any game since that has the same level of procedurally created content. Like the animations that all work based on how your creature looks.
>>734174675The biggest draw, the creature stage, was hobbled hard. And I don't just mean by dropping bit by bit stages. The most hyped part was just a prologue for poorly done RTS bullshit. Crawling out of the muck and hitting tribal stage should have been most of the game and leaving your singular creature was a mistake in my eyes. I wonder if something like this could be made in this day and age. 'Procedural generation' was a new fangled thing thats been reduced to a buzzword and computational power is comparatively plentiful.
>>734175085no man's sky was 100x worse
>>734222323>'Procedural generation' was a new fangled thing thats been reduced to a buzzword and computational power is comparatively plentiful.The reason they used procedural generation wasn't due to computational power, it's because there was so much freely editable stuff that there would be no possible way to manually animate every imaginable combination of parts or to texture everything. It all had to be generated on the fly.
>>734174753Didn't stop plenty of other games to make it big
>>734215108If this thread isn’t dead in a few hours I might reinstall and check to see if my account does.I very distinctly remember the promo because EA did the same shit where you could get exclusive armor for Mass Effect 2. I think I redeemed the Spore shit and forgot about it. Not sure if I even have my old log in info either.
One thing that drives me nuts in the creature creator is how mouth parts are always treated as a creature's entire head by the animation system. You really can't do anything creative with mouth placement at all unless you want the entire thing to start contorting the second it starts moving because it assumes whatever the mouth is attached to is a neck.
>>734224846>>734215108it's easily available on the net anyways. you can even publish creatures with the parts on the sporepedia since a few years ago
>>734225081Creature creator needs update. Like if they continued to work of Spore, this would one of thing they should eventually change
>>734225260Is there really no game that hits the same spot as Spore?
