Personally, RCT3 is my favorite, because it was the version I started with, but It seems the crowd pleaser is definitely RCT2 or 1. I agree, they should have just ported RCT2 or 1 over for mobile and then made RCT4 a PC and Mac version, which would be an upgrade from RCT3 instead of a downgrade.
What people are missing here is that it has nothing to do with the "number" but everything to do with the overall direction of the franchise. Don't forget there was a 3DS game a couple of years ago, and that was a hot mess also.
I don't have ANY confidence that Atari knows anything about this franchise anymore, what made it a success in the first place, or what they need to do to make it a success again.
iOS would have seemed like the PERFECT platform to port the old RCT2 over, even if they had included in-app purchases, and at least that would have had a chance.
People also seem to forget that games cost a TON of money to develop, and when you are selling a mobile app for 99 cents, you pretty much HAVE to create in-app purchases to make a game viable.
I don't have a problem paying a dollar or two for a roller coaster pack IF the game was something I was interested in and in this case, looked and felt like an RCT game should. But everything I've seen so far leads me to believe the direction of the franchise is completely off course.
I agree, they have totally lost all perspective on what the amusement park industry and world is like today.
