FarmVille Creates New Avenue for Videogame Pixel Artists
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My mum and sister are both addicted to FarmVille. I suddenly understand what it's like listening to me talk about games. It's fucking boring.
Some these Facebook 'games' are starting to look strangely familiar http://www.insidesocialgames.com/20...-is-launching-a-new-one-on-facebook-fishisle/
I enjoy Farmville exactly because it's Harvest Moon lite. Don't have to worry about watering, your livestock never gets unhappy...you don't even have to pick up your pup every day. So I can pop in, do something for five minutes, and leave. Quite relaxing, really.
That said, if I never touched it again, I wouldn't really care all that much.
That said, if I never touched it again, I wouldn't really care all that much.
It's POWERFUL peer pressure, though. REALLY powerful. But still I hold firm. I just RSS my real blogs onto my Twitter and tell people to go follow that (so I have a Twitter that doesn't suck!)skribb said:Farmville is only popular because it's on Facebook. And only retards, sheep and peer-pressure victims use Facebook.
It speaks for itself, really. Case closed
See that's why I enjoy it as well, plus the new |Harvest Moons are pissing me off so this is a nice change, go to college, go to work, come home spend ten minutes on it and it's calmingSusan Arendt said:
Oh yeah? Have you ever tried quitting it? I have. Cold turkey is not the way to go.Susan Arendt said:
It starts as a gnawing doubt. Your crops are withering. Your cows are near-bursting with milk. All that money, and you're just throwing it away because you can't be bothered to check on the farm.
Then the cold sweat begins. Maybe if you just log in to see if... NO! The rejection of FarmVille must be absolute! Not even one moment of weakness.
Sleepless nights are broken only be intermittent naps. The shortest of dreams are horrifying creations - crazed ducks, overflowing with feathers. Monstrous turtles, atop kingly mountains of eggs. The festering calves, abandoned by the bull that sired them, crawling aimlessly towards you.
Your Facebook news feed mocks you! Your friends offer free gifts and abandoned animals! All yours for the taking! But you know that one click will draw you back into the agrarian vortex from which you so narrowly escaped!
Finally, the truth becomes clear. You must delete the application from your profile entirely. A drastic, last-ditch contingency, but one that must be made boldly and confidently. Carefully, but without wavering, you begin to move your mouse towards the "Applications" menu. Soon, there will be no turning back.
Something catches your eye. A notice in your news feed, that you missed before! FarmVille offering new holiday items? Only available for a limited time? The darkest hour. You realize that if you don't act now, those items will never be attainable again! Without pause, you quickly hit the bookmarked piece of corn at the bottom of your screen.
After a brief loading screen, you are back in the sweet agricultural embrace of your farm. Holiday items abound. You pick up the fetid remains of your sunflower crops and begin anew. A fresh dawn is coming. Maybe you'll send out a few gifts to your friends after you finish planting the new crops...
At least, that was my experience. Other results may vary.
EDIT: Predictably, I only noticed what an atrocious necro of a thread this was after I finished typing this up. *sigh*
I've played farmville, for like two days, and got bored of it, I dont really know what all the hub bub is? I much rather games like Entropia Universe!
Just joking.
Just joking.
I remember those dark days of facebook games... My laptop was in the shop, I was playing things like farmville for about a week on my mum's laptop, but got very bored very quickly. Then I just basically stopped gaming altogether, though I would argue that they are hardly games. Like comparing pong and Call Of Duty. Except pong is still cool. Those were dark times. Anyway, the "pixel art" is cool.