Other Games => ... and all the other things floating around out there => Topic started by: Moncho on October 23, 2013, 05:58:57 pm
Title: Banished
Post by: Moncho on October 23, 2013, 05:58:57 pm
I have been following this game for a couple of weeks, and I am pretty excited about what it can do when it is released, reminded me a lot of good old city builders like Pharaoh. Some info:
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.
The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. Building new homes is not enough—there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.
Banished has no skill trees. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. There is no money. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet; however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad.
There are twenty different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. No single strategy will succeed for every town. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand.
The success or failure of a town depends on the appropriate management of risks and resources.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Moncho on February 20, 2014, 01:21:19 am
Bump, was released a couple of days ago, having a blast at it, and very polished.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Thovex on February 20, 2014, 02:43:48 am
This is fun.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Kafein on February 20, 2014, 10:01:08 am
Is this some sort of playable Dwarf Fortress ?
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Vibe on February 20, 2014, 10:16:47 am
From the vids I've seen it seems more like a medieval Sim City, with pretty challenging difficulty.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: kinngrimm on February 20, 2014, 10:47:41 am
sounds & looks like a quite relaxing game, may give it a try :)
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Moncho on February 20, 2014, 11:04:23 am
It reminds me of Imperivm Civitas and similars, yet I have never played Sim City so cannot compare with it.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Vibe on February 20, 2014, 11:41:54 am
I guess it could also be compared to Caesar games? Any of these type. I wouldn't really call it a Dwarf Fortress-like, since DF is something really special. But it does look like something you would enjoy if you enjoyed Dwarf Fortress.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Moncho on February 20, 2014, 11:46:54 am
Yeah, never played Caesar, but played Pharaoh (same series, so probably similar) and it is also of the style. Basically build a city, provide your people with resources, expand. Except that this one does not have combat as of now.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: chadz on February 20, 2014, 12:00:34 pm
Looks more like Anno/Settlers to me
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Post by: BASNAK on February 20, 2014, 12:49:59 pm
Nice. I'll try and get a hold of this game. Speaking of Caesar 3. Someone needs to make a reboot of that game with new graphics.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Vibe on February 20, 2014, 01:07:04 pm
Nice. I'll try and get a hold of this game. Speaking of Caesar 3. Someone needs to make a reboot of that game with new graphics.
Couldn't agree more. Third one was the best.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Ganner on February 20, 2014, 06:30:20 pm
The most recent game i can compare this to is Towns (minus the dungeon parts). Im loving it so far.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: DaveUKR on February 20, 2014, 06:48:06 pm
this game is challenging, I had to restart it like 10 times (first 2 times I tried to play it without a tutorial - failed ofc :D ). It's quite fun but with some strange progression and shady aim of game.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Grumbs on February 20, 2014, 08:41:51 pm
On my first game still. Seems like I go from one crisis to another. First I couldn't get enough food at all, now my population is getting old and dying and theres no kids (and got way too much food). Went from 39 down to 29 population. Now figured out I need to get new homes up and build happiness structures.
Noticed my first bug - a guy got himself trapped past a river and starved to death
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Sniger on February 20, 2014, 08:52:41 pm
settlers! :D
gonna try it
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Grumbs on February 20, 2014, 09:46:04 pm
It does remind me a bit of Settlers 2, but there is no scenarios or combat. You mostly have to manage where you put you workers and provide all essential stuff they need. Apart from that you have to think a bit about where to put each structure. Like Quarries or Mines make people unhappy if you put homes near there, or gatherers/herbalists need old trees I think rather than newly planted ones. You get diseases in crops/pastures that can spread so you need to put some distance between crops/pastures.
Its got a nice slow pace though if you choose it to so you get time to plan stuff
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Lennu on February 21, 2014, 08:36:23 pm
Hehe, I've had to restart countless of times. Sometimes it's the fire doing a tactical strike at my storages and production building, once a tornado came and wiped out my whole 100 pop village, only 15 survived the disaster itself, but the next winter took care of the last ones.
Now I've managed to build properly to avoid fires from spreading (put the buildings in groups of max 5 + wells near important stuff), and the only tornado I've had wasn't so bad. Got a epidemy of measles, but that only killed like 20. Now almost year 100, I have a nice town of almost 500 citizens, and expanding. Started on hard difficulty.
Some tips: Spread out a lot, this way tornadoes won't do as much damage. Place your buildings in small and separate groups, so they won't go down like dominoes when the first fire starts. Try to farm as many different types of crops as possible, and never farm 2 fields of same crop type next to each other. This way parasites won't ruin your whole harvest. Same goes for orchards and pastures too. As you expand, keep up a good network of Marketplaces to balance the resources between regions.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Tore on February 21, 2014, 08:53:07 pm
Banished is hard as fuck :(
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Moncho on February 21, 2014, 09:00:42 pm
True. I had a fun spiral, from 80 people to 15 in two years. Apparently having 100% of the population on food production does not stop a famine before a couple of years... it seems like people sometimes keep working despite being starving
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Grumbs on February 21, 2014, 11:31:52 pm
I guess its kind of like a roguelike - theres an expectation to get wiped out at some point, just see how many years you can last for and then do better next time
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Lennu on February 22, 2014, 02:54:54 pm
Nah, once you've grown big enough there isn't a disaster that could completely wipe you out. Once you've reached that, the game kinda get boring since it has nothing new to offer.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Teeth on February 22, 2014, 08:13:56 pm
How is this so hard? Haven't had any trouble so far in my first game. Game is pretty neat and is relaxing to play but doesn't offer much after the first few hours. An incredibly hefty price tag for what it is, do not recommend buying.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Grumbs on February 23, 2014, 12:12:02 am
I'm enjoying it anyway and i'm still on my first game. Went from 39 adults down to like 10 because of old age and not enough kids, now up to 45/11/13. I'm not sure if it was hard, but it was enjoyable
Compared to regular city builders it definitely does present a challenge, but challenge isn't always the most important part of this type of game. I've played the crap out of Tropico 3 and 4 and they are quite easy. I just like sandbox building games, especially when you can chill out and plan your expansion which you can with this. The added challenge just makes it even better
For the future i'd like them to implement a story mode with some scenarios to complete and maybe add more building types. They are quite limited tbh. Worth the asking price for me though as it is
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: enigmatic_stranger on February 23, 2014, 12:52:41 pm
Playing this game reminded me how much I miss Anno and Ceasar :( Btw is Anno 1404 any good?
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: Snufalufagus on February 23, 2014, 01:02:55 pm
I've been playing it. Fun and sadistic. Gathering huts are OP.
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Post by: Tor! on February 23, 2014, 01:19:47 pm
It's awesome. So is Anno 2070. I played Anno 1404 with friends who were new to the game. I taught them the basics and we did 1v4 and they got stomped. And they never played again.
Title: Re: Banished
Post by: FleetFox on February 27, 2014, 10:02:10 am
Really enjoying Banished, altogether me and my two brothers have clocked 20 hours so far. It is indeed very relaxing and there being no violence is very refreshing for me. I only hope there will be a DLC in the future to add nordic/ viking architecture and the possibility of sending trade fleets.