Spore?

The date's changed a hundred times from what i've read... but i guess they're anticipating it to be released in the near future.

 

Will Wright said second half of 2007 on the colbert report i believe

 

Well the game is out, but I'm not sure if I'm overly excited about it. I was really looking forward to the Space stage and so far its kind-of disappointing. I am playing it on the hard difficulty which may affect some of my experience, but overall I just don't think I like the game play mechanics. Even in the other stages, it seems like they've really dumbed things down a lot.

If anyone was going to buy the game but hasn't yet, I'd suggest looking into any other ways you might be able to play the game before you buy in case you are of the same opinion as me.

 

My son, pistachio, just got this game. So far he likes it.

 

I got it. I like it, but I like starting from the very beginning. If you jump right to space you will be bored. I think the reason is when you start something from a single cell organism and get to the space stage, you have more invested in the race.

That said, I had my girlfriend try it. She's a social worker so while I am running around with war-like carnivores eating my way to the top of the food chain, she is getting bonuses for completing levels without killing anything. So I am happy to find something that appeals to women.

To be honest I think her guys would overwhelm mine.

However that isn't the funniest part. She goes into work the next day and is raving about playing this game her boyfriend got.

"I think it's called Spooge."

I can't stop chuckling.

 

I also started from the beginning and I'd say I enjoyed all of the stages for the most part - except for the space stage. I've still not completed it, but it just seems annoying to me to have to keep jumping around stopping ecosystem failures and pirate raids on top of having to go to all my systems to collect spice and then have to hunt down a decent price somewhere in the galaxy in order to make any money. I also find it a bit lame that my race can only build one space ship, yet they can 'clone' it so that if I die, I immediately have a new one set up including everything I had in the hold waiting for me at the nearest owned star system. Just doesn't make sense.

If my race can build one space ship and clone it, I should be able to fly around with multiple vessels of my own (instead of having to go recruit other races) and my civilization should be able to build cargo ships to haul around spice and make money for me. What intergalactic empire that spans the stars is totally dependent on one 'UFO'? Only your own apparently, because if you go to war with another empire, they hit you with fleets of 6 - 8 ships in attempts to lay waste or capture you colonies. Oh...and you'll definitely get raped by those enemy fleets. They can chase you from space down to the planet surface when you are in their territory - all the while shooting you and you can't do a thing until you reach the planet surface to defend yourself.

Sorry...just a bit frustrated.

I've not gotten too awful far in the space stage, so maybe things change...but we'll see.

 

pistachio wants to know your account names so he can have your creatures in his world.

 

My account name is jupejuperocket

 

Kim: My tribal Smoo just domesticated a baby Pistachio

 

Cool! hehehe! Pistachio is at school right now, but I'll give him your name as soon as he gets home.

 

I thought it might've been him. It was a heck of a coincidence.

 

his data is online so it might be the creature he created. what does it look like?

 

I can't remember. I've since passed the Tribal stage

 

The ones i made were blue & yellow with scales and horns on their heads, they are called Relious and my account name is pistachio1234.

-Pistachio