Hello there, i am sure none or some of you have heard of this game.
Essentially it is another tycoon game but fun as hell. You build railways and buy industries, making pots of cash the way a capitalist would and making Karl Marx turn in his grave.
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That is what the interface looks like.
Now i will tell you of my experience playing the first level.
I bought the game, and wanting to try out the campaign i went on the first level - which showed the area between Boston and Buffalo.
I immediately set up a company and by making a nice straight line from Boston to Providence i was successful at letting the people see the novel form of transport, which was some bashed up thing on wheels that made horses shit themselves.
I noted i had some money left, and so i bought 2 post offices for some reason. After this i discovered i had a good million or so left. I connected up to some place called Lowell and another called Worcester. I then built more hotels for the jollies.
My trains started to run and i had high amounts of cash rolling in, but then quickly people stopped using it after they got bored and went back to dying of cholera instead.
I then connected up to Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth, and got a little more money because apparently 5000 people who live in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere want to visit Boston.
Things were running smoothly then suddenly i got a 100,000 dollar donation from anonymous, clearly somebody wanted me to succeed but i had no fucking idea why.
So i build up to some place where there is a factory where cattle go in and vanish into a red cloud and make money there.
Unfortunately some guy in a train hat and mutton chops thought it would be funny to connect New York to the most tiniest village in the middle of nowhere, with the line having two trains going towards each other on a single track and often reaching 70 degree angles.
I was perplexed as to his thinking, as the company suddenly filed for bankruptcy shortly afterwards, then once it went broke the man bought the company again for about 23 dollars and continued to tell me to stay the fuck away from New York.
His friend who wore a suit with large collars also agreed with his thinking, by building a extravagant line from a house in the middle of nowhere to a factory owned by a rich bloke who specialised in turning babies into lamp gas. With his trains carrying nothing and the tracks often going up the edge of a cliff he soon went broke as well.
So i continued up the Hudson river from Bridgeport, leaving New York to lose out and Boston turning into a metropolis. I reached Albany and had to build the most annoying line possible, which involved about 5 bridges and right angled corners. I eventually reached some dump named Utica then i expanded to Buffalo.
With that i left New York to become a broke village, and eventually the man with the large collars invested wisely by building a railway from a city in Canada over the top of a mountain to a village on the Hudson. Amazingly he made profits because he bought mountain climbing trains and apparently the village has a small black hole to dump all sorts of crap into it gets from Canada.
TL;DR I made railways, AI makes wonderful business choices and /b/ gave me a donation.
Now i ask you of your adventures in the game.
Edit: Fan website with maps and shit for it. [url]http://www.hawkdawg.com/[/url]
in railroad tycoon 2 I always would vertically integrate the rubber industry, don't know why I just always did
Doesn't seem that many people play it, what a pity.
Well consider that most gamers want flashy graphics and easy gameplay.
On steam it says something about not working with vista, else I'd buy it right away, I played 2 a lot.
Aaah man , i remember the 2nd game. I loved it so much, i need to find my copies of the 2nd and 3rd game.
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I love the music in these games.
looks almost as fun as railworks
[QUOTE=RJD2;21900206]looks almost as fun as railworks[/QUOTE]
Railworks isn't even the same type of damn game, at least look at the pictures.
Need more DLC.
I loved 2 and I enjoyed railroads. I suppose I should give 3 a go, but is it worth £6?
[QUOTE=Profanwolf;21900314]Railworks isn't even the same type of damn game, at least look at the pictures.[/QUOTE]
i never said it was the same game, I said it looked boring.
[QUOTE=howling techie;21900548]I loved 2 and I enjoyed railroads. I suppose I should give 3 a go, but is it worth £6?[/QUOTE]
I've been playing it for years and never tired of it.
Also for anybody looking for maps, mods, community, etc here is possibly the only site left of it.
[url]http://www.hawkdawg.com/[/url]
Does it not work on vista like steam says? Or is it just that there were some issues at some time.
I'm going to install this now :v:
It's as awesome as i remember it.
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Shit it doubleposted
It's always fucking awesome, I've never been on multiplayer tho because nobody is actually on.
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