Ally The Grox Spore Speedrun (Commentary)
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Spore Speedrun to Ally the Grox Empire starting from Cell Stage on Easy Difficulty in 55:04 (56:57 Real Time). Let me know what you thought of this run and the commentary. I had a lot of fun making this Post commentary and I'm always looking for ways to improve for future videos!
Later I realized I kept referring to becoming a "Predator" as "Aggressive" for Creature Stage and "Social" as "Friendly" for Tribal. I was using these terms since these are the 'setconsequencetrait' cheat codes for these Stages, and I didn't realize that the History called these differently.
Big thanks to Andrey for suggesting this speedrun challenge!
Andrey YT: / @yhwac
Credit to Peppermint Swirl for the Tribal Stage Baby Cloning trick!
/ peppermintswirl
Tutorial for installing my galaxy files into your game:
• Spore Speedrun Beginne...
Download this galaxy: "Spore P10"
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Tutorial to Trade with The Grox:
• Trading with The Grox ...
Play as the Grox in Creature Stage with No Mods:
• Playing as The Grox in...
Timestamps:
Cell Stage: (0:00)
Creature Stage: (5:18)
Tribal Stage: (18:04)
Civilization Stage: (28:02)
Space Stage: (33:57)
Allying The Grox: (38:45)
Allied the Grox: (56:54) - Hry
57:01 *_Several people are typing..._*
I love how he says so calmly: "we just started every war in the galaxy"
Nope. All wars but one, with the Grox.
What a relatable moment! Allying with a species hated by all philosiphies, then starting a war against 99% or the species in existence! What a relatable moment...
Is it possible to re-ally everyone?
Oh no, anyway.
@@1un4cy probably, but it would take an unreasonable amount of time since u just started a war with every. single. empire. in the galaxy
I love the fact that the moment you allied the grox the entire galaxy transmissioned you at the same time
Lol
spore version of *several people are typing*
@@scullduggerouscellaphod2355 Gold 😂😂😂
*the entire galaxy will remember that*
@@batwolfy7044 *EVEYONE will remember THAT*
I love how despite this being a speedrun, he still tries to make his creature look good rather than just a mass of parts.
In the space of an hour, I guess there is enough leeway
They’re going to need to be pretty if they’re going to have no social skills
There's ALWAYS time for fashion!
@@sachihotaiyo6197 i wish it penalized you more for making a shitty creature tbh
professionals have standerds
19:17 he is trying so hard not to laugh at the baby spinning by the fire
i did not realize that holy crap that’s hilarious
He's gotta go fast!
KinglyValence: *Allies Grox*
The game: "Everyone disliked that"
The Galaxy will remember this...
Hi
*the satanic like*
It always was funny to me how you lost all your friends because of that
Ikr lol
Galaxy dislikes that speed run 👌
56:59 The transmission is so huge, it's like the entire galaxy hear the news and said "YOU WHAT?"
Well it is exactly that.
Imagine if aliens forcefully converted everyone on Earth just to scrap a few cities for cash.
Welcome to mergers and acquisitions.
think of the Spanish colonisation of the Philippines. not far at all
@@ezekiel0606 Now that I think about it... not far from Spanish colonization in general.
@@ezekiel0606 bro thank god i was born past that
@@prinsiperamos2843 I
39:48 "I come in peace"
proceeds to take over the solar system
"sir we have developed the ultimate weapon but it has a really long cooldown before uses"
"don't worry I have mastered the lost technology of save reload the universe is ours"
Oh hey, it's the one who originally recommended this idea :)
@@goose93 yessir it me
well there's nothing more peaceful than total oblivion
Floppa
40:07 can we just appreciate how committed to their "ocean" these people are that they have a tiny puddle of water that's about the size of their dockyard?
I love that you can be Friendly with the Grox and they will STILL shoot at you, they are so hardwired for war.
INTRUDER INTRUDER! sir he’s our friend.
Oh.
I noticed that pun.
It's like the Nazi confusion between their allies and The Allies
Commander: The Allies are here!
Soldier: *Grabs flowers*
Commander: I MEANT THE BRITISH
Soldier: Are the British our allies? I thought they were the enemy
Commander: NOT OUR ALLIES, "THE" ALLIES
Soldier: WELL, WE HAVE CHARLIE CHAPLIN TOO, DON'T WE?
Commander: DON'T INSULT THE ARIAN MOUSTACHE!!!!!!
“It’s just a prank, buddy!”
The prank in question:
a spiecies, which specificaly crawled out of the ocean to get a tier 3 sub for the grox
It's amazing to see how people still play Spore to this day
@Carl Panzram the problem with that statement is that it isn’t yrue
@@redalien75 the Problem is that the problem is partly true. It could have been way better plus I‘m still waiting for a second spore game with modern graphics and improved gameplay and maybe an rather adult version.
Stillllll fuuuuun
There's someone playing with an intellivision right this second
@@uuncoolguy6 he’s gonna take you back to the past
The other day my tribal run was messed up because a spaceship that was abducting a creature picked up my chieftain in the abduction beam and dropped him. This makes it so the chieftain dies and cant be replaced so be careful in future runs if you encounter a spaceship in tribal stage
Oh, the only annoying thing spaceships did for me in tribal was steal pets, which wasn't even that problematic as I could just re-domesticate one. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.
@@cewla3348 spore is not multiplayer. Space ships are random encounters from AI in the game.
@@cewla3348 in a way it's "multiplayer" as in, other players can create content for it.
Multiplayer spore would be insane
@@NickKings59 just think about the chaos and lag
well, to be fair, most creatures that are referred to as "carnivores" do have plants in their diet to some degree, and vice versa. horses are a good example of the latter, as they are notorious for being opportunistic carnivores. i live in a relatively rural area, and it's not uncommon to see a horse just casually lean down and snap up a chick that passes by. so it's not unrealistic for the game to consider you a carnivore despite an appreciable portion of your diet being plant matter.
the only thing is that the game has a dedicated omnivore category, so..
horses do what
@@metalface8515 so does the scientific community. and yet horses are still classified as herbivores
I believe it's a matter of percentage of diet. A "hypercarnivore" is an animal whose diet is >70% meat, like dogs/wolves and cats. I assume there's other classifications for herbivores or omnivores.
@@metalface8515 Hogs IRL, like humans, are examples of 'true' omnivores, because both species have very balanced diets and can eat either entirely fine.
Everyone always talks shit on Spore but I loved it growing up and still play it every once in a while. Recently though it's stopped working on my computer, which makes me very sad! I'm glad to see there's a community around it, and even speedrunners.
The problem spore had was it was very over hyped and it had draconian drm that limited the amount of times you could install the game while it being super buggy. If you have few expectations its fun
I disagree. your the kid who thinks swearing is "cool" and "social". guess what? NO IT ISNT. and I have never seen someone trash talk on spore ever.
@@entertainmentanimations bro wtf
@@entertainmentanimations Well, I'm 22. Still pretty young, but not a kid. You shouldn't bash people for how they speak. If I were like you, maybe I'd correct the fact that you used "your" wrong. I don't need to worry about whether my speech is "cool." For a lot of people, swearing is just another part of informal conversation. People in the world are not going to censor themselves around you just because of your personal opinions. It's alright for you to choose not to swear, but you can only control yourself. Please learn from this and don't go around saying this kind of thing to other people - they'll certainly be a lot ruder to you.
Also, while you haven't heard anyone trash talk Spore, that's not the same for everyone. In many of the contexts I've heard it, it's usually other gamers/content creators joking on it for being "pointless" and, as the other commenter said, "buggy" and its ridiculous DRM. (That means anti-piracy stuff, which didn't work a lot of the time and even locked people out of their own games they bought.) I'd recommend looking up the Monster Factory episodes on it, but the hosts do swear, so there's your warning in advance.
Unrelated, I'm glad to see you're passionate about animation! I like drawing and animating too. I hope you get the chance to make something famous someday!
@@entertainmentanimations They Aren't Trying To Be Smart Or "cool", or "social", They Simply Love This Game, Why Are You Trying To Make Them Feel Like Shit?
"saving does count for time"
I love how the management of game crashes are an integral part of the speedrun skfjcjn
You are the 23rd comment with "I love how.." in it.
@@Feliphezo I love how you counted all that
@@coconoisettei love how you made an ironic joke out of the repetiteveness of these comments by answering someone noticing it and commenting them by sticking to the formula exept now your comment is actually self aware and that makes you better
@@t0ryaI love how you took the time to analyze that
@@matheusalvarenga7820i love how we all love each other
"Hello captain, what do you require"
"I'm allying with the Grox"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" 40:30
XD
Hahaha
Ctrl+S is the save hotkey. Probably wouldn't save you more than half a second but it's much quicker and more effective
Yeah, that would have been better. And when saving and quitting I should have just quit to main menu then chose the save option as well.
You saved my spore and sanity man, thank you
*there's a save hotkey???*
@@Vileplume87 Yes, and I believe ~ pauses and unpauses the game. There's a couple of em
@@bigPoeas well as p
Is a speedrun: still makes a good looking creature
“Professionals have standards”
-Gandhi
“That wasn’t said by Gandhi, and this quote wasn’t said by Einstein.” -Albert Einstein
@@itsalily_lei_lei "this reply section is weird"-shakespear
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" - France probably.
“Professionals have standards.” -Gandhi, before launching the nukes.
@@itsalily_lei_lei "peace was no longer an option"-gandhi,after launching the nukes
At 50:53 you actually don't have to go into the system to see the planets. Even if you only park your ship on top of the system before going in, it will "scan" the planets in the system and you can see what's in it, including planet names and spice colors.
I remember playing Spore way back in the day and trying to befriend Grox so they'd stop shooting me down every time I tried to fly past... it... didn't work well. Apparently they're not really fans of the happy beams, and receiving terraforming tier-ups, who knew xD
well happy beams do actually work greatly if youre befriending them, along with the embassies & fireworks
@@alem6239 ... Not when I forget to turn off auto-fire, which then swiftly destroys a ship or 2 trying to attack me, and all the progress I made along the way
the reason they dont like you increasing the t score is because grox can only survive on t score 0 worlds
You made their planets uninhabitable by them
Awesome video! I had no idea how to ally the Grox before watching this video but now I'm a pro and could do it in only about 20 hours! c:
You really haven't seen UberDanger's video about the pacifist run?
20 hours? 20 HOURS? IT TOOK ME 3 WEEKS
@@liberator101 Wait, someone tried a genuine pacifist run? I-
I mean.. I always wanted to pull that sort of thing off, but never really went into it until recently, just got heavily back into Spore and started playing again this week, hence me searching things related to allying the Grox, and that's likely why this ended up in my reccomended list, but..
Now that I know it's pheasible to try a pacifist run.. I just might haveta try for that when I finish allying the Grox in my own run, and look into the video you mentioned..
Thank you!!! :D
WMD a few civilizations always works wonmders
TERAS HD????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Interesting idea! Time to fold clothes & watch spore
mood
Spore was so ahead of its time even with all the cut content
Well.... the next step is clear.... speed run eradicating the Grox.
Bump
"speedrun"
Undertale irl
Would a speedrun to colonizing earth in Spore be interesting?
I could try that. If I start from Space Stage I would guess I could do that in under a minute. I could make the video partly a tutorial on where Earth is as well!
@@KinglyValence I never found it... :(
@Square Zack it’s called “oh the humanity!”
@Square Zack welp.
Wait there's an earth in spore?
"The game is likely to crash when you die"
The game crashes 90% of the time if you die while your packmates are still alive in the creature stage. So it's literally the right thing to do to send them forward in front of you and use them as meatshields, otherwise you lose all progress since your last save
Not 90% for me lol. I only crashed once in my two playthroughs
I think it’s much more likely to crash when you press esc to hurry it along, but that’s from a pretty small sample size.
@@thebigyes8482 Yes, but regardless of pressing esc or waiting the cutscene out - if the living packmates are still in combat while you're dead, the game will crash.
its quite the racket to try to blow you up for entering grox space, but they are still willing to charge you to repair the holes they left in your ship.
This dude: *Allies the Grox*
Me: "Ferb! I know what we're going to do today!"
So our religious society just built interstellar spaceship to immediately leave to the core and befriend the space пazis.
Cool run, this was really fun to watch :D
Also you're so good at commentary, really keeping it interesting all the way through!
Thank you so much! This is a big relief to hear
If you haven’t done gdq, you should totally try to go in for it, your commentary skills with your playthrough are on point.
You are right in my opinion. I feel like his commentary gave me a brainwrinkle just for spore.
Is it invite only? Or do they allow submissions?
@@uuncoolguy6 As far as I know, you have to submit an application for entry which includes an example run with commentary
Spore is a game I revisit every few years. Seeing such a fun game I've played for so many years being speedrun is amazing.
This was a great speedrun. Not full of skips and junk, and the glitches you did use you explained clearly. Made it like watching a fast playthrough, which is enjoyable.
One fun part I love about allying the Grox. Your rep gets so bad that even creatures you uplift after the fact will hate you on sight
"and we'll take advantage of any free floating meat comin' our way" Me too
Now that I think about it, I’ve never beat spore. I always lose interest on the space stage and create a new world, funny.
What counts as beating spore?
@@ortherner getting to the center of the galaxy
@@caimanaraujo479 huh
Same
Same. I've only played the space stage once and I didnt even get anywhere near the centre of the galaxy before I lost interest.
I like how the space part works, but it really gets tiresome later into the game with too much micro management and pirates. But it still have a spacial part in my heart :)
My most loved strategy is to get abillity to instantly buy systems that are homeworlds to other empires, but keeping all they cities. You basically going to their home planet that has a ton of cities, GO DOWN to the planet, start dialog with them so they'll sell a system to you, and voila, you get yourself a system that creates a ton of spice of whatever color and 100 storage for it on this planet. I literally got to 99.999.999 something sporlings in 10 minutes afk.
I like Spore frankly more than I should, so learning about these glitches and the route was super cool.
If you do not meet any other space cives before the grox they start as blue, and you can trade with them.
The Grox can be traded when they have a blue +30 relationship. This video goes into more detail on how the Grox can be Traded with :) czcams.com/video/fWnu8gMhMWE/video.html
Just. The mass "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" from the entirety of civilized space when you ally the Grox.
I loved Spore. It's a galactic war crime to use a superweapon, but it's totally legal to cook an inhabited planet with the heat ray until everything dies
I’m glad spore still has a fan base
This content is very well done there is no way I would sit through this without you here with me
Awesome stuff
Player: And then I allied with the Grox
Everyone else: And we took that personally
Maaan you actually did it! What an absolute king :) Good job, thanks for making my idea real!
i love how he allied god damn grox in time where game thinks its a challenge to finish cell stage LOL
Oh hey, I suggested the same challenge in the comments! Glad to see it come to fruition.
Would a kill all the Grox run perhaps be feasible?
I think that that run would take too long and will be too repetitive. You'll probably just use the fanatic ability, save and exit, repair, fly over to next system, repeat.
Thanks for the suggestion as well! :D Sorry I missed your original comment.
Perhaps one day I could stream a casual play through destroying the Grox or something, but for a speedrun it would take too long. The Grox have 2400 star systems to conquer, that would take me weeks ;)
let's say one cycle takes, say, 10 seconds (probably way too short but it'll add up), then taking over 2400 star systems would take at least 24000 seconds or almost 7 hours (and that's assuming no breaks, 100% optimisation and that all grox star systems have only one grox colony, which is also not true), so it'd take way too long in any case
...To be fair, there ARE some absurdly long speedruns, but... yeah, no.
@@toimine8930 I might be wrong but i think you can instantly destroy a grox planet by getting its Tscore to the center even if it's not stable? i thought i remembered doing that exploit to destroy a ton of grox... but I might be wrong
Doing this as a kid as a fun challenge is one of my more fond gaming moments, and it wasn't even a speed run then lol.
good video, love the presentation
can we talk about how OP the omnivore straw is in cell? penetrates through mouths AND spikes.
Huh, so I am not the only one with random crashes in this game huh lol
Great run as always! Your commentary is as entertaining as usual too!
An hour very well spent - this was awesome, thanks for the interesting commentary alongside it!
So cool to see that Spore is still a thing even in 2021. I was wondering about something in the space part of the speedrun: Wouldn't it be faster to use the fanatical frenzy on the grox planets right after you've done their mission? It usually takes too long for another mission to appear and it would save you the hassle of finding another inhabited planet
That is a good point and optimization! I may have been using the Fanatical Frenzy specifically on systems on the edge of Grox territory so I could be out of their firing range. But I could probably work that in if I do something like this again in the future!
Meanwhile im over here spending a hour making a plane
If you ask me, you're doing it right
I had no idea you could reset animations to get extra tribe members that's really cool!
Alright so i love how speedrunners can just go to a random game and bring it back to the dead and discover new things. thats amazing tbh.
wonder how quest64 speedruns would be like.
I love your videos! They're so calming yet interesting to watch. I really enjoy seeing how much you know about the game and its mechanics, and watching Spore brings me back to a lot of memories/nostalgia from my youth. Your videos inspire me to play Spore again. :D
Its weird finding spore videos nowadays and realizing how dumb I was as a kid and how wrong I was playing the game
* Alliance declared with the grox *
*_Several people are typing..._*
Glad this game still sees play after all these years. It was one of my favorite games as a kid and still is today
i love your commentary runs so much
55:30 but... this should be the right choice
I tought he would say "Wich is... Close, but not quite Nice" lul
@@Zaws21 hahaha
Speedrun Spore crashless%
I'm glad to see people still play my childhood favorite (and still my favorite lol)! I've been trying to ally grox casually but I may have screwed myself over :c
Spore is and has been a special interest of mine for a long time, and I’m so happy I found your channel. Makes me wanna play spore again
just want to tell you what a great youtuber you are. Really likable and chill + you play spore keep it up dude!
awesome speedrun but i'm enamored by the technically correct but still alarming phrasing of "buying a baby" in tribal stage
Damn, your goals are beyond our understanding
Thanks for sharing. This was fun to watch and reminded me a lot of playing Spore back in 2012.
I love you, youtube algorithm.
Really cool speedrun, I'll be sure to look at more (especially if there are tricks and tips such as the "pause-launch" in Creature stage or the leg ripping with Ctrl).
A speedrun of destroying the Grox
I know this is late but after some deaths and patience, I finally did it... The Grox are now my allies.
Nice! :D
I've not exactly gone out of my way to watch much spore gameplay nor buy and play the game, but this is the first creature stage I've ever seen without a giant carniverous crash bandicoot with danger-breath attacks
At around 51:00 you don't have to enter the systems to see the planets, when you land, you can hover your mouse over the system and see the planets inside and their spices. Hope it helped!
I am sleep deprived and my first reaction to the title was me asking 'is there really a Grox named Ally in the game? Who the hell are they?'
"Spore is a Perfectly Balanced game, with NO exploits whatsoever."
Ah a man of culture, I see
Again, great commentary! I really enjoy your videos :)
"Everyone waged war at me because I broke the galactic code, but all that did was reveal where they are"
True; clearly when technologically advanced aliens completely overtake a neighboring star system the only sensible course of action is to wage war.
Oh yesssssss, keep those speedrun commentary coming !
Listening to your speedrun commentary while playing rocket league, is very relaxing :D
I decided to play competitive 1v1, big fuckin mistake. Gold 3 Div 3 tho I guess not too bad for my first time playing comp
I dont even like spore, but your voice is so relaxing I just can't help putting your videos on while i draw
Nice to see spore being uploaded, spiffing brit is also helping rejuvenate spore
If I recall, you have to watch missions for the Grox that ask you to go find an artifact. Sometimes they'll have you get something from one of their worlds, and that will count as -100 for stealing from them.
I really appreciate the commentary. I haven't played for years.
Imagine speedrunning hard mode allying grox with military civ stage.
This game is a sensory nightmare, the tribal stage digeridoo is haunting
Ok now I understand why my normal runs take forever thanks
love this! that was so cool to watch, thank you for the video, even if im 2 years late
It is said in grox history that one day all their worlds shall be destroyed by the creature in this profile picture
Lets freaking go this person is a legend now
SPORE nerda hit different. Quality content!
this game was my childhood, im glad to see its still pulling decent views even now ^^
You should make more edited / non speedrun spore videos in addition to your usual content, love your videos, keep it up
I remember (possibly years ago) an exploit that you can create a Sporepedia creature with custom Consequences (rewards/abilities that carry over to the next stages).
What was unique about this was that you can start a play through in any stage with Consequences you define. If I recall correctly, if you start playing at any stage you don't get any consequences.
Thought information might be useful for you stage specific speedruns! I don't remember the specific website where I got the exploit.
Your video reminded me when I imported a Grox model (because I wanted to play as them) in Space Stage. I used the exploit to get any Consequences without having to play the whole game.
That's pretty interesting!
It's possible to use the 'setconsequencetrait' cheat to give any consequence traits we want for any creature too.
We don't allow the consequences for Stage specific speedruns because that would normally be carried over from other levels. For Individual level speedruns, everything should just be from the one Stage we are running.
The Grox: Get's mad at you if you don't try to contact them
Also The Grox: GALACTIC DOMINATION!
Awesome run!
31:59 That floating builds are cool.
19:17 Call the Exorcist.