The Story of Hospital Tycoon

[Doctor Proteus]

Since there are so few topics here, I think I can make this thread and rest assured it will be seen by anyone who comes here, anywho...

As someone who purchased the retail version of this game upon it's release, I thought I should bring it to peoples attention that Hospital Tycoon is an unfinished game, with various featuers advertised but not implimented, such as various illnesses, wheelchairs, certain objects and of course large numbers of patients in the hospital.

Several month's after release, data miners discovered large amounts of unused material such as the above mentioned things, and other things like robotic assistants, among others, and the coding that allowed large numbers of patients to enter the hospital was never implimented for some reason.

It is not clear why they released the game in this state, and I only assume the Steam version is the same.

Just thought people should know these things before purchasing. If anyone can refute anything I've said please feel free to do so.

[härjaren]

"As someone who purchased the retail version of this game upon it's release, I thought I should bring it to peoples attention that Hospital Tycoon is an unfinished game, with various featuers advertised but not implimented, such as various illnesses, wheelchairs, certain objects and of course large numbers of patients in the hospital.

Several month's after release, data miners discovered large amounts of unused material such as the above mentioned things, and other things like robotic assistants, among others, and the coding that allowed large numbers of patients to enter the hospital was never implimented for some reason."

whuuuuaaa?t :O:O:O:O:O

[härjaren]

Yeah maybe so... but its not as horrible as the gearbox releases... The other projects then borderlands that gearbox releases are like playable alphas xD (Duke nukem forever, alien colonial marines etc)

True, developers sometime run out of time and money, so some stuff gets buried in code and content libraries. Heck even in blizzard games you will find unused models, sounds, fmvs, etc..
Theres a song in C&C gold that wasnt used, called "Die" for instance.
In diablo 1 theres an alternative fmw cutscene for when encountering the Butcher, that was never used, but still resides in the game's content structure.

[juna]

the key word is "LARGE amounts of unused data"

[Fayde]

Well that's a shame - this game is immensely fun (and hilarious) in its current state, so I can only imagine what it'd be like with all these features... Any way to "unlock" extras?

EDIT - by the way, thanks OP :)

[härjaren]

yeah it would be super sweet if some 1337 h4xx0rz r0xx0rz would backwards engineer the data files and gather the data,
scratch their heads, and release a mod or patch with it, and add a little bit to it so it makes sense.

[härjaren]

I'd also like to see a way to add custom sounds to the game, so that we could get rid of the annoying sim speak :S
You know, even Worms2 had a speechbank editor that came with the game, back in the day.

[Fayde]

Yeah, the game itself is ace - maybe even a re-release that'd earn them more $ (Tycoon games are still popular)

[DarkLordOfOZ]

a lot of games have things that are not used in them and walled off some of it is found and restored some with intreseting side effects gta sa the hot croffe mod is one such restored
item a lot of times the game makers run out of time and have no choice it is a sad thing that games are relased this way

[DarkLordOfOZ]

Originally posted by Fayde:

Well that's a shame - this game is immensely fun (and hilarious) in its current state, so I can only imagine what it'd be like with all these features... Any way to "unlock" extras?

EDIT - by the way, thanks OP :)

this is a fun game and if there was a way to unlock the exter unused items that would be so cool