But the whole point of Farming Simulator is to eventually grow your farming business into an agricultural empire, amassing a ton of wealth with your wheat, beets, and potatoes. Considering that these types of activities are Farming Simulator 15’s bread and butter, that it took me such a short amount of time to completely lose interest in it wasn’t very reassuring. As I can imagine is the case in reality, doing so was a time-consuming and arduous process, given that the machinery used-a Vitasem 302 ADD, to be exact-is a bulky thing that doesn’t exactly turn on a dime, instead forcing you to perform a three-point turn each time it does one lap of a field.Īfter ploughing backwards and forwards across the field for around 10 minutes, I succumbed to my boredom and eventually hired a worker to carry out the dirty work for me. After the tutorial had ended, I was placed in front of a field with a few vehicles at my disposal, and no clue as to where I should start my journey as the world’s most under-equipped farmer.Īfter purchasing some more chickens, as chickens were the closest thing I’d seen to actual life in the opening half-hour of the game and were therefore my only hope of companionship in the eerily desolate world of Farming Simulator, I sought to sow some seeds in order to kickstart my fledgling business. A brief overview of its trading markets detailing (and I use that word incredibly lightly) how I could earn my money was thoroughly useless, whittling down its only objective-buying and selling farmed goods-to a few lines of text. After being given a tutorial of how the game’s basic machinery worked, Farming Simulator 15 shoved me into the deep end. It certainly isn’t because of its user-friendliness.
But why have so many been convinced that Farming Simulator 15 and its predecessors are worthy of their money, so much so that the game now-and unfortunately I’m not making this up-sits behind The Witcher 3 in the UK’s video game sales charts? An awful game that, by virtue of it becoming inexplicably popular among YouTubers, has garnered far more attention than it deserves. But simply writing Farming Simulator 15 off as mundane would be to suggest that it is middling yet inoffensive, which absolutely isn’t the case. It’s the Farming Simulator of old with a fresh lick of paint… only that lick of paint isn’t so much fresh as it is a flaking, dull shade of beige. If you are familiar with the Farming Simulator series, then its latest entry won’t exactly bowl you over with its ingenuity. That trend continues in Farming Simulator 15.
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Unfortunately, the Farming Simulator series has never really concerned itself with being a decent simulation of farming, let alone a decent game.
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While its core concept is still ripe for mocking, Euro Truck Simulator has proven that, amidst all of the dire PC simulation games that unsuccessfully attempt to occupy that “so bad it’s funny” market that is now so prominent on Steam, engrossing games can still be made out of even the most seemingly mundane of subjects. However, that franchise has done a great deal of justice to their profession due to the high level of care and attention that has been put into replicating the intricacies of their job, from its meticulously recreated vehicles through to the gorgeous presentation that’s been put into its cargo routes. The same could be said for truck drivers, who saw their occupation become the subject of a video game in the form of the Euro Truck Simulator series. If it wasn’t enough that farming is no longer as lucrative a profession as it once was, now they have to contend with a bunch of people who play video games-a medium which requires its participants to sit on their buttocks for extended periods of time doing nothing but twiddling analog sticks around on a chunk of plastic-branding their livelihood “boring.” The general reaction to the existence of Giants Software’s Farming Simulator series makes me feel sorry for real-life farmers.
As appetizing as freshly-laid fertilizer.
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