Park / Excalibur

14 Comments

  • geewhzz%s's Photo


    I’m sure at this point, robbie92 has more Accolades at New Element than he has need for, but he continues to catch the things with the ease of shooting fish in a bucket – with a Gatling gun. You won’t be surprised, then, to see that he has churned out yet another New Element Design! | Read On...

  • Austin55%s's Photo
    Wow man, you are a machine. Seriously cool layout, I treid to do a df/lnm at one point and it's cool to see someone else try (and succed) especially someone as good as you.

    Hilarious writup btw.
  • h3r3stheKrak3n.%s's Photo
    I think he has a factory, where people build his stuff....

    Seriously, maybe the best design for ->fuckinglongtime<- IMO.
    I love it so much. Perfect. My day is well now. (:
  • Stoksy%s's Photo
    Is it just me, or is robbie's building a little like Roomie's LL parks last year...
  • trav%s's Photo
    Too bare imo. I don't think this is design worthy, sorry.
  • disneylandian192%s's Photo
    The layout was fun. I especially enjoyed the diving corkscrew, perhaps a little throwback to Drachen Fire? I felt that the foliage was good, but bare. The archy was low quality, low in detail, boxy- very surprising coming from you because of the high quality work you've been producing lately. It's really difficult to tell whether this was a rushed map, or merely an attempt to try something new and different for yourself. Hopefully it's the latter, because you're too good to be putting out sub-par work for time's sake. If this was from some inexperienced player, I would have enjoyed this much more. I expect much more from you.
  • Phatage%s's Photo
    ^To save Rob the trouble, if you're going to spend the time to make an "in-depth" analysis, you might as well spend the time to read his readme before you do.

    That being said, I think you've implied that something like this could be built in a day if I'm not mistaken. Funny cause I always thought that myself, and if anything designs like this back then inspired me not to build like this. You definitely hit on the main points of this style, including buildings that may look nice but not like actual buildings, but the layout was nice (and not exactly realistic, just like the designs you were emulating).

    I'm about to write about something I frequently say, so let me acknowledge that fact now. The thing about these parks/designs back then is that they sought to attain a clean look inspired by, you guessed it, RoB. It always angered me to see that many people didn't see the distinction though, that RoB's buildings looked like buildings, that the coaster layouts were realistic, and that it took many years to complete. I would rather have you build something inspired by RoB than by those other works.
  • disneylandian192%s's Photo
    Phatage you're completely correct. After reading the readme (which out of a nasty habit tend to read after I've looked at the park), I love the idea that Robbie was trying to emulate. Congratulations on the speed of construction, you did an excellent job. This absolutely brings me back to creations from that time frame, which is a great thing.
  • Kumba%s's Photo
    Nice throwback, I remember these days well and you captured the look very well. I don't think the landscaping was as good as sloB once did, but you make up for it with a good coaster layout and some nice old-school archy.

    Nice work, please take longer than a day on your next design ;)
  • Louis!%s's Photo
    See, now you've gone and done this, I'm now gonna have to do a design so that we are both back on equal amounts :p

    Congrats dude. I loved it. It was really nice. Parts for me were a little odd, but the layout was gorgeous, i've always had a liking to a good corkscrew coaster, and the atmosphere was immense.

    Enjoy your little break from RCT for the summer, hope to see you back to building wonders in the autumn :)
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    I really like those '04-'05-era-parks in a way. I attempted building in such a style many times, but I never pulled it off. You just did it. The inspirations are very obvious, but I couldn't find any (semi-) plagiarism and that's IMO the biggest achievement here; it's believable '04-'05 style but still robbie92.

    Congratulations, but please stop with the designs now. I want a themepark :p
  • posix%s's Photo
    this kind of style is my favourite in both games. unfortunately, rct2 hasn't seen much of it. well done robbie.
  • Nokia%s's Photo
    woah, when the fuck did this happen?
    great desgin robbie, i've always loved this style of building in rct2.
  • robbie92%s's Photo
    Reply Time:

    Austin-- Thanks, and I'm glad you enjoyed the layout! BTW, credit goes to SSSammy for the write-up.

    h3r3sth3krak3n-- Thank you!

    Stotsky-- Haha, I wish I was that productive!

    Trav-- Yeah, it's bare, but look more into it than bareness. Had there'd been black tiles, it might not feel as bare, and this ride is meant to be part of a natural area, not a cluster of archy. Comet was all archy/paths/rides, so I wanted to try something w/ some more negative space this time.

    Phatage-- I always love the depth of your comments, as they explain a lot. That being said, I come from a period FAR behind RoB, so I worked off of these designs, which were the first I saw when I started browsing NE. To be frank, I'm not a huge fan of RoB, so I doubt I'll be emulating it, but I do understand the qualities you're looking at. Excalibur was simply an experiment for me, not an attempt to change how I work. I much prefer the ultra-realism of 2010.

    Disneylandian--I'm glad that the readme clarified things for you to help you know this wasn't a serious design like Comet, and I'm glad that increased your enjoyment of it.

    Kumba-- Don't expect designs from me for a while until SFSF is finished.

    Louis-- Thanks! I'll keep in contact w/ you about our *stuff*

    Liampie-- Yeah, I wanna at least finish a park at this point.

    Posix-- I'm glad you enjoyed it.

    Nokia--Lol, thanks!

    Any comment is appreciated, positive or negative!
  • MistaDice%s's Photo
    nice logo :mantis: