Two Point Hospital Review | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Megaspartan23]

I'm glad that EA never did a new Theme Hospital game. It would've been a free-to-wait mobile game, similar to Dungeon Keeper Mobile. *Shudder*

[@sahhull]

Each new room would be a DLC and the decorations per room DLC's

[@yoshi314]

it would be just a very realistic US healthcare simulator.

[@RetroAmateur1989]

haha, damn!

[@DamienFatePlays]

Ugh so true

[@commentarysheep]

@@sahhull No, the decorations would be in $5-$10 lootboxes.

[@uglyduckling81]

So your saying they didn't reinvent the wheel they merely improved what was already an amazing game. My god. Take my money

[@Atlas_Redux]

Indeed. This is, in every way, Theme Hospital 2. I've had so much fun playing it. And I've played a LOT of CorsixTH as well.

[@nioxic77]

many of the developers of the original theme hospital, are on the team for this game. if it aint broke, don't fix it, basically.

[@Kokkaku7]

They already took my money!

[@uglyduckling81]

Kokkaku7 and mine

[@diersteinjulien6773]

and mine, and I don't regret it.

[@Zipzeolocke]

I wish Total Biscuit got to experience this game before he passed away, I'm sure he would have been pleased with how it turned out

[@89saur]

also, people , staff and patients, have their own personalities. They react on each other by many ways and it makes them so much more real... this game is pure gold and will be as classic as was its predecessor.

[@AssortedBits]

The tannoy announcer is one of the employees from 2 Point studios, they couldn't track down the original announcer. (According to the livestream on launch day.)

[@leopold7562]

I used to play the original Theme Hospital so much and I've never found anything to compare with it. Until now, it seems... I believe the phrase I'm looking for is, "Shut up and take my money!"

[@wolvenar]

Odd..today it would normally be filled with microtransactions required to do anything in a time period that resembles anything that would leave your sanity in tact. Not to mention all the skins and special characters.

[@Zontar82]

and lootboxes

[@juanbrits3002]

If EA games were the devs then you would see all that.

[@Graknorke]

Those task reward points sound like a scrapped microtransactions system to me.

[@Atlas_Redux]

I was afraid of being disappointed in THEME HOSPITAL 2 (no matter what you call it) ... but it ended up being better than I expected. God, I am so happy.

[@dbp-wv1hs]

Haha did I see a Freddie Mercury complex there, to replace the Elvis complex! That's brilliant.

[@shieldyourselfmusic8567]

one thing i love about this is you can have your own custom radio - always fun when prodigy 'firestarter' comes on when my hospital is basically burning to the ground and people running around panicking

[@KubeSquared]

I think that the devs were going with a Wallace & Gromit-like art style this time around. I wouldn't call it generic.

[@BrySkye]

Yeah, was gonna say its *very* Aardman-esque. I suppose you could call that generic in the sense that the similar designs apply throughout the various Aardman projects, but I wouldn't say its generic in a gaming/3D sense.

[@krashd]

"Nice bit of cheese, Gromit. I found it on some pizza below the fridge..."

[@AR5EHOLE]

Personally I think they were going with the original theme park that they worked on pre wallace and gromit. (watch the intro vid for the midland bank sponsored theme park)

[@Typanoid]

@Rob Fraser I see what you did there ...

[@thetrivium2261]

Haha, about time someone nailed Larry on that!

[@BaguetteBeardBass]

The Trivium hello you!

[@MaDmanEXE]

I choked on this joke

[@thetrivium2261]

To be fair to Larry, Molyneux did build a child grooming simulator...

[@TomSFox]

@@thetrivium2261 What?

[@thetrivium2261]

@@TomSFox kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYGsk3qkd7aWgLs

[@KaineCentral]

Many years ago PC gaming was considered dead and games like these were certainly never going to happen until Steam came around! They definitely regenerated simulation games for the PC market and opened them up to new younger audiences! The best thing about it all is that independent studios are developing these new titles most of the time instead of the usual large AAA developers such as EA. 👍

[@soulgal7109]

I was so addicted to Theme Hospital. I am so happy that this has come out. Great video.

[@Emaxoso]

But there is the KitKat machine?

[@yoshi314]

DLC incoming.

[@Toonrick12]

Wait for Steam Workshop. Sega did say that mods will be added in a later date.

[@Nitojinz]

That sells drinks and is called a drinks machine....lol

[@ItsHyomoto]

So, the game takes up about 4GB and it gets me thinking: I often find games with 70GB install sizes feel vapid and dull, while games that clock in under a few gigabytes tend to... if nothing else, be more focused. It makes me wonder if those games didn't spend so much time on graphics, what kind of game could they have fit into that disk space. What does 70GB of gameplay look like?

[@NinjaXavier]

Sign of the times really! For those older developers, there was once an art to compression. These days it's more about the 'ooh shiny' and actual in depth gameplay is just forgotten about. That's not to say every game today is, just a higher amount of games produced are... when they're not re-runs or remakes!

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

This game was made in Unity, and I assume they used the game engine's asset bundles feature to make everything compact, and looking at how simple texture work in the game is (stylistically, not quality-wise) Two Point might've done some optimizations so that Two Point Hospital's assets wouldn't resort in several materials and textures, because those tend to affect both file size and performance.

[@ItsHyomoto]

@@AgsmaJustAgsma well, let's just assume the game was totally wasteful, uncompressed and had 8k textures for everything. We might get another 20gb out of it. But we'd still be 40 shy of the latest Tomb Raider. I'm not drawing a direct comparison, but it makes you wonder what a 70gb Two Point Hospital would look like. Ten thousand different afflictions with a thousand distinct NPCs?

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

Polygon count, perhaps? I know for certain that some games don't need props with over 8K polygons *cough cough* HDTF *cough cough* Even with every asset uncompressed I don't think a game like Two Point Hospital would reach a file size with the likes of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy XV or Gears of War 4. One thing's for sure: uncompressed video files are often the main culprit for increasing the file sizes. I remember when back in 2013 someone made a torrent of Metal Gear Rising's cutscenes with a more compressed codec to replace the ones inside the game's folder and deflate its 25GB filesize, which by 2013's standards it was still a huge amount of data.

[@ItsHyomoto]

Agsma, Just Agsma That is a good point, 4k pre-rendered cutscenes is a huge file size, but even HD ones can be if of sufficient length. So I guess cutscenes?

[@StephenJoines]

I still play Theme hospital, just brought two point hospital. I must say the original is still great fun AND i love the new one. Will I give up playing Theme? Nah. Will I enjoy the Two Point? oh yes!

[@TheKelliestKelly]

Yes! Thank you! I knew this existed but I couldn't remember its name. One of the LP channels I followed started doing Two Point Hospital. It filled me with memories of Theme Hospital

[@EatAtJoes]

Jayne Webley is the new announcer voice; Rebecca Green teaches at Blackpool and the Fyled College - Theme Hospital is her only credit. Also, look at all the "Webley" names in the credits, from testers to dogs.

[@marianhak]

Well, you could say it's 2 points from being perfect.

[@KyudoKun]

Thanks for introducing me to this spiritual successor. I was a big fan of Theme hospital on PS1 back in the day.

[@alfr83]

This all I wanted to know ! Gonna buy it right now ! Thanks for this nice review.

[@jonathanoakey4745]

Re the Tannoy announcements, they said on the launch stream yesterday that they tried to find the same actress again but couldn't locate her, so they got someone else but still tried to get the voice as similar as possible. I preordered and really enjoyed the first evening's playing yesterday - I'd been waiting for a successor to TH for many years! :)

[@jerethkhan]

The Larry Dungeon clip made the whole video more than worth watching.

[@seanwhite4837]

Loved playing Theme Hospital on the P.S back in the day.

[@WPTUNED]

Did anyone ever fail a level on the original theme hospital when your hospital it literally filled with a million people? Lol

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

There must have been a bunch of the classic TH staff who went to work on Two Point. If not, then honestly that's just even more impressive to me.

[@valuevinyl110]

Peter in LArrys basement! Cracked me up! HAHAHAHA... Dead on!

[@Lorraines3DPrints]

Remember putting in my first cheat into theme hospital , to then be horrified that I'd destroyed my game when receptionist announced " Hospital administrator is cheating " ! 😂

[@filipeflower]

Is that for real?

[@Lorraines3DPrints]

@@filipeflower Yep , if you cheat. It shouts out hospital administrator is cheating 😂 The game is fine , but the first time I thought I'd broken it.

[@filipeflower]

@@Lorraines3DPrints Wow, that's funny! I didn't know that.

[@PremierRomanov]

I HAVE TO BUY THIS RIGHT NOW! Funny thing is, I ordered a big box copy of Theme Hospital the other day and it arrived today! (talk about coincidence)

[@gw3993]

Bullfrog is the most sacred video game company that ever existed, and I forget they existed all the time.

[@bananafoneable]

2 point hospital is a play on the words "version 2 "." point 0 Hospital"

[@filipeflower]

Obviously yeah.

[@01DOGG01]

I've been waiting for this for close to 20 years. I just wish it was sprites instead of 3D, like the original. You can't recreate that same cartoon graphics feel on 3D.

[@ChocolatierRob]

I’m noticing a distinct lack of benches in your hospitals. I remember having to cram them in all over the place in theme hospital.

[@nottiification]

Thanks for posting this... i loved Theme hospital back in the day & had no idea this existed... ill certainly pick this up next payday!

[@csgrambauer5852]

Yeah, Mark Webley and Gary Carr (who both were involved in making Theme Hospistal) made this game. They've been wanting to make this game since 1997 basically but have had bad luck getting it made until now.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

I love the bit with Guru Larry.

[@paulniven757]

Fun fact two point studio was created by half of the bullfrog studio that made theme hospital and park check out Thier latest game two point campus 🙂

[@ianhill20101]

I used to love playing this as a kid and theme park, sim city 2000 etc. Bullfrog at its best. Yes sim city is maxxis but It shared some love.

[@BuzzaB77]

I was so innocent when I had the original someone had to explain to me what 'the squits' were.

[@Kalvinjj]

And today I'm so rotten I've read this as "the squirts" and was wondering when was the original so lewd

[@andrewlilley9070]

Eating the left over moldy pizza in the oven. Resulting in the squits. A harsh acid is drank at the pharmacy.

[@anarcoyote1207]

Andrew Lilley Actually, it was caused by eating pizza found UNDER the cooker, not in it, which is way more disgusting. Stuff's not only moldy and stale, but probably also covered in dust bunnies and cobwebs.

[@UKVampy]

Oh theme hospital always brings back the memory of overheating a corridor outside the room they treated people being sick and getting a chain vomit reaction. Was a fun game and will stay on my list for a classic game.

[@hashemhashem2912]

I just bought it and I am hooked. I played 4 hours straight on my first sitting.

[@CharlieFlemingOriginal]

I love the Larry/Peter ref lol

[@SpaceAgeMark]

Does Sir Billy Savile still visit or hasn't he been included?

[@mattbeardsworth3201]

I remember the original they had a helicopter drop a number patients off at the hospital and you had to try and cure them all within a certain time, does this new game feature this?

The music of TH is carved itself into my mind I believe :D

[@steelbeard151]

Love your review. You know what Bullfrog game I wish they would remake? Magic Carpet. That game was tremendously fun and really deserves a modern make-over.

[@SHAZZZZZA]

Truly the best review for this game on the internet. Love the comparisons to my old favourite theme hospital.

[@Jeep-vd6pd]

Awesome review! Ive played the original theme hospital in early 2000s, along with Roller Coaster Tycoon, good times!. Your review is on point!

[@multisturge]

loved theme hospital and roller coaster tycoon. Does make you bit evil sometimes. Creating a hospital where not everyone comes out, putting patients into the research machine but they don't come out. Creating a roller coaster park where rides even a maze breaks down but toilets and food stalls NEVER break down then get to drown visitors for being unhappy (We Happy Few moment, be happy or die). Then there is Zoo Tycoon which is another game I loved (the original not the shitty console thing) where you can delete fences and unleash lions onto the guests. Sim/tycoon games certainly bring out the dark side in people :)

[@gymnasiast90]

Or OpenRCT2, which is to RCT1 and RCT2 what CorsixTH is too Theme Hospital.

[@zenon6699]

is there a zombie infection on it?

[@jdgonzo1982]

Cheers for highlighting this game - Wasn't aware of it until now...just gonna go add it to my Wishlist now... :) I've been playing Team 17's reboot of Alien Breed recently...not bad...not great. Nice nostalgia trip...

[@LunarEndergirl]

I like the new graphics. They remind me of the art style that Wallace and Gromit uses.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

No Peter Moleneux? Oh, thank GOD.

[@lieksatainiemi2411]

10/10 - Two Point Hospital. Probably the best release this year.

[@zintosion]

Hehehehe the Peter Molyneux/Larry Bundy reference XD

[@LordProteus]

That first radio announcer is an actual radio announcer in the UK.

[@GlennBrons]

Nice this really gives the same feeling as War on the Overworld (Dungeon Keeper 3) did.

[@AceBanana100]

Has anyone got the link to the source code to make the graphics better in the original? Just started playing it again and I have to say its better than I remembered :-)

[@jonj488]

7:20 Did anyone else hear "tasked with capturing 2 goats"?! 😂

[@TanjoGalbi]

No

[@jonj488]

@@TanjoGalbi I'm so sorry. Have a nice day.

[@TanjoGalbi]

Thanks. Though I don't know why you are sorry that I did not hear it as goats. What I herd was what it was, ghosts :P

[@AAscension]

Yes, I heard it as well!

[@aldredd]

Yep - did wonder for a moment what goats had to do with a hospital, and why you janitor might be trained in it.

[@morbid1.]

I'm glad TH is back

[@Isa-vi5rt]

God, I loved Theme Hospital back then! It was just recently that I've managed to finally rediscover this game's name and alongside it a bunch of good memories. Thanks for the video!

[@lemagreengreen]

Oh wow, looks great. It's been a long time since I played Theme Hospital, might have to give this a go

[@James-mahal]

loved the larry reference xD keep up the great content

[@rino9727]

Thank you guys for this video!!! I loved to play Theme Hospital! And was curious to this one!!

[@DTailorUK]

Never thought that Hysteria Hospital would get a mention. That game was beyond help!

[@dcikaruga]

I remember reviews at the time weren't very high, more around 80% but the game has stood the test of time quite well.

[@ObiTrev]

All I need now is a Sim Copter remake!

[@Kalvinjj]

With or without the original gay horde glitch?

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

what about a simcopter game that you can use Cities Skylines map for (or simcity2013) like the original simcopter did with simcity?

[@ObiTrev]

It wasn't a glitch, it was digital vandalism by a social anarchist. The "Glitch" was discovered by Maxis shortly after release and he was fired. In a 1996 New York Times article he tried to state "there were already bimbos in these games". Maxis stated, "[They have] always prided [themselves] on creating engaging software the whole family can enjoy.'' Maxis terminated him for adding the unauthorized content they now had to scramble to patch out of the game via an 800 number, a downloadable patch, and updated copies. The vandal has been sued for copyright infringement, cyber piracy, fraud, identity theft, libel and etc. for this and other acts designed to deceive the public and damage the reputation of certain companies. He even started a group that would get jobs under various pseudonyms in order to secretly add controversial content to commercial products. He encouraged members to hide adult content in children's products to force recognition of certain social issues, such as homosexuality. He's been arrested more than once.

[@Kalvinjj]

That's an interesting point of view of the story, I've searched around when I found out about this (I knew it was intentional) but my info was way more sided with the dev. His side of the story goes that he suffered a lot of bullying and prejudice for being homosexual and thus made that into the game as a protest/prank, and after fired he started activism in favor of sexuality acceptance and such. It's obvious tho that every story has at least 2 sides to it, so it's interesting to see the less pride-friendly - as I would call - side of the story too.

[@tacklemcclean]

What the heck is this? A civil discussion on youtube? With topics such as homosexuality? So there is hope for humanity after all!

[@CRG]

Looks really good. Theme hospital still is a favourite game of mine so I'll have to check this out sometime.

[@tjCooper88]

I've been playing all day. It really is an updated theme hospital. Which is a good thing! Though to be totally honest, although I'm loving it, I'm finding it pretty easy, not sure if that's just because I used to play theme hospital... probably.

[@callum105]

me 2... theres no way to actually fail a level AFAIK, my rep stays at 100%

[@doughnutdoney997]

If you love/loved Theme Hospital then you will love this. Its very enjoyable (even though it does repeat itself sometimes) and you will lose hours in this. The radio stations are very funny as well and as its on Steam be interesting to see if any mods and thus more stations may appear? Its worth playing anyway :)

[@r4z0r84]

Geeze this is just beautiful I need it asap

[@lazybones69]

Absolutely sublime game. My only issue, personally, is the amount of fecking GP's required. I have about 6 to my current 1 diagnosis, pharmacy, ward, cardio ect, and there's still an insane queue for my GPs.

[@tjCooper88]

Was I imagining things or did I hear some Tex Murphy music in this video?

[@TesserLink]

i loved playing theme hospital when i was a kid. i still have the original copy that i used to play.

[@onatgz]

right man to review the right game.

[@double_anarchy]

Love the Larry reference 🤣

[@White_Tiger93]

Hey Bullfrog, Would love to have Theme Hospital graphic style addon to Two Point Hospital!

[@wyattvb828]

Just waiting for Larry's commnt

[@SirVoltz]

Wow I went into my local charity shop yesterday and found the original theme hospital for the pc in its original case

[@GOATGamerProSticks]

@Nostalgia Nerd For some reason your video no longer plays for me in my playlist it may need fixing? Cancel that its my end it works at 360p must be my crap internet or a full cache or hardrive on my PS4 making a bottleneck of sorts, if only i knew how things worked lol

[@Tgc_Dave]

Whelp, you frigging sold me on the game. I probably need to upgrade my laptop or hope for that (non Xbone) console port

[@ScoundrelDaysSon]

It's coming to XBox One, PS4, and Switch at the end of the year!

[@TheOriginalIronicbadger]

Can't help but think of Crapston Villas when I see the characters in this... Anyone else remember that?

[@filipeflower]

I remember that from Locomotion, the old TV channel.

[@rodmunch69]

Loved Theme Hospital in the 90s, but wow, I never saw that opening video as the videos were always stripped out of the cracked versions of the game. Yeah I was a poor slob then, but now I got money, so I'm going to pick this up.

[@CaveyMoth]

"I wonder when this game was made." *Sees the in-game water graphics* "Oh."

[@Xenoxsis]

It's not the same announcer. They went looking for her, but failed. However one wife of the developers (I think it was) could do nearly the same dead pan delivery...

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Was wondering how much Two Point goes compared to TH with Corsix. Now I only have to wait for reviews on the translation. The old game was quite nice in that regard.

[@BeautifulAngelBlossom]

It funny how there was ad for game before the review video started . But played hospital theme a few times it was fun

[@JacobKinsley]

The best feature of the game is you don't have to delete the fmvs to get it to load

[@ImagenNoReligion]

Is there a sandbox mode in this game atm?

[@AgsmaJustAgsma]

The art style of this game is british as fuck and I love it.

[@heroiamarelo]

Thanks for showing this game! It was a great discovery!

[@stevenjlovelace]

Never heard the word "tannoy" before. (PA announcements for my fellow Americans.) I love learning new British words!

[@BrySkye]

You're not wrong as such. Alan Partridge can explain that particular one in full, but in short, Tannoy is a company that makes PA systems, and is essentially a genericised Trademark in the UK, just as Hoover is for a vacuum cleaner. Like Q-tips or Band-Aids in North America. :)

[@stevenjlovelace]

Makes sense. I remember reading about Spell-o-Tape in Harry Potter, only to find out later it's a pun on Sellotape, which I had never heard of. Oddly enough, we use our own genericized trademark for the same thing. We call it Scotch Tape.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Does this have the same kind of addiction as Dungeon Keeper had?

[@phoenixbluex]

Can't decide whether to get this or Planet Coaster. I like simulation games like this where you can grow a business and can watch characters doing stuff. Loved Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 but never played Theme Hospital. Both games look fun to me. Anyone played both and can suggest one over the other?

[@chibiarts9029]

Planet coaster is much more creativity based

[@mitox25]

Great Review and well thought out and balanced against the Original game. It's all too easy to heap endless praise or scorn on Two point because of its links and similarity to Theme Hospital but I felt you got it pretty much spot on. I really hope that Two Point Studios use this as a platform to give us a spiritual successor to Theme Park next as we never really got that either with Theme Park World/Inc being poor sequels that didn't feel connected to the original. And from there high hopes for more spiritual successors to classics from that era and the "Bulldog" family as well as new ideas too, I'd love a Video Game Tycoon/Game Dev Story style game mode in the Two Point mould.

[@CF4959]

Good review. I would like to know if there is going to be any dlc in the future. Is there a roadmap?

[@Crowfighting]

I was waiting for this one to come out, and didn't realise it was out already. Bought!

[@NUFCSuraj]

Neat video, thanks, this is what I was looking for (even though it ended up on my homepage without me looking) because I'm a TH fan but I wasn't sure if Two Point would live up to the original so I didn't try it. Have you gone back to the game since? Would you choose to play Theme Hospital or Two Point if you were feeling like playing a hospital simulator?

[@Takhar7]

very late to this, but TPH completely scratched every single itch TH gave me, and then some. Now it's my go-to game for that sort of style. I can't go back to TH now that Two Point is in my catalogue.

[@NUFCSuraj]

@@Takhar7 haha yess! Since I made the comment I bought TPH and a load of the DLC and have spent way too much time on them! I fully agree, it was everything I wanted from a TH successor. Campus was less exciting for me but still fun, but TPH really lived up to everything it could be.

[@bobingabout]

The biggest issue with this game, two point hospital, is that looking at the system requirements, to even run it you need a minimum requirement of at least a generation 6 core i series Intel CPU. can anyone confirm if this actually runs on, say, a generation 4 i7? also, one of the big issues of the original game was that when a room exploded (earth quake etc) it was stuck there forever, and that space was unusable. if you get to keep your hospitals and go back to them, I assume there's a way to delete or repair these destroyed rooms now?

[@leopold7562]

If it says 6th gen core iSeries then that presumably means you could play it on an i3. Your i7 should be fine.

[@ArnoldTran]

Why wasn't the currency in British pounds?