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Atari is teasing Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 on Facebook (don't get excited)
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DarkJedi24
Member
Amen. I am hopeful that Atari makes the IAPs optional, rather than as a way to fix a broken game system. I'm fine with it just expediting the unlocking of different rides, but if you have to pay in order to be successful then that's a whole different problem.
Yes sir I completely agree with you. Don't get me wrong, I'd much prefer a PC sequel in the vein of the first two, but I honestly didn't see the series coming back at all. So basically we are left in this current situation of take it or leave it.
InaudibleWhispa
Member
Yeah, I don't think it's likely we'll be seeing a true sequel any time soon either. But that thread title gave me a spark of hope. It didn't last long
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I think we have
DarkJedi24
Member
Yeah, I don't think it's likely we'll be seeing a true sequel any time soon either. But that thread title gave me a spark of hope. It didn't last long
But who knows, maybe if this mobile game brings the series back into relevance, we might yet see the sequel we want
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Lame, lame lame.
I'd love a real RCT4 on PC, this? The world doesn't really need ANOTHER time management IAP whale farm.
I'd love a real RCT4 on PC, this? The world doesn't really need ANOTHER time management IAP whale farm.
Sephiroth_VII
Member
So it's not even "Rollercoaster Tycoon 4: Mobile". It's Rollercoaster Tycoon fo
r mobile.
Fuck you Atari.
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Fuck you Atari.
ElRenoRaven
Member
And people wonder why I refuse to call this company Atari. They do nothing but bastardize the name of that company. Infogrames will never be Atari. RCT series is now officially dead to me. Shame I loved the others.
keisuke999
Member
omg no mobile please!! Stop this!!
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I refuse to believe Chris Sawyer had anything to do with actually developing this game just as I know Atari isn't even Atari at all. His name has to be on it just because he created the franchise so he gets a paycheck. I really hope he had no input on this direction. And if he did, I would hope he fought against it tooth and nail.
At least I have my $5 copies of RCT and RCT2 from GOG.
At least I have my $5 copies of RCT and RCT2 from GOG.
"There's absolutly no limits to your imagination!!!" *
*Until you run out of "tickets" and you have to either wait 24h or pay to get more.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Why are you doing this dead zombie Atari?
Incandenza
Banned
It's funny how much it even looks like a free-to-play game. Like F2P has its own art style at this point.
Can't find it, but there's an imgur album that compiles screenshots of tons of FP2 games from their app page, and they're all the same exact layout, but pirates instead of mermaids instead of farmers instead of modern military instead of animals instead of etc etc...
InaudibleWhispa
Member
I honestly think the demand is there. I can't imagine a new, proper RCT game flopping. The modding community for RCT3 is still fairly large 10 years later.But who knows, maybe if this mobile game brings the series back into relevance, we might yet see the sequel we want
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
I'm thinking despite this negative reaction from the core gamers, this could be quite profitable for them if they do it right. I'm guessing this is F2P
podracer35
Member
This... I was insanely hyped for the 3DS RCT, but heard terrible things about it. Hopefully whatever this turns out to be is truer to the series' roots and is... you know, good.
So let's look at the top bar we get from the screenshot.
We see:
- Coins
- Tickets
- Experience
- Park Rating/Guest Satisfaction
They mention leader boards, so I'm guessing experience has something to do with that, possibly park rating as well. RCT 1/2 also had park rating, which was just a way of measuring your success (How happy your guests were, how clean it was, how safe it was etc.)
Now we have Coins, and tickets.
From the trailer, we can see that you can earn tickets by inviting friends to play the game with that button at the bottom right. We also see stars by friends names, which look to be their experience level. You can send them gifts, which is unclear what that means right now. It also says "Exchange up to 5 free Tickets with friends everyday!". Still a little confused on what this means as we don't know what tickets to yet.
Now for coins, we see icons popping up and bouncing above attractions. Maaybe you can spend coins to maybe upgrade the attraction. But what does an upgrade do? There is no such thing as an upgrade in RCT 1/2. I think there's a chance that it means a guest has bought something there, and you just earned some coins. There are similar icons with wrenches above rides which I assume means it is broken, and I can't see them charging people to fix rides. In the top bar I posted, we see "17,500" coins, which could be a lot, or a little. A different part of the video shows the player has "72,460" coins. We also see a + sign next to it (as well as tickets) which will probably mean you can use real money to buy more coins and tickets. I really hope that we can play the full game without spending a penny.
We see:
- Coins
- Tickets
- Experience
- Park Rating/Guest Satisfaction
They mention leader boards, so I'm guessing experience has something to do with that, possibly park rating as well. RCT 1/2 also had park rating, which was just a way of measuring your success (How happy your guests were, how clean it was, how safe it was etc.)
Now we have Coins, and tickets.
From the trailer, we can see that you can earn tickets by inviting friends to play the game with that button at the bottom right. We also see stars by friends names, which look to be their experience level. You can send them gifts, which is unclear what that means right now. It also says "Exchange up to 5 free Tickets with friends everyday!". Still a little confused on what this means as we don't know what tickets to yet.
Now for coins, we see icons popping up and bouncing above attractions. Maaybe you can spend coins to maybe upgrade the attraction. But what does an upgrade do? There is no such thing as an upgrade in RCT 1/2. I think there's a chance that it means a guest has bought something there, and you just earned some coins. There are similar icons with wrenches above rides which I assume means it is broken, and I can't see them charging people to fix rides. In the top bar I posted, we see "17,500" coins, which could be a lot, or a little. A different part of the video shows the player has "72,460" coins. We also see a + sign next to it (as well as tickets) which will probably mean you can use real money to buy more coins and tickets. I really hope that we can play the full game without spending a penny.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Atari:
Ehh...my only hope is that this will piss off somebody badly enough to make their own proper spritual successor for PC.
Already happened. It's called theme park studio
Wiktor
Member
But isn't that solely constructor program instead of a game though? I don't think it actually has any gameplay in it, economical that is. At least that's how it was during Kickstarter
The Outsider
Member
I hate everything.
They wouldn't sell any coins on Android
AzureSkies
Member
I think Atari's angle here is that it's hoping the game will prove to be modestly successful in the short term so it can revisit the sale of the Rollercoaster Tycoon IP and receive the $3.5m it was hoping to get in the first place, if not more, before people inevitably move on to the Next New Shiny Thing.
It's a gamble that's probably not going to pay off.
It's a gamble that's probably not going to pay off.
thoseAREmySHOES
Member
Man, I played so much of RCT and RCT2. WHY MOBILE, WHY...?
BUNTING1243
Banned
I'm crying and all my dreams are dead.
I would kickstart the SHIT out of a real RC4/spiritual successor to the series. Make it happen Frontier
witchedwiz
Member
Your next attraction will be ready in 21 hours. Use a golden banana to build straight away!
Your golden banana count is 0, click to buy more!
3 was great, but I'd argue it was only great thanks to the fans and custom scenery. The base game was pretty bad.
The expansions did improve it a lot though.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Your imagination isn't limited, only what you can do with it in this game is.
martygoldberg
Neo Member
Actually that's a little off. There's two separate branches, plus it was Warner Communications when Warner owned it.
Here's the tracking of the two branches. There's the original ownership:
Original Atari (Atari Inc., 1972)
Warner Communications Atari Inc. (1976)
Then the splitting happened in 1984.
First the Consumer Division's IP and assets were sold to Jack Tramiel and then had a succession of owners, which we'll call the "Consumer Division" tree:
Atari Corp. (Tramiel, 1984)
JTS Atari Corp. (1996)
Atari Interactive (Hasbro 1998)
Infogrames (2001)
Atari Inc. (formerly Infogrames NA) created in 2003
Atari Interactive (formerly Hasbro Interactive) created in 2003
Infogrames rebranded to Atari SA (2009)
Atari Interactive (formerly Hasbro Interactive) created in 2003
Infogrames rebranded to Atari SA (2009)
It should be noted that during JTS the entire company was paired down to a single person at a single desk. No physical company existed any more. What was sold to Hasbro and continued to survive today are purely paper assets (IP and brand name). That's all that continues to exist now.
The second tree is the Coin Division and it's assets.
Atari Games (Warner Communications, 1984)
Atari Games (NAMCO, 1985)
Atari Games (Employee buyout, 1987)
Tengen Games subsidiary created for publishing console games.
Time Warner Interactive (Warner, 1993)Atari Games (WMS, 1996)
Atari Games (Midway Games, 1998. Midway spun off from WMS with all other video game assets including Atari Games)
Midway Games West (Atari Games renamed to Midway Games West, 2000)
Midway Games West Closed (2003)
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Midway goes bankrupt, sells off it's major IP to Time/Warner, 2009)
Broder Salsa
Banned
Eurogamer review
1/10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-18-rollercoaster-tycoon-4-mobile-review
1/10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-18-rollercoaster-tycoon-4-mobile-review
Stormwatch
Member
Nagware is a great name for this game. I deleted it when it wouldn't stop asking me to post to Facebook. I wish I could get a refund. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME!