Hi everyone, new troper here and this my tenth thread on This Very Wiki.
Hayo Zookeepers!
One of my favourite things in my childhood was playing Zoo Tycoon 2. I always loved building zoos for animals (and dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures), but I only had two problems with this game - limited creativity and lack of some crucial animals. For example: I wanted to build my own shelter for animals but the game didn't let me to do it. Or I wanted to build petting zoo, but the game didn't had domestic animals. And this could go on and on. When I discovered that there is such a thing as "mods" that add what I wanted (e.g. species of animals that I wanted to have in the game), I started downloading them, but it did not satisfied me because the mods sometimes were breaking my game. Back then, my dad advised me to collect money for a potential Zoo Tycoon 3, but I didn't listened to him, stubbornly believing that it was better to have Zoo Tycoon 2 with modifications than to wait for a game that would never be created.
I was wrong. Oh how wrong I was. Because one beautiful day, Frontier Developments announced Planet Zoo, Spiritual Successor to the Zoo Tycoon series and... Oh. My. Gosh! When I saw announcement trailer I had goosebumps through the whole time (and I was also probably crying out of happiness, I don't remember correctly) and I immediately thought that this game is for all intents and purposes Zoo Tycoon 3, and I regretted that I had been ignoring my dad in the past. I probably never had been so hyped for a game in my entire life: not only because of childhood nostalgia of me playing Zoo Tycoon 2, but also because this game was basically my childhood dream come true. I was finally able to put official Indian rhinos, bactrian camels and spotted hyenas (three species that I wanted in Zoo Tycoon 2) in my zoos and having an ability to build my own custom animal shelters and african village inspired zoos. I was also so happy to hear that animals in the game will have more than one biome, since in Zoo Tycoon 2 I was frustrated by the fact that Indian elephants and Komodo dragons have scrubland biome as their biomes, while I associate these two species with tropical jungles. During this time I had been watching GamerEmpire (now ReviewGen) speculation videos of potential species that will appear in game (and if I remember correctly, some of them did make it, while the others still wait for their time to appear).
And when game finally came out, it becomed my most played game on Steam (by the time of writing this I have 769,7 hours on it), while I becomed member of Planet Zoo family. During this time (me getting game and me currently writing this thread) I have gotten many of the animals from my wishlist - that actually goes way back to my childhood when I was still playing Zoo Tycoon 2 - added to the game, and every time each one was announced I was squealing with joy in the inside (or in case of wisent from Eurasia Animal Pack, I was literally crying of happiness). Currently, another childhood dream of mine concerning zoo games came true, and that's petting zoos in the form of newest Planet Zoo pack, Barnyard Animal Pack, since having farm animals and being able to build petting zoos for them was something that I always wanted to do in Zoo Tycoon 2, but I wasn't able to do it. Now I can, and before writing this thread I had build first half of petting zoo in my North American temperate zoo.
Well... that was a long introduction, wasn't it? So in this thread we can speculate what animals will be added in the future (I personally want to see Nile crocodile and African leopard), what future updates will bring in (who else wants playgrounds and addition of the shops from Planet Coaster World Fair DLC?) and the other things related to this game, like what we today builded in it. I hope that everyone who reads this has a good day!
Gonna build a mountain, from the little hill... I love this song so much! I think it fit perfectly into the game's announcement trailer, and was one of the reasons why I fell in love with this game. So I'm adding it here, so you can also listen to it.
I'm also adding game's launch trailer, so all of you can see this game in all of its glory.
And given that I'm writing this in the wake of the new DLC, I'm posting here its launch trailer:
Hi everyone, new troper here and this my tenth thread on This Very Wiki.
Hayo Zookeepers!
One of my favourite things in my childhood was playing Zoo Tycoon 2. I always loved building zoos for animals (and dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures), but I only had two problems with this game - limited creativity and lack of some crucial animals. For example: I wanted to build my own shelter for animals but the game didn't let me to do it. Or I wanted to build petting zoo, but the game didn't had domestic animals. And this could go on and on. When I discovered that there is such a thing as "mods" that add what I wanted (e.g. species of animals that I wanted to have in the game), I started downloading them, but it did not satisfied me because the mods sometimes were breaking my game. Back then, my dad advised me to collect money for a potential Zoo Tycoon 3, but I didn't listened to him, stubbornly believing that it was better to have Zoo Tycoon 2 with modifications than to wait for a game that would never be created.
I was wrong. Oh how wrong I was. Because one beautiful day, Frontier Developments announced Planet Zoo, Spiritual Successor to the Zoo Tycoon series and... Oh. My. Gosh! When I saw announcement trailer I had goosebumps through the whole time (and I was also probably crying out of happiness, I don't remember correctly) and I immediately thought that this game is for all intents and purposes Zoo Tycoon 3, and I regretted that I had been ignoring my dad in the past. I probably never had been so hyped for a game in my entire life: not only because of childhood nostalgia of me playing Zoo Tycoon 2, but also because this game was basically my childhood dream come true. I was finally able to put official Indian rhinos, bactrian camels and spotted hyenas (three species that I wanted in Zoo Tycoon 2) in my zoos and having an ability to build my own custom animal shelters and african village inspired zoos. I was also so happy to hear that animals in the game will have more than one biome, since in Zoo Tycoon 2 I was frustrated by the fact that Indian elephants and Komodo dragons have scrubland biome as their biomes, while I associate these two species with tropical jungles. During this time I had been watching GamerEmpire
(now ReviewGen) speculation videos of potential species that will appear in game (and if I remember correctly, some of them did make it, while the others still wait for their time to appear).
And when game finally came out, it becomed my most played game on Steam (by the time of writing this I have 769,7 hours on it), while I becomed member of Planet Zoo family. During this time (me getting game and me currently writing this thread) I have gotten many of the animals from my wishlist - that actually goes way back to my childhood when I was still playing Zoo Tycoon 2 - added to the game, and every time each one was announced I was squealing with joy in the inside (or in case of wisent from Eurasia Animal Pack, I was literally crying of happiness). Currently, another childhood dream of mine concerning zoo games came true, and that's petting zoos in the form of newest Planet Zoo pack, Barnyard Animal Pack, since having farm animals and being able to build petting zoos for them was something that I always wanted to do in Zoo Tycoon 2, but I wasn't able to do it. Now I can, and before writing this thread I had build first half of petting zoo in my North American temperate zoo.
Well... that was a long introduction, wasn't it? So in this thread we can speculate what animals will be added in the future (I personally want to see Nile crocodile and African leopard), what future updates will bring in (who else wants playgrounds and addition of the shops from Planet Coaster World Fair DLC?) and the other things related to this game, like what we today builded in it. I hope that everyone who reads this has a good day!
Gonna build a mountain, from the little hill... I love this song so much!
I think it fit perfectly into the game's announcement trailer, and was one of the reasons why I fell in love with this game. So I'm adding it here, so you can also listen to it.
I'm also adding game's launch trailer, so all of you can see this game in all of its glory.
And given that I'm writing this in the wake of the new DLC, I'm posting here its launch trailer: