✨Radical Remake in 2023?

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Zoo Tycoon 2 is a business simulation video game developed by Blue Fang Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios and MacSoft. Originally released for Microsoft Windows, Zoo Tycoon 2 is also available for Windows Mobile, PDA, and Mac OS X, although expansions are not included in the Mac version. A Nintendo DS version, titled Zoo Tycoon 2 DS, was released in 2008. The gameplay revolves around creating suitable exhibits for animals through habitat modifications (ground cover, water, elevation, foliage and rocks and a variety of items including food, enrichment and shelter) which fulfill the animal's needs (habitat, hunger, thirst, stimulation, privacy, sleep, social, exercise). Guests will visit the zoo to see the animals, and they also have needs that need to be fulfilled through scenery and buildings (hunger, thirst, bathroom, seating, entertainment). Zoo Tycoon 2 features three gameplay modes: Campaign, Challenge and Freeform. In Campaign mode, the player plays through a scenario in an existing zoo and is assigned different goals to complete, such as achieving a certain fame level, caring for rescued animals, or breeding endangered species. In Challenge mode, the player starts a zoo from scratch and will be given random challenges which can be accepted or rejected. In both of these modes, players will have limited money to manage and will start with limited access to animals and items, with more becoming available as zoo fame level increases. The last mode, Freeform, allows the player create a zoo from scratch with unlimited money and access to all animals and items from the start.

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[Not_appletree]

“One of my favourite things about radical remakes, are all of the remakes.” - Leaf 2023

[ripperrex]

It's a shame that the mod never got completed. The team drama really stopped it from being completed in full. Also Leaf, there is a patch on TRT/Download Library that fixes a lot of RR's bugs.

[Appalachiosaurus]

Radical Remake was mandatory for teenage me, but now as an adult, I'm finding myself more and more nostalgic and appreciative of the cartoony aesthetic of the original game. Yet, also, it's getting long enough that I'm nostalgic of the remakes too! It's a dilemma.

[TheOnlyAA]

For lions, i remember there was a mod from a specific website which changed the whole lion model into 70% accurate realistic looking lion model, i think it was from The Round Table website or something.

[emperortethysusdacertified]

The sad thing is they never even put out an official statement for why the team ended up falling apart and disappearing. They had shown off WIP remakes for the Lion, said the African Wild Dog was nearing completion but never showed anything of it off, and also showed off renders for visually finished animals like the Great White, Tapir and Caribou... and then poof, they went radio silent.

Also, looking back on the RR project as a whole, one thing it suffered from throughout its whole production time was how long any progress took. For context, the recent Extinct Animals Remakes mod has been able to near completely remake the entirety of that expansion with completely new models and skins in AD-grade quality (while still also remaining faithful to the original designs in terms of their colorations) while also giving them completely new behaviors and mechanics (One such example being Mastodons not only having tusk variations, but they can also break them in fights which turns the broken tusk into an enrichment item).

Only a small handful of animals haven't been finished yet because the modders needing some down time. Those modders in question only numbering in the 2-3 range IIRC. Compare that to RR which at some points had like 8/10+ active modders behind it yet throughout... eight years I think it was.

They were only able to just nearly complete the base game roster (something they weren't able to completely do 'cause someone who was inactive for 6 outta those 8 years proclaimed only he could work on the lion) and the MM roster, and did a handful of ES and AA animals while EA got relegated to only two remakes because they didn't want to cover any extinct species outside of some recently extincts (Of which they only did the Dodo and Thylacine (which wasn't even fully finished since Hendrix retired from ZT2 modding before he could finish its custom animations)) since they wouldn't be able to get them completely accurate and Jagged Fang Designs (its own can of worms) was doing just that.

And keep in mind, outside of things that had been extinct for over a couple hundred years, they wanted to remake EVERYTHING in Zoo Tycoon 2 to the same level of quality as the animals. Every building, every fence, every path, the guests, the tanks, every animal food, enrichment item and shelter etcetera etcetera. They had some crazy high ambitions, and in the end they only really scratched the surface.

Crazy to think that if they had all been a little more unified, and knew when and where to hold back a bit, they could've remade the games full non-extinct roster of species within half the time they spent getting into unnecessary drama... But, oh well is all I can really say now. Its ultimately just water under the bridge at this point. Hopefully someone comes around to touching up the remaineder of untouched animals so we can finally use them all with this mod active without any looking out of place.

[Bloodthirstier]

You can get the RR lion if you knew the right people. It was meant to be for "personal use". The drama when someone released it into the wild was really funny!

[slaughterhater]

I remember some remade animals being dubbed “personal use” where they weren’t public and you couldn’t touch them.

[Siders]

Sometimes I like playing with the Remaster Skins, but if I haven't played in a while, the original ZT2 Skins just have their own awesome design style. Most of the animals that were not made to be super realistic turned out pretty cool by the ZT2 Devs: Like the Doedicurus and the Elephant Bird are two great examples.

Also, nice Eucalyptus albens, also known as the white box at 2:58 lmao

[AncestorsAntiquity]

I think the Barbary Lion mod is still the best looking lion mod.

I think my biggest gripe is that it made some of the animals looked skinny or smaller

[juanalbano]

When you mentioned Zeta-Designs I had the Anton Ego Ratatouille moment, god. All of it, the Aurora Designs drama, I remember so well T_T.
Other mods or dev teams that come to mind are Snowleo for his huge rocks and hacks, ZT-ABC for Aves, Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Amphibia, etc.
Thank you so much for this video, dude, I really enjoyed it T _ T

[alexanderfridayeagle]

As of 2022 Radical remake had relocated to ztroundtable and became active again. They released the Okapi and were in the early stages of the lion remaster. I don't know if that effort died too since then, I will have a look. But check zt Round table radical remake, aurora designs.

[sleipnirtheth]

I think if they give The Guests a Anime like Look, That can work for any zoo game, humans in zoo games can always look Odd for looking either too human or too empty, so if they have a Expressional 2D look that Switches moods, that be something.

[smashers]

Kind of late, but I recommend the Nano’s Folksy Facelift and Restorers’s Forgotten Animals packs for future ZT2 mods one is a full on overhaul to ZT2 making the game more realistic while keeping the original artstyle, while also adding walkthrough exhibits and more accurate sizes and appearances for the animals especially the extinct ones.(It also adds both Elephant Seals and the Liger to the game as a nice bonus.)

The forgotten animals pack’s goal is to add every cut animal from ZT1 into 2 in the games original and it does so perfectly, and when I say every cut animal, I mean it. Stuff like the DS exclusive Koprey and Onger, and the mythical animals like the Bigfoot and Unicorn. The only animals they won’t remake are Magnet (Though his red ball is added as a tribute) and the Mermaid but there’s still a very healthy selection of Animals to have.

[flightlesslord]

Probably the reason I still play this more than Planet Zoo.
Zoo Tycoon 2 has so many legends of modding.

[januszpolak]

Lion actually got 4 remasters since RR got cancelled lol.

[treb]

do a vid on the history of the most anticipated and controvercial zt2 uxp ever... Cretaceous Calamity :P

[crazytanger]

What's funny is that RR made the tranq gun looking like something out of team fortress 2, at least i always assumed that it was for heavy before I actually got into playing TF2. But the viewmodel doesn't match anything found in the game, so maybe it's from a tf2 mod or from another game entirely

[nathanh]

LOVE this, thank you so much, Leaf! I spent thousands of hours in ZT2 and didn't discover the mods or how easy it was to install and use them (I'm a Deep Ludite) until I had owned the game for a number of years.

[Alex.Kandmor]

Seeing marine mania makes me really wish planet zoo would do a real aquatic animal DLC, with fish, sharks, etc!

[grimm]

oh holy shit. this just popped up into my reccommended list and its like my childhood came knocking on my door with barbed wire/nailed baseball bat and beat me and then knocked me flat on my ass with the nostalgia train im SHAKING. i still get the same vibrating type of excitement seeing this game now as i did back then. every time i forget this game exists, it shows up in my list like its reminding me of the sins ive committed.

man, every wednesday my grandmother would pick me up from pre-school and we'd have lunch together and after doing homework i'd spend the WHOLE AFTERNOON playing zoo tycoon 2, feral heart and wolf quest. i will never forget this game. it was everything to me as a kid. i still have all these very random but vivid memories in my head from my childhood all because of its association with this game. its insane.