Railroad Tycoon

iviv · 23 Dec 2009 at 17:31

2 or 3?

Both for sale on steam, and I love Tycoon games, but it seems a little superfluous to get both of them so... which do I pick? Is 2 the best? I've not played wither of them, but loved TTDX.

Thanks ^_^

utajoker · 23 Dec 2009 at 17:56

2 is much better, in 3 it was so difficult to set up train routes so i just gave up.

GreenMint · 23 Dec 2009 at 18:37

So tempted by 2, 3 and Sid Meirs Railroads for £10, is 2 the best of the 3 in terms of use? Never heard much about the Sid Meir one!

paradigm · 23 Dec 2009 at 19:34

TimBrad said:
So tempted by 2, 3 and Sid Meirs Railroads for £10, is 2 the best of the 3 in terms of use? Never heard much about the Sid Meir one!

Sid Meirs created Railroad Tycoon, railroads was a continuation of the series, but was over simplified in an attempt to get more people playing. As a result, anyone who enjoyed Railroad Tycoon found Railroads to be utterly ****, boring, and not worth the disk space used to install.

All the above are utterly wiped to the floor with Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon however, even though its as old as the hills, it is still the most playable of all the Tycoon games. What's more, with OpenTTD and its huge following and updating content, not only is it incredibly cheap, but maintained and natively supportable on Linux, Windows and Mac.

utajoker · 23 Dec 2009 at 19:36

you could also look at transport tycoon 2. not just trainst but trucks planes boats too.

K.C. Leblanc · 23 Dec 2009 at 19:59

Try OpenTTD. It's TTD but with much better signaling and you can play it online.

simisker · 23 Dec 2009 at 21:06

RR2 was a much more enjoyable game than 3, which had too much emphasis on the 'Tycoon'. It also has a lot more charm, with some lovely music and interesting scenarios [Presidential Whistlestop tour, anyone?].

The only problem I've found is the ultra-sensitive screen-edge scrolling due to today's mind-bogglingly fast CPUs. A CPU-slowing program should sort that out, though.

Biohazard · 23 Dec 2009 at 21:12

Railroads is complete rubbish.

You can't have any more than 4 lines going into anyone station, very limited amount of trains and stock. Never any updates or anything iirc.

It held my attention for about a day iirc.

snowdog · 23 Dec 2009 at 21:12

I found RT2 very hard and gave up on it, I love RT3 on the other hand, bought a used retail copy on steam and got all the massive charts and bookies with it. I love everything about that game.

Sid Meiers game is rubbish. While I love Civ4, he fails at tycoon type games.

S7rider · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:14

Aye search for open ttd, they continued to patch ttd. its amazing really + the multiplayer aspect is great fun

Deadbeat · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:23

Another vote for TTD - best by a long shot.

Lil old me · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:34

Open TTD > *

Samueltastic · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:38

I've got Loccomotion by Chris Sawyers. It's exactly the same as Transport Tycoon.

dl763 · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:48

+1 for Locomotion

paradigm · 24 Dec 2009 at 09:58

Samueltastic said:
I've got Loccomotion by Chris Sawyers. It's exactly the same as Transport Tycoon.

Exactly the same, only worse.

iviv · 24 Dec 2009 at 12:49

Yeah, got and love TTD (And open TTD) But since these games were so cheap I figured I should grab one, just so I could say I've been there and done that