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Posted November 22, 2011
So Dungeon Keeper being around and Populous games just arriving, I was thinking if I could wish for a Bullfrog title I liked, I thought (not knowing too many of them :P) Theme Hospital would be awesome. Did anyone else like it lots at the time or was it just me? :)

PS: apart from Pop 3, obviously, which is hugely needed.
Posted November 22, 2011
I really liked Theme Hospital, but always got stuck around 2/3 of the game. To be fair, I was 15 when I last played it, so I might have missed something vital of the game mechanics.

It did tend to get quite repetitive as time went on, but I guess most sim games do at some point.
Posted November 22, 2011
Every once a while someone on the internet mentions Theme Hospital, and I gleefully go to replay it, only to remember why I never finished it - the dumb doctors can't be assigned to specific rooms.

So when everyone rushes to the break room, you pretty much have to pick them up and redistribute them manually, otherwise you inevitably end up with a surgeon in GP's office, a highly trained psychiatrist in the head inflation room, and normal doctors just wandering in the halls with nothing to do, and patients dying by the dozen.

Very fun game for the first couple of levels, but fundamentally broken and lacking certain basic management options one would expect from a tycoon sort of game.
Posted November 22, 2011
Have installed it last week again using the new open source engine... works fine... unfortunately, you can't complete the first mission yet :)
Posted November 22, 2011
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Pemptus: Every once a while someone on the internet mentions Theme Hospital, and I gleefully go to replay it, only to remember why I never finished it - the dumb doctors can't be assigned to specific rooms.
Hopefully this will be fixed.
Posted November 22, 2011
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Pemptus: Every once a while someone on the internet mentions Theme Hospital, and I gleefully go to replay it, only to remember why I never finished it - the dumb doctors can't be assigned to specific rooms.
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xyem: Hopefully this will be fixed.
Corsix is still way too buggy and unstable to be used as a substitute. Nice to know progress is being made, though.
Posted November 22, 2011
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Pemptus: Every once a while someone on the internet mentions Theme Hospital, and I gleefully go to replay it, only to remember why I never finished it - the dumb doctors can't be assigned to specific rooms.

So when everyone rushes to the break room, you pretty much have to pick them up and redistribute them manually, otherwise you inevitably end up with a surgeon in GP's office, a highly trained psychiatrist in the head inflation room, and normal doctors just wandering in the halls with nothing to do, and patients dying by the dozen.
ARRRRRGHGHGHGHGHGHGH the painful memories "Doctor required in Psyciatry" "Nurse required in Pharmacy" on an endless loop
I bought it for those cheap "replay" shelves for £5 2 years ago and it was a buggy as hell on a Vista machine, doctors would get stuck in walls and if you clicked and dragged them off the game would crash.
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Posted November 22, 2011
Am I the only one who though that the live autopsy machines were creepy and wrong?
I must be a sensitive soul...
Posted November 22, 2011
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Pemptus: Every once a while someone on the internet mentions Theme Hospital, and I gleefully go to replay it, only to remember why I never finished it - the dumb doctors can't be assigned to specific rooms.

So when everyone rushes to the break room, you pretty much have to pick them up and redistribute them manually, otherwise you inevitably end up with a surgeon in GP's office, a highly trained psychiatrist in the head inflation room, and normal doctors just wandering in the halls with nothing to do, and patients dying by the dozen.

Very fun game for the first couple of levels, but fundamentally broken and lacking certain basic management options one would expect from a tycoon sort of game.
That might be interpreted as a Molyneux-esque take on the practice and the industry of medicine :D
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