H2H4 / Week 3: Strangelove vs Ferocious Tigers

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Finally!

Tigers win.

-ACE

god damnit i wish i could see these.
both look fucking awesome.

^ That would be a major shame because it's certainly clear after viewing the parks that my team (strangelove) put far more time and thought into their park. For being a "realistic" park the Tigers' didn't even manage to build a proper Intamin switch track for the Rocket coaster. Though the Rocket coaster itself is quite nice, suprisingly so even. The wooden coaster and Schwarzy shuttle loop were about average though. Most of the architecture appeared to have been done rather lazily, to fill space. Basically this park is a carousel house and a rocket coaster with a little pretty landscaping here and there.

On the other hand Internet City clearly took lots of time and thought, and the walkthrough that's included is worth while since I missed a couple of the details mentioned in it. Sure it's a little unconventional, and a couple of the things in it might make some of you uncomfortible but it's not my fault that you're not of sound mind, nor is it the fault of those who built this...

Ride6

A very nice match up, I enjoyed both parks alot.

Tigers - Very good realistic park, I loved the John Allen wooden coaster, great layout. The hacked Intamins AG coaster was a little weird, I assume it is sorta like some real prodotype? but I don't follow real coasters very much anymore. The little details were pretty good like the little theater and all the coaster Q's you made. I did enjoy the park, but it could have been more exciteing and still realistic if you used some more innovative ideas, coz all the ones you did use were pretty much done before, however you did do them well, so good job guys.

Strangelove - Awesome idea, something everyone here can relate to us we all use it. I loved the virus area, truely great work on that, so many cool ideas and details, then the amazon.com outpost kinda thing with the shopping charts going throught it, just so cool and well exacuted. After those few spots I think the skill leval really started to drop off tho, but you still had great ideas all over like 56k Modem crawling coaster, the loading bar flying around, the firewall, the pop-up station, the huge speakers tower, the google screen, the cafe', the NE tower, ect... It really seemed alot like a collabo by cBass and Ge-Ride or something, mainly when I saw the porn area, that took balls (literly, the area had balls in it), crazy stuff there, the cum coaster sucked (no pun intened), but no matter how bad the area was the outlandishness of it worked with the park imo. Great work, one of the most fun parks I have ever viewed, you got my vote.

No idea on Week 4 Deadline. I just decided to post the poll because I was sick of waiting.

Altho I *CAN* see who voted for what, so NO FUNNY STUFF!!!!

It's just not "frontend" as Adix says. Or something. Basically, it's complicated to view it, but I know how to do it now.

I really think the Tigers deserve this one. They didn't collapse under the pressure to build a whole lot of nonsense. Sorry you two Strangelovers as I do know who you are, I just can't appreciate any more of these stupid build crap everywhere to the point that somebody just might like a part of it.

(BTW, the part/s I liked were the binary screen and the amazon.com store, but that's beside the point, as all I really want to do is bash your park)

So yea, go Tigers. Finally a park that doesn't try to be everything at once.

About Internet City:

The whole park was a genius idea IMO and I loved the way it was pulled off. Everything looked pretty good; from good use of trackitechture, architecture, and some nice ride ideas. (Except the one in XXX. Yeah. That one.)

Some funny things:
-“SU182 reccommends Dell Laptops!”
-Apple Macs=Apple Tree
-The entire porn section
-56K Modem pissed me off. I couldn’t finish watching it.
-Amazon.com was in the jungle
-The landscaped “Hi” underneath the paths in Music.

About Kayte Ridge:

While the whole thing was pretty nice, the architecture and things like that didn’t feel… original. And putting together fair-ground-style rides next to giant powerhouse coasters? Weird. I did like the style of the new kind of B&M… or Giga… or whatever it was supposed to be…
But through all that, I have only one question: Why were there three of the same ride made and included in the game?

Strangelove wins my vote

^ That would be a major shame because it's certainly clear after viewing the parks that my team (strangelove) put far more time and thought into their park. For being a "realistic" park the Tigers' didn't even manage to build a proper Intamin switch track for the Rocket coaster. Though the Rocket coaster itself is quite nice, suprisingly so even. The wooden coaster and Schwarzy shuttle loop were about average though. Most of the architecture appeared to have been done rather lazily, to fill space. Basically this park is a carousel house and a rocket coaster with a little pretty landscaping here and there.

On the other hand Internet City clearly took lots of time and thought, and the walkthrough that's included is worth while since I missed a couple of the details mentioned in it. Sure it's a little unconventional, and a couple of the things in it might make some of you uncomfortible but it's not my fault that you're not of sound mind, nor is it the fault of those who built this...

Ride6

And you - of course - are exceptionally unbiased...

And putting together fair-ground-style rides next to giant powerhouse coasters? Weird. I did like the style of the new kind of B&M… or Giga… or whatever it was supposed to be…

lol. Never been to a real park, have you?

Welcome to realism.

-ACE

I voted for strangelove. I thought it was more creative and I've got to give props for having the guts to make a real x-rated coaster.

mainly when I saw the porn area, that took balls (literly, the area had balls in it)

Kumba, that may have been your best post ever.

And you - of course - are exceptionally unbiased...

Well of course I'm biased. So are you, toward realism over any level of objectivity. However I will admit that I often allow my subjective feelings decide over what my brain says is there. This vote would've been a good deal harder for me if I wasn't on one of the teams. None the less I feel that objectively Internet City is superior, because it better accomplishes what it sets out to do. I could provide you with a far more "realistic" park in a couple weeks, either personally or allow my team to deliver.

Not that I'd bother, no need for "bending" to your will and Titan was going on about.

But then again why the hell am I complaining, we're up a vote at the moment and this is going to be a neck-n'-neck race all the way!

Ride6

Well of course I'm biased. So are you, toward realism over any level of objectivity. However I will admit that I often allow my subjective feelings decide over what my brain says is there. This vote would've been a good deal harder for me if I wasn't on one of the teams. None the less I feel that objectively Internet City is superior, because it better accomplishes what it sets out to do. I could provide you with a far more "realistic" park in a couple weeks, either personally or allow my team to deliver.

Not that I'd bother, no need for "bending" to your will and Titan was going on about.

But then again why the hell am I complaining, we're up a vote at the moment and this is going to be a neck-n'-neck race all the way!

Ride6

I was kidding.

To be honest, I found it to be an exceptionally close vote for me.

And I'm not telling you to give me a realistic park. Really, with a bit more refinement, your park would've beat them, in my eyes. However, being original, giving us bright, flashing colors, and even giving us porn doesn't quite bring it up to the same level.

Obviously, this is all opinion on my part.

-ACE

None the less I feel that objectively Internet City is superior, because it better accomplishes what it sets out to do.

I have to disagree with you right there, Jon. No offense to you or your team, but Internet City is one of the most awful RCT works I've ever seen. There were *some* okay ideas, but as a whole the park was messy, cluttered, had no real layout, and with so much shit going on slowed down my PC completely. And tell me, whats the point of having the coaster going 5 miles an hour during the ENTIRE course? I watched it for about 30 seconds and just thought "why?" Make it a broadband connection coaster and have it go like 500 mph. That was the main thing I disliked, is that the park lacked anything interesting. We've seen a porn area, we've seen little "shrines" to NE parkmakers, etc. The only thing I could say I even remotely enjoyed was the "Apple" tree. The NE3 thing was kinda funny, too. And with that said, I voted for the Tigers; even though their's was also nothing special either, but definitely better than Internet City in my eyes.

i don't know about you guys but i like boobies!

After a quick glance at the overviews I expected this to be another one-sided battle, with Internet City taking the clear win. However, upon viewing Kayte Ridge, which previously appeared to be an average, realistic park, this all changed.

Kayte Ridge - The first of my two (relatively minor) problems with the park was the naming. It's not bad, but it's not very interesting either. I can trace almost all the names to real-life rides (except maybe Wasp, though I think I remember I remember an old Rct park with it, but that's not a fair comparison). And the park name itself is kind of blah. And this leads to the second problem, one common in virtually all realistic parks. Why does it have to be boring? Is it possible that with NE we go into so much detail with theming that most attempts at theming appear unrealistic and thus people just leave attractions virtually unthemed in order to confirm that the park is realistic? A few of the restaurants had some theming, but rides such as Renegade could've used some. I had a slight 50's feel coming from that area and I think it could've been expanded on. Meh. Well, anyways, what was there was done perfectly. The queues were very well done and everything looked great. It's a very nice realistic park with lots of excellent details. I loved the gift shop for Renegade, the raised seats by the Southern restaurant, and how most of the buildings had thought put into the interior. Renegade itself was a fun ride and the other two coasters were nice for what they were. Nice to see those trains finally used on Renegade. In short, I was much more impressed with this park than I expected to be. I typically expect a realistic park to just be a boring, half-hearted attempt at a park, and while this one could've used a little more originality and theming, it was obviously done with skill and attention to detail. Great job guys.

Internet City - I had no errors with this one. Anyways, it should be about as obvious as with MSM who one of the parkmakers with this one was. Lots and lots of fun details and craziness. I think the music area was my favorite. That and the porn zone were obviously reminiscient of cBass's BOMB. Though I definitely prefer BOMB's sex area. This one did have a good trashy porn site feel, but I think it could've been better. It felt a little rushed. Or maybe that's just the ickiness of it. The hacker area was pretty cool. The eBay coaster reminded me of something from the ad district from a while ago. And that Family Guy episode. I really liked the binary sign and the binary using the invisible signs at the park entrance. My only complaints were the lack of any really good coasters, and just that it was pretty messy. But, with the enormity of the theme you tackled, that's not a big deal. That said, I didn't think either park had any major problems. I just like to complain.

Anyways, both parks were great, but I think I have to go with Strangelove, since it looks like it took a lot more work and was more interesting. EDIT: Holy cow, that's a long post.

Cant see where these votes are going to tigers.

I voted internet city.
Internet city had some really nice idea's in it and some of them where executed very well. The only point that really bothered me were the error trappers at the start (took me about 4 times to open the park). and that there came some error trappers in rides.
The archy was done very well and I also like the effects with the neon scenery.

Kayte Ridge was also very nice, but I always prefer a fantasy park above a realistic park (just my opinion) and like other said, all things in this park where done before. there was nothing new to really look at and say WOW.

Ok, this first bit is before i viewed strangelove's park.

nothing new to look at in our park? personally, i think it has become increasingly original not to go all out in h2h parks. How many parks can you name that are built in the same trend as ours opposed to the style and mood of internet city?

and if you have seen everything before in our park, you haven't looked hard enough. i'm not saying you should vote for our park, but i was very pleased with how it turned out. Personally i say it put new proportions in the game. The buildings are smaller than most of what we build in rct, the queues are smaller. And it all comes together, the rides aren't spread out the way we usually spread them out but look like they belong to the same park. And if anything, ride6, i doubt that your park looks like it took more time.

i'm actually now loading up rct2 for strangelove's park, so i'll be right back.

Mmm..

i can't say it grabbed my interest for too long it was dissapointing somehow. there are lots and lots of things that are ok but the whole thing is a mess, and if you put that much in a 'park' some of it is bound to look good. Personally, the idea is ok, but the porn area reminds me a lot of cbass' area in that one park. Actually, the whole park is a gimmick and i'm a bit through with gimmicks without actual good quality. There was a plan with cbass for a gimmicky park from our team but it would have included some 'good 'ol rcting' but this obviously doesn't. Not one classy coaster!

Anyhow, probably one of the closest matchups in h2h. Very curious for the results of this.

Go my little ferocious cubs :).

Edited by Evil WME, 21 July 2006 - 02:50 AM.