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BalkanBiker Sep 4, 2014 @ 10:20am

Anyone remember Theme Hospital? Is this like it?

I loved the good old Theme Hospital. It is one of my favorite games from my childhood. Will I be happy if I buy this?

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Golo Sep 4, 2014 @ 10:39am

Same question here.

Mr. Bator Sep 4, 2014 @ 10:40am

Would also like to know

Raspina Sep 4, 2014 @ 10:59am

Well I own both (not on steam) and I honestly have to say that Hospital Tycoon is nothing compared to Theme Hospital. Sure it has better graphics, but for me this was never important, at least not in a tycoon game...

It is some time ago that I actually played Hospital Tycoon, but as far as I can see nothing much has changed since then to improve the game, so I wouldn't recommend it. You should play Theme Hospital again with its old, but still funny and colorful graphics and gameplay. Maybe you can use the CorsixTH mod, which e.g. adds an editor.

After all I kinda enjoyed playing Hospital Tycoon for maybe 10-15 hours, but it never got me addicted as Theme Hospital. Less rooms, the Sims-aspect between staff is quite unimportant, less levels, less people in your hospital at the same time.

I loved the good old Theme Hospital.

Well, in that case you will definitely be disappointed.

Last edited by Raspina; Sep 4, 2014 @ 11:00am

BalkanBiker Sep 4, 2014 @ 11:15am

I guess that I'll pass on it even though it's really cheap, but I got too many games to play anyway.
Thanks for the reply.

Just a question about CorsixTH mod, I have tried to search everywhere about what it does, but I can't find anything besides that there's a level editor and perhaps some resolution upgrades.
No word on anything else, like if it adds new patients, diseases, machines, etc.

Raspina Sep 4, 2014 @ 11:30am

There aren't any new patients, diseases, machines etc. now, but they have done a lot minor things to improve the gameplay.

You can take a look at https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/releases

Don't worry that it was released in December '13. They just posted on their facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/CorsixTH/timeline) that they are still working on it and maybe they will release epidemics in the next release.

It may not sound that brilliant at first, but it's a fanmade project and it's still in development. That's a lot more than most of the games today have ;-)

But nevertheless you should have a fable for editors, too, to appreciate the mod^^

krashd

Sep 4, 2014 @ 11:57am

I gave HT a blast a while back and hated it, it's one of those games where the premise is exceptional (hence why they tried to remake Theme Hospital) but the UI and gameplay are haphazard and frustrating. I still play TH to this very day for the animations alone, but I won't touch HT ever again. A wasted opportunity.

Rattlesnake8 Sep 4, 2014 @ 12:44pm

I bought Theme Hospital on GOG a while back, this looks interesting but some of the comments aren't the most positive. I'm debating picking it up since it's cheap.

krashd

Sep 4, 2014 @ 12:46pm

Ask around about that mod for HT, I've known games that have been bug-infested messes that have become very good thanks to a lot of hard work by their community.

Silent Hunter 5 is one such game.

Rattlesnake8 Sep 4, 2014 @ 12:49pm

Thats true. And Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines is another.

Sparzy Sep 4, 2014 @ 2:59pm

I remember playing this years ago, Theme Hospital is way older and still heaps better than this.

I still play Theme Hospital every now and then, it plays exactly the same on my I7 win 7 64 bit as it did on my 486/66 back in the day. TH is far superior to Hospital Tycoon. The idea was there to make a better TH on more modern equipment but they screwed up how to build rooms and place items from what i remember.

I'd suggest finding a copy of Theme Hospital and play that instead. Wish they would do a recent version of this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDEYBaWpYY

I always loved how in the intro the doc was playing Dungeon Keeper.

Last edited by Sparzy; Sep 4, 2014 @ 3:07pm

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krashd

Sep 4, 2014 @ 3:06pm

Peter Molyneux wants to reboot many of his older games, he's currently working on the spiritual succesor of Populace then he wants to make a proper Syndicate sequel. If we got up-to-date versions of Theme Hospital and Syndicate I would quit my job. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 however was better than Theme Park.

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Sparzy Sep 4, 2014 @ 3:19pm

Theme Park was a flop, the time was all screwed, on my 486/66 a year used to pass in a few mins, i could never get the time to play at the right speed. I think it was cpu dependent for the game speed, the faster the cpu...

Theme Hospital was done properly. I only ever played Populous on the mega drive.

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BalkanBiker Sep 5, 2014 @ 10:40am

Originally posted by krashd:
Peter Molyneux wants to reboot many of his older games, he's currently working on the spiritual succesor of Populace then he wants to make a proper Syndicate sequel. If we got up-to-date versions of Theme Hospital and Syndicate I would quit my job. Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 however was better than Theme Park.

I don't know, I heard that his "Godus" game on Early Access got a lot of negative critic because it's half-abandoned and dull.

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