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  • iris%s's Photo
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    Super Runner-Ups
    Vales of Crypt by Mortician
    NASCAR Experience by RCTNW and rwadams
    Entertainment City: Las Vegas by JKay

    Runner-Up
    Tulesian Islands by thorpedo

    We have an absolutely amazing round of runner-ups these week. Two RCT2 parks and two LL ones. We have Mortician bringing his full scale quality NE Debut to the table with Vales of Crypt, aka "Project Crypto" and thorpedo finally completing a full park in Tulesian Islands, aka "Project Fuzz". As for the sequel, we have two mammoth projects. Starting off with RCTM's latest group park...the beautiful and original NASCAR Experience by RCTNW & rwadams, and finally JKay's second runner-up in two weeks, Entertainment City: Las Vegas. We have realism (in places), we have complete fantasy, we have quad-dueling B&M coasters, flickering lights, sewer explorers, and one of the best LL parks to be released in a while. What more could you ask for?
  • Jellybones%s's Photo
    Let me tell you JKay...that is BY FAR the greatest RCT2 recreation of the Hoover Dam I have ever seen. Kudos.
  • rK_%s's Photo
    jkay is on fire, amazing work man, well deserved!
  • deanosrs%s's Photo
    I like the super runner up thingy, gives you something to aim for other than just the spotlight. There's some others in the past that deserved a similar arrangement, ie, fantastic wonders and pa's last everquest park.

    Ok, here's my reviews anyway. They'll all be up eventually, I'm just doing them one by one.

    Entertainment City: Las Vegas by jKay
    I didn't find this park to be as vast an improvement over Thrillzone as I had hoped. The style is still exactly the same, and I didn't find the coasters especially to be any better. Just to explain what I mean.... it's things like this which you could iron out:
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    I think that, just once, you could really benefit from trying to recreate a coaster. I find all yours to be very "rct" - they sprawl out over areas, with unusual inversions and often uneccesarily banked straights, going left-right-left-right. This probably sounds really critical, so sorry 'bout that... but anyway, I think you should try a coaster, give it more space, and get some big inversions in there, like big loops and cobra rolls. That could be seen as "conforming" or something, but my point is that if you're not careful then this style could get boring and overdone. Still, that doesn't mean to say that I didn't enjoy the coasters - they were certainly fun, and I'm sure you enjoyed building them. That's just what I personally think is currently holding them back.

    As already pointed out, the Hoover Dam was absolutely awesome. I'm still not entirely sure myself how you managed to make the pieces offline by the small margin that you did. The entrance architecture was brilliant as well, you mix colours as well as anyone else. I think perhaps you overuse the standard textures of coloured marble/castle and wood a little too much in some areas. Some of the custom textures could work well also from time to time. I think this may have been partly caused by all the lights you used, which were great. If you had overused them, it could have slowed things down too much like Kevin's Volcanica or Kumba's Darwood Grove, but you had them about right. If I had to pick out an area that I didn't particularly like, it would be the western one. The coaster wasn't great and it was poorly named, and the area didn't do anything that made you want to look at it more than once, which, for instance, your Hoover Dam did do. I just think you need to give yourself more space still... every square of both your solos is full of something. Some well placed water, open grass or just treed areas could do your parks wonders here and there.

    I still really think that this park proves you have skill to build to the highest of levels: but planning and better ideas need to be used to give your parks that extra something imo. Sorry if I went over the top with the suggestions and stuff. I loved the park, but I think there's a whole load of jKay talent still to be unleashed.

    NASCAR Experience by RCTNW and rwadams
    I really enjoyed the park. The coaster design especially was usually very, very good. I loved the way that the wooden duelers, and the 4-way B&M's actually looked like a race track, and the trains stayed right next to each other all the way through the circuit. The only coaster I'd single out as having a slightly worse design would be the grey and blue invert duelers. Just flipping the track designs like that doesn't really work for me, duelers should spend more time next to each other imo. I think the open grass was slightly overplayed here as well. Also, the splash boats you guys built in the far corner of the park looked a little rushed with the floating supports and simplified entrance building.

    Along with most of the coasters, the highlight of the park was predictably the hotels and resort complexes imo. rwadams' glass front hotel was by far the best imo, whereas the biggest structure in the park was a bit repetitive (and must have been incredibly boring to build) this one was innovative, different and still realistic. Also, the entrance to the park has to go down as one of the best ever. It had atmosphere, which is something I feel a lot of rctm work lacks, and more detail than other parts of the park. I don't know if more time was spent on this area, but it certainly looked like it...

    Nice park, I don't think I would personally have considered it for spotlight, it's not "intricate" enough for my tastes.... but nonetheless it completely deserves the super runner up... congrats.
  • guljam%s's Photo
    Okay! Super runner-ups among..
    Entertainment City......! BEST!
    :D
  • Lucifer%s's Photo
    Jkay for parkmaker...


    Seriously - while he doesn't quite yet have the "ironed" perfectionism of a parkmaker, he is getting EXTREMELY close in my eyes.

    I think these are some of the best runnerups I've seen in a while...



    What I'm nutting over is this...

    Jpeg's cannot be animated, yet it is... weird. ???
  • Timothy Cross%s's Photo
    So Far, I've only downloaded NASCAR and it was a great park! The hotels had to be the highlight as they were all executed very well. You guys really out did yourselves there. And the park itself had amazing realism. Using the grass as themeing itself really added to that realism although I couldn't help but feel some of it could have had some added flowers or gardens for more detail. And most of the rides were cool too, but sorry, I think a few of them were a bit boring. Overall though, a great park well deserving of runner up and RCTNW, you remain one of my favorite park makers. Good job to both you and RW. Congrats.
  • Mike Robbins%s's Photo
    ********A MESSAGE ABOUT NASCAR********

    The reason for the bit of grass is because Roger and RCTNW hit the object limit and had to add some grass here and there.
  • gymkid dude%s's Photo
    great round...2 runner up rounds in and we already have two parks that are contenders to be upgraded to spotlight in the next awards: WBRA and Crypto.

    Crypto: This park was jam packed with awesomeness. Each area had an anti-dull color scheme and idea. I really liked the coasters, great dueling inverts, great adventure ride, great steel twister, not as good on the woodie. The park looks great, full of substance and good-lookingness.

    NASCAR: see later

    ECLV: I am fascinated by this park, as it is something that I would be most likely to build out of the 4. It kinda gets me thinking.

    Jkay obviously went for something new, bright, different, colorful, and flashy with this park. He suceeded. The whoa belly and carousel complex are great examples of detailed peices of RCT excellence. I loved little bits and snips like this. However, this whole thing raises a discussion with me...which I would argue that myself, micool, and kai are also part of. There are certain "rules" in RCT...and this park breaks some of them. For example, not having like a triple helix and then a double helix inside. This is a very RCTish thing to do, that nobody would ever do in real life. Fantasy parkmaking breaks a lot of the rules of real life...and this is what seperates fantasy, semi-realistic, and realistic. Realistic would look like something in real life...semi-realistic would be a creative theme that there is no reason that someone couldn't make a similar real theme park, just nobody has yet, and then there is fantasy, which can exist only in the game/in imagination. Personally...I'm interested in the blur between fantasy and reality. That power tower and that carousel complex, both of which grabbed my attention, could be built in real life. And I love them for that...great work. Some of the coasters...with sprawling layouts, triple helixes, etc, just wouldn't. Coasters just don't look like that in real life. Anyways...I really liked this park...I just wish that JKay could make more realistic coaster designs is what I'm getting at...still wild and creative and unorthodox, but possible. I guess thats why Mala is so good? Great park and it made me think...thanks JKAY.

    Tulesian Islands: Good job for finishing, thorpyface. Um...ya, I liked mantis's coaster/area the best...mantis rules. As for the other areas, I didn't sense a big variety in themes, the sewer area being an exception. I STILL like that corkscrew coaster in the egypt area...and I agree with iris that that area looks really nice. The other areas seemed to me to be either a brighter or darker take on the same tropicalesque theme. The Sewer ride, the corkscrew, and mantis' woodie are the only memorable rides tho :-(...the mine train, steel twister, and invert didn't really have anything to make them standout on the map at all. Good job on a good looking park, I look forward to your next project in...4 years? :-p.
  • MightyMouse%s's Photo
    Mort.- You've honestly created my favorite park, ever. The color scheme was brilliant in every section, and the coasters were awsome. Zaydok, is officially one of my favorite coaters. Sociocide, Trezatu and the duelers were also incredible(not to mention the liquid coaster). The architecture was very cool too. I found myself staring at one building for several minutes....and the Bogglers were halariouse. Awsome job.

    Thorp.- Brilliant work. The entrance was crafted so incredibly well. The open feeling was just awsome. The Kimiko coaster was brilliant, along with it's landscaping. Although it was kind of small, Rain Train was my favorite coaster in the entire park. I love how it was themed and the color scheme in that area was pretty good. Dance Of Gods was awsome too. Architecture was nice throughout the entire park, especially in the sewage area. Terrific job Thorp.
  • X250%s's Photo
    Congratulations to all that won. The parks are all amazing... If only i had the original RCT I would praise Mort & Thorpedo's entries- but since I don't then all i can comment on is the two amazing RCT2 parks there. JKay's Entertainment City is awesome, i have never seen such a colourful and adventurous park as that. The other RCT2 winner was fab aswell, the long-awaited Nascar. That did not fail to disappoint, it was a huge park with the best architecture and landscaping i have ever seen, and the coasters were not bad either!

    Brilliant parks, congrats.

    -X-
  • mantis%s's Photo
    Tulesian Islands was a very nice park, especially the Kimiko and Arabian areas. I have issues with a few things which i'll get out of the way first. Some of the coasters were pretty poorly paced (the invert especially...and that corkscrew was great up until that last loop, which could have been better as an enclosed camel hump IMO). There were indications of messiness including the erratic flowing water (inc. colour), the peeps, the lack of mechanics (too many people?!), unsupported awnings...that sort of thing. Just minor, really. On the positive side, though, I really enjoyed looking through it, and I love the theming job on Kimiko, so thanks for that and the opportunity to help out :) Well done on finishing it, and H2H will be a blast with you on the team!

    Vales Of Crypt is a very well crafted park, especially in the Sociocide and Volcano areas. I really enjoyed those duelers and the woodie in those two areas, and the architecture was very good. The Tech area was well done, but I wasn't feeling the colour/theme at all. It was very...grating? I kind of like tech areas to be classy and to have that sheen - this one was very difficult to get into in that respect. The coaster was great, though. I didn't really enjoy the adventure ride, mainly because of the tedious backward section. The river ride was also a bit disappointing, because the big drop led right underwater - the satisfying splash was hidden from view! The central area was great (WME - is that other LL park you had still going?!). Great job, Mort - here's to more LL presence at the site!

    I'll check out the rct2 parks later.
  • Ride6%s's Photo
    I only got the LLers last night but I'll come back and review the others.

    Tulesian Islands by Thropedo- Nice enterence, however for what it has in niceness it lacks in atmosphere. It just seems to be there, and that's all. The fantacy parkmaking areas of Kimiko and Twister Sewers, while being complete opposite (light and dark) were both excellent. And Mantis did an excellent job on the layout of the Kimiko Coaster. Some of the little touches scattered about here and there, like the "enchanted tree" were really cool. Unfortunently those are the only parts of the park that I found interesting. The remainder looked like Thorp was trying to conform to realism and/or immitate others. Quite a bit of the park looked outdated too. Hopefully Thorp can finish a solo in less than the year and some that this took, next time, that is.

    Vales of Cript- Mortition- The best runner up since Oceania, easy. Very cool and atmospheric throughout. No real standout coasters though. Streamin' Lava wasn't exactly the duelers that I was hoping for but the woodie, Sociocide, was far better than anything I was expecting. The enterence was excellent, almost like DDI, only darker and more sinister. I like. The futeristic area looked like was I would expect to see for Spiderman, if he was still around. It really doesn't carry it's age too badly. The newest area with the pick flowers and the adventure corkscrew was the best IMO. And no worries Mort, POH will get spotlight. :)

    ride6
  • Steve%s's Photo
    Vales of Crypt
    Awesome park here, Mort. I loved every bit of it. It has some awesome theming, ideas, foliage, everything. I loved the adventure ride, too. I like how it jumped over the over track. The only thing I didn't like was how incredibly slow the duelers went through those corkscrews (the adventure ride was a little slow, too). Anyway, looking forward to PoH. Update that thing sooner rather than later, man. ;)

    Nascar
    Loved every bit of this park. It had it all: coasters, hotels, water park, everything, and you guys put them in such great locations to make the park really flow. I enjoyed all the neat little details (RCTNW's pool has a swim-up bar!) as well. Work on your landscaping though, It's looking a tad messy. And Roger's hotel owned the rest of the park, that thing was kicking ass all over the place. Well, great park, looking forward to the next one.


    Thats all I looked at for now. JKay's and Thorp's look very nice though.
  • Ride6%s's Photo
    Entertainment City: Las Vagas by JKay- Not really my cup of tea. A park that is very fitting of LV but the coasters suck. I love what you do with archetecture but the colors, particularly with all the motion are too much for anything non-Vagas (*Cough* Cough). The randomness of the park, while being acurate isn't my favorite either. Personally I think this should've been called a normal runner up but I don't run this place so it's not like I have any say.

    ride6
  • JKay%s's Photo

    ....but the coasters suck

    Ride6 - It'd be nice if you could back up your opinions on why the coasters suck. You are allowed to have an opinion, but try to back it up if possible please. See deanosrs' post for inspiration.

    Thanks to all who have commented or downloaded the park. And thanks iris for the super runner-up award. I'm still in awe of all the positive feedback so far.

    I have yet to d/l NASCAR Experience, but am quite excited about it. The screens iris chose are quite incredible. Congrats NW & rog.

    I can't say much about the LL parks, but they also look amazing. Congrats to both these LL'ers on their NE debut parks.
  • Panoramical%s's Photo
    JKay, I think it's awesome. 'Nuff said.
  • Ablaze%s's Photo
    Thank you very much everyone, I hoped you enjoyed the park. It seems a very long way back for me. Most of you know I am creating my next park at the moment, I have been busy with work but I am still getting as much done as possible to it. I will update you soon.

    Thank you for your thoughts so far.
  • Turtleman%s's Photo
    I love your park Mort. Can't wait for POH.
  • Richie%s's Photo
    ECLV: I think the coasters are an improvment from TZ, but they are still kinda poor. Its all the lond snake bends left-right-left-right that put me off most. If you look at spotlights/runner-ups coasters, you will not find many, if any elements like that. As soon as you can improve your coaster skills, you will be a parkmaker. And that is a FACT. Your organisation will come when you take your time on a park. I redownloaded from the runner up page, and i noticed even more little errors. Checking over your work as you build (im sure you do anyways, just take a lil' more time) you wont make the errors.

    Overall i loved the park, you used the lights very well. Even if it did slow my computer down :)

    NASCAR: I cant say im much of a fan. Ive never really been a fan of any RCTM parks, and this didnt make me want to be. You guys seem to build parks for the architecture... I mean the hotel are cool, but then too many are just a waste of space/objects. If you stuck to one hotel you would have been clear of the object limit. The coasters didnt really impress me. They all seemed spread out and awkward. The only one that kinda worked for me was the 4 duellers(2 floorless. 2 sitdown) but even that didnt make me think wow. I think in your next park you should just forget about hotels and water parks, and build a theme park!! Im not saying it sucked, the architecture was awsome(ALL OF IT), just really a waste on the most part.