I remember buying spore and playing the first stage, controlling your monster and getting new features and eating things etc. Then my laptop couldn't handle the next stage, when the conquest/strategy started and I never played again... sad story
I bought the editor years before I ever played the game, and I was disappointed overall when I finally bought the game itself. Once I progressed beyond the tribal stage I was done with it, didn't even play the space stuff for more than 30 seconds I think. Still got the files for some of the creatures I made though, buried on a hard drive somewhere. The tribal part sucked too if I'm being fair, but I played it quite a bit just to see my creatures ingame. I remember checking out the player submitted creations on the website and there were so many penis shaped monsters <45>I remember being insanely hyped for this game. The concept was amazing, the execution was...lacking. I still had fun with the game but it could've been so much better.