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It's a human ant colony!

The Settlers 4: Gold Edition, a charming civilization-building strategy classic true to its roots and full of micro-managing goodness, is available on GOG.com for only $9.99.

Looking at an anthill one can't help to admire the excellent workflow managment the little insects so effortlessly achieve. Something that's entirely out of reach for any human corporation, community, nor army comes absolutely natural to them. Every ant seems to know its exact place in the big scheme and in any given moment it does exactly what it's supposed to be doing. Now imagine, that it's not an anthill you're looking at, but a human settlement, and it's not the insect hive mind in control but you. Kind of makes you drunk with power, right? Well snap out of it, cause the ominous Dark Tribe is coming to obliterate everything that's good in your realm and it's up to you to lead the Romans, Mayans, Vikings, and Trojans in the struggle against the invader.

The Settlers 4: Gold Edition is everything you would expect from a Settlers game and more! The brilliant mechanics of managing and expanding your settlements by the hands of little virtual villagers are still there, as enjoyable as ever. This time, however, the game comes with a number of useful tweaks such as a seamless zoom feature giving you better overview of your realm. This installment offers higher resolution support so that game can be more detailed than ever. The Gold Edition comes with two expansions: The Trojans and the Elixir of Power, adding another playable nation and its campaign, and a Mission CD with a great selection of scenarios and a random map generator. With this edition, there can be no end to your fun with your tiny obedient subjects.

If you like the Settlers series you simply can't miss this title. If you're not familiar with it, The Settlers 4: Gold Edition is a perfect entry point to the Settlers universe, available for only $9.99 on GOG.com.
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JudasIscariot: I am no expert but maybe those countries were the best markets for expansions? Money would be the logical explanation, in my humble opinion.
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Wishbone: I would think that the one language you'd be able to sell the most expansions for would be English. But then my perception is probably skewed by the fact that I'm Scandinavian.
Language alone might not make the difference. There's the genre to take into consideration. For example, look how popular adventure games are in Germany or how popular the original Fallouts are in Russia. Those are just some of the factors that could possibly account for why some countries get expansions and others don't. Again, I am just speaking from basic observation so I could be totally wrong :D.
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Wishbone: I would think that the one language you'd be able to sell the most expansions for would be English. But then my perception is probably skewed by the fact that I'm Scandinavian.
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JudasIscariot: Language alone might not make the difference. There's the genre to take into consideration. For example, look how popular adventure games are in Germany or how popular the original Fallouts are in Russia. Those are just some of the factors that could possibly account for why some countries get expansions and others don't. Again, I am just speaking from basic observation so I could be totally wrong :D.
That was the point I was trying to make on my message above... But easier to understand. :)
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Leroux: Speaking of BlueByte, when can we expect Albion to appear on GOG? :P
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SCPM: There's probably some kind of legal tie-up. I asked Thomas Hertzler, who was producer of Albion, and he said that as far as he knows, Ubisoft has the rights to the game.
Yeah, that's why I wondered what's holding up or preventing its release here, seeing that GOG and Ubisoft are business partners already. :/
Post edited July 18, 2013 by Leroux
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JudasIscariot: Language alone might not make the difference. There's the genre to take into consideration. For example, look how popular adventure games are in Germany or how popular the original Fallouts are in Russia. Those are just some of the factors that could possibly account for why some countries get expansions and others don't. Again, I am just speaking from basic observation so I could be totally wrong :D.
Take account we are talking about 90s and 00s here. At the time when no German = no buy and no Polish = no buy as well. It was probably cheaper to make them German and Polish from the scratch, instead of translating the English version knowing nobody would be playing them anyway.

That is, when they thought distributing the game in UK makes no sense financially for them.
You guys should really use some kind of moderation on the gamecard reviews...
Wow... I still remember the hype around Settlers IV and I can't believe it it was 12 years ago... Nice release GOG Team!
Fantastic! Bring all Settlers here :)
Wishlisted. I never played any Settlers games pass this one, are they really that bad ?
Great to see more Blue Byte games on this site.
Was Settlers 1 any good? Would it ever be worth adding here? I'm quite new to the series as well. Just started playing a few months ago.
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Licurg: Wishlisted. I never played any Settlers games pass this one, are they really that bad ?
Are you high!!? THEY'RE FUCKING GREAT, ALL OF THEM!!!!
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Licurg: Wishlisted. I never played any Settlers games pass this one, are they really that bad ?
Below average to average.
In S2 when you kill someone they leave a little skeleton on the ground thus when you take out an HQ and all the peasants die you have hundreds of little skeletons laying around. That's worth the price of admission alone.
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htown1980: I've never played anything past Settlers 2, are the newer games any good?
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Tranquil.Suit: You could say that S4 is the last real Settlers game.
That's good to know, I have S5, and you're correct in implying that it's not a real Settlers game. If S4 can be made to run on Linux, I'll probably pick up a copy when it goes on sale.
A very nice release!