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SPORE.
Topic Started: Sep 3 2008, 02:13 AM (84 Views)
BromiDista / Coactum
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http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4375656/Spore-RELOADED


I've been playing it all morning. Its actually not a letdown at all.
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The-Dj
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It's like.. Sex in your mouth.
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lmao@whoreadverts
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Ben Jr
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Sir Prideous
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Can you like rip apart all species, so your species are the best. If so it sounds good, if not it just a futuristc pet version of Sims.
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Looks nice, Downloading now.

:D

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BromiDista / Coactum
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So I've played it hardcore today between work. Here's a pretty long winded rundown of the game, but seriously. If you had any preconceptions regarding Spore, read through it. I know some people felt the same way as me (which was that it was going to be a bit of a let down and it was in no way going to live up to its hype), but I was so, so so so wrong.



You begin as a single celled organism, then you slowly build it up in the sea by fighting other creatures and eating them. As you do you get points and parts to put onto your creature, like levelling up in a sense. Each time you do you can call for a mate, lay an egg, and upgrade it. It gets bigger and bigger and whats pretty cool is that these MASSIVE molecules in the water you're swimming around and shit, when you grow you feel it pulling outwards, those molecules getting smaller and smaller until you dwarf them.

Then you get to the creature phase. Its effectively the same thing but on land. Being me, I went the aggressive way and ripped shit apart, eating just about everything around me and slowly getting all the creature parts. Once you get to the end of this part, you have a set creature, you can't change it but you have all the parts to design a sentient creature.

Next part is the Tribe phase, which is semi strategy in a sense. You run a tiny tiny tribe, its not even a village, its a campfire with some buildings around it, and you have to hunt for food with them, make alliances with other tribes (or rip them to pieces).

Once you've done that, Civilisation phase. Basically the tribe phase but instead of dominating the continent, you go up against other budding nations (including other nations of your own, its basically the age real life is at now rofl), and you have to bind them all together either through war or any other alternative. Bear in mind, I went war all the way.

Then you build a space ship. This is where the game REALLY begins. I've played about 10 hours of the space phase, and jesus fucking christ. I left my solar system, travelled a few planets, met other races, and realised I could zoom out. It went from hovering on my planet, hovering in my solar system, hovering in my star cluster, hovering in my arm of the galaxy, to the galaxy itself. There's something like a million planets you can go to, each with their own environments, planet counts, etc etc. Its all randomly generated. Go to war or make alliances, trade routes etc.

As you play, you have to do specific things to unlock new stuff. Currently I'm aiming for a death-star like raygun that literally blows planets up, but I've got a long way to go.

On top of this there's lots of little tools you can get. Say you have a moon and its uninhabitable. Send down a meteor storm to warm it up and pump in some atmosphere, then before the imbalance is gone, shove a basic ecosystem down using plants and animals from another planet. Then you can build a colony, and upgrade the ecosystem slowly but surely with more and more stuff, making it more and more appropriate for your creatures to live on. The reason for doing this is to boost your income which is through mining spice on different planets (tribute to Dune I suppose).



I nearly didn't check this out because of the anticlimax and all the bad press people were on about, but seriously. This is the best game I have ever played, period. You can terraform planets and customise them to whatever you want, and when I say customise, I mean firing beams down to change the water colour, the ground colour, the atmosphere's tint. My homeworld Bromidia (hehe) has purple soil, a red sky and a deep blue ocean.






Anyway yes. Seriously, look at it. The video below is EXACTLY what its like when you're playing it. He's on a planet, he finds an artifact, then he simply uses the mouse wheel to zoom out and his ship leaves the planet and you're presented with the solar system that particular planet is in. Each of the planets in that system is accessible in the sense that he could simply zoom in on one with the mouse wheel and visit it in the exact same way.

He zooms out again and you're met with a cluster of stars, each of those stars are the same, each of them have their own mass of planets you can visit. He can zoom out yet again and get a sector of the galaxy, again, each of the stars and their planets visitable in the same way.

And again, showing you the entire universe, again, each of the stars and their planets visitable. Oh, and you can terraform and screw around on any one. Some have life, some are barren wastelands. A sandbox that isn't just a lifeless, scripted mess where nothing happens unless you make it. Its a living universe, with a million different creatures to visit each with their own personalities (you can even visit planets where the creatures are still stuck at the tribe phase and give them a boost, making them view you as their god, for example). I'm very very critical when it comes to games and anything I've played that claims to be open ended when it comes to randomly generated AI normally has 8-9 different personality types if that makes sense. You got your "turtle", the defensive personality, the "rusher", etc etc. With this, I've encountered well over 100 different civilisations and not one has even been remotely similar the next. There's an endless amount of randomly generated quests and missions to do and a near-infinite amount of randomly generated things you can get involved in.

To make things even cooler, its an INCREDIBLY well written game in terms of code, meaning it works on my piece of shit was-a-monster-two-years-ago computer perfectly. Bear in mind technology wise, two years is a LONG time. If your computer can run Half-Life 2 mid-to-high settings, it can run this on medium without so much as a sweat.

Spore is the ultimate sandbox. The fact that I've posted a link to get it for free leaves you no excuses. Get it. For yourself more than anything, not me.

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Beau.
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That's one giant ass galaxy.
Also, what are the Graphic's requirements? And, how much space does it occupy?
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Read the end of the post, mate. Just updated it, I thought I should add it in. Its as beautiful as Crysis and some, but here's a specs rundown -


Spore Specs (Recommended)

# FOR WINDOWS XP
# * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
# * 512 MB RAM
# * A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
# * At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations.

Crysis Specs(MINIMAL)

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
VRAM: 256MB of Graphics Memory
Storage: 12GB
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
ODD: DVD-ROM
OS: Microsoft Windows XP or Vista
DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10



Long story short, games stopped asking for 512mb RAM recommended about a year ago at least. Everythings 1GB+ nowadays. This seriously is a work of art, whether you're referring to the game or the coding itself.



I was half and half on upgrading my computer as its going to cost me £600-£800 ($1200-$1600) for a half decent system that'll be any better than this one as it still packs a punch, but I'm convinced now, if only for the fact I want to play Spore in highest settings as opposed to just medium.
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Sir Prideous
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Is this mutliplayer, so you can wage war against other online players etc, or is it all NPC?
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Beau.
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Am I supposed to download: `The Torrent`?
Or, what part do I download?
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Kalen
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hm this download is the REAL GAME? I thought you had to go to a store to get the real game O_o
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