Park / Symphony of Pollution

Park_924 Symphony of Pollution

Choose the better park.

  1. Hurricanes: Sierra Glen 65 votes [52.00%]
    Percentage of vote: 52.00%
  2. MoLLesters: Symphony of Pollution 60 votes [48.00%]
    Percentage of vote: 48.00%

106 Comments

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  • iris%s's Photo

    This proves that 51% of NE can't tell the difference between Class and a pile of shit. And $10 goes to say half of that 51% voted for MoLLesters purely cause they wanna prove a LL park can beat a RCT2 park.

    For someone not even on the Hurricanes...you sure sound like an asshole right now.
  • gir%s's Photo
    I broke the tie, for now. I went with the Hurricanes. Symphony of Pollution just didn't flow.
  • Titan%s's Photo
    My vote went to the Hurricanes. Although the park doesn't 'wow' you right off the bat, after closer inspection, it definately rocks. The landscaping flows prefectly, the coaster is perfect, and all of the little details are great.

    So, no complaints other then the fact that it didn't have the instant wow factor...
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    My goodness, it's TIED at 42-42. This is pretty amazing and awesome.

    I guess my "playoff preview" statement turned out to be true. :D
  • JKay%s's Photo
    DaYam! 43-43. Has there ever been a tie in H2H history?
  • X250%s's Photo
    Can their be ties? I think it should be a tie as both entries imo were very evenly matched. Where one entry lacked one asset, the other entry made up in. Or maybe someone important to choose the better entry, if there was one.

    -X-
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    To drive the captains' and the people who made each entry's nerves a little higher, I'm going to leave this open for a while and close it only if either team opens up a lead that can be called solid. If worst comes to worst, I'll officially call it on Jan. 10, and if it is a tie, then we work that into the standings.

    There has never been a tie in H2H before, but hey... there are first times for everything. :D

    I would definitely like to take the time to thank everyone participating. This has seen an interest and electricity that I haven't seen around here for a while, and it's definitely spine-chilling in how exciting this has been. Of course, part of it may have also been the awesome college and pro football games I've been watching this weekend as well... :D

    In any case, this will definitely take the title of "Bush VS Gore Matchup of the Year" :D
  • Fatha'%s's Photo
    Well, Ill post my thoughts on each park.

    MoLLesters
    - The city/industrial theme is pulled of surprisingly well in this park, so you all get bonus points for that. The slime theming in the backlot of the urban atmosphere seems realistic yet not. Confusion reigns.
    - Your two coasters are, well, both not the best. The inverted was the better of the two, but even still it could have been better. The zero-G roll is too tall and sticks out, and the lift does the same. You could have cut the amount of lift hill supports as well.
    - As aforementioned, your coasters could have been better, especially the launched one. The tower had no support work, whatsoever. Throw in some S&S supports like Typhoon (or tsunami, some disaster) in Pyro's Aurora's Bay. It looks F-ugly without supports.

    Hurricanes
    - The simple theme works well here, and the landscaping is actually pretty good. I like the patches of grass and dirt left untouched, it really does give it a natural feel.
    - You get mad bonus points for making a suspended, and the support work was great.
    - You should have varied your building skins, because the buildings look monotonous.
    - You did a good job making the park feel natural, something I havnt seen since LL parks (which is why RCT2 is a terrible game, cartoon shit).


    My vote goes to the dreaded RCT2 park, only because the RCT LL park had some obvious problems in the coaster department. If you had supported the launch coaster and worked more on the invert, you prolly would have pulled my vote. I dont know why but that pissed me off for some reason.

    VOTE- Hurricanes.
  • Panic%s's Photo
    If this had been a year or a year and a half ago, and were I not on the Mollesters (but that's not the point), I might have brushed Symphony of Pollution off and said "Sierra Glen looks nicer, it gets my vote, Symphony is ugly." Evaluating both parks on the same plane (which is the wrong thing to do), I might well have reached the conclusion that Sierra Glen was more pleasing to the eye, and therefore it was a better work.
    That is the conclusion that I fear too many people are going by in this voting; I can see it in what some people are posting. Not naming names, but a handful of people's conclusions were that Sierra Glen is nicer to look at and therefore deserves the vote. I also refer to the people who say that Symphony of Pollution is absolute shit to look at.
    Yes, of course Sierra Glen is prettier than the Symphony. No shit. That's exactly the point of the park, to be a nice, natural looking, laid back work with soft colors and good aesthetics. And I will say, it doesn't do a bad job at achieving this. It flows nicely throughout and portrays a nice scene.
    But Symphony of Pollution isn't trying to achieve a similar look at all. It's going for something completely different - a city that is technologically advanced, but also has problems with pollution and urban sprawl and industrial waste and all that. It's supposed to be ugly and gritty in parts. That's the look it's trying to convey. So when parts of it don't look like the nicest, cleanest-looking buildings or stuff you've ever seen, that's good in a way. It means that it's doing its job. Look at the title. It's not Symphony of Delight, or Symphony of Charm. It's of Pollution. What does that tell you about what it's trying to evoke?

    It's not as though the makers were trying to make Symphony of Pollution pretty and failed because they did a shitty job, while the makers of Sierra Glen succeeded.

    You can't evaluate Sierra Glen and Symphony of Pollution on the same plane at all because they're going for completely different things, almost polar opposites. Sierra Glen is supposed to be a nice scene. Symphony of Pollution is supposed to be a futuristic, hi-tech, yet in places gritty environment. You should evaluate them on how well they achieve what they were respectively trying to portray. It's not How Pretty Sierra Glen Looks vs. How Pretty Symphony of Pollution Looks. It's How Good of a Job Sierra Glen Does at Being Calm and Peaceful vs. How Good of a Job Symphony of Pollution Does at Being Futuristic and Gritty. I think that some people are judging the parks by the first of these criteria, when they should be judging by the second.

    Corky put it well. It is CLASS vs. CLASH. But you can't say, "Class is better than Clash, therefore Sierra Glen is better." You have to say "How good is SG at being classy vs. how good is SoP at being clashing?"
  • Fatha'%s's Photo
    Sierra Glen is a better park because it is executed better, not because it looks prettier.
  • thorpedo%s's Photo
    47-47... sweet lord. I never would've imagined this kind of battle. It's nice. :p
  • Kumba%s's Photo
    50, to fucking 50, wow, just wow....
  • Havok%s's Photo
    It's a tight battle.... it's parks like these that really get you on the edge of your seat waiting for a winner.
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo
    Voted for Symphony of Pollution. It wasn't the greatest park in the world, but it reminded me of the REALLY old days... And that deserves some credit.

    While chapel may have said it in an asshole way, I, too, was IMed by many members of a certain team to vote their way. It's bullshit, no matter who does it.
  • Micool%s's Photo
    If members of my team IM'd you, that's shit. I wouldn't have voted for us. GAY

    However, it is slightly odd that this is getting so many votes...at a nice pace too ???
  • Panic%s's Photo
    Now now, let's all just relax with a little festivity.
    To the melody of jingle bells' verse..

    It was two nights after New Year's eeeeeeve,
    And we thought we had a small leeeeead,
    When sudden-ly, there came a knocking at the door,
    Two or three more members come to even up the score, HEY!
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo
    I think this is the first time we've ever cracked a hundred in a H2H matchup. Pat yourself on the back people... and... wow. Exciting, isn't it?

    Meanwhile the other matchup only has 13 replies... :'(
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo

    I think this is the first time we've ever cracked a hundred in a H2H matchup.  Pat yourself on the back people... and... wow.  Exciting, isn't it?

    Meanwhile the other matchup only has 13 replies... :'(

    Wasn't week one last time pretty close to that? I think it ended up 50 to 49.
  • Corkscrewed%s's Photo

    I think this is the first time we've ever cracked a hundred in a H2H matchup.  Pat yourself on the back people... and... wow.  Exciting, isn't it?

    Meanwhile the other matchup only has 13 replies... :'(

    Wasn't week one last time pretty close to that? I think it ended up 50 to 49.

    Week 1 DUE December 3, 2004
    -Seal Clubbers 57 vs. IIICons 17
    -MoLLesters 43 vs. Flying Germans 32
    -Hurricanes 66 vs. Vehemences 29


    Even the closest match was won by 11.
  • thorpedo%s's Photo
    52-52 again. What is UP with this?