RollerCoaster Tycoon

[Yar]

It's an oldie but a goodie. :D

I picked this game back up this week. I haven't played it since I was a lad, but I think I'm a lot better now. I went away for 15 minutes to go study and when I came back I had earned $30,000. Of course I am using shady tactics like charging for bathrooms and jacking the prices on everything ehehehehe :greenie:

[Timekeeper]

You'll never win any awards that way! :smash:

[Hollycat]

I have this game. Horrible. Around 5 seconds of gameplay.
When I saw the thread title, I was sure this was gonna be about ff 5

[Madame Adequate]

RCT is an absolute classic, one of the best games ever made without qualification.

Also, trolling erry day

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy178/Automilf/1282373237449.gif

[Freya]

Justy mentioned it so I went and got 3 and it's expansions. I'm super excited to play ti tonight. More so than to play LA Noire xD

[cody]

RollerCoaster Tycoon is my favorite! I'll never forget getting the original when I was 6 years old, all the way back in 1999. I'll have to get another copy. ^_^




Also, trolling erry day

http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy178/Automilf/1282373237449.gif

Glad I'm not the only one.

[Hollycat]

my version didnt have that feature

[Yar]

I like in that gif how they react to the train coming at them, but they're too good of guests to step off the path.

[cody]

my version didnt have that feature

If you wanted to be sadistic on older versions, you had to be a little tricky, like by getting your guests on a launch-coaster that's doomed to crash.

[Madame Adequate]

my version didnt have that feature

That's a gif from RCT3. You could do similar in the first two but it was a bit less spectacular. Still hilarious though.

[Jiro]

Looks like RCT3 is another one to pick up and play for a while. I got the original for my birthday one year and played it for so long. I was a fucking tycoon

[Yar]

RCT3 is my least favorite. It's just so... meh. :(

RCT2 4 lief

[Skyblade]

The game had a lot of potential, but one of its best features made it fall flat. The restrictions on roller coaster building made building one of your own worthless. 95% of self made roller coasters turn out to be too scary or exciting for your guests. So all those neato plans and cool gimmicks go to waste, and you are stuck recycling the ones the game already made. Maybe it is realistic, but had they loosened those restrictions, you could have had a lot more fun with the game.

[Værn]

The easy solution to that problem is to not test your rides. Then at least you get one poor group of suckers to ride your coaster and throw up/die before stats are posted on it :D

It's annoying how nobody wants to ride things after a certain level of extreme-ness, though. I can understand a large number of people stepping back, but there are always going to be people who want to ride the most extreme rides D:

[Rocket Edge]

RCT3 is my least favorite. It's just so... meh. :(

RCT2 4 lief
FACT. These kind of games were my childhood, same goes for Dungeon Keeper & Warzone 2100.

[Kyros]

Dinky Park was the hardest one since you have so little room to work. I solved that problem my investing most of my money in renting the surrounding land rights so I could build more, but if you did that too late then you could be pretty tight on money when trying to reach the goal by yr 3 (or 2, but think it was 3).

[blackmage_nuke]

I think the one where you couldnt remove trees was the hardest though Pokey Park and Paradise Pier
is a close second.

I love RCT1 it's one of my favourite games of all times but I felt a bit cheap since I would design these roller coasters that lasted for 10 seconds with a high to very high excitement, medium to very high intensity and charge $7 for it and people would still pay for that. And back then $7 was probably worth about $20 or something today.

Only last year did I finish every map with around 999 rep, but I was a bit disapointed there wasnt a sandbox level at the end.

RCT2 is a lot more chalenging and i've yet to play it through properly. The maps I find particularly difficult are the ones that demand free rides and paid entrance. (Even though thats my favourite type of theme park in reality, thats the worst kind of themepark in rollercoaster tycoon.)

[Rostum]

Oh man, I loved RC1! I used to really suck at those games back then though, but still had fun.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

+1 for RCT1's Napalm-Filled dingy rides. Those little rafts on the water slide went off like Molotovs when you launched em.

I was ruthless with these games. Win every scenario plan: Free entrance coupons to jack up attendance, delete path to exit, charge outrageous amounts for everything. When a ride gets old, save it's plan, delete it, and rebuild it two blocks over. Finally,and most importantly, all your guest will be miserable, so pause the game in the last month, sort by mood, and throw all the unhappy bastards in the lake to die. Instant awesome satisfaction rating.

[blackmage_nuke]

Or you know, just make all your customers happy and get 1000's of pop and 999 rep anyway without having to kill anyone.

[Rocket Edge]

This thread made me go out on Friday and buy RC2. :)