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Post by Starrz » Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:56 pm

A couple of weeks ago, i saw billions of advertisments and stuff on tv and online that SPORE was supposed to be bigger than the Sims, But truly, i think they tried too hard.

Does anybody have/know anybody who has this game?

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Post by Jendraz » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:45 pm

I have this game. Creature stages and space stages I had a lot of fun with, the others not so much.

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Post by Jeff » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:40 pm

I liked the very first stage where you are a cell. The rest were boring.

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Post by David » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:48 pm

I thought the cell stage was really fun, and the creature stage was kind of fun, and the rest were really bland.

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Re: SPORE

Post by Starrz » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:02 pm

lol it dudnt sound like its really fun. i was thinking bout gettin it :|

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Post by David » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:26 pm

I bought it at a store and put the disc in and installed it, and after it finished I tried to run it and it said the file was corrupted. So I tried reinstalling, and was faced with a big dialogue box saying, "You do not have an authorized copy of Spore," and then it quit. I messed around with my firewall settings for a long time to allow the DRM malware to phone home properly, and only then would it let me start the game.

That experience did not leave a great first impression.

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Re: SPORE

Post by BunnyWithStick » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:06 pm

Apparently having a decent firewall is a criminal offence…

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Post by Chainsaw man » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:17 pm

David wrote:I bought it at a store and put the disc in and installed it, and after it finished I tried to run it and it said the file was corrupted. So I tried reinstalling, and was faced with a big dialogue box saying, "You do not have an authorized copy of Spore," and then it quit. I messed around with my firewall settings for a long time to allow the DRM malware to phone home properly, and only then would it let me start the game.

That experience did not leave a great first impression.
BunnyWithStick wrote:Apparently having a decent firewall is a criminal offence…
That is lolmatic in a sad way...
It gose to show that people so afrade there work will be ripped off, it runes the master peace, aditonaly, it also gose to show that no mater what you do, your gonna get a viruse one day some how, Firewalls are not what there cracked up to be :)

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Post by BunnyWithStick » Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:31 am

Not if you have a mac, firefox AND Little Snitch.

Although if you get the virus through firefox, LS probably won't help since firefox would probably have full internet access without notifications.

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Re: SPORE

Post by invertin » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:13 am

Thats why you get antivirus. Viruses aren't as dangerous (well, the common ones anyway) as they're cracked up to be, so it's normally easy to delete them before they do any damage.

Plus it's harder to get a virus than you think anyway. The only reason I've got a virus is because I was gullible and downloaded something I shouldn't have.

Never google keygens.

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Re: SPORE

Post by Glabbit » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:57 am

invertin wrote:Never google keygens.
EVER.

And yeah, most people I know who've got spore have commented on the lack of replayability for some reason (sounds illogical with such options, neh?), but I really can't say for myself 'cos I have no frikkin idea. x3

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Re: SPORE

Post by Starrz » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:46 pm

yeaaaa i think ill pass on gettin this game :P

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Re: SPORE

Post by David » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:37 pm

Glabbit wrote:[And yeah, most people I know who've got spore have commented on the lack of replayability for some reason (sounds illogical with such options, neh?), but I really can't say for myself 'cos I have no frikkin idea. x3
This is definitely one of its biggest failures. Most games with deep character customization have many small, permanent choices. For example, in Diablo you start out choosing a class, and then when you level up you can choose which stat to upgrade and which skills to learn. Then once you beat the game it is fun to try out different classes, or even different paths of the same class. High replayability! Spore is like that except none of the changes are permanent: you can change anything at anytime. You can have a slug monster whose offspring is a bumblebee raptor or a brontosaurus. Since you can change anything at any time, you can see nothing new by playing again. Low replayability!

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Re: SPORE

Post by Jeff » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:48 pm

FWIW, Spore has a nearly 1 star rating on Amazon out of over 3,000 reviews. Save your money.

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Re: SPORE

Post by Glabbit » Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:41 am

Ptaaahahaha epic. xD

Okay, I'll pass. Back to Lugartoo!

Also: Omg I was quoted by David! I am Honoured! <3

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