Settlers 6

[DrSpike]

Damn, I'm jealous.

[lord of the mark]

would this be the point where I mention that I didnt care for Settlers 2?

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
would this be the point where I mention that I didnt care for Settlers 2?

Well - it was only the best game so far in the series

[Adagio]

There's a preview of the game at Gamespy:

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-settlers-rise-of-an-empire/790900p1.html

I have a few comments about this though:

maintains traditional Settlers formula.

No it doesn't, at least not as far as I know

Possibly frustrating to not have direct unit control

Not to have direct unit control is one of the positive sides

the Ubisoft demonstrator was able to sate the strikers by having his hero come out and sing a rousing ballad, which motivated the strikers to go back to work.

WTF..!

[Adagio]

And there's a few more videos here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3343

One of them shows a short battle

[FrostyBoy]

Seriously, this game is made by a company who love this Settlers idea, but all the ideas seem to come from ONE person, and the rest of developers obey. This is kind of bad since you're bound to get a lot of stupid ideas, such as the Ballad one. Sigh..

[DrSpike]

How do we know the ideas come from ONE person?

[Sirotnikov]

but all the ideas seem to come from ONE person, and the rest of developers obey.

I heard that they tried to strike once, but then he began singing this beautiful ballad

[Skanky Burns]

[Unspeakable Horror]

[Adagio]

There's a new video on the official site:

http://www.siedler.de/siedler-aek/index.php

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
I bought Settlers II TNG a while ago. It's exactly like Settlers II, which was great in it's time 10 years ago, just with up-to-date graphics.

I hoped to love it as much as I loved the original S2, but sadly I can assure you, that it absolutely sucks. The game concept as is may have been revolutionary and great back then, but from a 2007 game I expect a LOT more complexity and polish. From today's perspective S2 is bland and boring. Only our remembrances of long gone good times make it great.

This taught me to not rely just on fond memories when I judge games. Times change.

About S6... We'll see. I had some kind of hatelove for S3. I never played S4 and S5. I have no reason to expect S6 to be better, but I'd love to be convinced otherwise.

I wouldn't say that it sucks. Yes it is a step backwards, gameplaywise, but it also brings back a lot of very fond memories, and for that alone it is worth playing (for me at least). I have been playing it a lot for 3 days now (hadn't even heard about it until I saw your post, and then I got it as soon as I could), and I am not about to stop for at least some time.

Thanks for the heads up, Ralphie

[Adagio]

I like the good old Settlers II, until TNG was released I installed the game now and then. When TNG was released I played it a lot... I've only spent like 1-2 hours with the expansion pack though (I never liked the Vikings in any of the Settlers games)

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Adagio
There's a new video on the official site:

http://www.siedler.de/siedler-aek/index.php

Looks good Good thing I understand german, though

[Adagio]

There's a few gameplay videos here: (in english this time... ok, the page is in German, but I guess "download" and "Part #" links are easy to understand)

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3451082194/m/2781007275

The first two have been seen before, but the 3rd one is new to me