it is over rated but still a fun game and its getting lots of people into PC gaming

i guess it just has many problems, glitches etc. its the same case as gears of war, but the hype gets it an amazing rating, typical.

Any game that forces me to play for 4-8 hours to get to the "fun/good" part of the game is not worth it in my book. This is one of the main reasons why I cant stand most mmorpgs where it takes days if not weeks to get to the fun part of the game.

See your problem is thinking of what the actual customizatoin is in terms of what part does what and its bonuses. I'm talking about just outright making the damn thing move, eat, fight, walk, everything given the faact you have an infinite amount possibilieties. If you put the mouth on the back of the boyd ad everythign else in the front, it will till figure out how to make everything work without it looking broken. It takes some pretty mighty algorithms to get that stuff working the way it is right now. I've tried creating creatures to break the game and see some awkward ype of animations but no, not a single one. Whatever I do it makes it as if the creature was hardcoded specifically the way I made it.

@shio's article. Since when do we need an article to explain us why we should like the game?

Ditto. If you need to understand the developers' rationale for making design decisions in order to like a game, then that's bad game design.

So far I love it. And I just got to the civ stage. I'm going to be bold and make a sweeping generalization that alot of people will be too stupid to "get" this game. It's really quite brilliant.

@shio - See, there's the problem we're having. You're talking creativity, I'm talking technicality. The whole thing with making goofy placements work isn't anything complicated; it's just something that requires some creativity.

Which is the only thing Spore's got going for it - incredible creativity.

As Vagabond said, it is brilliant. But it's the concept and the ideas that are brilliant. The actual construction as a game is less so. It doesn't flow well, and frankly, with how little you actually see your creatures by the time you get to the Civilization stage, the argument of "creating a customized race which you have a degree of affection for" is null.

Like I said though, I expect these concerns will be entirely fixed with the next iteration.

well, I got it today, hope you are full of crap

My problem is not being able to find a planet when I'm given a quest for it. Very frustrating.