Then & Now Event

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Take a look back at the history of the game franchise you love. Since 1993, the Settlers has been bringing you gaming goodness. See the pieces of the franchise’s history and how they fit together and evolved into what we play today. Sometimes, it’s just as fun to look back as it is to look forward, so we hope you will enjoy this ongoing event!

This week we are showing the evolution of the Carrier unit, starting from the first Settlers and ending with Settlers 7.

The original Settlers was launched in 1993, Settlers II followed and launched in 1996, Settlers III launched in 1998, Settlers IV in 2001, The Settlers: Heritage of kings in 2004, The Settlers: Rise of an empire in 2007, and finally The Settlers 7: Paths to a kingdom in 2010

The whole franchise has sold over 9 million units worldwide and is one of Ubisoft’s multi-million units selling brands.
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2/16/2012

This week we are showing the evolution of the box art. Below is the box art for Settlers 1 and Settlers 7. What a big change!

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5/3/2012

This week we are showing the evolution of the graphics. Check out how the first ever Settlers compares to the Settlers Online!

Settlers 1
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Settlers II:
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Settlers III:
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Settlers IV:
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Settlers: Heritage of Kings:
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Settlers: Rise of an Empire:
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Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
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The Settlers Online
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I played all of them! I play Settlers II - Anniversary edition all the time to this day

I still enjoy playing Settlers II every now and again, It's where I was introduced to the series, I still find myself going back to that one more than the others.

i had to buy anniversary edition when my SII disk died.
my only complaint was the music on SII: Anniversary isnt the same as Veni Vidi Vici, the Cd audio stuff on there was awesome.

nice stuff ...cool history lesson

Silly question...but serious. I've played and enjoyed many UbiSoft games but I am brand new to this type of game. I never played any of the settlers games.
What I'm wondering is how are these games related to Castle Empire? Would Castle Empire be considered a new edition (beta) released in 2011? Or is Castle Empire a completely different game?

Thanks!
Rantankerous

this game i one of the best online games iv played in a long time

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Silly question...but serious. I've played and enjoyed many UbiSoft games but I am brand new to this type of game. I never played any of the settlers games.
What I'm wondering is how are these games related to Castle Empire? Would Castle Empire be considered a new edition (beta) released in 2011? Or is Castle Empire a completely different game?

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Castle Empire is the US version of "The Settlers Online".

That said, I absolutely love the settlers. I currently still play 5, 6 and 7. I need to try to find 1-4.

I'm hoping that eventually Castle Empire will implement some sort of "campaign mode". I assume that the "Epic Adventure" are trying to accomplish this to some degree, but I always loved the underlying storyline in the Settlers games, and am hoping that the tradition continues here. I'm also hoping that the skills and research capabilities of the universities eventually will come into play. However, considering how new the game is, I definitely love it and give it 2 thumbs up.

awsome i like it :)

ahh the memories, i love the entire series except maybe last one (but only cause of weird camera angles) i believe i met the first guy on a 286 or a 386 pc ^^ can you plz bring back the match making and the little quotes over settlers heads i cant wait to see the military units haha the lil viking dudes ftw hehe still think settlers 1/2 are the best ^9

Nah I haven't played all the Settlers games, although I did play Settlers 6. I do enjoy the Anno games though, played 1701 and am planning on picking up 1404 or Dawn of Discovery as its titled.

Awesome to look back and see how it all began. Remember when those first graphics were "amazing"? more than 4 colors!!
Advice, Read this history lesson, learn it, love it. I can see the GM Trivia questions now... go get them gems!

Man I loved Settlers 2 too - resource management to the extreme~

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I can see the GM Trivia questions now... go get them gems!

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O.o Cheat xD

Is it because it is released in US, all workers are fat? xD j/k j/k Nice to see a glimpse of the game from its youth years to now. Keep it up guyz :)

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Is it because it is released in US, all workers are fat? xD j/k j/k Nice to see a glimpse of the game from its youth years to now. Keep it up guyz :)

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Hmmm Interesting....

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...KwRAAY4mMgKXDw


http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...74YZ2PwX5TIyEA

pretty interesting stuff!!

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Originally Posted by Draxxon

Castle Empire is the US version of "The Settlers Online".

That said, I absolutely love the settlers. I currently still play 5, 6 and 7. I need to try to find 1-4.

I'm hoping that eventually Castle Empire will implement some sort of "campaign mode". I assume that the "Epic Adventure" are trying to accomplish this to some degree, but I always loved the underlying storyline in the Settlers games, and am hoping that the tradition continues here. I'm also hoping that the skills and research capabilities of the universities eventually will come into play. However, considering how new the game is, I definitely love it and give it 2 thumbs up.

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I loved Settlers 6 Rise of an Empire and The Eastern Realm Expansion Pack, Im looking at Settlers 7 it looks so cool! The Epic adventure is something I look forward to ! Great Job Guys! :)

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Originally Posted by Kvasir

Hmmm Interesting....

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...KwRAAY4mMgKXDw


http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...74YZ2PwX5TIyEA

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Those might be true if Australia didn't steal the title from us. :(

We need to eat more to reclaim it.

oui

cool

Just updated the first post of the thread with the evolution of the Settlers box art. Check it out!

ive been logging on through f/book its about the only game i play now lol

i remember the way "The Settlers" loaded on my old Amiga A500 ... (very slowly for one part) but you used to watch a Knight, Similar to the one on the box-art ride across the countryside to a piece of theme music, every time he hit the end of the piece, the computer would stop reading from its floppy drive and ask for another disk ... it took 3 mins total to load the game if i remember correctly, how they ever managed to fit the game on 3 floppy disks ill never know ... also, how said floppy disks survived being handled by me from the age of 4 to the age of 12 ... i also wont ever know.

I played and still have all the disks for settlers 1-7 plus anniversary edition. I played them all. My favorites were 2-4, just because they random generated map abilities.

I remember playing the precurser to settlers Serf City. same as settlers1 Great game series. Liking the castle empire. I figured blue byte went the way of most good game programmer jut faded off to memory.

i saw this thread earlier and was going to post that i've loved "the settlers" since the very first time i played settlers 1 on my amiga, except "heritage of kings" which i hated.deeply... then i decided that before i posted, i would visit the game-graveyard in the basement and re-install number 5, just to be sure. i've had a great day ! turns out that settlers 5 is not as bad as i remembered (even though, let's be honest, it's not a settlers game...), i'm now busily re-installing all kinds of retro stuff and having a whale of a time :--)

what a great forum thread !!!

love the game 1st time ever playing it, been playing now 4 a month straight, lol, just wish gems were cheaper, spent 325 n gems already crazy i no, have built my empire all on my own , got any tips any one

I loved the older versions, unfortunetly, my computer cant play the newer ones :(

was just talking to someone in game who said this game reminded him of settlers whateverversion, he did not realize this was the current incarnation of it until i sent him here. I guess you have a new player.

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Hmmm Interesting....

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...KwRAAY4mMgKXDw


http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...74YZ2PwX5TIyEA

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I get such a kick out of people bashing americans in these forums.... because the truth of the matter is that without Americans the technology would never have been developed for you to even be able to do it. lmao ..... 99% of all Americans could careless what you think the other 1% do care less....

lol true. well said :D

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Originally Posted by Draxxon

Castle Empire is the US version of "The Settlers Online".

That said, I absolutely love the settlers. I currently still play 5, 6 and 7. I need to try to find 1-4.

I'm hoping that eventually Castle Empire will implement some sort of "campaign mode". I assume that the "Epic Adventure" are trying to accomplish this to some degree, but I always loved the underlying storyline in the Settlers games, and am hoping that the tradition continues here. I'm also hoping that the skills and research capabilities of the universities eventually will come into play. However, considering how new the game is, I definitely love it and give it 2 thumbs up.

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http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_s...2_gold_edition here is one of them; if the reset of them were ever offered on Steam I would re-buy them in a heart beat

I have Settlers 3, with all the expansions, and like it alot. Problem is, when i had Windows xp i couldn't even install it, now i have windows 7, the game at least will intall on my computer, but it won't run. Is there anyway to get Settlers 3 to run on windows xp as well as windows 7?

Thanks.

My favourite was the 3rd with amasons :) . Nostalgic :) .

Was Serf City: Life is Feudal the first settlers? Man I loved that game. I upgrade from an Apple ][ e to a pc just for that populous,warlords and sim city.

Good times.

love the settler games what would be nice tho is if they released an anthology edition which allowed you to play all the settler games (with improved graphics) without resorting to dosbox or suchlike

I think to this day that I had the most fun playing Settlers II

I used to play version 1 in dos ages ago
loved it
also played version 4 didnt like that as much