Got it on my wishlist for a long time but it doesn't seem to offer much, not even for its 4 bucks. And there's not really any decent gameplay videos out there either.
Bought this year ago to support the project.
I don't know why people mention spore. It only has some similarities with its first stage. Thrive is never gonna be "from puddle to space adventures"-type of game.
People mention Spore because the official FAQ mentions Spore.
Thrive is never gonna be “from puddle to space adventures”-type of game.
People also mention Spore because this is exactly what the devs are envisioning. To quote the FAQ:
Gameplay is split into seven stages – Microbe, Multicellular, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial and Space.
After watching open source game scene for decades, I'm quite sure Thrive will end up being a good game in "puddle" level, but it will never be more than that.
I totally agree with you. I was just clearing up why people bring up Spore beyond just the first stage being similar.
You're correct. Thrive has been where it is now for like a decade.
Spore made a huge impact, not only in mainstreaming the idea of an evolving game but in the ability to control characteristics and shape interactively and easily. Plus being able to share creations online was huge, even though so many of them ended up in certain shapes (humans being humans). Where I think Spore failed is in trying to rush through the first stages and get to the "civilization" parts. It would have better if it had a slower pace staying within the animal world. They also failed when they dumbed down and sanitizing the original game, which was much more violent (see the demo with Robin Williams)...but that's how nature is.
Thrive is very impressive, but it might be too realistic in its complexity and trying to include everything and that will keep it from getting popular. If I remember you can dial it back some, but it's still very technical compared to the simplicity that made Spore work. Maybe there can't be a good middle ground.
Ummmm pretty sure it was ackchyually Enix’s E.V.O.: Search for Eden that mainstreamed the idea of evolution in video games.
~obviously kidding but EVO is actually a really fun game you should play~
I love EVO!
There's still a lot of people who simply yearn for a more complex spore type game. Spore's first evolution stage was supposed to be quite a bit more complex to what it ended up being too. You can still find some old presentation video of it around on YT but the quality suffered as one of the older YT videos and only has the low res one on offer.
The game is cool but too complicated for me
Cool. I've never heard of this. I tossed the devs a few bucks by picking it up on Steam.
I was thinking the other day about how Spore would benefit from modern hardware. Spore came out when multicore processing for gaming was still relatively new and memory amounts were a handful of gigabytes at most.
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