Is anybody else playing Two Point Hospital right now?

Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed but only because of the high metascore.
It's still a fun game but the campaign levels are incredibly same-ish. Start from zero and build up a working hospital. There was one interesting level where you could only hire inexperienced staff and had to train them to unlock their potential (and get rewarded with money). Every level is just an introduction of one new type of room but you have to play all the way from beginning even though the order of construction is always the same.

While the game allows to build many different items, most of them either have the same effect or are for decoration only.
For example if you want to raise attractiveness, you could either buy a plant for $500 or a $50 poster. The plant gives a bigger bonus but needs constant watering by the janitors. I used mostly plants in my early hospitals until I realized how many janitors I had to hire only to keep them watered. And when they start to wither, they will even reduce attractiveness and decrease happiness. So why the hell would you want to use plants? Higher fixed costs, higher variable costs and they can even reduce attractiveness. Just put the same posters on all the walls (even behind toilet cabins or cupboards where no one can see them, they will still give you the bonus).

There are still a few bugs that I noticed and things I just don't understand.

You can increase your prices and I've read that people are willing to spend them if the reputation value or something is high enough. Well every time I try to increase prices by only 10% (which is the lowest possible amount), my price reputation is going down to 0 which hurts my total reputation score. On top of that I will sometimes get the pop up message that a patient refuses to pay his bill which is not only annoying but also hurts my wallet. Again, what's the point if I can't moderately change my prices when I offer good service. There was also a bug where I reduced the prices to default but my price reputation wouldn't move up at all.

In one of my other, very busy hospitals it happened frequently that patients would storm out due to long waiting times but often times they were also extremely thirsty. I've built so many drinks machines all over the hospital and even though there's never more than one guy standing in front of it, I still get to see messages that patients are leaving because they're almost dying of thirst. What the hell am I doing wrong?

I'm also often getting the message that I have too many janitors because most of them are idle but when I look at my rooms every single machine is at 50% maintenance level. Why would they rather idle instead of doing anything even if the threshold for automatic maintenance hasn't been reached yet.

Enough with the rant for now even though I'm sure I could go on. So far I would say that Jurassic World Evolution is the better game.

Who better than Crytek to flex 💪🏾 your machine’s muscles? I believe a Ryse with Ac:Odyssey treatment will be a hit.

ReCore deserves a sequel to see what the IP can really do under the right circumstances. The first game was was basically a victim of the time period it was being developed and releasing in.

It was during the time people had been complaining that Microsoft weren't releasing many new IP's and that most of the games they were releasing were multiplayer with not many single player focused ones. Then comes ReCore, a single-player story driven new IP that was meant to be a new franchise for them. The problem is it was developed during the time Xbox had very limited resources and budget to spend on gaming back in those years, so the game suffered as a result and wasn't what it should have been when it launched. Only when Phil Spencer got promoted in 2017 and afterwards did we start to see these problems get resolved and all this growth happen with their first party and what they're able to achieve now as a result like with all the acquisitions and such.

I still loved the first game despite its flaws, but i'd love to see what ReCore could be now with the proper budget and time given under the new XGS.

That is my dream scenario. I love the gameplay of that IP.

If I had to choose a dev for ReCore 2, it would be Platinum Games.

Hey guys and gals! I am playing through Ori 1 to get ready for the sequel. It strikes me it would be fun to write an article for the site about the top 10 Xbox One exclusives to be published around when XSX launches. That gives me 8-9 months.

For "exclusive" I'll count anything that launched exclusively on Xbox One/Xbox 360. It can also have launched on PC, but not a Sony or Nintendo system. If it got a PS4 or Switch port after the fact, that's fine.

What suggestions do you have?

My current short list:

• Gears of War 4
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Sunset Overdrive 
• Titanfall

Thanks for your advice!

Thanks for the suggestions so far! I'm working through the Gears 5 campaign now, so that may make the cut (I don't think the open world elements do it any favors, but it's still early).

The games I'll focus on will definitely include Forza Horizon 3/4, Cuphead, Quantum Break, and Killer Instinct. I'm very interested in Ashen too.

I'm probably the only one who thinks this but Massive Chalice was one of the better exclusives Xbox got this gen it came as quite a surprise when it launched day one into Gold, I had plenty of fun with it and it would likely make my own top 10 list.

Sorry if this was mentioned but I think Hellblade is a must play. 

I got to the end of the post and see you made the comparison I was going to ask about.

I've downloaded Two Point but haven't started it. Disappointing to read this as I had really hoped for a better game than JWE, even in a similar genre. Sounds like you wouldn't mind it if they fixed the bugs, hopefully they're aware of them and are working on that.

Looking forward to nostalgia laden marketing.