Vehicles feel inconsequential when you drive them their interaction with the environment feels lacking in weight with the Pick-up zipping around like a cartoon rocket, whilst Tractors feel sluggish yet lacking in weight or substance. Everything feels hastily slapped together, with no love or affection. However, I felt no such feelings when it came Farming Simulator 2017. I wanted to absorb the minor details and look past my surface level perception of the game, which is difficult when it has a face and UI only a mother could love.Īfter all, I found Eurotruck Simulator surprisingly relaxing and compelling when given enough time to sink into it. I dictated to myself that I had to spend a good couple of hours with the game as a minimum before writing up any impressions. The UI is cluttered, and the controls are so unintuitive that there are multiple contextual control menus on screen at all times an unfortunate by-product of trying to move something as inherently complicated a simulation game to console. From animation to physics engine, everything is clunky and awkward and feels like an early generation Xbox 360 title. The game is unapologetically ugly, and still suffers from the drab sense of cheapness that has plagued the series, and indeed the entire genre since the dawn of the flight simulator. That is less of a shameless plug, and more a self-referential admission that we all make mistakes.įarming Simulator 2017 does little to entice an audience outside of this already established player base. Although I don’t really fall into either of those camps I may well fit the latter category more directly, not only because I will sometimes curiously watch a short “Let’s play” of a bizarre franchise like Farming Simulator, but also because I once aspired to make that kind of content. The second group, is a combination of YouTubers trying to make funny videos of the latest gaming oddity. They will enjoy the upgrades and additions to the formula for the most part when compared to last year’s version because they enjoy the rather laid back gameplay of a farming sim. One group is here to engage with a series they are already invested in. ![]() If you are reading this then you are either steeped in video game culture enough to understand it exists as an entity an enigma on the fringes of popular gaming’s consciousness, or alternatively you are interested in Farming Simulator as a series, and are anxious to understand where the current iteration sits in terms of quality.įarming Simulator’s audience is made up of two groups. “For those of you that don’t know” probably doesn’t belong in the body of a piece being written about Farming Simulator games. Writing that introduction to this review was weird. Drive tractors, sell goods, breed livestock and even chop down a couple of trees – the day to day life of a farmer has never been rendered in so much detail, and with such little charm. For those of you that don’t know, Farming Simulator places you in the shoes of a farm owner in Goldcrest valley you are to manage a farm, whilst taking part directly in the day to day tasks and chores. Farming Simulator 17 marks this year’s instalment in Giants Software’s annual agricultural showcase.
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