Galactic Adventures literally changed my life. I was about 9 or 10 when it came out, and back then I could only play on the computer when I visited my grandmas house once per week. I loved to log on and see if any of my favorite creators had published any new adventures, and when they did, I swear every Tuesday was like Christmas. I would get super immersed in the lore of these stories, go in the editor and see how they made things happen, and, eventually, I became confident enough to turn the stories I wrote in my free time into adventures. It opened my eyes to storytelling and what the human imagination could do, and it gave me the confidence to be wacky and weird and balls to the wall in every idea I come up with. Right now I’m working on staging my first opera at my university. I can quite literally say I would not be where I was today without Spore GA. It influenced my style and sense of humor, and taught me that the craziest of ideas are the only ones worth doing.
Agreed. I still come back to the game over a decade later. I used to make plenty of adventures in galactic adventures and have my own in-universe lore centered around my aliens. I also loved to follow the stories of my favorite creators, particularly parkaboy and a couple of others.
We REALLY need another game like spore. It has so much potential, and even without it being used, it still is a timeless game. If EA isn’t moving their ass then someone else just gotta do it.
Back when the base game came out I was obsessed with making my creatures fit on my own little ecosystems in my mind, I never really played too much past tribal stage, and galactic adventures was like a wish come true, I could finally select which of my creatures were on the same planet and all of my favorites from other creators too, remember making a planet filled only with creatures from the Pikmin universe, good times.
hell i think i remember playing an adventure that was barak obama boxing a grox and then blowing up the planet.... even the the dumbest adventures somehow proove entertaining. thats why i like spore...it is what you make of it.
I actually quite enjoy playing the space stage. Just wish there was more complexity in interacting with other empires, beyond just allying or destroying them. 12:30 Also, your adventure is more elaborate than anything I've ever created. I almost never created any stories or even completable adventures, just randomly screwing around with explosives, jump-pads and creating chaotic battlefields. lol btw I came from your video post on Reddit.
Honestly, your statement is right for just about every stage of spore. Each one feels like they wanted to do more and either ran in to issues or ran out of time. It's kinda sad to play through the original game and feel like you're playing half of it.
I agree... A few Things i wished were in spore -building and expanding within your solar system like building space stations that are either military or trade in nature think of DS9 -terraforming should be more difficult like you have to build a colony like building and add plants and animals into it it then it slowly changes the terra score over time with an indicator similar to the traderoute indicator when its full you go back to that planet and upgrade the building to expand the next terrascore with new animals and plants... Also the same system is used for planetary defense once you have all turrets and the defense probe thing You unlock the next tier like shield generators or orbital defense weapon systems where you have the choice between alot of weak weapons or a few strong ones once that tier is done you unlock the spacestation where you can design a space station and put it around the orbit of the planet like the moon of your homeworld the spacestation also gathers all spice of the system it is in... -terraforming for suns and gas giants basicall by chnging the sun you change the terrascore of the planets or ignite gas giants and turn them into a sun... -being able to build up a fleet the size is determined by the amount of fully build colonies -being able to make treaties with other races *non expansion treaty you determine which systems are not to be colonized and when they agree its in effect. *defensive treaty you agree to protect them when they get attacked by another force but if another ally attacks them you are not obliged to interfere but you can *trade treaty you both decide on trading routes and the percantage of spice that is to be traded if both sides agree the trading starts after awhile a system may be bought and you can also sell your system. *joint colonizing treaty you and selected allies share the planets of a selected system trade and defense treaties will be automatically in effect for this system *quests and mission treaty you can turn problems into quests an environmental issue or an sudden attack of a colony for non allies to take but allies also can take on these quests *joint venture treaty Your enemies become also the enemy of your allies any new species that attacks you or your friends becomes an enemy of all allies. I a have many other things but you get the idea...
@@androconiachangeling6535If I'm not mistaken, spore's feeling of incompleteness is mostly down to hardware limitations. Spore also feels to me not to be incomplete, but rather empty. I do know though that a few things were cut for time limitations.
@@tungsten_cube Yes, you're 100% right. That emptiness is part of that incomplete-ness. Two sides of the same coin if you will. I know the underwater stuff was cut because machine of the age just couldn't do it. (I personally don't mind it.) Not sure about the castle stuff and the few other floating rumors i've heard.
there were so many incredible sub-communities of all of us kids making different genres of GA series; i loved the spyro community as a kid and had a few friends where we all included each other’s characters in our stories, just crossing over and sharing our OCs with each other :) great video!! brings back some memories
man, as someone who played galactic adventures for 8 years straight (and only stopped 'cause my computer stopped being able to run it) this video was an absolute treat! a total blast from the past. i always wondered whether my friends thought i was insane when i went on and on about how great this expansion was, glad there's now a video essay confirming i wasn't lol.
This was very well made, great work with your presentation! Galactic Adventures was definitely a fantastic, highly underrated expansion many overlook when talking about Spore as a whole. I'll never forget the first time I played through "Deepspace" by hk1x1 and was blown away by the sheer limitless creative possibilities the adventure create offered. Watching this reignited my interest in getting back into Spore after all these years!
Thank you so much! I LOVE deep space! I wanted to delve deeper into the potential of the adventure editor and I had so many segments from that adventure lined up to be examples. Watching it back though I felt like I’d lose people’s interest talking about the details. Things like the illusion of your ship flying up and docking, using the creature / gate disguises for decor, and the cool map were so inspiring though!
I played Galactic Adventures back in 2012 through 2015, it just sucks I lost all the creations I made after my computer was factory reset. Ever since that, it's been hard to get back into it.
I personally don't know why most people don't like Spore Hero. As much as I absolutely loved the first two games, Spore Hero was a fun twist on things. The story was fun short and simple, the games soundtrack was amazing, and even though it didn't have as much creative features as the originals it was still extremely fun to make your creature and run around in the world. It was like one really in depth galactic adventure but with cutscenes. Spore is the best game in history (In my opinion) but I just feel like not enough people give Spore Hero a chance.
I think you listed my two main issues with it, it was short and took away a lot of the creative potential that the original game had. It went in a totally different direction and even though it was still fun and colorful and not a *bad* game, it was just disappointing for people who wanted a new Spore game.
I actually love cell to space. I've heard a bunch of people saying that spore is only fun during cell to civ, and I thought that that was an insult to spore. But saying out of 5000 hours one can only have 3 hours of fun in cell to space is also insulting to the game. The game is incredibly fun in all of its aspects. Some people will prefer some parts more thant others, but it is never an objective fact that one one part is fun
meanwhile i was making the most random, pointless adventures straight from my 7-8 year old mind "help! it's raining husband and wife!" -actual quote from one of my really old adventures
Lol, this actually made me laugh man. I used to do the same thing... I mean, I used to try to make coherent stories but I was like 9. They were probably awful lol.
I just returned to Spore as i got it in the Steam sale, reloading the game again and signing into my parents old EA account I was amazed to see all of my old creations still there. They were awful, but even now the game is amazing fun, and returning to it now when I'm older and I've been doing all sorts of other creative stuff in MMO's in the meantime, unlocking the games full potential is just amazing, with infinite new stuff and creativity from galactic adventures. I feel like Spore is a game that EA really failed. They had an absolute gem of a game with infinite possibilities, and it would probably crush games like No Man's Sky and Stellaris if a new Spore came out nowadays with the same cartoony charm mixed with the powers of games of this generation. Sadly with Maxis closed down and EA wearing refusing to give us a new Spore/remakes of their best games in favour of more Sims 4 expansions as a badge of honour, I fear we'll never see this amazing game go beyond being an extremely popular game from 2008 that people are still playing in droves to this day.
my favorite thing in to do with galactic adventures is just set a whole bunch of creatures to follow you and then lead them into lava. i.... i might have had some... issues....
This was the first "real" game I ever owned and cherish all the afternoons spent creating creatures and adventures. I grew up in a religious household and it sucked, not being able to enjoy cartoons and trends all because of some stupid belief I had no choice in bringing into my life. I genuinley felt isolated and lonely because I wasnt able to connect with my classmates since I wasnt allowed to enjoy what everyone else was. I'm honestly suprised the evolution part of spore went over my family's head. If they knew I dont think I would have ever been allowed to play the game. This game literily changed my life, it led me on a path to pursuing creature design, and for that I am ever grateful.
I once had one of my silent adventures, 'The Silent Beacon', featured on the Spore homepage - got the achievement and all. I was so freakin' happy. Then the Spore servers had an achievement crash, and I lost all my achievements - including that one. They later got fixed, but I never got 'Bestseller' back, no matter how many times I messaged support. Soured my joy enough that I stopped playing altogether. Man I miss Spore.
yoooo you were rythmear? i loved your still life adventures! i remember An Echo in the Clouds absolutely terrified me as a kid haha, the image of that arm reaching out through the portal at the end is seared into my mind forever sorry to hear you never got your achievement back, for what its worth though your stories definitely made an impact
I agree on Fotosynthesis and Parkaboy being the creator GOATS, they influenced my style so heavily in the skills I learnt. Literally only played the game to make cool stuff. Won a few contests from skills I learnt deconstructing their works.
i actually like the space stage. The exploring of system and finding some rare systems with binaries stars, painting and customizing planets to throw in the aliens ive made w the plants i like to make a beatiful planet, growing my empire like a butterfly constelation and so on
Omg Galactic Adventures was incredible!! I sunk so many hours into creations; now I'm curious and want to see if any of them were saved...also that music brings me BACK
Adventure Town is such a sickenly happygolucky place that it always were and still is the most fun to screw with. the old crappy silver laptop that i used to play spore on like 7-9 years ago on before it broke had problably more edits of this level than even i myself can remember (unless you were talking about another default Maxis-made level).
I remember seeing a vid of spore when I was younger and I fell in love I would disassociate in school about it and ur vid just reminded me of all of that I checked the price on steam and I found it was on discount for only 10 dollars I was thinking about all the shit I wanted to make creative freedom I’m so burnt out from overwatch and apex but unfortunately my adhd/autism Brain completely forgot about while cleaning my room and I missed the discount such a heart break cried for a good 2 hours. Not sure why I’m writing this in a public comment section but this vid and ur channel is just beautiful made me realize things about myself ur vids are art
I have played SO much spore and watched SO much spore content on youtube, and up until now it’s only been whispers of galactic adventures. Safe to say that galactic adventures is a CRIMINALLY underrated and under appreciated part of the game.
Spore was one of my favourite games growing up even though I wasn't as big into the community (mostly due to lack of confidence in my work), but damn. Watching your creations and videos on it kind of made me want to dive right back into it ! Especially for the adventures I've been missing.
The problem of the stages before the space is that they look like tutorials. Everytime you learn and star liking the stage, it ends and go to the next. But not the space. It's really fun and you can play a lot.
i was so excited when galactic adventures came out, i could never figure out how to do anything on it though because im too dumb...i should go back and take another look
That race from the adventure you talked about, the Avali, spun into the most popular mod in Starbound, a race in Stellaris, and even VR chat mods. Like Spore: GA really let people's imaginations run wild. To this day I tell people you haven't played Spore if you don't have GA. But I thought the servers were shut down. I haven't been able to access them for years now and the sporepedia shut down too, I thought?
Nope! There are methods you can use to get your game up and running, there should be a stickied thread on the Spore subreddit that can help. I’ve been playing, sharing, downloading the whole time!
Always deactivate the Autoturrets when in Grox territory. They will Attack your Sytems and there is even an plaque for befriending them, so no Autoturret.
i havent played spore in almost 10 years and i really want to play it again , especially to check out galactic creatures since i havent heard of it until this video , but my current computer has horrible storage and specs so i guess ill just fall down the online rabbithole lol
Albeit the technology is advancing, I have never seen sandbox game better than Spore. The freedom of creation is insane. It's like if entire humans designed their own creatures in Spore, all of them would be different from each others, and it's just from creatures side, not counting the cells, buildings, and vehicles.
While I do disagree with a couple points you made about playing the space stage, the rest of this video was incredible. And I'm glad you mentioned the spore site, since Ive been getting my adventures through the game ui. Just a question now, is there maybe some kind of list of all the great and well known players like the ones you mentioned? Id like to add them as buddies so I get all their content.
Definitely start looking at the Sporepedia! For adventures I would start by adding Remypas. Then subscribe to his “Remypas worthy adventures Sporecast. You should also subscribe to the 100 point Maxis adventure Sporecast to make sure you have all of them in your game to power level your captains. As for creators, I would add Fotosynthesis, Parkaboy, G3NJI, Andeavor, luckyburdock, Shattari, Pezzalis, Slartibartfast38, and Mushroomking1. There are many more that you can find by looking through the Friends lists of all of the ones I listed!
Galactic adventures really made me spent at least 2000 hours on it, I pour hours into creating adventures without even knowing. It really shaped my life and I hope it never disappears.
Spore galactic adventures is the pinnacle of all games, just playing galactic adventures by itself even today is amazing, the only issue is that I feel like there's tons of trash adventures and most of them I hate playing but otherwise, it's the pinnacle of 2008 and probably still better then most games in 2022
This expansion was so incredible at the time, my friends in elementary school didn’t believe me when I told them it’d be announced. And when it was announced, it absolutely blew my 10 year old mind. The amount of creativity that was possible in GA was absolutely insane. And a decade and a half later, it’s still awesome!
Great video! This gives me so much nostalgia to some the best gaming memory's i have ever experienced. You managed to get me really hyped about the game again, especially since i though the servers where shut off years ago and the community vanished. I never knew it was just the disc version's servers and that the community is still going pretty strong :)
I worked on this game + expansion pack fresh out of school. Galactic Adventures is still probably my favorite project throughout my entire career since then. It warmed my heart to see people still making videos about it. :)
I’ve been making a series called R. A. F. T. (Rough awful floating tile) which the first game is all about being on an ocean… on a raft… Yeah the first game was a raft copy -But the other games actually expand the story, like terraforming the planet after years, defeating a giant sea monster, and so much more! Right now I’ve stopped working on it for a few months, (I have a life) but I will continue the series sometime!
I have never been able to connect with the server, so I never enjoyed the community creations. But a this video made me want to try it once again! I'mma go try and relieve my childhood real quick.
Man, I have this overwhelming urge to reinstall Spore. I used to make adventures, but I was never able to connect to the Spore servers, so the adventures were really jusst for me. I have a video of each of them (except one I made a little time later), which I had a tonne of fun creating. I'd love to be able to create more.
I spent hundreds of hours creating and publishing shitty little adventures as a kid, it was so much fun. I got decently advanced with the tools in the end, used that exploit where you could set creatures as props to create this scene where time was frozen in the middle of a battle. I created different versions of the same creature which were each in different poses for the scene, like one for running, one for holding weapons, another for dying, etc. Felt like such a genius at the time, and was really proud of the result.
I remember myself spending months playing Spore GA. I've even made a map trilogy once - I was being inspired by Jedi Outcast, and trying to semi-recreate it within Spore. I've had so much fun doing this. I also remember making other maps, like "Infestation II", which functioned as a 'what if' to the original Maxis "Infestation" mission. In it our heroes failed to destroy the Grox pod, so in "Infestation II" we've picked up in a moment, where Grox terraforming continues heating up the planet and now rising lava levels threaten the nearby shelter for last survivors, but our heroes and rebels still plan a final attack on the Grox terraforming plant. Dude, playing Spore GA was something.
@@doxnotch3029 That's awesome. Yeah, good old times. One of the goofiest things that you could make was to force you or other creatures to orbit the planet with powerful launch pads placed at a very horizontal angle and at a high elevation.
I just love this game for the creative choices you have. I don't use mods but those that do make awesome creations. I have been through all the stages many times since I bought the game when it came out and it still do. I definitely love creating and sharing on sporepedia and Hope it never shuts down. Playing other people's adventures is so much fun. Thanks for this.
Not sure if you've done it yet, but I used this link to get my version of Spore working on Steam! answers.ea.com/t5/Bugs-Technical-Issues/Solution-Spore-for-Steam-Can-t-log-in-to-servers/td-p/5114847
I fucking miss spore. It's been like 4 years but I keep thinking about it. Back then I didn't play it anymore because I had some silly conflict (totally my fault) with part of the community. Now a bit older and certainly wiser, I feel like I've missed out on a huge amount of fun that I could've had for myself. Unfortunately, I'm now way too busy to fit it in any amount into my schedule.
I loved GA so much, it’s a shame that now I’m reunited with it I lost my old account, and I ran into the unfortunate glitch of EA not being able to register the fact that I own GA, preventing me from sharing my GA creations and downloading other people’s creations, effectively ruining 90% of my enjoyment and preventing me from getting back into it :(
first time viewer, really liked this video, it brought back that feeling I got from enjoying something as awesome as spore. Got me in the feels, grew up playing this game and it has been years since I touched it but it just means a lot to me, it really makes me happy to see it still getting players and attention. Thanks for making this video
Spore itself is one of the best games ever. There is literally not a single game in the world that plays like Spore does. It is the only game in its own little subgenre, and the fact that the franchise has been left to rot by EA is beyond disappointing.
I am obsessed with spore I have been since its release, I got Galactic Adventures when I was 8 and it's been a blast so I finally caved in and bought Creepy & Cute parts after many years. No regrets!
6:00 FUCKIN' PARKABOY! Gosh, I played Spore during its peak (if you ever knew me during that time, I apologize, I was a dumb child) and you talking about Parkaboy just slingshotted me RIGHT back to the past. Amazing video my dude, thanks for helping me unlock my deep memories
This was a great game from my childhood. Best community generated content ever. I remember the creators you’ve mentioned. The expansion pack could have been a sequel on it’s own. Thank you for making this video.
As a standalone experience, I can see why Galactic Adventures was awesome and I think if I was a bit younger at the time I would've sunk thousands of hours into it. But I think it really wrecks the base game. First time I played Spore, it had GA built into it. You get to the space stage for the first time and immediately get sent on an adventure. After that, every mission has a random chance to be some random adventure downloaded from the internet. At first I didn't understand what was happening. I was being pulled out of the space game to play extremely poor quality missions, with bad writing, often long grinds, and in some cases being actually broken and impossible to finish. I would dread getting new missions in case they were another tedious player created adventure. I think it probably should never have been integrated with the base game and just presented as a menu option, letting you browse the online catalogue and see ratings, rather than automatically making you play random ones.
I can whole heartedly agree with you on that. Definitely should have at least been a toggle to use player missions in the space stage since as you said some may be impossible. I had one that *required* a jet pack and I was just ??????? Not even my maxed out captains had jet packs. Definitely an oversight to have player missions in the space stage.
This is a great video that touches on unfortunately ignored segment of Spore - the community, and wider creative aspect. I genuinely attribute my current career path as a 3D Modeler to when I used to make tanks and stuff on Spore. Also man, seeing some of the creators that I saw waaay back in the day again brings me back. Spore was nuts, it was weird, it was awesome. Side note, anyone remember all the weird wolf adventures, wolf / dragon heads, etc?
The Adventure Editor was a clever, if roundabout, fix to the problem of the Space Stage having no proper terrestrial gameplay. Sure,. the developers could create massive updates to the stage so that you could beam down to any planet, colonized or not, and be able to do a huge variety of things; interact with aliens, uncover valuables, do little missions for people, see another race charge into war before your very eyes...or they could create another editor and just get the fanbase to do all that. Now, you can beam your captain down to a variety of planets, but what you do on those planets was devised by another user. There's the illusion that each planet has its own story going on, when in reality it's just one of the many adventures in the Sporepedia being randomly assigned to planets in your client.
Respect for showing us your adventure since you were 15. It was quite funny seeing you cringe at it. Wish I had something that I created when I was young. But I've never been the creating type.
Hello DoxNotch. I very rarely watch videogame videos by youtubers, but I watched this one to the end and I really, really enjoyed it. Spore was the videogame I have enjoyed the most as a kid and the only one I managed to play to the end. Your video has made me want to revisit it. Keep up the good work. 👍
@@doxnotch3029 Hey! So I got the spore game from the shelf it was in and dusted it a bit, installed it in my windows 10 pc and its not working. Since you are making spore videos in the present age I wonder if you are familiar with this problem and could give me some useful advice. Thank you so much in advance!
Not to take away from all the positivity regarding what you mentioned from the game, but I just wanted to say... What's exactly so bad about the base game? I actually kind of love it ngl Lol. You also kind of simplified it I feel like, every stage has 3 different approaches in playstile that affect your creature in later stages as you're granted habilities depending on what you do every stage, and when you reach space stage it adds up all of your previous results to categorize your empire and give it special habilities, there's 10 archetypes, and all of them are the result from mixing your creatures behaviour in every single stage, things like being aggresive, social or both, or what diet your creature has, or if their cities are economic religious or militaristic. it's always really fun to start a new game and imagine how you want your creature to be, how do you want to make it look, what archetype do you want to make it? what should you be in every stage in order to get there? and you can sometimes also give it a fun twist as well, like you can make your creature carnivore out of cell and decide that you're going to be social next stage so you now have carnivore exclusive mouths with bad social habilities, as well as a creature with a carnivorous diet, so you sometimes need to be aggresive to get food but you still have to be mostly social in order for your creature to exit social out of creature stage. You get to play as your own species and evolve it through the course of cell and creature stage, and you witness it all by yourself. Btw regarding the thing that you mentioned about all parts being collected being a requierement to pass creature stage, that's just blantantley not true, the objective in creature stage is to get 1000 DNA points so your species Brain grows to its max. By tribal depending on what you want to do you may play the stage in a very straightforward way or plan out everything before you do it, it also depends on how your previous stage was, since your Green/red/blue meter continues from were it was the previous stage, so to end trival in neutral you may need to ally 4 tribes and destroy the last one, or vicebersa. Civ is all about keeping good relations with other nations and expand your growing nation, there are multiple ways to go around it, economic is definetley one of the hardest as you can't establish trade routes against enemies, so in some situations you even may need to play multiple types at once. Civ Stage also has some other fun aspects, like the city planner, and even if making so many things at once can be tiring having your vision for your species be realized is so fun, and you truly feel a sense of connection with them. Although of course it dosen't end here, because space stage is also incredibly fun, comunicating with alien races, establishing colonies, trading, expansion and enrichment as a whole might be really hard but is one of the most satisfying feelings in the game, and there's so much things that you can do in Space stage as well, terraforming planets, creating ecosystems, allying the grox, blowing up planets, finding THE SOLAR SYSTEM, earth is in the motherfucking game, lots of upgrades, lots of oportunity to have fun. The start of Spage stage can be kind of rough, I do get that, but once you start getting colonies, increasing spice production, selling spice to nearby empires, you start to get even more and more money, colonizing solar systems, you go from varely making it to a million sporebucks selling all your spice to making almost 10 with all of it, you go from having 3 colonies to having a massive colonial empire, it quite literally is a god game.
Also, this may not be true, but I think that galactic adventures is actually the full realization of a scrapped feature in the game, were you could decend your spaceship captain down to planets and visit local civilizations and tribes as wells other creatures, it's not exactly the same, but rather an improvement. I'm saying this because Galactic adventures relates with the base game via missions that you're given by empires, as there's a chance they may give you one of these, and tell you to decend to the planets surfface, which triggers the galactic adventure.
Wow, thanks for such a thorough rebuttal! I suppose for me, the issue became that the base game played out pretty much the same way every time. I’ve made dozens of empires with all of the different archetypes and while you can play in three styles in each stage, those styles aren’t very flexible. And like I said I had over 5,000 hours in Spore when I recorded this. With that much time under the belt, I did find it hard to remember just how complex the game was when I first started. My main issue is that the stages feel a little shallow when you compare them to other games, especially today. With games like Age of Empires, Civ, Stellaris, Northgard, and more, coming back to Spore is a little tough. Again it may be because I’ve played from cell to space I want to say like, 60 times? But for me, the stages began to feel very repetitive and unexciting. By the time Galactic Adventures came out, I hadn’t even been playing the stages at all. I felt like I had done everything I could and I was just whipping up creations for fun. GA made it so that I could have all of the fun of imagining and shaping a species with a complicated backstory without having to play the stages that I was honestly a little tired of. As for the “collect every part” comment, that was sarcasm and I regret not making that clearer. I personally collect each part every time because I hate finalizing my species without having all of the options available to me. There were a few times when I wanted very specific eyes or mouths but I hit the button to evolve before I unlocked them and I just deleted the whole planet. And I do agree that the space stage can be fun in the early stages when you’re making progress and gaining power. I think it just tapers off really hard later on though. When I have my ship loaded with everything I need to make a planet T3 with 3 cities, spice storage, and an uber turret in maybe two minutes it loses so much of that sense of progression. You can definitely shake things up and customize each planet and that can be fun, but again it just flattens out into doing the same thing, over and over until you get tired of it. I do think Spore is a fantastic game, it’s my favorite game of all time and I won’t ever change my opinion on that. I just think that after a while the base game becomes very unexciting. Thanks again for the feedback, I hope I explained my reasoning well enough!
@@CuriousGuy_ That is true! They had the hologram scout ability that let you walk on planets in the space stage, but there wasn't much for you to do. They definitely marketed GA as the expansion that would let you beam down to planets for endless gameplay.
1:38 these days NMS is doing a lot better than it used to be back in 2016. sure it isnt as expansive as spore in terms of freedom to make stuff but its got its own assets that make it enjoyable. especially since frontiers
Maybe it’s just because I started playing Spore in 2021 when I was 17, but I hated Galactic Adventures. The Maxis made adventures were SO bad, and player made adventures gave next to no points! Not to mention that those bloody beam cutscenes were SO cringey! I must say though, the Vat Tego Spaceport music was FIRE!
Thanks for the amazing video(s) on Spore and particularly Galactic Adventures. I always agonized over just how underappreciated that expansion was as a level designer. There's pretty much no limit to what you can make, and it's such a simple interface to boot. It stimulated my fascination for storytelling and filmmaking, and I wanna get back into it as a regular passtime. It's sad that Spore died so embarassingly with Spore Hero and especially Darkspore, but with Galactic Adventures the game has literally infinite replay value and a sequel is not even needed. Still, I wouldn't complain if Maxis made a modern update, combining everything that was good about the original and Galactic Adventures into something even more accessible, expansive and cohesive.
Galactic Adventures literally changed my life. I was about 9 or 10 when it came out, and back then I could only play on the computer when I visited my grandmas house once per week. I loved to log on and see if any of my favorite creators had published any new adventures, and when they did, I swear every Tuesday was like Christmas. I would get super immersed in the lore of these stories, go in the editor and see how they made things happen, and, eventually, I became confident enough to turn the stories I wrote in my free time into adventures. It opened my eyes to storytelling and what the human imagination could do, and it gave me the confidence to be wacky and weird and balls to the wall in every idea I come up with.
Right now I’m working on staging my first opera at my university. I can quite literally say I would not be where I was today without Spore GA. It influenced my style and sense of humor, and taught me that the craziest of ideas are the only ones worth doing.
woah, that's amazing!
Agreed. I still come back to the game over a decade later. I used to make plenty of adventures in galactic adventures and have my own in-universe lore centered around my aliens. I also loved to follow the stories of my favorite creators, particularly parkaboy and a couple of others.
That's awesome, I'm happy for you =) I really like Spore, too! It's an amazing game😍
Man plays spore GA, this is what happened to his life.
repent to God
We REALLY need another game like spore. It has so much potential, and even without it being used, it still is a timeless game. If EA isn’t moving their ass then someone else just gotta do it.
You should try out Thrive by revolutionary games. It’s based off spore but more scientifically accurate but there is only a cell stage as of now
I'm making one right now :)
@@lonelystarslibrary9326 what’s it called
@@lonelystarslibrary9326 then don't give up in the project
@@Gamezilla899 man people have been talking about thrive for years and it hasnt come out of cell stage lmao. Elysian Eclipse looks more promising.
Spore need remaster by other new enterprise and make all new. This game presents a world of possibilities and cant to die.
Sadly good game never gets good remaster
I think they should aim to achieve what was originally promised tho
Honestly, my favourite thing to do in galactic adventures was create a planet with my own ecosystem and just explore the world.
I had lots of fun just making wars, or creating cities and nuking them by giving them grenades with all explosive stats to the max
@@wladfan I also enjoyed placing down as many land mines as possible and watching creatures get launched into the statosphere.
Back when the base game came out I was obsessed with making my creatures fit on my own little ecosystems in my mind, I never really played too much past tribal stage, and galactic adventures was like a wish come true, I could finally select which of my creatures were on the same planet and all of my favorites from other creators too, remember making a planet filled only with creatures from the Pikmin universe, good times.
Your adventure isn't even that bad compared to most of them
hell i think i remember playing an adventure that was barak obama boxing a grox and then blowing up the planet....
even the the dumbest adventures somehow proove entertaining.
thats why i like spore...it is what you make of it.
@@dakotastein9499 That adventure look so funny xD
@@dakotastein9499 I can tell that’s the best adventure in the game
I had an adventure that was based on some roblox game show up once lmao
I actually quite enjoy playing the space stage. Just wish there was more complexity in interacting with other empires, beyond just allying or destroying them.
12:30 Also, your adventure is more elaborate than anything I've ever created. I almost never created any stories or even completable adventures, just randomly screwing around with explosives, jump-pads and creating chaotic battlefields. lol
btw I came from your video post on Reddit.
Honestly, your statement is right for just about every stage of spore. Each one feels like they wanted to do more and either ran in to issues or ran out of time. It's kinda sad to play through the original game and feel like you're playing half of it.
I agree...
A few Things i wished were in spore
-building and expanding within your solar system like building space stations that are either military or trade in nature think of DS9
-terraforming should be more difficult like you have to build a colony like building and add plants and animals into it it then it slowly changes the terra score over time with an indicator similar to the traderoute indicator when its full you go back to that planet and upgrade the building to expand the next terrascore with new animals and plants...
Also the same system is used for planetary defense once you have all turrets and the defense probe thing
You unlock the next tier like shield generators or orbital defense weapon systems where you have the choice between alot of weak weapons or a few strong ones once that tier is done you unlock the spacestation where you can design a space station and put it around the orbit of the planet like the moon of your homeworld the spacestation also gathers all spice of the system it is in...
-terraforming for suns and gas giants basicall by chnging the sun you change the terrascore of the planets or ignite gas giants and turn them into a sun...
-being able to build up a fleet the size is determined by the amount of fully build colonies
-being able to make treaties with other races
*non expansion treaty you determine which systems are not to be colonized and when they agree its in effect.
*defensive treaty you agree to protect them when they get attacked by another force but if another ally attacks them you are not obliged to interfere but you can
*trade treaty you both decide on trading routes and the percantage of spice that is to be traded if both sides agree the trading starts after awhile a system may be bought and you can also sell your system.
*joint colonizing treaty you and selected allies share the planets of a selected system trade and defense treaties will be automatically in effect for this system
*quests and mission treaty you can turn problems into quests an environmental issue or an sudden attack of a colony for non allies to take but allies also can take on these quests
*joint venture treaty Your enemies become also the enemy of your allies any new species that attacks you or your friends becomes an enemy of all allies.
I a have many other things but you get the idea...
@@androconiachangeling6535If I'm not mistaken, spore's feeling of incompleteness is mostly down to hardware limitations. Spore also feels to me not to be incomplete, but rather empty. I do know though that a few things were cut for time limitations.
@@tungsten_cube Yes, you're 100% right. That emptiness is part of that incomplete-ness. Two sides of the same coin if you will.
I know the underwater stuff was cut because machine of the age just couldn't do it. (I personally don't mind it.) Not sure about the castle stuff and the few other floating rumors i've heard.
The best space stage is closing Spore and playing Stellaris haha
I don't speak much English but what I understood from the video I liked a lot, I hope you will grow more on RUclips
Ah that means so much! Thank you!
there were so many incredible sub-communities of all of us kids making different genres of GA series; i loved the spyro community as a kid and had a few friends where we all included each other’s characters in our stories, just crossing over and sharing our OCs with each other :) great video!! brings back some memories
man, as someone who played galactic adventures for 8 years straight (and only stopped 'cause my computer stopped being able to run it) this video was an absolute treat! a total blast from the past. i always wondered whether my friends thought i was insane when i went on and on about how great this expansion was, glad there's now a video essay confirming i wasn't lol.
Jesus Christ, 8 years. I can't play Stardew Valley for more than a week and then there's people like you. I admire your dedication
This was very well made, great work with your presentation! Galactic Adventures was definitely a fantastic, highly underrated expansion many overlook when talking about Spore as a whole. I'll never forget the first time I played through "Deepspace" by hk1x1 and was blown away by the sheer limitless creative possibilities the adventure create offered. Watching this reignited my interest in getting back into Spore after all these years!
Thank you so much! I LOVE deep space! I wanted to delve deeper into the potential of the adventure editor and I had so many segments from that adventure lined up to be examples. Watching it back though I felt like I’d lose people’s interest talking about the details. Things like the illusion of your ship flying up and docking, using the creature / gate disguises for decor, and the cool map were so inspiring though!
I played Galactic Adventures back in 2012 through 2015, it just sucks I lost all the creations I made after my computer was factory reset. Ever since that, it's been hard to get back into it.
I always keep copies on a spare drive...just in case.
I personally don't know why most people don't like Spore Hero. As much as I absolutely loved the first two games, Spore Hero was a fun twist on things. The story was fun short and simple, the games soundtrack was amazing, and even though it didn't have as much creative features as the originals it was still extremely fun to make your creature and run around in the world. It was like one really in depth galactic adventure but with cutscenes. Spore is the best game in history (In my opinion) but I just feel like not enough people give Spore Hero a chance.
I think you listed my two main issues with it, it was short and took away a lot of the creative potential that the original game had. It went in a totally different direction and even though it was still fun and colorful and not a *bad* game, it was just disappointing for people who wanted a new Spore game.
I actually love cell to space.
I've heard a bunch of people saying that spore is only fun during cell to civ, and I thought that that was an insult to spore.
But saying out of 5000 hours one can only have 3 hours of fun in cell to space is also insulting to the game. The game is incredibly fun in all of its aspects. Some people will prefer some parts more thant others, but it is never an objective fact that one one part is fun
meanwhile i was making the most random, pointless adventures straight from my 7-8 year old mind
"help! it's raining husband and wife!" -actual quote from one of my really old adventures
Lol, this actually made me laugh man. I used to do the same thing... I mean, I used to try to make coherent stories but I was like 9. They were probably awful lol.
@@MrNuclearz i tried doing that too around the same age, they were just as awful
I just returned to Spore as i got it in the Steam sale, reloading the game again and signing into my parents old EA account I was amazed to see all of my old creations still there. They were awful, but even now the game is amazing fun, and returning to it now when I'm older and I've been doing all sorts of other creative stuff in MMO's in the meantime, unlocking the games full potential is just amazing, with infinite new stuff and creativity from galactic adventures.
I feel like Spore is a game that EA really failed. They had an absolute gem of a game with infinite possibilities, and it would probably crush games like No Man's Sky and Stellaris if a new Spore came out nowadays with the same cartoony charm mixed with the powers of games of this generation. Sadly with Maxis closed down and EA wearing refusing to give us a new Spore/remakes of their best games in favour of more Sims 4 expansions as a badge of honour, I fear we'll never see this amazing game go beyond being an extremely popular game from 2008 that people are still playing in droves to this day.
my favorite thing in to do with galactic adventures is just set a whole bunch of creatures to follow you and then lead them into lava.
i.... i might have had some... issues....
This was the first "real" game I ever owned and cherish all the afternoons spent creating creatures and adventures. I grew up in a religious household and it sucked, not being able to enjoy cartoons and trends all because of some stupid belief I had no choice in bringing into my life. I genuinley felt isolated and lonely because I wasnt able to connect with my classmates since I wasnt allowed to enjoy what everyone else was. I'm honestly suprised the evolution part of spore went over my family's head. If they knew I dont think I would have ever been allowed to play the game. This game literily changed my life, it led me on a path to pursuing creature design, and for that I am ever grateful.
Exactly the same for me. Very sheltered growing up and Spore was the main outlet I had to connect with people that had common interests!
Damn we the same person lol
I once had one of my silent adventures, 'The Silent Beacon', featured on the Spore homepage - got the achievement and all. I was so freakin' happy.
Then the Spore servers had an achievement crash, and I lost all my achievements - including that one. They later got fixed, but I never got 'Bestseller' back, no matter how many times I messaged support. Soured my joy enough that I stopped playing altogether.
Man I miss Spore.
yoooo you were rythmear? i loved your still life adventures! i remember An Echo in the Clouds absolutely terrified me as a kid haha, the image of that arm reaching out through the portal at the end is seared into my mind forever
sorry to hear you never got your achievement back, for what its worth though your stories definitely made an impact
I agree on Fotosynthesis and Parkaboy being the creator GOATS, they influenced my style so heavily in the skills I learnt. Literally only played the game to make cool stuff. Won a few contests from skills I learnt deconstructing their works.
i actually like the space stage. The exploring of system and finding some rare systems with binaries stars, painting and customizing planets to throw in the aliens ive made w the plants i like to make a beatiful planet, growing my empire like a butterfly constelation and so on
Omg Galactic Adventures was incredible!! I sunk so many hours into creations; now I'm curious and want to see if any of them were saved...also that music brings me BACK
I still remember editing one of the default missions, the festival town one, into a post nuclear apocolypse
Adventure Town is such a sickenly happygolucky place that it always were and still is the most fun to screw with. the old crappy silver laptop that i used to play spore on like 7-9 years ago on before it broke had problably more edits of this level than even i myself can remember (unless you were talking about another default Maxis-made level).
@@wariofan-wq6fr yup thats the one haha
Ah yes. I remember doing that aswell.
Hm.
yeah i also always used adventure town as a template for nuclear wars lol
I remember seeing a vid of spore when I was younger and I fell in love I would disassociate in school about it and ur vid just reminded me of all of that I checked the price on steam and I found it was on discount for only 10 dollars I was thinking about all the shit I wanted to make creative freedom I’m so burnt out from overwatch and apex but unfortunately my adhd/autism Brain completely forgot about while cleaning my room and I missed the discount such a heart break cried for a good 2 hours. Not sure why I’m writing this in a public comment section but this vid and ur channel is just beautiful made me realize things about myself ur vids are art
It goes on sale pretty frequently! Add it to your wishlist and pick it up at christmas :)
I have played SO much spore and watched SO much spore content on youtube, and up until now it’s only been whispers of galactic adventures. Safe to say that galactic adventures is a CRIMINALLY underrated and under appreciated part of the game.
Spore was one of my favourite games growing up even though I wasn't as big into the community (mostly due to lack of confidence in my work), but damn. Watching your creations and videos on it kind of made me want to dive right back into it ! Especially for the adventures I've been missing.
The problem of the stages before the space is that they look like tutorials. Everytime you learn and star liking the stage, it ends and go to the next.
But not the space. It's really fun and you can play a lot.
i was so excited when galactic adventures came out, i could never figure out how to do anything on it though because im too dumb...i should go back and take another look
That race from the adventure you talked about, the Avali, spun into the most popular mod in Starbound, a race in Stellaris, and even VR chat mods. Like Spore: GA really let people's imaginations run wild.
To this day I tell people you haven't played Spore if you don't have GA.
But I thought the servers were shut down. I haven't been able to access them for years now and the sporepedia shut down too, I thought?
Nope! There are methods you can use to get your game up and running, there should be a stickied thread on the Spore subreddit that can help. I’ve been playing, sharing, downloading the whole time!
Looking back at it now, when it comes to creating or designing aliens for media purposes, Spore would be the #1 drawing board for ideas.
Thanks so much for this vid, it's so great to see someone finally talk about what spore is really about, creativity
I played this game as a kid and it really helped expand my outlook on the universe and question my place in it.
I rarely see people talk about GA, even though it's the best part of the game
Always deactivate the Autoturrets when in Grox territory. They will Attack your Sytems and there is even an plaque for befriending them, so no Autoturret.
i havent played spore in almost 10 years and i really want to play it again , especially to check out galactic creatures since i havent heard of it until this video , but my current computer has horrible storage and specs so i guess ill just fall down the online rabbithole lol
This video is super well done, I could totally see you blowing up in the real near future. Also continue making spore videos lmao spore rocks
Agreed. So many people sleep on the fact that the expansion pass in reality constitutes 75% of the truly significant content in spore
Albeit the technology is advancing, I have never seen sandbox game better than Spore.
The freedom of creation is insane. It's like if entire humans designed their own creatures in Spore, all of them would be different from each others, and it's just from creatures side, not counting the cells, buildings, and vehicles.
Damn, Ryuujin? I remember downloading almost anything of his on my game. Such a talented Creator.
Thank you for reminding me of this guy.
While I do disagree with a couple points you made about playing the space stage, the rest of this video was incredible. And I'm glad you mentioned the spore site, since Ive been getting my adventures through the game ui.
Just a question now, is there maybe some kind of list of all the great and well known players like the ones you mentioned? Id like to add them as buddies so I get all their content.
Definitely start looking at the Sporepedia! For adventures I would start by adding Remypas. Then subscribe to his “Remypas worthy adventures Sporecast. You should also subscribe to the 100 point Maxis adventure Sporecast to make sure you have all of them in your game to power level your captains. As for creators, I would add Fotosynthesis, Parkaboy, G3NJI, Andeavor, luckyburdock, Shattari, Pezzalis, Slartibartfast38, and Mushroomking1. There are many more that you can find by looking through the Friends lists of all of the ones I listed!
@@doxnotch3029 awesome, thank you
@@doxnotch3029 HRmatthew is pretty good too!
Galactic adventures really made me spent at least 2000 hours on it, I pour hours into creating adventures without even knowing. It really shaped my life and I hope it never disappears.
Did you know Spore got a secret update recently?
Some people think there might be something coming soon
Spore galactic adventures is the pinnacle of all games, just playing galactic adventures by itself even today is amazing, the only issue is that I feel like there's tons of trash adventures and most of them I hate playing but otherwise, it's the pinnacle of 2008 and probably still better then most games in 2022
Galactic adventures was kinda like a kid friendly game engine for me. I learned basics of programming thought it.
It was amazing
This expansion was so incredible at the time, my friends in elementary school didn’t believe me when I told them it’d be announced.
And when it was announced, it absolutely blew my 10 year old mind. The amount of creativity that was possible in GA was absolutely insane.
And a decade and a half later, it’s still awesome!
Pausing for dramatic effect at Uber’s video is hilarious, you’re totally a good person for pointing that one out.
Great video! This gives me so much nostalgia to some the best gaming memory's i have ever experienced.
You managed to get me really hyped about the game again, especially since i though the servers where shut off years ago and the community vanished. I never knew it was just the disc version's servers and that the community is still going pretty strong :)
I worked on this game + expansion pack fresh out of school. Galactic Adventures is still probably my favorite project throughout my entire career since then. It warmed my heart to see people still making videos about it. :)
That's amazing! I'm glad I could express how much Spore impacted my childhood to someone who worked on it!
I’ve been making a series called R. A. F. T. (Rough awful floating tile) which the first game is all about being on an ocean… on a raft…
Yeah the first game was a raft copy
-But the other games actually expand the story, like terraforming the planet after years, defeating a giant sea monster, and so much more!
Right now I’ve stopped working on it for a few months, (I have a life) but I will continue the series sometime!
Cool!
I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community.
Cool
I have never been able to connect with the server, so I never enjoyed the community creations. But a this video made me want to try it once again! I'mma go try and relieve my childhood real quick.
I am two years late, but make sure your password is under 15 characters long. It's a length limit within Spore.
Man, I have this overwhelming urge to reinstall Spore. I used to make adventures, but I was never able to connect to the Spore servers, so the adventures were really jusst for me. I have a video of each of them (except one I made a little time later), which I had a tonne of fun creating. I'd love to be able to create more.
Do it then I can add you
Have you done it
awesome video man, thanks for sharing your story!
I can't believe your channel doesn't even have one thousand subscribers.
Glad you enjoyed it! And I'm almost there, hopefully I can reach it with the next video!
Spore galactic adventures makes the space stage so much more fun because aliens tell you to go on the adventures
It warms my heart that people still talk about spore.
Wow. I never knew that this was a thing. Thanks for sharing!
I spent hundreds of hours creating and publishing shitty little adventures as a kid, it was so much fun. I got decently advanced with the tools in the end, used that exploit where you could set creatures as props to create this scene where time was frozen in the middle of a battle. I created different versions of the same creature which were each in different poses for the scene, like one for running, one for holding weapons, another for dying, etc. Felt like such a genius at the time, and was really proud of the result.
Hell yeah! Those advanced techniques make every adventure feel more real and immersive!
I remember myself spending months playing Spore GA.
I've even made a map trilogy once - I was being inspired by Jedi Outcast, and trying to semi-recreate it within Spore. I've had so much fun doing this.
I also remember making other maps, like "Infestation II", which functioned as a 'what if' to the original Maxis "Infestation" mission. In it our heroes failed to destroy the Grox pod, so in "Infestation II" we've picked up in a moment, where Grox terraforming continues heating up the planet and now rising lava levels threaten the nearby shelter for last survivors, but our heroes and rebels still plan a final attack on the Grox terraforming plant.
Dude, playing Spore GA was something.
I'm like 90% sure I played Infestation II! I love how GA made it so that players could be nostalgic over other player's creations.
@@doxnotch3029 That's awesome. Yeah, good old times.
One of the goofiest things that you could make was to force you or other creatures to orbit the planet with powerful launch pads placed at a very horizontal angle and at a high elevation.
I just love this game for the creative choices you have. I don't use mods but those that do make awesome creations. I have been through all the stages many times since I bought the game when it came out and it still do. I definitely love creating and sharing on sporepedia and Hope it never shuts down. Playing other people's adventures is so much fun. Thanks for this.
I wish I could get spore online to work so I could actually enjoy galactic adventures
Not sure if you've done it yet, but I used this link to get my version of Spore working on Steam! answers.ea.com/t5/Bugs-Technical-Issues/Solution-Spore-for-Steam-Can-t-log-in-to-servers/td-p/5114847
@@doxnotch3029 I just keep getting an error message when I try to register an account
Wait, that adventure you made actually looks kinda dope, I definitely don't have the patience to painstakingly make so many detailed props
Damn it, I really miss this game.
I fucking miss spore. It's been like 4 years but I keep thinking about it. Back then I didn't play it anymore because I had some silly conflict (totally my fault) with part of the community. Now a bit older and certainly wiser, I feel like I've missed out on a huge amount of fun that I could've had for myself. Unfortunately, I'm now way too busy to fit it in any amount into my schedule.
I loved GA so much, it’s a shame that now I’m reunited with it I lost my old account, and I ran into the unfortunate glitch of EA not being able to register the fact that I own GA, preventing me from sharing my GA creations and downloading other people’s creations, effectively ruining 90% of my enjoyment and preventing me from getting back into it :(
This is a grossly underrated channel
first time viewer, really liked this video, it brought back that feeling I got from enjoying something as awesome as spore. Got me in the feels, grew up playing this game and it has been years since I touched it but it just means a lot to me, it really makes me happy to see it still getting players and attention. Thanks for making this video
Spore itself is one of the best games ever. There is literally not a single game in the world that plays like Spore does. It is the only game in its own little subgenre, and the fact that the franchise has been left to rot by EA is beyond disappointing.
@9:10 it is surreal seeing some custom content i had essentially randomly downloaded a decade ago being showcased.
I am obsessed with spore I have been since its release, I got Galactic Adventures when I was 8 and it's been a blast so I finally caved in and bought Creepy & Cute parts after many years. No regrets!
6:00 FUCKIN' PARKABOY! Gosh, I played Spore during its peak (if you ever knew me during that time, I apologize, I was a dumb child) and you talking about Parkaboy just slingshotted me RIGHT back to the past. Amazing video my dude, thanks for helping me unlock my deep memories
Having fully finished the video now, damn this might actually get me back into spore lol
Hell yeah! All of those old creators, whether they knew it or not, created some of my fondest childhood memories.
I was 7 I wanted to get the cyborg expansion pack thing and my doctor pepper code didnt work on my 300 year old mac :(
ACTUALLY SAME. I never got the bot parts even after I begged my mom to take me to CVS for a bottle. It still hurts.
@@doxnotch3029 you can get them now for free cause theyre abandonware. Just take the data file and drag it in like it was a mod
i played spore as a kid when it first came out and its always been a fond memory but this is the first ive ever heard of this... i had no idea !
If you got a PC, it is purchasable on Steam and GOG. GOG version is probably the best one.
This was a great game from my childhood. Best community generated content ever. I remember the creators you’ve mentioned. The expansion pack could have been a sequel on it’s own. Thank you for making this video.
Massively underrated video.
Spore has been getting boring, but this will make it SO much better. Thanks for this video!
Photosynthesis!!! That brings back so many memories
Please make more spore videos, this was so good!
I love Spore so much, but I don't play it anymore which is very upsetting
Yep i always enjoyed Spore. And thats why i play it still
As a standalone experience, I can see why Galactic Adventures was awesome and I think if I was a bit younger at the time I would've sunk thousands of hours into it.
But I think it really wrecks the base game. First time I played Spore, it had GA built into it. You get to the space stage for the first time and immediately get sent on an adventure. After that, every mission has a random chance to be some random adventure downloaded from the internet. At first I didn't understand what was happening. I was being pulled out of the space game to play extremely poor quality missions, with bad writing, often long grinds, and in some cases being actually broken and impossible to finish. I would dread getting new missions in case they were another tedious player created adventure.
I think it probably should never have been integrated with the base game and just presented as a menu option, letting you browse the online catalogue and see ratings, rather than automatically making you play random ones.
I can whole heartedly agree with you on that. Definitely should have at least been a toggle to use player missions in the space stage since as you said some may be impossible. I had one that *required* a jet pack and I was just ??????? Not even my maxed out captains had jet packs. Definitely an oversight to have player missions in the space stage.
Maybe there should be a way to sort missions, or maybe select different ones in the Space Stage.
This is a great video that touches on unfortunately ignored segment of Spore - the community, and wider creative aspect. I genuinely attribute my current career path as a 3D Modeler to when I used to make tanks and stuff on Spore. Also man, seeing some of the creators that I saw waaay back in the day again brings me back. Spore was nuts, it was weird, it was awesome.
Side note, anyone remember all the weird wolf adventures, wolf / dragon heads, etc?
I remember playing Spore without GA and after I buy it, it was a massive game changer. Im really sad all my creations are gone now :(
I remembered when Spore and its expansion packs first came out.
I even tried to remake Half-Life and even Doom in Spore
That sounds sick! Super ambitious and hard, but sick!
The Adventure Editor was a clever, if roundabout, fix to the problem of the Space Stage having no proper terrestrial gameplay. Sure,. the developers could create massive updates to the stage so that you could beam down to any planet, colonized or not, and be able to do a huge variety of things; interact with aliens, uncover valuables, do little missions for people, see another race charge into war before your very eyes...or they could create another editor and just get the fanbase to do all that.
Now, you can beam your captain down to a variety of planets, but what you do on those planets was devised by another user. There's the illusion that each planet has its own story going on, when in reality it's just one of the many adventures in the Sporepedia being randomly assigned to planets in your client.
There is a fanproject called Elysian Eclipse which wants to be Spore 2
I use to play this expansion so much when I was younger, so much fun lol
Respect for showing us your adventure since you were 15. It was quite funny seeing you cringe at it. Wish I had something that I created when I was young. But I've never been the creating type.
This video convinced me to get back into Spore.
11:50 - 12:00
We use the gravitation wave specifically for this reason
im constantly daydreaming about making a new version of Spore with current tehclnology
Oh my, I have this on Origin Games, I played Galactic Adventures a bit, but never explored the online portion of it. This sounds AWESOME.
Hello DoxNotch. I very rarely watch videogame videos by youtubers, but I watched this one to the end and I really, really enjoyed it. Spore was the videogame I have enjoyed the most as a kid and the only one I managed to play to the end. Your video has made me want to revisit it. Keep up the good work. 👍
This means so much to me, thank you!
@@doxnotch3029 Hey! So I got the spore game from the shelf it was in and dusted it a bit, installed it in my windows 10 pc and its not working. Since you are making spore videos in the present age I wonder if you are familiar with this problem and could give me some useful advice. Thank you so much in advance!
I See no dislikes. Now that's the view that u deserve for this amazing video
was not expecting to see the happy merchant in a spore video
Not to take away from all the positivity regarding what you mentioned from the game, but I just wanted to say... What's exactly so bad about the base game? I actually kind of love it ngl Lol. You also kind of simplified it I feel like, every stage has 3 different approaches in playstile that affect your creature in later stages as you're granted habilities depending on what you do every stage, and when you reach space stage it adds up all of your previous results to categorize your empire and give it special habilities, there's 10 archetypes, and all of them are the result from mixing your creatures behaviour in every single stage, things like being aggresive, social or both, or what diet your creature has, or if their cities are economic religious or militaristic.
it's always really fun to start a new game and imagine how you want your creature to be, how do you want to make it look, what archetype do you want to make it? what should you be in every stage in order to get there? and you can sometimes also give it a fun twist as well, like you can make your creature carnivore out of cell and decide that you're going to be social next stage so you now have carnivore exclusive mouths with bad social habilities, as well as a creature with a carnivorous diet, so you sometimes need to be aggresive to get food but you still have to be mostly social in order for your creature to exit social out of creature stage. You get to play as your own species and evolve it through the course of cell and creature stage, and you witness it all by yourself. Btw regarding the thing that you mentioned about all parts being collected being a requierement to pass creature stage, that's just blantantley not true, the objective in creature stage is to get 1000 DNA points so your species Brain grows to its max.
By tribal depending on what you want to do you may play the stage in a very straightforward way or plan out everything before you do it, it also depends on how your previous stage was, since your Green/red/blue meter continues from were it was the previous stage, so to end trival in neutral you may need to ally 4 tribes and destroy the last one, or vicebersa. Civ is all about keeping good relations with other nations and expand your growing nation, there are multiple ways to go around it, economic is definetley one of the hardest as you can't establish trade routes against enemies, so in some situations you even may need to play multiple types at once. Civ Stage also has some other fun aspects, like the city planner, and even if making so many things at once can be tiring having your vision for your species be realized is so fun, and you truly feel a sense of connection with them.
Although of course it dosen't end here, because space stage is also incredibly fun, comunicating with alien races, establishing colonies, trading, expansion and enrichment as a whole might be really hard but is one of the most satisfying feelings in the game, and there's so much things that you can do in Space stage as well, terraforming planets, creating ecosystems, allying the grox, blowing up planets, finding THE SOLAR SYSTEM, earth is in the motherfucking game, lots of upgrades, lots of oportunity to have fun. The start of Spage stage can be kind of rough, I do get that, but once you start getting colonies, increasing spice production, selling spice to nearby empires, you start to get even more and more money, colonizing solar systems, you go from varely making it to a million sporebucks selling all your spice to making almost 10 with all of it, you go from having 3 colonies to having a massive colonial empire, it quite literally is a god game.
Also, this may not be true, but I think that galactic adventures is actually the full realization of a scrapped feature in the game, were you could decend your spaceship captain down to planets and visit local civilizations and tribes as wells other creatures, it's not exactly the same, but rather an improvement. I'm saying this because Galactic adventures relates with the base game via missions that you're given by empires, as there's a chance they may give you one of these, and tell you to decend to the planets surfface, which triggers the galactic adventure.
Wow, thanks for such a thorough rebuttal! I suppose for me, the issue became that the base game played out pretty much the same way every time. I’ve made dozens of empires with all of the different archetypes and while you can play in three styles in each stage, those styles aren’t very flexible. And like I said I had over 5,000 hours in Spore when I recorded this. With that much time under the belt, I did find it hard to remember just how complex the game was when I first started. My main issue is that the stages feel a little shallow when you compare them to other games, especially today. With games like Age of Empires, Civ, Stellaris, Northgard, and more, coming back to Spore is a little tough. Again it may be because I’ve played from cell to space I want to say like, 60 times? But for me, the stages began to feel very repetitive and unexciting. By the time Galactic Adventures came out, I hadn’t even been playing the stages at all. I felt like I had done everything I could and I was just whipping up creations for fun. GA made it so that I could have all of the fun of imagining and shaping a species with a complicated backstory without having to play the stages that I was honestly a little tired of.
As for the “collect every part” comment, that was sarcasm and I regret not making that clearer. I personally collect each part every time because I hate finalizing my species without having all of the options available to me. There were a few times when I wanted very specific eyes or mouths but I hit the button to evolve before I unlocked them and I just deleted the whole planet. And I do agree that the space stage can be fun in the early stages when you’re making progress and gaining power. I think it just tapers off really hard later on though. When I have my ship loaded with everything I need to make a planet T3 with 3 cities, spice storage, and an uber turret in maybe two minutes it loses so much of that sense of progression. You can definitely shake things up and customize each planet and that can be fun, but again it just flattens out into doing the same thing, over and over until you get tired of it.
I do think Spore is a fantastic game, it’s my favorite game of all time and I won’t ever change my opinion on that. I just think that after a while the base game becomes very unexciting. Thanks again for the feedback, I hope I explained my reasoning well enough!
@@CuriousGuy_ That is true! They had the hologram scout ability that let you walk on planets in the space stage, but there wasn't much for you to do. They definitely marketed GA as the expansion that would let you beam down to planets for endless gameplay.
@@doxnotch3029 I wasn't even expecting s response tbh Lol, just wanted to share my personal thoughts, thanks for replying back!
1:38 these days NMS is doing a lot better than it used to be back in 2016. sure it isnt as expansive as spore in terms of freedom to make stuff but its got its own assets that make it enjoyable. especially since frontiers
Maybe it’s just because I started playing Spore in 2021 when I was 17, but I hated Galactic Adventures. The Maxis made adventures were SO bad, and player made adventures gave next to no points! Not to mention that those bloody beam cutscenes were SO cringey! I must say though, the Vat Tego Spaceport music was FIRE!
I had a blast playing this game as a child.
Thanks for the amazing video(s) on Spore and particularly Galactic Adventures. I always agonized over just how underappreciated that expansion was as a level designer. There's pretty much no limit to what you can make, and it's such a simple interface to boot. It stimulated my fascination for storytelling and filmmaking, and I wanna get back into it as a regular passtime. It's sad that Spore died so embarassingly with Spore Hero and especially Darkspore, but with Galactic Adventures the game has literally infinite replay value and a sequel is not even needed. Still, I wouldn't complain if Maxis made a modern update, combining everything that was good about the original and Galactic Adventures into something even more accessible, expansive and cohesive.
This video was really well done. Keep it up!
Your civilization buildings are amazing