Park / Kayte Ridge

Which is the better park?

  1. Strangelove - Internet City 63 votes [47.01%]
    Percentage of vote: 47.01%
  2. Ferocious Tigers - Kayte Ridge 71 votes [52.99%]
    Percentage of vote: 52.99%

211 Comments

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  • Panic%s's Photo
    The entirety of Internet City was based on things that didn't occupy my attention for more time than it took to say "hey, that's cool" and then move on, which excepting the coaster was generally about five seconds. There was absolutely no reason to come back and look at that park again, because everything was for show. I'd have liked to see maybe a big coaster that went all around and had interactions with the scenery that I'd come back and watch again.

    I think Kayte Ridge is the first park this season with more than one major coaster, which immediately caused it to hold my attention in game for longer. But even more than that, it was refreshing, calm, and realistic, and would be wonderful to walk through. I especially appreciated the John Allen coaster.

    Kayte Ridge had actual rides, and decent ones. Internet City had a bunch of theming and fake rides that were there for show. I don't think the problem with Internet City is that it's messy, it's that it's shallow.

    Therefore, I had no trouble voting for Kayte Ridge.



    edit: I might add, though, that I'd be very (pleasantly) surprised if Kayte Ridge won this in the end. I would guess that a lot of people are going to vote on first looks, so the shallowness of a park doesn't really have that much of an impact as long as it's more impressive up front. Then some might realize a few months down the road that it's Kayte Ridge they're coming back to look at and not Internet City.

    Edited by Panic, 21 July 2006 - 03:14 AM.

  • iris%s's Photo
    I personally liked Strangelove's park better. There just seemed to be more to see and more to explore. I agree with the sentiment that realistic does not have to necessarily mean plain and boring, and I feel like that's what all realistic parks look like. Not every realistic park needs to be identical, I feel like I could probably walk through this park with my eyes closed and know almost entirely what I'm going to see based on old parks by mrICE, Segaman75, etc. I think realistic parks should be fun and exciting to explore, and invoke memories and instances from real life parks. And call me crazy, but I've never been to a park that was so dull and quaint as this one. Maybe an older park, but that wouldn't explain the presence of a brand new Intamin Rocket coaster. Parks like Phatage's Busch Gardens Sydney, Six Flags Worlds of Excitement, vTd & Jesse's Shiloh Town, vTd's Florida DisneySea, Premier Amusement Park from RCPro, etc. are the type of realism I enjoy. The ones with surprising attention to detail to make sure that the stuff really seems realistic, whether that means inventing new ways to make buildings/walls, new ceiling structures, hacking rides so they're more accurate, etc. That's what makes a great realistic park to me personally. Not just putting down path, trees, coasters, and queue lines.

    All that sounded really negative, but it's not meant to be. The Tigers park was really nice actually. Better then anything my team's produced all season so far probably. "Renegade" was cool, I really liked seeing those trains used. All in all, the more I look at it, the more I like it...but the more I wish it had more to it. Perhaps good realistic parks are really to be enjoyed in more of a full, engulfing way, a type of way a mini park could never convey. So as a H2H park, it doesn't really work quite well IMO.

    As for the Strangelove park....there too were pro's and cons. I don't know how ride6 can say it's 'so much better' then the Tigers, cause it really wasn't. If I gave the Tigers a 6.5, I'd give Internet City a 7, MAYBE a 7.5 depending on what kind of mood I was in. Each of the ideas were awesome, but I feel almost anyone can throw a bunch of ideas together. The trick is to make the parts equal a beautiful whole, and this park totally failed to do so. That being said, all the clever ideas still gave it the slight push ahead. The NE3 thing was pretty funny, I liked the error/virus area and the pop-up thing, that was cool. Almost every idea was really cool. The only thing I didn't care for was the sex area, cause it's totally played out and lost it's shock value at this point. First cBass claimed first rights to it with BOMB, but then more specifically someone (I think Levis? Might be wrong) did something almost identical to this area with that "Playboy Park" in the PT2 Prelims. So that whole area did nothing for me, which sucks cause it was the most prominent area with the only real half-interesting coaster.

    A good round...and an interesting one too. This will definitely be an interesting week.
  • Leighx%s's Photo
    Well i love interent city it was right up my street....As it deffiently showed more hard work etc.
    However Kayte Ridge was nice but i got bored looking at it after a short period of time.

    Internet city had LOTS of different ideas to it so it didn't get boring for me.

    So my vote = Strangelove
  • mantis%s's Photo
    This looks like a very difficult match-up. I can't look at them, but I should probably say well done to both teams for putting in a great effort.
    It seems to me that this H2H season has been of extremely high quality so far.
  • artist%s's Photo
    Both very good parks. My teams park, internet city had some brilliant ideas and were executed very well but as you all probably know the park is far from my style and i do prefer the peaceful, realistic style that the Tigers had. Internet city did have some great ideas but it did have ALOT of flaws, esp the blacked out parts of the map, imo that just looks very tacky and messy which does annoy me and the other major flaw was that the park had been hacked the shit out of that it slowed the entire game down and some peoples computers down, hacks dont really do it for me. All in all both parks were "ok" nothing spectactular, although i really did love those rapids in the Tiger's park and i loved the Amazon section in Internet city, but yeah like i was saying good match and dont worry i understand the skill it takes to create something like internet city it just wasnt my style but good job guys you really are very talented parkmakers.

    Anyways my vote went to Strangelove, of course.

    Go us!! :D :D :D
  • Levis%s's Photo

    but then more specifically someone (I think Levis? Might be wrong) did something almost identical to this area with that "Playboy Park" in the PT2 Prelims.


    yes that was me :p .
  • JJ%s's Photo
    shit i feel really bad now :| I just gave Tigers the lead. :(
    The person for the other park won't be happy :(
    but now i have voted the deciding point for me was that the cock-a-doodle-doo-a-doodle-doo in the strangelove park had no pubes.

    Edited by JJ, 21 July 2006 - 06:24 AM.

  • JKay%s's Photo
    This is definitely one of the closer H2H matches I've seen. By far one of the best fantasy vs realism matchups I've ever seen.

    Kayte Ridge - I consider this an average park, or maybe just above average. Yes, its realistic, but does that make it the better park? Not really for me. To me, this park attempts to convince the viewer by saying "I'm the same old park that has been churned out before, but because I'm realistic you need to vote for me." I know that's kind of harsh, but that's the impression I got. I did like the Initmin Rocket, however it also sort of felt out place, as the remainder of the park seemed to take an old fashioned approach.

    So in the end, it was only the Rocket coaster that I enjoyed and that was not enough garner my vote based on the opposition.

    Internet City - A terrific park on a lot of levels, most notably the creative level. Not so terrific on some other levels. The first impression I got was WOW, but I've learned that WOW parks can be quite deceiving upon further analysis.

    Subjectively, I feel this park is an "over-conglomeration" of ideas all mushed into a small space. However, that doesn't mean that I didn't like all the ideas, I just think they should have been chosen more carefully. It is true that the park didn't have much of a layout either which in the end didn't take away much of the wow for me. Not all parks need layouts, especially when you are building on this type of fantasy level.

    As for all the ideas, some were better than others. The whole porn area was a bit too much for me. It seemed like a cheap gimmick. I understand the internet and porn are directly related, but building an oversized penis and naming a coaster "Cumshot" is just too much for me too enjoy. Other ideas, like the Amazon area, NE3 thing and music area were much more appropriate and all well-executed. I also really liked that huge TV with all the 1s and 0s. That was brilliant. The colors also were very well done in this park.

    All in all, I would've preferred fewer ideas and a more polished look. The park was quite messy in spots which seemed to be the end result of trying to squash too much into such a small area.

    StrangeLove barely (and I re-iterate barely) squeaked out my vote for its sheer level of creativity. While the other park wasn't terrible, I didn't get enough from it to capture my vote.
  • CedarPoint6%s's Photo
    I voted for the Tigers...

    First off, I am on that team and stuff... but either way, I prefer realism or an amusement park style feel over an insanely hacked fantasy park. There's not many exceptions for that in my view.
  • ekimmel%s's Photo
    I'll probably be the only one with this opinion (or that is willing to admit and post it) but the porn section in the internet park really bothered me. It was really unnecessary. There were so many other good ideas in the park that could have been expanded and so many other aspects of the internet not captured in the park that could have been used instead. It's not the only reason I didn't vote for the park, though. I thought the park was cluttered. I don't mean cluttered with junk. Quite the opposite. Everything was quite well put together but there was just too much crammed in there. One could argue that that's how the internet really is (and possibly this was the intention of the builders) but to me it's just too "busy". Since I could only open the park paused I have no idea if the coasters were good or not. I'm one that pays close attention to coaster quality and not being able to see them was a big negative for me.

    The first thing I noticed about Kayte is the fabulous John Allen woodie. It looked great from the screenshot and didn't disappoint in the game. I love classic woodies and this one was well done. I also loved the classic shuttle looper. My first coaster inversion was while riding on Montezuma's Revenge at Knott's when I was a kid (probably around 1980) so I always like to see one in an RCT park. I didn't get the LIM. It wasn't terrible but it was kind of "blah". I would have preferred to see something a little more classic to go with the other 2 coasters. Perhaps an Arrow corker or a suspended swinger? Aside from the rides the architecture was pretty good though not as good as the internet park. The landscaping wasn't bad and served it's purpose. There wasn't a lot of filler or architecture for the sake of architecture. It's just a well balanced park, IMO.
  • Evil WME%s's Photo
    Wow, i expected this to be tight but it's nice to see that it's this tight. No idea where this will end up.

    jkay, i really don't think it's the same old park that's been churned out before. That's definitely not giving it enough credit. Comparable to saying internet city was just out for looking creative, and not accomplishing it by any means. Extreme ways of viewing both parks giving neither the credit they deserve.

    As i said before, i think there hasn't been any park, ever, that utilizes the proportions of buildings, pathing and coasters in such a way as Kayte Ridge. And it enhances the realism entity of it by a lot. I can't remember such a realistic park in h2h, ever, either. So calling this the same park as been churned out before seems nonsense. Besides that, the wooden and the intamin are both very well constructed coasters. Not everyone is capable of that.

    Now admittadly i'm not much of a fan of the kind of park Internet City is. I for one do feel to a certain extent that this is in fact more of the same old, same old. Trying to be as creative as possible, filling the map with as much as possible. No order, just chaos. Yet i might be oh so conservative about rcting to a certain extent. Gimmicks are great, but they shouldn't surpass the whole general feel of it still being an 'rct park'. For me, atleast. And with bomb and the bedrooms having been done before, i hardly count 'just another gimmick' as too valuable.

    Anyways, differences in opinion and especially very, very close matchups are what makes h2h fun. Especially when the quality, as been pointed out before, is quite nice this year.
  • super rich%s's Photo
    It isnt the small ideas(well it is sorta), but the main idea overall is what it looks like the creators were trying to get across with Strangelove. I took another look at the tigers park and noticed a few cool small details but your all going to argue again over this idea but its too simple.
  • mantis%s's Photo
    ekimmel, I think omitting the sex theme would have led to a poor representation of overall global internet use?
  • J K%s's Photo
    In my opinion it shows both realism vs fantasy at thier best and this match is a brief view on what you like best. I think the overall effect of Internet city was astounding compared to Kayte Ridge at first but when you open the park up and see ridges details and how much work has been put in you really admire it more than a cool fantasy idea that grabs your atention for no more than a few seconds.

    My first main point is that KR's coasters were far far better than Internet cities. I know you intended them to be a gimmick that relates to the theme but with Ridges really strong layouts just over powered yours by far. I also have a fair idea who built both parks from seeing previous work and the kind of style you both went for.

    Secondly the content of KR's was equal to IC's so i don't really think people could say it was'nt well thought out. It was'nt just buildings and a coaster it was alot more. The detail in the shops like the counters and games for the guests to play at. The single ques in such a short space and just really detailed stuff that must of been quite time consuming. Also most rides had an operation booth, such a small detail but it made the park even more impressive. The overall pinnacle of the architecture for me was the merry go round. It could'nt get any better and that kind of work was immaculate.

    IC - the ideas were excellent, well thought out and pulled off brilliantly. My favourite part was all of it tbh. I loved the circuit boards and the hack area was a nice touch. I felt i would vote for this because it has so much going on but i really admired the realism in the other one. So i went for tigers.

    Great matchup, the best yet. I would'nt think either park would be seen as good as they are, if it was'nt up against its complete opposite. That makes it so much more better.

    Edited by J K, 22 July 2006 - 03:02 AM.

  • Gwazi%s's Photo
    Strangelove purely because of the creativity and comedy. Seriously, Both were great parks though.

    Edited by Gwazi, 21 July 2006 - 11:15 AM.

  • ekimmel%s's Photo

    ekimmel, I think omitting the sex theme would have led to a poor representation of overall global internet use?


    No more so than omitting MySpace, BlogSpot, AIM, and Wikipedia.
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    They prolly ran out of room. :lol:

    IMO, both are good parks, but neither is a great park (i.e. MSM or SM). I leaned toward Internet City with its chaotic creativity motif, but Kayte Ridge certainly has its charm. But my sentiments echo Iris's.

    25-24 at the moment. I feel like something like this happened last year... oh yeah... Sierra Glen vs Symphony of Pollution. :lol: (scroll to the bottom)
  • RCTFAN%s's Photo
    Kayte Ridge get's my vote simply becuase i lean towards realism over fantasy, and i thought that Internet city was simply there to say ''hey, look at how original we are!'', but only to back it up with some lacklustre rides all bunched up in one small map.

    I think to have improved it would be to have chosen only a few of the areas (say four), make them and have ''internet highways'' to connect them.

    It was too brash for my liking.

    RFan
  • mantis%s's Photo
    Hmm I suppose so, ekimmel, but I think sex is probably more of a 'theme'. I dunno, I just thought it was fitting for the park.
  • Todd Lee%s's Photo
    I went for neat and orderly, rather than cramped and busy.

    Both look good though, this basically boils down to what style of park you like more 'right now'.