Roller Coaster Tycoon

[comrade_general]

Anyone else play this little gem? I used to play the original quite often. The sequel was pretty much just an expansion of the first game, and I only recently got RCT3, which has some spectacular graphics (and a ride-cam), but is a little unwieldy for me so far since I'm so used to the old style. So any other coaster freaks out there?

[Son of the King]

I am not alone . Had the original on my Xbox years ago. Didn't like it at first (control system was dire), but when I was off school for something like 3 weeks - a month with a hip problem I spent pretty much every day playing it, and fell in love with it. I also played the second on PC, but it didn't seem to have the same magic as the first since I didn't really find a scenario that I enjoyed as much as some of them from RCT1 (Crater Lake was some of the most fun I ever had in a game). RCT3 is pretty good, I recently bought it off steam (played it before but my brother has it back home) after I got a random urge to play it. I do miss the old style a bit though.

Also there really needs to be an RCT4 .

[debux]

I remember my first accident caused by poor planing. They were handsomely buried, ingame. If I'm not wrong I believe I placed an individual tomb for each of the affected, plus a small commemorative garden to remember the foolishness of the owner of the park. This doesn't mean he was unaffected by this: he closed the park until the roller coaster was taken down to the last piece of tube.

I guess I had a bit of fun with it, no big deal though

[comrade_general]

w00t, glad to see I'm not alone as well.  8)

I could imagine playing it on a console would be a little difficult. Agree about the scenarios. I like to go in to a fresh park, maybe with a ride or two, and build it up from scratch. A lot of RCT2 scenarios were about fixing up pre-established parks or paying back loans - boring. And the scenarios for RCT3? Forget about it. Way too easy and boring. Luckily there is the ability to create custom scenarios, and I was able to find some of the originals that people had recreated. They are here if you're interested and hadn't already found them.

Hooray for massive coaster crash explosions - kaboom! <-- lol! I've never seen that happen before. At least you gave the riders a proper burial, I was always just annoyed that people were apprehensive to go on that ride for a while and give me money. 

[debux]

Wow, lol! That was fun, although the small amount of pixels doesn't allow to see the cause of the accident.  Apparently it's a "mod" that changes the coaster speed.

I can't remember any of the scenarios though. I think I always had fun building huge go-kart tracks, that took kind of like a space of 50x30 or something. Can't remember well.

[Son of the King]

Thank you so much for that link CG! I can finally play Crater Lake again .

[Lady Grey]

I love RCT! Though, I re-bought it the other week, and I thought it had a sandbox mode, do you have to unlock it? I totally forget xD
SotK - what happened between 2011 and now? You decided against playing Crater Lake the other week! :O

[Son of the King]

It didn't live up to my nostalgia properly, the giant amount of water was frustrating .

[Lady Grey]

Awwh, The Old Forest is where it's at.

[Son of the King]

Boopland!

[Lady Grey]

The Prehistoric section of Boopland is amazing

[comrade_general]

The expansion had levels without monetary constraints which could be considered sandbox modes I guess.

[Gen_Glory]

I played RTC2 for hundreds of hours, most of that time was spent building death coasters...

Got RTC3 in a sale last year played it for a bit, controls were very different and the UI is all new so I haven't played it all that much

[comrade_general]

Got RTC3 in a sale last year played it for a bit, controls were very different and the UI is all new so I haven't played it all that much

Same.