So through many years and after the many disappointing iterations of an attempted successor to the RCT throne, I’d almost given up hope. Getting riders to ride some of your creations though was something else entirely. Building coasters and other rides was incredibly simple and fun. For that reason I always looked back on the original with great nostalgia. It wasn’t as odd as Sim Coaster, but cartoony in the sense that it included a lot of unrealistic rides that didn’t interest me. The series got a little bit cartoony and I didn’t necessarily care for it.

Years and years ago, I spent an inordinate amount of time playing RCT and honestly, the second and especially the third, wasn’t much different.

With it’s struggle, the heir to the throne of tycoon simulator looks ready to die and a new king poised to rise. Recently, Atari announced RCT World would not go full release as planned this Spring (which was already a pushed back date from December), but instead Early Access. That was before it changed developers a third time. I knew, after they’d changed developers twice, it wasn’t going to bode well for a product that was apparently still going to be pushed onto shelves as if it were ready. Since then, we’ve been given nothing but pure garbage pretenders in the form of microtransaction mobile games and a RCT World title that has been a disaster from day 1. RCT 3 hit in late 2004, with a good chunk of additional expansions and extra content following. A successor to the previous Roller Coaster Tycoon (3) has long been coming and more than once we’ve been given a new Roller Coaster Tycoon title that isn’t a true follow up to the storied RCT series. The original Roller Coaster Tycoon gave birth to what became the indisputable king of tycoon simulation games. Can it become the new king of tycoon games? As Roller Coaster Tycoon World looks like it own’t be a true successor to that throne, Planet Coaster hopes to topple the franchise and usurp the title. The king has reigned for about a decade now, the last king, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, having ruled without a legitimate heir for a while.

There’s a throne, held by the Roller Coaster Tycoon series, as the best tycoon series ever created.

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