Anyway I think the most annoying part of Spore is that it is good, if the game was bad then I could put it aside and play some TF2. But because it is a good game it means I keep playing while the flaws crop up to annoy me (if that makes any sense).

If any of y’all have spore then put your Spore username up and share your creations! (LudoMVH for me, DanteMVH for Dante)

I can’t find Ludo, despite the fact that I know he has and is playing the game (I was talking to him on steam at the time) in order to add him as a buddy.

This is really annoying, as we were looking forward to sharing creatures.

I think he was at his best when he had the spit gland that looked like a mouth as his head – the version I actually took to space I’m not so wild about.

I want to take that baby Genestealer home. It would eat all my pets, but awwwwww!

PS: Tom, your wierd orange creature is a freak.

You may know him as Pentadact, Tom Francis or any other alias, but this is only because his true name can not even be whispered, if you tried to pronounce it you would scream for the rest of eternity, as your insignificance in His grand plan is revealed to you.

Basically, that’s why his screenshots look so good.

Thanks for the heads up Pentadact, it sounds like the game has alot more to it then I first thought. Didn’t even know you could create vehicles too!

Welcome to backwards land people.

Oooh, I’ve got some important stuff to finish this weekend, but I’ll buy it when I have time, and I’ve got the £5 discount for buying the spore creature creator, suddenly in seems a lot more worth it.

My major concern is that the RPS chatroom will be full of Spore related talk for the next few weeks. Eeep.

Sim City for instance (I’m think here of the first two: Sim City 4 was as I recall, prohibitively difficult) – it was itneresting at first to get your little ‘burg set up and installign all the amenities, but quickly you emnded up with loads of cash it it just became a matter of landscaping and town plannign rather than anyhting that really involved much economic thinking.

The Sims’ actual gameplay (at least before the multiple expansions) basically involved optimising a daily routine, until you got rich enough that it scarcely mattered how your Sim spent their time any more as they’d always be super-happy due to their awesome stuff. Maintainign friendships was harder, but also unrewardingly grindy. This turned it into a game which was largely about the doll-house elements, or (for the more creative) about constructing elaborate love octahedrons.

It would appear that Spore has similar “problems” – if you could call the “problems” of the most successful PC games of all time “problems”. The questions for its long term future seem to be these:

* Does the toy provide enough interesting behavioural permutations to be interesting on it’s own?
* Can the game elements of it be rebalanced/patched/expanded to make them more satisfying?
* Failing one or both of the above, can EA churn out enough expansion bits (extra legs, news claws, shinier top hats, new lasers that go BEWW) to prevent anyone noticing?

Unless, of course, Tom is right that observing the creativity of others is more or less enough by itself…

On 1fort, there’s rather a cool link to a TF2 achievement generator, that allows you to do stuff like this: http://tf-2.fr/ach.php?a=Hot Lovin’&b=Kill 10 Medic/Heavy combos with the flamethrower&c=7&d=10&e=1000&f=2

And in the comments of that post a ‘kill notification generator’ which lets you do:
http://www.mzzt.net/tf2/light/captured/red/Pentadact/blue/Ecstasy.png

Achievement generator: http://teamfortress2.fr/achievements_eng.php

Kill notification generator: http://www.mzzt.net/tf2/

(Knowing my luck none of those links will work, in which case ctrl+c)

Is it possible with the full game to create two Sporepedia accounts and upload creations to each of them?

Chijts: There isn’t really a point to either of those actions. If I was at war with someone, blowing up a planet of theirs would certainly help, but those missiles are prohibitively expensive compared to just bombing the shit out of their cities with some of the high-level infinite-ammo weaponry.

Out of interest will you do a Plan B style diary for Spore in the future? Sounds like it could be a hilarious piece.

I obviously understand what’s going on in these videos, but could you explain what’s the purpose of blowing up a planet or teleporting down infront of a giant thingymagig? It looks very interesting.