I think the only game that actually IS living up to its hype, people do tend to over hype and that does ruin a game, that why people said Armored Core 4 sucked, but the game was awesome, and spore. Same thing, people wanted all this crap, but the game is amazing even without it, it changes the game style from a third person ff style combat, to RTS and then you can even build/destroy planets!
I give spore a 10/10
That's kind of true, people who didn't hype this game too much are probably having a good time enjoying Spore's awesomeness (seriously, it's kind of good) ^^ !
-How people who hyped too much think : Heyyy I tought we could customise more in tribal stage and that the space stage would be more like a sandbox but you actually have to unlock stuff ... blah blah blah tons of complaining
-People who didn't hype : Hey nice, those stages are finely designed, it's rare for me to see a game with so much customisation, even the building and vehicles can be customised in the civilisation stage and the space stage is amazing, you can do lot of stuff like terraforming !
Also, man stop saying the game is short, creating a nice creature or building could easily take 2 hours and the space stage is f****** long, especially if you take some of your time to trade for fun and to terraform for a while...
Also you can do the game at hard with 3 different kind of species...
You don't have to hype it yourself, the entire internet already did it for you. If you browse the internet for anything related to games at all you've probably come across something to do with spore being the next amazing thing considering it's been hyped for 3 years.
I was slightly disappointed aobut spore... The first stages up to creature stage were fine, being in a 3rd person perspective, with a large world to explore, beating up other creatures and eating them... However I was expecting it to be on a grander scale in the tribal and civilisation stages. Those went by way too fast with little more to do than attacking/hugging 3-4 towns or cities. Then the space stage... the way you have to pick up your spices from each colony separately every few minutes, because they produce it so damn fast... And the way that your planets have a disaster or attacking pirates every time you decide to move even slightly away from them... And the endless amount of colonies you can make which will not be of any use unless you go and pick up the produced spices yourself... kinda annoyed me... And compared to all the other stages, the space stage is unproportionally long and on a grand scale... It also kinda pissed me off that I had to go through the tutorial part of space stage every time I made a new race of creatures. Still, I enjoyed it for a while.