Park / Disastrous Paradise
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28-March 05
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Disastrous Paradise
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Disastrous Paradise did not look like a tired rehash of old ideas to me. For one thing, the architecture is the best I've seen in the game, for my tastes. Tastes change over time, but this kind of subtle variations on a theme routine with the elements and textures used here really works for me. The problem I have with repetitive architecture is not that it reuses the same elements but that it reuses them in the same way. Like virginia reel balconies on every building or something in LL with color being the only variation. I don't see that here. Every building looks unique to me and yet they maintain the thematic consistency. The architecture in this park alone is worthy of much admiration I think. I also thought the water ride was very well done in the way it was integrated into the landscape. And the mine ride, while not jaw dropping, was effective and fast.
There were really only two glaring problems with this park I think. One is the oil rig in the middle which looks almost exactly like the one X-Sector made in LL. It's better of course, thanks to better scenery options, but it has none of the impact of the original because we've seen it before. I don't think it was necessarily out of place here. You've got some natural disasters and manmade ones. It's an interesting sort of concept. But for a contest where the wow factor is really the most important, I think it was a mistake. As a parkmaker though, I can see why X would do it. To retry it in RCT2, and I think it was definately a success on that account.
The other glaring problem, and this has more to do with the way I plan and organize parks than anything else I guess, is that the park really needs a primary ride. As someone else already said, water rides are mostly support rides (unless they do something phenomenal or unusual, but this doesn't) and the mine ride you have is also a support type ride. You need some big ride to tie it all together. Maybe a coaster, maybe something else. Rides draw your attention and focus it. As people watch it do whatever it does, you take them on a little tour of the park. You didn't have anything like that to tie it all together and I think that's the one thing that really would have made it gel.
Oh yeah, and those volcanoes were very well done. I wanna use those 1/4 tile landscaping blocks damnit! They're just too good. Oh and these is me just going off on a tangent here, but I can envision this being inside the crater of a volcano. If you changed all the water to lava, and maybe took out that oil rig or made it into some kind of elaborate lava power source for the village, it'd be a cool imaginary volcano village. And make that wave lava too and then it would make a lot of sense when the whole thing blows up! That's similar to an idea I was developing with Phatage a little while ago, but I can easily see this working as something like that. With some kind of main ride added too of course.
Alright, on to Outpost Prehistorica, which is what I ended up voting for (though it didn't matter cause someone had ended the voting already
While DP's main strength was the precsion of it's execution and detail, the main strength here is personality. Which is pretty vague, but basically I meant the feeling that there's a surprise around every corner. The little things that make you smile. The kind of thing that's made me like Kumba's parks so much. The monorail layout seemed a little random, but that tunnel structure was gorgeous. None of it was picture perfect, which seems to be what everyone loves around here, but it was iconic. It greats impressions that I'll remember for awhile.
For weaknesses, well I think the suspended coaster in the corner was pretty predictable for a theme like this and didn't really do anything to justify taking up so much space. I really would have liked to see something else there. Also, the sabertooth tiger cage I liked, but it also seemed a lot bigger than it needed to be. This park felt really cramped on such a small map because the cool ideas were busting out of it. So it would have been nice if those spaces were utilized a little more...effectively I guess.
Anyway, great job all of you. Thanks for making this round such a special one.
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And LOL at how you go on to discuss a modified version of your original H2H park idea with Phatage (before redraft).
To be honest I had doubts this park would win and looking at them both I enjoyed the IIIcons park alot more than mine. The idea of the park was nothing to do with me it was all jon's idea and I just started it. Ed funny thing about turning the water to lava and such as I did think about that as I was finishing the park off.
X actually did most of the park but I did do the mine-ride. Perhaps I should explain it. I felt that with things like the oil rig and two huge volcanoes, I felt that a large coaster would clutter the park and make it seem like too much crammed into one park. So, hence my reason for building a small coaster.
But it's nice to get a win for my team.
But, I'd love to see what Ed and Blitz could do.
I nearly forgot about how orgasmic those plans were.
*drools*
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Sorry Artist