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Spore players (Mac) chime in....

I think the only thing "revolutionary" about it is the creator used for the creatures and vehicles. The rest of the game, as mentioned, is a rehash of other games simplified and stacked together. Maybe stacking all those games together could be considered "revolutionary" for marketing hype purposes, but in reality it just isn't.
 
1. Pretty fun game. You can get to the Space stage pretty quickly. It's fun starting from the cell stage and seeing how your creature evolves. Beware of the Grox!

2. I have the same computer as you. SR MPB. I installed it on my Mac side and Vista side via BootCamp. Vista runs the game a lot smoother than Mac OSX, especially in the space stage. You can transfer your games from one side to the other but I'm not sure about the creatures. I tried importing creature .pngs but it doesn't always work.
 
Deschain said:
I'm really disappointed.

This was the kind of game that when i first heard about it and then saw Will Wrights demo (must have been like 2 years ago?) i was drooling, but i knew it really couldn't live up to what i wanted. Everything was to simplistic. I wanted the evolution part to be deep and fun, it was simplistic, boring and short. Editing creatures wasn't much fun after the 3rd or 4th try (having played the creature creator i was bored of this concept long before the game dropped).

There are games that do the RTS, SimCity and Civilization elements better, their are games that do the space part better. This game is like a jack of all trades, master of none. Everything is over simplified to the point that it just isn't what i wanted.

I played it on a friends iMac (the exact specs escape me) and it was good.i also saw it running on a friends Macbook (4gigs, 2.0ghz, newest revision) and it ran good (some settings were lowered, again, i'm not sure which but it ran smooth.
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Totally agree. I found it seriously lacking in depth. I've reached the space stage but honestly, I've lost interest. Its too bad, SimCity remains one of my favorite games.
 
Overall Enjoyable

The game has made me laugh quite a few times. Lighthearted and fun and entirely enjoyable. I've run into a few technical issues, once where video went black and pink alternate sold colours (Much like an NES game not working). Second a strange evolutional state in the creature stage where the nest was in the ocean and going on land proved to be dangerous by getting eaten by giant sea (Landshark?) monsters. Ultimately that particular game crashed Spore and on restart the save data didn't exist. No issues since the update. From the preview a few years ago by the developers it looked more expansive. Overall it is enjoyable despite the tyrannical DRM. I could see the DRM being an issue and a reason why people wouldn't want to buy the game, it hasn't been an issue for me.
 
otispunkmeyer said:
1) brief opinion/impression of the game.... is it good? bad? what you expected?
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It's kinda boring. I hoped for more, it seems rushed to gold final to me. I mean, 1 play through and you're done. No more mystery.
The ONLY real dynamic part to it is you can make your creatures look different. But it's all cosmetic. 6 pairs of legs equals the same speed as 1 pair of legs. Parts don't stack. Silly. Boring.
 
DavidLeblond said:
You only have yourself to blame for the DRM then.
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100% incorrect. They have only themselves to blame. They are driving people to piracy by treating their customers like criminals.

There will ALWAYS be pirating. No amount or type of DRM will ever change that. The fact Spore was cracked and available DRM free a full 5 days before its commercial release proves how completely useless DRM really is.

Look on Amazon, 2500 1 star reviews saying they won't buy Spore because of its DRM. That is $125,000 of lost sales on Amazon alone because of DRM, not counting thousands more choosing not to buy it and not voicing their opinions. They are losing literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on the deal, not to piracy, but to people making an informed decision.
 
I've take a pirate copy from BT just so I could see if I liked it - being a casual, occassional gamer I've often bought games in the past and never played them. Last night I spent two hours and took my creature to the land phase and I found it a lot of fun - I will buy the retail version now.

I do agree that DRM is annoying and really with all the sources to get a cracked copy these days it seems a waste of effort from the developers. However, if youre prepared to buy it DRM free then why not buy a DRM, I don't see much difference.

The game appeals to me because it's not too fast paced, easy to get into, nice graphics and funny. I'm playing on my Mac Pro (see sig) and it seems OK, however I am wondering if I were to upgrate my stock 7300 card to a 8800 if it would make much difference? Even maxed-out the game runs but at a slow frame-rate.

Any thoughts on GPU upgrades?
 
I've got a Mac Pro (2.8 octo) with 10 gigs of RAM and the 8800 graphics card, and I can't play Spore at max settings. Maybe it'll run smoother under XP or Vista, but I prefer to spend my quality time in OS X. I tried to play Spore at max settings. It was okay most of the time, but certainly not smooth at all. I had to lower some of the settings to be able to enjoy Spore. It doesn't look as great with lowered settings, but at least it runs great.
 
iPapa said:
I've got a Mac Pro (2.8 octo) with 10 gigs of RAM and the 8800 graphics card, and I can't play Spore at max settings. Maybe it'll run smoother under XP or Vista, but I prefer to spend my quality time in OS X. I tried to play Spore at max settings. It was okay most of the time, but certainly not smooth at all. I had to lower some of the settings to be able to enjoy Spore. It doesn't look as great with lowered settings, but at least it runs great.
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Interesting - I found yesterday that on full res with medium settings it ran very acceptably. Maybe though compared to a well-specced gaming machine it's not good at all, I couldn't say.
 
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