Either way, it’s a bit rubbish, isn’t it? I can’t figure out how much that is because it’s the work of a team that has lots of management sim (and theme parks in particular) on board who can’t escape their own assumed knowledge when thinking about what people need to know, and how much is maybe a hangover from Early Access: you have a large audience already playing the game and figuring things out, so there’s this self-sustaining community providing feedback, tips and tutorials for each other. It doesn’t need a tutorial, in the sense that I and presumably lots of the other people who are buying it have managed to run through the hurdles and get somewhere, but it’s incredibly unwelcoming.
If you think of the things you’re building as machines, Skylines’ start to produce results without the need for intervention quite quickly, but the theme park just sort of sits there until you’ve connected all the cogs. With Planet Coaster, there’s nothing like that - you have to put quite a few moving parts down, properly connected, before things will start to tick over. You lay down zones and things start to happen. Skylines is much friendlier and I think one of the reasons is that even the smallest city has a lot of automation built in. We were talking to Graham about this, and he and I both went back to Cities: Skylines after we’d installed Planet Coaster to see how it compared. And for the record, owners of failed theme parks are eaten by animatronic pirates! Pip: You mean maybe Frontier wanted people to be able to tinker and play and figure this stuff out without the park getting closed down or dying or whatever happens when a theme park is deemed no longer fit for purpose?Īdam: Or that they realised people would have to because they forgot to include a tutorial, or even basic instructions for some things, so they made the cashflow much kinder.
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The game, as many people have noted, is extremely easy, in the sense that money just rolls in once you establish the basics of a park, and I feel like that’s a concession the developers made because parks would close down before their managers had figured out how to build a queue otherwise. I’m using memories of Rollercoaster Tycoon to figure out how things work and when I was choosing which mode to play in at the beginning of the game, I didn’t even know what the difference between the three main modes was, so I ended up with an already established park the first time I started a new game, and had to quit to get the blank slate I wanted. From the very first view of the menu screen to the point I’m at now, where I’m working on a fourth coaster for my successful park (which I built in couch co-op with my girlfriend who won’t stop playing the game EVER), the game has done absolutely nothing to make me feel welcome. It might be surprising to find that Planet Coaster pissed me off no end. Pip: But how would he learn the ropes, Adam? There is no meaningful tutorial!Īdam: Before I say anything else, I want to make two things clear: 1) I’m enjoying Planet Coaster quite a lot and 2) I have a habit of skimming past poor tutorials, which is either because I’m stubborn enough to learn as I go, or because I’m so used to playing things like this (ADD LINK) that even the crappiest tutorial is like having my hand held by a guardian angel. If Charlie visited my current Planet Coaster theme park, he would hang out near the pirate themed rollercoaster Walk the Plank because there is so much vomit near the exit, and he would probably want to eat it all. DON’T EAT IT WHY ARE YOU EATING IT WHY HAVE YOU EATEN IT”. Except when he’s being naughty while I’m on Skype and I end up shouting things like “don’t eat the rubbish out of the bag, Charlie.
I would begin this meeting by reading the previous meeting's minutes for approval but I don't think we wrote them down because the meeting was actually just Adam explaining Warhammer 40K to me over Skype while his dog competed for his attention AND WON.Īdam: He is such a good boy. More specifically, how Planet Coaster doesn't have a proper tutorial of any sort and that is a) a real shame and b) a terrible decision. I have convened this meeting of the RPS Treehouse Society because I wanted to talk about Planet Coaster. From the infuriating lack of a tutorial, and the depth of the simulation and creation tools, to Banksy and the fear of animatronics, their findings are all here. Following a recent visit to Planet Coaster, RPS funsters Adam, Alice and Pip sat down in a seaside cafe, exchanged bawdy postcards, and then got down to the business of discussing Frontier's theme park management game.
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