Tycoon Games - Where have they gone?

bradeh · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:34

Yo everyone,

I've been playing FPS and MMO's so much in the recent years, i tend to forget about the oldschool times playing tycoon games, like Transport Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Is there any recent ones, or upcoming? Or is it a dying trend these days?

Teki187 · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:37

There is Cities XL that is looking good.

bradeh · 6 Jan 2009 at 15:38

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Edit: Looks awesome with the online mode, looks very cool.

iamTakeo · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:28

Cities XL's FAQ says it'll be released Q1 2009, Lets hope its a good one

snowdog · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:31

Tbh it's dieing, can't compare games like cities XL and real tycoons imo, but I haven't played Cities XL so I can't make a judgement. It's 3d that killed the genre imo...

Every switch to 3d has failed for sims and tycoons:
SC4 to SCS massive fail.
Transport tycoon to games like Sid meiers railroads fail ( and others).
RCT & RCT2 to RCT3 = fail...
Theme hospital to some 3d hospital game I forgot the name of also failed.

Luckily RCT's still work and Transport Tycoon lives on as OpenTTD.

bradeh · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:54

Yeah Transport is a really great game, it's was way ahead of its time.

MystaEB · 6 Jan 2009 at 17:17

I do miss Rollercoaster Tycoon. Used to spend hours upon hours on that game. RCT3 was such a disappointment though.

rsatd · 6 Jan 2009 at 17:41

Remember back in the day there was that dinosaur theme park game, that was awesome.

The Mad One · 6 Jan 2009 at 17:43

snowdog said:
Theme hospital to some 3d hospital game I forgot the name of also failed.

It was just called hospital tycoon, it was fun for 5 minutes but yes epic fail.

Phatjayunoi · 6 Jan 2009 at 18:10

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 are my most favourite of all the series. Especially when you try to emulate the real life theme parks around the country or the world. And then theres building ridiculous rollercoaster rides that will instantly make the customers sick, or just a hilarious way to kill them

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centauri · 6 Jan 2009 at 18:18

You only need one tycoon game: Transport Tycoon!

This game is an absolute classic.

Teki187 · 6 Jan 2009 at 18:48

Phatjayunoi said:
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 are my most favourite of all the series. Especially when you try to emulate the real life theme parks around the country or the world. And then theres building ridiculous rollercoaster rides that will instantly make the customers sick, or just a hilarious way to kill them .

No idea how you can find just building rollercoasters fun. Looks and sounds so boring.

fastwunz · 6 Jan 2009 at 18:51

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 were simply excellent - it was so satisfying to create a cool theme park full of colour and rides. Any making good pathways, and facilities was fun. Watching the money roll in once you had made a wicked park was really satisfying.

bradeh · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:42

Just spent a few hours playing Constructor(old PS1 game) on DOSBox, another really good building game.

queamin · 6 Jan 2009 at 19:47

Never got into Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 but did play theme park on the ps1 but Transport Tycoon is a classic.

PinkFloyd · 6 Jan 2009 at 20:12

fastwunz said:
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 were simply excellent - it was so satisfying to create a cool theme park full of colour and rides. Any making good pathways, and facilities was fun. Watching the money roll in once you had made a wicked park was really satisfying.

Yeh definitely, I've got a save somewhere from RCT 1 on future park where I had so many rollercoasters and the like I was taking in millions

Was awesome

BombayMix · 7 Jan 2009 at 09:39

Used to play RCT1 on the XBox!! :eek:

Played it more then I'm going to admit

My nieces play them, seems where the genre gone, simplistic kiddie games. Cities XL looks good, assuming they can deliver. An ambitious game from a company with no real track record.

dl763 · 7 Jan 2009 at 09:53

Theres a follow up to Transport Tycoon called Locomotion. Its made by the same guy and is soo addictive!

voodooGT · 7 Jan 2009 at 10:00

I think RCT3 is an excellent game. I know it doesn't really bring anything new to the table aside from the graphics. But the game mechanics and the way you play the game remain almost identical to RCT1 and 2. This is good because lets face it RCT 2 was near perfection IMO. It seems sadly that Chris Sawyers' website was last update back in 2005 :mad:

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I'd be interested to know what people really dislike about RCT 3.

snowdog · 7 Jan 2009 at 10:14

dl763 said:
Theres a follow up to Transport Tycoon called Locomotion. Its made by the same guy and is soo addictive!

Dumbed down imo.
No more long distances and advanced interchange creation.... Not enough about trains...