Coaster-Fiend said:
I don't understand how people find the B&M invert seats and OTSR's uncomfortable. They have gotta be the comfortable seating that exists.
By contrast the OTSR's on Infusion are terrible, they come right up to your ears and this means they get a proper bashing during the ride. I rode 10x last weds and it also has spine jolts on the corkscrews and Nemesis never does.
But... Minor_Furie found the restraints on Traumatizer very comfortable, and the ride didn't give him any headbanging. If you take that out of the equation, the SLC starts gaining quite a few points. The drop is pretty good (much better than Nemesis' first drop), and the ride has a constant fast pace. If you're not looking for high-G's, but for a consistently fast ride, then the SLC does pretty well in comparison, but you have to have all the right factors in place.
Ultimate Coaster said:
Am I one of the few outsiders (i.e. haven't ridden either ride) that finds it to be downright proposterous that an SLC with some water effects can possibly match what is consistantly stated by everyone as one of the best coasters built by one of the best manufacturors in the world?
Minor_Furie rates lots above Nemesis. His views are very similar to to airbabe's... And if we're bringing Coaster Count into it (ie experience), he's got 99 under his belt, including some big hitters like Balder, JO and the Alton Coasters.
Different people get different things from coasters. If you took a straw poll of the public on the way out from Alton Towers as to which was their favourite ride of the day, then it'd be air, closely followed by Rita. You might get Nemesis above Spinball Whizzer, but only because the queue on SW knocks it down a few points.
Point is, as enthusiasts, Nemesis is constantly rated highly. As far as which is universally liked "by all", it's probably well down on the list. Everybody else (millions of public) is wrong apart from us (a few thousand). So why not let a few people here agree with everyone else in the world?
Coaster-Fiend said:
But then Rach, I'm not really sure I am on the same page as you...
First you say Nemesis is boring, then you like it, then you don't think it's good, then it's average, and finally you say it is decent... ? That doesn’t really make too much sense.
No, you've mis-read her post.
She said her first ride, at the front of Nemesis was boring - which is pretty close. She then said that riding it at the back, it gives a good ride. So overall it's a decent ride. Not fantastic, but certainly not horse sh!te.
However, compared to the other Alton Coasters, it's average - but only in the context of Alton Towers. Again, that's a fair point, as an average Alton Coaster is still going to be a good coaster
So it's a decent coaster, which can sometimes be dull depending on where you sit, but in terms of Alton's coasters it's very average. Which I think is a very fair opinion of the ride to be honest. It's also almost exactly what Minor_Furie said too.
