Settlers for DS

[James]

This game is pretty old news actually. It's been announced for a year now.

The Settlers 2 is by far the best of the series. It keeps everything from Settlers 1, but improves on it. And gone are the bugs from the first one...you can actually finish a level with Settlers 2. The series went to hell with the third installment, basically because you didn't have roads anymore.

I've worked for Ubisoft for a while and yes, they are complete whores. I haven't bought a Ubisoft-made game since... well.... forever. They do publish good titles now and again, but they sure as hell can't develop them in-house.

Good news though, The Settlers 2 has been pretty much left intact save for a couple of improvements. It's what Settlers 3 should have been: the same game, with more of the good things.

I've been looking at it since I got my DS (the first one sold in Montreal! w00t w00t).

But... last thing.. don't expect Amiga games to be re-released on the DS. This is just a coincidence that this game was originally made on Amiga. Ubisoft just acquired the rights at some point by buying off yet another dead developer. The Settlers were in fact, much more popular on PC than it was on the Amiga.

[James]

weirdami wrote:

The Settlers were in fact, much more popular on PC than it was on the Amiga.

Isn't that because it came out after Commodore went dead? Or, was that just Foundation? In any case, I don't think it was on any Windows box until way after that, and then, it had all those sequels. Anyhoo, let's quibble some more about things. :-)

Actually it was released in 94 on the PC so it was a year before Win95 "graced" our PCs with its bloated interface. The Settlers is a DOS game, but The Settlers 2 is native to windows and still runs very well, sound and all, on modern machines. I have two games that never leave my laptop: Colonization (the DOS very thank you very much) and The Settlers 2. I don't play them as often as I could or should, but when I get the bug, they're there!


@motorollin
OH YEAH!!! I love my DS I just wish it had a built in browser and mail client...seeing as its fully wifi anyways. It's also my alarm clock Have you seen all the hacks that have been popping up lately? Some crazy asian guy hooked an IDE HD to it I remember when I was working on one of the launch titles...you should see the dev kit. It's a huge freaking blue metal box about half the size of a PC. And you've got this equally huge, not-too-flexible cable coming our of the DS and into the box. Working on that kinda ruined the whole "portable" thing really heh. I hated the DS because of my experience with it. Then the DS lite came along and I just had to get it, too sexy. Me and my ex got to the store at like 5am (opens at 10) to be the first ones to get one Errr come to think of it.. that's a bit sad hehe

[James]

@twizzle
I must admit I don't know quite what is wrong. I got my copy from an abandonware site and basically is was just unzip & run.

Alternatively, Ubisoft is releasing a new The Settlers 2. IMO they added too much crap to it. Looks more polished, but the original still is better I think. It's a lot slower too.


@JJ
I guess it depends on personal taste For me, the three POPs are very bad games. Maybe I'm getting too old and cranky hehe. The first one was alright I guess and there was a certain cool factor in revisiting Persia in another video game years after the two first installments. But after that it really didn't do anything for me. I especially disliked the fact that Ubi numbered them 1, 2 and 3. Seems they have no respect for the franchise, as there were two POP games before Ubi bought the rights. And having the original POPs included on the discs wouldn't have thrown production time off and would've made a great little add-on. Like including the original Metroid on the Zero Mission cartridge. Man that rocked