If SPORE only appealed to people who liked the Sims, it'd be a huge hit. The Sims was a top selling game for something like 2 years. - Mark Trapp

In that same respect it's a complete flop. Why start all over when you can just carry on with the Sims. If I have Guitar Hero, I won't be buying Rock Band too. They're basically the same game. I'll be paying the extra money for nothing. - Corvida

Then how do you explain the success of the Sims 2? - Mark Trapp

It's an expansion pack of the original game and essentially came out with better graphics and more interactions for the game. Spore isn't bringing anything jaw dropping to the table like EA did with The Sims 2 compared to The Sims. - Corvida from twhirl

Commented on RWW - Phil G

I don't think sims2 was jaw dropping compared to sims1. I do think spore has a lot more STUFF. - mjc

I know tons of people who own both Guitar Hero and Rock Band... I'm one of them - Stefan Hayden

It won't be a complete flop but it'll be nowhere near the success of the Sims/Sims2. I'm looking forward to the potential storytelling of this game. There are some very impressive creatures/buildings/vehicles created so far. - Rodfather

Hardcore gamers are just pissed off when they are not catered too. they are so whiny. I used to be a hardcore gamer and then I got old and ran out of free time. - Stefan Hayden

@Corvida GH = Rock Band. Spore is not Sims. - timepilot

The Sims 2 was a complete makeover of The Sims! Better graphics and a higher level of interaction with your Sims against other things. Spore does this too, but as I stated it's nothing new. The only difference is what you're interacting with. - Corvida

Wow, I don't agree with your reasoning here Corvida.. Rock Band is absolutely not the same as Guitar Hero. For one thing, it has drums. Drums rule! If I had to choose, though, I would choose Rock Band over GH. Also, Spore is nothing like the Sims in terms of gameplay. Spore is more like SimEarth (which actually was a flop..) - Phil G

@Phil agreed - timepilot

Spoke with a friend at EA and he feels it is going to be strong in certain markets. I'm not interested in it, but I know other will be! - Michael Fidler from twhirl

To clarify my comparison of Guitar Hero to Rock Band, the concept is essentially the same. You use different tools (RB - more instruments, Spore - creatures), but the basic concept is ultimately the same. Based on user interaction, Spore is the closest you'll get to The Sims. - Corvida

I think it's quite inspired... a very rewarding game too, one that makes it fun and compelling to play, rather than just suffer through successive defeats - Nathan Chase

Nathan what makes it compelling to play for you? - Corvida

Agree with Nathan.. The different stages all feel very different and keeps the user pretty busy and interested. It gets progressively more complicated as it goes, but compared to the Sims way of "Here, do fifteen million things at once" it's quite nice. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Corvida - I'll give you the similarity between Rock Band and Guitar Hero, if simply because Harmonix came up with the original interface to both. But I refuse to accept that Spore's gameplay is essentially the same as the Sims, but on a different sociological scale. In Spore, there at least 4 distinct stages of evolution that require a different mix of tactics and strategy to master. From my (limited) experience of Sims, it was all about micro-managing your person. - Phil G

Haggis: that's my impression, too. It's entertaining and comparatively epic feeling without the micromanagement and tediousness of SimCity. I can play an hour or so of it and feel like I made progress. Definitely an enjoyable experience for me. - Mark Trapp

Uh, no. Yes, I will own Spore. And I own both Rock Band and GH. Although GH sucks monkey balls for lefties, as I discovered far too late. Will probably play regularly until my RB disk is replaced and then hand it over to the kids. - Cyndy

@Cyndy Lefties FTW. We will rule the world...someday.. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I love, love love Sims 2 - I can fire it up and design a pretty house from all the custom downloads I've gotten and it's relaxing. I don't really 'play' the characters. Although downloading House or Angelena Jolie skins is kinda goofy fun. Spore isn't as compelling to me building wise as you're building the outside only - sure, you can morph pieces somewhat and skin different color/texture but there's no 'gotcha' It gets progressively harder level to level - I hit space and if you're not careful, you piss off a neighbor and get blasted. You only get one ship at first and they have bunches, argh. IMHO - Cheryl Allin from twhirl

My first impression was Spore was a tribute to PC gaming. Besides the microbial stage which resembled 'Flow' for the PS3, all the others resemble genre's that keep PC gaming alive. Creature stage ~= WoW/mmorpg's, Tribal ~= RTS, Civilization ~= Civ, Space/Galactic ~= EVE/Elite/Sins of a Solar Empire. I'm a bit disappointed that transitioning between stages isn't seemless. They all seem like separate games. - Rodfather

It reminds me a bit of an Apple II game that I played a long time ago...Can't remember what it was called...might have been Evolution...used "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" for the music at one point, without words of course since it was all computer generated with the little built in speaker. - Alex Scoble