Developer: Frontier Developments
Release dates: Alpha: 22 March 2016, General Release: Q4 2016
Genre: Coaster Park Simulation
Website: https://www.planetcoaster.com
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CREATE, BUILD, SHARE AND EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST COASTER PARKS
Planet Coaster is the future of coaster park simulation games.
We’ve created a living world where every guest is an individual with their own personality and money in their pocket. We’re giving you limitless freedom to build rides and scenery piece by piece, and to seamlessly blend them with your own hand-sculpted terrain. We’re building a connected global village where everyone can share in your creativity. And that’s just the start.
Planet Coaster: hands-on with Frontier's theme park sim
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Planet Coaster is the spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon, that beloved series of theme park simulators. The basic premise hasn’t changed much—build a park, fill it with rides, keep the punters happy—but now there are many extra layers of complexity. The simulation is richer the creation tools are more powerful.
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You aren’t just snapping parts together like a Lego set: you can combine objects, splice them together, resize them, and do pretty much anything to ensure your park looks unique. But the option to snap to a grid is there if you need a hand.
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And, as is tradition with games like these, you can click on any ride you build—whether it’s a coaster or a so-called ‘flat ride’ like a drop tower—and view the action through the eyes of the shrieking guests. The parks are brilliantly alive, and I spend some time flying the camera around looking at people milling around and mascots waddling along in oversized costumes.
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Much like Frontier’s other big game, space sim Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster will be released as an alpha first. Players will be able to pre-order and get an early glimpse of the finished product. It’s a model that worked brilliantly with Elite, and Frontier is expecting similar things for this game. “We’ll be listening to the community,” says Watts.
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This sounds and already looks awesome. But as Frontier is involved in this, i'm not that excited.
FD recently sent me a mail about this. They said, that since I was such a long term backer of theirs (bought the merc edition of Elite), they gave me a code for this game.
Wow, that is so nice of them. Let me just redee...oh...
It's just a 10% discount coupon for pre-ordering it. For £50 (I guess £45 with the code). Yeah, no thanks.
But after the generic albeit really beautiful mess that was elite: dangerous I dare not get my hopes up for this game.
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Because it's FD. They're niche. They know they can charge whatever price they want because there's no real alternative to them in the genre.
Kind of like Eagle Dynamics and the Lock On series.
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Looks nice... what a cunt doing that video though. Seems like all these imbeciles on the tube have the same approach.
Yeah the only other one I could see was clearly struggling with basic computer comprehension skills. it does show off some of the pre-made parks though and what's possible
There's a few people on Twitch streaming the alpha if you want to see people taking their time with stuff.
There's a few people on Twitch streaming the alpha if you want to see people taking their time with stuff.
NO.
From what i read from user reviews and and reviews on some gaming websites i visit, the hype is already too much for me.
Nearly all the people seem to be pretty enthusiastic about the game.
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The game files have been uploaded, work is going on with the crack it seems.
Just can't be arsed to spend +60€ to play this at the moment, even though it's itching quite hard
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Performance was okay for me. Got ~50fps on average with high settings. Lowest was around 40fps.
In this kind of genre i don't need constant 60fps really. Though in relation to the graphics it could still run a bit better. They still have enough time before release to optimize it more.
But from the quick look i got at the game, it might turn out really well.
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The big question is, can you murder guests in the most imaginative and deviant ways? Because that was a good 80% of the fun for me in the original RCT games
(in all seriousness, it does look interesting, but I shall wait till there's a more refined version available )
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