This game is brutally amazing and errie. it's fun just putting around the bay, but man when the sun goes down everything gets weird and spooky as heck. This game is very atmospheric and so much fun. Don't miss it.
Fan of the Hospital de Theme. Wonderful recreation with lots of fun "cures" and I enjoy that you can go back to Hospitals you played before and take your new upgrades and add them to the older hospitals. Makes for fun sandboxing, and ads replayability. I just recently got to a Hospital where you don't get any of the profits. It's up too you to meet requirements an fullfil goals as quickly as you can or you'll go broke. I actually had to restart a few times and it added nice depth and gameplay variation when the game was starting to get boring/repetitive. I guess that brings me to the things that are annoying. Announcements get a bit repetitive, but thankfully there's a volume control for that. There's a LOT of DLC which adds new hospitals, diseases, cures, and items. I really dislike DLC, and I haven't bought any, BUT they occasionally give away stuff at Amazon Prime Gaming. So if you give Bezos an annual Christmas gift of Amazon Prime, you should go there from time to time. Overall, this is a great game and it is faithful to the original Theme Hospital. If you like sandbox games where you get to build a hospital and balance needs/wants of patience, this game will kill some time. I haven't played Two Point Campus yet, but I imagine it's VERY similar.
Been playing off and on since I founded this game on Kickstarter. My initial experience wasn't outstanding. I quickly put down the game only to "give it another shot" when I got my new system that lets me run with Ultra settings. So I've played the first three Bard's Tale games on my Atari Systems and enjoyed them immensely, but I never finished any of them. (Short attention span?) I've been playing BT4 and starting out I got incredibly frustrated with the map waypoints and quest system and the UI. It's not super intuitive. I don't know how to describe it, but like having to bring up the M)ap, then click quests too see the quests then back to map after selecting a quest only to have no idea if there's a "goal" location because it's sometimes not obvious weather or not there should be a waypoint. I guess my problem is I'm so used to games that say, here's the quest, go THIS WAY with a giant arrow pasted across the map. BT4 doesn't always/usually do that instead actually relying on you to [gasp] READ THE TEXT, or one of the "lore" books you happened to grab without reading, and some of the quests aren't just "go out and kill something", you might end up trying to figure out something that takes you across several areas before you finally go, Oh cool, I got that thing that that guy back in Skara Brae wanted me to get 10 hours ago! or here decode the code using this bardic song. The game doesn't really become fun until you get out of Skara Brae. A few times I found myself back tracking when I didn't have too. Once I got into the right mindset, it became easier. Combat is fun, you die a lot, but you don't lose unless your whole party dies, sometimes that one "practictioner" (Wizard) stays in it long enough to win it. I wish you could auto-clean your inventory, again a lot of things about this UI could use an overhaul. It's too bad they didn't hire a UI guy early on. Good game so far, will add a review if I ever finish. (GoG needs to allow longer reviews) -A.
For those that miss the NIN soundtrack there's a few good sites that go over how to obtain the soundtrack files online and set them up to work in the game. I'd start here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119489135 It's Quake, it's a great game. If you've never played, then give iD Software another $10 spot. They'll love you for it.
When you load the game if it's called Fahrenheit, you'll be treated to a cool/fun interactive sex scene (think Hot Coffee in San Andreas). If the game says Indigo Prophecy at bootup find the .INI file in the game folder, edit the line US Mode so it equals ZERO, (US Mode=0) and reload. Game is good, but ending fell short. If you own a PS3 be sure to check out the follow up from these guys (Heavy Rain).
They updated Dungeon Keeper with all the gold patches and now available... DEEPER DUNGEONS! (Dun dun DUUNNNNN!!!) This is a great game, but as some people commented, it was originally a DOS game, it doesn't run at HD resolutions (though the Gold update helps a bit, but the assets are all pretty low res), but look past that and actually PLAY the game. It's fantastically entertaining, diabolically evil, and very entertaining.... UNTIL you get to the Deeper Dungeon levels. Lets just say there's NOTHING wrong with the DDs, but each level is extremely HARD and extrememly LONG. To get past the final level is some of the most challenging gaming you'll ever do. I forget if they added skill levels to DD, but back in the day when I played it... That game just haunted me to no end. It's really hard. Fortunatly you'll have plenty of practice time before you get to the harder DD levels, but don't get disheartened when you loose on DD level 1. Good luck all!
Just a reminder that there are some amazing mods for System Shock 2. I highly recommend the SHTUP (Shock Texture Upgrade Project) which replaces the majority of the in-game textures with higher res/color textures, and the Rebirth Mod (Google it, don't see one site for it). Reddit write up from 2 years ago has more info. Hopefully the GoG version is still compatible. (aww, no urls in reviews. Just google system shock 2 mods)
Damn people $15 bucks for (IMO) the best Roller Coaster builder available to the general public, and you think it's "TOO EXPENSIVE" Frontier Studio's can do no wrong in my eyes, even some of their "Meh" games are leaps and bounds above anything else in the same genre. Oh look at that RCT1-3 all on sale this weekend (9/21/12)! $14.37 for all 3 Rollercoaster Tycoon games + their SIX Expansions! Darn it people, go back to your iOS freemium games! Get out of my childhood!
