Spore GA: Repeated nonsense, what's the point?

Jammy0002 · 03-07-2009, 10:26 PM

I finally got Spore GA today after waiting for my exams to finish before ordering it. And I must say, it is highly disappointing. The trailers showed weaponry beyond our imagination, and battles that match Star Wars Battlefront 2. But to get to this sort of thing you need to go through hundreds of pointless and pathetic adventures such as jumping around tiny islands surrounded by mines to collect crystals and whack barrels starting a chain reaction.
But I don't see the point in spending all of my summer holiday doing pathetic missions to just unlock everything bit by bit so slowly.
Is that all there is to GA?
And how do I specifically download missions that are actually good?

bruuut · 03-07-2009, 10:40 PM

You don.t ned to it

first clikc create -> creature -> captain

and you have all weapon and other captain thing

sorry about my bad english

Jammy0002 · 03-07-2009, 10:42 PM

No, I have only what I unlocked. Which is just one thing.

2008milc · 03-07-2009, 10:51 PM

well you can create a captain with all upgrades and then pick him in a new game or a quick play

Jammy0002 · 03-07-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 2008milc

well you can create a captain with all upgrades and then pick him in a new game or a quick play

Well I might try that, but I was really hoping to do it with my most powerful empire. To be honest it doesn't seem like they've done much to make the expansion compatible with existing games.

bruuut · 03-07-2009, 11:13 PM

first

and so

you will be come to creature creator, replace a creature with iy, or create you new creature and clikc on equipment button

and now you have all weapon and other captain thing

Jammy0002 · 04-07-2009, 12:37 AM

No I don't, I tried that! It wouldn't let me until I did some pathetic mission where I go around town talking to some weirdos. Who in the right mind would find this expansion entertaining in the slightest? It has no storyline whatsoever, and whilst Spore doesn't have much of a storyline either it still has goals that you can achieve such as reaching the centre of the galaxy and destroying the Grox.
This expansion? It has nothing but meaningless adventure after adventure, and the adventures themselves are just impossible pieces of rubbish. I finally get an awesome adventure and I just can't do it because I basically run into a city full of hundreds of monsters with the goal to destroy all buildings, how can I destroy the buildings and avoid being killed by all of the monsters at the same time, I'm not a woman so I can't multi-task for gods sake.
Now could someone please suggest something useful to do with this expansion so that I don't carry on feeling like I've wasted £17.99 on the worst game I've ever played since SimCity Societies and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hey what a coincidence, they were made by EA too, now I see why so many people hate them.
Well at least The Sims 3 was worth the money... So they're not all that bad. But I actually expected this game to be better, and it's proven to be the worst.

Arekuzu · 04-07-2009, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Jammy0002

No I don't, I tried that! It wouldn't let me until I did some pathetic mission where I go around town talking to some weirdos. Who in the right mind would find this expansion entertaining in the slightest? It has no storyline whatsoever, and whilst Spore doesn't have much of a storyline either it still has goals that you can achieve such as reaching the centre of the galaxy and destroying the Grox.
This expansion? It has nothing but meaningless adventure after adventure, and the adventures themselves are just impossible pieces of rubbish. I finally get an awesome adventure and I just can't do it because I basically run into a city full of hundreds of monsters with the goal to destroy all buildings, how can I destroy the buildings and avoid being killed by all of the monsters at the same time, I'm not a woman so I can't multi-task for gods sake.
Now could someone please suggest something useful to do with this expansion so that I don't carry on feeling like I've wasted £17.99 on the worst game I've ever played since SimCity Societies and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hey what a coincidence, they were made by EA too, now I see why so many people hate them.
Well at least The Sims 3 was worth the money... So they're not all that bad. But I actually expected this game to be better, and it's proven to be the worst.

Wait what? Okay so create captain is'nt working for you, strange i got everything in there... However, if you go onto quickplay and click on "spore points" it sorts everything into the highest sporepoints, there are tonnes of HUGE DECENT adventures worth 100 spore points. And anyway, my captain is level 5/6 and im still running around with level 1 bladed knuckles, protecto shell and a recharger!
It is more fun when its nearly impossible!

Takben · 04-07-2009, 08:57 AM

you have to complete the talking to weirdos mission first.

Takben · 04-07-2009, 08:59 AM

also, i would appreciate it if you kept your negative opinions inside your own mind or at least not broadcast them for everyone to hear. i find it a very good expansion. i am not saying that you should not think it's bad, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but you should at least think about other people. what if someone reads this who wanted to get it and now decide not to? they could get it and it could be the best game they have ever played.

you are making a mountain out of an anthill in my opinion anyway. it is'nt perfect, i agree. but neither is it as bad as you portray.

Rebecca1208 · 04-07-2009, 09:00 AM

(haven't read entire thread)

If you go to the creators and outfit a NEW creature, not a captain, in the captain editor, you should have all the parts. If not, then just do all the crappy easy missions to get quick points.

And if you want decent adventures, the TCP judges and Top Creators often have some very impressive adventures, or you can take a look at my sporecast for some >> Sporepedia

TheBlaDk · 04-07-2009, 09:52 AM

If you want your epic war adventure, you can make your own. It's very funny to make your own adventure aswell.
There, you can lock a good captain for it with some strong weapons and rechargers if you want. If you can't make your own, then you can select one of the downloaded ones.

...Without saying any more.

george9807 · 04-07-2009, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Takben

also, i would appreciate it if you kept your negative opinions inside your own mind or at least not broadcast them for everyone to hear. i find it a very good expansion. i am not saying that you should not think it's bad, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but you should at least think about other people. what if someone reads this who wanted to get it and now decide not to? they could get it and it could be the best game they have ever played.

you are making a mountain out of an anthill in my opinion anyway. it is'nt perfect, i agree. but neither is it as bad as you portray.

This forum is meant for people to give their opinions. I was getting GA today but now i'm thinking twice about it. This guy might have saved me some money so I think it's good he gave his opinion.

Your basically saying that only good things about SPORE should be put on this forum which is completely the opposite to how a forum works. It's for everyone to put their opinion...

TheMrZ · 04-07-2009, 10:25 AM

this guy is complaining without first trying GA out properly. please, don't let him put you off it.

as with original spore, finding good adventures takes a bit of searching, especially since the release was so recent. there's a lot of bad stuff out there, but also a lot of good if you can find it.

do remember that unlike with the original spore's release, we now have a community that will round up good adventures into sporecasts.

And when you do find good missions, by god some of them are spectacular. you'll soon pick up how to spot bad missions from title and some statistics alone.

The introduction mission is compulsary, it's purpose is simply to give you 100 points to unlock your first part.

For making captains: after making your first captain you will be able to outfit any new creature as a captain with all parts unlocked by following the directions above.

however said captain will not be usable in quick-play, for the simple reason that a captain with all the best parts makes missions very boringly easy.

RedAlertOn · 04-07-2009, 10:42 AM

he havent even completed the first mission so he havent TRIED to try it out-.-

many adventures are fun!

Takben · 04-07-2009, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by george9807

This forum is meant for people to give their opinions. I was getting GA today but now i'm thinking twice about it. This guy might have saved me some money so I think it's good he gave his opinion.

Your basically saying that only good things about SPORE should be put on this forum which is completely the opposite to how a forum works. It's for everyone to put their opinion...

well i think you misunderstand. i meant, dont be saying things like "Its rubbilalalalas a bunch of lalalala" or things like that. I think a simple "It wasn't terribly good because..." would do. That way you arn't discouraging the people who do like it and you are getting your feelings across. I do beg your pardon if i wansn't terribly clear the first time ^^

oh i get it...yeah, when i said keep your negative opinions in your head i meant you massive negative opinions. he was talking like satin himself had created this abomination, but i was telling him he coul think like that but if he was going to post his opinion he could at least just say what he thought in a way that would not discourage the people who do like it.

Zepp95 · 04-07-2009, 11:44 AM

Lest we forget, we had to do all the stages from scratch in base game (unless any of you unlocked them after playing enough of the previous stage.)

We had the Creature Creator, yet we had to evolve creatures through creature stage. If you don't like it, you shouldn't have bought SPORE in the first place.

NiKtheALiEN · 04-07-2009, 12:03 PM

Don't forget that creating adventures is half the fun of GA...

Shrooblord · 04-07-2009, 12:06 PM

First of all I'd like to point out that I haven't read the entire thread because there were some uber-posts out there, so maybe your question has already been answered.

But what I'm really trying to point out here is that you don't NEED to play crappy missions. You can try to search for a GOOD Creator (like me (hehe, arrogance, lol), who publishes only finished missions that seem worthy enough to be out there) and play his/her missions. I know, I've tried to find good missions as well, but there's just so... well, there's not much in stocks, if you will. And I also think you don't automatically download everything; I think the Spore Server randomly picks a few missions it wants you to get and then you get them. So it could be a coincidence that there's no good missions in YOUR game, while there could be good missions in other people's games.

I think, though, that the real obstacle that you have to overcome is PATIENCE. See, good stuff takes TIME to create, and good creators take time to learn how to create good stuff.

So, I think the last thing you want to do is be impatient and just throw GA in the dusty old box in the attic, never to look at it again, instead of just hang around waiting for a while until the good creators arise and the bad creators back down!

Heed my call, Creators of the Good Adventures, thy time is nigh! Thou must come out of thy shelter and strike down these amateurs! Art thou with me?!

Jammy0002 · 04-07-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Takben

you have to complete the talking to weirdos mission first.

I did, that's how I got round to doing an impossible mission. I also did the Space Port mission with my Empire which I admit was fun as it's exactly what I was expected from this game, but after that it all went downhill.

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Originally Posted by TheMrZ

his guy is complaining without first trying GA out properly. please, don't let him put you off it.

I have played it for three hours in total, and in those three hours I should be impressed. First impressions count, and I did not get a good one at all. I will try it some more though, because as I said earlier I do not want to feel like I've wasted £17.99.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zepp95

Lest we forget, we had to do all the stages from scratch in base game (unless any of you unlocked them after playing enough of the previous stage.)

We had the Creature Creator, yet we had to evolve creatures through creature stage. If you don't like it, you shouldn't have bought SPORE in the first place.

Was I complaining about Spore? No. Spore is one of my favourite games.

And Shrooblord, I will subscribe to your creations, I am sure they will be promising.

Stevcool5 · 04-07-2009, 02:42 PM

You want a stronger captain for your space adventure? Here's my advice:
1. Use the power editor on the piece of weaponry.
2. PLAY MORE MISSIONS! Playing More missions = more spore points = captain ranks up = able to choose more equipment.

Jammy0002 · 04-07-2009, 09:23 PM

Ok I am happy to say that I feel more comfortable with the concept of the game now. I have been playing some more realistic missions instead of ones like collect the crystals.
Sorry if I've been a nuisance but I do get stressed when I feel like I've wasted money, thank god I never got HD DVD's.

Takben · 04-07-2009, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jammy0002

Ok I am happy to say that I feel more comfortable with the concept of the game now. I have been playing some more realistic missions instead of ones like collect the crystals.
Sorry if I've been a nuisance but I do get stressed when I feel like I've wasted money, thank god I never got HD DVD's.

sry i was kind of getting up on your back. i just hate it when people say a game is the worst thing ever when it's at least enjoyable for some people.

BlazenWarrior · 04-07-2009, 11:31 PM

Yes you really underreaiasj he powa of the DAekside

2008milc · 05-07-2009, 04:49 PM

Well I think that they should had made the stages easier for new players. not just the same missions through whatever level your captains in.

03-07-2009, 10:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jammy0002 Rookie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Milky Way Age: 17 Gender: Male Posts: 181	Spore GA: Repeated nonsense, what's the point? I finally got Spore GA today after waiting for my exams to finish before ordering it. And I must say, it is highly disappointing. The trailers showed weaponry beyond our imagination, and battles that match Star Wars Battlefront 2. But to get to this sort of thing you need to go through hundreds of pointless and pathetic adventures such as jumping around tiny islands surrounded by mines to collect crystals and whack barrels starting a chain reaction. But I don't see the point in spending all of my summer holiday doing pathetic missions to just unlock everything bit by bit so slowly. Is that all there is to GA? And how do I specifically download missions that are actually good? __________________

03-07-2009, 10:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
bruuut Rookie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denmark, Esbjerg Posts: 371 Blog Entries: 3	You don.t ned to it first clikc create -> creature -> captain and you have all weapon and other captain thing sorry about my bad english __________________ I'm Spore Fan I'm The Sims 3 Fan My Sporepedia My Sims 3 Page

03-07-2009, 10:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jammy0002 Rookie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Milky Way Age: 17 Gender: Male Posts: 181	No, I have only what I unlocked. Which is just one thing. __________________

03-07-2009, 11:13 PM	#6 (permalink)
bruuut Rookie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denmark, Esbjerg Posts: 371 Blog Entries: 3	first and so you will be come to creature creator, replace a creature with iy, or create you new creature and clikc on equipment button and now you have all weapon and other captain thing __________________ I'm Spore Fan I'm The Sims 3 Fan My Sporepedia My Sims 3 Page

04-07-2009, 12:37 AM	#7 (permalink)
Jammy0002 Rookie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Milky Way Age: 17 Gender: Male Posts: 181	No I don't, I tried that! It wouldn't let me until I did some pathetic mission where I go around town talking to some weirdos. Who in the right mind would find this expansion entertaining in the slightest? It has no storyline whatsoever, and whilst Spore doesn't have much of a storyline either it still has goals that you can achieve such as reaching the centre of the galaxy and destroying the Grox. This expansion? It has nothing but meaningless adventure after adventure, and the adventures themselves are just impossible pieces of rubbish. I finally get an awesome adventure and I just can't do it because I basically run into a city full of hundreds of monsters with the goal to destroy all buildings, how can I destroy the buildings and avoid being killed by all of the monsters at the same time, I'm not a woman so I can't multi-task for gods sake. Now could someone please suggest something useful to do with this expansion so that I don't carry on feeling like I've wasted £17.99 on the worst game I've ever played since SimCity Societies and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hey what a coincidence, they were made by EA too, now I see why so many people hate them. Well at least The Sims 3 was worth the money... So they're not all that bad. But I actually expected this game to be better, and it's proven to be the worst. __________________

03-07-2009, 10:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
2008milc Rookie Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Europe, Denmark, Fyn, Korinth Age: 14 Gender: Male Posts: 17	well you can create a captain with all upgrades and then pick him in a new game or a quick play

04-07-2009, 08:57 AM	#9 (permalink)
Takben Banned Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 12 Gender: Male Posts: 716	you have to complete the talking to weirdos mission first.

04-07-2009, 08:59 AM	#10 (permalink)
Takben Banned Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 12 Gender: Male Posts: 716	also, i would appreciate it if you kept your negative opinions inside your own mind or at least not broadcast them for everyone to hear. i find it a very good expansion. i am not saying that you should not think it's bad, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but you should at least think about other people. what if someone reads this who wanted to get it and now decide not to? they could get it and it could be the best game they have ever played. you are making a mountain out of an anthill in my opinion anyway. it is'nt perfect, i agree. but neither is it as bad as you portray. Last edited by Takben; 04-07-2009 at 09:02 AM..

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Rebecca1208 Elite Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: In the deepest, darkest depths of insanity... and I suppose Hampton, London Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 8,391	(haven't read entire thread) If you go to the creators and outfit a NEW creature, not a captain, in the captain editor, you should have all the parts. If not, then just do all the crappy easy missions to get quick points. And if you want decent adventures, the TCP judges and Top Creators often have some very impressive adventures, or you can take a look at my sporecast for some >> Sporepedia __________________ Spore Profile · DeviantArt · YouTube

04-07-2009, 09:52 AM	#12 (permalink)
TheBlaDk Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Denmark Age: 15 Gender: Male Posts: 780	If you want your epic war adventure, you can make your own. It's very funny to make your own adventure aswell. There, you can lock a good captain for it with some strong weapons and rechargers if you want. If you can't make your own, then you can select one of the downloaded ones. ...Without saying any more. __________________ Bla \| BlaBla44 - Sporepedia \| BlaBlaDK - Wikipedia

04-07-2009, 10:25 AM	#14 (permalink)
TheMrZ Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 901	this guy is complaining without first trying GA out properly. please, don't let him put you off it. as with original spore, finding good adventures takes a bit of searching, especially since the release was so recent. there's a lot of bad stuff out there, but also a lot of good if you can find it. do remember that unlike with the original spore's release, we now have a community that will round up good adventures into sporecasts. And when you do find good missions, by god some of them are spectacular. you'll soon pick up how to spot bad missions from title and some statistics alone. The introduction mission is compulsary, it's purpose is simply to give you 100 points to unlock your first part. For making captains: after making your first captain you will be able to outfit any new creature as a captain with all parts unlocked by following the directions above. however said captain will not be usable in quick-play, for the simple reason that a captain with all the best parts makes missions very boringly easy.

04-07-2009, 10:42 AM	#15 (permalink)
RedAlertOn Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: norway! Gender: Male Posts: 513	he havent even completed the first mission so he havent TRIED to try it out-.- many adventures are fun!

04-07-2009, 11:44 AM	#17 (permalink)
Zepp95 Forum Junkie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Isle of Man Age: 14 Gender: Male Posts: 3,365	Lest we forget, we had to do all the stages from scratch in base game (unless any of you unlocked them after playing enough of the previous stage.) We had the Creature Creator, yet we had to evolve creatures through creature stage. If you don't like it, you shouldn't have bought SPORE in the first place.

04-07-2009, 12:03 PM	#18 (permalink)
NiKtheALiEN Rookie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Midlands, UK. Posts: 109	Don't forget that creating adventures is half the fun of GA... __________________ My Sporepedia - Please leave a comment

04-07-2009, 12:06 PM	#19 (permalink)
Shrooblord Forum Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Shroobstown. Shroobston. Shrooboid planet. Posts: 1,784	First of all I'd like to point out that I haven't read the entire thread because there were some uber-posts out there, so maybe your question has already been answered. But what I'm really trying to point out here is that you don't NEED to play crappy missions. You can try to search for a GOOD Creator (like me (hehe, arrogance, lol), who publishes only finished missions that seem worthy enough to be out there) and play his/her missions. I know, I've tried to find good missions as well, but there's just so... well, there's not much in stocks, if you will. And I also think you don't automatically download everything; I think the Spore Server randomly picks a few missions it wants you to get and then you get them. So it could be a coincidence that there's no good missions in YOUR game, while there could be good missions in other people's games. I think, though, that the real obstacle that you have to overcome is PATIENCE. See, good stuff takes TIME to create, and good creators take time to learn how to create good stuff. So, I think the last thing you want to do is be impatient and just throw GA in the dusty old box in the attic, never to look at it again, instead of just hang around waiting for a while until the good creators arise and the bad creators back down! Heed my call, Creators of the Good Adventures, thy time is nigh! Thou must come out of thy shelter and strike down these amateurs! Art thou with me?! __________________ My new Adventure! The Greys

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Stevcool5 Forum Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Planet Kexinite of the Samia Star System Gender: Male Posts: 1,368	You want a stronger captain for your space adventure? Here's my advice: 1. Use the power editor on the piece of weaponry. 2. PLAY MORE MISSIONS! Playing More missions = more spore points = captain ranks up = able to choose more equipment. __________________ Canon Rock by JerryC FTEW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8oy...eature=related

04-07-2009, 09:23 PM	#22 (permalink)
Jammy0002 Rookie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Milky Way Age: 17 Gender: Male Posts: 181	Ok I am happy to say that I feel more comfortable with the concept of the game now. I have been playing some more realistic missions instead of ones like collect the crystals. Sorry if I've been a nuisance but I do get stressed when I feel like I've wasted money, thank god I never got HD DVD's. __________________

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BlazenWarrior Rookie Join Date: May 2009 Location: wut? Gender: Private Posts: 52	Yes you really underreaiasj he powa of the DAekside

05-07-2009, 04:49 PM	#25 (permalink)
2008milc Rookie Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Europe, Denmark, Fyn, Korinth Age: 14 Gender: Male Posts: 17	Well I think that they should had made the stages easier for new players. not just the same missions through whatever level your captains in.