by Christian » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:26 pm
Well, I have for one, as I mentioned. Reached Space age, that is.
It's just... too overwhelming. It gives you very little directive and the game suddenly jumps from fairly restricted to completely free... except it's still just "go from point A to point B to collect material C and bring to point D"
My impression of it anyway. It feels tedious, but then again it's exactly the same kind of feeling I derived from playing both Sims games and something I more or less knew, deep down, I'd feel about Spore as well.
I can't really put my finger on why I'm not feeling any glee over this game; the most fun I derived from the Creature creator simply because me and a couple of friends did ridiculously ugly things that would have never evolved naturally.
It even got to the point where I considered simply downloading some base buildings 'cause I didn't feel motivated into making my own. But I did anyway. Minus points for you not getting ANY bonus points based on how you design them. You just got to puzzle 'em around, but basicly you can build a huge Hexadron with a door and your civilization will be creaming their pants to live in them.
I just feel that the game is half-assed. Instead of aiming to perfect every stage of the game, it feels as if they blew their entire creative load on the creature editor and then just "meh"'d the rest of it.
I know this ought to be in the serious discussion thread, but I still have a shitload of angst to vent over this game. It's exactly as Spleen said; the game is ok, I'm just not doing somersaults over it.
The first shots of bacterial stage looked a lot cooler than oogly-googly eyes by the way. I hate the design-choices they made. But that's just me.