The I'm Bored Thread
I don't think I'm the only one. I would like to hear from others like me who are bored with the game and or the entire franchise. I think my boredom is starting to spill over into the entire franchi...
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I just thought of something that I'm going to post here. Anyone who played Zoo Tycoon back in the day must remember when a fence would erode and break down the animals would escape. lol Sometimes we didn't hire a maintenance person just so there would be trash and animals escaping. >:) It would take awhile for the one zoo keeper (if you were cheap and or had a really huge zoo/land) to get to the animal to crate it so the lions had torn to shreds some of the visitors and all were running from the zoo and leaving bringing down the reputation and no one was going to stay in a zoo with wild animals escaping and tearing up 'sims'. lol
Then came along Zoo Tycoon2, it was no longer a zoo you could do all sorts of things in, like have elephant rides, ( I rode an elephant once when I was young) but a teaching tool to educate the public (players) on being kind to animals, (elephant rides were now bad) fences didn't break down as much anymore, you could just slap some new fence on it as a patch and not need a maintenance guy to run over and do it. And if animals did escape (with your help) you got a message the visitor was not going to view animals that weren't in enclosures. What? No one ran away screaming, the lion or bear didn't tear anyone to shreds, and the zoo keepers were quicker at crating the animal. The only thing that might happen is your star rating would go down temporarily until it was crated. Easy peasy.
Zoo Tycoon2 had new building tools, (everyone love them/terrain tools) better graphics, but the gameplay was lacking, the game was about teaching you about animal abuse and or how to save them, and how to build a proper enclosure all piled up with every sort of toy any animal would ever want. Clutter in enclosures every where. Heck some animals couldn't even eat the grass terrain anymore (their normal diet) but special food had to be purchased and in bowls.....when we know that isn't what happens in the wild.
TS4 makes me think about those games and how much things have changed and has become the game that needs to teach me some lessons..when I can learn those lessons other places and just wanted to play a fun game like I did back in the original Zoo Tycoon where my choices produced some pretty funny and hilarous consequences. I didn't need PETA to build me a game. Lesson- I played TS1 and Zoo Tycoon, and I turned out ok, even if I did kill off some Sims and some visitors to zoos. I'm not going to do any of that and pixels aren't people, nor me, and aren't my real life dogs or exotic animals I may see in my life time.
Then came along Zoo Tycoon2, it was no longer a zoo you could do all sorts of things in, like have elephant rides, ( I rode an elephant once when I was young) but a teaching tool to educate the public (players) on being kind to animals, (elephant rides were now bad) fences didn't break down as much anymore, you could just slap some new fence on it as a patch and not need a maintenance guy to run over and do it. And if animals did escape (with your help) you got a message the visitor was not going to view animals that weren't in enclosures. What? No one ran away screaming, the lion or bear didn't tear anyone to shreds, and the zoo keepers were quicker at crating the animal. The only thing that might happen is your star rating would go down temporarily until it was crated. Easy peasy.
Zoo Tycoon2 had new building tools, (everyone love them/terrain tools) better graphics, but the gameplay was lacking, the game was about teaching you about animal abuse and or how to save them, and how to build a proper enclosure all piled up with every sort of toy any animal would ever want. Clutter in enclosures every where. Heck some animals couldn't even eat the grass terrain anymore (their normal diet) but special food had to be purchased and in bowls.....when we know that isn't what happens in the wild.
TS4 makes me think about those games and how much things have changed and has become the game that needs to teach me some lessons..when I can learn those lessons other places and just wanted to play a fun game like I did back in the original Zoo Tycoon where my choices produced some pretty funny and hilarous consequences. I didn't need PETA to build me a game. Lesson- I played TS1 and Zoo Tycoon, and I turned out ok, even if I did kill off some Sims and some visitors to zoos. I'm not going to do any of that and pixels aren't people, nor me, and aren't my real life dogs or exotic animals I may see in my life time.
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