dwilkendorf

It is fun to drive over the tops of cars in large tractors. I like to drive my combine to the lady who buys my eggs. I plow and plant crops on the shoulders of highways, and my neighbors yard XD. This is farming at its best. All of the Farming Simulators are equivalent in this. There has been no improvement in concept, just upgrades to the graphics, and minor changes in gameplay. Definitely not worth the money, but should consider purchase under $10.00/EU Giants Software really needs to start a new line of actual Simulators and leave this one for arcade entertainment only.

It is still not a simulator, just arcade entertainment (not even a game as there is no real challenge to it), that refuses to take the opportunity to educate on the challenges of real farming, but now can be held in the hand on your phone. If Giant Software would only spend a little more time on a real farm, it might open their eyes to what a opportunity they have here.

I have put well over a hundred hours of gameplay into this, and I use it to de-stress after work. My issue with this game is that it calls its self a farming "simulator", but it is as close to farming as Mario Kart is to a driving simulator. It lacks any real challenges that a real farmer has, and if not for debt to the bank, there is no challenge to the game at all. It cannot even be called a game once the debts are paid as there is NO opposition. It confuses farming with ranching, logging, and power generation. It also includes unrelated seek and find games (hunt for coins?) for additional entertainment. From the time fields are seeded it takes around three days for harvesting even when plant growth is set to the slowest setting (now that should end world hunger!). Weather has no effect on plants, and only prevents harvesting during rain/snow, but has no effect on yield its self. There is nothing to do with money once all fields are purchased, and there is no longer any need to buy more equipment. There is no end game either. I do love the graphics, and the fact people can create, and add their own mods (nice!). It is family friendly and possible to co-op parents with kids together as a family game time. I enjoy the offline gameplay, as I am not always in an area where there is Wi-Fi. There is a nice variety of crop choices to utilize a variety of machinery. I just wish that all crops could be available in the same game without moding them in, i.e.; orchards, grains, fruits, and vegetables, and a better and more diverse market place to buy and sell, including all types of fertilizers, seed, etc. I think this "game" is poorly thought out as a simulator, and only onced over as a "game". It seems to be a forum for tractor manufacturers to display their equipment and to people who may be interested to hopefully print out their logos to pin up on walls. Farming Simulator is a wonderful opportunity to educate and inform people just how complex, and difficult farming really is, even with todays technology. It can demonstrate why the fluctuations in food prices in the market, and why farmers always seem poor. As the game is now, just after a few weeks (game time), I was earning $1,000,000.00 a day as a power generator and not even farming. NOT REALISTIC! I would've retired after just a couple weeks and moved to the Bahamas. Farming is hard work, but this game does not even suggest that. If the "Simulator" was dropped from the name, and just called "Farming 2015", now that is more appropriate for what you have here. I wouldn't be able to wait for the 2016 release to see just how much easier it will be in the future. Maybe there will be robotic tractors, so I can do even less. As I simulator I give it a 2 on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best) As arcade entertainment (not a game) I give it a 8 on a scale of 1-10 (again 10 the best) So I averaged the scores to a 5.