Availability in the Netherlands/Belgium

[alva]

Originally posted by HistoryChanger
And it is the The Dutch version ..Dutch Manual YES

I heard the manual was in some kind of dutch.

[baboon]

Never use Priority Airmail from the States. It actually took them 3 days to put it on a freaking plane.


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Any ideas where to buy it in Germany when you live in Utrecht? Some close to the border city or something.

[Locutus]

Oberhausen or Duisburg I guess, though I don't know those cities and it's deepish into Germany. Maybe Kleve, but that's a pretty small town, no guarantee they'd have it, and you can only get there by car. You could certainly try Gronau, right over the border and Tventano got it there so they have it, but from Utrecht it would probably cost you half a day to get there and back. If you're a student with an OV, that's probably the cheapest option though

[baboon]

Thanks

Meanwhile, I've decided I would be an idiot to spent 20 euro on 'benzine' to buy a game that I will get probably tuesday anyway. And it would take me 4 hours and I'm not even sure it's not sold out.

So I'll just patiently wait.

[CustodianV131]

Originally posted by alva


I heard the manual was in some kind of dutch.

Good thing I ordered a UK copy then.

Don't like dutch manuals or dutch games for that matter.

[baboon]

In Utrecht, a shop called E-Plaza close to the Mediamarkt, actually has it!

I don't know how many. Better call them fast!

edit : it actually has a dutch techtree, pretty dumb when the games is in english imho.

[jeon]

Originally posted by baboon
In Utrecht, a shop called E-Plaza close to the Mediamarkt, actually has it!

I don't know how many. Better call them fast!

edit : it actually has a dutch techtree, pretty dumb when the games is in english imho.

Thank you so much for this posting! I just went there and got it. I already gave up on Civ for this weekend. Okay, back to installing now.....

[CustodianV131]

You guys must be among the first to play the Dutch version!

Nice going!

(not that you'll read this for a few months to come of course )

Has it a dutch manual and techtree?

[alva]

As far as I understand it, the game itself is in english but the chart(?) and the manual is translated in dutch.

this is a comment from someone on a different forum about the translation:

It looks like someone translated the manual and tech tree who normally is used to do teletubby-translations. And I'm pretty sure he is Dutch and not Flemish too, seeing all the bogus words for perfectly acceptable English terms. (for instance, 'promotion' is normally translated to 'promotie', especially in military context. Not into 'bevordering'. And drill remains drill, not 'oefening' which means 'exercise'.)

[jeon]

Originally posted by CustodianV131
You guys must be among the first to play the Dutch version!

Nice going!

(not that you'll read this for a few months to come of course )

Has it a dutch manual and techtree?

Yes, dutch manual; with all the english terms from the game, thank god (from whichever state religion you have). And a quite useless techtree in Dutch, with every technology translated into Dutch (iew).

E-Plaza also has Age of Empires 3 in the store right now, but was not allowed to sell it until November 4th (stupid Microsoft). Well, won't have time for that game for the coming months....

[alva]

And a quite useless techtree in Dutch, with every technology translated into Dutch (iew).

That's the problem with, all they've done is turn it into a puzzle. Those who don't understand english now have to compare icons on screen to the ones on the chart...what good is that.
Ah well...

[Llotyhy]

Tech Tree

Is much better anyway...

[tomcat ha]

I called the e-plaza here but they dont have it yet. So i guess i have to wait till monday at the very least.

[CustodianV131]

Originally posted by Llotyhy
Tech Tree

Is much better anyway...

Aye, that was nicely done indeed!

Manual sounds not to bad then, at least they had the sense to keep the names as they appear in the games.

Indeed Jeon, AOE III will have to wait for a while

[hoevenpe]

Here in Amsterdam also not found yet

Not at the Dynabyte, not at the MediaMarkt, not at the free-record-shop.

MediaMarkt told me 4 november is the day...