Park / The Masterpiece

13-September 05
The Masterpiece

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Corkscrewed Offline

What is that thing line that separates a Spotlight from a Super Runner Up? What pushes a park above that special plane, and what elements can nudge it underneath the waterline? Should there even be a line? Or should it just be something that comes naturally? It's a debate that can rage on until the end of time (or RCT, whichever comes first), but in this latest SRU, X250 probably comes closer than anyone before him in skirting that imaginary line with The Masterpiece: Palette of Ideas.

Discuss this park here. I'm sure there will be some lively discussion and questioning of my choices... as usual. Fire away!
posted 19 years ago
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Turtle Offline

Very well done. For me, the wonderful thing about this park was that even the older areas didn't seem dated. Good luck in the future.
posted 19 years ago
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tyandor Offline

I'm sure there will be some lively discussion and questioning of my choices... as usual. Fire away!
Well, discussion isn't the word I think since the outcome is fixed anyway. Since I had the file on my hardrive for a while already, I really thought this would be a spotlight and and I'm disappointed about that since it's really a fun park to look at... I've seen worse spotlights than this...
Still congrats on winning this X although I can't agree on it at all that it's only super runner-up
posted 19 years ago
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Metropole Offline

I think my 2900 word review was enough for you X. I always thought this park would be either a lower standard spotlight or a higher standard super runner up. I think either would have suited the park. Excellent work X.

Metro
posted 19 years ago
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posix Offline

x, good work. i personally would have said "yes" to spotlight

what i liked about it was how your ideas came across. maybe a bit too little sometimes, but overall, they did. e.g. the end of the nascar coaster. nicely done.
next time i think you need to be even more aware of what you're building. your style is not decided enough, in my opinion. semi-realism (or anything semi for that matter) doesn't have a clear impression on the viewer, i think.
oh and oceanus. talk of bad pacing?

anyway, keep up what you're doing. i think you're an enrichment to the site.

chris, fantastic logo.
posted 19 years ago
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jon Offline

I must say, I feel that this park deserved a spotlight too. Every area was consistently good and there was a good cohesion between all the areas considering their visual differences.

The coasters especially the rocket were brilliantly done.

Brilliant job X. Look forward to more from you in the future.
posted 19 years ago
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Metropole Offline

I'll quickly sum up the positives and negatives of the park

Positives:
Architecture
Good use of colours
Most coaster layouts
Some excellent ideas (Grand Prix Legend, Bananarama)

Negatives:
Naming (Tree Topz? Volcanzo?)
Inconsistancy of custom supports
Bad pacing on Oceanus
posted 19 years ago
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Kumba Offline

You got BP'ed

Amazing park X, im sure your upset by SRU after all that hard work, please take it out on other teams in H2H3 1/2
posted 19 years ago
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X250 Offline

Thanks for the comments.

Yeah a bit disappointed it did not get Spotlight, but i suppose i am happy with SRU. It means i will be double-determined to get a parkmaker spot through PT2, and then hopefully win spotlight with my next solo.

Thanks to artist for the logo, Tyandor and Artist for guest spots, Richie for hacking help (and mowing a square of grass ), and also Metro for his glorious review. All appreciated!

Thanks NE.

-X-
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Rhynos Offline

I'd like to think that rank this up there with a couple amazing spotlights. I'm always attracted to your parks because of their detail, but the realistic amount of detail there is in a park. Spectacular! Much enjoyed!
posted 19 years ago
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Leighx Offline

Congrats X250!
Sure your'e next park will get it
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posted 19 years ago
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Testudo Offline

Fantastic park! Very, very well done!
posted 19 years ago
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iris Offline

Well, discussion isn't the word I think since the outcome is fixed anyway. Since I had the file on my hardrive for a while already, I really thought this would be a spotlight and and I'm disappointed about that since it's really a fun park to look at... I've seen worse spotlights than this...
Still congrats on winning this X although I can't agree on it at all that it's only super runner-up
How is it "fixed"? That makes no sense.

Great park X250...definitely the closest park to spotlight without actually winning it. I think this site needs to sorta break out of the mold we're in lately with most of the parks looking very similar to each other, people need to be more expeirmental to find their own style. Once you really break away from other parkmakers of your genre you will be amazing I think. Good luck in the PT2.
posted 19 years ago
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trav Offline

Wow...If this isn't a spotlight, I don't know what is...

I liked this better than Isole Calabria.
posted 19 years ago
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tyandor Offline

How is it "fixed"? That makes no sense.
What I mean is that the discussion won't change the fact it got SRU. Or in other words: it won't be changed to Spotlight... I had the same feelings with BP and on the other side of the picture I didn't think PoM was spotlight (no worries Artist: you made that up with IoE greatly).

Anyway, I'm glad that my Rocket came out right X. I did a very little amount of theming, but it seems I gave you the right nudge, lol.
posted 19 years ago
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Phatage Offline

I think this site needs to sorta break out of the mold we're in lately with most of the parks looking very similar to each other, people need to be more expeirmental to find their own style.
Yay!

Just for that I will look at this right away.
posted 19 years ago
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JKay Offline

Or in other words: it won't be changed to Spotlight...
Unless of course it wins in the NE Awards which could upgrade it to Spotlight, similar to aero's Disneyland Mid-America park.

Eitherway, great win X. Great screens and walk-thru corky. I will be checking out the park tonite and hopefully posting more comments then.
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Roomie Offline

GREAT park you got there... am amazed it didnt get spotlight to be honest as its one of my favorites for a long time.
loved the coasters although as pointed out some of the naming was odd .

I'd love to know exactly what you would of needed to do to cross that hazy line though....
posted 19 years ago
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Phatage Offline

When I opened it up I instantly felt the adventurous atmosphere that your semi but not over the top cartoonish (in a good way) architecture creates. I think what kept this park from becomming even moreso though was the fact the paths were so huge and sometimes had confusing layouts; had they been smaller and had confusing layouts in some places it would probably help. Anyway, I'm usually a fan of either committing to a coaster type (realsitic vs non) and it seemed that you were in the middle somewhere, and for this park there was no exception to my usual preference. The exception to not being the middle was that the sr inspired rocket by tyandor was very well executed, although maybe a little long lengthwise for a rocket coaster. The most realsitic part about that though was that it existed, because it seems as though all major parks are getting rockets these days

This park was definitely different. That's good in some cases and bad in others imo, but definitely could be used on a sierra mist commercial. It definitely seems that you were heavily inspired when building this park, with ideas like the magnus ride (as I've told the person you built another one for, brilliant although I wish it could operate like it should) and the custom flat. Very well done but I would have to agree with the verdict, which is the first time I've agreed with it for a couple of months now.
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inVersed Offline

Finally, it's here.... Wonderful park X, easily one of my all time favorite RCT2 parks man. The atmosphere every was just beautiful. All the theming was just supurb. It was a bit of fantasy that mixed with a tiny bit of realism to make one spectacular park.... Definitely shouldve been a spotlight in my book.
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