• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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!

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        I played them all. They’re not the same.

        I’d say that Evil Genius sequel is the closest we’ve had, honestly.

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      My wife just picked Black & White (2001) back up. That game has held up better than I’d ever have expected.

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        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.

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            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.

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    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 trace

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      Alpha Centauri is the true succssesor to the Civ franchise, you cannot change my mind

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    I love Theme Hospital! I played the crap out of the PS version back then. I miss this type of wholesome humor in games.

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      Have you played the new Project Hospital (on steam)? Not “new” but current lol

      It’s pretty good!

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        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.