DS #1212: The Settlers (Europe)

[kitehimuro]

Guys, you need to remember this is a port of a mid-90s game.

Umm, yeah, I did play this game back in the "mid-90s", actually '95 if I remember right. Actually i still play it sometimes, either the original in Dosbox or the (not so good but nice) 20th anniversary 3d remake. Anyways, the DS version is slow. Not meaning the fact that Settlers 2 has a slow-paced gameplay, but i mean the animation is choppy. Like the original being ran on a slow computer. A very slow one.

 

[Yugge]

And your sure that's not your card messing it up? I experienced long loading times, but in games I didn't notice anything choppy, and I'm on an R4DS

 

[kitehimuro]

Did you try zoomed out with plot icons displayed with a medium-sized empire with lots of the little guys on the map? Anyways, I'm on a Supercard SD (latest firmware, latest loader with new database , and I never had slowdown problems before. But I'm starting to think it might be a SC-SD problem now. Like the long loading times in SimCity DS

 

[blizeH]

What's this anno thing everyone keeps mentioning?

 

[Matrix21]

What's this anno thing everyone keeps mentioning?

Anno 1701. Great game, if a little short. It's a shame simcity didn't have such a great interface as this.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=52510

 

[funem]

I played the original and I am very disapointed with this. A tutorial of sorts would have been nice, the graphics could have been alot better and the menus are just to much of a pain to want to play it for very long. Port of an old game with little if no brushing up of graphics is lazy.

 

[jesterscourt]

Anno is a heck of a lot better than SimCity IMHO. Although I have played SimCity forever, and never heard of Anno prior to the DS port.

 

[Strider]

I wish people would stop comparing settlers to anno. This is an decades old discussion, but they're simply different games!

It's a faithful port, but yes I agree, it's sluggish. Not bad, however. If you like settlers (II!) as much as I do, you should get some enjoyment.

 

[hidid]

the game keeps freezing on my r4 (sandisk ultra II) at about 30 minutes playtime

does anyone else have this problem?

 

[pixelique]

i've just got a third freeze (32min, 38min, 40min of playing) - m3 lite, safe mode, trim, newest firmware.

touchscreen response is a true nightmare (when compared to other games using stylus, or pictochat), horribly long loadtimes, awfuly graphics in zoomed-out mode.

dissapointment, when compared to Settlers series, and teaser-reviews.

 

[koekoek]

gives corrupted farm-graphics and keeps locking up
R4, tested with 2GB Kingston TW and 1GB Kingston JP