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Personally I have mixed feelings about theme parks and not only because they are huge entertainment machines that use too many Resources.
I really like well themed Attractions; especially Rollercoasters, because the whole creation and experience have many parallels to games. Both uniquely combine many different types of Media like Visual Style, Storytelling, Music and Interactivity. To make a game or build a roller coaster you focus on UX, need to overcome technical difficulties and a way how you can fake things to create an illusion for your player/rider.
Most parks though actually don‘t have that strong of a theming and especially in thrill ride focused parks like Six Flags it‘s more about the ride itself and less about the whole experience. To me that is not enough and I don‘t wanna ride something just for the sake of the type of attraction.
Universal and Disney Parks around the world have strong theming, though recently those parks mostly rely on IPs that were already successful elsewhere like Universal with Mario or Disney with Star Wars.
I like it far more if a theme world or an attraction has its own original theming. Expedition Everest is way more interesting than the 10th Version of Something Mario. All those other trans-medial Stuff feels too streamlined, too perfect and almost soulless, even though I know there surly is a lot of effort in those attractions.
In Europe there are actually quite a lot heavily themed original Parks, like Efteling Park, Phantasia Land or Europa Park. I really like those type of Theme Parks (Partially because I was many times in Europa Park or Garda Land as a child), but even there you can see somewhat this effect, especially at Europa Park.
What do you think about theme parks?
I really like well themed Attractions; especially Rollercoasters, because the whole creation and experience have many parallels to games. Both uniquely combine many different types of Media like Visual Style, Storytelling, Music and Interactivity. To make a game or build a roller coaster you focus on UX, need to overcome technical difficulties and a way how you can fake things to create an illusion for your player/rider.
Most parks though actually don‘t have that strong of a theming and especially in thrill ride focused parks like Six Flags it‘s more about the ride itself and less about the whole experience. To me that is not enough and I don‘t wanna ride something just for the sake of the type of attraction.
Universal and Disney Parks around the world have strong theming, though recently those parks mostly rely on IPs that were already successful elsewhere like Universal with Mario or Disney with Star Wars.
I like it far more if a theme world or an attraction has its own original theming. Expedition Everest is way more interesting than the 10th Version of Something Mario. All those other trans-medial Stuff feels too streamlined, too perfect and almost soulless, even though I know there surly is a lot of effort in those attractions.
In Europe there are actually quite a lot heavily themed original Parks, like Efteling Park, Phantasia Land or Europa Park. I really like those type of Theme Parks (Partially because I was many times in Europa Park or Garda Land as a child), but even there you can see somewhat this effect, especially at Europa Park.
What do you think about theme parks?