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lemmy.world

That's a rather rose-colored view of the game. One thing is certainly true about Spore: It's absolutely unique in its genre and we haven't really seen the like since.
But it certainly had its flaws when it came out. The main one being that the further into the game you got, the more lackluster it felt. With the space exploration endgame feeling rather empty and basically the same every playthrough, with how you developed your creature having very little impact.
There was also the whole DRM controversy which everyone complained about. The game had to be activated via EAs online servers and you could only activate it five times total. And changing your PCs hardware was seen as a new PC which needed a new activation

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We got a very different game then what Will Wright was originally showing in 2005 anyway, which looked way more interesting of a direction than the actual game.

But I'm done with EA since Origin, which was the last straw of bullshit I could take.

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Yeah I played it when I was a kid and even then I was disappointed in it after having followed development for a while. The game that came out is pretty cool but it could have been so so much better.

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100% The first two stages are awesome.

The rest feels absolutely tacked on so they could say it went all the way into the future.

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Forgot Spore 2.

I want the original groundbreaking Spore Will Wright showed us before EA EA’d it into a kiddy tech demo.

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lemmy.world

Who out there is asking for civilization 7? They just got done with the DLCs like half a year ago

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kbin.social

I look forward to Ara: History Untold. Seems to be the most promising 4X of this type.

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lemmy.world

Millenia seems very promising as well with all the alternate history paths you can take.

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I really can't afford Paradox titles. Already tried with Cities Skylines and Stellaris and failed miserably. It's just too much.

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Very much agreed there. I still play Civ V to this day largely because I couldn't stand the art style of VI. Here's hoping VII tries something different.

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lemmy.ca

What's wrong with it? I loved how the map had hand-drawn maps for fog of war.

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kbin.social

That was the only appealing thing. The cartoon look and oversized single units not so much. It looked like a mobile game for little children.

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