Game Veterans Podcast #281: Two Point Campus – News

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Today everything revolves around the school desk. Well, in the new game Jörg and Heinrich have to be the lords of an educational institution much more – is that convincing?

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Quiet in the room please, the lecture is about to begin! Today we will take you to the university and teach you the basics of the subject “playful jokes”. Because with Two Point Campus a new economic simulation appeared in which you build your own educational institution. In addition to the change of topic, are there enough innovations to make the title different from its predecessor Two Point Hospital takes off? To clarify this question, welcomes the game veteran faculty Hagen Gehritzwho tested the game and also has relatively fresh real world college memories. Before that, the usual subjects are on the podcast schedule: mixed news, current game reports and in-depth listener questions.

0:00:15 News & small talk
0:00:15 Final work corrected – welcome to today’s program.
0:06:20 Mixed news: Linguistic theories on Koch Media name change, Nightdive Studios comment on botched Blade Runner remake, finalizing PS4 production billing.
0:21:26 What was the last thing we played? hard west 2, Hearthstone – Murder at Castle Nathria and Collection of mana.
0:33:03 Listener mail from N0Remors3.

0:45:10 The new game: Two Point Campus
0:45:26 We welcome guest veteran Hagen Gehritz from GamersGlobal, who talks about his journey from university to the editorial board.
0:49:58 Two Point Campus is a close relative of Two Point Hospital with at least as much Bullfrog retro charm. Except that instead of running a hospital, you now run a university.
1:00:50 Innovations like event planning and additional building options are welcome. But there are certain gaps in the transfer of knowledge towards the player.
1:14:32 Crazy courses, cute animations, humorous loudspeaker announcements: When it comes to humor, Two Point Campus is in no way inferior to its Hospital predecessor.
1:28:24 Press review and veteran conclusion.

1:38:52 Credits.