Lest we forget: SPORE
cwieberdink:
Quote from: MidnightVoyager on 2008 September 03, 14:14:28
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 03, 14:03:56
Really? I finished this morning, just shy of three hours ago.
So far so good, though I didn't have much time to play before I had to get to work. I'm at early creature stage. I got the Pacifist label after the cellular stage as I didn't attack anything. This is mostly because I didn't know how to. My doo-hickey had a solid "Run Awaaaay!" Movies are absolute cuteness.
My torrent -should- finish sometime this evening. I checked before I left for work and it was still going on strong, around 100MB transfer rate. I... well, I ordered it, but I'm terribly impatient, so I'm going to get in some offline play before it gets here next Tuesday. (Who releases a game on Sunday? That's one more day that people who ordered it online can't have it. Jerks.)
Hmm. When I click the torrent link, (and I've tried both private and public trackers), it says "The system cannot find the file specified" and nothing happens.
edited to fix stupid errors. Edited again: NM. It finally worked on about the 10th try. But private trackers rule! I'm getting speeds topping out at 400 kB/s
IAmTheRad:
My download speed isn't as fast as some of yours. I cap at 160KB/s downloads. So I didn't use torrents (of course).
I downloaded the game off usenet. It's the best way, in my opinion. Then I don't need to worry about the speed of the torrent dropping below a specific speed. I kept the same speed, and started the download before I went to bed. And put the rar files on my laptop when I woke up (and extracted and installed during class at school)
I know i won't get nearly the same quality of graphics on my laptop as I'll get at home. But I did give it a quick try, and it was fun. I enjoyed my small time in the cell stage, even when I had a few minutes to try out the game. It's actually *gasp* going to be a purchase for me! I'll suffer securom and it's DRM solely for the content that I'll get off the sporepedia, and I know I'll have limited activations, but maybe the crack will let me avoid the activations and still have the game. A unique key? Yes, please!
Spore, even when I only tried the cell stage a little bit, was still fun. I'll be able to try it some more during my lunch break, and able to play it when I arrive at home on my desktop (and have much better graphics there).
So, free trial of the full game even with the limitations of no user content. At least I can play it for a couple of days before I officially own the game.
BTW: I believe the torrent is in .rar files that can be transferred on a usb flash drive.
Zazazu:
IAmtheRad, you should still be able to access the sporepedia without buying the game, at least for creatures. All you have to do is wrong-click and save the .png files to your creatures subfolder. I'm not sure about ploppables, but I suspect they'll do the same. Why put your computer at risk, knowingly?
BTW: Si, it is in a split .rar file.
UPDATE: Confirmed, you can get user buildings, etc, as well from the website without being logged in.
lemmiwinks:
There are free file splitters out there, so *anything* can be transferred on a flash drive or memory stick.
Ryslin:
Heck.. unrar and rerar it, that is what RaR was made for.
I was delighted to do random searching and find Spore was ARRable, I am further delighted that Sporepedia is easily downloadable. I hope if a bunch of MATY like this we can perhaps have a Spore corner.
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