Lest we forget: SPORE

[Zazazu]

Annoyed at Apartment Life? Annoyed at all the people who are bitching or drooling over Apartment Life? Totally disenchanted by the Sims at the moment?

Have no fear, Spore is here (almost).

Release is set for September 7th. Yup, that's only six days. Discuss.

[kutto]

In six days, Pes will have fixed what most people are bitching about. In six days, Spore will be released and the bitching will resume.

In all seriousness, I was excited when I heard about this game how ever many years ago that was, but now the enthusiasm train has stopped. If I see some interesting screenshots, then maybe I can be swayed; I'll stick with TS2 for now.

[jfade]

SecuROM and the crappy activation system completely killed my enthusiasm for this a while ago. I will not be buying it.

[MidnightVoyager]

It got release in Australia a full week early in some places. Why? Because the store owners FAILED and put it out as soon as they got it.

[Insanity Prelude]

On the one hand, it still sounds like my kind of game.

On the other, SecuROM. And since I'm on school intarwebs, ARR'ing it is out of the question. Guess I'll be passing this one over.

[kutto]

Insanity, you keep mentioning your school monitoring you. Have you considered getting a proxy or encrypting your torrent?

[lemmiwinks]

Spore is at the bottom of my "To Buy" list and not much higher on my "To Arrr" list. When the bugs get fixed, all the crap removed I will consider it.

[jesslla]

My husband has been all over this game since it was announced. He pre-ordered it last Thursday, and is practically counting down the days. I'm not planning on getting it, but I'll check it out when he installs it. After all, I wasn't crazy about the idea of the Sims either until he got it.

[HeyYeah]

I'm kinda interested in Spore. Once the SecuROM thing and the inevitable bugs get straightened out, it may be the first thing I torrent now that I have non-dial-up internet.

[Zazazu]

I suspect that SecuROM will not be an issue on release day, just like with Apartment Life.

[Insanity Prelude]

Insanity, you keep mentioning your school monitoring you. Have you considered getting a proxy or encrypting your torrent?

I don't know if they monitor or not. sorry, didn't realize I was getting annoying (I guess I was looking for advice.)

Don't know how to do either.

[Emma]

I'm getting it for DS I think. Not for me, for my son. I 'Do Not Want' now. Shame and I was really looking forward to it too! My son still plays on the creature creator but I have completely lost interest.

[SJActress]

I pre-ordered it last week like an idiot.  I'm working on a show right now where my first line is SIX pages long (roughly 15 minutes of me just talking to a guy under a sheet).  Then I have to memorize the REST of the play.  So I'll be owning Spore fairly soon, but I won't get to play it for at least a month!  Hopefully all the kinks will be worked out while it's sitting, unopened, on my desk.

[Roxxy]

Unfortunately a family member pre-ordered it for me, otherwise i would have bought it by now as it's already been released a few days ago here in Australia. 

Now I just need to wait till they have the time to go collect it from the store, but it's all good.  I am glad I am getting it any day now.


Edited;  Got it now, just need to decide which pc to load it on considering the securom issues.

[Alex]

I really want to get it, but SecuROM and evil spyware crap has put me off totally.

Shame, really. Will Arr when all crap is removed though.

[Jemina]

I don't intend to set up an internet connection on my XP just to activate Spore. So I'm either not getting it I'll wait for a pirate version or a crack that will allow playing without spying.

[Zazazu]

Well, you'll notice I said nothing about buying the game.

I'm eager for the gameplay, of course, but I'm more eager to see how many glaring bugs are there. My theory is that there will be much fewer than with the Sims titles, since Sims fell apart after Will Wright left.

[Alex]

Will Wright is a very intelligent man. Under his watchful gaze, I'm sure the only bugs we'll be seeing will be relatively obscure and minor, much like TS1 (or even base game TS2).

[marjchaos]

I think Spore is very interesting.  Groundbreaking maybe.  A lot of cool game stuff is being innovated and will probably carry on in future games.  However, I don't think it looks fun to play.  Kinda like back in the day when I was this huge RPG nerd, Cyberpunk was much more fun to create characters for than to actually play.  So, while it looks pretty cool, I played around with the free version of the creature creator for about a half an hour, then removed it from my computer.  I'm done with Spore now.

[IAmTheRad]

I watched some australian guy play spore for 6 hours last night.

It's still at the bottom of my to-buy list. Shame my list is only full of 1 item. And that item is Spore.

Yes, I will buy it. Looks great, even after seeing some guy play through cell, creature, and tribal. I had to sleep when he got into the civilization stage

[cwieberdink]

I'm probably going to arr myself a copy when the suckrom issue gets worked out.  And I'll probably play for an hour and lose interest.  Or maybe I'll love it.  I'll have to see.

Right now, life and stuff gets in the way of a lot of game time, so I don't even get to play Sims like I would like to.

[eevilcat]

I feel that I played out my enthusiasm for 'critter games' with the various incarnations of Creatures and Pokemon so Spore really doesn't interest me. I won't be buying and will stick with TS2, I might even install AL at the weekend.

[IAmTheRad]

There's an 'arr'ed copy out there somewhere, apparantly. However there's not a scene release of it (and a scene release will be superior to a homemade release of it).

I will 'arr' it, but I will own a legit copy. The Galactic Edition, however. Boo on 3 activations... I bet they'll remove the activations eventually.

[IAmTheRad]

i can haz spore torrent?

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1763526

[FourCats]

Spore is not for me, it is so uninteresting . . .

I'll just stick with sims and simcity.