Spore: The 100% Complete World Domination Challenge
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It's a crime that no one even tried to bring this game concept into life again.
There's Thrive which tries to redo the cell stage
@@lixxark47 Thrive intends to cover all of this. Its just taking a long time to develop because its so much more in depth.
Yeah sadly maxis (the guys who made spore) got terminated by EA
Try out Elysian Eclipse when it releases, it's pretty much a Spore successor
I thought about this too with the video, it'd be sick if it was remade. But I also think Spore is literally why it's never been remade, it was such a letdown at the time.
"This is the most angry genocidal murderous organism ever." - AA the biologist as he draws angry eyebrows on random creatures.
Me during my 9984567th Genocide Route in Undertale:
As an enjoyer of the Space Stage, the final part of this video was hard to watch because my tears kept making my clown makeup run.
Lol
Don't forget we can make too much money from making the purple spice act as if it doesn't exist before vacuuming it when it hits the ground
Based comment both figuratively and literally.
If you don't enjoy the space stage you're just not autistic enough
In fairness, the real space stage for spore is Stellaris
The proper way to play Spore is to play until the space stage and then load up Stellaris.
Now I wanna play Stellaris. But like, Also Spore.
I could never get into Stellaris. My brain is just too small for jt
I literally bought Stellaris specifically because it looked like Spore Space Stage but fleshed out. I uninstalled it three hours later because it was too complicated for me...
@@voguishthrone5887 You could try Endless Space 2, it's a little simpler than Stellaris
I can enjoy a few hours of Stellaris but even if the galaxy had no other species it would still be so complicated for me.
4:15 That isn't the Steam version's fault. Spore has been crashing in the creature stage ever since it first released on disc.
Yeah, I remember this too. Just kind of a jank game that never really got fixed.
Or you can have my disc, which somehow managed to corrupt itself and I straight-up can't play it because it instantly CTDs on launch!
I've never played the game, but I've always had the impression that crashing is just simply part of the game and you gotta do as much as possible, before it bluescreens your computer..
I used to save like crazy when I played this game because I didn't want to lose my progess
I came down here to find this comment right when he said that lol. This game has a long, beautiful, frustrating history of destroying your precious progress.
Fun fact I learnt obsessively playing cell stage: you can actually pack the spikes at maximum tightness by first expanding your body as large as it goes, then shrinking them and getting them as close as possible, then finally, shrinking the body and making the spikes your desired size and pointiness
Using this in my next run
"ball of spikes" is my favorite cell stage strategy
@@kitkatboardI used to beyblade and spin around to try and DPS lmao I even thought I was so smart by pushing prey into one of those giant circles so I could corner them and stabby stabby
Going from genocidal maniacs to the bringers of life and hope to the galaxy PURELY to spite other genocidaler maniacs is a hell of an arc
The ultimate redemption arc for every Spore Player ever: From killing everything to spitefully using the staff of life to stop the 1 penultimate evil group in the game that does it better than you. Kinda funny how the "Saviors" of the universe are solely because someone decided to hoard the title of Genocidal Maniac, and the 1 thing that crumples their empire is the exact antithesis to said "Saviors" ideology.
I always liked that the friend animals that had currently joined you became your pets when you get to tribal stage.
And even produce food for you 😊.
Mine always got abducted by aliens
I’m sad that they just disappear in civ satge
@@voguishthrone5887In my mind they became the pets of my specie
Imagine you're friends with a guy and you develop language and tools and he doesn't so you just... ...keep him as a pet...
The genocisaurus creating life all over the planets purely out of spite to genocide the Grox is hilarious, i love it.
AA: "How could anyone possibly approach, let alone DIGEST, such a spiky organism?" Sea Otter: "Challenge accepted."
Context?
@@benthasome Sea Otters are one of the main predators of sea urchins
@@kitkatboard oh
ANGER MAIN! Fun fact, the stats from creature stage come over into tribal, so if you build 5's in combat youll have an advantage
Having max charge + sneak in my tribe was hilarious to see as I sent them to merc the other tribes
After all these years I still discover new things about this game
@@RynewulfI also saw something that tells you to build your creatures with extra arms so they can hold more tools, as well as extra legs for speed. No clue why this is the first video I've ever seen of someone using 4 legs.
But aren't the other tribes the same species with the same stats?
@@GlacialScion Nope! In the vanilla game, the other tribes should all be other species. Just don't ask where they all go in-between tribe and civ stage...
I just love how every non-Spore dedicated KZheadr makes the same mistake. Just, naming the planet after the species and then doing it again once the actual opportunity to name your specieas occures
It does make it somewhat easier to see what save you're clicking on
This is the fault of the UI. The first box you get to enter anything shows a picture of your cell with the words "Enter the name of..." So, yes. You enter the name of your cell.
Your comment is horrifying because it implies the existence of Spore-dedicated KZheadrs and I wasn’t ready for that knowledge.
@@Faethorneyeah... there are a surprising amount of them
@@UnitSe7enit literally says "Name your planet"
Speaking of the game crash issue, if you press ESC on your keyboard instead of clicking the checkmark will make the game not crash on you.
Is that some kind of practical joke
@@driespeeters2349 It's not.
The game cannot crash without your consent
Undertale: I will forget that ever existed proceeds to close process
I really don't understand how we haven't gotten a Spore 2 yet. Spore is one of the greatest games from my childhood, and for many others too. It's such a unique game, with a formula that could be expanded SO MUCH with a modern release.
Answer is simple: EA
Darkspore was spinoff game they made after Will Wright left the company, and has been widely regarded as a bad decision. The reception was pretty lukewarm, and it had always-online anti-cheat. The servers were shut down, and the game can no longer be played legitimately. SimCity being released with similar or worse always-online functionality, by decree of EA, resulted in a botched release and publich backlash. This meant Maxis had released several flops in a row. Never a company eager to abstain from evil and destruction, EA "restructured" Maxis into non-existence. Now, Maxis is dead, Will Wright is doing nothing useful, chasing trends with talk of blockchain NFT-MMOs and AI driven mobile games, and EA is stubbornly sitting on enough IPs to furnish two dozen independent studios. Of course, since EA cares only about predatory monetization practises and evil, we'll never get a Spore 2 worthy of the name.
@@MrVeps1this makes me depeessed
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 man, depeession sucks :(
@@rafael_lana If they released it now it would have more microtransactions than the sims. Best to leave it be.
Spore is a universal constant and cannot perish.
Not until Thrive is fully released, at least.
@@Sivanot Any day now!
@@tristansmith8824 Haha, yeah. Definitely. One can hope.
@@Sivanot Give it up for year 23!
@@SivanotThere's a game called Elysian Eclipse that looks really good as well. Hoping for one of them to finally bring this concept back.
"Eventually evolve a brain and legs to walk on" Yo walk on brains?
yes
It's how we can be mindful of the land we tread upon.
Being a genocidal species I wouldn't doubt they walked on many of brains.
Shouldve just made a human
True
Yes indeed. We are best in Genocide
@@ThatGuyWhoMakesStuffForFun Or a human-sized murder hornet
Average balkan evolution
I love this comment.
By spreading life the Genocinoceros ensured that wars could be truly eternal, and the Grox were filtered out for simply being weak to SPEED.
The fact that people can still make videos on this game just shows how good it was.
Spore is a fantastic game for how bad it is. I've spent so many hours collecting bits, decorating my tribes. And then I stopped playing because space is awful 😂
You can make videos about anything, no matter how good or old it is.
@@beckstheimpatient4135I cheesed the economy of space age
@@KaleidosXXI🤓
Spore is my favorite game to watch him play - his philosophical and goofy way of narrating is just perfect for it 😂
It's like the world's most unhinged space/nature documentary.
5:16 this is such an AA style thing I love it😂
Right? 😂 "spikey butt cheeks"...so dumb, immature, and eloquently spoken... I love it haha
Since you've done a Kiki% run, you should do a Bouba% run next
What
@@YourDad-dh6fj it's a reference to a study made by linguists (i think) in wich two shapes were proposed, One spiky and one rounder, and people had to name them either Kiki or Bouba.
@@atlas3225 ohh that's awesome tysm
@atlas3225 And the best part of that study is that, in your comment, you didn't mention which one was which, yet you understood it perfectly. That just proves the study's point even further.
9:04 when I was a kid I would just spend a ton of time in the creator to make a bunch of my own galactic species because the defaults are so ugly lol.
I still do that. Why are so many default species so ugly
I wonder, can you delete the pre mades? Like I know the game pulls from your characters first but I just do not want any of them
@@voguishthrone5887 i dont think so. I dont remember trying to do that, but instead I would just make so many custom races that it flooded out the defaults in the rng pool.
I always loved the space stage of spore. I had fun terraforming and interacting with alien races as a kid.
genuinely, my only problem with the space stage was that there wasn't more of it (as in, I did everything there was and wanted to do more, but ended up bored)
Well you were a poopy diapered brat sooo...... Na I'm just messing lol
it was my favorite stage back in the day but i also used about every cheat in the game
Same tbh
What a shame they deleted the "fish" stage.
As a couple of other folks have commented I too am amazed and upset that this concept never got pushed further. Personally I would prefer to see a newer version of Spore that stopped after the global conquer phase but was more in depth with the other three main phases I've just always felt like the space stage was too large and complicated and separated from the main bulk of the rest of the game. Like cut out almost all of the space related stuff and instead add more stuff censored around your species evolving and changing and how the rest of the world interacts with that. Also just make the systems that are already there more robust and even grander with more options and more expansive possibilities and whatnot. You could also totally go a different route with it and make a game more centered on the space related section but that I think would be a whole different beast. As far as making or furthering Spore I would say focusing on the first stages are the more important options. Especially if the game were to be remade by a large enough group nowadays you could have a plethora of options for all different kinds of body parts and whatnot. I always found I ended up restricting myself to the ones that were most effective regardless of whether I enjoyed the look of my creature or not
My strat for dealing with the Grox was one I discovered completely by mistake. The very first time I encountered the Grox, I wanted to befriend them and, having learned that terraforming a colony's planet usually improves your relationship with that empire, attempted to bring their T-score up one. Needless to say this backfired immensely, but now I just go planet to planet terraforming and wiping them out.
Anti matter bombing runs are quicker
The most easy way to beat the grox is to stock up on energy cells, a few colonies and watcher drones. Every few parsec you go down, shoot down the ships following you and place a colony with a drone as a save place.
This is legit the only remake i truly want.
How has Spore never been remade? In fact... how are we not on Spore3 by now?
EA
Damn perfect timing for my lunch break for my Easter shift at Walmart
This comment gave me depression
Easter shift at walmart?? I'd almost expect you to have venomous spikey buttcheeks 😆 jk jk
This video is just "Can I beat Spore just playing a normal playthrough?"
I'm glad that during the space stage, you were literally just the Imperium of Man
We need a new Spore. Kenshi just doesn't scratch my itch for the building of an empire comprised entirely of flesh-starved psychopaths.
I love the idea of a progenitor species who is only the progenitor species because they were wiping someone else out.
I have never actually made it to the end of the space age out of boredom. Good to know roughly what you get when you finally make it there.
The Imperium of Genocinoseros
average Warhammer chapter
Today's video is sponsored by our word of the day. Splendiferous (adjective): having great beauty and splendor.
My only complaint with AAs videos are that they aren't infinite, great commentary to listen to while I game, reminds me of a friend. Somebody that I used to know as a philosophically inclined man once said.
this is the prometheus movie. become the strongest so you begin to create new organisms
Encountering the Grox was like looking into a mirror for the Genocinoceros. After realizing the monsters that they were, they turned around and became an enlightened species spreading life instead of death.
Is it weird that even with spiked butt cheeks, this animal is still one of the more... normal designs I've seen a youtuber make?
I love the angry AA in the thumbnail XD
I love every single spore video. Hope you do a conglomerate episode where you combine all your species in an alliance. Or just do space adventures once, I'm fine either way
One thing I love about the cell stage is the changing perspective of "monsters in the background" and then you evolve to something bigger and not that background monster is now an actual threat. Evolve again, and you are eating them. Excellent use of scale
bless this frog
Mr phibian said many wonderful things about spiky bois
"I set out with this goal in mind as this species, and named it um, the Genocinoceros" >*Names the planet Genocinoceros*
2:39 "How could anyone approach let alone digest such a spikey organism" bruh _Sea urchins are one of the favourite foods of many lobsters, crabs, triggerfish, California sheephead, sea otter and wolf eels_
I love how AA uses profound and unique words to describe things in his videos. Along with philosophical quotes and ideas. Such a wonderfully unique channel trait👍
4:30 the dooeebeleeeee lol
I got deep into Kenshi recently and those guys rec'd your videos on it which is how I found your channel. Good stuff, you're a good storyteller. Easy sub.
Stuff I wanted in Spore: • Add a "sea expansion" se we could spend more time on the Creature Stage and with a different environment • Add unsymmetrical character costumization during Creature Stage • Expand the lore about the world and add an "exploration" phase during the Tribal Stage •Make the combat mechanics more complex as the species evolves and becomes more intelligent • Add actual armies to the Civilization Stage and allow first person POV • Add first person POV • Add something to make the later stages more interesting: politics, lore, exploration, mystery, an interesting combat system, literally anything
"The angriest most murderous creature" -makes a porcupine/rhinocerous creature (both are herbivores) At least it turned into a horror out of the Book of Revelations by the end.
hippos are responsible for more deaths in water than sharks and crocodiles combined. A moose will not hesitate to gore an unsuspecting hiker. Rhinos can and will charge anything unfamiliar that moves near them. Predators, meanwhile, mostly sleep if they aren’t directly eating. Herbivores are absolutely more dangerous and murderous overall.
Ungrr ungrr, microbe go brrr
A sea Urchin. You started with a sea urchin. Honestly bravo.
Ahhhh spore. How I wish I knew how to prevent it from crashing constantly during the creature and space stage... Then again I think the issue with the space stage is that theres alot more going on than whats on screen so the games trying to process changing borders, all the different species loaded in, random events and so on. Overall Spore is fun, but I've long since upgraded to Stellaris for that 4k strategy itch.
Im so upset at how hard they fumbled Spore
0:14 - "Everyone's favorite intergalactic evolution simulator" - I have to admit it's been quite a few years since I played Spore, but as far as I ever experienced, you could not travel to other galaxies - therefore it's not intergalactic. You can call it galactic, intragalactic, interstellar, etc. But it's absolutely not intergalactic. I normally wouldn't bother raising this point, but for a man as erudite as AA, it's much more shocking to see him get this word wrong. Or any word wrong, for that matter.
From Angry Pinecones > Primal Space Orks > Terrestrial Space Orks > Regular Space Orks > Vulcans. Quite the kharakter ark.
This video alone is worth a subscription. Not even looking forward to newer videos, this is just straight up PEAK!
HOO HAA
Aho
Should've just called it European.
As a european i agree
Midle east
As a european ,what?
Eastern European, tyvm. We're the aggressive ones in Europe
i don't get it is the joke that only euros do genocides? american/western education moment if so
No one narrates games better than Amphibious Amphibian. I could listen to this for hours.
I love how you mention "our tale starts here" when the Genocinoceros first wags its tale!
Should've just called it The Zionist
Happy Easter! Christ is King ✝️🙏
I swear these need to be longer. I enjoy your videos very much.
haven't watched in a while, production quality improved a lot, great video!
so he basically bred israel and germany
I knew someone was going to make this comment. Btw how do you think Israel and Nazi Germany are comparable?
@@wow9279 his parents were unfortunately siblings. Just report him
First heh
Congratulation
WOOOHOOOOOO
You may be the first, but you will not be the last.
Had my doubts on "Angriest" Since the Grox are there, but the ending brought me back! Great!
I will never get tired of spore related stuff im so glad its not entirely dead yet
Is this the new z¡onist DLC?
Amazing touch with the channel icon as level 3 of the evolution chain
Your calm sense of sarcasm is exquisite Sir ambiguousamphibian .
It is genuinely a crime that we've never had a Spore 2 or anything like it, imagine this game with modern technology?
I like that part of the lore to this was "They broke the Geneva Convention". Implying that in the Genicinocerous' universe they too had a Geneva Convention. And I like to think that they had they made their own Geneva Convention just to violate it.
Great to see someone still playing Spore
I love how this is a mirror of the most peaceful spore video ever.
love that this channel is playing old games like War of Evolution
God I love AAs spore videos. Made my whole week
I remember I spent something like 200 hours trying to conquer all systems in spore. I don't remember exactly how many systems it was, but I do remember that I had completely dominated a spiral of the galaxy, and the prospect of having to do the same thing again was just... no.
I remember playing at least twice where I was the most aggressive and most passive species 😂 it’s hilarious as passive as you basically become a mega church when converting others
This is like Torso becoming OP with arms and then giving things to people instead of stealing them at the end. It's amazing
This is the only way i've played Spore since it came out
Ambig, this is just how I play every time I load up Spore.
been loving the editing on these videos-- especially your new amphibian avatars that occasionally pop up. great work, @project_bruv !
I feel like I have seen this video ages ago, the entire spiky body, the evolution of it, the change to the rhinoceros
I just started the video and saw th evolution graph showing a microscopic sporian, fish, AA, komodo dragon, baby monkey, monkey in jeans and a crowned oragantan. And sat and analyzed the graph wondering why AA was showing that he's less than a monkey and it dawned on me in a tidal wave of joy and laughter seeing that he used his own profile pic as the amphibian stage of evolution very funny i love AA's spore vids cant wait to finish this one.
Getting real Wizard People, Dear Reader vibes from the writing and delivery. I am so happy.
I figured out in my most recent playthrough the best way to play the space stage. First, you need to get the Zealot space tool. You can do this either by evolving to be a Zealot (you have to do two stages as friendly as possible and two stages as hostile as possible), finding another empire that are Zealots and become friendly and have them convert you, or if you have Galactic Adventures unlock all 4 Zealot parts in the captain designer. Once you have the Zealot tool you can use it to instantly take over any planet. Then, buy a lot of monoliths and terraforming tools, terraform a planet in another system to T3, and place a monolith. Wait a while, maybe terraform some other planets in separate systems, and your monolith planets will reach the space stage. Most of them will have 8 cities which you can instantly conquer using the Zealot tool. Instead of waiting for it to recharge you can just save your game and reload from the main menu, it will recharge instantly upon loading. Once you have enough planets you can make tons of money by just trading spice between your own planets. I usually have 99 of each spice type because most of my planets hold 50 spice and that's without the storage upgrade.
I love me a good secretive salamander video to binge after watching some forgotten frog content.
love u ♥love your narrations ♥ pls make some Rimworld vampires challenge/story series ♥
The space stage is the best stage, maybe not as a purely genocidal race but running around cultivating planets and seeding them with life was the highlight for me.
As someone who spent a significant portion of my childhood playing spore & played really aggressive creatures almost exclusively over & over again, space stage is a lot more fun once your ship is completely decked out with all the nicest tech & weaponry. The Grox colonies are no match for a decked out ship that knows where to aim the bomb, you can easily destroy a city in one or two hits, after that you just speed demon away. Then you terraform the planet manually & spoil your new colonies with all the best stuff, I always kept a big stock of terraforming tools & specimens for this, the staff of life actually became redundant for me. If you know how to star swing to navigate the center of the galaxy quickly & efficiently, those annoying grox ships aren't really an issue. Some species I made would simply ally the Grox, to the ire of all other empires in the galaxy. I also liked using the hologram to spy on animals & explore the surface of baron worlds, as well as & populating planets with stupendously large numbers of epics. I'd go out of my way to have the most valuable & rare spices especially purple, often stealing planets from tribal stage creatures to get highly productive worlds. The stages I liked most though were creature stage & tribal stage, I played this game before they introduced the patch that prevented you from killing epics in the creature stage. You could lead epics to your nest & then get them stuck, then you & your family would slowly kill it & then eat it. I also had fun sicking epics on enemy cities in the civilization stage.
Dude your delivery is just too funny 😂
7:07 "The civilization phase... BOMBS!" I think that summarizes human civilization pretty well
Imagine if you could use the staff of life to create your own species all over again and you could replay through the different phases with different species all in the same galaxy.