They're the same games with QoL improvements and compatibility patches
Your "preservation" argument is nill as the games are preserved
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The Anno History Collection Announced, out June 25th
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Your "preservation" argument is nill as the games are preserved
In what way? Did they start the documentation with "Herst, Gschissana!"?
Man, I'm kinda imagining a full tech docu in viennese dialect now
EDIT: Oh, I see they were from Styria at the border to Salzburg. Even funnier now.
On the preservation front, this might be the time to buy all the games on GOG if you haven't already. Sadly, they're not part of the GOG Summer Sale (possibly because Ubisoft knew this announcement was coming and didn't want to encourage people to buy the old versions?). The announcement doesn't say anything about whether the originals will also be pulled off GOG as well; considering GOG isn't getting the new games as far as we know, it seems like it might be possible you'll be able to buy the originals through GOG indefinitely, but I'm not holding my breath.
Back to the new versions: I guess since Steam only ever got Anno 1404 that it's fine that it's also the only one that gets a Steam version, but it's still kind of shitty. With Anno 1800 not making an appearance on Steam either I guess this isn't entirely unexpected. Setting the storefront issue aside, this is a neat thing that I wouldn't have expected, even with the higher profile Anno has nowadays. I never did get very far into the older Anno games (never mind the newer ones) so I'll be interested in picking up the whole collection at some point, if 1602/1503 are really that difficult to get running on modern PCs.
Back to the new versions: I guess since Steam only ever got Anno 1404 that it's fine that it's also the only one that gets a Steam version, but it's still kind of shitty. With Anno 1800 not making an appearance on Steam either I guess this isn't entirely unexpected. Setting the storefront issue aside, this is a neat thing that I wouldn't have expected, even with the higher profile Anno has nowadays. I never did get very far into the older Anno games (never mind the newer ones) so I'll be interested in picking up the whole collection at some point, if 1602/1503 are really that difficult to get running on modern PCs.
Indeed, they were based in Styria. Let's just say that they did not necessarily use the terminology one should be using today for documenting code :)
For those curious, we have put out our first blog looking at the changes and improvements to Anno 1602:
www.anno-union.com
DevBlog: Anno 1602 History Edition
In our first DevBlog for the Anno History Edition, we cover the improvements made to our cornerstone Anno 1602.
www.anno-union.com
To think how much time I sunk into that game back in the day...For those curious, we have put out our first blog looking at the changes and improvements to Anno 1602:
DevBlog: Anno 1602 History Edition
In our first DevBlog for the Anno History Edition, we cover the improvements made to our cornerstone Anno 1602.
Thanks for sharing, interesting read.
Writing these blogs has definitely been very nostalgic. I couldn't even remember that my first gaming mouse did not have a wheel :(
This is coming out today, right? Haven't actually played any of the games of the Anno series (though bought 1800 in the Epic sale recently), but I like the city-building genre, any recommendations?
Yes, it is out today at 6pm CEST/ 12pm Eastern/ 9am Pacific,
