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Is there a patch to make Evil Genius Not suck?
16 years ago
I'm sorely disappointed in this game. When it starts off, you start feeling like an evil genius, then its forcefully ripped from your mind out your anus with barbed wire, and you suddenly become #2. Evil genius is micromanagement to the EXTREME, so much to the point that you don't even have time to work on your evil laughs, and are instead wondering what the fuck just happened.
Allow me to explain. The "Geniuses" who made the game, decided you should be able to have a huge expansive underground secret lair you get to design and build pretty much from the get go. Great idea there. Then to be assholes, they decided that you can only view maaaaby a 32th of the mount at any time while fully zoomed out. Then you get your second island which is even bigger resulting in only seeing a 64th of the base. Seriously.. What the fuck. Making matters worse, you can't just delete small parts of the base. You have to delete entire rooms at a time. Took me several restarts and the use of an exploit to be able to actually get my based off the ground BEFORE the Anti-Evil Genius organizations suddenly pumble you into submission with MOOK agents. Your Super Secret Squirrel base also MAGICALLY becomes the tourist Hot spot.
So what is an evil genius to do? Well to keep the Mooks and Tourists out of your base you can build doors. OH, but like Mooks can break through your security doors in about ten seconds or so. Though 99% of the time, one of your Loyal Minons will come running by to open the door for the mooks, who get into your base and fuck shit up. Your Minons are also so freeking retarded that you HAVE to specifically TAG the enemy for them to do anything about it. What the flying hell is up with that? Unless you tag the Mook, your entire security system (Including cameras) is a total waste. Oh but you could put in traps... cept mooks are dumb. So dumb in fact they can avoid traps and kill your minons off with them. Either that or they INSTANTLY recognize the threat and triggering device and proceed to fuck shit up.
One example was a team of saboteurs, who managed to walk right into my base with out ever having to force open a door, all the way to my control room, planted bombs and blew the control room to kindom come. Mean while i get a friendly little message after all this, because I'm busy trying to plan the construction of the next room, command my henchmen, and plot to take over the world all at once, that my base is on fire. So i click on it, and of course it doesn't take me to the fire, so i spend about 2-3 minutes looking and Oh, its my control room.
I can go more into the game play, but the biggest thing.. THERE WAS NO ESCAPE PODS!
What sort of a game goes around calling itself "evil genius" when the villain doesn't have a fool proof plan of escape. And they always do. Dr. Evil Launched a rocket every time he was threatened. Blowfeld found various other methods of escape.
The game also needed ways of providing a Front for your evil operations. Name one evil genius that immediately started with kicking the presidents cat before he had ANYTHING that would allow him to get away with it. Blowfeld took over at least one company, H.A.R.M. also had a company that was providing it with funding (NOLF), Some villains ran casinos. An evil genius would take in account of all of theses, and try to find ways of making money legitimately or in ways that are hidden from the Anti-Villain organizations.
Allow me to explain. The "Geniuses" who made the game, decided you should be able to have a huge expansive underground secret lair you get to design and build pretty much from the get go. Great idea there. Then to be assholes, they decided that you can only view maaaaby a 32th of the mount at any time while fully zoomed out. Then you get your second island which is even bigger resulting in only seeing a 64th of the base. Seriously.. What the fuck. Making matters worse, you can't just delete small parts of the base. You have to delete entire rooms at a time. Took me several restarts and the use of an exploit to be able to actually get my based off the ground BEFORE the Anti-Evil Genius organizations suddenly pumble you into submission with MOOK agents. Your Super Secret Squirrel base also MAGICALLY becomes the tourist Hot spot.
So what is an evil genius to do? Well to keep the Mooks and Tourists out of your base you can build doors. OH, but like Mooks can break through your security doors in about ten seconds or so. Though 99% of the time, one of your Loyal Minons will come running by to open the door for the mooks, who get into your base and fuck shit up. Your Minons are also so freeking retarded that you HAVE to specifically TAG the enemy for them to do anything about it. What the flying hell is up with that? Unless you tag the Mook, your entire security system (Including cameras) is a total waste. Oh but you could put in traps... cept mooks are dumb. So dumb in fact they can avoid traps and kill your minons off with them. Either that or they INSTANTLY recognize the threat and triggering device and proceed to fuck shit up.
One example was a team of saboteurs, who managed to walk right into my base with out ever having to force open a door, all the way to my control room, planted bombs and blew the control room to kindom come. Mean while i get a friendly little message after all this, because I'm busy trying to plan the construction of the next room, command my henchmen, and plot to take over the world all at once, that my base is on fire. So i click on it, and of course it doesn't take me to the fire, so i spend about 2-3 minutes looking and Oh, its my control room.
I can go more into the game play, but the biggest thing.. THERE WAS NO ESCAPE PODS!
What sort of a game goes around calling itself "evil genius" when the villain doesn't have a fool proof plan of escape. And they always do. Dr. Evil Launched a rocket every time he was threatened. Blowfeld found various other methods of escape.
The game also needed ways of providing a Front for your evil operations. Name one evil genius that immediately started with kicking the presidents cat before he had ANYTHING that would allow him to get away with it. Blowfeld took over at least one company, H.A.R.M. also had a company that was providing it with funding (NOLF), Some villains ran casinos. An evil genius would take in account of all of theses, and try to find ways of making money legitimately or in ways that are hidden from the Anti-Villain organizations.
