meh. filler.

I was hoping that the coaster car will fall off the track at the end.

Hehe, clever. Who'd have thought tracking real estate prices could be so much fun? ;)

Pretty neat, although it would have been cooler had it included something that showed what time period of the graph you were currently on. Sort of like those birds-eye maps for racing games.

I believe that was Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, but then I'm just guessing. I haven't played RCT games since 2.

But that's pretty interesting. Prices are indeed high.

Not to be deliberately negative, but that was one of the most useless things I've seen in recent memory. Without actual dollar amounts to reference, the only thing that video shows is relative ebb and flow. Not only that, but viewing it from POV instead of side view prevents you from gaining an accurate perspective on the differences in fluctuations. To me, the whole thing came off as someone trying something different only for the sake of being different, and it doesn't hold up particularly well.

@Nekojin:

I believe people may be referring to the actual rate of increasing prices, not the nominal level of the prices themselves. I know my home in CA has not increased in value nearly as much this year as it did in the first three that I've owned it.

@Nekojin

People are saying the housing market is 'down' because it has started to collapse. Prices are still nice and high, but foreclosures are going through the roof and that is causing a rapid drop in housing value.

So a slow pop.

Heh, there's a great trick with an unfinished Coaster, and one long road from the entrance.

Jack Thompson wouldn't approve, even if no-one actually gets hurt ;)

They should use the British housing market, you'd have never got off the damn start hill :( Let's just say I hope I'm not on it when it reaches the top.....