People are still playing Spore just for the creature creator, using it to create artistic beasts and other creatures. Different mouths, eyes, ears, hands, feet, et cetera. The only way it could be more timeless is with a larger library of parts to use. New games with character customization will come, but no one will reach the Spore level of customization without basically copying it. The Spore Creature Creator is a nearly timeless piece of mechanics. Hell it is kind of expected when you have a dozen legs flopping around. Granted there is a crap ton of model clipping, but all things considered that's a minor issue. The animations of the game were designed to be able to account for all different kinds and configurations of creatures no arms or legs, 4 legs, 6 legs, a dozen arms, three legs. It is very easy to understand and control, and gives an extreme amount of variability and control to the player, whose only limit is their imagination, and the available parts. The Spore Creature Creator is incredibly powerful. What I'm referring mainly to, is the spore creature creator.
If someone were to take that part of it, and make a sequel with it and enhance the modes, it could be a really fantastic game. The thing is though, the math and coding behind the biggest part of the game is still very solid. The game is very shallow in all but the last section of the game's story mode, and in the actual creature creator. (EA still hasn't learned from this, has technically gotten worse about it, but we've just kinda come to accept it.) But the biggest blow is the gameplay itself. Part of it was due to Electronic Arts putting an extremely harsh DRM on the game that made it so you could only install it 5 times. The game was hyped to hell and back as a huge development in gaming technology, and for the gameplay itself. The idea behind the game was that you would create your own creature, and evolve it from a single celled organism to a galactic civilization.
Developed by the now closed Maxis Software, Spore is a life simulation game created by the famed game director of the sims and sim city, Will Wright.
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