Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is worth any negative social impact it has on my life.
Oh I love it, but my ultimate favorite is the 1988 DOS gama Life & Death where you had to cirurgically remove the appendix (and there was also brain operation). The graphics were shit of course but the amount of steps on each operation was awesome. You have to cut each layer of skin, remove the apendix, suture each layer back not leting the patient bleed of die. Amazing
Edit: You can play online https://www.myabandonware.com/game/life-death-h6
PLEASE if you are a game designer remaster it!
Holy crap, I had this game and never once successfully completed a surgery. Everyone died.
I was still in elementary school, so it was still fun to goof around.
Yes it was super dificult! We did it once, years later, following a tutorial lol
I played “The Surgeon”. I think it was on Amiga. I had a perfect record. Not one of my patients survived.
I believe you had to put in an aortic graft. I got to that part a few times before they died.
Trauma Centre on the DS is pretty much that.
Also Surgeon Simulator (and the VR port) but that’s more a comedy take of it.
Steam has a 4X sale going on now and the latest Theme Hospital spiritual successor made two spinoffs.
They made a sequel to Evil Genius in 2021.
Whatever interests from the late 20th century you think only you had are almost certainly disappointingly mainstream now.
But hey, keep at it. I’m still holding out hope for EA pulling off a Dungeon Keeper sequel at some point even if it’s a PR stunt.
My wife just picked Black & White (2001) back up. That game has held up better than I’d ever have expected.
The B&W games feel weirdly… mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.
Heh, and the graphics can probably be managed on any low-end phone nowadays.
Am I crazy, or wasn’t one of the original selling points that you could use a touchscreen to control it?
The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don’t remember that).
My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.
I don’t think so. Touchscreens were not at all common in 2001.
There was an expensive glove accessory it had comparability with, the “P5 Glove” I remember it being called. (WHY do I remember this?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_glove
I imagine that would have been super neat or crazy frustrating to use haha.
You’ll want to check out “Dungeons”. I recently played Dungeons 3 and it is basically an improved dungeon keeper except you can go into the overworld too.
I played them all. They’re not the same.
I’d say that Evil Genius sequel is the closest we’ve had, honestly.
Dungeon Keeper.
Pharaoh.
Emperor: rise of the middle kingdom.
Theme Hospital.
Zeus.Gimme
I sank so many hours into Dungeon Keeper 2. Such a good game.
Theme hospital was great
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri Colonization Master of Orion II Age of Empires II
I love Theme Hospital! I played the crap out of the PS version back then. I miss this type of wholesome humor in games.
Have you played the new Project Hospital (on steam)? Not “new” but current lol
It’s pretty good!
I’m avoiding Steam but I can see it’s on GOG as well. Is it humorous or serious? The humour is one aspect that makes me like Theme Hospital.
It’s absolutely goofy. Honestly it plays almost identically to Theme Hospital. I played both around the same time and I can’t remember what was from which game now
I add it to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!
in case you missed it, someone else corrected us and its Two Point Hospital I was thinking of, not Project Hospital
I think.you mean Two Point.Hospital. Project hospital is not goofy or funny at all
oh shit you’re right!
Two-Point Hospital is great, available in all plataforms and it is very humourous.
Project hospital is very detailed and serious. The most I"ve seen a hospital management be. There is even a mourgue
Two Point Hospital
Project Hospital
I liked it too but was never good at it as a kid though I imagine I’d kill it as an adult.
I knew it existed but only played it when I as already an adult. If you can, give it a shot, I highly recommend it. It’s one of those games which can get hectic but in a very relaxing way, it’s hard to describe.
Last time I tried to find a way to play it I went down this deep rabbit hole of pirating where it wasn’t clear what I was downloading. If you have a source where I can try my hand at it again let me know.
The PS version is on the PlayStation Network but I don’t know if you can play it with a modern PS, I never owned anything beyond PS1. The PC version can be found on GOG for a few bucks.
Ps version has no music though sadly
True. Now that I think about it - maybe the missing music contributed to the PS version being more relaxing for me than the PC version…
OpenTTD.
Insert Rollercoaster Tycoon theme here
Black and White, my love
Have you got a notion that youd quite like to sail the ocean?
Eidle, eidle eee! Eidle eidle eee! We just can’t set sail 'til we get some more wood!
Civ III is a masterpiece
Widelands is a great Settlers-like and has become my go-to cozy game to relax with at the end of the day
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Woo’d women at every base
But when ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a traceAlpha Centauri is the true succssesor to the Civ franchise, you cannot change my mind
Please don’t go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
So hot
For me it’s PSOBB on emu servers
Hey fellow hunter!
It’s been a while for me but I should hop back on to Ephinea to scratch the old itch
Way too many people like these here for you to be lonely.
