I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit more than the first one. It’s still mostly a creative builder game, but they’ve improved the simulation aspects enough to make them fun. They’ve also fixed a few pain points of the first games, like paths.
Sounds good, the game definitely looks cool, and there seems to be quite a lof of content for that price
I really enjoy Planet Zoo and this kind of games in general so if it’s not too expensive (and if my old man pc allows me to run it) I’ll definitely pick it up, and probably immediately try to replicate the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon experience of drowning guests. Ahem. Or try to propel them to their death, I don’t discriminate.
I thought the water park stuff was cool but the reviews for Planet Coaster 2 turned me off. A lot of it said basically “well it’s good if you don’t have PC1, but it is a step backwards from PC1”, and I do have the first Planet Coaster.
is something I said 8 months ago on my ani.social account. Wonder if it improved since then.
I was a huge fan of Planet Coaster 1 and Frontier in general, but they’ve gotten desperate/greedy and shifted to that all too common sin of pumping out half games and trying to squeeze you for DLC for the rest of the game. Planet Coaster 2 was a huge let down for me in this respect. I was so excited about the engine upgrades - being able to place scenery on any surface of any ride was huge, and being able to make animated things was big. There’s a couple other good base-game improvements, but overall it’s half the content PS1 had. There is a lot of rides missing from the base game and there are a lot of themes that were in the base PS1 game missing, all so they can release them as paid DLC. The few themes that ARE in the base came are anemic and sad… and oh boy even after backlash from it, they are still just squeezing out DLC instead of finishing the base game itself. And then they went and added quite a few “simulation” systems that don’t add anything to the game except annoyance and aggravation, like staff schedules, infrastructure requirements (which add very little value to the game). Overall it was not worth my money but now I’m invested and like a Gxx Dxxxxx addict I will be buying the DLC because I want it. Yes, it’s me: Part of the problem.
