• eurodyne@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    LMAO— ok, true…

    But I actually bought the game (yes, once upon a time people used money and exchanged it for software) and the original version was just the evolution engine. There was actually some controversy at the time that the game didn’t actually contain any “game“. Eventually, further updates turned it into the “penis creation engine“ you described.

    But who doesn’t love a lovely, well designed penis?

    It really was a shame that they never turned it into a “best designed penis competition” game. I believe I would’ve been very good at that.

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I was there, I bought it too. At release it was already dumbed down so much that it did not live up to the expectations from the tech demos.

      Thrive is very much a spiritual successor to those tech demos.

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      2 days ago

      The game was hobbled in development. I remember reading the early development stories and stuff as it was being made and they wanted to make a serious evolution sim. EA basically forced them to make it a light hearted kiddie game and so it pretty much died on release.