Comments on: Making Of: Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici

By: jay

jay — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:04:45 +0000

Lovely article. I’m not sure I’ve ever read someone talking about feeling depressed after finishing making a game. Good reminder games are made by people.

By: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Bundles Of Fun | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The RPS Bargain Bucket: Bundles Of Fun | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:52:09 +0000

[...] The Settlers 2: Gold Edition & Settlers: Heritage of kings – £6.05/6.72/$9.99 I played the very first settlers game on the Amiga 1200. Alright, I played the demo, over and over again, never the full game. It was pretty neat. There was a big castle in the middle of your territory, and you got to place buildings, make paths between everything. Lots of lovely resource management too, and It had a pace that was plenty relaxed for my 6 year old brain. I’ve not played any of the other entries in the series, but I gather they became a bit more combat heavy as time went by. On offer here is the second game in the series, which looks a lot like how I remember the first, and “Heritage of Kings”, the fifth one, which has polygons! You can get both for 50% off, or just one of them at a 30% discount. Kieron did an interview with Thomas Hauser, who worked on the second game, which you can read here. [...]

By: Garreett

Garreett — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Oh, god. I’ve just realised my complete and utter spelling fail there. What I meant to say was “There’s an open source Settlers remake out there that’s pretty good – http://wl.wideland.org “

By: Garreett

Garreett — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:47:15 +0000

There’s an open source Settlers remake out there that’d petty good… http://wl.widelands.org/

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:48:35 +0000

Ah, never seen this article before. It’s from before I started browsing RPS I fancy. Interesting read though, and chalk me up as another one who played this a lot, starting on one Christmas day when I got the PC Gamer UK mag where the cover disk had the Settlers II demo on it. Great memories, although the music drove my family absolutely up the wall.

By: crazy mart

crazy mart — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:25:44 +0000

What thay don’t say is that they left the bugs in! Have you tried playing this on a DS? It is rubbish.

crashes, unable to save and the ships still don’t go!

By: Matu

Matu — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:09:59 +0000

Aargh.

Do you realize how many days you have stolen from our lives with this article?

By: just_finished_okami

just_finished_okami — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:17:29 +0000

Did you know?

The original Settlers was largely developed by a single person, Volker Wertich, who was also responsible for the development of Settlers 3. Volker later moved on to create his own development studio “Phenomic”, which was responsible for the development of the Spellforce RPS series before beeing bought by EA last summer.

Bluebyte on the other hand got bought by Ubisoft, so all the new Settlers games are published by Ubisoft.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:21:00 +0000

I’m much the same as you, Kalle. I bought Settlers 3 and disliked it intensely. Except I don’t think I could stomach the anniversary edition nowadays. I don’t even know if I could stomach the ‘original’ Settlers 2 nowadays.

By: Kalle

Kalle — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:59:58 +0000

I’ve seen the 10th anniversery in stores but I’ve always passed it over thinking it couldn’t be anything like my memories of Settlers 2. This article convinced me I should give it a try.

I loved Settlers 2 so much, and I hated what they did to the series afterwards. Hopefully this will be all that I remember it to be.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:56:39 +0000

I spent almost as much time on Settlers 2 as I did on Civ 2, and that’s a lot. I meant to buy the 10th anniversary version, but never got around to it. Maybe it’s for the best; even the demo hoovered up a startling amount of my time.

By: Dan Forever

Dan Forever — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:55:55 +0000

I have settlers 2 for my DS. ah memories \o/