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[Humanoid]

13 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Builders/management: First time I've heard of it. Anyone tried this? Did you like it?

Haven't tried Museum yet, but Hospital and Campus were good but somewhat limited games. By that I mean the core gameplay loop was solid, and the aesthetic and humour are well done for anyone looking for something like the old Bullfrog games. Definitely no regrets in buying the base games.

However the limits become apparent once you consider the expansion model, where each new thing added isn't ever going to be truly "new". Any new disease they add in Hospital for example is functionally the same as any other disease, just with new graphics on the patients, and a matching new "new disease curing room" to go with it.

Hopefully the reports on it improving on is predecessors is true. I get mentally tired already just thinking of the arbitrary "increase room value" goals from both Hospital and Campus, where the supposed challenge of the later levels just involves spamming decorative items inside each room.

[Malcador]

On 9/27/2025 at 8:44 AM, Mamoulian War said:

Wow. Maybe EA will finaly release games from old IPs, which do not suck…

Why would they under the new ownership ?

[Mamoulian War]

38 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Why would they under the new ownership ?

Because, from what I understand, they will go from public to private ownership, which might ease up pressure on development teams to release unfinished risk-averse slop. And based how Saudi investment into SNK helped them out to release better fighting games, there is a possibility, this might positively affect EA as well.

Or I might just expect to many miracles happen in this ****ty greed driven universe

[Malcador]

Kushner is involved too, lol. 

[Lexx]

"The investment is done with a 20B loan which they intent to recoup with cutting costs by using AI to replace visual and voice artists."

Amazing. Never buy anything EA ever again.

[Sarex]

This is all good. In five years they go bust and all their IPs end up at auction. No guarantee that everyone who acquires the IP will do something with it, but the odds are there.

[Mamoulian War]

2 hours ago, Sarex said:

This is all good. In five years they go bust and all their IPs end up at auction. No guarantee that everyone who acquires the IP will do something with it, but the odds are there.

Actually, that would be a good outcome as well