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17 years ago
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My friend let me play his copy... and I only have one question....
... How can you people put up with this? It's one of the most boring games I've seen... especially since you're FORCED to play through everything the first time (save cheat codes).
Stage one: This has to be the most BORING thing I've played in a while. Not to mention it's stress inducing. I want to move out of the way of something, but It takes time to turn around, and you're slower than everything else. nearby... not to mention getting chased down by something 4x bigger and faster than you...
Stage 2: Lets rummage for 30 minutes trying to find everything before we can move on.
Stage 3: Ripoff of Age of Empires.
Stage 4: Same as above... In addition, you can beat everyone in under 30 minutes using only tanks.
Stage 5: I'm a space game fan, and it sucks beyond belief. Clunky navigation, practically impossible to make money, and to much on going on at once.
It's sad I got all the way to stage 5 without dying... and in under an hour.
Maxis went WAY to overboard on making stuff. I can handle making a city, I can handle making a ship, I can handle planet managment... but the fact the game bascially asks you to make everything, manage everything, and voids all the stuff you made and earned in the previous stages... practically contradicts itself. You can do what you want when you want... but only when the game says you can... and only in a certain stage. Not to mention everything you did before is no longer available. I want to change my peoples appearence in the spage age. You mutated in the past... why can't we mutate in the future?
The game also suffers from internet dependency. You can't see any acheviments unless you're connected to the internet... which is STUPID. That's as bad as BF2142's "You need an internet connection to use your unlocked weapons in LAN play" message. Why do I need to make an internet based account to see what I acheived offline?
Spore suffers from the same fate as Halo. It sucks majorly... but people hype it to the point they think it's good...
... How can you people put up with this? It's one of the most boring games I've seen... especially since you're FORCED to play through everything the first time (save cheat codes).
Stage one: This has to be the most BORING thing I've played in a while. Not to mention it's stress inducing. I want to move out of the way of something, but It takes time to turn around, and you're slower than everything else. nearby... not to mention getting chased down by something 4x bigger and faster than you...
Stage 2: Lets rummage for 30 minutes trying to find everything before we can move on.
Stage 3: Ripoff of Age of Empires.
Stage 4: Same as above... In addition, you can beat everyone in under 30 minutes using only tanks.
Stage 5: I'm a space game fan, and it sucks beyond belief. Clunky navigation, practically impossible to make money, and to much on going on at once.
It's sad I got all the way to stage 5 without dying... and in under an hour.
Maxis went WAY to overboard on making stuff. I can handle making a city, I can handle making a ship, I can handle planet managment... but the fact the game bascially asks you to make everything, manage everything, and voids all the stuff you made and earned in the previous stages... practically contradicts itself. You can do what you want when you want... but only when the game says you can... and only in a certain stage. Not to mention everything you did before is no longer available. I want to change my peoples appearence in the spage age. You mutated in the past... why can't we mutate in the future?
The game also suffers from internet dependency. You can't see any acheviments unless you're connected to the internet... which is STUPID. That's as bad as BF2142's "You need an internet connection to use your unlocked weapons in LAN play" message. Why do I need to make an internet based account to see what I acheived offline?
Spore suffers from the same fate as Halo. It sucks majorly... but people hype it to the point they think it's good...
-Z
I mean, it's cool how they did the customisation aspect, but the fact all your work becomes void as soon as you advance stages doesn't sit to well...
This quote from Wired pressy much sums it up:
"In attempting to Sim everything, Spore tries to be all things to all people -- a strategy that never quite works out the way it's supposed to."
Had no intentions of paying for the PC game as im pretty adept at finding online resorces to bypass draining my bank account for software that can be easily download. Aaaarg! XD
Pardons for the rant hehe, tend to do that when felt cheated, and thanks for the responce too.
As for spore, its a major dissapointment, but then its my fault really for expecting too much :3
-Z