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Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable' (www.pcgamer.com)
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The evolution sim that was never meant to be.

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Spore: An oral history by Jay Castello / Designroom (free registration required)

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[–] 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

But spore was awesome though

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think some of the love for Spore is rose-tinted glasses. It's ultimately kind of a shallow game. The sim aspects are not very well fleshed out, and 90% of the content of the game is really in the space age.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We remember it as awesome, because we played it when we were very young. The Creature Stage still almost is, but the rest of the game is not.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    it depends on what you want out of it

    I’m 33, I played it when it came out and I played it again last year.

    The game is still pretty fun if you like designing dumb alien animals with its weird mechanics for the creature stage, making a weird little tribe/society, and get to the space stage and want to terraform little planets and then go find earth, and the center of the Milky Way.

    I wasn’t even particularly young when I played it the first time, I was a post Halo 3 16 year old lol.

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