Spore

Kur4mA

As mentioned before, the final space section is supposed to be the actual "game" and the rest is like a tutorial or some crap. I'm still gonna check it out I reckon.

Kiith

How much is it going for in town? Might pick it up anyway, just to see what its like.

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kyub wrote: »

As mentioned before, the final space section is supposed to be the actual "game" and the rest is like a tutorial or some crap. I'm still gonna check it out I reckon.

IT would be nice to check it out but the ****ing thing wont install

its 50 in gamestop Kiith

Shryke

I just watched gamespots review and I really don't know what to make of it now. It seems you will either love it and play it for hours or get sick of it five minutes in. The review was positive but the game doesn't seem to have that many features. It looks a bit boring and repetitive. I'm on the fence and I'm not coming down for a while yet. Any more detailed impressions?

Gonzovision

MooseJam wrote: »

stalker clear sky ftw

+1

humanji

When the first information and video came out of it I was really excited about how immense it seemed. Then I thought about it for a while and realised it'd be incredible repetative, but to be honest, there's still a lot to do in the game and it will keep me occupied for a fair old while. Plus, I'm a fan of the Sims, so repetiveness is something I enjoy!

johnny_ultimate

45 in Smyths with loyalty card if anyones wondering.

Installing now...

pwd

http://spectrum.ieee.org/sep08/6594
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6513
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug08/6525

There's lots in spectrum about it. I thought it was interesting because they don't usually do articles on particular games.

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im on land at the moment

im actually enjoying it

not a must have but still good so far anyway

quarryman

how did you solve the install issues?

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quarryman wrote: »

how did you solve the install issues?

what i did was

installed it in c drive

once installed go into spore on the cdrive

and then go into sporebin and then click sporeApp

takes a bit to come on but it will

Pyr0

i'm a good bit into the space stage of the game, and I agree everything before that apart from the tribal and city stages seems a bit like a tutorial, but not at the same time if that makes any sense ! Anyways, the space stage is the main part, the galaxy is HUGE and you can travel right to the very center by either flying normally (jumping from star system to star system) or going through black holes, but sometimes they leave you on the other end of the Galaxy. Upgrades for your ship are needed to get anywhere in the game, and for that you need money which you get my trading spice (those gysers spewing red stuff on the planet) or by destroying other ships and cities of other nations and picking up money.

I've wasted hours just trying to get a foot hold in my sector !

Pretty good game alright !

quarryman

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote: »

what i did was

installed it in c drive

once installed go into spore on the cdrive

and then go into sporebin and then click sporeApp

takes a bit to come on but it will

#

ah i had that too, it installed fine, you just didn't make a shortcut

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quarryman wrote: »

#

ah i had that too, it installed fine, you just didn't make a shortcut

but it doesnt give you the option of the shortcut and when i clicked on the disk it wouldnt play the game still

johnny_ultimate

Second stage and actually liking it. Its more for the customisation options and the fact you feel you are really creating a unique, personal creature. Thumbs up so far, and best is yet to come apparently. Great learning curve, and while the initial stage is a bit simple, it picks up in the second.

pwd

does the design of your creature have much effect on the gameplay in the space stage?
Like if you make a fierce predator are they better at going to war in space or do their personal attributes have little relevance when they are in spacecraft etc?

Gummy Panda

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote: »

but it doesnt give you the option of the shortcut and when i clicked on the disk it wouldnt play the game still

Do you not have to run it from the Games menu when you click the start button?

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Gummy Panda wrote: »

Do you not have to run it from the Games menu when you click the start button?

when i install the game first i used the default setting which was to save in programs and have in game

but never should up there

very strange problem

bloody vista ****e

Ciaran500

You can just create a shorcut on your desktop, very simple. Google how to do it.

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Ciaran500 wrote: »

You can just create a shorcut on your desktop, very simple. Google how to do it.

im not that bad (i think)

i tried earlier on to create a short cut by copy and paste sporeApp but it wont run

my problem isnt that bad
once i can run the game im ok

VinLieger

Anybody else have a problem registering for the EA account thing? Whenever i do it says it cannot validate the registration key i used for the game. Any ideas what i should do?

Pyr0

pwd wrote: »

does the design of your creature have much effect on the gameplay in the space stage?
Like if you make a fierce predator are they better at going to war in space or do their personal attributes have little relevance when they are in spacecraft etc?

It doesn't matter what you've made when you pass the creature stage and advance into the city stage afaik, I've got guys with 4 arms that have no benifit what so ever in the space age.

papu

dont like the game at all , feels too much like the sims ,

good thing i Didn't Buy it

also the Drm is a complete laugh.. ty securom

kenyard

looks decent imo. thinking of buying ie once i get the cash together. hope my pc can run it

MooseJam

I was giving slight consideration to buying this but thought better of it and got unreal tournament 3, it was only 20 yoyo's

wayne040576

Seems to be a problem logging into the server. It recognises my EA account but after a few seconds attempting to login it tells me my activation code is invalid.

Quite a few people with the same problem. There's a sticky on the EA forums:

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-technical-support/334814-cannot-login-login-errors-server-problems.html

corblimey

I think the Spore game servers have been borked all day (and yesterday). I'm getting different messages every now and then, but mostly something about my priviliges on spore.com. http://eu.spore.com/sdkcatch/ has been unavailable all day.

The fact of the matter is that you don't need to be logged in - without it, all you get are Maxis creatures which are fine. Frankly, I can do without some huge penis monster coming in to destroy my people.

I'm up to Tribal stage at this point, messed up a few times, but like has been said above, I don't think each stage is linked in any meaningful way, they're all kinda stand alone games. Loved the creature stage, found the cell stage a little dull, if I'm honest. But it's shaping up to be a game I'll delve into for many years to come.

papu

corblimey wrote: »

I think the Spore game servers have been borked all day (and yesterday). I'm getting different messages every now and then, but mostly something about my priviliges on spore.com. http://eu.spore.com/sdkcatch/ has been unavailable all day.

The fact of the matter is that you don't need to be logged in - without it, all you get are Maxis creatures which are fine. Frankly, I can do without some huge penis monster coming in to destroy my people.

I'm up to Tribal stage at this point, messed up a few times, but like has been said above, I don't think each stage is linked in any meaningful way, they're all kinda stand alone games. Loved the creature stage, found the cell stage a little dull, if I'm honest. But it's shaping up to be a game I'll delve into for many years to come.

careful you dont install it more than times

also , theres a keygen out , so becareful that you dont get one thats been generated and cuts you off online mode..

Sarky

The little details in the cell stage make the microbiologist in me go all wibbly, like when you finally get big enough for the water currents to affect you, or the diatoms and plants growing in complexity when you zoom out. And especially running the hell away from the bigger cells until you're finally big enough to bully them back is damned fulfilling.

It's fun. It's not complex or even particularly deep, but watching your cell grow into animals and then civilisation is quite satisfying. Haven't played much of the space age part yet, but I thought the terraforming was interesting and the scale was very impressive. Could well have potential.

corblimey

Everything seems ok now, was able to log in and see some user 'offerings'. Also? Civ stage rocks hard.