Recent reviews by Jish

Banished is a game that you will play, and you will fail, and then you will play again, and you will fail even worse this time, and then you will try again, and now everyone has influenza.

This game is hard. I'm not going to sugar coat it. There is so much to handle at one time to keep your citizens alive. But, for someone with such a low attention span as me, there is something to be said for this game as it has kept me coming back over and over again for more. It's. Just. So. Freaking. Fun. I don't even care that everyone died, It's so fun I can't wait to try again and do it better.

Now, once you get the strategy to managing resource and expansion down, the game becomes quite simple. Then you just work on building a beautiful world. That is, until a freaking tornado comes through and quite literally kills over half of my population.

The graphics are quite nice. The mod support is astounding. The replayability on this game is ungodly. I would not be overexagerating in the least to say this is one of my favorite games of all time.

If you have a LOT of time on your hands, and you enjoy dark souls unforgiveness in a city-building game package that will give you stockholm syndrome making you coming back for more, then this game is for you.

*I'm not sure why it shows such a small amount of time spent in-game. I'm playing around with the launchers and such to figure out how it is getting that data but I have spent many hours in this so far. **What I can tell so far, for me at least, steam is only counting the time I spend on the launcher/updater and not the actual game.

I wanted to give my 2 cents as there are only 13 hours left for people to buy this on sale.
I purchased this game, and then became wary of some of the negative reviews I saw.
Now, MOST of the negative reviews post-unlimited are about things before you even start the game.
Seriously? They complain about the size of the game, the ammount of patches, the fact that you have to register an account and tell them you don't want to pay per month for extra content and they also do a bit of verification emails very similair to how steam operates.

So far I have seen nothing worth complaining about. I have not actually played the game yet because I just got past all that I mentioned above. Don't let the download size scare you, it's an MMORPG what do you expect?

I will update in a few hours after I have played.

(Some of the negative reviews are bogus, one individual claimed this was a Blizzard game and said that they always hated Blizzard games and would never purchase a Blizzard game again.)

UPDATE - Ok guys, i'm sorry I couldn't get this review updated before the sale ended (life happened.)

This game is actually very interesting from what I have seen so far. The class system looks small and constricting at a glance but you can use any weapons and armor with any class and the mixing of skills makes for a huge number of combinations.

The game itself is well-played. It starts off kind of slow (especially if you came from playing hundreds of hours in skyrim) because you feel like you want to jump right into the thick of things, but it eventually catches you up to speed on the particular mechanics (like crafting etc.) before letting you lose.

There is no shortage of quests (Come on, all MMOs are like that. Even skyrim and fallout are that way.)

So far I give this game a huge thumbs up. I will warn you, coming from Skyrim will confuse you. This is not skyrim. The combat system and skill system is built like an MMO. That doesn't make it bad, it makes it different and fits the game it is supposed to be.

The only quarrel I have with this game is FPS issues. I run a decent set-up that runs skyrim with 200 mods, I ran fall-out 4 decently well but this game I haven't quite tweaked my settings for it. (But as new games come out, my system gets older and it's harder to keep up anyways. That's just the nature of the game. But if you CAN run it, this game looks really nice on ultra settings.)


I will continue to update as I delve in deeper (gotta avoid my habit of constantly creating new toons.) I look forward to my first dungeon.

Best game ever... went around destroying mountains.