Spore

I'm weird. I have to make my spores look like real creatures.

So I made a cow, a horse, a dog, a monkey and a human looking thing.

LOOOOOVE the creature creator...the hubbie just shakes his head at me when he looks over my shoulder to see what I made and says that I'm just plain weird. :roll: I've already pre-ordered the game and can't wait for the release.

Quote by lizzio

you can download the game for free.. xD but without multyplayer

Far be it from me to be judgmental... but... it's a great game, you should really pay for it. It's not that expensive.

Peace

I have Spore too... haven't played it in a while.... but it was a real blast...

The creature and space are my favourite phases. I try to stay in creature phase as long as possible to unlock every single part i can get!!! :D

I'm not so sure about the upcoming "Dark Spore" game they have planned. My jury is sitll out on if I'll buy that one.

I used to play spore like crazy but I got a little upset about that DRM Securom they installed to the kernel so I got rid of it and the DRM.

Here's my Sporepedia if anyone wants to browse. :)

Sporepedia link

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Gosh, looking over all of my old creations, I really miss that game. I made some really awesome things. ^.^

Yeah, I was pretty upset about how they handled DRM on Spore as well. I bought the game and all it's expansions.... after installing them I began to experience problems with my external USB storage drives.

After purchasing my new PC last year, I decided not to use my original DVD's anymore on the new computer. I didn't want to have the hardware problem's and deal with the crazy licensing issues....

Which is a real shame because it was a really fun game (a bit repetitive in space after a while) but an amazing concept.

Here are some of my creations (and one creation I modified - i.e. the Phoenix from Battle of the Planets).

I actually had tons more than that....

A couple other races I had created (actually they were my first and second attempt):



To bad EA messed it up. After my experience with their DRM, I don't buy any more of their games until well after they are released... and other people have had a chance to "test" it so that I don't deal with any surprises.

I'm really careful about the Sims... Don't buy any of EA's digital copies any more since they have SecuROM. I only get the retail DVD versions which doesn't have it.

I have the spore retail DVD and it has securom.

Yeah, I hated the DRM on there, it was awful! But it is such a great game. I love the thought that went into it. Sometimes I thought that certain parts of the game could be a little more robust, but I loved that certain EA-kitsch it brought to the game.

Your right, with Spore... both the Retail DVD's and the Digital copies had SecuROM. They have changed this practice with the DVD's since the DRM issue blew up ni their face and they had a class action lawsuit against them.

But they never removed the DRM requirement for Spore.

Or did they?

No they never removed the requirement for SecuROM on the retail DVD for Spore. However, I'm sure the new Dark Spore game they plan to release will probably use a system similar to what the use in most their other games like Sims.

I'm guessing that only the digital version downloaded from their store will have SecuROM. And hopefully the retail DVD's wont have SecuROM but will still need to the CD-Key method, and will always need to be in the DVD drive during start up.

Well I'd definitely wait to find out about that before I bought it.

What is dark spore supposed to be?

Here's a link to their website and their trailer they used to reveal the game at Comic Con 2010. It's got elements from the original Spore game where you can custom design your creature's and then equip them. I believe it going to be an MMO, with PVP, and other RPG elements.

Darkspore Website:
http://darkspore.com/main.php

I'm not sure I'm getting it (not sure I want to play more than one MMO)... but check it out... It does look interesting at least.

Nifty

Kinda like Spore meets Diablo.... :D