Ok then there are similarities in the way the game came out, but watching spore videos the mechanics look different and nms is a beautiful game while as what I have seen of spore looks ugly and I remember when it came out I was not interested in it at all. NMS has lived up to everything I expected of it. I did not expect it to be as detailed as Star Citizen will be and I am sure that when patch 3.0 comes out NMS will not even get opened on my computer. :)
Spore came out 2008, but yeah, it's ugly :)
I wasn't saying that the graphics or styles looked similar, but the exploration to get to the center of the galaxy, the random creatures, the buggs, the hype, the (for a lot of vocal people) underperformance...
I'm not saying NMS is a bad of a game as Spore was, or that it isn't enjoyable (I enjoyed Spore a lot when I was younger), but there are enough similarities that it's fun to joke about. :)