Comments on: Spore: Short, short impressions

By: MmoQuests.com Â» If I only had a brain..

MmoQuests.com Â» If I only had a brain.. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:56:32 +0000

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By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:33:37 +0000

lol… once again, the pirates have the best version of the game. The paying customers get the crap. I haven’t had any problems with SecureROM, but if I do, I guarantee I will be grabbing a torrent. I have a legal right, as a paying customer, to a copy of the game that works.

And so do you.

By: Captain Angry

Captain Angry — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:25:22 +0000

Update: Turns out it was SecuROM that was making my PC freak out. I patched it with a pirate EXE circumventing the protection and it hasn’t crashed since then.

By: Captain Angry

Captain Angry — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:38:06 +0000

@Relmstein
Not sure, I did a scan disc and ran memtest86 for about 4-5 hours while I was at work. Last night I ran it in a window so I could keep an eye on some temperature diagnostics in the background, and it never crashed so maybe I fixed it, or maybe it wont crash as long as I play it in a window… fine by me!

By: Ddoom

Ddoom — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:54:03 +0000

You can definately play an aggressive herbivore species, incidentally. You simply cant eat your prey.

By: Relmstein

Relmstein — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:37:29 +0000

@Captain Angry

Hmm, any possibility that SecuRom on Spore is causing your computer to crash? I heard it seems to introduce a bad case of the gremlins to a lot of computers.

By: Captain Angry

Captain Angry — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:09:03 +0000

Yep, that’s what I meant about that last paragraph. I think Spore is pretty darn amazing, but if you take the creature creation-evolution for granted it becomes pretty average. What you wrote is accurate… while the game has many entertaining aspects, the creature/vehicle/building creation and evolution is probably more than half of the fun, even put up against all 5 other gameplay phases.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:53:24 +0000

@Capt Angry — My cell critter I called Diver, and so I named the land critter it evolved into Driver, but it’s a cat-like creature with a rat snout, black fur and indigo stripes. Now, in space, it wears a helmet and armor and insignia and yells at me from the planets I orbit… And it is kinda neat. Looks totally like its own critter, hard to believe I brought it to life.

By: Captain Angry

Captain Angry — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:35 +0000

Re: Two Mouths

If that works, I suppose that is an interesting way to do it. I remember I tried starting with carnivore mouth and changing it halfway through and that didn’t work for me, still gave me carnivore in the end, I thought maybe it depended on moving to phase 2 with the omnivore mouth ON your creature, but I guess it all just depends on what you eat.

I forgot to mention that, strangely enough, my normally flawlessly operating PC has started BSOD-crash-rebooting while I’m playing spore. I played the game for a few hours Saturday night without a problem, then Sunday out of the blue it crashed the PC, and now every time I play it after a couple hours it crashes. I have to save my game constantly. You know how frustrating it is to be halfway through the tribal stage with a great looking critter and then suddenly get bumped back to the creature phase? Designing a creature twice to look exactly the same in Spore–pretty much impossible.

I googled the error recovery message and most of what I read points to memory or some other hardware problem. Just strange that a PC that I normally play WoW or AoC or Civ 4 for 12+ hours straight would suddenly die after a few hours of Spore… it makes me suspect the game client instead.

By: JoBildo

JoBildo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:24:35 +0000

@Capt. Angry:

I actually made an omnivore simply by giving my Cell 2 mouths. One was an herbivore’s mouth, and one was a carnivore’s mouth. Both near the nose of the thing and it worked flawlessly.