Dunno if a whole lot of people here are familiar with the RCT franchise, but the basic premise is you get to run and design your own theme park. The series is mostly famous on the PC although there was a port to the Xbox back in the day. The last game to come out for the series was RCT 3 back in 2004 so needless to say I was excited to hear they were developing a RCT4.
Then the bad news came. There was going to be a mobile and PC version. Mobile came out first, costs $2.99 in the app store. That didn't seem bad for what should be a great game, but unfortunately this is actually just a freemium game that's not so free. In the game you have tons of in-app purchases, and everything has a timer (Touch Arcade review said it took 10 hours to "build" a coaster). Yuck!! Way to ruin the game. This is especially disappointing because earlier this month Transport Tycoon, a game in the same vein of RCT (the same maker did this game before the RCT series), was ported to mobile, only cost $6.99 to buy, and played exactly like the old game but with touch screen controls. Why they couldn't just do that with RCT4 is beyond me, and beyond stupid.
To make matters worse, the PC version doesn't come out till the second half of this year. On top of this, all we've heard from the developers about the PC version is that they plan to introduce multiplayer and more social features.... why can't I just play my simulation games alone??
Then the bad news came. There was going to be a mobile and PC version. Mobile came out first, costs $2.99 in the app store. That didn't seem bad for what should be a great game, but unfortunately this is actually just a freemium game that's not so free. In the game you have tons of in-app purchases, and everything has a timer (Touch Arcade review said it took 10 hours to "build" a coaster). Yuck!! Way to ruin the game. This is especially disappointing because earlier this month Transport Tycoon, a game in the same vein of RCT (the same maker did this game before the RCT series), was ported to mobile, only cost $6.99 to buy, and played exactly like the old game but with touch screen controls. Why they couldn't just do that with RCT4 is beyond me, and beyond stupid.
To make matters worse, the PC version doesn't come out till the second half of this year. On top of this, all we've heard from the developers about the PC version is that they plan to introduce multiplayer and more social features.... why can't I just play my simulation games alone??
