Question for Planet Coaster players.

[Deleted member 110222]

So my mum's partner likes his park builders.

The thing is though, he still plays Roller Coaster Tycoon 2... Yeah. I mean it's a good game but it's a bit dated.

My mum has been asking me about computers for a while now, and when she mentioned that he likes his park builders, I told her about Planet Coaster.

Now I'm quietly looking at a system that could run the game. But what I don't know is, what is the game actually like?

Obviously it is a park builder, but, what I'd like to know is, how much space do you have to build? Is it online-only? And would you say it holds up to other park builders?

 

[moorison]

This game is not restricted to a tile grid anymore and there is a selection of premade skins for buildings, which are now mostly featureless so you can be as creative in decorating your park as you want with almost no limitation. This can get a bit distracting in my opinion and I noticed that the framerate drops with very elaborate decorations or huge crowds of NPCs. There are several settings (grassland, desert, etc) for the maps, the official park entrance is inside the building area and not at the border so you can change the area leading to the entrance as well. The map sizes are decent in my opinion but you always want more if given the choice obviously.
I have not tried to play it offline and there are features that encourage online play like sharing parks and rides. Some people have remade the station buildings or stores from the old RTC-games in the workshop. I think it still uses Denuvo DRM, which would require an online connection in certain intervals (weeks?), and there are regular free patches and sold DLC.

I have not played in a while but I think there are still features missing compared to the complete RCT3. There is also Parkitect which seems to be more like a 3D remake of the old games.

 

[Barking_Mad]

I think the criticism is that it lacks some of the management aspects of other games but creativity wise it's pretty much second to none. Check out the Alien ride on YouTube. Amazing stuff.

 

[starman]

Its like digital lego.

My mum is addicted to the web and old movies.

 

[DoctorDanny]

Pretty good builder, but lacking in the management part IMO.

I've only played it for something like 6 or 7 hours as I didn't find much 'game' in it.

 

[starman]

I will admit dot really get it. Imagine if u had to compete with other parks.

Frontier needs to make a game with a Battle Royale mode in it.


A high fidelity version of Prison Architect


a football manage rsyle game or Planet football.

A game that links elite planet coaster and jurasic world more dcross promo

Better marketing.

More diversity in players.