Spore Sequel Wish-list

[Darth Nick]

if a hypothetical sequel released, what would you guys like in it?

[fauxpas]

It'll never happen given that Spore was a complete failure.

However, if I found myself in an alternate timeline where Spore didn't lose money and a sequel was possible I'd want a game with actual evolution mechanics, but allow you to use divine intervention to nudge things.

[MinionJoe]

Electronic Arts thinks I would want microtransactions in Spore 2, because they've had microtransactions in damn near every game they've published since 2013.

Also, always-online DRM.

[LazerJacky]

Better Story, more archetypes, and re added the things they didn't add in the original release such as fish stage submarines underwater city's ect.

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sad spore 2 will NEVER COME OUT !

[koopy83]

Elysian Eclipse looks promising as a 'spiritual successor'.
https://wauzmons.itch.io/elysian-eclipse

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by koopy83:

Elysian Eclipse looks promising as a 'spiritual successor'.
https://wauzmons.itch.io/elysian-eclipse

Hadn't heard of it before. Thanks!

[The destoyer of worlsd!!!]

I think it would've been appropriate if the game used the same fundamental mechanics from the beginning to the end of a game to a greater degree instead of effectively being a sequence of minigames. The stages are usually only tangentially related aside from stuff like creatures working in basically the same manner in each one. I think that whatever would replace each stage could be refined further instead if that approach was taken

Also, I've never liked how selecting an NPC seems to mess with how the player character moves in the creature stage and Galactic Adventures, like how it sometimes(?) seems to be compelled to fly towards whatever I've selected. The combat system in general could probably use an overhaul; I'm imagining that if the creature stage was controlled basically like a third person shooter instead of using this strange RTS-like approach and allowed for techniques like dodging to a greater degree, it could've been more mechanically interesting

Also, most of the socialization stuff really feels tacked-on. The Simon Says stuff is braindead aside from maybe planning to impress a tribe without having someone try to kick your ass, and it could use either an overhaul or a complete removal. Going for the blue cards (aside from the civilization stage one, which is basically its stage's green card) also feels like it necessitates arbitrarily switching between killing and befriending without necessarily having any rhyme or reason rather than having a strong incentive to befriend more than a handful of creatures without befriending everything you can. Not to mention that aside from in terms of gameplay, it might make a little sense to have a tribe befriend every other, but I sure haven't heard of any animal allying with maybe 20 other species just by proving that it's at least as good at showing off as all of those