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There's always the fans, then the backlash, and then sometimes the backlash against that, and so on.
Now, on the internet, it just all happens 100x FASTER, with more people.
Now, on the internet, it just all happens 100x FASTER, with more people.
Welcome to the human race where everyone hates the cool shit.
Especially when the cool shit has hyped everyone up to believe it was cool shit for years then when released was discovered not to be cool shit but, in fact, be stupid DRM-riddled broken-gameplay shit.
Especially when the cool shit has hyped everyone up to believe it was cool shit for years then when released was discovered not to be cool shit but, in fact, be stupid DRM-riddled broken-gameplay shit.
It is best described as a "Create-a-Sandbox" game. Most reviewers were expecting a game like Halo, etc.
I really wanted to like the game, but for some reason I get really, really bored after the cell stage. That and I sorta expected something deeper during the tribal and creature stages.
Wow. Did you even read the reviews? People don't like it because it's just not that fucking good. Trying to immerse yourself in the depth this game features is akin to attempting to swim in a puddle. If you think you 'haven't hit the good stuff yet' when you've reached space, you're going to be disapointed when you find out there isn't anything else to that broken ass stage.
I installed it, played through to 10+ hours of the space stage, wrote my impressions and didn't find anything that justified the hype EA has been pumping out for this thing.
It's 5 Fisher Price takes on different genres with a bit of collect-em-up sprinkled in.
I installed it, played through to 10+ hours of the space stage, wrote my impressions and didn't find anything that justified the hype EA has been pumping out for this thing.
It's 5 Fisher Price takes on different genres with a bit of collect-em-up sprinkled in.
I thought about this a lot at PAX. When I was sitting waiting for the Ken Levine opening keynote, there were screens to the right and left of the stage showing previews for games. The two people behind me ripped on each and every one. I couldn't help but think: why are you here if you're so goddamned busy being negative about every game offered? It pissed me off quite a bit.
Complaining about popular things is all I know. If you take that away I have to complain about actual world issues.
Your friend obviously can't be trusted if he didn't think The Dark Knight lived up to every bit of hype it got.
As for Spore? It too had monumental hype, for many years now, and the problem with that is, even if it's a competent game, it's very hard to live up to that hype.
As for Spore? It too had monumental hype, for many years now, and the problem with that is, even if it's a competent game, it's very hard to live up to that hype.
If you're American or think America is cool, you try to show your "independent thinking" by hating what's popular and searching for the obscure, liking it, then pumping up the "I am cool" points by saying "I heard that band before you did."
But plenty of people I respect say Spore is overrated, so I'm thinking this isn't exactly a Halo kind of thing.
But plenty of people I respect say Spore is overrated, so I'm thinking this isn't exactly a Halo kind of thing.
Spore is a game for the masses, a game for the casual crowd. It has features that hardcore gamers MAY enjoy, but really it will be enjoyed the most by the casual crowd.
Case in point: My wife fucking loves it. She plays Spore all the time.
It's too simple for me though.
Case in point: My wife fucking loves it. She plays Spore all the time.
It's too simple for me though.
I think part of this is because the games industry has become pretty successful at translating hype into popularity. If you look at any of the really big games (I'm not talking about the Braids or the Castle Crashers), they all have had a huge PR machine churning out stuff for years before the games actual release. Some companies don't talk about the game directly (Halo ARGs, crazy commercials), and get excellent results. Others do their hype by proclaiming that their upcoming game is going to be the greatest thing in the history of ever (Dennis Dyack, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright for Spore), and they seem to get into more trouble because they can't deliver on all the impossible/ridiculous things they promised.
It is so easy to find faults in something, even if they are negligible or not even there. People think its okay to just shit all over everything because it makes them sound like a fucking expert.
If people took as much effort finding a game's strengths rather than focusing on its flaws we'd probably have some better games out there.
If people took as much effort finding a game's strengths rather than focusing on its flaws we'd probably have some better games out there.
I love Spore as it is. It might be shallow, but if I want depth I go play Morrowind.
Everybody cross your fingers for amazing mods.
Everybody cross your fingers for amazing mods.
I grew up in an era where it was cool to not care about anything, so this kind of "I hate it because a lot of other people like it" thing isn't really new to me.
I don't really care though, I mean... whatever. Nevermind.
I don't really care though, I mean... whatever. Nevermind.
@I heard that band before you did.
Ha! I remember when Modest Mouse had that song Float On, I loved it cus it was different, but low and behold, living in California with all those rotten hippies, I heard "Dude, they used to be cool...". So I downloaded their older stuff and it was almost the EXACT same stuff. Freakin' morons.
Ha! I remember when Modest Mouse had that song Float On, I loved it cus it was different, but low and behold, living in California with all those rotten hippies, I heard "Dude, they used to be cool...". So I downloaded their older stuff and it was almost the EXACT same stuff. Freakin' morons.
I played Spore for a couple hours and loved it. My main gripes with the game are not being able to stay in one part of the game for however long you want and the DRM. The DRM only made me decide to not buy it until it's fixed. But I enjoyed the cell phase of the game and got annoyed when I'd get forced into the next level of the phase whether or not I wanted to move on. The creature phase looks to be the same. I'm dreading the civilization phase since I tend to suck badly at RTS.
