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Posted November 27, 2011
I was desperately excited about this game before it came out, and then forgot about it. Lo and behold, it's on sale, I downloaded the creature creator to try (apparently the only demo we get) and it ran nicely. CANYOURUNIT says my computer can handle it easily, but my question is...is it any good?

I realize the individual parts are simplistic, but I tend to be very poor at village sims, RTS's, and 4X games. I'm a biologist, so I find the idea of playing around with life and a bastardized combination of intelligent design and evolution quite appealing.

Has anyone played this? How does it hold up? It looks to be quite infinitely replayable, but I'm not sure if there's anything to do once you hit space age. Y'know, colonize and manage planets and that sort of thing.

And yes, I realize that GOG offers 4X games that are far superior, but I already own several 4X games, and just bought StarFlight, and the 4X games all share the problem of being far too confusing once my civilization finally starts to prosper.
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Posted November 27, 2011
I've played it a couple of years ago. I won't be of much help here, all I can say is that I didn't like it, got bored in around an hour.

Nothing hooked me in there, even if at first, I was really excited about the whole idea of the game.
Posted November 27, 2011
I played it for about 10 minutes.
Posted November 27, 2011
Runehamster, on a playthrough of Spore, the "evolution" part (well, the player selects all the traits really!) and village sims parts are but a tiny part of the game. Most of the game by far will take place in the game's final stage when your creatures have mastered colonizing other planets. Then it's mostly a matter of colonizing new planets and managing the ones you have, for example by building more bases on them so that they are better secured against invasions or preventing an eco crisis for example by introducing a new species found on a different planet to fill an ecological niche.

The game is kind of simplistic and, eventually, very repetitive, but it's still a lot of fun. Not brilliant by any means, but I'd say it's worth checking out for those interested. All in all from start to finish, it's a pretty unique game, even if it does incorporate elements from other well known titles.

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Someone who has only played Spore for two hours haven't really seen what the game has to offer.
Post edited November 27, 2011 by toretorden
Posted November 27, 2011
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toretorden: Runehamster, on a playthrough of Spore, the "evolution" part (well, the player selects all the traits really!) and village sims parts are but a tiny part of the game. Most of the game by far will take place in the game's final stage when your creatures have mastered colonizing other planets. Then it's mostly a matter of colonizing new planets and managing the ones you have, for example by building more bases on them so that they are better secured against invasions or preventing an eco crisis for example by introducing a new species found on a different planet to fill an ecological niche.

The game is kind of simplistic and, eventually, very repetitive, but it's still a lot of fun. Not brilliant by any means, but I'd say it's worth checking out for those interested. All in all from start to finish, it's a pretty unique game, even if it does incorporate elements from other well known titles.

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Someone who has only played Spore for two hours haven't really seen what the game has to offer.
Huh, sounds like a really appealing casual game! Not much of a hardcore game, but that's not really what I'm looking for.

...did I read that right? You can actually rebalance ecosystems? And build bases and things? Is there an economy system, and are there quests to do, or is it pure 4X?
Posted November 27, 2011
Don't expect the game they promised before it was released. It was hyped (and largely developed) as a science geek's wet dream, but about a year prior to release, EA decided to change the target demographic of the game to fans of The Sims. That entailed a massive simplification of the gameplay, a cutiefication of the graphics, and introduction of a number of "social" minigames.

All in all, the game is pretty fun for what it is, it just isn't what it was hyped to be, not by a long shot. The procedural generation technology is very impressive though, and fooling around in the various editors can certainly take up a lot of your time. But the gameplay itself boils down to a series of endless repetitions of the same two or three minigames.
Posted November 27, 2011
Completely and totally off-topic, for which I duly apologize for, but I thought Runehamster that you might enjoy this cartoon given your name and avatar:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/amusing_hamster_cartoon_bob
Posted November 27, 2011
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Wishbone: Don't expect the game they promised before it was released. It was hyped (and largely developed) as a science geek's wet dream, but about a year prior to release, EA decided to change the target demographic of the game to fans of The Sims. That entailed a massive simplification of the gameplay, a cutiefication of the graphics, and introduction of a number of "social" minigames.

All in all, the game is pretty fun for what it is, it just isn't what it was hyped to be, not by a long shot. The procedural generation technology is very impressive though, and fooling around in the various editors can certainly take up a lot of your time. But the gameplay itself boils down to a series of endless repetitions of the same two or three minigames.
Yeah, I was disappointed with the DRM and never bought it. Then I started seeing reviews about how they had ripped out significant portions of the promised game.

At this point, I'm probably never going to buy it unless they drop the DRM and the price to basically free.
Posted November 27, 2011
You must have played one of the Creatures games by now . . . =)

Not the same but . . .
Posted November 27, 2011
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Wishbone: Don't expect the game they promised before it was released. It was hyped (and largely developed) as a science geek's wet dream, but about a year prior to release, EA decided to change the target demographic of the game to fans of The Sims. That entailed a massive simplification of the gameplay, a cutiefication of the graphics, and introduction of a number of "social" minigames.

All in all, the game is pretty fun for what it is, it just isn't what it was hyped to be, not by a long shot. The procedural generation technology is very impressive though, and fooling around in the various editors can certainly take up a lot of your time. But the gameplay itself boils down to a series of endless repetitions of the same two or three minigames.
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hedwards: Yeah, I was disappointed with the DRM and never bought it. Then I started seeing reviews about how they had ripped out significant portions of the promised game.

At this point, I'm probably never going to buy it unless they drop the DRM and the price to basically free.
Right now it's SteamRM only, apparently, and $10...well, it's a Maxis game. That's as cheap as it'll be for eight more years, I think. And incidentally, the two expansion packs look completely useless.
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Stuff: You must have played one of the Creatures games by now . . . =)

Not the same but . . .
My sister and I used to obsess over the first one, which I still have on disc! :D
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crazy_dave: Completely and totally off-topic, for which I duly apologize for, but I thought Runehamster that you might enjoy this cartoon given your name and avatar:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/amusing_hamster_cartoon_bob
Never bothers me - and I got TWO laughs out of it! Thanks! :D
Post edited November 27, 2011 by Runehamster
Posted November 27, 2011
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Runehamster: Right now it's SteamRM only, apparently, and $10...well, it's a Maxis game. That's as cheap as it'll be for eight more years, I think. And incidentally, the two expansion packs look completely useless.
Still too much, perhaps it'll be on sale sometime. As a general rule I don't spend more than $5 on anything from Steam.
Posted November 27, 2011
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Runehamster: Right now it's SteamRM only, apparently, and $10...well, it's a Maxis game. That's as cheap as it'll be for eight more years, I think. And incidentally, the two expansion packs look completely useless.
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hedwards: Still too much, perhaps it'll be on sale sometime. As a general rule I don't spend more than $5 on anything from Steam.
Come to think of it, I think $10's the most I've ever spent on there.
Posted November 27, 2011
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Runehamster: Right now it's SteamRM only, apparently, and $10...
goddamn it you got my hopes up it's still £15 here -.-
Posted November 27, 2011
Thank you, everyone! I really appreciate the help! :D
Posted November 27, 2011
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hedwards: Yeah, I was disappointed with the DRM and never bought it.
Probably not as disappointed as I was with the DRM after I bought it. I bought the Galactic Edition, and guess what? They forgot to add the CD keys from the Galactic Edition to the activation servers >:-(
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