Steve Grand wrote:
"There are two ways to tackle this problem," Grand says. "Try to make the behavior look more real, or stop lying to people. As far as I can tell, Spore takes the former approach, to gently and quite openly fool the user into thinking she's engaging with real living things, while Creatures took the latter;I did my best not to fool anyone, even if that meant the results weren't so playable."
Can't say that I disagree with that assessment, or that I don't appreciate it.
And thank you for adding my norns to the SporeCast!