[quote=@Sombrero]
Honestly, Spore probably [i]does[/i] suck, and I'm giving it too much credit because it's a very charming kind of suck, but usually that's because it's a "So bad it's good" kind of feeling, which I don't get from Spore. I guess it kind of railroads you into playing a certain way early on, and it can be hard and expensive to switch between playstyles, which ticked off a lot of people... But I ended up liking it better than the Sims, which I've been told is a very decent game, and it's something I agree is a very decent game. Not least because of all the fetish fuel.[s] Sometimes Spore taps into that as well, actually.[/s]
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Spore is a good example of why EA sucks though. It was a great idea, and in the execution you could see what it could ended up being if given the sort of attention good games get, but at the end of the day they created the hollow shell of that good idea instead of fleshing it out.

I liked the creator and seeding system. That was probably the best part of what they ended up making. The actual game play was like a series of shitty arcade games leading up to a lazy 4x space explorer, but the novelty that came from meeting other people's creations, and seeing them, and playing them when it came to adventures, what pretty clever. I think I played the game part for maybe a month, but I played with the creators for thereabout two years.