Guests getting lost because of transit rides & not being smart enough to take the ride back are exactly why I try to avoid transit rides all together.

the hardest scenario is not watching a Marcel Vos video as soon as it’s uploaded

As a kid I loved the Extreme Heights map, I don't think I ever beat it but I enjoyed making excessively long coasters with the infinite money.

I never really found extreme heights that difficult. You can literally just flatten the entire terrain, and then build an amazing park according to your dreams, after that it's just waiting

This reminds me how when I was younger I never paid attention to scenarios, because I just had fun building and messing around. Some of them I passed by accident

7:42 who the F built that massive Heartline lmfao. On a note, I found Pickle Park (no advertisements) the hardest as I kept building huge excitement coasters (expensive) which lead to less attractions; less guests. Took like 5+ resets

Extreme Heights is actually super easy. Just level the entire map (since you have infinite cash), put 80 launched freefalls in a grid and you are done within 10 minutes.

I agree with the whole "scenarios aren't ordered correctly" because, in my experience, dusty greens should be a beginner park, and factory chapers shouldn't

Hardest scenario: Getting the game to work in Windows 10

As a kid, the only scenarios I completed in RCT2 were the beginner ones and Extreme Heights. I somehow managed to survive until the Reverse Freefall Coaster was unlocked, and then I spammed five or six of them on top of each other along the entire length of the map - literally starting in one corner and ending in the other corner.

Great list! I know this isn’t a top 5, but do you plan on making a guide on how guest pathfinding works? (And also employees) there’s just so many facets to it like multiple width paths (good or bad?), overcrowding, what makes a path layout “confusing” or not, how do guests get lost, and what governs where they go to, etc.

Hey Marcel - only just recently found your channel, and have to say that while I'm not a huge RCT player, I've always been a fan. I love the great informative content you produce, everything is straight to the point. I have found myself watching all of your stuff on RCT so far and must say I have been enlightened a great deal because of it - going to get around to launching OpenRCT very soon thanks to you. Keep up the tremendous work!

I remember the days when I was 7 years old failing the extreme heights scenario because I didn't know how to beat any scenario at the time because I was too dumb to understand how the game works and when I did fail the scenario, I putted no entry signs to stop the guests from leaving. 7 years later in 2014, I took on the Extreme Heights scenario and actually completed it. It took around 10 hours to complete the scenario because that's how long it took to round up 4500 guests and had a few coaster crashes there and there. The key to keeping the park rating up is hiring staff in every 5 sections where it would have at least one bathroom and food stall, placing benches and bins on every part of the track and doing this makes the scenario a lot easier.

Could you also do a top 5 hardest RCT1 scenarios?

Your top 5 favorite Scenarios of RCT1 including expansions would be great.

I played RCT2 when I was a little boy, like 15 years ago. Your videos inspired me to buy this game and play it again. Thanks, Marcel!

I look forward to the "Beating Extreme Heights with only Circuses" video

Thanks again for using my pixel art in your video! 😃

I love these vids. It really got me to play around with making my own designs and making a more optimal and ascetically pleasing park layout.

The desert scenario is one of the easiest, I loved that one as a kid, you just flatten all of it, no need to worry about grass growing, unlimited money and thrill loving guests that let's you build fun roller coasters

So glad you are back, putting out incredible content

Just discovered your channel today and have been nine watching therm. I didn't know there was so much about RCT2 that I never knew.

I live in the Netherlands and I am on vacation in Austria. That you release 6 video’s just now is a pleasure.

Would love to see your top 5 parks or coasters you’ve ever created!

I haven't played RCT2 in a year, but I still watch your videos :)

I found Extreme Heights to be super easy as you can just spam pre designed coasters and place toilets and shops everywhere and each ride can have it's own dedicated mechanic.

Amity and fungus took so long to figure out! Still working on #4. Extreme heights was long but fun. Rainbow summit is killing me right now but I'm trying it again with your awesome advice! I think the scenarios where it's all only coasters but they must be a long length with high ratings are the hardest of all. Great video!

You made me buy rct2 on steam again. It's been years since i played this game. Dankjewel Marcel ^^

"I want to get off Mr. Vos' Wild Ride"

Rollercoaster Tycoon: _Makes a ‘hard’ scenario_ Marcel Vos: _I'm gonna end this man's whole career_

Another quality video, I’ve always been hesitant to play any of the difficult pay for entry parks but maybe I’ll give it a try after your solution series

The diversity of challenges in the hardest scenarios really showcase the skill of the games designers. Thanks Marcel!

I agree with the list- Amity Airfield especially, it's not impossible but man that's a brutal hit right out of the gate for new players! All the same though, I still remember the first time I beat Rainbow Summit as a kid- man it was a great feeling! Great video sir, rock on!

Gravity Gardens was hell for me, I probably spent a good week going through that park. The thing about it is once you get stuff going and avoid the deadly cycle you're good, but it was a long 7+ years 'till the end. Extreme heights was very easy for me, I love to go wild with coasters so it was helpful that guests like my insane coasters :D

I've never played any of these games but I love your videos. I remember having this game back in the day but my computer couldn't run it.

the trick i use for pay-per-entry parks is once the guest flow slows down enough, i close every ride and close the park, then put banners in key spots to guide guests out of the park. when almost everyone is gone i delete all the signs and reopen everything, and suddenly a pile of guests show up. ive had entrance tickets go up more than 600% in some cases

since you went top 5 hardest now you could do top 5 easiest. :P just an idea :D

Amity Airfield was one of my favorites! I always enjoyed the wide-open space. Hearing people hated it is news to me.

I always struggled just to get past the FIRST scenario or two in RCT2. RCT1 felt so much more forgiving (and cheesable).

Nice one mate. Love your work.

To add to your top 5 series, you can make a video with the 5 best coaster types, or the 5 best gentle rides or something like that

tbh I've always kinda wondered this, great video!

A dutch guy talking about speed skating. For some reason my heart got happy when i heard you say that.

Awesome concept loved it

when talking about top 5 videos, I could imagine a top 5 most fun scenarios, top 5 best/worst coaster types, top 5 best pre-built coasters (that appear in scnearios). Good video though!

Gravity Gardens is very hard if you play the game as intended, but if you abuse the fact that absurdly high intensity ratings raise the park value as well, this scenario becomes incredibly easy: 1. Set up a park with some cheap coasters and a few stalls to get the maximum entry price. Make sure guests leave quickly by _not_ building any ATMs or toilets. 2. Let the game run for a few years until you have amassed at least €100,000. 3. Build a Looping or Corkscrew coaster with tight unbanked turns, two loops, back to the station, and set it to Powerd launch (passing station), give it the maximum number of laps and test it. It'll have an intensity rating north of 15. Save this design and spam it everywhere (at least 20 of them). Open all the rides, let them generate their stats and you win this scenario instantly.

Openrct2 makes all scenarios a lot easier with the speed options.

I was genuinely shocked at number 1 :D Rainbow Summit is the one i found easiest out of the 5. Fungus Woods and Amity Airfield are straightforward once you have a compact design for the coasters available. Fungus Woods is the one i always struggled with originally. I need to replay Extreme Heights with a focus on compact coasters.

There seems to be some graphical glitch around ~6:30 when watching at 1.5x speed. It happened twice at the same part, so it might not be on my end. Great video! I imagine for you, there's no such thing as a truly "difficult" scenario, though!

I think there is no RCT2 player who knows so much information. I’m 100% sure you are the best RCT player in the world. Ik wacht op je volgende video!

My dad spent an entire weekend trying to beat rainbow summit. But he purposely trapped a couple guests up there on the gondola summit as punishment for puking lol.

I loved the top 5! Have you ever thought about doing a rollercoaster tycoon lore video(s?) explaining the history of the game and quirky things about the game outside of play? An example wpuld be how the copy I had growing up was from a totinos promotion which I've never seen with any other game

Imagine Rainbow Summit without the ability to delete rides and delete trees

Such a great video again!!

Excellent list. Really looking forward to the solution series. I always liked Rainbow Valley in principle, but never beat it. As for future Top 5 lists, how about "Top 5 Most/Least Useful Non-coaster Rides"? Bonus points if you can explain why the Twister thrill ride is almost always the most unpopular of the starter rides; you almost always get it at scenario start, but I rarely see guests riding or queuing for it. Am I doing something wrong, or is that ride just a waste of space and money?

I have beaten amity airfield in two days after reinstalling rct with 4000 guests by the end of october year 4 thanks to your guide Marcel :P

THE KING HAS RETURNED

In RCT 1, the hardest scenarios are most definitively Rainbow Valley, Harmonic Hills and Mini Park. while I didn't get to play Mini Park (as some of the Loopy Landscapes' scenarios really go absurd with Difficulty curve), I can confess that Rainbow Valley is extremely hard, and Harmonic Hills is MURDER!!!!

I know a really good trick for park with pay for entry when you have some guest you can make them leave with no entry signs and closing the park after that you get new guests faster if your goal isnt guests it is really nice if it is guests you should do it only in the start to get really much money

I really enjoy these videos. I'm just curious if u plan on added any other game along the same lines (roller coaster tycoon 3, parkitect, planet coaster or zoo)

You could do a top five best and worst coaster types. Great video by the way!

You're a legend Marcel!

I think the height restriction actually helped me on Rainbow Summit. I have a hard time building reasonably sized rides. More smaller rides, even if they are nearly as long as their taller cousins made that one pretty doable for me. Amity airfield I always come close to the wire on for that reason, but it being completely flat makes building go a lot quicker with much less thought going into it.

Those Russian/European and Chinese scenarios in the Wacky Worlds version of RCT2 are ridiculous. Super short height restrictions, and you’re initially given a park that has missing paths and broken things everywhere!

Very excited for the tutorial videos! How about a speedbuild? I always enoy those :) Haven't beaten Rainbow summit to this day. I could never be bothered as it was the most notorious "beat RCT by not being able to play RCT" scenario :(

I love your accent :D "nambör faif is fönkös fyyds"

I always find that the "finish half-built coasters with an excitement rating above X" are the hardest, mostly becuase I want to make them logical coasters instead of just making silly interlocking loops and putting random scenery and paths nearby.

Amity Airfield is such a pain in the rear to complete. Every time i play through the scenarios in rct2, it takes me several tries to get it right. This is probably because I try not to just spam motion sims, freefalls, and micro coasters to beat scenarios though. The big thing about Amity Airfield that I hardly ever see mentioned that makes it so finicky is the ride selection. Almost every ride you have access to has a really high base nausea rating. Swinging suspended coasters, multi dimension coasters, enterprises and freefalls... even the gentle ride selection has stuff like space rings and the like that are just straight up vomit machines. Beating the scenario takes a lot of micromanaging of your finances; splitting available funds between handyman salaries to keep the paths clean and park rating acceptable, and constant advertising and expansion to keep entrance tickets coming in. Definitely should've been an expert park, as I think it's significantly more challenging than Ghost Town or Extreme Heights.

Going through the scenarios in order at the moment, and I've just finished Amity Airfield. I found it pretty simple. I've mostly just filled it with simple, tessellating coasters and thrill rides. Have each queue as long as possible before the "I've been queuing for ages" thought pops up - guests don't complain about crowding in queues, and it gets them off the regular paths where they will vomit, litter, and whinge. Have long stretches of stalls between rides, and make sure each coaster has a $3 photo. The money ticks over enough to allow you to expand, and you can still afford to refurbish rides when their reliability drops down.

There should be a 50% of natural element requirement available for scenario requirements. Basically it would me that while you can destroy trees, you are prevented from destroy more than 50%, and if you want to clear out an area of forest you might have to plant trees elsewhere before deleting. I like this because I know these kinds of requirements do exist in the real world and I also think it would make for fun challenging gameplay

True number 1 Figuring out what to name your cool new roller coaster

If you just know "advertising = good", Amity Airfield is pretty doable. I never really played rct, but I picked it up because of your channel, and I easily beat it first try with about 5000 guests after playing the beginner scenarios

I would like to see one on your favorite scenarios! I know Sherwood Forest will be at the top of the list.

I can’t stop watching videos about a game I haven’t played since 2002

Omg gravity Gardens I was stuck between 450000 and and 480000. Had some cash flowing then bang! Coaster crashed around Sept year 3. Took a further year to beat Park. Was glad because the constant value drop and costs of staff the bigger the park got and can get out of control!

Top 5 Stalls! My quick opinion: 1: Balloon 2: Information 3: Hat 4: Coffee 5: Fries

Something I found that helps with gravity gardens is periodically closing the park, closing all of the rides, forcing out about half of the population, and then opening it all up again with 4 ad campaigns to attract a new batch of paying guests.

top 5 ride elements would be super cool, not sure if they all have excitement/intensity (or money when it comes to on-ride photos) stats that can be compared but I've always wanted to know what was better and worse to include in rides

Aminity Airfield is my comfort map. Love making an Air Force Base themed park with it.

Extreme Heights was always my favourite park :D Never succeeded the scenario but I enjoyed it every time I played it

The fun fact at extremely heights...you can lower/flatten the ground completely 😊 it takes some work, but it goes quickly when you have a flat terrain to build on. It took me around 5 ingame years to achieve it

Yay another video!

Are you going to talk about RCT1 ever? Just curious about what your thoughts are about the scenarios in RCT1.

Imagine if Extreme Heights was a 5 year, pay for entry park....

supergoed steeenkolen engels meneer vos, haha

Extreme Heights has always been one of the 5 easiest scenarios in my opinion lol I struggle when the guests want less intense rides :p

Oh, mate, back when I still played I loved the height scenario.

Top 5 best flat rides would be good. That'll let you know what rides you should build first.

Trick to Airfields is to build paths in neat square sections and place set amount of ride/s in each segment making sure when it’s a big coaster to have 1 for that section

I'm struggling hard with Ghost Town but I completed some of these with ease. There is hope!

what i find kinda funny is when i played as a kid ai was barely able to win anything and i only happened to get some by luck since i started watching marcel i did literally every scenario first try

I remember beating Rainbow summit legit once just to see if I could. Now I never go back to it without cheating. Now when I play it I remove all restrictions, disable money, enable all rides and so on just revenge this scenario for giving me hard time 😆 PS you could collect those 5 play through videos you promised to make into playlist and link it in the video description so we would find it easily.

"I'd like to announce that I have a twitter" Easiest follow ever! Scrolled down to the description even before you said it

Good lord! And I thought Rainbow Valley where you cant delete scenery was tough. I think I’ll just stick with RCT1 haha

It just fills me with pride knowing I finished all of these as a kid.

i was surprised not to see ghost town in here - the length requirement is ridiculous for the small size of the park, especially compared to the huge spaces you get in octagon park and nevermore park from rct1!

Love what your doing. Can most of the same tactics be applied to RCT Classic. I have that one on my iPad and I love playing it when I have free half hour.

3:17 - Gravity Gardens... PTSD engaged... I spent 8 in-game years to complete that scenario in RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic (I have the outdated Google Play Store Android version; the one before Atari delisted it and reuploaded a new one to the Google Play Store). After completing it, I decided to reinstall RCTC on my phone as I was getting annoyed from getting a Google Play error and I decided to reinstall the game and the game from the Google Play Store and it restored an old save progress of mine from many scenarios before I got that one Google Play error. I lost so much progress on my phone but oddly and happily enough, the progress I had in BlueStacks updated to a progress right before I completed Gravity Gardens (I have to re-complete this painful scenario but now on an Android emulator) and I'm trying to figure out on how to get that progress on my phone but I'm still getting that Google Play error and I'm getting it in BlueStacks as well.

Add a new Top 5 list of 5 more hardest scenarios!

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