Zero Punctation Rips into Spore

[Magusigne]

Zero Punctation Reviews Spore!

Good job describing the game I think

Notice when he shows the real games in each section that spore tries to imitate he chose my all time favorite game Star Control 2 to sum up the space exploration game.

Damn that game ruled.

 

[Anubis]

blargh i wish that wasent blocked at work

 

[SunnyD]

Please do not distort the width of the page.

Thanks,
-Schadenfroh (AT Mod)

 

[Maximilian]

Yeah thats basically what i thought lol. Spore sucked, only an 8 year old would enjoy it.

 

[KeithTalent]

I don't know, I still kind of like Spore. It's not great, but I'm having a bit of fun with it.

I can definitely see why people would hate it though.

KT

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I found the game kind of boring for the most part - the cell stage was fun, as is the creature creator. Beyond that, it just seems too simplistic and cartoony.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Please do not distort the width of the page.

Thanks,
-Schadenfroh (AT Mod)

Blame FuseTalk.

 

[40Hands]

Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

 

[Lumathix]

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

This sucks really really bad.
I had preordered the game, and forgot about it a long time ago. When I found my girlfriend had layed it there on the counter when I got home I was excited. Until about an hour after playing it, that is.

It sucks.

 

[wanderer27]

With what bits and pieces I've seen regarding Spore on the net, I can't say the least surprised to see Yahtzee rip it.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: wanderer27
With what bits and pieces I've seen regarding Spore on the net, I can't say the least surprised to see Yahtzee rip it.

I would be more surprised if he didn't rip it, but not because of what I've heard of the game. Solely because he's Yahtzee, that's what he does.

 

[pontifex]

lol, the "noooooooooooooooooooo" was f'ing hilarious!

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

proof?

 

[Baked]

The warhammer trailer that follows looks awesome. Can't wait to install it after I do another fresh install of vista.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

proof?

The fact that you only have 1 resource to manage and you can dominate other races and the entire planet without any real effort? I mean, I just made a weird-looking badass creature that was good at fighting and went around killing everything. It worked pretty well.

 

[TehMac]

What I think Will Wright should make is some sort of RTS/Civ game.

 

[wanderer27]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

proof?

Here, I posted this in the Spore / DRM / EA thread:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com...crtical-spore-reviews/

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

proof?

The fact that you only have 1 resource to manage and you can dominate other races and the entire planet without any real effort? I mean, I just made a weird-looking badass creature that was good at fighting and went around killing everything. It worked pretty well.

I meant proof that WW said "I had to dumb down the game for casual gamers", not that it WAS dumbed down... I played it, already have proof of that.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Powernick50
Zero Punctation Reviews Spore!

Good job describing the game I think

Notice when he shows the real games in each section that spore tries to imitate he chose my all time favorite game Star Control 2 to sum up the space exploration game.

Damn that game ruled.

That has to be the funniest shit I've seen all day.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I don't know, I still kind of like Spore. It's not great, but I'm having a bit of fun with it.

I can definitely see why people would hate it though.

KT

This sums it up for me. I enjoy it, it's far from amazing, but it's kinda replaced solitaire/minesweeper for me.

 

[Piuc2020]

It's charming for a little while but it doesn't hold up as a long term game, it's not bad and encountering your or your friends creature is when the game becomes fun.

Yahtzee was right, this game will not transcend as highly as The Sims did.

Even the art style and the presentation of the game is lackluster, meh, maybe I think too mcuh about it but when I saw the boxart and the font used for the title, it didn't look very appealing.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Baked
The warhammer trailer that follows looks awesome. Can't wait to install it after I do another fresh install of vista.

Unfortunately Warhammer doesn't look nor play ANYTHING like the trailer. Warhammer = WoW.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

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[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Baked
The warhammer trailer that follows looks awesome. Can't wait to install it after I do another fresh install of vista.

Unfortunately Warhammer doesn't look nor play ANYTHING like the trailer. Warhammer = WoW.

it doesn't play like the trailer, but i know a lot of hardcore wowers who are enjoying warhammer very much (pvp players)

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: 40Hands
Unfortunately the game had to be dumbed down for casual gamers. Will Wright even said this.

proof?

from
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com...crtical-spore-reviews/


When I talked to Wright, I had played deep into the Space Stage, which I was enjoying. But I had seen complaints from hardcore game reviewers and message board posters that all of the stages have less complex gameplay than many gamers had hoped. As wonderful as the content creation and sharing options are, the one consistent complaint I?ve seen is that the gameplay seems to have been ?dumbed down? for the sake of appealing to a more casual audience. Was it?

?I?d say that?s quite accurate,? Wright told me. ?We were very focused, if anything, on making a game for more casual players. ?Spore? has more depth than, let?s say, ?The Sims? did. But we looked at the Metacritic scores for ?Sims 2?, which was around 90, and something like ?Half-Life?, which was 97, and we decided ? quite a while back ? that we would rather have the Metacritic and sales of ?Sims 2? than the Metacritic and sales of ?Half-Life.?

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id just like to comment on what he said, i think its bs..

half life got the meta critic scores because of its accomplishments in the genre

NOT because people want all games to be the same , or to test only one type of skill set

I play RTS, FPS, RPG, racing..anything