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I agree with you, I do hope there will be an RCT4, RCT5 and so on... It's such a great game, and the other theme park/amusement park management type games just don't breath some er, life into it like the RCT series does. RCT was the game that made me start playing tycoon games.we no longer get the famous "Braben Shots" anymore or "Brookes Shots" respectively known also as () and since RCT is close to being, if not, a dead platform, kept alive by the very scenerymakers the publisher or developer might have stopped from importing custom scenery, David sometimes throws the starving masses a clue to the future, or perhaps a bread crumb.
I guess when one is starving after being so loyal to a product, any crumb seems tempting and delicious, even if its old and moldy, it still is better than starving for any information you can come by.
Currently the way it appears, you have ThrillVille as the only 3DRCG (3D Roller Coaster Game) or 3DTPG (3D Theme Park Game) available, since RCT3 is dying a long slow death, and its very doubtful that an RCT4 will be along anytime soon. But the future is always changing, uncertain, to loosely quote one of ol' Georgie Boy's Star Wars characters namingly "Yoda" not Yogurt! Eeew what a horrible thought, a yogurt bar named Yoda...yuck!
One never knows where things will end up, and its my hope that there is an RCT4 and RCT5 and a ThrillVille for the PC, and that NL and VR merge to begin a 3DTPG, and most of all that the community gets its act together and makes their own game, something Braben has seriously dismissed, but I think may well happen and much to the dismay of professional developers and publishers. Because there is no price for raw determination and control of one's own future, especially when one or lets say, a great many, were so loyal only to be abandoned and ignored.
Example. Look at this one single guy named Jonwil. While the publisher of rct3 promised early on scenery importing and dev kind of reaffirmed it through misc. statements in the old Atari forums, they ignored the issue and their customer's, so this one single guy with (get this David Braben) "Tremendous Talents in Programming" figured out not only how to import custom made scenery but also animated scenery and many other things as well.
David, while Jonwil's success may seem trivial to you, I greatly applaud his efforts and talents and I'll tell you why. Because his efforts have allowed the RCT3 platform to stay alive. In fact the RCT3 platform has greater value and a longer life now than it ever has, even if the Publisher abandoned the userbase and the Developer won't fix certain, erhmmm, older issues that need fixing.
So like I say, where there is a way there may well be a will, and the winners in the long run may well be the users who were abandoned and the general 3DTPG marketplace. By having many resources for park builders like myself to build our 3D parks and model them accurately after the real deal, I don't care how, but I'll take whatever works.
I agree with you, I do hope there will be an RCT4, RCT5 and so on... It's such a great game, and the other theme park/amusement park management type games just don't breath some er, life into it like the RCT series does. RCT was the game that made me start playing tycoon games.
I agree with you, I do hope there will be an RCT4, RCT5 and so on... It's such a great game, and the other theme park/amusement park management type games just don't breath some er, life into it like the RCT series does. RCT was the game that made me start playing tycoon games.
I want RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 to be reveled at E3 in July
Don't count on it.
I doubt Atari would publish RCT4 if it were to be made as they abandoned RCT3, not supporting further expansions/updates/patches etc
Well I did read it, but it didn't really say much as far as Atari not supporting rct3 as far as the initial comments were a bit too vague. But it did become a hate sebar crowd at the end of the post ...comes with the turf I guess.
Michael looked good sitting there and having fun. David in a black suit....whoa dude! And I can just guess who the white hotrod belongs too...
Actually I do hope TVPC comes out, cause there isn't anything to be available for a while.
A shame if it doesn't Even though we are making a brand new full blown 3D community created 3DTPG (Theme Park Game) I would have preferred to have had many others including ThrillVille and I actually encourage David to continue and bring it to the PC/Mac platform as we are going to do.
You need to understand that from my perspective I actually like these and each would offer their unique fun as well.
Now for the folks with the we can post anything. Yes I coined the phrase of Braben or Brookes Shots, because both were good enough to post them for the community when RCT3 was in its hey day at the Atari forums, and the stands for Braben or Brookes Shots which are the initials regardless of what some may think. RCG is another acronym I coined for Roller Coaster Game and TPG for Theme Park Game which RCT3 and TV (yet another acronym) ThrillVille actually are. It is just easy to type two letters than spell it out, and generally almost everyone figures out what the acronym means.
The shame would be if TV didn't come out for the PC "Personal Computer" not 'Politically Correct'.
So here is to my use of acronyms proudly in the "EL" ENGLISH Language which of course was founded by the English and used around the globe....very proudly!
Actually David knows where I stand on issues. I am here originally from 1998 and the official sales release of rct in 1999 so I have pretty well been here from the very start. I also made the most flatrides for rct2 originally though they are getting close to my old record now-a-days...
It just shows you the fine line betwen my genius and their insanity, but hey, at least we did get for a "SHORT" time a 3D RCG of sorts even if it wasn't a true 3D RCG. (I do love so bugging the people who hate acronyms by the way) but that's life in the RCG world.
I am sure that ol' George Lucas and David are making TV for the PC. It doesn't make good business sense not too. In fact I hope they do, and when they do, I will purchase their product faithfully, and David, I will give it an honestreview. If it is good I will recommend it, even with TPB3D on the way. If it is bad I will also tell you the low points. You need to understand that my review will be based on what is actually there. I have been a major advocate of having many TPG (Theme Park Games) the more the better, and this will remain my stance. For me, it makes new literary material to author stories or news based upon and that is my primary interest. In this case it would be news as I do this journalistically.
I do wish I could review an RCT4 but I truly see RCT as a platform as being about as dead as Jeannie blinking a doornail to life when her powers are gone. But the future as Yoda said, is always uncertain, so who knows, maybe we will see an RCT4 if things straighten out in time.