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More importantly, signals weren’t needed at either side of a bridge for when they would freakishly wash out in the first. No need for signals (even though in the first, signals were optional). Railroad Tycoon 2 was great in that it simplified many things from the first. Graphical engine limitations I know, and on the whole, both Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3 were prettier to look at most of the time, but building that rail through the wilds of Canada just didn’t look right. In fact, when Railroad Tycoon 2 and 3 came along, I wished in some ways there was still an original railroad tycoon style display given the way tracks looked like rubbish when going through a moutainside. Railroad Tycoon, the original showed that graphics don’t matter, it is the gameplay which is important. In fact, Microprose were great at bringing a particular setting alive (like Pirates!). Consider the meta game on the side which integrated nicely was the stockmarket. It wasn’t just a game about building rails, it was a game which brought the player into the setting of the time, rail barons and cut throat competition. Railroad Tycoon (and Railroad Tycoon Deluxe) did a lot in bringing in the genre to the gaming crowd. The demo itself didn’t feel fun, and the comments over the internet were very quick to highlight the flaws in a poor AI, and building bridges everywhere. Trouble is, it wasn’t suitable for laying down vast stretches or rail or road from what I remember. I remember it having a similar interface for laying rails as it did for rollercoaster tycoon. What did Chris do? Get tired of programming? I only played the demo of Locomotion before deciding it wasn’t for me. Where Chris Sawyer could have improved was with Locomotion. Thinking about Transport Tycoon makes me want to go back and fire it up. The biggest failing is that by concentrating mainly on rail meant that money was never going to be short unless there were major problems with the routing, such as massive cross continental routes that take a train all year to deliver their goods. It would need to make ship and air transport a lot more viable money wise.

In the modern day, this game would need to work harder to appeal to the masses.

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Considering it was good enough to lead to an open source project to keep it alive, an unofficial patch for the retail game that expanded its scope massively, and as a result, it just seemed to tick all of the right boxes.

With Transport Tycoon, it was a phenominal success as far as I can tell without any hard figures. The list of transport style games that I have include If Phil Steinmeyer makes another RRT game though, I will buy it.įor me personally, I’m a little jaded with transport games right now. My conclusion from the long post below is: the quality of transport games of recent times have been fairly poor.

Any theories? Was the market just tired of railroad games? I need to play around with RRT2 since I grabbed it during the steam xmas sale last year.Ī lot of you guys seem to like RRTCIII, but I don’t think it sold all that well. I don’t think we ever completed an mp game. I liked RRT3, but it didn’t seem to be the most stable game in multiplayer.

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Yeah, Firaxis actively promoted it as the return of the series to them. I still don’t get what they thought they were doing with that title - previews specifically promoted its lineage to the earlier games and yet when it was released I remember seeing a dev post (possibly here) where the dev acted like they were surprised people were expecting something closer to the RRT games. So even though the economy is probably better and the graphics definately are, RRT2 seems to offer more gameplay.

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Plus putting in rail doesn’t deform the map in RRT3. RRT3 just doesn’t have as many good maps, and as cool as the “ride along” aspect is, it really drives home how abstract the game is.

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