There was an update to Spore two days ago which promised to fix all the bugs that had been causing the game to freeze and crash, but it hasn't. After updating, I tried playing, but of course it froze as usual after a few minutes of play. So it's still unplayable and I wish I could get my money back since I'm definitely a victim of hype.
Hype will kill one in every ten Americans. Please give generously. (Have you ever wondered how to avoid catching a disease you have a 1 in 10 chance of developing? Kill all but eight people. After all, eight is all you need. Chose wisely, though, as dentists will throw the equation into chaos.)
In the meantime, I've been playing less popular games on my Xbox 360, like Braid, Catan, and the Orange Box. This is the first time I've played a Half-Life game, and it's a little tiring. Every stage passed leads to another too-similar stage. After committing alien genocide, you have to stop and wonder how many more face-hugging Alien bug rip-offs you have to kill (see: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card, which incidentally they're developing into a game based on a movie based on the novel. Who's they? Aliens.) I beat Portal pretty quickly, since it's a short game to begin with. As for Team Fortress, you can't play an online game if no one wants to play with you. That's what sucks about shooters people play only for the online multi-player: as soon as a newer game comes along you might as well throw the game you have in the trash. All those stats you've ranked up mean nothing in about four months time, making your obsession with the game all the more pathetic.
Is anyone interested in WoW's upcoming expansion? It's been nearly a year since the last expansion, and most hardcore gamers had bridged the ten-level-gap between versions in a matter of days, they've been doing nothing but gear-up since. That's a year of doing same instances over-and-over again to gain marginally better equipment for their uber-elite characters, gear that will be antiquated within seconds of the new release. All those hundreds, if not thousands of hours spent grinding will have been for nothing. Then the cycle will begin again. In the end, the only winner is Blizzard, as they gradually take over the real world while you play around with their pretend world.
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