installed a ned graphics card or updated your driversScotty1989

I think the game creators forgot about actual gamers and focused on the soccer mom's, little girls, and post-toddlers.

There....I said it.

I imagine the thought process behind a "casual" gamer is like this

"oooh, pretty colors and nice shapes...reminds me of an iPod." *buys game*
"Oh, this is pretty easy to get into...oh, and it has violence, but theyre not humans. This would be good for little Timmy" *plays for 30 minutes*
"Ooooh look at the cute little tank!"

Now, I imagine the process behind the genuine gamer would be like this:
"OOoooh, Will Wright. He makes awesome games, most of the time. This game was also hyped!" *buys game*
"hmm, well...this is kinda neat." *plays for four hours*
"OK, is this it? Is this all the game has?"

But, like most people passing judgement, I havent played the full game yet so maybe when it comes to 30 dollars I will give it a chance.

mrbojangles25

I pretty much agree with this statement, I've been following Spore for around 4 years and to be honest it didn't really deliver at all. To me the only true interesting aspects to the game was the creativeness, no real intended gameplay, pretty much like a simplistic photoshop on legs. The only phase that I truely enjoyed for some reason was the Cell stage and some parts of the Space stage, however except for the Space stage (which drags on way too long unless you just hop to the center of the galaxy) all the other phases seemed to be way too simplistic, short and repetative. It was more like a string of childish mini-games with a creator in between than any type of real game. Spore was supposed to have something new to do pretty much every time without it being repetative, but the only things that are new are the creatures, and not even those are new being as the Grox will always be there. When I watched the initial video in where Will Wright was demonstrating this new game it looked very interesting, but they've taken all the interesting bits away. I mean Jesus, there's no sea stage, you can't venture into water in creature stage and you certainly can't build under water anymore. The most fun you can have from this game is designing your creature and it's buildings and vechiles. But why pay £30 or 30$ or whatever when you can put some more towards it and just buy some simplistic animation/designer software?