You could focus on crops, which sees a pattern of planting, fertilizing, harvesting, storing, and selling. Things get a tad more tolerable once (if) you get past the initial learning experience, as you start to strategize the strengthening of your particular field of expertise. The joke (I assume it’s a joke) wears thin pretty quickly mind, and it won’t be long before you’re whacking on mute or switching on your own background sounds. The radio stations are a particular highlight thanks to the effective amount of cheesy, knock-off country, rock and dance they play. I warn you now though, you may never recover from the grim spectacle.Įlsewhere, the efforts to grow this world of farming are either a bunch of boredom balloons or laughably naff (occasionally slightly endearing in the process). Try crashing a combine harvester into a car and see the horrifying and devastating amount of nothing that ensues for yourself. Amazingly, despite the level of detail in the workings of machinery and the sheer depth of planning and tinkering available in maintaining your farm, there’s bizarre omissions in real world physics that break any chance at immersion. A lot of scenery is there for show, and not averse to letting you move right through it. It even looks alright, but there’s a whiff in the air and it isn’t just the fertilizer, it’s the unmistakable aroma of ‘that’ll do’. There’s not much wrong with the open world format Farming Simulator employs for instance. Even when FS 17 does a decent job of something it still manages to go about it with all the lustre and excitement of a mummified corpse in concrete. When you actually take your newfound farm pimp skills out for a spin, you soon discover that the good was a lie.įarming Simulator 17 isn’t an easy ride, fair enough considering previous mentions of the whole simulator aspect of the game, but when it’s coupled with interactions that, at worst, deliver pre-packaged doses of pure narcolepsy, and at best, give you tasks as dry as a Ryvita in the Sahara, it makes for an experience that’s best described as painful tolerance made flesh. Make the game seem understandable (good) and more than a bit dull (bad). In isolation these tutorials do two things. The game does helpfully provide tutorials on how to do some of the simpler things in your farm life like operating machinery, loading grain into a silo, figuratively, and literally, buttering up the animals and doing donuts in a tractor.

Farm simulator 17 guide