WW = Worst Expansion Ever

Well, your second argument fails in that the included scenereos don't let you have four or five different "twist" variations at once. You get ONE.

Sorry, they're not new rides. They're new themes for existing rides. You consider it a fine line, I do not. Imagine going to a park that advertises "50 rides" only to find that all 50 of them are just differnetly painted and themed "Enterprise" type rides. Tell me you think those are all *different* rides then...

Wacky Worlds is the worst expansion pack ever, just like the thread title says. You may quibble with that, and the pack is not completely without value, but most of the 'new rides' are impossible to tell what they are without a label (the graphics are pretty bad... the kite ride? Those are kites? Huh? Glad someone told me that). The graphics are poor. Many of the new objects don't seem to "fit" with the rest of the game. Most are generally useless, imho. For me, it's also the "most disappointing" expansion pack ever. It could have, should have, and NEEDED to be so much more than this crap they're pawning off on us for the same price as the full original game. It's a money grab, pure and simple. It's insulting.

I have the feeling that WW offers the same stuff that was going to be available for free download on the official website. What was it called? RCTuesday or something?

Somehow it never really happened as announced. Why give something away for free if you can charge it?

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aBusement park

^^^ Good point.

The only thing I really wanted in WW was the Rocket Coaster. That's about it. I mean, honestly, how hard would it have been to add vertical peices and a powered launch to the Giga? This was just a pathetic excuse for an expansion, and I'm insulted too.

I think Trick Track may be on to something after all I've read that once you install WW you don't need the disk anymore,you use your RCT2 disk.

Another thing: If Chris Sawyer had nothing to do with this then a case can be made that it was just thrown out on the market to make a quick buck by Infrogames. The actual author of the original would surely have added something ENTIRELY NEW (new words for this thread, means never before seen in the game in any shape or form)

The only 2 types of coaster we don't have in the game that I can think of are Rocket and Vekoma Tilt.

We need to have more piece and operation mode options for the coasters we have(current giga could become rocket with 1 new piece and an operation mode change) Is it that hard to just give all piece options to the rides( ex. big and little loops for corkscrew coasters) Chris would just have to draw a few new graphics

Oh and 1 new piece that I have been screaming for since Corkscrew Follies . Large Half Corkscrews for better looking dive loops
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JOHN
RCT INSOMNIACS
KIMBERLY LAKE INC.

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Anonymouse said:

Sorry, they're not new rides. They're new themes for existing rides. You consider it a fine line, I do not. Imagine going to a park that advertises "50 rides" only to find that all 50 of them are just differnetly painted and themed "Enterprise" type rides. Tell me you think those are all *different* rides then...

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And that's why it's completely ridiculous to compare the game to a real life park. (as I mentioned in the "kpjb challenge" reply)

Look how far you're being forced to stretch reasonable thought to make an arguement. 50 of the same ride at one park. This is just silly.

It's a shame some of you refuse to enjoy WW. It's also your perrogative.

Anyone find the frist week's sales figures anywhere yet?

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Dorney Park Visits in 2003: 4

I've been hearing quite frequently throughout this thread that you can't use some of the re- themed rides (twist for example) in the pre built scenario's.

What I want to know is can you select more than one version of a ride when creating a custom scenario when using the scenario editor? it makes no sense not to be able to do so if you were trying to create a multi themed park.

*** This post was edited by BATWING FAN SFA 5/15/2003 11:43:54 AM ***

In the scenario editor, you can mix and match and choose whatever rides or scenery you want up to the limits of the game.

BATWING FAN, it's another way those who dislike the game "twist" words to make it sound worse.

Each new scenario is themed to a specific continent (asia, africa, north america) in those scenarios only versions of rides themed to that content are available. (for example, the fire cracker ride is an asian themed Enterprise ride. It is not available in any scenarios but the asia ones -which makes perfect sense if you think about it)

When doing custom stuff, you can mix and match however you please.

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Dorney Park Visits in 2003: 4

*** This post was edited by Lord Gonchar 5/15/2003 12:15:55 PM ***

LG: I found the sales figures for the first week... there were only fourteen copies sold worldwide.

Probably the other thirteen besides you will return it, too.

Indisputable proof. They're all right.

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Come on, fhqwgads!

Well, Infrogames is paying me to try to talk everyone into buying their game. Phase 1 (AKA "project buzz forum") is well under way.

And as an insider I can tell you that the next add-on will include nothing but a box. People will complain about the box, but it will deliver everything it promised. I will be here again then, reminding everyone how great the box really is and how it was certainly worth the $30.

I mean, who doesn't simply adore shiny boxes?

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Dorney Park Visits in 2003: 4

Ok I got this game today and have tinkered with it some

There is what I would consider a NEW RIDE it is the Huskey dog sled ride. It is like the mini-car ride but with dog sleds and the dogs walk. cool

Gripes- the graphics do suck(they look kinda like when we used trainers to put different trains on different tracks in rct1)

I don't like the giant cops on the car themed tea cups. Without the cops we could theme this as we choose(demolision derby) but with them it just isnt right

The animals for the jungle theming are too damn big . The kangaroo is bigger that the old dinosaurs. also they are not animated as far as I can tell

On some of the rides I have tried to repaint them and can't see anything that changed color.

Some of the ride themes and new scenery are useless

Plusses- there are some new vehicles for the boat hires and mini cars like the afore mentioned dog sled

The dragon head themed coaster looks pretty cool

The fifties style rocket cars for the suspended look good especially if you use 1 car trains

The Condor trains for the b&M flier look good

some of the theming pieces will come in handy especially the the new brick wall pieces but keep in mind there is an A$$ of new scenery and mixed with custom scenery I reached my limit in the senario editor before I got to the M'S on the alphabetical list of scenery pieces.

My opinion get it if you want to see what others have made(internet downloads CB games) or if you want to build larger parks with different looking rides instead of littering them with scramblers. Get it from Circuit City while it's on sale 19.99

Wait for another expansion or sequel by Chris Sawyer himself if you want ENTIRELY NEW rides and coasters. All theses things added to this expansion will probably be in it.

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JOHN
RCT INSOMNIACS
KIMBERLY LAKE INC.

the game isnt' that great , i mean the scenery is cool , but they just have the same tracks with different trains (exp.Great White Shark Ride)

~Nickalodeon

I agree that this is the worst expansion ever for RCT. All of this new scenery could have been made by someone with a scenery creator, all of the roller coasters in the scenarios looks like a beginer threw them together at the last minute. Is it that hard for them to have Chris Sawyer come back and have him do the next 3 or 4 expansion packs (they WILL make more, and they're gonna send em' out fast :()

PS: I hate this add on! Every time I try to make a scenario with a new scenery tab (scenery that came with WW), and try and go to the next step (landscape editor) my computer just gives up. :()

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Mike T.
RCT2 Wizards-Medusa99
I support our troops!
*** This post was edited by RCT_MASTER 5/18/2003 1:28:17 PM ***

It wasn't even put through a decent QA... look at just the Great Wall of China scenereo: peeps try to enter the park where there's no entrance, and the white full banner has a few frames at the end of the loop where the top is out of alignment by a few pixels. Just sloppy. Definitely a money-grap and definitely the worst "expansion pack" for an RCT game, ever.

Two bugs I have found

I have gotten OBJECT NOT AVAILABLE Big Ben messages on both the European senarios when I tried to open them. So the file must be missing.

I can't change the color of any of the new objects that are colorable like the stack of dynamite in 1 scenery group. The stay in the default red color.

Correction to my earlier post about the African animals not being animated, the GIANT(bigger than the old dinosaurs) pink flamingos are. The preening flamingo keeps biting his own ass (kinda funny). Also the ice fishing holes in the arctic scenery are animated
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JOHN
RCT INSOMNIACS
KIMBERLY LAKE INC.