If I remember right, didn't EA start hiring more people to work on it after the reveal and demo's were so well received. The result was people shoehorning new ideas on and changing the artstyle to that googly cute thing we ended up with.
One of the new hires complained that this game went against her christian upbringing and generally kicked up a fuss to the point where you'd wonder why she was even working on it instead of going to another project.
>tfw you're one of those kids
SOMEONE MAKE THE TIME STOP NOW NOW NOOOOOOOOW
I doubt anybody in the world likes it though
Wasn't the DRM extremely restrictive? IIRC it only allowed for three installations per code, or something stupid like that
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here's your evolution simulator bro
me too user, i remember playing the shit out of it back in 3th grade
How come no one ever tried to make a game like this again?
Creating your own creature and populating Earth, meeting other people's creatures, doing war or allying up. Really fun stuff.
They just need to cut the space bullshit which completely trivializes the creature building aspect and focus on Earth and tribalistic relations.
>Grinding points on "just die" maps
>Never got to the later combat upgrades
What was the better way?
The closest to that would be Stellaris I think.
Too bad how Paradox themselves don't really know which direction the game should be heading, so they rework the base game every patch or so.
Stellaris is not even close. I'm talking about Spore but more well developed. An actual action game.