I know there's that other thread where we're all talking about how there's nothing to look forward to in games these days, but I just remembered that this is coming out (this year?), and as a spiritual successor to one of my favourite games of all time I couldn't be more excited about it.
Spiritual successor to what?
Spiritual successor to what?
To the best management sim ever made, Theme Hospital!
Two Point is even made by some of the TH dev team, and appears to have the same sense of humour (which has hopefully made the transition to 2018 without incident).
There's a new, disappointing trailer for Two Point Hospital which almost certainly fails to make the game look interesting to anybody who's not already on board.
But it's got a release date - August 30th - so that's cool, I guess.
Spiritual successor to what?
/facepalm
Apologies. If I had ever known about Theme Hospital, the memory of it is lost to me now.
Unless it's the one where the little computer people get angry at your rubbish lifts?
No, Theme Hospital doesn't have lifts. It's the one where the little computer people get angry at you for them having been sick in the corridors, while your useless handyman is just watering plants in the GP's office.
So, TH of old is basically a sim for what the NHS is now?
Pretty much.
Anyone who never experienced the joy of a Bloaty Head doctor needs to install Theme Hospital immediately.
Three hours of my evening just evaporated into this. It's Theme Hospital, with a graphical update. Ticks all the same boxes, and gets it all right - in a way that, I suspect, an attempt to remaster the game wouldn't have.
It might have a little too much going on, though - I'm still only on the third level and while I don't feel overwhelmed - the tutorial process is pretty smooth - I do have a persistent sense that there's a lot of stuff flying just under my radar. I've barely looked at the subscreens and overlays yet.
I love that I can tetris-block rooms around each other, adding little annexes and corridors poking in and out to maximise space - inside the room, and in the waiting areas, building alcoves for magazine racks and drinks machines.
It's tremendous. I'm a little annoyed at myself for watching as many of the livestreams as I have, which has robbed me of discovering the diseases for myself. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there is still more to be seen, and that Two Point Hospital will manage to recreate that moment I remember, scrolling across the rooms but interrupted by a double-take and the question, "is that… Elvis?"
The only thing missing is a fax machine.
Someone in work was playing this at lunch.
I saw someone suffering from Lightheadedness and just about lost my composure at the quality of the pun. Terrific stuff.
Bit late to the party on this one but it is indeed really good, and very very funny. On the third hospital now and it's just throwing stuff at me left, right and centre. I adore the disease that turns everyone into a Freddy Mercury impersonator.