Park / Pangaea

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  • posix%s's Photo

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    In third place, we present to you Pangaea by Jazz. This topic is meant for commenting purposes. Please make sure to visit the park's page, too!

    Again, let's compare this entry with the #4 ranked "Terra Antico". Pangaea got a score of 14.62 and Terra Antico had 13.69. This means only a 6.79% increase in quality over Terra Antico. Yet another very close decision. Congratulations Jazz!
  • X_Fusion%s's Photo
    Beautiful Theme Park !!!!!!!
    I am impressed ... Jazz very well.

    Good job!

    :lol:
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo
    That's actually an amazing name for a theme park, especially in the styles we build in.
  • thorpedo%s's Photo
    ^ that's actually exactly the first thing i thought when i saw the name. if only it had a representation from every continent; then it would truly be the continents "coming together" in the park. :)

    so.. i can't view this since i don't have RCT2, but i did a quick look with the aerial view. i gotta say, everything looks great, but i just need to give you props on a very specific thing that i thought was terrific: the castle deco on top of the supports for the norway coaster. superb.
  • rK_%s's Photo
    i dont have rct2 installed anymore but that woodie an red beemer look amazing*, the parks layout is so clean, very nice work
  • Roomie%s's Photo
    Jazz... that was superb. The whole thing was good. but in my opinion you truly excelled on the coaster layouts. All 3 were excellent and i watched each one intently throughout. Something i cant say i usually do.
    Congrats on a well deserved third place and some of the best coasters i've seen in ages
  • Turtle%s's Photo
    Very interesting park. Lovely logo by the way. Nice name too.

    Norwegian section - Beautiful entrance area, some of the architecture was a bit samey to be honest but I enjoyed the coaster very much. One thing I did notice was THE worst support for a corkscrew on the last corkscrew, which I found quite funny. The swinging ship is lovely too, added a lot to the area.

    Egypt - First thing I thought was that it's a great path layout here, winding through the area, framing the rides. The wooden is fantastic, great speed throughout, although I found the ending rather forced, just to get back to the station. It was a pity, probably constrained by the pathing layout, because the first three quarters were fantastic. Some of the architecture was brilliant, some was pretty similar to the Norwegian section in form, which was strange.

    China - My favorite area, although it's the most raw. The whole thing looks almost cobbled together, but what comes out is fantastic. The massive coaster, sprawling almost haphazardly over anything and everything, brilliant. The foliage throughout is perfect. The architecture is not great here to be honest, but it doesn't really matter because the atmosphere is so good. It reminded me of a Coaster Ed park, and there's not much higher praise than that.

    Overall a lot of it was very good, some of it was average, and some was brilliant. I guess this is reflected in the score. It all came together though, which I really liked. One thing which is interesting is the fact that all the coasters have pretty much the same layout (i.e. lift up a massive hill, rest of layout sprawling down that layout, with a couple of large drops down in the middle). They were all very good, but I don't know, maybe try something different?
  • Nokia%s's Photo
    well, this was a good park in some aspects, but not deserving of 3rd place (imo). i thought that the landscaping could've been done better, and some of the buildings were a little blocky.
    i really didnt like the waterfalls by the floorless coaster, it just didnt seem real natural and flowie.

    i area i liked the most would had to have been norway, even though i thought it could have used just a little more foliage

    i also think that you could have redone most of what you did with the quater-tile landblocks.
  • Milo%s's Photo
    Solid entry and a bit of a time capsule imo. I knew who made this pretty quickly after I opened it and honestly I don't think this is your best work. It is well done overall and a great fully finished park but imo it was kinda boring. Egypt was my favorite area with a great woodie and nice surrounding theming for it. Norway and China had a lot of great details but were lacking in a certain charm. It felt like a real safe style and there's not a whole lot I can pick out that I don't like, yet not a whole lot that just wows me either. Congrats on a top 3 spot and showing up again after being underground.
  • chapelz%s's Photo
    still think this should have been first.
  • Xcoaster%s's Photo
    From the voting topic:

    I thought it was solid, but felt a little too generic in theme and could've used more research on the naming and what not. Good, but nothing really 'wow'ed me.

    I had this one tied with Terra in 4th, as I felt they were about equal in '"good but not great"' status, and I couldn't decide between them. Funny though, for a while I had actually thought Nemica was by Jazz, even though I didn't know he was entering.
    EDIT: n/m, after looking at the scores I guess I gave this one a slight voting edge in the end, making Terra my 5th.

    Nice logo, btw. That's the first time I've noticed it. I was expected the old one.

    Anyways, this is yet more evidence that while the entries are few, they are of good, solid quality.
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo
    I'm sure nothing was meant by it, but I think it's pretty funny that there were 3 different votes of 18, but you dropped Kumba's again. :lol:
  • Phatage%s's Photo
    i actually think the name is really dumb. just because there are civilizations right next to each other doesn't make it pangea, which was uninhabited. this park is as accurate to its name as much as medusa at gadv currently has a mythology theme.
  • Ge-Ride%s's Photo
    ^You can't really hold that against him, can you, Phatage? You yourself made a recreation of Medusa in SF:WOE and kept the Six Flags tradition alive with your own sort of vague mythology, just for the sake of realism. You're arguing that Jazz's name is lame but you were all too willing to keep the tradition you now despise in a project of your own conception. Your argument has not been made completely void, but you're treading on unstable ground.

    In SF: WOE's Medusa, there's things like statues and a sign that cautions the viewers to look out below as they travel through a tunnel under the station, which isn't enough of a theme to communicate the legend of Medusa to somebody unfamiliar. Personally, I think that Pangea Ultima would have been a good metaphor, and thus a better name.

    Edited by Ge-Ride, 19 November 2008 - 12:24 AM.

  • Steve%s's Photo

    i actually think the name is really dumb. just because there are civilizations right next to each other doesn't make it pangea, which was uninhabited. this park is as accurate to its name as much as medusa at gadv currently has a mythology theme.

    You're a cool guy and everything Phatage, but for you just to pop in tell him that the name is "dumb" and just that, seems not very cool at all. Jazz created a great piece of work here. Give him some feedback, criticism, and most importantly, some respect.


    Thought this was a nifty little park. I really enjoyed the wooden coaster; it was actually one of the first coasters in a while to almost "frighten" me while watching it. The drops and turns were just so huge. Great work on that. Everything else in the park was exceptional. Nothing too overly impressive but still nothing that lets you down. A very solid effort, Jazz.


    actually now looking back on this, you could argue that you did in fact give him feedback and criticism, but that post just came as distasteful to me.
    hm. whatever, then.
  • Roomie%s's Photo

    You're a cool guy and everything Phatage,

    What are you talking about :p
    we're all sat around commenting about a theme park made in a computer game... none of us are cool :)
  • Turtle%s's Photo
    That comment coupled with your avatar made me laugh a little. :D
  • posix%s's Photo

    I'm sure nothing was meant by it, but I think it's pretty funny that there were 3 different votes of 18, but you dropped Kumba's again. :lol:

    haha, i actually noticed this myself when i was writing the page and thought for a second "poor kumba, maybe just drop someone else this time", but then i decided to go all systematically, which meant i dropped him because his vote was the last in the poll log, so i had to drop him :p
  • Lloyd%s's Photo
    That Egypt area really makes me want to play the game again.

    Inspiational stuff.
  • Todd Lee%s's Photo

    haha, i actually noticed this myself when i was writing the page and thought for a second "poor kumba, maybe just drop someone else this time", but then i decided to go all systematically, which meant i dropped him because his vote was the last in the poll log, so i had to drop him :p



    I automatically assumed that Kumba's vote was dropped because he couldn't figure out how to use a 1-20 rating scale.

    As for the park, kudos to whoever made the logo, and I like the name. I've always enjoyed the park names that jazz comes up with. Mossflower Wood has alwasy been one of my favorites.
    I'm getting an error when I try to open the park's zip file, so I need to download again when I get home tonight... I'll comment more then.