Videogames, Movies and Silliness.

Soooo I’ve been spending some time with Spore. I’m not very far along, I’ve just reached the tribal phase and so far…it’s alright.

The Creature creator is a neat tool and you can make some wacky creatures with it in a easy way.

But the gameplay is pretty lackluster in the first part of the game, it’s so repetitive and bland, all about either making friends or making enemies and finding food to eat and then “evolving” your creature into a new shape.

I’m hoping that once I reach the civilization and then beyond that the Space stage the game will start to pick up.

I entered the Warhammer Online Beta earlier tonight. Have to give it a try. Problem is I’m getting rather crappy download speed for the client though they are getting better. The client is a like 10GB so it’s going to take some time for it to download, at current download speeds it will take over a day for it to complete.

I know very little about how the actual gameplay is going to be like, but I’ve haven’t heard any bad things about it yet.

In the end I wasn’t really enjoying Age of Conan very much, maybe it was because I had no one to play it with me, which I find essential to playing a mmo game. Now by someone I mean someone I know.

In other news, on September the 18th the demo for Fracture will arrive on Xbox live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.

Now this game has always looked interesting but will be another one of those hyped failures?

I hope not.

- X

Due to DRM in Spore there has been huge backlash against Spore and EA. There is a Anti-DRM group going around trying to keep people from buying it.

They do this by going on amazon and giving the game a poor rating and write about the dangers of DRM in the Reviews.

Now this is bad since Amazon is the biggest retail in the world and casual gamers will often go by the ratings and don’t bother with reading the reviews.

Could DRM be the death of Spore?

Well..  I don’t know.

Considering how stubborn EA has been about the useless DRM up to this point I doubt even abdysmal sales from Spore will make them actually start to put two and two together that DRM actually means less money for them then not having it.

DRM doesn’t stop piracy in any way, but I understand that they have to try something because there really is a a lot of piracy happening on PC games and many PC exclusive developers have been forced to start developing for consoles as well just to make a profit from the development of the games.

Source: Fred Benenson’s Blog

awwwwww isn’t it cute?

….What do you mean no???

Anyway, the Spore Creature Creator is finally here. You can buy it in a store, online or you can head on over to fileplanet. They have a trial for it so you can test it out. It has about 25% of the available stuff in the full version so it isn’t bad.

I have to go to bed now, I still have that Age of Conan review and I’ll talk about Spore some more tomorrow.

- X