Posting Promise
ok, so i've decided that in order to keep up some attempt at getting back to a regular post, if I haven't posted on my own by Mondays I'll use the Writer's block idea for that Monday.
And hope to heavens that it's something I can write something about that's more than just a little line or two heh.
So right..
Spore - So enjoyably addictive what witht he badges and things although all the stages leading up to space are far far too short really unless you play beyond completing the stage which, when you're in tribal and civ stages, is pointless. Completely and utterly. I might have to start playing on a hard setting.
Also the space tool of having a hologram of yourself to go down onto the planet for a closer look - coo idea but why make it move so damn slowly? and why can't i jump? I thought they'd have made it like being on the plent as creature stage again but as a hologram (like bring back the social options for use). It's so annoyingly slow I haven't used it again yet. Maybe on a civ stage planet i'll try again.
There's also some annoyance on how the sporepedia works, you can put people on buddies and it'll get everything they make and randomly use them in your games but you can't seem to make it see everything they make and yet choose for things to not appear in your game.. case in point is a wonderful creative person on the sporepedia named Tacobob, his stuff looks amazing and I love seeing his new things however many of them look rubbish when you see them in game which is a shame but i can't get rid of them without just going and deleting them off my sporepedia and putting him off my list so it doesn't all just come back again.. grr.
but ho hum. some of the sporecasts are worth the few annoying things.. like a starwars one, nothing cooler than allying with some random critters who just happen to be using Tie-fighters :D no millenium falcon yet though.
So far Max and I have made only a small handful of novelty things, like a religous ground vehical based on ED-209 (from robocop), a Jack Skellington (Nightmare before xmas), a nice decent looking dragon and a blocky version of the lincoln memorial that we've made as a town hall building.. it's pretty cool.
We have plans though, I want to make some of the Abe's Oddworld critters (Sligs, Scrabs... the .. other ones... maybe a Munch and a Fuzzle too) and we're looking into making some of the Matrix squidy things as vehicals. Hopefully those will work out!
I think Max's next set of critters will be based on marshmallows... the acid test for those will be if he shows me them and i squee over them like a little girl in a fluffy bunny emporium then they'll be ready :) hehe
And hope to heavens that it's something I can write something about that's more than just a little line or two heh.
So right..
Spore - So enjoyably addictive what witht he badges and things although all the stages leading up to space are far far too short really unless you play beyond completing the stage which, when you're in tribal and civ stages, is pointless. Completely and utterly. I might have to start playing on a hard setting.
Also the space tool of having a hologram of yourself to go down onto the planet for a closer look - coo idea but why make it move so damn slowly? and why can't i jump? I thought they'd have made it like being on the plent as creature stage again but as a hologram (like bring back the social options for use). It's so annoyingly slow I haven't used it again yet. Maybe on a civ stage planet i'll try again.
There's also some annoyance on how the sporepedia works, you can put people on buddies and it'll get everything they make and randomly use them in your games but you can't seem to make it see everything they make and yet choose for things to not appear in your game.. case in point is a wonderful creative person on the sporepedia named Tacobob, his stuff looks amazing and I love seeing his new things however many of them look rubbish when you see them in game which is a shame but i can't get rid of them without just going and deleting them off my sporepedia and putting him off my list so it doesn't all just come back again.. grr.
but ho hum. some of the sporecasts are worth the few annoying things.. like a starwars one, nothing cooler than allying with some random critters who just happen to be using Tie-fighters :D no millenium falcon yet though.
So far Max and I have made only a small handful of novelty things, like a religous ground vehical based on ED-209 (from robocop), a Jack Skellington (Nightmare before xmas), a nice decent looking dragon and a blocky version of the lincoln memorial that we've made as a town hall building.. it's pretty cool.
We have plans though, I want to make some of the Abe's Oddworld critters (Sligs, Scrabs... the .. other ones... maybe a Munch and a Fuzzle too) and we're looking into making some of the Matrix squidy things as vehicals. Hopefully those will work out!
I think Max's next set of critters will be based on marshmallows... the acid test for those will be if he shows me them and i squee over them like a little girl in a fluffy bunny emporium then they'll be ready :) hehe