This video is the perfect embodiment of the phrase: ''You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless"
I want to point out something VERY funny Spiff glossed over: Allying with the Grox causes _every other empire in the entire galaxy_ to declare war on you, even the empires you haven't met.
Good evening good sir, it appears that you have made a slight error in that comment you have created. See, the quote you have made from a character that I don’t know the name of isn’t correct, it should be, “Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?” I hope you recognise this mistake, and correct it in future, thank you and have a blessed day.
@@ahar1401 You do realize that videos about exploits is pretty much *_all_* he does? How likely do you think it is that he has an entire channel that he's played thousands of hours for, when he hates the respective games?
Cell Stage: Primordial Bin Knife Animal Stage: [the sound of thousands of comments being auto-hidden very rapidly] Tribal Stage: "Are we the baddies?" Civilization Stage: Metal Gear Solid 3: Tea Drinker Space Stage: Totally not the Imperium of Mankind [EDIT] I've just now thought of a joke for Civ stage.
The tribal stage was (to my own personal surprise) my favourite. As for the space phase, what I really wanted to do was become a race of esoteric genetic engineers. Unfortunately I encountered a bug in my game in which using the creature editor on a life-form in the space phase would, upon exiting the editor, cause the planet I was visiting to immediately explode. I mean, free planetary destruction for a civilisation archetype that lacks it, but my dozens of friends and allies would invariably declare war on me and my new and wonderful new life-forms would go extinct in their first minute of existence.
So glad I’m not the only one who loves the tribal stage. That and the civilization stage have always been my favorites, but I feel like everyone seems to hate them for some reason
9:24 Spiff buying the stock images to replace their watermarks with his own was funny enough, but then cutting out a png of the person and leaving those watermarks on is a further step to pure humor
Back in the early 2010s I was super into Spore and completed the game legitimately. I had to max out my stats and badges, but as a result I had a fleet large enough to take on the Grox and destroy their planets on the way to the center of the galaxy. Never got around to using the Staff of Life, I don't remember if that was a later edition or if I missed something about it. Wish they would give Spore a re-release.
By reaching the center of the galaxy, you gain 42 Staves of Life. With it you can terraform a planet entirely instantenously. Then I would use Omatic to give me 99 Staves of Life Permanently.
@@joshuaspath6923 I'll look it up thanks, there's also a smaller game called adapt by slug disco (small indie studio) which is basically a newer version of the game
@@anarchosnowflakist786 hey it's by them? they made empires of the undergrowth, I didn't know they made that too also idk what the other guy said but thrive is a cool spore kinda game being made, specifically the cell stage
My favorite thing to do in the space stage was to visit alien planets and raise the water level up to max, then lower it again. It wipes all the life off and you can take over freely. You get those terraforming abilities before any of the super offensive abilities.
What I used to do a lot was find a pink spice planet and place down a monolith. When that planet eventually gets to the galactic stage, they are immediately allies and you could set up a trade route with them and eventually buy the planet. Being a "Home planet" they were able to have tha max amount of cities like your own planet and they capped their spice super quickly. Lots of cash to be made!
I always thought becoming allies with the Grox was impossible, they always seemed to completely ignore any attempts. Thank you for showing me the true path becoming a vengeful and truly malicious God.
I'm pretty sure you can ally with Grox without genocides. As far as I remember they aren't hostile to you in the beginning so you must take care to never attack them on first contact. Then you just complete their missions and give them stuff
All you get for it is an achievement and literally every other space faring civilization will instantly declare war on you for doing that though, outside of the fact you have to do a bunch of evil stuff and give them a ton of spice
12:57 I always wondered why (as far as I could tell) people seemed to hate the tribal era. I thought it was maybe a bit of an awkward transition from controlling an individual to a society at times, but I always enjoyed it. People not using what I considered to be _one of the primary mechanics_ would explain a lot. Also, I don’t know what’s op about coastal tribes yet, but I always found just having a few of the stronger monsters of other species in your party (such that you domesticate them once you go tribal) was super strong- a strong pet/ally and eggs (and thus food) for days
The basic resource in tribal era is of course food. By having a coastal tribe and fishing rods you can order your tribe to fish. Fish spots, unlike bushes and animals are infinite, and considering your tribals don't need to move around they're working more efficiently, and are never out of position for an enemy attack. On top of that civ stage is easier when you can build boats with your capital.
I don't think a lot of people actually missed the Tribal Editor, it was in the same place as the other editors and the game did a good job of explaining that. I reckon it's just been a while since Spiff played and he forgot it was there. Tribal stage is incredibly easy, just like Civilisation stage but unlike Civilization, it doesn't give you a lot of choices in the editor. I never hated it, it serves as a good stepping stone between the Creature stage and the Civ stage both in terms of pacing and the complexity curve. Being a game for kids, it's important not to throw too many new concepts out at once and they nailed that. You could also usually just rush through it fairly quickly if you didn't enjoy it so it wasn't much of a bother. Coastal tribes can fish, I'm pretty sure that's what Spiff is talking about. It's not really hard to get food at this stage though so it's a pretty minor advantage. Personally, I always enjoyed Tribal stage more than Creature stage since you start to get some storytelling and create an identity for your species. It's sort of disappointing how all of the evolving you do in Creature stage doesn't seem to give you any advantage in the later stages, and I think some people hold that against Tribal stage. I've always scored that as a point against the Creature stage, but I think if you got rid of any of the stages the game would feel incomplete.
@@SineN0mine3 the creature stage abilities do carry over to tribal and space. The combat ones at least. I remember watching my tribals charge and spit in combat. It was also one of favorite pass times to drop some of my side citizens on a tribal planet and watch them fight. You can also use your natural abilities in the adventure dlc if you didn't replace them with tech.
@@SineN0mine3 Oh the creature stage abilities absolutely carry over to the later stages (not civilization though, but they do carry over to Tribal, and also Space if you have the Galactic Adventures DLC). This was really noticeable for me because I had a creature with the maximum possible value in every stat (only possible using the asymmetry feature from the Creepy and Cute Parts DLC), and in Tribal Stage my species was ridiculously strong, and also had max movement speed, max sprint, jump height, and glide distance, meaning I could traverse the map way quicker than any other tribe, not to mention being able to attack at long range without the use of spears via poison spit. And in Space Stage, I was able to just surpass almost any obstacle, since I could jump over most things and was also just completely undetectable while sneaking unless I attacked, no matter how close I was to enemy creatures. And my attack stats were so high that I was able to complete combat missions intended to only be completable using the Galactic Adventures captain upgrades, without having any of those upgrades. Oh, and the social stats carry over too, I could automatically succeed at any social interaction.
I remember as a tween spending months curating the perfect specimen in spore. Then grudgingly campaigned against the grox just to get to the center of a Tootsie pop. Only to now witness a true master at play lol.
@@Whobgobblin Speedrunning to the center is actually kinda easy. If you stay as a military species, your ship will have enhanced HP and energy. Just buy a few recharges and some repair kits and once you get access to like 2 of the upgrades for your travel distance, you can just click your way to the end. Doing it the intended way is the hardest part. You were meant to have several planets and several different types of spices generating income for the empire and you were supposed to do a bunch of other things, but why bother when you can just click to the end.
Congrats Spiff, you have literally manifested an entire civilisation into the meme of "I am going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found."
This brings me memories of that one time I tried to befriend and then destroy the Grox in the same run, mostly exploiting the fact the Staff of Life is basically a reusable instant planet buster agains the Grox (they can only really live in worlds that are uninhabitable). It was a horrible grind that took multiple weeks. Would not recommend it. Stopped playing Spore afterwards cause it really felt like I did everything
You have far more commitment then me to destroy them. Fun fact though, if you did fully destroy them before you stopped playing, any future games you end up making would not have the Grox.
@@zacky1010 I think it is only 42 blasts, but it was 42 Grox planets down. What I remember I did was like spiral around a solar system close to the core and got rid of the Grox there to create a pocket free from them and then exploded the rest the old fashioned way
I want to point out that in the animal stage, if you gather different species then progress, you'll start with pets in the tribe stage. You can start with the max pets immediately
@@tentaclesmod actually they don't revive if they die, they revive with you when you die. So it's best to gather 3 rogue creatures (that 250 HP is god tier even in tribal stage)
I loved when Spore said "It's Sporin' time" and Spore'd genocide all around the galaxy. Truly one of the moments in gaming history ever. When we and my friends watched this cinematic experience, we stood up and clapped at the masterpiece.
I beat Spore once ages ago. I took the full military route. God was it painful. I got planet destroying weapon and auto guns that would shoot enemies attacking me while travelling. I went into every single Grox planet between me and the core and dropped the planet killer on them. It took ages and was not rewarding at all.
Honestly surprised you didn't start a campaign of climate warfare, terraforming Grox planets to destroy their colonies then claiming them for your own.
I've played Spore off and on for years and always lose interest at the space age stage... and here you are beating the entire game AND making it extremely entertaining all thr while. You magnificent bastard you've done it! Well played old boy. Job well done!
Personally I find the Cell Stage and the Creature Stage the most enjoyable while the Tribal Stage the least so my interest in the Spore almost always died with the Tribal Stage, either right in the beginning of it or soon after
I loved the space stage when I was younger. It was my favorite stage. Problem now is that the only genuinely fun part of it is declaring war on everyone and bombing the shit out of their cities, but it takes HOURS to get enough money and firepower to stand a chance to do that.
I remember doing a religion run the first time and exploiting it in the same way. First run I ended up getting the "Rolling Thunder" Achievement and asking myself "Isn't that how you're supposed to do it?" I finished it in like under 20 minutes
@@AstralArbourSys Hard difficulty is actual hell, especially if you're trying to do a more advanced route, civilization stage specifically is the WORST, as most of the time you end up getting stuck because some other civilization took the one city you were going to take, and has already gotten like 4 cities on the one island you were on.
Your creature was really good at penetrating enemy defenses. Even the most un-impregnable fortresses couldn't hold up to the true power of your creature.
I'm definitely the odd one out, maybe because I dressed my tribe, but I really liked the tribal stage. The creature stage was the one that I usually got annoyed with, just because I'd constantly miss where my group was migrating to.
I always go back to this game from time to time. It's a riot. Will Wright's last masterpiece. If not for EA it could have been his greatest masterpiece. Played this game many times in different ways but I did not know about the save/cooldown reset. Probably because even on hard, it's still easy to be whatever you want if you know what you are doing.
@@cc0767 never mind the remaster, just bring on the sequel! Imagine how much more depth you could add to each stage with a bit of creativity. As much fun as I've had playing this game, each stage revolves entirely around either being peaceful or aggressive or in between. It'd be cool to see a game take on these concepts but also encourage different ways of completing each stage beyond specialising for one of three categories. Building on the parts the first game had, I can imagine a refined creature creator and building/vehicle designer as well as a bit of variety in the gameplay of the stages could make for a really popular and fun game. After seeing what EA did to the Sims and Sim City, it might be a pipe dream especially considering the scope of this concept but it seems a bit crazy not to try at least!
@@SineN0mine3 honestly i like this; For the cell and creature stage, more body parts to choose from, and a flight system instead of just a gliding system could be fun to diversify the choices. For the tribal stag, more war tactics than just "point and attack" could be interesting, things like unique weapon building, defense building, etc. And for the social side adding other forms of creativity. (Idk what specifically could be added but ye) For civilization stage, attacking other nations giving better upgrades for your vehicles, or building r&d buildings to develop them at a slower rate. I actually quite like the balancing act the civilization stage makes you juggle. As for the space stage, its a shame that we're stuck in just our ships, i think having moments where you can land on planets and take over capitals by hand, or being able to build space stations with allies that you can walk around in and design, building farms inside of it and expanding it. Idk, a lot of stuff could be done to change the game in a major way
If I understand correctly, the "reload the game to remove consequence trait cooldowns" glitch actually happens in part because when you load the save, the game automatically removes all archetype tools that you are not supposed to have. So I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually programmed to remove all archetype tools and then give back the ones you actually should have, judging by the cooldowns being gone.
wait so your telling me they thought about something really obvious that could happen and made a measure to prevent it? they don't account for 99.99999% of pretty clear things that could happen which they don't want but they account for that? well at least it resets the cooldowns
The first time I beat Spore was by doing exactly this, getting Zealot and befriending the Grox. Although, it was not the plan from the start, I kinda just improvised as I went along. Also, I didn't know about the cooldown reset, I would literally wait for it to reset everytime lmao
I loved seeing Steve again, as a kid I was both confused and unimaginably amused that my literal months of game play (I did not ally the Grox) led to the center of the Galaxy holding.....a flying saucer with a speaker named Steve.
I mean, can you imagine, if in the center of our galaxy, was not saucer, but to make it different, for example, pyramid, or just a ball, that would be named Yohoo. And the humanity, would reach it in like year 5000, he would be like. Hm, nice job. I've alone for a long time. However, heres this strange thingy. What does it do you ask? Don't know, don't care. Byeeeee 😂
@@hollystepp3735 I'm not from English speaking country. So, being completely drunk and speaking/writing in English, is fuckin hard 😂 plus I speak with 3/4 languages and I'm learning 2 others... It's hard 😂
It's not much of an exploit, but If You start the cell stage with the cell that has 3 eyes, it counts as if you have 2 sets of eyes. Then you can sell one to start off with a little bit of extra Chernobyl points.
I remember stumbling upon this exploit as a kid, from what I remember the "broke galactic code" modifier with the Grox stacked, and they didn't mind you stealing their planets - so you could just literally steal their planets until they were willing to ally you.
the space age expansion added more content than there is in the base game, but it is very repetitive and not very interesting. Even NMS did space better
Yeah. Not helped by how the Galactic Adventures expansion can be easily played and enjoyed without ever touching the regular game. Maybe it'd be more fun if it was something closer to what Stellaris offers, but that's a full game in its own right.
My greatest spore empire owned multiple entire arms of the galaxy, I had completly exterminated the Grox, and I would start new games and conquer large swaths of Stars so I could go in with my main empire and take it all. Great game.
@@MadnessIncVP i have heard that exact line of "more like under new management" before which may theoretically be related but not impossible it's a coincidence
Fun fact: if you use the power of zealots on Grox's planet they'll actually love you slightly more not caring about the conquer of their world. (Just don't shoot directly at cities or vehicles)
Spore is one of those games that is just burned into my brain. Ever since I played spore for the first time as a child I have to play it at least once a year, usually around summer or Christmas. Its been like this for over 10 years, and I will probably keep doing this into my elderly days. Spore is love spore is life
I remember being genuinely underwhelmed at the end of spore... after a mad dash through the grox I was given a stick to terreform a planet... something I'd been having fun balancing on my own the whole time. Oh well. Glad to see you step back to this one spiff. Cheers!
I reckon after you win, your species should get the ability to travel to create a new cell stage creature and send it to a new galaxy. That or get a second galaxy to travel to and play on in space stage.
As someone who has played Spore WAY too much, A: You damn well better use the tribal outfitter if you're playing on hard. Tribal on hard is actually insanely difficult. B: I finally beat it a couple years ago. Made me feel quite good about myself, considering I've been playing the game for way longer :3
not sure where he's getting that "nobody uses the outfits in the tribal stage" stuff from. that's like, the only way you can continue to customize your creatures, and also sets up what you're gonna look like in the next phase. Not like you just suddenly decide to stop customizing and changing your creatures just cause you hit tribal stage. Almost like saying "i bet nobody out there knows you can make your own structures!" ....lol
Ngl, I find tribal hard mode to be far easier than civilization stage hard mode, but that might be because I oftenly use 5 tribe members for gifts,(1 For each hostile tribe.) so, the chances of an invasion even happening is staggeringly low.
you have become my favorite youtuber over the past 5 days bud, started with skyrim hunters challenge, then 100 day survival skyrim challenge, now I'm here. Love the content man its so damn enjoyable!!!
I was wonderin at first why youtube kept mentionin this vid was also watched by ppl who sub to RCE xD Yeah, once he got to creature stage it became clear why heh
Made it to space many times, but had no clue how to make it to the center of the galaxy. Being a friendly species though, from land animal up, perhaps I missed something in training. I saw the Grok and ran. Yep, every time. Thanks for the tip!
I think Spiff's content is so great because of the way he talks. You click the video knowing that there will be crazy exploits, and then you hear that voice. He talks as if he knows something you don't, and you cannot miss your chance to find out what it is. So you must watch until you figure it out, and boy is it worth it.
I'll never forget the predator playthrough I did where I maxed out my evolution points and wiped out every nest before advancing to the tribal stage. Then I had to lay down my weapons for exactly one stage because I couldn't out-mirco my own species: tiny, invisible, flying, armored arachnids that could cross the map inside of twenty seconds.
Oh, I used the outfit editor in tribe stage every time. In fact, you unlock more powerful clothing as you deal with more and more tribes. Usually I'm more focused on whittling away at the grox empire than going to the center of the galaxy, though I have been a couple times. In civ stage there are goody huts scattered around that you can use your land vehicles to investigate. You can get either some extra cash or even a free vehicle, even of a kind (military, economic, religious) that you don't have the ability to produce yet. Easiest way to spot them is to check the "sector borders". If a tribe is in the same sector as a spice geyser or another tribe, it's a goody hut. If it's the only tribal village in a sector, it's going to evolve into a city at some point. Investigating those will cause the inhabitants to deal 50% damage to your vehicle. You can actually have up to 3 superpowers in the space stage thanks to the Galactic Adventures expansion. The first one comes from whatever archetype your space empire is. The other two you can get by earning all 4 pieces of equipment that matches that empire type on your captain. Getting one additional superpower this way is easy. Just fly around and do missions for each of the different types of empires until they give you one where the accept prompt is something like "That sounds like an Adventure, I'm in". Fly to the planet, do the adventure, easy 100 xp for your captain; and, that mission will now be available from the quickplay menu so you can skip the flying around part for future captains. There's 8 you can unlock, plus "becoming a captain" that your home empire will give you, and "Adventure Town" in the quickplay menu. Do any 9 of those 10 and that's more than enough xp to get to level 4, just enough for an additional superpower. Getting to level 8 for the second potential superpower unlock is going to take a LONG time grinding either a lot of difficult missions or an absolute ton of easy, crappy, 5xp shit-tier missions. All 10 of those base Maxis missions can even be beaten by a lv0 Mega Chad that hasn't evolved since the beginning of the cell stage. How? Because stealth is *hilariously* overpowered in Adventures and is given by the flagella part that all cells start with.
Dressing your citizens in the Tribal stage is so powerful for no reason. I've been doing it for years. As for beating the game? I've met Steve a few times. The booming voice that just turns into a squeak is probably the best part of that whole cutscene.
The original creators have been working on a new game, without Maxis/EA this time. They're still working on the first phase though, so it'll take a while before it'll be finished. It's called 'Thrive', available in early access on Steam.
You should know that you don't have to go from Creature to Tribal stage the moment you are able. You can always just... not click the button until you're ready. And I should tell you that I have always made extensive use of the clothing editors you get in later stages. It's useless but fun in Civilization and Space, but it's indeed very helpful in Tribal.
@@hatman44 problem is EA got in the way of Will Wright and Maxis and then blamed them for the game's failure. Since they own the IP no one can make a game remotely similar without getting sued. Instead EA made DarkSpore, and promptly shut down the servers, and some of the morphing technology from Spore went into Sims 2
Every time I remember Spore, I remember making the perfect creature… it had all maxed-out stats, it had wings, and it was an omnivore. But then, it became one of those giant beasts in my other playthroughs, and it always absolutely DESTROYED any other civilization. Oh the Galaxia, you were the perfect killing machine, I dreaded meeting you every playthrough. It's actually the reason I stopped playing, bc I could never survive long enough without becoming a deathloop
even missing some, like how you can just not accept transmissions that you know ate declarations of war and avoid going to war at inconvenient times lol
I knew long ago Zealous's special ability is op, but I didn't knew about the save file reloading to reset the cooldown, this information will be quite useful for a little "friendly" converting.
Not only have I completed it numerous times, I will ALWAYS use the designer function in Tribal stage. It is way too useful to not use. I find the tribal stage to be fun as well, and a nice challenge, due to needing to feed my people, while also doing whatever I do with befriending or killing the other tribes. Zealot is also one of my favorite paths, due to allying with Grox being made easier.
I'm sure most people used the Tribal Stage editor, although I don't think many people made stuff for the gallery since it was almost the same as the clothing editor in Civilization stage but with fewer options. If you wanted to make something just for fun, you tended to use the Space stage editor just in case you needed those parts. The game is quite insistent tutorial wise I think Spiff probably just forgot about it. I enjoyed the Tribal stage but I remember it was pretty easy to beat quickly and you didn't have to bother much with upgrading your outfit as you progressed. As long as you had enough guys and the right combination of weapons or instruments you were pretty sure to win. Compared to the Creature stage, I feel like the Tribal stage is when your species starts to shape its identity. Not as much fun as the later stages but a good stepping stone to introduce the concepts.
I had already seen some Spore videos before this, including yours and other challenges or presentation of the game and even played it myself including the Space stage, but it's the first time in my life that I've seen the ending. Just for that, thank you Spiff! And a great video overall!
I remember beating spore once... I allied with the grox and dropped a teraform on one of their planets. Turns out it also kills everyone on the planet you use it on as well
I loved dressing my Spore creations in tribal! I think you underestimated how much I played this game in college in order to avoid homework. This and Sims 3 kept me sane!
Damn, after so long playing spore through my childhood, i just kinda...assumed it didnt HAVE an ending like this! I never realize spore had an end cause i never went super hardcore against all other species, so i never got to be buddy buddy with the Grox. I just kept out of their way, sometimes blowing up their whole race on a planet or two, i just played it like a sandbox without realizing i had a path to turn it even more sandboxy!
You don't need to ally the Grox to get to the core, it's just the easiest way. You can also get a really well-equipped ship and blitz through their territory, recharging or repairing with items as needed. Another, more time consuming way, is to conquer forwards; you travel towards the core star by star, eliminating the Grox presence along the way so you have an avenue of retreat. I've even heard of particularly insane players who've taken on the task of entirely eliminating the Grox from the galaxy.
@@lemax6865 From what I have heard, eliminating them is actually impossible without some hack. It is because sometimes the game messes up and groxs may spawn at the gas giants (which can't be entered).
@@lemax6865 My favorite way to eliminate Grox was discovered accidentally, I was fucking around with atmosphere gadgets while having maxed out energy, and several colonies in spare. So when I entered their territory, I accidentally out of panic started blasting maxed out the generator, raising the planet's level to T1, and got a notification that Grox died on the planet because the atmosphere, and conditions, aka T-levels, fucked them greatly. I was like: "OH! OH! Welcome, everyone to the one and alloucaust! And today we are going to violate new conventions!" as I started blasting my way through their planets and whipping them out. Sadly, money is pretty hard to get, so I resorted to cheating, but damn, I enjoyed genocide based on atmosphere, and the best thing was, I was always green during my evolutionary stages and had a ticket to get to my home planet in most dire needs during attacks. But I would spend 10 hours fucking Grox so much, that I wiped out two galaxy branches where they resided.
I swear, you have kept my interest in Spore alive and seeing you run this game all the way to the end was amazing and the tricks you used were phenomenal! Though I must say, given your interest in economy-style games and games like this, have you thought about diving into Endless Space 1 or 2? I know you did a video or two with Endless Legend, but I'd love to see your take on the Endless Space franchise. I know for a fact that there are a ton of potential "features" to exploit and find silly things to dive into, but I'd be curious to learn which one you focused on first. Gotta spread tea across the universe after all!
I love how this video came out 15 mins ago, and already people in the comments are pretending they watched the whole thing... So I will too... Keep up the good work Spiffing Brit! Amazing video!
The space stage was my favorite, so Ive beaten it quite a few times. There is another exploit where if you dont wait for your ship to arrive at a star and move on before that, the grox wont attack you at all(because technically you never entered their systems)
I really wished that the game had been as impressive as they waxed on about but I still have had great fun with it over the years lol I think.. i Won once, seem to remember just a stupid mad dash through the Grox and getting the staff lol
@@5up3rm4nMy3r5 Thanks for pointing it out lol. Classic case of my brain auto filling a word where my hands didn't :P I'll keep it in there so you don't look a lunatic in the reply ;)
I've beaten spore twice but never like this🤣🤣🤣🤣 I used the wormholes to get closer and then just flew right through the grox systems taking on waaaay too much damage😅😅 Also, I've managed to find our solar system (Sol)
For me, I put my tribe near the sea not because of endless fish, but rather because if you don't, you will not get easy access to any ocean spice geysers in civilization stage. If you don't claim them asap, you won't get them by peaceful means anytime soon... Side note, the Eggs in tribal stage is more op than fish. Domesticate three creatures for max production, and there doesn't seem to be a cap for how many eggs the box can hold. I spent five minutes just having my tribe collect eggs. An additional side note, if you want to open the timeline to check your archetype progress but don't want to go the next stage, press the T key. I discovered this by accident and have used it ever since. Have fun and don't forget to save your game at the end of each stage.
I played Spore a bunch back in the day but never made it past the tribal stage, and sure didn't give them clothing! Awesome to see you beat the game Spiff so I could see Steve!
Technically have beaten Spore before. Found a wormhole that took me pretty close to the core, but straight in the middle of Grox territory. Couldn’t do the 1 mission they offered me because I had to go through their territory and they started blasting. Eventually had to cut a swath through the Grox until I could make a mad dash to the center. So I just need to find Earth and kill the Grox.
I remember Spore. I played friendly all the way through, got to the space stage and was immediately destroyed by an aggressive race. The game then respawned me with no resources just in time for the same race to destroy me again, and again. It was fun up until then. :/
*oh my where did all the different native alien species go... They must have just disappeared. No warcrimes detected at all!*
ohno
They must have went on holiday to Bolivia
Man only in Ohio 💀
Average British colonist
No species must mean no warcrimes. No harm done here.
This video is the perfect embodiment of the phrase: ''You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless"
Brilliant
Bro is spitting facts
yes
Damn, these are the realest and rawest lines.
put some respect on my man jordan peterson
I want to point out something VERY funny Spiff glossed over: Allying with the Grox causes _every other empire in the entire galaxy_ to declare war on you, even the empires you haven't met.
Lol, I did this once. The Grox still attacks you too, despite your standing with them. Spore was fun.
@@newguy3588 wait WHAT
@@newguy3588 dude I restarted my playthrough cause I thought it was a glitch 😢
@@I-like-cows LOL
I remember never managed to ally with them regardless of being full peaceful etc.
Nightmare x)
This man is single-handedly keeping the stock images industry alive.
Him and "I Go By A Lot Of Names" are doing god's work
@@callmesilver2683 and martincitopants
Well...he's not buying any of them since we can see the watermarks so i'd say he's just giving the middle finger to them
@@fleivor5359 check out what the watermarks say, he’s a dastardly one
*Sketch appears*
The consumer of tea is unironically the coolest looking space ship i've seen in a spore video
If you haven’t seen terasHD’s spore series, he actually makes his creations look really good, so I’d say spiff is second place
It looks.... Vorlon, which terrifies me even more.
@@big924 Thanks for mentioning Terashd I love watching his videos
But he didn't create that ship, he took It from the sporopedia 👁️👄👁️
@@bpotatopataton8872 nobody said he created it.
Angry alien: "You broke the convention!"
Spiff: "Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down"
Good evening good sir, it appears that you have made a slight error in that comment you have created. See, the quote you have made from a character that I don’t know the name of isn’t correct, it should be, “Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?”
I hope you recognise this mistake, and correct it in future, thank you and have a blessed day.
@bruh only one huh, guess we have to work harder
@@MawDaws I am of the opinion that your critique is rather shallow and pedantic.
@@StephenDelRosario777 I'm of the opinion, that while shallow, the minor distinctions matter
@@MawDaws your mom
Spore was so fun. Just about the time you got bored at a stage - boom - you've evolved and have a entire new game loop to explore and enjoy.
IKR it's really too bad the uploader hates the game so much that he only uploads exploits...
@@ahar1401 You do realize that videos about exploits is pretty much *_all_* he does? How likely do you think it is that he has an entire channel that he's played thousands of hours for, when he hates the respective games?
@@ahar1401are you really on here looking for straight up vanilla spore play throughs
@@ahar1401 You clearly don't understand his content if you think he hates any of the games he plays
Spore was my childhood, glad to see you coming around to break it
Tis truly a wonderful game to experience! Who knew the devs decided to make the cooldown on warcrimes simply optional
This men is gonne get at list a 1000 likes on this comment
let's be fair, it wasn't a game that was that hard to break
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Same, the best childhood game
Cell Stage: Primordial Bin Knife
Animal Stage: [the sound of thousands of comments being auto-hidden very rapidly]
Tribal Stage: "Are we the baddies?"
Civilization Stage: Metal Gear Solid 3: Tea Drinker
Space Stage: Totally not the Imperium of Mankind
[EDIT] I've just now thought of a joke for Civ stage.
So that's why I haven't seen any comments about the animal stage.
Civilization stage: sleep
@@runequaza222 No. Civilization Stage: Hi! Oh, nevermind, just more me.
City stage:CIV 1 Beata Version
Imperium of Teakind*
The tribal stage was (to my own personal surprise) my favourite. As for the space phase, what I really wanted to do was become a race of esoteric genetic engineers. Unfortunately I encountered a bug in my game in which using the creature editor on a life-form in the space phase would, upon exiting the editor, cause the planet I was visiting to immediately explode. I mean, free planetary destruction for a civilisation archetype that lacks it, but my dozens of friends and allies would invariably declare war on me and my new and wonderful new life-forms would go extinct in their first minute of existence.
So glad I’m not the only one who loves the tribal stage. That and the civilization stage have always been my favorites, but I feel like everyone seems to hate them for some reason
Just like qu from all tomorrows
maybe you shouldn't have stuffed so many explosives into the animals you were modifying. just a thought.
Genetic instability on fleek
@@CosmoTheCosmicCat Yeah same here. Space stage was incredibly boring, I would have liked more of the tribal and creature stage.
Can’t believe that it turns from a survival game to a space management game like stellaris.
Truly ahead of it's time
@@MultiSciGeek Oh man, it's easy to forget just how old Spore actually is..
Yeah, if it was a better game it would have been revolutionary. Its like 7 different genres put into one game.
@@BurningFyre if it was better? It's a great game already dude
@@diablotry5154 lmao
9:24 Spiff buying the stock images to replace their watermarks with his own was funny enough, but then cutting out a png of the person and leaving those watermarks on is a further step to pure humor
When I saw that. I knew something special was coming up. 😂
Back in the early 2010s I was super into Spore and completed the game legitimately. I had to max out my stats and badges, but as a result I had a fleet large enough to take on the Grox and destroy their planets on the way to the center of the galaxy.
Never got around to using the Staff of Life, I don't remember if that was a later edition or if I missed something about it.
Wish they would give Spore a re-release.
By reaching the center of the galaxy, you gain 42 Staves of Life.
With it you can terraform a planet entirely instantenously.
Then I would use Omatic to give me 99 Staves of Life Permanently.
@@utubefuku7132 I got the staff of life but never used it because "it's so rare, you can't get any more of it !" so I kept terraforming manually
@@utubefuku7132 What is Omatic?
@@joshuaspath6923 I'll look it up thanks, there's also a smaller game called adapt by slug disco (small indie studio) which is basically a newer version of the game
@@anarchosnowflakist786 hey it's by them? they made empires of the undergrowth, I didn't know they made that too
also idk what the other guy said but thrive is a cool spore kinda game being made, specifically the cell stage
My favorite thing to do in the space stage was to visit alien planets and raise the water level up to max, then lower it again. It wipes all the life off and you can take over freely. You get those terraforming abilities before any of the super offensive abilities.
-Old Testament God
Yeah, but then you lose all the cities, if it’s a capital you can’t normally get that many
What I used to do a lot was find a pink spice planet and place down a monolith. When that planet eventually gets to the galactic stage, they are immediately allies and you could set up a trade route with them and eventually buy the planet. Being a "Home planet" they were able to have tha max amount of cities like your own planet and they capped their spice super quickly. Lots of cash to be made!
Smart. I used to just destroy the atmosphere, what a fool I have been
I always burned off the atmosphere and kept a T3 planets worth of species in my inventory... Why fight a bunch of colonies when you can fight one?
I always thought becoming allies with the Grox was impossible, they always seemed to completely ignore any attempts. Thank you for showing me the true path becoming a vengeful and truly malicious God.
I'm pretty sure you can ally with Grox without genocides.
As far as I remember they aren't hostile to you in the beginning so you must take care to never attack them on first contact.
Then you just complete their missions and give them stuff
@@maxhax367 they are instantly aggresive
All you get for it is an achievement and literally every other space faring civilization will instantly declare war on you for doing that though, outside of the fact you have to do a bunch of evil stuff and give them a ton of spice
@@otacogaming Agressive yes but Grox don't hate you at start. They only hate you if you attack them. So you have much easier way to get them to ally
@@ericlamb4501 worth it.
Him: you guys probably hate the tribal part
Me in my mind: the 2nd stage and the tribal stage are my 2 fav stages
12:57 I always wondered why (as far as I could tell) people seemed to hate the tribal era. I thought it was maybe a bit of an awkward transition from controlling an individual to a society at times, but I always enjoyed it. People not using what I considered to be _one of the primary mechanics_ would explain a lot. Also, I don’t know what’s op about coastal tribes yet, but I always found just having a few of the stronger monsters of other species in your party (such that you domesticate them once you go tribal) was super strong- a strong pet/ally and eggs (and thus food) for days
The basic resource in tribal era is of course food. By having a coastal tribe and fishing rods you can order your tribe to fish. Fish spots, unlike bushes and animals are infinite, and considering your tribals don't need to move around they're working more efficiently, and are never out of position for an enemy attack. On top of that civ stage is easier when you can build boats with your capital.
I don't think a lot of people actually missed the Tribal Editor, it was in the same place as the other editors and the game did a good job of explaining that.
I reckon it's just been a while since Spiff played and he forgot it was there. Tribal stage is incredibly easy, just like Civilisation stage but unlike Civilization, it doesn't give you a lot of choices in the editor.
I never hated it, it serves as a good stepping stone between the Creature stage and the Civ stage both in terms of pacing and the complexity curve. Being a game for kids, it's important not to throw too many new concepts out at once and they nailed that.
You could also usually just rush through it fairly quickly if you didn't enjoy it so it wasn't much of a bother.
Coastal tribes can fish, I'm pretty sure that's what Spiff is talking about. It's not really hard to get food at this stage though so it's a pretty minor advantage.
Personally, I always enjoyed Tribal stage more than Creature stage since you start to get some storytelling and create an identity for your species.
It's sort of disappointing how all of the evolving you do in Creature stage doesn't seem to give you any advantage in the later stages, and I think some people hold that against Tribal stage. I've always scored that as a point against the Creature stage, but I think if you got rid of any of the stages the game would feel incomplete.
@@SineN0mine3 the creature stage abilities do carry over to tribal and space. The combat ones at least. I remember watching my tribals charge and spit in combat. It was also one of favorite pass times to drop some of my side citizens on a tribal planet and watch them fight. You can also use your natural abilities in the adventure dlc if you didn't replace them with tech.
@@SineN0mine3 Oh the creature stage abilities absolutely carry over to the later stages (not civilization though, but they do carry over to Tribal, and also Space if you have the Galactic Adventures DLC). This was really noticeable for me because I had a creature with the maximum possible value in every stat (only possible using the asymmetry feature from the Creepy and Cute Parts DLC), and in Tribal Stage my species was ridiculously strong, and also had max movement speed, max sprint, jump height, and glide distance, meaning I could traverse the map way quicker than any other tribe, not to mention being able to attack at long range without the use of spears via poison spit. And in Space Stage, I was able to just surpass almost any obstacle, since I could jump over most things and was also just completely undetectable while sneaking unless I attacked, no matter how close I was to enemy creatures. And my attack stats were so high that I was able to complete combat missions intended to only be completable using the Galactic Adventures captain upgrades, without having any of those upgrades. Oh, and the social stats carry over too, I could automatically succeed at any social interaction.
The pathing is bad in tribal, so you have to micromanage “automatic tasks” like putting food away and eating
I remember as a tween spending months curating the perfect specimen in spore. Then grudgingly campaigned against the grox just to get to the center of a Tootsie pop. Only to now witness a true master at play lol.
How many licks did it take??
@@springtraps_grin Enough to write a lil peep song.
Use Omatic to set your "Staff of Life" permanently at 99, allowing you to instantly terraform all planets in the galaxy forever
I played this sooooooo much as a kid and I still have never gotten to the center of the galaxy without cheats
@@Whobgobblin Speedrunning to the center is actually kinda easy. If you stay as a military species, your ship will have enhanced HP and energy. Just buy a few recharges and some repair kits and once you get access to like 2 of the upgrades for your travel distance, you can just click your way to the end. Doing it the intended way is the hardest part. You were meant to have several planets and several different types of spices generating income for the empire and you were supposed to do a bunch of other things, but why bother when you can just click to the end.
I only finished Spore once, despite playing it hundreds of times, the space stage is a real grind.
I’ve never beaten it (getting 44)
Always wished you could just start from space stage without having to do the other four for a race with all the traits you wanted
Congrats Spiff, you have literally manifested an entire civilisation into the meme of "I am going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found."
That gun being the Grox lmao
@@datademongaming1460 or the "bomb" part of "friendship bomb"
This brings me memories of that one time I tried to befriend and then destroy the Grox in the same run, mostly exploiting the fact the Staff of Life is basically a reusable instant planet buster agains the Grox (they can only really live in worlds that are uninhabitable).
It was a horrible grind that took multiple weeks. Would not recommend it. Stopped playing Spore afterwards cause it really felt like I did everything
You have far more commitment then me to destroy them. Fun fact though, if you did fully destroy them before you stopped playing, any future games you end up making would not have the Grox.
You can recharge it? I always thought you got 42 shots and that was it.
@@zacky1010 I think it is only 42 blasts, but it was 42 Grox planets down. What I remember I did was like spiral around a solar system close to the core and got rid of the Grox there to create a pocket free from them and then exploded the rest the old fashioned way
As a Fellow Tea Drinker I can confirm both Grimsby and Skegness are "biological Deadends". Had me howling.
Dont forget scunthorpe
Birmingham
@@DigBick1337- Rotherham aswell
Yeah, once you evolve Buttlins, it's all over.
Hull.
I want to point out that in the animal stage, if you gather different species then progress, you'll start with pets in the tribe stage. You can start with the max pets immediately
How do you gather other species?
@@jedbex7070 Whenever you befriend a species, you can invite them to join your pack. They even revive with you if you all get killed.
@@tentaclesmod actually they don't revive if they die, they revive with you when you die. So it's best to gather 3 rogue creatures (that 250 HP is god tier even in tribal stage)
@@damienmcgirl3577 right. It's been a while since I last played Spore.
as a challenge i like to try to gather the rogues and have them as my bodygaurds/pets in the next stage
"Spore is a game."
Had me on the edge of my seat.
Truly, one of the games ever made
I loved when Spore said "It's Sporin' time" and Spore'd genocide all around the galaxy. Truly one of the moments in gaming history ever. When we and my friends watched this cinematic experience, we stood up and clapped at the masterpiece.
I beat Spore once ages ago. I took the full military route. God was it painful. I got planet destroying weapon and auto guns that would shoot enemies attacking me while travelling. I went into every single Grox planet between me and the core and dropped the planet killer on them. It took ages and was not rewarding at all.
Honestly surprised you didn't start a campaign of climate warfare, terraforming Grox planets to destroy their colonies then claiming them for your own.
EXTERMATUS, lol!
@@marystone860Suffer not the xenos.
Indeed, all that work to get to the center of the galaxy and your reward is... well, keep doing the exact same thing as before, just faster,
I've played Spore off and on for years and always lose interest at the space age stage... and here you are beating the entire game AND making it extremely entertaining all thr while. You magnificent bastard you've done it! Well played old boy. Job well done!
Personally I find the Cell Stage and the Creature Stage the most enjoyable while the Tribal Stage the least so my interest in the Spore almost always died with the Tribal Stage, either right in the beginning of it or soon after
I loved the space stage when I was younger. It was my favorite stage.
Problem now is that the only genuinely fun part of it is declaring war on everyone and bombing the shit out of their cities, but it takes HOURS to get enough money and firepower to stand a chance to do that.
@@HateshWarkio it's over in like ten minutes. I can't dislike it because I baerly get to play it.
From best to worst:
Civ
Space
Cell
Tribal
Creature
I remember doing a religion run the first time and exploiting it in the same way.
First run I ended up getting the "Rolling Thunder" Achievement and asking myself "Isn't that how you're supposed to do it?"
I finished it in like under 20 minutes
What does rolling thunder do?
@@personman2346 It’s an achievement for beating the civ stage MUCH faster than was intended.
Yeah I got that one nearly every time too, granted I've never played on hard difficulty so maybe it's based on that? Lol
@@AstralArbourSys Hard difficulty is actual hell, especially if you're trying to do a more advanced route, civilization stage specifically is the WORST, as most of the time you end up getting stuck because some other civilization took the one city you were going to take, and has already gotten like 4 cities on the one island you were on.
Your creature was really good at penetrating enemy defenses. Even the most un-impregnable fortresses couldn't hold up to the true power of your creature.
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There is always an easy spot to exploit
@@ernestomotta5178 sometimes the best spots is right from the underside
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I remember skipping school and spending 12hrs in a LAN shop when I was a kid playing Spore. Good times
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I feel really young when people mention things like these, I'm only 14 so I am young but I still played spore when I was like 10
@@spacefishaviation276 spore released in 2008, so around about the same time you did, lol
@@Shoefae I was thinking the same thing
is a lan shop what I know as a Cybercafé?
I'm definitely the odd one out, maybe because I dressed my tribe, but I really liked the tribal stage. The creature stage was the one that I usually got annoyed with, just because I'd constantly miss where my group was migrating to.
I thought dressing your tribal, civil, and space age peeps was part of the game? Were we the odd ones out for using it?
Dressing your tribe up is part of the game though. Who wouldn't do it.
Have always dressed my guys in all my playthroughs. Didn't know that this is weird.
im the same
I have had the exact same experience as the original comment here
I always go back to this game from time to time. It's a riot. Will Wright's last masterpiece. If not for EA it could have been his greatest masterpiece. Played this game many times in different ways but I did not know about the save/cooldown reset. Probably because even on hard, it's still easy to be whatever you want if you know what you are doing.
The fact spore is still fun to watch and play after so long is kinda crazy
It has near infinite potential when it comes to replayability
This is peak gaming
spore is amazing, I wish there was a remaster but honestly the original is good enough
@@cc0767 never mind the remaster, just bring on the sequel! Imagine how much more depth you could add to each stage with a bit of creativity.
As much fun as I've had playing this game, each stage revolves entirely around either being peaceful or aggressive or in between. It'd be cool to see a game take on these concepts but also encourage different ways of completing each stage beyond specialising for one of three categories.
Building on the parts the first game had, I can imagine a refined creature creator and building/vehicle designer as well as a bit of variety in the gameplay of the stages could make for a really popular and fun game.
After seeing what EA did to the Sims and Sim City, it might be a pipe dream especially considering the scope of this concept but it seems a bit crazy not to try at least!
@@SineN0mine3 honestly i like this;
For the cell and creature stage, more body parts to choose from, and a flight system instead of just a gliding system could be fun to diversify the choices.
For the tribal stag, more war tactics than just "point and attack" could be interesting, things like unique weapon building, defense building, etc. And for the social side adding other forms of creativity. (Idk what specifically could be added but ye)
For civilization stage, attacking other nations giving better upgrades for your vehicles, or building r&d buildings to develop them at a slower rate. I actually quite like the balancing act the civilization stage makes you juggle.
As for the space stage, its a shame that we're stuck in just our ships, i think having moments where you can land on planets and take over capitals by hand, or being able to build space stations with allies that you can walk around in and design, building farms inside of it and expanding it.
Idk, a lot of stuff could be done to change the game in a major way
If I understand correctly, the "reload the game to remove consequence trait cooldowns" glitch actually happens in part because when you load the save, the game automatically removes all archetype tools that you are not supposed to have.
So I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually programmed to remove all archetype tools and then give back the ones you actually should have, judging by the cooldowns being gone.
wait so your telling me they thought about something really obvious that could happen and made a measure to prevent it? they don't account for 99.99999% of pretty clear things that could happen which they don't want but they account for that? well at least it resets the cooldowns
The first time I beat Spore was by doing exactly this, getting Zealot and befriending the Grox. Although, it was not the plan from the start, I kinda just improvised as I went along. Also, I didn't know about the cooldown reset, I would literally wait for it to reset everytime lmao
I loved seeing Steve again, as a kid I was both confused and unimaginably amused that my literal months of game play (I did not ally the Grox) led to the center of the Galaxy holding.....a flying saucer with a speaker named Steve.
I mean, can you imagine, if in the center of our galaxy, was not saucer, but to make it different, for example, pyramid, or just a ball, that would be named Yohoo. And the humanity, would reach it in like year 5000, he would be like. Hm, nice job. I've alone for a long time. However, heres this strange thingy. What does it do you ask? Don't know, don't care. Byeeeee 😂
@@mareksoucek4514 your English machine broke, just an fyi
@@LMBLNCR bro, leave me be😂 I was drunk AF.
@@mareksoucek4514 The best part is when you use speech to text when drunk. Now that's some hilarious shit right there
@@hollystepp3735 I'm not from English speaking country. So, being completely drunk and speaking/writing in English, is fuckin hard 😂 plus I speak with 3/4 languages and I'm learning 2 others... It's hard 😂
"You are, consequentially, evolutionarilly going to die"
That line was raw.
I love how as you said “don’t ask what we did with the other species that lived here” your captain gave a creepy little smile lmao 24:20
It's not much of an exploit, but If You start the cell stage with the cell that has 3 eyes, it counts as if you have 2 sets of eyes. Then you can sell one to start off with a little bit of extra Chernobyl points.
I didn’t even know this game had other stages I always just go full aggressive the whole time
I’ve waited centuries for the day spiff would return with another spore video, my purpose is fulfilled
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@@EEEEEEEE E indeed my friend
@metalhead5620 endeed
Same here
@@metalhead5620 Another video? May I have a link to the first for research purposes?
I remember stumbling upon this exploit as a kid, from what I remember the "broke galactic code" modifier with the Grox stacked, and they didn't mind you stealing their planets - so you could just literally steal their planets until they were willing to ally you.
Just like America, invading so much they’re your new allies
Glad to see someone covering spore. Thought everyone had forgotten about it
Yeah, I wonder why nobody make new Spore game with current technology.
Same
I accidentally turned off my computer too early and corrupted my game file :(
I've made it to the space age a few times but it always bored me so I never went that far in it. Didn't even realize there was an ending.
Ive beaten the game, but not gotten every achievement, turns out it’s harder than the game lol
@@hatman44 getting every achievement is harder then just beating the game? never woulda thought
the space age expansion added more content than there is in the base game, but it is very repetitive and not very interesting. Even NMS did space better
Yeah. Not helped by how the Galactic Adventures expansion can be easily played and enjoyed without ever touching the regular game. Maybe it'd be more fun if it was something closer to what Stellaris offers, but that's a full game in its own right.
Such a great idea, I am just sad the creature phase is so limited.
My greatest spore empire owned multiple entire arms of the galaxy, I had completly exterminated the Grox, and I would start new games and conquer large swaths of Stars so I could go in with my main empire and take it all. Great game.
Aliens: _”The Grox are gone. We’re free!”_
Kalxek: _”More like ‘Under New Management’.”_
how long did that take?
@@MadnessIncVP i have heard that exact line of "more like under new management" before which may theoretically be related but not impossible it's a coincidence
@@xxGreenRobloxIt's from megamind I believe.
I love how the first few minutes of game play every species around looks like they're part of the stabby Boi series
Well they're the strongest for a reason
Fun fact: if you use the power of zealots on Grox's planet they'll actually love you slightly more not caring about the conquer of their world.
(Just don't shoot directly at cities or vehicles)
Anytime I did a space stage run, I did Knight because the knight by code are enemies of the Grox. Much fun to unite the galaxy against them.
Spore is one of those games that is just burned into my brain.
Ever since I played spore for the first time as a child I have to play it at least once a year, usually around summer or Christmas.
Its been like this for over 10 years, and I will probably keep doing this into my elderly days.
Spore is love spore is life
spore is forever
9:30 seems like it's even teabagging the enemies. It's the power of tea.
I remember being genuinely underwhelmed at the end of spore... after a mad dash through the grox I was given a stick to terreform a planet... something I'd been having fun balancing on my own the whole time. Oh well. Glad to see you step back to this one spiff. Cheers!
I reckon after you win, your species should get the ability to travel to create a new cell stage creature and send it to a new galaxy.
That or get a second galaxy to travel to and play on in space stage.
As someone who has played Spore WAY too much,
A: You damn well better use the tribal outfitter if you're playing on hard. Tribal on hard is actually insanely difficult.
B: I finally beat it a couple years ago. Made me feel quite good about myself, considering I've been playing the game for way longer :3
not sure where he's getting that "nobody uses the outfits in the tribal stage" stuff from. that's like, the only way you can continue to customize your creatures, and also sets up what you're gonna look like in the next phase. Not like you just suddenly decide to stop customizing and changing your creatures just cause you hit tribal stage. Almost like saying "i bet nobody out there knows you can make your own structures!" ....lol
@@evil993 I think there was a long time when I didn't realize that Tribal Stage outfitter was a thing that I should probably make use of.
Ngl, I find tribal hard mode to be far easier than civilization stage hard mode, but that might be because I oftenly use 5 tribe members for gifts,(1 For each hostile tribe.) so, the chances of an invasion even happening is staggeringly low.
@@B_4035mn Spore on hard is just hard in general tbh
you have become my favorite youtuber over the past 5 days bud, started with skyrim hunters challenge, then 100 day survival skyrim challenge, now I'm here. Love the content man its so damn enjoyable!!!
Spore went from try not die to kill everyone for fun simulator REALLLLLL FAST
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Grand Theft Auto Spore
That's a really strong and efficient shape you used for the phallicus. RCE will be proud of you for this well engineered creature.
I was wonderin at first why youtube kept mentionin this vid was also watched by ppl who sub to RCE xD Yeah, once he got to creature stage it became clear why heh
Made it to space many times, but had no clue how to make it to the center of the galaxy. Being a friendly species though, from land animal up, perhaps I missed something in training. I saw the Grok and ran. Yep, every time. Thanks for the tip!
Beating Spore so long ago was one of my favorite things, Spore may be a old jank game, but it is still the game of my heart.
I think Spiff's content is so great because of the way he talks. You click the video knowing that there will be crazy exploits, and then you hear that voice. He talks as if he knows something you don't, and you cannot miss your chance to find out what it is. So you must watch until you figure it out, and boy is it worth it.
I'll never forget the predator playthrough I did where I maxed out my evolution points and wiped out every nest before advancing to the tribal stage. Then I had to lay down my weapons for exactly one stage because I couldn't out-mirco my own species: tiny, invisible, flying, armored arachnids that could cross the map inside of twenty seconds.
Oh, I used the outfit editor in tribe stage every time. In fact, you unlock more powerful clothing as you deal with more and more tribes.
Usually I'm more focused on whittling away at the grox empire than going to the center of the galaxy, though I have been a couple times.
In civ stage there are goody huts scattered around that you can use your land vehicles to investigate. You can get either some extra cash or even a free vehicle, even of a kind (military, economic, religious) that you don't have the ability to produce yet. Easiest way to spot them is to check the "sector borders". If a tribe is in the same sector as a spice geyser or another tribe, it's a goody hut. If it's the only tribal village in a sector, it's going to evolve into a city at some point. Investigating those will cause the inhabitants to deal 50% damage to your vehicle.
You can actually have up to 3 superpowers in the space stage thanks to the Galactic Adventures expansion. The first one comes from whatever archetype your space empire is. The other two you can get by earning all 4 pieces of equipment that matches that empire type on your captain. Getting one additional superpower this way is easy. Just fly around and do missions for each of the different types of empires until they give you one where the accept prompt is something like "That sounds like an Adventure, I'm in". Fly to the planet, do the adventure, easy 100 xp for your captain; and, that mission will now be available from the quickplay menu so you can skip the flying around part for future captains. There's 8 you can unlock, plus "becoming a captain" that your home empire will give you, and "Adventure Town" in the quickplay menu. Do any 9 of those 10 and that's more than enough xp to get to level 4, just enough for an additional superpower. Getting to level 8 for the second potential superpower unlock is going to take a LONG time grinding either a lot of difficult missions or an absolute ton of easy, crappy, 5xp shit-tier missions.
All 10 of those base Maxis missions can even be beaten by a lv0 Mega Chad that hasn't evolved since the beginning of the cell stage. How? Because stealth is *hilariously* overpowered in Adventures and is given by the flagella part that all cells start with.
Dressing your citizens in the Tribal stage is so powerful for no reason. I've been doing it for years.
As for beating the game? I've met Steve a few times. The booming voice that just turns into a squeak is probably the best part of that whole cutscene.
This game is actually so good! Definitely deserves a part or remake!
The original creators have been working on a new game, without Maxis/EA this time. They're still working on the first phase though, so it'll take a while before it'll be finished. It's called 'Thrive', available in early access on Steam.
@@Jasmin3_T Awesome to hear that! Will check it out!
There was a remake and it sucked :/
You should know that you don't have to go from Creature to Tribal stage the moment you are able. You can always just... not click the button until you're ready.
And I should tell you that I have always made extensive use of the clothing editors you get in later stages. It's useless but fun in Civilization and Space, but it's indeed very helpful in Tribal.
I so wish that Spore had lived up to it's potential
What if Spore 2?
@@hatman44 one can only hope
Surprised no one ever made any Spore remake mods or something
@@sunbleachedangel thrive exists and is currently in development
@@hatman44 problem is EA got in the way of Will Wright and Maxis and then blamed them for the game's failure. Since they own the IP no one can make a game remotely similar without getting sued. Instead EA made DarkSpore, and promptly shut down the servers, and some of the morphing technology from Spore went into Sims 2
Every time I remember Spore, I remember making the perfect creature… it had all maxed-out stats, it had wings, and it was an omnivore. But then, it became one of those giant beasts in my other playthroughs, and it always absolutely DESTROYED any other civilization. Oh the Galaxia, you were the perfect killing machine, I dreaded meeting you every playthrough. It's actually the reason I stopped playing, bc I could never survive long enough without becoming a deathloop
Only Spiff can take the evolution of turn the other cheek and turn it into a game mechanic storyline.
It's a strange feeling seeing Spiff use exploits that you yourself used when you were 10 years old.
even missing some, like how you can just not accept transmissions that you know ate declarations of war and avoid going to war at inconvenient times lol
6:12
RCE:"The strongest shape"
I knew long ago Zealous's special ability is op, but I didn't knew about the save file reloading to reset the cooldown, this information will be quite useful for a little "friendly" converting.
The Phalicus is the perfect embodiement of sth so great and hilarious I have no eloquence to express
its very strong indeed
I feel like every spore video I have watched has a British narrator witch makes it 1000 times better
Not only have I completed it numerous times, I will ALWAYS use the designer function in Tribal stage. It is way too useful to not use. I find the tribal stage to be fun as well, and a nice challenge, due to needing to feed my people, while also doing whatever I do with befriending or killing the other tribes. Zealot is also one of my favorite paths, due to allying with Grox being made easier.
I'm sure most people used the Tribal Stage editor, although I don't think many people made stuff for the gallery since it was almost the same as the clothing editor in Civilization stage but with fewer options.
If you wanted to make something just for fun, you tended to use the Space stage editor just in case you needed those parts.
The game is quite insistent tutorial wise I think Spiff probably just forgot about it.
I enjoyed the Tribal stage but I remember it was pretty easy to beat quickly and you didn't have to bother much with upgrading your outfit as you progressed. As long as you had enough guys and the right combination of weapons or instruments you were pretty sure to win.
Compared to the Creature stage, I feel like the Tribal stage is when your species starts to shape its identity. Not as much fun as the later stages but a good stepping stone to introduce the concepts.
I kinda wish it was a bit longer.
I had already seen some Spore videos before this, including yours and other challenges or presentation of the game and even played it myself including the Space stage, but it's the first time in my life that I've seen the ending. Just for that, thank you Spiff! And a great video overall!
I remember beating spore once... I allied with the grox and dropped a teraform on one of their planets. Turns out it also kills everyone on the planet you use it on as well
well what'd you expect from q technology that agressively alters the planet's ecosystem
I loved dressing my Spore creations in tribal! I think you underestimated how much I played this game in college in order to avoid homework. This and Sims 3 kept me sane!
Damn, after so long playing spore through my childhood, i just kinda...assumed it didnt HAVE an ending like this! I never realize spore had an end cause i never went super hardcore against all other species, so i never got to be buddy buddy with the Grox. I just kept out of their way, sometimes blowing up their whole race on a planet or two, i just played it like a sandbox without realizing i had a path to turn it even more sandboxy!
You don't need to ally the Grox to get to the core, it's just the easiest way. You can also get a really well-equipped ship and blitz through their territory, recharging or repairing with items as needed. Another, more time consuming way, is to conquer forwards; you travel towards the core star by star, eliminating the Grox presence along the way so you have an avenue of retreat. I've even heard of particularly insane players who've taken on the task of entirely eliminating the Grox from the galaxy.
@@lemax6865 From what I have heard, eliminating them is actually impossible without some hack. It is because sometimes the game messes up and groxs may spawn at the gas giants (which can't be entered).
@@najpotenicewolf934 That could be true, I never investigated wether it was possible to eliminate them, I just heard there were people who tried.
Me to!
@@lemax6865 My favorite way to eliminate Grox was discovered accidentally, I was fucking around with atmosphere gadgets while having maxed out energy, and several colonies in spare. So when I entered their territory, I accidentally out of panic started blasting maxed out the generator, raising the planet's level to T1, and got a notification that Grox died on the planet because the atmosphere, and conditions, aka T-levels, fucked them greatly.
I was like: "OH! OH! Welcome, everyone to the one and alloucaust! And today we are going to violate new conventions!" as I started blasting my way through their planets and whipping them out. Sadly, money is pretty hard to get, so I resorted to cheating, but damn, I enjoyed genocide based on atmosphere, and the best thing was, I was always green during my evolutionary stages and had a ticket to get to my home planet in most dire needs during attacks. But I would spend 10 hours fucking Grox so much, that I wiped out two galaxy branches where they resided.
6:25 - Brave statement in 2022! But the humor is both needed and appreciated!
I swear, you have kept my interest in Spore alive and seeing you run this game all the way to the end was amazing and the tricks you used were phenomenal! Though I must say, given your interest in economy-style games and games like this, have you thought about diving into Endless Space 1 or 2? I know you did a video or two with Endless Legend, but I'd love to see your take on the Endless Space franchise. I know for a fact that there are a ton of potential "features" to exploit and find silly things to dive into, but I'd be curious to learn which one you focused on first. Gotta spread tea across the universe after all!
I love how this video came out 15 mins ago, and already people in the comments are pretending they watched the whole thing...
So I will too...
Keep up the good work Spiffing Brit! Amazing video!
those people have been blessed by tea infused time travel powers
by the power of the speed*2
@@thespiffingbrit Time is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits!
This is of the first pc games i played like 18-19 years ago still love it wish they wold make a new one
The space stage was my favorite, so Ive beaten it quite a few times. There is another exploit where if you dont wait for your ship to arrive at a star and move on before that, the grox wont attack you at all(because technically you never entered their systems)
I really wished that the game had been as impressive as they waxed on about but I still have had great fun with it over the years lol
I think.. i Won once, seem to remember just a stupid mad dash through the Grox and getting the staff lol
It's 2024 and I still randomly play spore and have never beaten it. I'm gonna try your pathway and see if I can meet Steve. Awesome video!
The Zealot archetype was by far one of the most playthroughs I had ever done back in the day. I'm surprised you hadn't made a video about it sooner!
Absolutely broken. Just build up tons of vehicles to convert cities and you can pretty much take the planet in one fell swoop lmao
You accidentally a word there.
@@5up3rm4nMy3r5 Thanks for pointing it out lol. Classic case of my brain auto filling a word where my hands didn't :P
I'll keep it in there so you don't look a lunatic in the reply ;)
@@Adrobiel "Classic case of my brain auto filling a word where my hands didn't" LOL I will remember one
@@ic_trab There is a word for it but for he life of me I couldn't remember what it was!
I can imagine Spiff recording this then handing it over to his editors without saying anything at first. They would have been like WTF?? 😆 🤣 😂
22:40 "the most evil being I know"
me: Boris Johnson
Rishi, But you were on the right lines.
I immediately thought Franklin Roosevelt...
I have actually beaten spore, but if I remember correctly reaching the actual galactic center was a bit of a panicked mad dash past all the Grox
I've beaten spore twice but never like this🤣🤣🤣🤣
I used the wormholes to get closer and then just flew right through the grox systems taking on waaaay too much damage😅😅
Also, I've managed to find our solar system (Sol)
For me, I put my tribe near the sea not because of endless fish, but rather because if you don't, you will not get easy access to any ocean spice geysers in civilization stage.
If you don't claim them asap, you won't get them by peaceful means anytime soon...
Side note, the Eggs in tribal stage is more op than fish. Domesticate three creatures for max production, and there doesn't seem to be a cap for how many eggs the box can hold. I spent five minutes just having my tribe collect eggs.
An additional side note, if you want to open the timeline to check your archetype progress but don't want to go the next stage, press the T key. I discovered this by accident and have used it ever since.
Have fun and don't forget to save your game at the end of each stage.
I played Spore a bunch back in the day but never made it past the tribal stage, and sure didn't give them clothing! Awesome to see you beat the game Spiff so I could see Steve!
SO HAPPY TO SEE ANOTHER SPORE VIDEO! love your stuff Spiff, and so glad to see that you're not done breaking spore.
Technically have beaten Spore before. Found a wormhole that took me pretty close to the core, but straight in the middle of Grox territory. Couldn’t do the 1 mission they offered me because I had to go through their territory and they started blasting. Eventually had to cut a swath through the Grox until I could make a mad dash to the center. So I just need to find Earth and kill the Grox.
its been 14 years since its release and I still find spore very entertaining to watch.
I remember Spore. I played friendly all the way through, got to the space stage and was immediately destroyed by an aggressive race. The game then respawned me with no resources just in time for the same race to destroy me again, and again. It was fun up until then. :/
let me guess was it the grox
21:10 "I can even send in an aircraft!"
*America has joined he chat.*
22:10 I don't know if you've build that yourself, but that spaceship looks amazing.
I've gotten to the space stage so many times, but I don't think I've ever befriended the Grox, that's further than I've gone!
I've playied SPORE for 15 years none stop and thats the freacking first time I see the actual endding!
I actually genuinely enjoyed the tribal stage and took full advantage of playing dress up lol
This was the first game I ever really lost myself in. So much nostalgia here😭