Sunday, June 28, 2009

Who Knew?

For the past couple months, I've been playing a simple online crop harvest game.
Now it's begun having some serious lag issues due to it's popularity.

Who knew such a simple point and click game would gain such popularity with everyone so quickly?
It says a lot about our society when we all want to play such a uncomplicated game. One that you can pick up and put down with ease without losing points or there being any sort of major consequences to your game or there being any sort of major complications getting started again.
The only thing you have to do is play- time and experience-and not very much of that- levels you up on a fairly regular basis. And the real fun of it is how creative you can be with your land. Some are simple squares.....others have a more complicated pattern, some have very intricate patterns, but some are just random plots placed her and there about the land......no thought gone into it at all except just to have fun.

The avatars arent anything but cartoony clones. There are a dozen hairstyles to choose from, the eye colors are normal colors, and the clothes are all the same...bib overalls and a non-descript shirt. It looks like dozens and dozens of sets of twins running about...........
You can be creative with your land name- and your avatars name. But that's it.

It's a calm, relaxing, game that you can spend playing a few minutes- or 6 hours if you want to stand around and wait to be hired to harvest someone elses crops.
Love it.

4 comments:

Lois said...

See what happens when everyone sends an apple tree to a friend who's never heard of the game???

Astarte said...

I play a Playstation game called Harvest Moon, and it's the same deal. I love it. The kids don't, but that's all the better, because it's MINE.

Sunny said...

I have XBox360....anone know of a comparable game for it??

Serendipity-Do-Dah said...

Farmville??? lol