When will there ever be a new Railroad Tycoon type game?

bhavv · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:02

I had a craving to play some choo choo train games after getting Train Simulator for £3 and finding it to be nothing but pure suckage.

I ended up with a nostalgia trip and played some Sid Meieres railroads ... but its way too easy and simplistic.

So I tried to play RT3 - crash on boot and then 'unable to find steam'. Plus the graphics are so outdated now.

Why cant any game developer make a shiny new, deeply strategic yet fun railroad game with uber modern graphics and visually stunning trains and environments to ride around in while building up a huge railroad network with RT3's strategic depth?

WHY

wnb · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:05

Not enought money in it? Wont sell on consoles so no port to the pc.

MagicBoy · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:09

Ah, the buggy crashfest that is Railworks I presume.

I always preferred Transport Tycoon myself to Railroad Tycoon. TTD sort of went open source and is called OpenTTD.

PhillyDee · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:09

MagicBoy said:
Ah, the buggy crashfest that is Railworks I presume.

I always preferred Transport Tycoon myself, it's now sort of open source and called OpenTTD.

Totally open source now, they completely rebuilt the game files. You used to need the original disk!

MagicBoy · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:11

PhillyDee said:
Totally open source now, they completely rebuilt the game files. You used to need the original disk!

Yeah, needed a graphics library IIRC. I had the CD so it wasn't an issue.

bhavv · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:22

What is Trainz Simulator 12 like? Any good for track / industry building stuff or is it all about boring driving?

All these games look so out of date as well, its sad that they cant use an up to date engine.

People complain about the graphics in Skyrim, erm nope, do take a look at these rather horrid train games.

I'll give Train Simulator 2012 another go, but from what I can see, its just a boring driving game.

MagicBoy · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:26

bhavv said:
I'll give Train Simulator 2012 another go, but from what I can see, its just a boring driving game.

Yeah, it's a modern rehash of MS Train Sim which must be 10 years old now.

I suspect it was cheap on Steam in the hope they'll make loads of £££ selling DLC packs to train spotters.

peterattheboro · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:35

I've been praying for a photo realistic 2D version of Rollercoaster Tycoon for ages now

bhavv · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:37

peterattheboro said:
I've been praying for a photo realistic 2D version of Rollercoaster Tycoon for ages now

Why not 3D?

peterattheboro · 25 Dec 2011 at 01:41

3D sucks.

Dauthi · 25 Dec 2011 at 07:34

bhavv said:
Why not 3D?

I find 3D actually makes constuction of things harder and just litters the screen.

Ash-Lee · 25 Dec 2011 at 08:01

Open TTD.

Still my favorite.

bhavv · 25 Dec 2011 at 08:18

3D doesnt suck, what about a fixed perspective 3D game, essentially 2D but with 3D backgrounds?

Treebiter · 25 Dec 2011 at 09:01

Another vote for a 2D HD Railroad Tycoon 1. Great game. OTTD is awesome too though.

iviv · 25 Dec 2011 at 12:18

MagicBoy said:
Yeah, needed a graphics library IIRC. I had the CD so it wasn't an issue.

Yeah, they've released the opengfx, opensfx and openmsx, which replaces the graphics, sound effects and music respectively, meaning that you can just download the whole thing without needing the original CD. That said, I still use the original music because I don't think anything can beat that.

wnb · 25 Dec 2011 at 12:23

iviv said:
Yeah, they've released the opengfx, opensfx and openmsx, which replaces the graphics, sound effects and music respectively, meaning that you can just download the whole thing without needing the original CD. That said, I still use the original music because I don't think anything can beat that.

I wil try it again

long since lost my cd so no original music for me

kieves1 · 25 Dec 2011 at 12:44

I think you can get railroad tycoon deluxe from abandonia.com if I remember correctly.nostalgia all the way

Kosmiche · 25 Dec 2011 at 13:12

Sid Meiers Railroads is sooooooo underrated, very nice game with oodles of charm and character.

It's "easy" because its not supposed to be a mega stressful game, you're supposed to just watch the trains go round and feel all fuzzy.

linktoinsanity · 25 Dec 2011 at 13:20

I have Railroad Tycoon 2 on Steam. Fantastic game, works perfectly well and I still fire it up from time to time.

Vern1961 · 13 Jan 2012 at 08:37

bhavv said:
What is Trainz Simulator 12 like? Any good for track / industry building stuff or is it all about boring driving?

Trainz 2012 is simply the latest version of the old Auran software which started out in 2001. Some people prefer it to Railworks (aka RailFail, RailPay) as the editors are a bit easier to get to grips with and there's more in the way of interactive industry. You can just give every train strings of commands if you can't be bothered with the driving and watch them go about their business, but there's no real economic or logistics to it. (As opposed to RailPay where the business model is to line the coffers of RSC with their rushed to market decidely mundane payware DLC

).

At one point in Trainz development a "Boss" module was mooted which would have added the strategy/economic side into the programme, but this got canned then not long after most of the original developers got canned or left Auran, then Auran nearly went bankrupt before being taken over by N3V.

A new Transport Tycoon would be awesome if it ever happened, I don't know what Chris Sawyer is up to these days but if he's still programming there is always money to be made in this genre.