SPORE Creatures---

So here is another old Blog that I pulled out of the older archives---and this one contains my story about my addiction to SPORE. Created by the people who brought us the Sims, SPORE has games on the Wii, the PC, and on the Nintendo DS.

            The basic storyline of the game is to start with a single-celled organism, and move your way up through evolution. Evolving your creatures with body parts found within the habitats and/or by fighting/befriending the other strange creatures on your home planet.

SPORE also has a few expansions out (mostly for PC, though Wii has a separate game version of the expansion---same for the DS) such as Creepy & Cute parts for your creations, and SPORE: Galactic Heroes.

In this blog, you can expect to see my past blog about my experience with playing SPORE, the aftermath, and then a look into Taz’s P.O.V (Point-of-View) when it comes to the DS Version. But for now…here is my old blog (originally written on: November 24^th):

“So...I was really excited. My ex-girlfriend was looking at Christmas gift ideas last night at Walmart and I was with her...well, she was debating on what to get me. What it came down to was a tie between Roller coaster Tycoon 3 (platinum edition) or the PC version of SPORE.

Well...I wanted a game that both her and I could play together. You see, one of our main issues with being together as a couple is that we share some different hobbies. Now, I understand that there have to be differences when it comes to a relationship to keep things healthy...but I'm such a huge gamer and my ex is so...not. It makes things difficult sometimes (for the both of us) ^^;

Anyways...I was telling her about the different games and telling her to pick the one that she liked most. Well, when we got home that night, I remembered that SPORE sponsored a FREE Creature Creator Trial thingy...so I decided to download it. Anyways, I did that, and I was soon creating monsters out the wazzoo (meaning butt, arse, or whatever else you want to call it).
I had so much fun making those things. My first one was this dragon-looking thing called a Derf. Then I made this weird spider creature called an Exith and it was sooooooo neat~!!!!
I also tried to make a replication of a Domo-kun (like the Japanese median phenomenon...look it up). But my BFF Kirsten messed up the thing's spine, so it kept folding in on itself whenever it moved and was really weird~!!!
Then I fixed its spine, but erased its knees on accident, so when it moved, it scuttled like a wind-up toy, and I about peed because I was laughing so hard.

Well, then I made a duck-thingy but made it backwards....so it was retarded so-to-say, but cute nonetheless~!!! Well, Taz (my ex) saw how much fun I had playing that game, and she bought it for me today while we were getting groceries!!!! I was so excited! So the minute I get home, I open the disc package, pop the disc into my laptop and then...nothing happened. Seems there is an error with the SPORE game which is common to most PC users. The disc is not read by the

DVD Drive

and therefore does not start the install Wizard.

So I ended up deleting a ton of stuff off of my computer, then I had to call technical support and they ended up just sending me a direct download through my EA Download Manager...which then would allow me to install the game without the disc. Thank Goodness...I was getting really depressed and would have felt bad if Tasmara's gift went to waste.
Anyways...that's my story of the day! Now off to play SPORE~!!!”!

• The Aftermath:

Well, things did not go as I had originally planned with my SPORE game. While I had input my Serial Number and everything else that was required, for some odd reason, the game would not allow me to have any online privileges...I could not share creatures or see anyone else's creations and it really got on my nerves.
Next thing I knew, I was back on the phone with EA Support which seemed just as confused as I was. Well to make a long story short, the guy figured that my serial number had been inputted wrong, and that if I was given another serial code then it would fix all of my problems. So, what EA did was they gave me the expansion for SPORE (which is called Galactic Heroes), and as an added bonus, they gave me the Creepy & Cute parts for my game.
Sadly though, even inputting all of those items into my game did not solve my problem, but it has been way too long since I last called EA, and I doubt they would do anything about it now. I hardly play the game anyways...so its not like it is such a big deal.

• SPORE for the Nintendo DS~

When I got my new DSiXL (Nintendo DSi Extra Large) for my birthday, instead of selling my old Nintendo DS, I decided to give it to Taz. I also bought her, her first two games for the Nintendo DS which ended up being Scribblenauts and SPORE Creatures.
Taz had always liked SPORE, but after we had gotten into a fight over it, she had never touched it on the PC ever again, so I thought that the DS version would be something to rekindle that urge to mess around on the PC.
Well, Taz started playing the game, and while I may not have played it myself...what I do know is this: Obviously, the Nintendo DS does not support 3D graphics, and so all the SPORE Creatures look like they are made of paper. Also, there is a strict battle system on the DS game that made Taz look at me and say: "This game is really dumb. It's like Pokemon only you get to make your own creatures."
And she said that the building process was much too hard.  So while it may be something that i might like and/or play in the future...it did not really catch her fancy.
I don't think that the DS version was very popular anyways because I bought the game for 5.00 and maybe less. (I don't remember).