Like most of the "good ol' games" Settlers 3 might work on your computer or it might not. These old games run on DosBox emulation and it's rather finicky at best. I tried installing the game both on my main comp and on my laptop and it doesn't even start without additional files and fixes. Gog tried to save the old games but it seems like time has passed these methods and what is left, is not suitable for those that just want to sit down, hit 'play' and enjoy their games. Too bad.
This little lamb has been all around the place, had his fair share of patches, re-designs, facelifts and updates, but now that he's finally back I'm not sure if I can recognize him anymore. We've had our hare of arguments about balance and what's fun and what's not. The lamb got lost in the progress but now we're back to the barn and what do we find? Well obviously someone switched everything around and turned all the rules upside down, how silly! The barn might be prettier than ever and it sure sounds like a new new adventure is just around the corner. But no. It's over. Little lamb doesn't recognize his old buddies anymore. The pretty Scoia, good old Skelli, all the good folks feel like strangers. Lamb doesn't want to play with them! They forgot about little lamb and he is just about to forget about them too. Once they were fun and we all played together but they are boring now! It's like someone said "you are boring adults now so enough with the fun" and they decided to turn an innovative cardgame into a lifeless husk.
I have no experience of the Ultima saga and therefore lack nostalgy for it and this is one of the games that has aged very poorly. It's one of those titles that feel bad to control and unintuitive for a new gamer. In a world where games are plentiful I can't justify the time it would take to learn the ins and outs of this particular game nor am I willing to endure the eye-watering graphics (any movement makes them super twitchy). Three might be a hidden gem in there but it's covered deep in concrete.
Dungeo Keeper 1 might be one of the titles that forged the strategy genre for what it is these days but unfortunately the old one hasn't aged very well. Actually not well at all. I'm not going to review the game as a whole since I know nothing about it (couldn't force myself to actually play it after launching) but this serves more as a warning that unless you're a serious nerd for games-of-yore you should probably skip this one. There's obviously a "high resolution" switch by pressing alt+R in-game but that didn't really change the fact that the game is pretty much unreachable for a newcomer.
