-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World - Website Opens, New Developer
- Thread starter D-Pad
- Start date
Sir Ilpalazzo
Member
Sounds like it might be cool. I've never played any of the RollerCoaster Tycoon games, but the concept seems like something that'd be pretty fun to play around with. I might need to check this out in the future.
texhnolyze
Banned
Please be good.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Will try to keep an eye on this. If I could get another one like 2, I would be very pleased.
SwordStruck
Member
According to Crunchbase Area 52 Games is "an interactive game studio focusing on free-to-play games for mobile and PC platforms".
Hopefully Atari sticks to their word that this will be a full title with no micro transactions.
Hopefully Atari sticks to their word that this will be a full title with no micro transactions.
diggmcbadass
Member
I'm skeptical of everything that is not Chris Sawyear sitting alone in a dimly lit room hammering out assembly code.
That still blows my mind.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
It is or was. They dumped an old dev studio for the new one so...
Also "online pc gaming experience" makes me think they are going to do the same thing that EA did with the new Sim City....
Pipeworks seemed pretty open about development on the game amd evem seemed to interact with the community (at least at shyguysworld) a bit. Wonder if the new guys will as well.
EatinOlives
Member
New Post, and first (I think?) screenshot of the game:
http://www.rollercoastertycoon.com/introduction-to-the-community-manager-at-area-52-games/
It's a flat ride. The terrain in the background looks pretty basic but that's likely in the alpha stages. The ride is the focal point and it does look like it has quite a bit of detail to it. If the visuals are consistent throughout and maintain this level of quality I wouldn't mind at all.
I do hope that terrain isn't final though...
http://www.rollercoastertycoon.com/introduction-to-the-community-manager-at-area-52-games/
It's a flat ride. The terrain in the background looks pretty basic but that's likely in the alpha stages. The ride is the focal point and it does look like it has quite a bit of detail to it. If the visuals are consistent throughout and maintain this level of quality I wouldn't mind at all.
I do hope that terrain isn't final though...
Garuda1One
Member
Roller coaster tycoo "world" scares me.... any info about it ?
EatinOlives
Member
Developed by a new studio called Area 52 games, apparently a lot of people in it have a pedigree of working on AAA titles. No "online only" component, no microtransactions (IIRC), release early 2015 but since we're just now getting the first screenshot it's likely going to be delayed.
It seems like Atari's changing the steering of the game after the likely colossal failure of RCT4 Mobile. That game was truly a piece of shit. Whether this game will be any better is up in the air but at least it doesn't look like ass from the get-go, which we couldn't at all say for RCT4.
I would have preferred that being an actual restaurant... Hoping the flat rides will look like actual flatrides but... I have a bad feeling I know where this game is heading.
Area 52 Games Admin says there are only four themes
This is not going to be anywhere near the scope of RCT3 especially if Atari is pushing for an early 2015 release.
Area 52 Games Admin says there are only four themes
This is not going to be anywhere near the scope of RCT3 especially if Atari is pushing for an early 2015 release.
Expect all the extra themes coming later on as DLC / Updates.
Anyway, I hope they add official Oculus Rift support for the roller coasters and all that.
texhnolyze
Banned
No desert and water theme?
I guess they're pushing for early/mid 2015 release and prepare other themes for DLC.
Garuda1One
Member
welp.. $15 horror theme DLC incoming..
Terbinator
Member
Ctrl-F + "isometric".
why ;_;7
why ;_;7
dampflokfreund
Banned
I really hope it will be good. And I also hope that they try hard to push the cartoony graphics to its limit, with this art style a great image quality is possible. Sharp textures, round objects, new graphic effects etc, just make it look much better than these shitty 2004 graphics. Of course a new engine is also a must.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Simulator games don't really benefit from being limited in perspective, especially on simulator games whose focus is that of a theme park.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
No chris, no sale, unless steam sale
Terbinator
Member
Fun comes before the simulator aspect which RCT3 managed to butcher and scar me beyond repair with.
Maybe you can research his input from within the game.
Did you use the Isometric mode in RCT3? Isometric, or isometric-ish, definitely makes the camera easy to deal with, but I still think it's worth building the game in 3D.
Yup. Don't forget this is published by Atari too, a company that stopped caring about creating quality content years ago. I want to believe, but as is we're better of expecting disappointment than getting excited.
Huw_Dawson
Member
It's what remains of Infogrames, I think, so yeah - not a quality studio. They're a tiny shell of producers, in all probability.
This isn't being developed or published by Paradox or Sega, so at this point I have exactly no interest. If they'd turned around and said a Paradox studio team were handling development, I'd throw money at them.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
It's a good thing fun has nothing to do with isometric view. And it's a good thing fun is subjective enough to warrant the RCT3 defense.
Also daily reminder that Chris hated sandbox mode that you have to go to pains to "create" a sandbox mode in RCT2
Same here... But I'd like to be surprised.
On another matter, I intend to use Rollercoaster Tycoon in a physics class ^_^
I kinda disagree... there's a bunch of decent-to-good games from Infogrames, especially in the late 80s - early 90s. Maybe some of them aren't popular abroad, though.
For example, I still think Alone in the Dark is the first survival-horror game, and while it's quite old now, it was really a milestone.
Terbinator
Member
3D emphasis felt unintuitive and so made it unfun for me personally.
What do you mean by Christ hating the sanbox aspect?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
There was no sandbox mode in RCT2 since he wanted the game to be played in his vision. You have to go through hoops to enable something relative to sandbox in 2 (like making a new map from scratch and altering the win conditions to make it last long).
And I still can't wrap my head around how a limited camera view makes things "better".
InaudibleWhispa
Member
Those asking for Oculus support to ride coasters, just get NoLimits 2. It has great Oculus support, and perfectly replicated coasters with great graphics and realistic physics. And Steam Workshop support to download as many coasters as your heart desires.
biggersmaller
Banned
I am really hyped, but also sceptical. I played the crap out of all 3 RollerCoaster Tycoon games. I still return to RCT2 as RCT3 has really bad performance issues (I mean, I'm rocking an old 920/5850, but still). The problem with filling a park with a bunch of customizable 3D rides requires a lot of optimization that a small team will find difficult.
Here's their first production blog from today,
http://www.rollercoastertycoon.com/rollercoaster-tycoon-world-production-blog/
We should begin to get more regular updates now.
Here are a few screens,
http://www.rollercoastertycoon.com/rollercoaster-tycoon-world-production-blog/
We should begin to get more regular updates now.
Here are a few screens,
Americanmushroom
Banned
I just want the vomit to look good cause my rollercoasters are gonna be craaaaazy
