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[Joycey]

My name is Joycey and I (insert heavy sigh)...I confess to being addicted to RCT. It all started innocently enough, with the television commercial way back in 1999. I was intrigued by the biker-type dude coming into the kid's bedroom and nastily questioning where the restrooms were.

I slunk into CompUSA and looked at the box. I reached for it, but somehow, deep inside, I knew that if I picked it up, I was doomed

I really tried not to, but my hands seemed to have a will of their own as they eagerly grasped the box. I paid as if in a trance. Brought it home, installed it in my Gateway state of the art 500 mhz 20 gig 512mb ram computer.

You only had to play it once to get hooked.

Oh, I flirted with other games: Sea World Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon. But RCT always drew me back. My addiction drew me on line, to share it with others.

4 hours, five, it didn't matter when I was immersed in a park filled with funny looking men, some of whom were named Sandra J.

It's only gotten worse with each expansion. I fear I am captive to Chris Sawyer, Atari & Frontier. Not even an intervention can save me now.

[RCTtom]

I have all of the RollerCoaster Tycoon games but my favourite has to be the first one because I love completing the scenarios and unlocking new parks. RCT2 ruins what I liked about the first one by already unlocking all of the scenarios. RCT3 is just too different from the first one sure it's nice to see all of the nice graphics but there is something missing from that one that I liked about the first one.

I am very lucky though, my home computer broke down the same day I got a school laptop in July this year and I can keep it until the end of year 11. I use it for RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 and im doing pretty well on it. Me and my friends have had good times on it. Sometimes I feel that I am the only one who actually likes completing the scenarios. I was just wondering if people still play RCT1 just for the scenarios as well.

So I am still an RCT addict, only for the original game though. Occasionally I play RCT2 just to mess around, but unfortuantly no one will be interested in my scenarios because they are rather simplistic and boring. Its all about landscaping and architecture now which in my honest opinion is a huge disappointment for many true fans of the games such as me to actually enjoy completing the scenarios. Why couldn't it just go back to the good old times where people were making scenarios that guests could actually enter the park instead of showing off how good their park looks like. The whole point of RollerCoaster Tycoon was to make a successful theme park with guests inside the park with objectives that were possible to complete.

I hope some people have the same opinion that I have about the RollerCoaster Tycoon games. I love the games but I play the games to complete the objectives, not to make a park with no rides in them or a park that looks great but the guests can't even enter the park.

So that is my true opinion of the RollerCoaster Tycoon games so far. We are all entitled to share our opinions here.

[Blackadder]

I certainly can appreciate your point of view, RCTtom, and I'm sure many people enjoy RCT primarily as a game. Some people (like me) see it more as a simulation to build the parks of our dreams and share them with others. How great that we don't have to choose... RCT can be both!

(I am addicted to RCT and to being a big mouth on the forums. )

Edited by Blackadder, 14 December 2005 - 04:08 AM.

[Ultratycoon]

Hmm, out of 78 people, no one doesn't have RCT2.

[RC14]

The only RCT game I do not own is RCT3 Wild, and I will probubly buy that too. My favourite game is RCT2, but RCT3 has alot of cool new features, and I still like to play RCT1.

[rcthelp]

Hmm our main board index is ordered RCT3 top, RCT2 next, RCT1 bottom. If we used these votes as a guide it should be RCT2 top, RCT1 next, RCT3 bottom!

[Kuroki Mio]

I have the following RollerCoaster Tycoon games:

- RollerCoaster Tycoon with Corkscrew Follies and Loopy Landscapes
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with no expansions (UCES doesn't really count)

[coastercrew]

...my favourite has to be the first one because I love completing the scenarios and unlocking new parks. RCT2 ruins what I liked about the first one by already unlocking all of the scenarios. RCT3 is just too different from the first one sure it's nice to see all of the nice graphics but there is something missing from that one that I liked about the first one.

....Sometimes I feel that I am the only one who actually likes completing the scenarios. I was just wondering if people still play RCT1 just for the scenarios as well.

So I am still an RCT addict, only for the original game though. Occasionally I play RCT2 just to mess around, but unfortuantly no one will be interested in my scenarios because they are rather simplistic and boring. Its all about landscaping and architecture now which in my honest opinion is a huge disappointment for many true fans of the games such as me to actually enjoy completing the scenarios. Why couldn't it just go back to the good old times where people were making scenarios that guests could actually enter the park instead of showing off how good their park looks like. The whole point of RollerCoaster Tycoon was to make a successful theme park with guests inside the park with objectives that were possible to complete.

I hope some people have the same opinion that I have about the RollerCoaster Tycoon games. I love the games but I play the games to complete the objectives, not to make a park with no rides in them or a park that looks great but the guests can't even enter the park.

So that is my true opinion of the RollerCoaster Tycoon games so far. We are all entitled to share our opinions here.

RCTtom Brother Hatfield, you are not alone in being a "player" of the game rather than a "creator" of the ultimate park. I refer to it as the "Hatfields" vs the "McCoys" (see post #188 of the Happy Holidays Forum - pg 19 ).

It's the chess match that drives me to addiction with RCT.

On Dec 2, '01, my son got RCT1 with the LL and CF trifecta for his birthday. The first weekend, I watched as an innocent bystander as the kids played Forest Frontiers, Leafy Lake, Arid Heights, and such. I watched as the kids had fun drowning guests, trapping them in food courts with free drinks and $20 restroom fees, coasters crashing into swarms of trapped guests and other crazy stuff that 9, 10, 11, and 12 yr old boys would do.

By the end of the weekend, after the kids had fizzled out a bit, I got my chance to finally test drive the game, and well, the addiction set in. My first park was Evergreen Gardens and by Xmas I was in year 29, had over 3200 guests, and a park value over $280,000!

In the few weeks leading up to xmas, it didn't take the kids long to realize where the disk was when they wanted to play the game (sitting in my laptop drive). So on Xmas morning '01 Santa got me my very own RCT1 trifecta.

By May or June '02, I had most of the original RCT1 scenerios beat and 6-8 in each of the 2 expansions when my harddrive crashed on my laptop, so make sure you backup often (laptop HDs are not very reliable).

My kids and I loved the excitement, too, of beating a scenerio in RCT1 so that we could see what the next park was. In fact, by the end of Oct '02, when RCT2 was about to come out, we decided that we were going to open all of the rest of the original, LL and CF parks by xmas '02, since we knew Santa would probably bring us RCT2). Nov and Dec were so exciting for us. Everytime someone beat a scenerio, we would all gather around the computer to check out the next park. Then we would decide which of the unbeaten parks still opened we would try to beat next. Since the kids had there own computer, they were in a race with me to get to the end.

When we opened RCT2 Xmas morning and found out that all the scenerios were already opened, we were very disappointed We tried making our own scenerios and that was fun for awhile, but it did not have quite the excitement. I made a few good scenerios, two of which you can find at RCTTOWN, Colombia River Gorge and Skull Mountains. I've downloaded some of these other scenerios, but most do not have the quality that I'm looking for.

I never quite got into RCT2 like I did with RCT1 trifecta. I beat a few scenerios and played a few but gave up from lack of incentive. I did play Rainbow Summit 11 times and still haven't figured out how to beat it and lost to Gravity Gardens once.

I played RCT3 once and like yourself, did not get much excitement out of it. I will return to it someday.

Becky, got me back interested in the forums with her two recent competitions "Happy Holidays" and
"RCT2.com 1st ANNUAL SUPER CELL CONTEST", so you never know what's going to happen. If you have time, you should check out this CELL contest, since it gives us "Hatfields" a chance and it's very strategic. It's also forcing me to learn how to make, well half decent structures and scenery (with the help of Emergo's works). BTW, I bet you could pick out my holiday park, since you're a true player like I am (you can't post your guess until Xmas , though).

Actually, I'd like to see a "Scenerio Exchange" here at RCT2.com if there are people like yourself interested. Maybe we could get one of the hackers here, to fix RCT2, so that parks are closed until previous parks are beaten? Who knows, these hackers seem to be able to pull off just about anything. Then we could package a bunch of scenerios up for download and maybe get the same affect?

[rcthelp]

That's a great story coastercrew.

Did Santa bring you an internet connection for Xmas 2002 as well as RCT2? I couldn't help but notice your join date for the forums here.

Did you everfinish all the RCT1 secnarios? You can crack the ones you didn't (if any) by downloading my RCT - ACceSS All Parks program from our download section.

As I wrote that, does it make me a 'hacker'? There is nothing like the scenario unlocking system in RCT2 to keep the scenarios locked I'm afraid.

[coastercrew]

That's a great story coastercrew.

Thanks, I thought you all would like it.

Did Santa bring you an internet connection for Xmas 2002 as well as RCT2? I couldn't help but notice your join date for the forums here.

No, I already had a connection. Just got bored I guess with not having any incentive to open new parks, that I got online to find some more scenerios. And, hey, I've got an anniversary coming up, so I've got to do something special!

Did you everfinish all the RCT1 secnarios?

No, I never did wind up playing all the scenerios; I did open them all.

You can crack the ones you didn't (if any) by downloading my RCT - ACceSS All Parks program from our download section.

Cool, an access all parks hack. I'll have to try that some day, especially since I no longer have that original laptop and the parks that were on it (should have backed up ).

I did recently download the RCT2 version of Pickle Park, but my son got to playing it and I got into this cell contest and, well I just moved, too. I'd like to see all the RCT1 scenerios in RCT2 someday. Not sure if anyone is still doing these or not?