Yes, the wheels of ‘official announcements’ move slowly at Take 2, but there are a number of reports on gathering.com of people with RT3 in hands, from GameStop, E.B., and in one case, Best Buy. Just wanted to let people know to give their local store a call. Although of course this is not an ‘official’ announcement or anything :)
Congrats on RRT3 hitting the stores! 40% rating notwithstanding, I’ll pop by my local EB soon to see if it’s there.
As soon as I beat Halo, I’m going to have to pick this up. Thanks for the heads up Phil!
BTW - Any word on a demo?
Me and my coworker are planning to skip out of work at 3 and go to Gamestop.
We love you Phil!
:D
Incidentally though, if RRT3 does not meet my incredibly high (ask people about the Freelancer debacle) standards then I will probably hound you off the forum the way I did with Derek, Raph, and Brian Reynolds.
:wink:
And the way you’re apparently trying to get rid of Dennya also. Does your evil know no bounds?
Oh, and don’t beat me up if your local store doesn’t have it yet. It’s sort trickling out - some have it today, more tomorrow, and most/all by Monday. If your nearest EB is an hour away, call before driving there.
I would get it, loved RT2, but I read this british review of it and there doesn’t seem to be any reason to get it…
Chet
The Gamestops in the Northern VA area all seem to have it, not so much the EB’s.
Got my copy, getting ready to spin the tutorial.
And the way you’re apparently trying to get rid of Dennya also. Does your evil know no bounds?[/quote]
It’s bounded only by your ability to ban me!
:D
Anyway, the local GameStop had this so I picked it up and I’m super psyched!
VERY few games will get me to to $50 price point Phil, but for RRT3 I would gladly shell out even $51 or $52.
I’ll be picking up RRT3 when it hits the UK. I hate trains.
Phil: Are you going to do any more games with the Tropico game engine? Perhaps a different theme, and with some different gameplay nubbins hanging off the side, like the worldmap piracy aspect of Tropico 2.
edit: the queen’s grammar.
Probably no more stuff with the Tropico engine. We’ve had some licensing inquiries, but they’ve all petered out. PopTop is definitely in the full-3D world to stay, and Frog City (developers of Tropico 2) is working on something that I can’t talk about, but it’s not using the Tropico 2 engine.
And for those of you who will inevitably ask what’s next for PopTop, the answer is “I don’t know, and I’d probably keep it hush-hush even if I did”. We’re still catching our breath now, catching up on some vacation time, doing a little extra RT3 content that we’ll likely trickle out over the next few weeks/months. We’ve got ideas for the ‘next big game’, but that’s all it is now - ideas. Probably something original, but beyond that, it’s too early to say.
Now if anybody wants to do an interview with me and get me to say that exact same thing spread out over 10 questions, I’d be happy to oblige :)
Maybe a space station game based on the Tropico engine?
Instead of paths, you could have space tubes that connect the different space modules!
[EDIT: Hmmm…so how much would it cost me to license the Tropico engine? Would you license it to me for $19.99 since we’re such good friends?]
Hopefully nothing like Space Colony, which has been very disappointing. The game seems to revolve around being shouted at by a bunch of idiots, who divert your attention from more important things, like the constant “base is under attack” messages every time a critter even looks in the direction of one of your lights. Once you’ve heard all the snappy dialogue from the idiots, it’s a pretty poor city builder game.
Now Startropicotopia I’d definitely buy. Again.
First forehead-slapping, “I thought you tested the tutorial out!” moment…
If you play the tutorial, it has you investing “at least 100,000” of your own money and seeking “at least 900,000” of outside investment cash. Unfortunately, if you go exactly that route (and the game seems to strongly suggest you should go that route and have exactly a million dollars in operating capital for your first tutorial railroad), you won’t have enough cash to actually buy your first train–and there’s no way to get out of the tutorial (the tutorial won’t let you use the cancel button or escape key that would normally, in a real game, take you to the main menu and the option to exit) without doing an alt-tab, and then forcing a quit through windows task manager. Oops!
Easily remedied, though. Just up the outside investment cash to a million dollars or higher in the tutorial, and you can finish it. Still, that’s gonna give some poor beginner fits, I think.
Game looks beautiful, 3d engine appears to be very, very sharp. Reminds me a bit of the 3d implementation of RRT2 on the Dreamcast a few years ago. Back to the trains!
You can exit the tutorial by clicking on the file options button (which is the same way you normally exit the game, return to the main menu, or what have you).
I believe that the normal path through the tutorial only requires about 700-800 K to do all the building you need, but if you used double track or expensive bridges, perhaps you went over a million.
Is the terrain randomized then? Because if you follow the path in the tutorial, you’re definitely laying track across a river which builds a (very cool-looking, I must say) bridge; the tutorial text even mentions it. The single track between Turin and Milan, the bridge, the two large stations, the restaurant, the maintenance shed and water tower/sand thingie all took my initial capital of a million down to about 14,000.
Like I said no biggie (especially now that the exit out is so apparent, my bad for missing it!) Just wanted to mention it to help others possibly avoid the frustration of getting to that point and not being able to do the coolest thing, which is buy an actual train.
Game seems very, very good so far, Phil!
C’mon, Phil, fess up! Already ya’ll are working on the first expansion pack to RT3 to be called the “I got your 40% Right Here!” Pack! :lol:
While I strongly suspect there will be an expansion, there’s no guarantee PopTop will do it. They could farm it out.
Whens the UK release do you happen to know?
Now if anybody wants to do an interview with me and get me to say that exact same thing spread out over 10 questions, I’d be happy to oblige
Does that include amateurs? :D (if I said I just quit Tropico for my nightly browse of QT3 would it increase my chances ;))