Why Spore Had The BEST Expansion Pack of ALL TIME.
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Spore was and is one of the best sandbox games ever. I wanted to talk a bit about the Galactic Adventures expansion, and why it allows the game to still feel new and exciting all these years later. This is the first video like this that I've ever made so I'm very much open to feedback / critique. I hope you enjoy it!
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Video Chapters
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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - How Would You Create The Universe?
2:12 - The Base Game
4:20 - What is Spore Really About?
5:29 - Spore Back In The Day
6:57 - Enter GA
9:09 - Whom Gods Destroy by Ryujin
12:18 - My Own Old Adventure
15:04 - The Community and GA
17:54 - Wrapping Up - Hry
Galactic Adventures literally changed my life. I was about 9 or 10 when it came out, and back then I could only play on the computer when I visited my grandmas house once per week. I loved to log on and see if any of my favorite creators had published any new adventures, and when they did, I swear every Tuesday was like Christmas. I would get super immersed in the lore of these stories, go in the editor and see how they made things happen, and, eventually, I became confident enough to turn the stories I wrote in my free time into adventures. It opened my eyes to storytelling and what the human imagination could do, and it gave me the confidence to be wacky and weird and balls to the wall in every idea I come up with.
Right now I’m working on staging my first opera at my university. I can quite literally say I would not be where I was today without Spore GA. It influenced my style and sense of humor, and taught me that the craziest of ideas are the only ones worth doing.
woah, that's amazing!
Agreed. I still come back to the game over a decade later. I used to make plenty of adventures in galactic adventures and have my own in-universe lore centered around my aliens. I also loved to follow the stories of my favorite creators, particularly parkaboy and a couple of others.
That's awesome, I'm happy for you =) I really like Spore, too! It's an amazing game😍
Man plays spore GA, this is what happened to his life.
repent to God
We REALLY need another game like spore. It has so much potential, and even without it being used, it still is a timeless game. If EA isn’t moving their ass then someone else just gotta do it.
You should try out Thrive by revolutionary games. It’s based off spore but more scientifically accurate but there is only a cell stage as of now
I'm making one right now :)
@@lonelystarslibrary9326 what’s it called
@@lonelystarslibrary9326 then don't give up in the project
@@Gamezilla899 man people have been talking about thrive for years and it hasnt come out of cell stage lmao. Elysian Eclipse looks more promising.
Spore need remaster by other new enterprise and make all new. This game presents a world of possibilities and cant to die.
Sadly good game never gets good remaster
I think they should aim to achieve what was originally promised tho
Honestly, my favourite thing to do in galactic adventures was create a planet with my own ecosystem and just explore the world.
I had lots of fun just making wars, or creating cities and nuking them by giving them grenades with all explosive stats to the max
@@wladfan I also enjoyed placing down as many land mines as possible and watching creatures get launched into the statosphere.
Your adventure isn't even that bad compared to most of them
hell i think i remember playing an adventure that was barak obama boxing a grox and then blowing up the planet....
even the the dumbest adventures somehow proove entertaining.
thats why i like spore...it is what you make of it.
@@dakotastein9499 That adventure look so funny xD
@@dakotastein9499 I can tell that’s the best adventure in the game
I had an adventure that was based on some roblox game show up once lmao
Back when the base game came out I was obsessed with making my creatures fit on my own little ecosystems in my mind, I never really played too much past tribal stage, and galactic adventures was like a wish come true, I could finally select which of my creatures were on the same planet and all of my favorites from other creators too, remember making a planet filled only with creatures from the Pikmin universe, good times.
I actually quite enjoy playing the space stage. Just wish there was more complexity in interacting with other empires, beyond just allying or destroying them.
12:30 Also, your adventure is more elaborate than anything I've ever created. I almost never created any stories or even completable adventures, just randomly screwing around with explosives, jump-pads and creating chaotic battlefields. lol
btw I came from your video post on Reddit.
Honestly, your statement is right for just about every stage of spore. Each one feels like they wanted to do more and either ran in to issues or ran out of time. It's kinda sad to play through the original game and feel like you're playing half of it.
I agree...
A few Things i wished were in spore
-building and expanding within your solar system like building space stations that are either military or trade in nature think of DS9
-terraforming should be more difficult like you have to build a colony like building and add plants and animals into it it then it slowly changes the terra score over time with an indicator similar to the traderoute indicator when its full you go back to that planet and upgrade the building to expand the next terrascore with new animals and plants...
Also the same system is used for planetary defense once you have all turrets and the defense probe thing
You unlock the next tier like shield generators or orbital defense weapon systems where you have the choice between alot of weak weapons or a few strong ones once that tier is done you unlock the spacestation where you can design a space station and put it around the orbit of the planet like the moon of your homeworld the spacestation also gathers all spice of the system it is in...
-terraforming for suns and gas giants basicall by chnging the sun you change the terrascore of the planets or ignite gas giants and turn them into a sun...
-being able to build up a fleet the size is determined by the amount of fully build colonies
-being able to make treaties with other races
*non expansion treaty you determine which systems are not to be colonized and when they agree its in effect.
*defensive treaty you agree to protect them when they get attacked by another force but if another ally attacks them you are not obliged to interfere but you can
*trade treaty you both decide on trading routes and the percantage of spice that is to be traded if both sides agree the trading starts after awhile a system may be bought and you can also sell your system.
*joint colonizing treaty you and selected allies share the planets of a selected system trade and defense treaties will be automatically in effect for this system
*quests and mission treaty you can turn problems into quests an environmental issue or an sudden attack of a colony for non allies to take but allies also can take on these quests
*joint venture treaty Your enemies become also the enemy of your allies any new species that attacks you or your friends becomes an enemy of all allies.
I a have many other things but you get the idea...
@@androconiachangeling6535If I'm not mistaken, spore's feeling of incompleteness is mostly down to hardware limitations. Spore also feels to me not to be incomplete, but rather empty. I do know though that a few things were cut for time limitations.
@@tungsten_cube Yes, you're 100% right. That emptiness is part of that incomplete-ness. Two sides of the same coin if you will.
I know the underwater stuff was cut because machine of the age just couldn't do it. (I personally don't mind it.) Not sure about the castle stuff and the few other floating rumors i've heard.
The best space stage is closing Spore and playing Stellaris haha
I don't speak much English but what I understood from the video I liked a lot, I hope you will grow more on CZcams
Ah that means so much! Thank you!
man, as someone who played galactic adventures for 8 years straight (and only stopped 'cause my computer stopped being able to run it) this video was an absolute treat! a total blast from the past. i always wondered whether my friends thought i was insane when i went on and on about how great this expansion was, glad there's now a video essay confirming i wasn't lol.
Jesus Christ, 8 years. I can't play Stardew Valley for more than a week and then there's people like you. I admire your dedication
This was very well made, great work with your presentation! Galactic Adventures was definitely a fantastic, highly underrated expansion many overlook when talking about Spore as a whole. I'll never forget the first time I played through "Deepspace" by hk1x1 and was blown away by the sheer limitless creative possibilities the adventure create offered. Watching this reignited my interest in getting back into Spore after all these years!
Thank you so much! I LOVE deep space! I wanted to delve deeper into the potential of the adventure editor and I had so many segments from that adventure lined up to be examples. Watching it back though I felt like I’d lose people’s interest talking about the details. Things like the illusion of your ship flying up and docking, using the creature / gate disguises for decor, and the cool map were so inspiring though!
I personally don't know why most people don't like Spore Hero. As much as I absolutely loved the first two games, Spore Hero was a fun twist on things. The story was fun short and simple, the games soundtrack was amazing, and even though it didn't have as much creative features as the originals it was still extremely fun to make your creature and run around in the world. It was like one really in depth galactic adventure but with cutscenes. Spore is the best game in history (In my opinion) but I just feel like not enough people give Spore Hero a chance.
I think you listed my two main issues with it, it was short and took away a lot of the creative potential that the original game had. It went in a totally different direction and even though it was still fun and colorful and not a *bad* game, it was just disappointing for people who wanted a new Spore game.
I played Galactic Adventures back in 2012 through 2015, it just sucks I lost all the creations I made after my computer was factory reset. Ever since that, it's been hard to get back into it.
I always keep copies on a spare drive...just in case.
there were so many incredible sub-communities of all of us kids making different genres of GA series; i loved the spyro community as a kid and had a few friends where we all included each other’s characters in our stories, just crossing over and sharing our OCs with each other :) great video!! brings back some memories
I actually love cell to space.
I've heard a bunch of people saying that spore is only fun during cell to civ, and I thought that that was an insult to spore.
But saying out of 5000 hours one can only have 3 hours of fun in cell to space is also insulting to the game. The game is incredibly fun in all of its aspects. Some people will prefer some parts more thant others, but it is never an objective fact that one one part is fun
I just returned to Spore as i got it in the Steam sale, reloading the game again and signing into my parents old EA account I was amazed to see all of my old creations still there. They were awful, but even now the game is amazing fun, and returning to it now when I'm older and I've been doing all sorts of other creative stuff in MMO's in the meantime, unlocking the games full potential is just amazing, with infinite new stuff and creativity from galactic adventures.
I feel like Spore is a game that EA really failed. They had an absolute gem of a game with infinite possibilities, and it would probably crush games like No Man's Sky and Stellaris if a new Spore came out nowadays with the same cartoony charm mixed with the powers of games of this generation. Sadly with Maxis closed down and EA wearing refusing to give us a new Spore/remakes of their best games in favour of more Sims 4 expansions as a badge of honour, I fear we'll never see this amazing game go beyond being an extremely popular game from 2008 that people are still playing in droves to this day.
While I do disagree with a couple points you made about playing the space stage, the rest of this video was incredible. And I'm glad you mentioned the spore site, since Ive been getting my adventures through the game ui.
Just a question now, is there maybe some kind of list of all the great and well known players like the ones you mentioned? Id like to add them as buddies so I get all their content.
Definitely start looking at the Sporepedia! For adventures I would start by adding Remypas. Then subscribe to his “Remypas worthy adventures Sporecast. You should also subscribe to the 100 point Maxis adventure Sporecast to make sure you have all of them in your game to power level your captains. As for creators, I would add Fotosynthesis, Parkaboy, G3NJI, Andeavor, luckyburdock, Shattari, Pezzalis, Slartibartfast38, and Mushroomking1. There are many more that you can find by looking through the Friends lists of all of the ones I listed!
@@doxnotch3029 awesome, thank you
@@doxnotch3029 HRmatthew is pretty good too!
Omg Galactic Adventures was incredible!! I sunk so many hours into creations; now I'm curious and want to see if any of them were saved...also that music brings me BACK
I still remember editing one of the default missions, the festival town one, into a post nuclear apocolypse
Adventure Town is such a sickenly happygolucky place that it always were and still is the most fun to screw with. the old crappy silver laptop that i used to play spore on like 7-9 years ago on before it broke had problably more edits of this level than even i myself can remember (unless you were talking about another default Maxis-made level).
@@wariofan-wq6fr yup thats the one haha
Ah yes. I remember doing that aswell.
Hm.
yeah i also always used adventure town as a template for nuclear wars lol
That race from the adventure you talked about, the Avali, spun into the most popular mod in Starbound, a race in Stellaris, and even VR chat mods. Like Spore: GA really let people's imaginations run wild.
To this day I tell people you haven't played Spore if you don't have GA.
But I thought the servers were shut down. I haven't been able to access them for years now and the sporepedia shut down too, I thought?
Nope! There are methods you can use to get your game up and running, there should be a stickied thread on the Spore subreddit that can help. I’ve been playing, sharing, downloading the whole time!
This was the first "real" game I ever owned and cherish all the afternoons spent creating creatures and adventures. I grew up in a religious household and it sucked, not being able to enjoy cartoons and trends all because of some stupid belief I had no choice in bringing into my life. I genuinley felt isolated and lonely because I wasnt able to connect with my classmates since I wasnt allowed to enjoy what everyone else was. I'm honestly suprised the evolution part of spore went over my family's head. If they knew I dont think I would have ever been allowed to play the game. This game literily changed my life, it led me on a path to pursuing creature design, and for that I am ever grateful.
Exactly the same for me. Very sheltered growing up and Spore was the main outlet I had to connect with people that had common interests!
Damn we the same person lol
The problem of the stages before the space is that they look like tutorials. Everytime you learn and star liking the stage, it ends and go to the next.
But not the space. It's really fun and you can play a lot.
Spore was one of my favourite games growing up even though I wasn't as big into the community (mostly due to lack of confidence in my work), but damn. Watching your creations and videos on it kind of made me want to dive right back into it ! Especially for the adventures I've been missing.
Always deactivate the Autoturrets when in Grox territory. They will Attack your Sytems and there is even an plaque for befriending them, so no Autoturret.
Wait, that adventure you made actually looks kinda dope, I definitely don't have the patience to painstakingly make so many detailed props
i was so excited when galactic adventures came out, i could never figure out how to do anything on it though because im too dumb...i should go back and take another look
I once had one of my silent adventures, 'The Silent Beacon', featured on the Spore homepage - got the achievement and all. I was so freakin' happy.
Then the Spore servers had an achievement crash, and I lost all my achievements - including that one. They later got fixed, but I never got 'Bestseller' back, no matter how many times I messaged support. Soured my joy enough that I stopped playing altogether.
Man I miss Spore.
yoooo you were rythmear? i loved your still life adventures! i remember An Echo in the Clouds absolutely terrified me as a kid haha, the image of that arm reaching out through the portal at the end is seared into my mind forever
sorry to hear you never got your achievement back, for what its worth though your stories definitely made an impact
Galactic adventures really made me spent at least 2000 hours on it, I pour hours into creating adventures without even knowing. It really shaped my life and I hope it never disappears.
Albeit the technology is advancing, I have never seen sandbox game better than Spore.
The freedom of creation is insane. It's like if entire humans designed their own creatures in Spore, all of them would be different from each others, and it's just from creatures side, not counting the cells, buildings, and vehicles.
It warms my heart that people still talk about spore.
I have played SO much spore and watched SO much spore content on youtube, and up until now it’s only been whispers of galactic adventures. Safe to say that galactic adventures is a CRIMINALLY underrated and under appreciated part of the game.
This video is super well done, I could totally see you blowing up in the real near future. Also continue making spore videos lmao spore rocks
Thanks so much for this vid, it's so great to see someone finally talk about what spore is really about, creativity
Pausing for dramatic effect at Uber’s video is hilarious, you’re totally a good person for pointing that one out.
Great video! This gives me so much nostalgia to some the best gaming memory's i have ever experienced.
You managed to get me really hyped about the game again, especially since i though the servers where shut off years ago and the community vanished. I never knew it was just the disc version's servers and that the community is still going pretty strong :)
i actually like the space stage. The exploring of system and finding some rare systems with binaries stars, painting and customizing planets to throw in the aliens ive made w the plants i like to make a beatiful planet, growing my empire like a butterfly constelation and so on
Wow. I never knew that this was a thing. Thanks for sharing!
meanwhile i was making the most random, pointless adventures straight from my 7-8 year old mind
"help! it's raining husband and wife!" -actual quote from one of my really old adventures
awesome video man, thanks for sharing your story!
I can't believe your channel doesn't even have one thousand subscribers.
Glad you enjoyed it! And I'm almost there, hopefully I can reach it with the next video!
This video was really well done. Keep it up!
Damn, Ryuujin? I remember downloading almost anything of his on my game. Such a talented Creator.
Thank you for reminding me of this guy.
Looking back at it now, when it comes to creating or designing aliens for media purposes, Spore would be the #1 drawing board for ideas.
Damn it, I really miss this game.
first time viewer, really liked this video, it brought back that feeling I got from enjoying something as awesome as spore. Got me in the feels, grew up playing this game and it has been years since I touched it but it just means a lot to me, it really makes me happy to see it still getting players and attention. Thanks for making this video
I played this game as a kid and it really helped expand my outlook on the universe and question my place in it.
This is a grossly underrated channel
I remember seeing a vid of spore when I was younger and I fell in love I would disassociate in school about it and ur vid just reminded me of all of that I checked the price on steam and I found it was on discount for only 10 dollars I was thinking about all the shit I wanted to make creative freedom I’m so burnt out from overwatch and apex but unfortunately my adhd/autism Brain completely forgot about while cleaning my room and I missed the discount such a heart break cried for a good 2 hours. Not sure why I’m writing this in a public comment section but this vid and ur channel is just beautiful made me realize things about myself ur vids are art
It goes on sale pretty frequently! Add it to your wishlist and pick it up at christmas :)
Photosynthesis!!! That brings back so many memories
I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community.
Cool
I spent hundreds of hours creating and publishing shitty little adventures as a kid, it was so much fun. I got decently advanced with the tools in the end, used that exploit where you could set creatures as props to create this scene where time was frozen in the middle of a battle. I created different versions of the same creature which were each in different poses for the scene, like one for running, one for holding weapons, another for dying, etc. Felt like such a genius at the time, and was really proud of the result.
Hell yeah! Those advanced techniques make every adventure feel more real and immersive!
I agree on Fotosynthesis and Parkaboy being the creator GOATS, they influenced my style so heavily in the skills I learnt. Literally only played the game to make cool stuff. Won a few contests from skills I learnt deconstructing their works.
This video convinced me to get back into Spore.
6:00 FUCKIN' PARKABOY! Gosh, I played Spore during its peak (if you ever knew me during that time, I apologize, I was a dumb child) and you talking about Parkaboy just slingshotted me RIGHT back to the past. Amazing video my dude, thanks for helping me unlock my deep memories
Having fully finished the video now, damn this might actually get me back into spore lol
Hell yeah! All of those old creators, whether they knew it or not, created some of my fondest childhood memories.
I just love this game for the creative choices you have. I don't use mods but those that do make awesome creations. I have been through all the stages many times since I bought the game when it came out and it still do. I definitely love creating and sharing on sporepedia and Hope it never shuts down. Playing other people's adventures is so much fun. Thanks for this.
I have never been able to connect with the server, so I never enjoyed the community creations. But a this video made me want to try it once again! I'mma go try and relieve my childhood real quick.
I am two years late, but make sure your password is under 15 characters long. It's a length limit within Spore.
Please make more spore videos, this was so good!
Man, I have this overwhelming urge to reinstall Spore. I used to make adventures, but I was never able to connect to the Spore servers, so the adventures were really jusst for me. I have a video of each of them (except one I made a little time later), which I had a tonne of fun creating. I'd love to be able to create more.
Do it then I can add you
Have you done it
Agreed. So many people sleep on the fact that the expansion pass in reality constitutes 75% of the truly significant content in spore
I fucking miss spore. It's been like 4 years but I keep thinking about it. Back then I didn't play it anymore because I had some silly conflict (totally my fault) with part of the community. Now a bit older and certainly wiser, I feel like I've missed out on a huge amount of fun that I could've had for myself. Unfortunately, I'm now way too busy to fit it in any amount into my schedule.
Your civilization buildings are amazing
I rarely see people talk about GA, even though it's the best part of the game
I wish I could get spore online to work so I could actually enjoy galactic adventures
Not sure if you've done it yet, but I used this link to get my version of Spore working on Steam! answers.ea.com/t5/Bugs-Technical-Issues/Solution-Spore-for-Steam-Can-t-log-in-to-servers/td-p/5114847
@@doxnotch3029 I just keep getting an error message when I try to register an account
Great video🤙
my favorite thing in to do with galactic adventures is just set a whole bunch of creatures to follow you and then lead them into lava.
i.... i might have had some... issues....
Respect for showing us your adventure since you were 15. It was quite funny seeing you cringe at it. Wish I had something that I created when I was young. But I've never been the creating type.
This was a great game from my childhood. Best community generated content ever. I remember the creators you’ve mentioned. The expansion pack could have been a sequel on it’s own. Thank you for making this video.
Galactic adventures was kinda like a kid friendly game engine for me. I learned basics of programming thought it.
It was amazing
I remember myself spending months playing Spore GA.
I've even made a map trilogy once - I was being inspired by Jedi Outcast, and trying to semi-recreate it within Spore. I've had so much fun doing this.
I also remember making other maps, like "Infestation II", which functioned as a 'what if' to the original Maxis "Infestation" mission. In it our heroes failed to destroy the Grox pod, so in "Infestation II" we've picked up in a moment, where Grox terraforming continues heating up the planet and now rising lava levels threaten the nearby shelter for last survivors, but our heroes and rebels still plan a final attack on the Grox terraforming plant.
Dude, playing Spore GA was something.
I'm like 90% sure I played Infestation II! I love how GA made it so that players could be nostalgic over other player's creations.
@@doxnotch3029 That's awesome. Yeah, good old times.
One of the goofiest things that you could make was to force you or other creatures to orbit the planet with powerful launch pads placed at a very horizontal angle and at a high elevation.
i played spore as a kid when it first came out and its always been a fond memory but this is the first ive ever heard of this... i had no idea !
If you got a PC, it is purchasable on Steam and GOG. GOG version is probably the best one.
@9:10 it is surreal seeing some custom content i had essentially randomly downloaded a decade ago being showcased.
PARKABOY YESSSS
Hello DoxNotch. I very rarely watch videogame videos by youtubers, but I watched this one to the end and I really, really enjoyed it. Spore was the videogame I have enjoyed the most as a kid and the only one I managed to play to the end. Your video has made me want to revisit it. Keep up the good work. 👍
This means so much to me, thank you!
@@doxnotch3029 Hey! So I got the spore game from the shelf it was in and dusted it a bit, installed it in my windows 10 pc and its not working. Since you are making spore videos in the present age I wonder if you are familiar with this problem and could give me some useful advice. Thank you so much in advance!
Love those buildings after 3:09, is it made by you? How can I get it? Appreciate your efforts man!
Yep those are mine! My IGN is DoxNotch, they should hopefully still be available to download on my profile.
@@doxnotch3029 Thanks mate.
Massively underrated video.
Spore has been getting boring, but this will make it SO much better. Thanks for this video!
i havent played spore in almost 10 years and i really want to play it again , especially to check out galactic creatures since i havent heard of it until this video , but my current computer has horrible storage and specs so i guess ill just fall down the online rabbithole lol
I had a blast playing this game as a child.
I use to play this expansion so much when I was younger, so much fun lol
I’ve been making a series called R. A. F. T. (Rough awful floating tile) which the first game is all about being on an ocean… on a raft…
Yeah the first game was a raft copy
-But the other games actually expand the story, like terraforming the planet after years, defeating a giant sea monster, and so much more!
Right now I’ve stopped working on it for a few months, (I have a life) but I will continue the series sometime!
Cool!
I worked on this game + expansion pack fresh out of school. Galactic Adventures is still probably my favorite project throughout my entire career since then. It warmed my heart to see people still making videos about it. :)
That's amazing! I'm glad I could express how much Spore impacted my childhood to someone who worked on it!
This is a great video that touches on unfortunately ignored segment of Spore - the community, and wider creative aspect. I genuinely attribute my current career path as a 3D Modeler to when I used to make tanks and stuff on Spore. Also man, seeing some of the creators that I saw waaay back in the day again brings me back. Spore was nuts, it was weird, it was awesome.
Side note, anyone remember all the weird wolf adventures, wolf / dragon heads, etc?
God this brings back memories
There is a fanproject called Elysian Eclipse which wants to be Spore 2
I was 7 I wanted to get the cyborg expansion pack thing and my doctor pepper code didnt work on my 300 year old mac :(
ACTUALLY SAME. I never got the bot parts even after I begged my mom to take me to CVS for a bottle. It still hurts.
@@doxnotch3029 you can get them now for free cause theyre abandonware. Just take the data file and drag it in like it was a mod
Yep i always enjoyed Spore. And thats why i play it still
Spore galactic adventures is the pinnacle of all games, just playing galactic adventures by itself even today is amazing, the only issue is that I feel like there's tons of trash adventures and most of them I hate playing but otherwise, it's the pinnacle of 2008 and probably still better then most games in 2022
I remember playing Spore without GA and after I buy it, it was a massive game changer. Im really sad all my creations are gone now :(
Spore galactic adventures makes the space stage so much more fun because aliens tell you to go on the adventures
I See no dislikes. Now that's the view that u deserve for this amazing video
11:50 - 12:00
We use the gravitation wave specifically for this reason
spore is honest to god my #1 favourite game of all time
This is an amazing youtuber
Space engineers: we don't create the universe, we explore and conquer the universe
The Adventure Editor was a clever, if roundabout, fix to the problem of the Space Stage having no proper terrestrial gameplay. Sure,. the developers could create massive updates to the stage so that you could beam down to any planet, colonized or not, and be able to do a huge variety of things; interact with aliens, uncover valuables, do little missions for people, see another race charge into war before your very eyes...or they could create another editor and just get the fanbase to do all that.
Now, you can beam your captain down to a variety of planets, but what you do on those planets was devised by another user. There's the illusion that each planet has its own story going on, when in reality it's just one of the many adventures in the Sporepedia being randomly assigned to planets in your client.
Are you able to encounter these adventures in the space stage? I’ve only been getting the maxis ones
You are, but they cycle through maxis made adventures first (I think) to cut down on the likelihood of you getting an adventure that’s broken or crazy hard.
I am obsessed with spore I have been since its release, I got Galactic Adventures when I was 8 and it's been a blast so I finally caved in and bought Creepy & Cute parts after many years. No regrets!
Hey its me HRmatthew! Didn't know you had a pretty active YT cahnnel!
Good to see you! Thanks for stopping by!
Your gta character looks so much like you and it is daunting But great videos! It’s so well done, great quality, and very informative + funny !!! I am a subscriber for lifffeeeeeeee
It really does, I even got the deer tattoo on the calf! Thanks April!
I remembered when Spore and its expansion packs first came out.
I even tried to remake Half-Life and even Doom in Spore
That sounds sick! Super ambitious and hard, but sick!
Ah, Nostalgia.
Thanks for the amazing video(s) on Spore and particularly Galactic Adventures. I always agonized over just how underappreciated that expansion was as a level designer. There's pretty much no limit to what you can make, and it's such a simple interface to boot. It stimulated my fascination for storytelling and filmmaking, and I wanna get back into it as a regular passtime. It's sad that Spore died so embarassingly with Spore Hero and especially Darkspore, but with Galactic Adventures the game has literally infinite replay value and a sequel is not even needed. Still, I wouldn't complain if Maxis made a modern update, combining everything that was good about the original and Galactic Adventures into something even more accessible, expansive and cohesive.
As a standalone experience, I can see why Galactic Adventures was awesome and I think if I was a bit younger at the time I would've sunk thousands of hours into it.
But I think it really wrecks the base game. First time I played Spore, it had GA built into it. You get to the space stage for the first time and immediately get sent on an adventure. After that, every mission has a random chance to be some random adventure downloaded from the internet. At first I didn't understand what was happening. I was being pulled out of the space game to play extremely poor quality missions, with bad writing, often long grinds, and in some cases being actually broken and impossible to finish. I would dread getting new missions in case they were another tedious player created adventure.
I think it probably should never have been integrated with the base game and just presented as a menu option, letting you browse the online catalogue and see ratings, rather than automatically making you play random ones.
I can whole heartedly agree with you on that. Definitely should have at least been a toggle to use player missions in the space stage since as you said some may be impossible. I had one that *required* a jet pack and I was just ??????? Not even my maxed out captains had jet packs. Definitely an oversight to have player missions in the space stage.
Maybe there should be a way to sort missions, or maybe select different ones in the Space Stage.