What's the reason do you love Planet Zoo
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For me , Its the whole creative sandbox aspect being able to build real life zoos and make them work. While i love seeing the animals ingame , I rarely get a chance to actually appreciate the animals themselves rather being wowed by the habitat designs. Also the fact there is a really nice community behind the game to support wanting to play compared to many other games these days
I've been a zoo enthusiast since the Zoo Tycoon days in the early 2000s, attempted to find career in the industry but sadly not yet able to do so. But then with the release of this game, it kept my motivation and reminded me of what I love the most to very personal levels. Sure there are inaccuracies and glitches that still bugs you while playing, but that in turn sharpens your senses when it comes to animals. Even during pandemic, where we hardly had chances to visit zoos IRL, the game helped me endure and was a driving force to keep chasing my dream career. For that I simply want to thank you for being a great milestone in the history of zoo games and a milestone for me too.
Ah a great topic
Sorry for what might be a long story
So when I was 10 I got zoo tycoon and I was so hooked on the game. Loved making the zoos yet thibgs drive me away from the game as time went on. Some animals weren’t happy despite the habitats being well suited for them. Guests could never be satisfied. Running out of money. The mythical animals. Animals that can no way no how be apart of real zoos such as humpback whales. Etc it felt like old problems were rarely solved and the game was going overboard. I stopped playing when I got a new computer and started playing wow and StarCraft with friends. I never got to play zoo tycoon 2 and didn’t feel a great need to do so.
Years later I started to miss playing zoo tycoon and I had a MacBook labtop and therefore I could no longer play the game. Apart of me really wanted to play it again somehow but also hoped there would be a remake. There was the Xbox version and I didn’t have an Xbox or want to play a management game on a console. Eventually PZ was announced and my MacBook started to die. 2020 comes around and I got my current labtop and joined y’all.
PZ has done way more than zoo tycoon with a sense of realism and management that makes the game really fit into todays gaming. Because of y’all I learned of animals I never knew existed before and what zoos outside the USA have/don’t have.
Durring Covid I played the game a lot and started watching Natgeo and animal planet zoo shows.
2021 I worked as an educator, while non of the animals I worked with are in game, I felt like playing the game helped me with creating my own animal talks (too long to explain).
I like management/builder games. I was originally blown away with sim city 2013 and ended up incredibly disappointed and longing for another game. Cities skylines came out and I have never looked back when it comes to city building.
While I liked dinosaur digs expansion pack, I had also longed for a dinosaur park game. I learned from kickstarter that prehistoric kingdom was being made and I chipped in some money. I have patiently waited, played a bit of it but I would like to wait until it is a bit more fleshed out. I also didn’t know of Jurassic world evolution until I joined the frontier forums, maybe I will give it a shot but idk why I never steered toward it.
Sorry for what might be a long story
So when I was 10 I got zoo tycoon and I was so hooked on the game. Loved making the zoos yet thibgs drive me away from the game as time went on. Some animals weren’t happy despite the habitats being well suited for them. Guests could never be satisfied. Running out of money. The mythical animals. Animals that can no way no how be apart of real zoos such as humpback whales. Etc it felt like old problems were rarely solved and the game was going overboard. I stopped playing when I got a new computer and started playing wow and StarCraft with friends. I never got to play zoo tycoon 2 and didn’t feel a great need to do so.
Years later I started to miss playing zoo tycoon and I had a MacBook labtop and therefore I could no longer play the game. Apart of me really wanted to play it again somehow but also hoped there would be a remake. There was the Xbox version and I didn’t have an Xbox or want to play a management game on a console. Eventually PZ was announced and my MacBook started to die. 2020 comes around and I got my current labtop and joined y’all.
PZ has done way more than zoo tycoon with a sense of realism and management that makes the game really fit into todays gaming. Because of y’all I learned of animals I never knew existed before and what zoos outside the USA have/don’t have.
Durring Covid I played the game a lot and started watching Natgeo and animal planet zoo shows.
2021 I worked as an educator, while non of the animals I worked with are in game, I felt like playing the game helped me with creating my own animal talks (too long to explain).
I like management/builder games. I was originally blown away with sim city 2013 and ended up incredibly disappointed and longing for another game. Cities skylines came out and I have never looked back when it comes to city building.
While I liked dinosaur digs expansion pack, I had also longed for a dinosaur park game. I learned from kickstarter that prehistoric kingdom was being made and I chipped in some money. I have patiently waited, played a bit of it but I would like to wait until it is a bit more fleshed out. I also didn’t know of Jurassic world evolution until I joined the frontier forums, maybe I will give it a shot but idk why I never steered toward it.
I have always loved animals and going to the zoo was and still is one of my favorite trips. Also I love being creative. Thanks to this game we can now visit the zoo of our dreams every day! I love Building and decorating but I can also just sit down and enjoy watching the animals. So yeah best zoo game so far!
I like zoos and always wants a zoo game, so i can build my own.
I'm primarily a simulator genre player, sims, city builders, hotels, zoos that's my main gaming interests. Absolutely love ZT 1 and 2, but was wanting a more modern graphics type of game. I have tried many other zoo simulators over the years and it always left me unsatisfied, either by game play design or graphics. Wildlife Park 2 almost got there, but there were things about the UI I disliked.
Then came Planet Zoo.....I discovered it for preorder in June 2019 and I truly thought was going to be the game to give me what I've been looking for these many years, so I preordered right away. It didn't just give me what I was hoping for, it gave me so much more. It's not perfect but I wasn't looking for perfection, I was looking for a zoo game I was happy with and this more than gave me that. The graphics are fantastic, and the new content, both paid and free updates, always makes me happy. I honestly has surpassed Zoo Tycoon as the best zoo simulation game ever.
The idea of an "other player" franchise market took a bit of getting used to, as past games tended to have an in-game generated set price for animals, and I'd love to see that as an option for franchise in the future. But sandbox is great, though franchise is as well. instead of just going into only sandbox and clicking options to make the game as basically easy as possible, I'm actually playing by the game's rules, which isn't something I do with a lot of games.
Graphics are great, animal selection has been great, minus flying birds, which I don't think were a huge thing in past zoo games anyways....once you know what you're doing the game play UI is pretty good too. Exhibits could use an overhaul but I'm thinking we're just going to see new types of exhibits instead, but that's probably my biggest gripe about the game.
What I also really love about the game is the virtually unlimited creativity. Aside from The Sims series, I've never been much of a "builder" of things, to the point of just not even trying really. I'm still trash at it, but this game as actually made me want to try to become better at it, and I think I have to a degree. So I'm actually using some of that building creativity, though of course not as well as many builders. but i"m actually sharing builds on my steam workshop, something I never thought I'd be doing. I'm actually building most things in my zoos from scratch now, only using a handful of blueprints.
So graphics, animal selection, UI, building creativity, and the desire to become better at both management and building, this game truly has it all for me.
Then came Planet Zoo.....I discovered it for preorder in June 2019 and I truly thought was going to be the game to give me what I've been looking for these many years, so I preordered right away. It didn't just give me what I was hoping for, it gave me so much more. It's not perfect but I wasn't looking for perfection, I was looking for a zoo game I was happy with and this more than gave me that. The graphics are fantastic, and the new content, both paid and free updates, always makes me happy. I honestly has surpassed Zoo Tycoon as the best zoo simulation game ever.
The idea of an "other player" franchise market took a bit of getting used to, as past games tended to have an in-game generated set price for animals, and I'd love to see that as an option for franchise in the future. But sandbox is great, though franchise is as well. instead of just going into only sandbox and clicking options to make the game as basically easy as possible, I'm actually playing by the game's rules, which isn't something I do with a lot of games.
Graphics are great, animal selection has been great, minus flying birds, which I don't think were a huge thing in past zoo games anyways....once you know what you're doing the game play UI is pretty good too. Exhibits could use an overhaul but I'm thinking we're just going to see new types of exhibits instead, but that's probably my biggest gripe about the game.
What I also really love about the game is the virtually unlimited creativity. Aside from The Sims series, I've never been much of a "builder" of things, to the point of just not even trying really. I'm still trash at it, but this game as actually made me want to try to become better at it, and I think I have to a degree. So I'm actually using some of that building creativity, though of course not as well as many builders. but i"m actually sharing builds on my steam workshop, something I never thought I'd be doing. I'm actually building most things in my zoos from scratch now, only using a handful of blueprints.
So graphics, animal selection, UI, building creativity, and the desire to become better at both management and building, this game truly has it all for me.
I love planet zoo because I care about animals so much more than humans lol. Humans are destroying the peaceful world of the wildlife.