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[12/09/08] Spore

Capsule Review: A fantastic civilisation design tool that gets your creative juices flowing in a game that bores me senseless.

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I’m halfway through the ‘second’ part. I think.

I’m really enjoying it to be honest, I’m waiting for the space section before I make a true assesment though.

Posted by Del Boy on Friday 12th September

Partial transparency… colour me impressed.

Posted by Therlun on Friday 12th September

The space section is the main game, but most of it just bugs me. Very fiddly, and I object to being given orders by my own people. I raised you from a cell, you ungrateful little bastards! And now you’re ordering me to… what…

...to go and kill five animals on a distant planet we haven’t even discovered yet? That does it. I’m seceding from myself, but not before I blast my own planet back to the Stone Age and sow the ground with salt so that nothing will ever grow here again.

YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELVES!

Posted by Richard on Friday 12th September

Partial transparency… colour me impressed.

Why stop there? I can colour you blue if you like.

Posted by Richard on Friday 12th September

What colour is impressed?

Posted by Nick on Friday 12th September

Puce.

Posted by Richard on Friday 12th September

I totally agree with you there Richard. I mean, creating creatures is great fun. For like an hour. Or two.

I haven’t made it to the last section yet, before half way through the second section my motivation dropped to an all time, irrecoverable low. Perhaps the cursed piece of software called “Stalker: Clear Sky” is to blame for that, fighting all those crashes, lost savegames and bugs has kind of taken its toll on me.

Then again, Spore is bloody boring isn’t it?

Posted by ynamite on Tuesday 16th September

Astoundingly. I couldn’t be less arsed if I’d just offended a wizard with an arse-removal wand.

Posted by Richard on Tuesday 16th September

I got to the Civilisation mode about a week ago, stopped playing for the night, and just haven’t gone back. I really, deeply can’t be arsed.

Posted by Cradok on Tuesday 16th September

“I couldn’t be less arsed if I’d just offended a wizard with an arse-removal wand.”

I did that once. It wasn’t that bad. One side effect is that I cannot lose fights due to being incapable of having my...never mind, I’ll get my coat.

Posted by theaikidoka on Wednesday 17th September