is this game good ?

[only bird can judge me]

%80 of comments are negative but they are about having to pay again when you have the first game. I never played first Anno 1404. I only played Anno 1800 and i fell in love with it. Should i buy this game?

[Bloody David]

i didn't played 1800 yet, but 1404 is considered by many the best one of the series. It is my favorite. Graphics and gameplay are still very good. Negative reviews are more about Ubisoft selling a patch for 15 bucks and the game is only available in english even the Shop Site saying it is multi languages. If you want to save money, at the Epic Store you will get a 10 bucks discount at your first buy

[Giani]

Originally posted by Genc Usta:

%80 of comments are negative but they are about having to pay again when you have the first game. I never played first Anno 1404. I only played Anno 1800 and i fell in love with it. Should i buy this game?

this is my first anno. even tho there are some language issues which will be resolved soon this game is amazing!
honestly. the people saying that anno 1404 is the best anno are not lying. i have watched many lets plays on different annos and many reviews about every anno.
the conclusion of this is that anno 1800 and 1404 are head to head to each other but both of them are by far the best annos out there!
Cant wait to play it in German language so i understand everything without trouble!

[DrNiggle]

Yes, because:

The thing no one in reviews is acknowledging is that the original Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) was designed for x86 systems and had a well known memory leak. You simply couldn't play it on high settings or for longer than an hour or so without it crashing.

This version has no such leak, has updated graphics, has compatibility with all previous savegames, and frankly looks and plays beautifully.

The core gameplay is and always has been amazing and re-playable and even has end-game from before when people demanded end-game in everything.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by DrNiggle:

Yes, because:

The thing no one in reviews is acknowledging is that the original Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) was designed for x86 systems and had a well known memory leak. You simply couldn't play it on high settings or for longer than an hour or so without it crashing.

This version has no such leak, has updated graphics, has compatibility with all previous savegames, and frankly looks and plays beautifully.

The core gameplay is and always has been amazing and re-playable and even has end-game from before when people demanded end-game in everything.

This

[NinjaFrog]

Go leave them a positive review if you don't hate it. I'm not shilling for Ubi, I just love Anno. I haven't had any issues with it and Multiplayer + Co-op modes are great and work just like in 1800.

[DeVeteran]

Originally posted by Genc Usta:

%80 of comments are negative but they are about having to pay again when you have the first game. I never played first Anno 1404. I only played Anno 1800 and i fell in love with it. Should i buy this game?

Tbh, the original Anno 1404 was VERY good... this remastered it seems does have issues, as in it usses ONLY DirectX 9, and not also 10, so some graphic options will be unavailable in the game (as it were in the original), there are some problems it seems with the campaign, with the game not recognizing certain languages, with the game recognizing saves from the original (someone just wrote that he imported a save, a sandstorm came, and he can't rebuild on the islands that were hit).

It does 1 good thing though, it's made as a 64 bit game, so no more crashes due to running out of memory.

[James_the_1st]

The game is great, people are just upset at Ubisoft's poor release. I am happy they fixed the crashes, but it is lame that you can't use the unofficial patch and that Ubisoft didn't implement the quest and grammar fixes from it.

[Doctor Hades]

The game is awesome, just do not buy the lazy History Edition version unless you are happy with lower performance and a graphics option that no longer works because they decided to port it to the older DX9 instead of DX10. Poor effort all round, even the poor spelling and grammar have not been fixed for this release.

[Manu]

Yes, this game is that good. I've just installed the old verision and the unofficial patch that fix the memory issue and add some little changes that add value. If you don't have it I'd advise to look for the older version, you might get it cheaper, then google 1404 unofficial patch, The old version + patch is better than this version. This latest one makes no actual difference, really, none, no game change at all in any sense. 4k is really that you can zoom out further (not use, no actual need)

[metafa]

Originally posted by Joe78man:

Yes, this game is that good. I've just installed the old verision and the unofficial patch that fix the memory issue and add some little changes that add value. If you don't have it I'd advise to look for the older version, you might get it cheaper, then google 1404 unofficial patch, The old version + patch is better than this version. This latest one makes no actual difference, really, none, no game change at all in any sense. 4k is really that you can zoom out further (not use, no actual need)

Ohh, so the unofficial patch fixes the memory leak? Lol, I always wondered why I was able to play the game for hours and hours without experiencing that issue ppl talked about for ages :D

So I was willing to buy the HE for an older laptop because they say it is able to use more RAM, which in this instance would be beneficial if more RAM is available, no? But now I read it has worse performance. So it needs a better CPU than the old game although being the same game? How does that fit together? 🤔

[James_the_1st]

The next patch should fix the DX10 issue. Also the devs are saying performance should be much improved up to 100K residents. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1281630/discussions/0/2569815696856654993/

[Caz]

Originally posted by James_the_1st:

The game is great, people are just upset at Ubisoft's poor release. I am happy they fixed the crashes, but it is lame that you can't use the unofficial patch and that Ubisoft didn't implement the quest and grammar fixes from it.

It's not the "poor release" people are annoyed about. It's that they're selling a patch, and removed the old version. If they had left the old version available for purchase, I would care so much less about them selling a patch. In fact, I would ever considering buying it. But, as usual, Ubi chose to go the route that spits in the customer's face.

[James_the_1st]

Going from 32bit to 64bit is a lot of code redo work. I don't mind paying a few bucks for such a fix after 10 years for such a good game. Maybe I'm used to Paradox's greed so this instance doesn't annoy me.
It's not like the old version stopped working, you can still play it just as before. Why anyone would still want to buy it is beyond me.

[Valkyria]

Originally posted by James_the_1st:

Going from 32bit to 64bit is a lot of code redo work. I don't mind paying a few bucks for such a fix after 10 years for such a good game. Maybe I'm used to Paradox's greed so this instance doesn't annoy me.
It's not like the old version stopped working, you can still play it just as before. Why anyone would still want to buy it is beyond me.

The old version didn't work in the late game, it was unplayable once you hit 4GB of memory used.

[Caz]

Originally posted by Valkyria:

Originally posted by James_the_1st:

Going from 32bit to 64bit is a lot of code redo work. I don't mind paying a few bucks for such a fix after 10 years for such a good game. Maybe I'm used to Paradox's greed so this instance doesn't annoy me.
It's not like the old version stopped working, you can still play it just as before. Why anyone would still want to buy it is beyond me.

The old version didn't work in the late game, it was unplayable once you hit 4GB of memory used.

And yet countless people have spoken up saying the Unofficial Patch fixed this issue for them. It fixed it for me. Before I installed the Unofficial Patch, I lost an Imperator save with 36 hours invested into it. After installing it, I finished Imperator with 67 hours in. It was using full on 4GB from the 28 hour mark and on. So much for "unplayable".