Settlers 3 Gold Retro review - Worthabuy?
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Settlers 3 is one of the best games ever released. As was Dungeon Keeper. How no one has managed to reproduce these is beyond me.
See, I think settlers 2 was thebest settlers game.
Yeah ;-(
Completely agree, imagine this game reskinned with a few extra features today. Id be ADDICTED. I find the aesthetics so appealing
dungeon keeper was recreated. It's called dungeons I think. it has a great narrator and you can leave the dungeon. dungeon keeper and deeper dungeons were still the best though.
@@JackUK69you can play it pvp with “settlers United”. They also did balance changes and more
I think the late 90s and early 2000s were the golden age for these types of games. You had this the settlers series, Age of Empires, then there was a series called Anno that I used to love. We don't have anything comparable now, at least nothing that is enjoyable.
Let's Play Old Games age of empires 4 coming..
Havicc Brine Yeah, and remastered versions for AoE 1-3.
Let's Play Old Games the original Stronghold was one of my favourites.
There were so many great games even stuff like the Caesar Series, or things like Pharoah, Cleopatra etc. Great memories.
My favourite builder type game of 1999 was a game called Pharaoh. Don't know how many hours I put into that game
Settlers was my childhood
Same
Same
:) back in 2005 ...
Settlers 3 has to be one of my favourite games of all time. Had to be one of the first games I played on my dad's pc.
This is my absolute favorite city building/strategy game of all fucking time. I've been searching for a game like this for over a decade and I have yet to receive the level of pure satisfaction that this game has given me. The Settlers 3 is what is missing from literally every game made in the last 10 years.
Just as an addition to this, Black and White (minus the god awful tutorial) is the closest I've ever gotten. Can you imagine the combination of these two amazing games?
@@silentthief18 never heard of black and white, but i agree. Im very young but grew up with this and settlers 4, absolutely love the games. Ill try and check out black and white to see if its anything like this but i dont think anything can top settlers 4 imo. Something about these old games have so much charm
@@spacegrass6632 This weekend I was finally able to beat the second mission of the Romans on Settlers 4.
After a long hiatus. You know what really grinds my gears. I was never able to beat that level when I was a kid . I didn't have the patience for that . I mean you just completed the first Roman mission where you literally annihilate the Vikings and you go against the Mayans thinking "Oh this is going to be a cakewalk" (they look more like Aztecs in this game. Even their squad leaders look like Eagle Warriors. But that's another story) and then when you finally moved your border to the South East you suddenly see a blue line appear across the mountains after 30 minutes. And then they start to build up their military and send their troops against you and your territory gets steamrolled by the power of the jaguar. Without a good food and mining economy you're toast.
But once you know how the game works and set up your food economy and mining operations the Mayans won't attack you.
I should have thought about that sooner
i can tell you.... try out knights and merchants... its this game x100.. its so damn good.
Settler 4 is very good. I agree, Settler 3 is indeed the best in the series, I hope you won't buy the new Settlers which is coming up. It may look good (Graphical) but it's absolute Dishit.
They mixed Settler 3 and 4 togheter and took out the core features of them which made them fun.
yea....don't buy it.
I remember first installing this game a couple of years after its release. I was completely blown away by the graphics and atmosphere of the game. Birds chirping, ocean waving, builders hammering. It took quite a while to understand the concept, however when I learned it, I couldn't stop playing. What a nostalgy. I still play Settlers 3 from time to time even in my 30s and I think this game still looks and sounds great.
That was my first PC-Game and i still play it sometimes.
I just love it!
I don't think the graphics look that bad.
Kelr they look cosy and make me nostalgic
considering its age id say the graphics look amazingly good o.o
Graphics are not the selling point for me. It's the gameplay that counts
Good memories of this! Getting into PC gaming and discovering games like this was just amazing. It made me into the strategy fan I am today.
Past your bedtime, old man. Thanks, Mack
am going now, thanks dad
Worth A Buy haha
TheRonBurgundy 12 ding ding ding
Anno 1404 / Dawn of Discovery would be right up your alley...
I have spent an unhealthy amount of time on that game..
Loved this game. If I had the skill and time, I'd bring this back with a modern update. I regret that the developers strayed away from the gold they made with settlers 3 in their later releases. This top down style and its elegant simplicity (and reasonable complexity) made this game great.
This game, Knights and Merchants, Anno... Ah, the good days :)
this game gives me the biggest nostalgia ever. i played it ALOT as a kid
This game had me obsessed when it was first released. The graphics were so different from the previous game and looked to me as if nothing better-looking would ever be created. The gameplay was very enjoyable, although I did miss the splitscreen multiplayer you could play Settlers 2 with if you had a second mouse connected.
Hey Mack, did you try Darkwood yet ? I think you might really like it.
Never heard or seen of this game before (apart from you mentioning it in other videos) but I turned my nose up at it when I saw it because of the graphics but my god is it a good game !! Just bought it today and I love it. Thanks for the great review as always :-)
Where did you purchase the game from?
Scott Carroll a site called GOG the one Mack got it from if you type in settlers 3 it's one of the first sites to come up :)
OH wow the nostalgia!! I remember getting the demo off the CD from PC Zone and playing the shit out of it. Sadly, only ever played the demo as couldn't afford the full game.
Loving these Retro reviews Mack, really brings me back to when games where fantastic and usually always came with a wealth of options and content. Hope to see more from you, would love to see a Half Life or Quake 1 & 2 retro review!!
Not sure why but the look of this reminds me of another game from around that time -- Caesar 3. I remember having so much fun with that, great game with amazing music to boot.
Lovin these retro reviews. Keep it up, Mac.
They're being updated (4k / optimisation / multiplayer / windows 10 compatibility) and relaunched soon!
If I were to play that version on a 1440p panel would I have to do anything to optimize anything for the resolution?
Excellent review. I came here to cross this off my list, and now I own it.
Started playing this last week!
I went on sale two days after I added it to my wishlist.
Hi Mac! Quick question, how did you change the resolution? All i can get is the sort of square ones, and it really triggers me to have black patches on the left and right sides of the screen.
I remember when I was a kid the computer games they had for us was just as detailed as this game is. Pajama Sam was my favorite computer game as a kid.
Even when you don't play against the AI expanding your borders to find new resources and watching your settlers go about their day transporting resources, producing food and tending their fields just has that little something.
It's really rare for a game to be this in-depth with it anymore because that's a niche market and most triple A publishers don't do small projects for a modest profit anymore.
It's go big or go home all day every day, so supply chains are dumbed down, processes are truncated and simplified and the focus is on the action because that's what more players might potentially be interested in.
Oh this is one that takes me back, I used to play the demo of this all the time when I was a kid, never got an allowance for games so demos were all I got; and it's been sitting in my gog library for a while now. How did I forget this?!
I still have the Amiga CD Mack ...amazing games way ahead of his time then
so nostalgic right now i think im tearing up xD settlers 2 were the ones i watched my brother play the most =D
Got it last year on the gog sales and I'd admit it's deep. Just to note there is no fast forward button.
But it was satisfying waiting for my army to amass into a huge armada. Hearing every sword hit in battles was... immense.
Thank you Mack.
F12 is fast forward
Brings me back. Thanks Mack 🙏
fooking love the settlers franchise, I used to play Settler heritage of kings when i was a kid. I spent way too many hours on that lol.
Are there any other rts game where the resources are all physically present on the map? I mean gold wood stone etc. does not get automatically uploaded to your untouchable digital account as they are being gathered
What are your thoughts on Age of Empires? Because 4 is coming out and I hope to god they get it right.
I loved AOE 2
AOE 3 story was Good the gameplay was fun but could have been better
I dont know about AOE 4
part of me think that it could go horribly wrong
Major Doritos aoe 4 is made by other game studio. It wil be crap, trust me. Better buy AoE2 and install unofficial patch. Works awesome.
I loved aoe 2 as well. Aoe 3 had a good story, but didn't add too much in the way of gameplay. Age of mythology was a fun spin off. As with aoe 4, I don't think it will live up to the expectations
I hope they be true to the franchise. Because in modern days we all are playing games in a console which makes games like AOE tough to play and eventually poor sales.
Age of Empires 2 feels unfinished, all civs use the same skins except for the unique units.
Hey mack, will you do a retro review Worthabuy on Rail Road Tycoon 2: Platinum?
may i ask what is the beautiful music playing in the background/outro?
great review btw, i will give this game a try as i have finished settlers 2 some 25 years ago and my nostalgia kicked in
The music in my gog.com copy will stop playing at random moments. Do you have this as well?
That battle at the end was epic.
Is the GMG version different than my old 1999 version in original box. I've tried to install it , but settlers 3 requires Direct X 9.0c, thus wont work in win 10 or compatibility modes. Any ideas?
I recently revisited this game, and I think I remembered why I abandoned it in the first place; it is NOT a city builder, and it makes this clear within a few hours of gameplay.
This is because you can run out of stone quickly, meaning you can't build any more buildings, and in a game that on the surface appears to be at least partially about building a bustling civilization, this ends my citybuilding aspirations quickly.
At some point, you are forced into a strictly war-based economy, so if you enjoy playing at a slower pace, you are out of luck.
How does this compare with 2? I'm a huge fan of 2 and have been replaying the Gold version recently, but it's next to impossible to get multiplayer working. This looks a lot like the remake of 2, but I see the roads work differently...? And am I correct in thinking that Woodcutters and Stonemasons work differently now in that you have some control over where they work?
(I realise this video is a little old now but this is the best review I've found yet so I figured you were the best to ask :) !)
Mack, I think you should try Anno 1503. Also has an amazing attention to detail with huge production chains. The later Anno games are dumbed down compared to it
You should really make a retro edition of the first "stronghold" game. Very similar to settlers 3 actually.
If you haven't seen it you MUST check it out
Also, are you playing the History Edition or how did you get the high resolution and ability to zoom?
You can set the resolution in the setup.exe of the original game and zoom isn't anything new.
I enjoyed playing this back in the day.... a bit chaotic combat, but nonetheless really good and beautiful RTS game
Thanks for the review! I remember watching my brother play this for hours, when we were kids. I was just thinking, how does this game compare to Settlers IV? And are there any bugs or glitches I should be aware of? I remember there being a bug about pigs or something, and also that the forester overgrew my village with trees (could have been my poor management skills though).
Hey Mack, did you ever play Alien Nations/the Nations? It and Settlers were two big rivals over here in Germany back in the day, but I think AN never really made it big in the anglosphere.
Personally I prefer the Nations series over the Settlers (mainly because of the fact that the titular nations have actual character compared to the rather bland and not-all-that-different flavours of Settlers), but I'm curious about your thoughts there.
So glad I watched this. Just bought the game and am ABSOLUTELY LOVING IT!
Hi did you get it working on windows 10? I had this game years ago and loved it.
hey can you guys help me out? i also have windows 10 but no idea how i can play the settlers 3 on it🤷🏼♂️
Agree with alot of these comments - one of the best city builders/RTS of all time for me up there with AOE2. The fact im here thinking of buying it again to play shows how good it is....
Great retro review Mac. What did you think of the classic Knights & Merchants? In a way similar in detail as Settlers.
does anyone knows what are the gold bars used for?
Nostalgia alert! I loved this game!
You talked bout how you can determine the ratios of who gets coal. You can do the same with food, so if you dont have lets say fish or something, you can get bread or pork sent to the gold mine. Also means you can run all mining of of 1 single food ressource if you wanted. I figure there might be a penalty to this but im not sure.
One of the few really good Gaming Review youtubers. I said it a lot of Times already, but again: thanks Mack, for everything
Mack, have you played any of the Age of Empires games? Will you do a video about the new Age of Empires Enhanced Edition or the upcoming Age of Empires 4 or anything AOE related?
Fantastic review thanks. We just forget how good games can be. And actually the graphics look very nice, really fit the kind of game it is. I like what you said about "attention to detail" in every area of the game not just the graphics, that is what differentiates the great games from the mediocre ones.
I think you're right about the attention to detail. It definitely seemed like it was greater back then but maybe it has just shifted. There is still very high attention to detail just not where you (or we) want it to be. Now obviously the attention seems to be more focused on visuals, nothing wrong with that for me but I do wish they would focus on some of the smaller stuff like they used to. Dwarf Fortress is very good with this. Yeah you need to build all the buildings, but obviously you need to produce the damn things at those buildings and have it stockpiled so your other workshops can use em. Rimworld too obviously.
I could be wrong here since I don't watch a lot of anime, but some of the older movies also feel like they had so much more attention to detail in them compared to these days where yeah, they generally look better, but small things are missing. They're having a studio ghibli event thing here in the US where they're showing all the movies in theaters so I've been going to those. I've never watched them before and I'm not huge on anime in general so I don't think I'm really biased in that like I would be with videos games since I've been playing those forever.
Today they make special attention to detail of Micro-transaction.
What do you think about Age of Empires 2 and Stronghold crusader?
But does it have a FOV slider?
Settlers 3 was the first game i ever played back in 2000-2001 when i was 5 or 6 years old. Got it on GOG for nostalgia, my mom still plays it to this day.
this is the first rts game i owned on pc. god knows where id be today if it wasnt for this game. if any game requires a remake/expansion its this game. especially when you consider how bad settlers has got recently.
Great review Mack, I'll definitely be returning to play some Settlers in the future.
(PS, you didn't load your endscreen!)
oops thanks :) will fix it now
i think i remember why Settlers 2 is still my favorite one.. this looks like a nice followup but looking back the art-style isn't as great. feels more cluttery and stuff.
i'm just looking back on the older games now as the New Settlers game looks intresting to me.. compared to the past few games they made and i'm looking at how they slowly lost there older Settlers way.
This was one of my first games, I loved it :sniff (memories)
played this game to death back in the day, never any game like it since.
The single game I still keep for whenever I feel like dominating over my computer.
Settlers 3 was epic.. I wish they'd remaster things like this.. this great amount of details.
Also.. side note: you can feed each mine each food.. just gotta hit the good distribution screen to change it
the new settler game that is in the making is done by the same guy who headed Settler 3 back then. I am slightly excited. Still sad that after Settler 4 they only ever did one settler race. I loved the different ones in 3 and 4 especially.
Hey, Mac. You made me want to play Settlers 2 again.
Thank you ^_^
Oh mac thank you, i played this at school when i was younger but never knew whar it was called thanks
The outro music. Who is it?
I had this game as a kid. I liked to skirmish with no enemy and just build a bigass city
Looks like this may have inspired the original Tropico & Total War (campaign)?
Great video as always, Mack! Keep it up bud!
Hey Mack, what about Caesar 3, Fallout 1 / 2, Half-Life? Any thoughts?
Some older games are just amazing, i bought stronghold today. I played lots of settlers 2 when i was a kid. Thats my favorite Settlers ever.
Mack will you do a retro review on thief the dark project and thief 2?
DLC's back in the good old days were called "Expansion Packs" and lots of games received them, it was more common than not to find Expansion Packs for various games. So that's the origin for DLC's really, instead of coming in physical packaging and on physical media like either floppies and CD-ROMs, its all digital now. And "Gold" versions of games used to include all the Expansion Packs and any game patches that had been released up to that point. So, if you if were smart, you tended to wait a bit to see if a Gold version was planned and then you got that instead as it only cost slightly more the actual game but much less than the game+Expansion Packs. So it saved you money and any serious bugs would have been patched out from the get go. So it was a win/win.
Mack, did you ever play Emporer: Rise of the middle kingdom. That has a similar in depth evening system. Though only single player but still a good detailed classic.
Nope not played that
7.50£ seems a bit steep for this, I'll check it out though. Is it on Steam or just GOG?
This is one of the best strategy games ever made..
Totally agree about the 90's being a great decade for game development. The work and art that came from that era of pc games was beautiful to witness. Big fan of Settlers 3, loved the attention to detail and the light hearted aspect of the game.
How do you get it to play in wide screen?
I'm curious to see what your opinion of Northguard would be. It's a simple and short territory control game on steam.
Awesome review of a good old game.
So much character in some of these older games.
Hi! Mack i love your reviews, i just Wanna know Whats your backround and outro song i love it so much PS love you!
It's made with smartsound
Worth A Buy aha ok Can i get a link on that love it so much (:
Ahhhh. These games are amazing. I still plY my favourite iteration "knights and merchants". I love these engine building games. Factorio is a bit like this too. Maybe that is my favourite one.
thanks Mack I always look forward to your videos by any chance did you ever play the Delta Force 2 / LW
Hi Mack, did you get settlers 3 working for windows 10 64-bit for this review ? If so how did you get it working (steps please)? Because on gog most reviews mention that it won't start on windows 10 64-bit ?
Someone wrote on Gog forums that deleting winmm.dll makes the game work, but without music. Someone made a patched winmmdll that fixes even that: github.com/bangstk/ogg-winmm/releases
vytah Thanks.
Absolute classic game, your right about the AI it can be very hit and miss.
I love Settlers...it's one of the games of my childhood...amazing strategy.
"this is what you got for a DLC back in 1999" ... I agree 100%. But come on, Blood and Wine. You can't ignore how much content it added to the game and how masterfully it was done ;) Even if you don't like Witcher 3, which I respect.
Did all the best games come on a CD-ROM?
Settlers 3, Sid Meyers Pirates, and the first Anno, were the best games ever made. Sadly they don't make games like these anymore...
Is it possible to zoom out in settlers3 like in s4?
yes
i love that game . was so fun to play random maps . low goods rocked ..
I felt this was the weakest myself, because there was no road system, part of the reason why I loved Settler's, you have to think about logisitics.
Hope everything is going well, Mack! :)
loved this game always played it back then only i remember the ai couldnt handle shipping their troops, but that is true for most older games i think
oh my. this bring so much memories. does anybody know if this is playable on win 10? where can i purchase this
Loved Settlers back in the day.