Comments on: Galactic Adventures: “Massive Battlefields”

By: josco

josco — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:04:38 +0000

I’d like to see them do to the other stages what theyre doing here. an expanded creature stage has me pretty excited.

By: Jub-Jub

Jub-Jub — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:03:01 +0000

Don’t think Spore is sucking money out of us. Well yes they are and they arent. Cute and Creepy was definently sucking money out of people. But no S:GA. People actually requested it be made. I still like spore. They did change some stages(that wouldn’t work anyway;Underwater) but really, are you gonna hate a game that has changed and actually bothered making an expansion pack that players need rather than want? Are you gonna hate a game company?

You shouldn’t hate Will Wright though he isn’t the asshole behind all this….(EA)…..

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:32:34 +0000

Songbearer: Yes. This will become clear to you in the future.

By: Dizet Sma

Dizet Sma — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:04:07 +0000

There are a lot of inventive creators in the Sporepedia and I’m betting they’ll come up with better ideas than ‘find your way through a maze’.

I’m still enjoying Spore and if they get the hi-res texture issue sorted on this then I’ll be even happier. Less happy with the idea of the several dozen ‘extra parts’ expansions that will be coming down the pipe, however.

By: Moonracer

Moonracer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:02:46 +0000

I have to side with the folks who feel let down with Spore. It will be a while before anything added to the game feels more like an expansion than something that should have been included in the first place.

Even at $10 I think I’ve moved on enough to pass on this.

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:46:20 +0000

This seems like a must-buy for me, Spore was more than decent.

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:26:35 +0000

@Songbearer: I don’t think soo. But I doubt you are playing the “civi” subgame for hours, and get tons on enjoyment from it.
The creature and cell stages… I see how that is posible. And the Space is a sandbox, so yea, it feasible. I suppose.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:20:42 +0000

Does anyone know if this would change the basic nature of Spore throughout the game? Or are these just extra things to do once you reach the space stage? I ask because I’m yet to play Spore, but am interested in doing so, and I heard the earlier stages are the dullest part of the game.

By: MrFake

MrFake — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:20:09 +0000

Yeah, this looked exciting. Then they dropped the “user-generated” bomb.

The Creature Creator worked because despite your best efforts, every damned creature looked cute enough to hug (even the penis monsters, worryingly). And though the other creators left far more room for imagination, that came with the price of fugliness. And I know I’m responsible for a few misshapen cars and spaceships–multiply that by millions and you’ll get a whiff of some of the bad eggs.

Their own video for the mission creator shows just how depressing this is going to be. Structures and objects left floating above the geometry. Pointless, monster-filled bouncy pits. A remarkably organic free-form experience, in which you can either jump over the wall or blast open the door, y’ know, what only Spore can deliver. *sigh*

Ugh! I didn’t consciously think Spore was a letdown, but why has it made me so cynical? Why do I keep seeing visions of Second Life?

By: Songbearer

Songbearer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:07:53 +0000

Hi. I consistently enjoyed (And still enjoy) Spore. Am I a bad person?

By: Theoban

Theoban — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:52:17 +0000

I enjoyed Spore quite a lot, even though I was lost when it came to the Space phase. Eventually though I realised the bits I liked were just the creation tools, so I played with those for hours.

Maybe this expansion might help, as the Galactic stage just threw me completely.

By: danielcardigan

danielcardigan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:43:10 +0000

Jim Rossignol – unhappy endgame? This is the Spore that PCGUK gave 90%+ (Tom Francis reviewed it I think)? That Spore? The one that had all the previous levels in the game exist as character creation for the REAL game which was the Space Stage?

Spore was mediocre at best and the space stage was just repetitive and annoying. They should have released the creature creator for a fiver and… oh that’s right they did that. No-one actually had to pay any more than that to get the best bit from the “game”.