September 08, 2008

SPORE IS HERE!!!!!! Holy shit, it's finally here!!!!!! Fucking Spore!!!!!!! SHRIEK!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to start playing it as soon as I can get away from stupid work. WHO'S WITH ME?? note to Will Wright: you can stop going to Supercuts now.

posted by Koko 16 years ago
  • Yeah, I might buy it tomorrow, but BEWARE: 1) It uses DRM 2) It is not that good.
  • 1) I don't know what that is 2) YOU SHUT UP
  • 1) Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers, publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. In practice it hurts paying customers by restricting their ability to use a product they paid for legitimately in ways that they should be able to. It destroys fair use rights, and for this reason alone should be resisted. It doesn't hurt pirates because they can crack that shit. 2) Read the reviews: doesn't live up to the hype and doesn't have much replay value. I'll still get it, but I don't expect it to be as great as everyone has been making it out to be.
  • also, you smell
  • I suspect that anyone who likes SimCity will like Spore. But gamers who are expecting Spore to be the next WoW or something like that will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed. I've been playing SimCity since the very first version, so I expect to get at least a couple of weekends out of it before it gets too repetitive. Over the years I've had one or two games with SecuROM as the protection scheme, and it's never caused me too much trouble. Haterz can, of course, download the already-cracked version online.
  • 1) I've eaten way too much candy to be able to get through that whole article; does the DRM affect gameplay at all, and if not, should I really care? 2) The one review I've read says it's GREAT! In conclusion, no, YOU smell.
  • 1) I've just taken a sleepign tablet and am feeling fuckin woozy y'all 2) shut up shut up shut up
  • YOU SHUT UP SPORE IS GREAT BUY IT
  • Sleep well, Hank.
  • Is this the sort of thing you need a computer to enjoy?
  • I suspect that anyone who likes SimCity will like Spore. But gamers who are expecting Spore to be the next WoW or something like that will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed. It's like the Wii -- hardcore gamers just really don't get it. The idea that you'd make something to appeal to the casual gamer is something they just really don't yet know how to process. You're right, the WoW crowd is going to hate it.
  • The serious WoW crowd will hate it -- casual WoW players like me who never managed to get past level 30 but still loved the game even though we never had the time to get really good at it and were therefore kind of frustrated will enjoy Spore. I think ... I still haven't played it yet, but it seems right up my simple-minded little alley.
  • I say "just" way to goddamn much. I also say "goddamn" just too goddamn much.
  • Fucking nerds. *shares love*
  • Is it a game? (I have no intention of looking at the article, ad, orwhateverthefuckthelinkis.)
  • No, check the link. Some guy in Africa's got millions he needs moving to a safe bank account. I'm in!
  • I'm poor and now I'm sad! I have played every Will Wright game EVER and even worked for Maxis for a tiny brief time and I'm too poor to afford it and I hope you're happy, koko, because you've made me SAAAAD!
  • Sorry to hear that Lara'spore. *runs off cackling, dives under covers with bag of Hydrox*
  • let me say this NO MAC Version... the hell with it!
  • It is available for Mac -- I've just spent all weekend playing it :) It's ... pretty good. Not the ZOMFG amazing I was hoping for, sadly, but definitely worth playing, and it looks very very pretty indeed. My main problem is I basically got stuck once I reached the Civilization stage; I couldn't for the life of me work out what I was meant to do next, and my little car just drove around to other cities, blared religious propaganda at them and then got shot down by red laser beams. So I went back to the beginning again and made another cute amoeba.
  • "just drove around to other cities, blared religious propaganda at them" Also called "the Palin/McCain technique".
  • One more thing: it EATS TIME. You think you've been playing for about twenty minutes and then you find three hours have passed.
  • my little car just drove around to other cities, blared religious propaganda at them and then got shot down by red laser beams I need to play this game.
  • Meh, we'll see. Looks like the grandkids might have fun with it, but I'm betting GramMa will get bored after a while. Mothninja, may I take this slightly out of context? MonkeyFilter: it EATS TIME
  • *is groggy*
  • Someone told me that while the US PC version runs on XP, the UK variant requires Vista. Can this be true?
  • No, all versions run on XP from what I can see. It would be a marketing disaster otherwise.
  • We should all make "monkeyfilter monsters" somehow identifiable by name (IDK the naming conventions in Spore) so that when they are shared up to the server and down into everyone else's games, we can see our little denizens start taking over the virtual universe.
  • I think you can tag your creations, so a "MoFi" tag should do the trick. My screen name is "HappyScrappy", in case anyone wants to upload my little fellers, or however that works. I didn't get very far last night, but I liked it. It's pretty, and the Brian Eno music works well with it.
  • You people are sad.
  • Bathroom's just down the hall, Skrik. Quit shitting in my thread.
  • Uh, I don't think anyone should go in there for a while. Sorry.
  • *hands Capt the Lysol*
  • My Spore screenname is Chymo. I haven't figured out how to upload anything yet, tho, and my land creature keeps getting pwned by something. creature tag: mofi
  • Loves me some SPORE. I'm no gamer, nor much of a computer person but had to see what the fuss was about. The mad gamer in house has been even less communicative than usual because SPORE came into the house last week. I spent 10 minutes peering over an irritated shoulder and I'm hooked! The little bastard refused to let me use his copy. Even took it with him when he wasn't using it. I had to sneak in and swipe it when he was sleeping. Now I'm hooked and buying my own copy next week.
  • I haven't figured out how to upload anything yet, tho I think if you start the game and go to "share" (instead of "play"), you can add people as buddies and their content is automatically uploaded.
  • yeh I figured it out.
  • My copy arrived a week early! I am as happy as a little girl!
  • ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BUCKS??!? Stupid exchange rate.
  • I just made friends with a tribe from "Greater Chymer". They were quite impressed with my mad maraca skillz.
  • Ugly little fuckers tho.
  • I am briank in Spore, if anyone wants my happy little Fleemers.
  • Spore = fungus
  • Cool!
  • So I was wandering around in the creature phase, collecting bits, when I hear this weird noise. No, it wasn't the ginormous epic creature over the hill that will destroy your shit if you get near it, it was a humming sound. So I look up and it's a fucking spaceship abducting animals from my planet. Later on, in the tribal phase, another one came and started stealing my domesticated critters out of the pen. Fuckers!
  • Do the domesticated critters serve any practical purpose, or are they just for squee?
  • /jealous
  • I dunno what they're for, I didn't stay long in that stage, but apparently you can farm them, or use them as guard animals. I killed and ate mine! But my tribal blokes had attacks of remorse after killing them, they fell to their knees and wept.
  • Aw, goddamn it, I want to play this now.
  • Savages.
  • Aw, goddamn it, I want to play this now. You play now!!! It cost only fifty dolla, if you're not in New Zealand! You buy!
  • DO YOU HAVE IT YET
  • I gotta figure out how to terraform these planets.
  • So this is some sort of game?
  • IT;S A WAY OF LIFE WHY AM I STILL AT WORK
  • :(
  • OH SORRY LARA IT'S REALLY NOT THAT GOOD, IT'S KIND OF BORING IN FACT I'M GLAD I'M AT WORK. OK DON'T READ THE NEXT BIT IT'S UNRELATED DUEDS FUCKING BUY SPORE ALREADY IT'S THE SHIZZ!!!!!!!! I'M NAMING MY FIRST-BORN SPORE OR SPORINA IF ITS A GIRL
  • *wriggles pinkie in ear to stop the ringing*
  • Why is the smelly lady yelling at us?
  • OK, I own it, but I cannot play it. And why not? "Daddy, you bought Spore! You listened to me!" My computer access is currently limited. See you in October, maybe.
  • NEVER LISTEN TO YOUR CHILDREN.
  • I spend way too much time at the computer as it is.
  • I bought Spore Saturday morning. I am so fucking tired today.
  • Post game name immediately!
  • MoFi You're making little Jimmy worry about you and your fixation, Koko...
  • game name is fimbulvetr, creatures are tagged mofi
  • I really can't hold it much longer.
  • Clench harder. Or, if you really need relief, use Tracy's blog. She's got magazines and scented candles, and a warm bidet to rinse your dirty bum-bum after.
  • I don't wipe anyone's backside but my own, fyi.
  • (Although for a copy of Spore...)
  • Tracicle, check out TradeMe - there's used copies there for about $80 with a couple more installs on them. I'm tempted, but my game budget just got shot up - badly. It's limping...
  • Things I learned this weekend: 1. Spore occasionally crashes; 2. Spore does not autosave.
  • I learned that early on, I jumped from near the end of creature stage right to the start of tribal on my first run thru, because of a crash, & I had forgot to save. It just missed out the end of creature stage, which pissed me off, cos I was collecting parts for a particular design of critter. So I started again. Which was cool, because I knew more about what I was doing. but, still.. This latest patch caused my graphics card to glitch out a bit, too. But no biggy.
  • I'll buy it after I get back from vacation, when I can buy it cheaper in the States. With any luck, you'll all have outgrown it by then, and you will have shut up about it and won't have to put up with this silly n00b's nonsense.
  • When you get back from vacation, your silly American dollars will be worth less than a handful of seashells, the way things are going, bub.
  • Exactly. That'll make it cheaper, converting from Canuckistan rupees.
  • Game name ninjamoth, keep forgetting to tag all my stuff, but some have mofi tags at least. I've made a Daisy May entertainment building too in your honour.
  • The evolving music is a neat idea. But I still hate Brian Eno.
  • Just curious . . . is anyone who bought this game back in September still playing? It was great for a while for me, then pffft. Totally got bored with it somewhere in the tribe stage. I've tried going back a couple times, played around with the city stage, but I really can't get back into it. That, and I find the controls and navigation in the later stages to be really frustrating and irksome. I think the creature stage was probably the best part of it.
  • I haven't played it for a long time, but there's been Age of Conan and Fallout 3 to take up my time.
  • SimAnt was OK, but the game play got a bit stereotyped after a while. I think you could say the same for the various stages of Spore, though I agree the creature one was probably the best.