Thoughts on The Settlers series?

[Haba]

Really? Tell him to come to the thread so we can suck him off.

Or JarlFrank can give him a congratulary blowjob on the behalf of the Codex.

I used to play the shit out of The Settlers on Amiga.

I never saw this:



...due to mysterious.... reasons.

 

[warci]

Really? Tell him to come to the thread so we can suck him off.

Or JarlFrank can give him a congratulary blowjob on the behalf of the Codex.

I used to play the shit out of The Settlers on Amiga.

I never saw this:



...due to mysterious.... reasons.

If I remember correctly you could boot from the second disk straight into the game skipping the intro. Saw it a bunch of times back in the day, despite my disks also being from dubious origin

 

[JarlFrank]

Wut what? Hobgoblin was the designer of Settlers 2?

Give him a handjob for me, JarlFrank.

No homo.

He was the programmer.

Programmer and main designer of the game.

 

[catfood]

Wut what? Hobgoblin was the designer of Settlers 2?

Give him a handjob for me, JarlFrank.

No homo.

He was the programmer.

Programmer and main designer of the game.

Are you sure? Moby Games only lists him as a programmer.

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,3223/

 

[JarlFrank]

Yeah, because there wasn't a dedicated "lead designer" position. Designing was also part of the programmer's job.

 

[Perkel]

The were great at the time.
Man i loved all those animations when they made stuff etc.

 

[imajia]

I'm really into city-building games but have never touched this series despite knowing about it for over a decade. Which ones do you think are worth playing? I own a couple of games that are often compared to Settlers (Banished and Knights & Merchants) but I've also yet to play those.

Settler 1 is a milestone in gaming history and was one of the few games which were working with the more advanced processors on Amiga. Has nothing to do with the game, but Kudos for that. It's nowadays not realy worth playing for non Amiga fanboys, though.
Settler 2 is still great (and overpriced on GOG), but is less relaxed than the first one. Mines run out of ore way to fast, which always kind of stressed me.
If you don't mind letting your mouse go for 10 minutes and just watch, then 1 and 2 are a very nice time sink.
Settler 3 looks nice, but it removes too much from Settler 1 and 2. No roads and too much military.
Don't care about the rest.
Also: don't drink and post.