General / Off-Topic RCT 3 Old Footage / Devblog

Kombiice

Kombiice
Hey, do you know whether there is some early development footage of RCT 3 or devblogs? If not, wouldn't it be nice to see some of it?
 

Brett C

Frontier
A ton of that content was hosted on the old Atari website along with the old INA-Community/Ataricommunity forums. All of which does not exist any more, and you have to remember that RCT3 was well before YouTube was a massive website of videos. :(

Tried checking Dailymotion and Gamespot?
 

Empo

Empo
Brett C said:
A ton of that content was hosted on the old Atari website along with the old INA-Community/Ataricommunity forums. All of which does not exist any more, and you have to remember that RCT3 was well before YouTube was a massive website of videos. :(

Tried checking Dailymotion and Gamespot?
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Oh dear, I feel old now
 

cerealfruitcakes

cerealfruitcakes
I honestly don't remember them putting out a lot of dev material, if any at all. It was pretty much the announcement, some screenshots, the trailer, hands on at E3 or with some game sites, a demo and then it was out. I remember staring at these screenshots for an unhealthy amount of time,
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rollercoaster-tycoon-3-preview/1100-6092089/

I know this isn't early footage but it's fun to see. Here was the first trailer shown for the game, (horrible quality)
[video=youtube;vC_nc7LwGWw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC_nc7LwGWw[/video]

Lots of memories back then on the forums where everyone started fighting about how cartoony it was with comparisons to Theme Park World/Sim Theme Park. RCT3 definitely began the split down the base on how an RCT game should look. It came out when I was starting college and my roommate laughed at me for playing a kids game. Ha! [heart]

Also when the demo came out it didn't run very well which caused the community to roar some more. I think Frontier put out a performance patch for the demo? Might be wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HuhgQbEHU

I think Frontier did an amazing job taking their cartoony look in RCT3 and blending it with realism for Planet coaster.
 
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Brett C

Frontier
Ah, 240p - we meet again. [haha]

RCT3 definitely began the split down the base on how an RCT game should look.
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I actually do remember this being hotly debated on the Atari forums. Those were some fun discussions back then, a very heated subject all around - before and after the release of the game.

Also when the demo came out it didn't run very well which caused the community to roar some more. I think Frontier put out a performance patch for the demo? Might be wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HuhgQbEHU
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We might have something listed on our RCT3 forum on the main frontier forums here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=5 :)
 

0BobTheJanitor

0BobTheJanitor
Poor site died at 13 [cry]
It's always mindblowing going threads on sites years old and seeing "Happy birthday", then scrolling down more and seeing "Happy Birthday" again.
 

DarkRider2k3

D
The atari forums were so awesome!! This brings back so many memories.. especially of the game :(.

I still have it installed on my PC. It is the steam version, but that's only because I couldn't find my original RCT cd's..
 

Buffpuff

Buffpuff
0BobTheJanitor said:
In all its poor styled and low-textured glory.[yesnod]
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See we're just showing our age with posts like that. I pulled out my box of games in the attic the other day and found RCT1 and RCT2 (with all the expansions). Is it sad to say I've got 100+ games collecting dust? So many memories...That's the one thing I could say is bad about digital collections. No disc or box to look at later to reminisce (or however you spell it).
 
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