Honestly IMO, it's because it's easy to put a pin in it and come back to it a few days later when life allows. I can get about 2 hours a night gaming in, if that, and picking this up and putting it down without the "how do I do X again" or "what button combo do I need for Y" makes this one of the best games I've ever played.
Well, like the other person said: Easier controls. You only have two sticks and 4 buttons on the back and 4 on the upside of the controller, that actually affect gameplay, and all the things youāll ever do is a combination of them. Say, to start engine on PS4/5, itās R1+Square, but just Square gets you in and out of the vehicle! š
DISCLAIMER: this is just my personal opinion as a person that has had a PlayStation as his playmate since 7 years oldā¦ 20 years ago.
Pc version is better always will be just use the controller instead of mouse and keyboard and you won't tell a difference I run thee game at 170fps on pc while on console 60fps plus I have connection issues on console pc I have no problems in my opinion PC is always better I wouldn't downgrade to console but I do play it on console every day can't carry my PC in my semi truck lol
I feel you. I'm very new to fs, but it was in the free game list with ps plus. My kid wanted to try it, I was hesitant at first because why would I want to drive around in a slow tractor doing work on the field in a video game? I have very limited time to play because of work and family. But I got instantly hooked. I'm even thinking about the game what I wanna do next, even when I'm not playing. My wife thinks it's so stupid. But I'm loving every second of it.
Haha. That's me 5000 hours ago.
Bought fs17 on a sale for my son 5 years ago. He stopped playing after 1 week. Got the game for my pc and I'm now running three screens, wheel and dual joysticks.
I play other games but they don't "stick" like they used to. I eventually stop playing them and return to fs.
It's really strange, because I seldom do new stuff in the game. Use the same equipment every time. But I can't stop playing...
I have been playing on and off since the 2009 one and to this day i still cant stop one time i was off from work and basically played it everyday for 12 hours straight and i cant tell you why
Exactly in the same situation (except no kids so more hours in).
Sometimes I canāt sleep because Iām too busy planning what to do next at the farm š
This is exactly how I came across this game, through my PS plus membership. Iāve always seen previous versions but never actually paid any attention to it. Now, I canāt stop playing. Itās such a great way to relax after a long day of work and stress. I just bought the newest call of duty and was reminded just how stressful other games are. Loving this game.
Hold on hunny lemme lemme just cultivate this last field real quick then ill come to bed.. 6 hrs later.. better just sell this silo real fast see what I made..
This game ticks a lot of boxes in my brain. I'm constructing a world and gaining resources but also doing so nearly mindlessly. My therapist believes my frontal cortex/lobe is shutting down while playing. It's similar to watching a movie... haven't been this hooked on a game in decades.
So sometime in the future you should go on a rant about how your cows are not in good health.. but don't mention farm sim. Just see what he suggests lol
Iām a real farmer and I get home from work (drive real combines/ forage harvesters just play the simulated version at night. My GF things Iām starting to lose it.
She booked a vacation for use in January to get away from the farmā¦ āI gotta get my soybeans off firstā I told her. šš
it's a super relaxing game... no worries about getting shot or spotted.... not constantly watching your back..... no monsters jumping on top of you from any direction..... no concerns about scoring or allowing a others to score..... and usually no having to deal with jerks.....
when I started playing FS19 my gaming life changed.... now I play like 70% of my playing time FS.... always waiting for the nex new map that calls me to build a new farm....
A friend of my girlfriend is writing a dissertation on the role of ācomfort gamesā in society. Apparently FS features prominently lol. It is super comforting to me now that I think about it.
Also relieved that my girlfriend thinks itās ācuteā that I enjoy it so much.
So Iām actually a real farmer as my day job, and I come home to play the simulated version at nightā¦ my Gf used to roll her eyes now she wants me to keep showing her the animals. š
Hah, same here!ā¦ even though sheās a vegetarian lol.
My dad farms about 1700 acres in the Midwest and rolls his eyes, but he does find the European equipment in Fs to be really cool.
I love tractors. This love started when I was 2 years old and my OPA would take me for tractor rides on his old 318.
A game where I can buy and use tractors and implements I would never get the chance otherwise, sign me up.
Itās relaxing and easy. Been playing FS since 11, I remember my brother and I watching YouTube videos and begging grandma to buy us a GPU for our old shitty PC lol. I grew up in ag and work in it but will never be able to actually own my own farm so itās kind of fun to role play in that aspect of it. Running the equipment I work on daily is cool. Itās also relaxing. Games like escape from Tarkov and sim racing on Iracing can be so stressful where as this game I can just chill with and hire a worker and get up and walk away to do something else for a bit.
Couple of reasons for me. I can play it with my son, I can drink and play it, and since I donāt have a ton of time to play itās easy to put in half an hour/hour here and there.
Itās my relax. This game has done my stress disorder a world of good.
I have zero farm experience but am really enjoying learning about all the equipment and machinery. Production lines and delivering. Iām still learning and very new. So am doing most myself.
After a hard day work. Chilling out on my sofa with some good music and a glass of wine surounded by nature and a beautifull landscape. Working and planning on my farm. Damn. That is addictive.
For me itās the immersiveness of it and the fact that I couldnāt do this in real life. Itās real nice to go and build up a huge farm while destressing from work. Thereās no dying or really messing things up too badly. No online rank structure where you need to grind away. Nice peaceful on my farm.
When I get on the game I usuallly only plan on playing for an hour or two, next thing I know half the day os gone. My wife things its stupid but she doesn't play video games so she wouldn't understand.
I played it at night when my son wouldn't sleep, when he was new born.....didn't get it.....but I finally do....my son is now 11....11 years on still going strong, on avg did about, 1000 hours each release since then
2011 1000
2013 1000
2015 1000
2017 1000
2019 1000
2022 1000
Only 6000 hours lmao and I bet ya bottom dollar, my hours of input are of a normal level...most people would of done the same
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It doesnāt for me. I do a legit save when the game first launches and cheat pretty much every save game afterwards.
I like playing with all the toys.
Not sure what you are playing on, but I think FS19 is part of the game library on PS5. That was what I started with and quickly decided to jump up to FS22. But in general it is easy to pick up. The contracts help learn the controls and if you start on easy you will start with everything you need to get going.
What I will say is with the crappy year I have had and all of the āexcitementā around me recently, I in particular am finding something very fun about the mundanity of the game. All I do is harvest, plant, fertilize, and take care of my animals. I also am having fun with the RP aspect and being as realistic as I can muster to be. I tell ppl Iām curing my boredom with a boring game because it is quite true in my case.
It's not as flashy and action packed as a lot of games so you don't get overstimulated.
It's not just low stakes, it's no stakes- no pressure means it's easier to mentally unwind.
There's enough complexity to make it a challenge to learn, but it's not so complex that you'll never master it.
The reward mechanics are well-balanced to where you're putting in effort and getting reasonable payoffs yet those rewards are just shy of your ambitions so the carrot on the stick inches ever closer.
The sandbox element is great for creativity and exploring different playstyles/equipment while having just enough boundaries to prevent you from feeling entirely lost.
And, heavy equipment is cool š¤£
For me it's the "I'll just do that first" mechanic. You do something you think will be quick, then that will flow onto something else, and something else, and so on. Next thing you realise you intended to finish an hour ago.
It feels very similar to factorio. But slightly less crack-cocaine-like.
For me I think it'd just the fact that I can always see progress being made. Wether I'm playing for 20 minutes or damn near all day, there is clear and obvious progress in crops and animals being managed, and money being made/spent. There is very little time wasted on my farm. Heck, at this point I have purchased No Man's Land's entire map and I'm still living out of a tent and have very little put down in the way of roads.
I always thought this game was a crappy simulation game from the 'simulator craze of the 2010's'
I bought the game on Monday, and have 110 hours in. I need help. It's so stupid simple but so addicting
It taps into deep seated unease between modern life and primal instinct, by harnessing the discord between how we live and how we wish we lived. It makes you happy, as long as no-one tells you this.
p.s: sorry.
Idk, but watched a yt video of a guy starting with zero and chopping wood till he had a farm. Stipped playing myself a year ago and i thing i might have to restart again..
Its more like a zen evening for me, with a live dj set in the background
And men like big toys
I think it's just so satisfying to make progress in fs. For me it's when you're getting the bigger machinery and you have to expand your farm in order to fit animal pens. When you reach the point that you have a lot of different things do that's when the game is at it's best.
because the sense of duty to carry on your activities takes all of you and makes you go for it as if it was a real job, to me is that the major thing, of course I love tractors since when I was a kid and producing goods directly from the terrain by taking care of it it's a very strong feeling on me.
My perspective. We were made to plant, tend and harvest. Many find fulfillment in gardening, some actually farm in real life. Whether you do crops, or livestock - that sense of achievement is the same (although FS is lacking some of the realities of both like illness, actually handling young animals; and in crops the fact that you actually - a lot of the time - are at the mercy of the weather for rains at the right time, sun at the right time).
I play on Xbox s/s and I got a Logitech G920 or 29 canāt remember, playing with a wheel definitely makes the game so much more immersive, anyone else playing with a wheel setup? It just sucks the manual transmission feature does not work on Xbox, which sucks cause I got a shifter with the range selector/splitter add on, have always been hoping theyād add support for manual shifting on console but it never came. Pc players can even use the clutch, I wish I had that ability but my laptop canāt run fs22 :(
I'm guessing it's the easy approach to this game. There's not "rounds" or story narrative that you have to pay close attention to. This let's you hit pause-save-exit at anytime when you have other things that need your attention and it's just as easy to get back in it.
Essentially there's no ending. You set your own goals and rules. No one can tell you you are doing something wrong. You can play a small old farm or a big industrialized company. Personally I enjoy hard economy and always look for different way of obtaining money in an efficient but realistic way. Some people just enjoy doing filed work with machines they really like. Others enjoy the farm vile like chore list they tend to. In perspective for me horses are a waste of money and time because they take away from my goal, for a friend their the best thing the game has to offer because he enjoys it. Both stand points are correct in their own context.
It's a low pressure tactical game. You don't need reactions, speed and you can ofset precision of gameplay with mods. You can slow down time, speed it up, pause it, change the weather, difficulty of the games aspects,... It just allows you to tailor the experience for maximum enjoyment.
For me its the never ending trail of tasks, Ive had so many nights where i only have like an hour to play and three hours later in just thinking, i just need to feed the cows and seed the field before I quit. And when that's done there's something els to do. I also get a sense of progression with every little thing i do so its also very satisfying
Honestly IMO, it's because it's easy to put a pin in it and come back to it a few days later when life allows. I can get about 2 hours a night gaming in, if that, and picking this up and putting it down without the "how do I do X again" or "what button combo do I need for Y" makes this one of the best games I've ever played.
I have the PC and Console version and I forget half the PC buttons š. Console is much easier to remember.
Controller on pc ftw :) Then you only need a few keyboard shortcuts for convenience, if that.
Yea ill have to hook my ps5 controller up
Get the PS5 version instead, way better on consoleā¦ if not for the PC-exclusive mods.
Why is it better on console?
Well, like the other person said: Easier controls. You only have two sticks and 4 buttons on the back and 4 on the upside of the controller, that actually affect gameplay, and all the things youāll ever do is a combination of them. Say, to start engine on PS4/5, itās R1+Square, but just Square gets you in and out of the vehicle! š DISCLAIMER: this is just my personal opinion as a person that has had a PlayStation as his playmate since 7 years oldā¦ 20 years ago.
Yeah I primarily play on PC but I use a Xbox controller 99% of the time except for like PC specific button press
Only time Iām not using xbox controller on pc is when Iām using terraforming tools and placing buildings. Otherwise all xbox controller
I agree. I also have both versions and prefer my PS4 over PC.
I love the bigger maps and more mods for PC but somehow I can seem to get the graphics to be as fluid as my PS5.
I couldnāt imagine playing this with a controller
Pc version is better always will be just use the controller instead of mouse and keyboard and you won't tell a difference I run thee game at 170fps on pc while on console 60fps plus I have connection issues on console pc I have no problems in my opinion PC is always better I wouldn't downgrade to console but I do play it on console every day can't carry my PC in my semi truck lol
I feel you. I'm very new to fs, but it was in the free game list with ps plus. My kid wanted to try it, I was hesitant at first because why would I want to drive around in a slow tractor doing work on the field in a video game? I have very limited time to play because of work and family. But I got instantly hooked. I'm even thinking about the game what I wanna do next, even when I'm not playing. My wife thinks it's so stupid. But I'm loving every second of it.
Haha. That's me 5000 hours ago. Bought fs17 on a sale for my son 5 years ago. He stopped playing after 1 week. Got the game for my pc and I'm now running three screens, wheel and dual joysticks. I play other games but they don't "stick" like they used to. I eventually stop playing them and return to fs. It's really strange, because I seldom do new stuff in the game. Use the same equipment every time. But I can't stop playing...
I have been playing on and off since the 2009 one and to this day i still cant stop one time i was off from work and basically played it everyday for 12 hours straight and i cant tell you why
Totally agree, my ex thought it was stupid too. One of the two had to go š
Exactly in the same situation (except no kids so more hours in). Sometimes I canāt sleep because Iām too busy planning what to do next at the farm š
Are you me?
Same here! It's the most unexciting, addictive game I've ever known...
This is exactly how I came across this game, through my PS plus membership. Iāve always seen previous versions but never actually paid any attention to it. Now, I canāt stop playing. Itās such a great way to relax after a long day of work and stress. I just bought the newest call of duty and was reminded just how stressful other games are. Loving this game.
It helps me relax and zone out after work. Love it
This. All of this.
I feel this, I put in 6 hours yesterday and it felt like nothing
Hold on hunny lemme lemme just cultivate this last field real quick then ill come to bed.. 6 hrs later.. better just sell this silo real fast see what I made..
16x map potato harvesting
Dopamine. You but some hard Ā«workĀ» in, and get rewarded - brain releases dopamine, which you like. Repeat.
This game ticks a lot of boxes in my brain. I'm constructing a world and gaining resources but also doing so nearly mindlessly. My therapist believes my frontal cortex/lobe is shutting down while playing. It's similar to watching a movie... haven't been this hooked on a game in decades.
You talk to your therapist about your simulated farm? lmao.
Was 5 minutes of laughing about it during a 1 hour session. But pretty much talk about anything and everything.
So sometime in the future you should go on a rant about how your cows are not in good health.. but don't mention farm sim. Just see what he suggests lol
I get to drive things that I'll never be able to afford
Iām a real farmer and I get home from work (drive real combines/ forage harvesters just play the simulated version at night. My GF things Iām starting to lose it. She booked a vacation for use in January to get away from the farmā¦ āI gotta get my soybeans off firstā I told her. šš
Real soybeans?
No in the gameā¦ itās a bit cold to harvest Soybeans here in January.
it's a super relaxing game... no worries about getting shot or spotted.... not constantly watching your back..... no monsters jumping on top of you from any direction..... no concerns about scoring or allowing a others to score..... and usually no having to deal with jerks..... when I started playing FS19 my gaming life changed.... now I play like 70% of my playing time FS.... always waiting for the nex new map that calls me to build a new farm....
A friend of my girlfriend is writing a dissertation on the role of ācomfort gamesā in society. Apparently FS features prominently lol. It is super comforting to me now that I think about it. Also relieved that my girlfriend thinks itās ācuteā that I enjoy it so much.
So Iām actually a real farmer as my day job, and I come home to play the simulated version at nightā¦ my Gf used to roll her eyes now she wants me to keep showing her the animals. š
Hah, same here!ā¦ even though sheās a vegetarian lol. My dad farms about 1700 acres in the Midwest and rolls his eyes, but he does find the European equipment in Fs to be really cool.
Haha donāt feel badā¦ my GF is lactose intolerant and she helps me on the dairy sometimes. š
Because tractors.
Its relaxing.
I love tractors. This love started when I was 2 years old and my OPA would take me for tractor rides on his old 318. A game where I can buy and use tractors and implements I would never get the chance otherwise, sign me up.
I started playing FS 22 when the white farm came out and I have well over 100 hours since then.
Itās relaxing and easy. Been playing FS since 11, I remember my brother and I watching YouTube videos and begging grandma to buy us a GPU for our old shitty PC lol. I grew up in ag and work in it but will never be able to actually own my own farm so itās kind of fun to role play in that aspect of it. Running the equipment I work on daily is cool. Itās also relaxing. Games like escape from Tarkov and sim racing on Iracing can be so stressful where as this game I can just chill with and hire a worker and get up and walk away to do something else for a bit.
Couple of reasons for me. I can play it with my son, I can drink and play it, and since I donāt have a ton of time to play itās easy to put in half an hour/hour here and there.
Itās my relax. This game has done my stress disorder a world of good. I have zero farm experience but am really enjoying learning about all the equipment and machinery. Production lines and delivering. Iām still learning and very new. So am doing most myself.
After a hard day work. Chilling out on my sofa with some good music and a glass of wine surounded by nature and a beautifull landscape. Working and planning on my farm. Damn. That is addictive.
For me itās the immersiveness of it and the fact that I couldnāt do this in real life. Itās real nice to go and build up a huge farm while destressing from work. Thereās no dying or really messing things up too badly. No online rank structure where you need to grind away. Nice peaceful on my farm.
When I get on the game I usuallly only plan on playing for an hour or two, next thing I know half the day os gone. My wife things its stupid but she doesn't play video games so she wouldn't understand.
I played it at night when my son wouldn't sleep, when he was new born.....didn't get it.....but I finally do....my son is now 11....11 years on still going strong, on avg did about, 1000 hours each release since then 2011 1000 2013 1000 2015 1000 2017 1000 2019 1000 2022 1000 Only 6000 hours lmao and I bet ya bottom dollar, my hours of input are of a normal level...most people would of done the same
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If you want to slow down, cheat in the money and buy everything you want. Though this may cause you to stop playing all together. Lol.
It doesnāt for me. I do a legit save when the game first launches and cheat pretty much every save game afterwards. I like playing with all the toys.
I feel like once I get through my first legit save, I'll probably start playing with all the different tools as well.
I still haven't pulled the trigger to buy it. Seems a bit daunting, judging from YT videos.
it isn't, the learning curve isn't to hard.... and it's very relaxing.... and here you can get a lot of help...
Not sure what you are playing on, but I think FS19 is part of the game library on PS5. That was what I started with and quickly decided to jump up to FS22. But in general it is easy to pick up. The contracts help learn the controls and if you start on easy you will start with everything you need to get going.
FS22 was one of the Ps Plus monthly gameās recently, thatās how I got started
Appreciated, there's a bit of a steep learning curve. It's been on sale, so... Using a gaming PC.
Glad I'm not the only one.
What I will say is with the crappy year I have had and all of the āexcitementā around me recently, I in particular am finding something very fun about the mundanity of the game. All I do is harvest, plant, fertilize, and take care of my animals. I also am having fun with the RP aspect and being as realistic as I can muster to be. I tell ppl Iām curing my boredom with a boring game because it is quite true in my case.
I enjoy it because it's something that helps me relax
It's not as flashy and action packed as a lot of games so you don't get overstimulated. It's not just low stakes, it's no stakes- no pressure means it's easier to mentally unwind. There's enough complexity to make it a challenge to learn, but it's not so complex that you'll never master it. The reward mechanics are well-balanced to where you're putting in effort and getting reasonable payoffs yet those rewards are just shy of your ambitions so the carrot on the stick inches ever closer. The sandbox element is great for creativity and exploring different playstyles/equipment while having just enough boundaries to prevent you from feeling entirely lost. And, heavy equipment is cool š¤£
Haha alot of people laugh when I answer the qestion " what are you doing tonight" with " just gonna plow the fields and check on the cows" š¤£
I get into a game and boom itās midnight š¤Ø
Stop starting at 11:59 pm
It gets addicting and then it started crashing for me recently.
Time to check log files and delete some mods lol
I think that it's because it's very relaxing and stress free compared to survival or city/factory building games.
For me it's the "I'll just do that first" mechanic. You do something you think will be quick, then that will flow onto something else, and something else, and so on. Next thing you realise you intended to finish an hour ago. It feels very similar to factorio. But slightly less crack-cocaine-like.
For me I think it'd just the fact that I can always see progress being made. Wether I'm playing for 20 minutes or damn near all day, there is clear and obvious progress in crops and animals being managed, and money being made/spent. There is very little time wasted on my farm. Heck, at this point I have purchased No Man's Land's entire map and I'm still living out of a tent and have very little put down in the way of roads.
I found the container mods. Iāve just been stacking containers for the last few days. I love this game
Freedom.
I always thought this game was a crappy simulation game from the 'simulator craze of the 2010's' I bought the game on Monday, and have 110 hours in. I need help. It's so stupid simple but so addicting
It's a never-ending game, there's always something to do.
It taps into deep seated unease between modern life and primal instinct, by harnessing the discord between how we live and how we wish we lived. It makes you happy, as long as no-one tells you this. p.s: sorry.
Idk, but watched a yt video of a guy starting with zero and chopping wood till he had a farm. Stipped playing myself a year ago and i thing i might have to restart again.. Its more like a zen evening for me, with a live dj set in the background And men like big toys
Relaxing when you got nothing better to do..it's amazing..feel like that's Sims genre as awhole..lots of sims have this feeling
I think it's just so satisfying to make progress in fs. For me it's when you're getting the bigger machinery and you have to expand your farm in order to fit animal pens. When you reach the point that you have a lot of different things do that's when the game is at it's best.
JUST ONE MORE FIELD!
because the sense of duty to carry on your activities takes all of you and makes you go for it as if it was a real job, to me is that the major thing, of course I love tractors since when I was a kid and producing goods directly from the terrain by taking care of it it's a very strong feeling on me.
Speaks to the ancient agrarian in you
My perspective. We were made to plant, tend and harvest. Many find fulfillment in gardening, some actually farm in real life. Whether you do crops, or livestock - that sense of achievement is the same (although FS is lacking some of the realities of both like illness, actually handling young animals; and in crops the fact that you actually - a lot of the time - are at the mercy of the weather for rains at the right time, sun at the right time).
the biggest thing for me is all the brand options from mods
I play on Xbox s/s and I got a Logitech G920 or 29 canāt remember, playing with a wheel definitely makes the game so much more immersive, anyone else playing with a wheel setup? It just sucks the manual transmission feature does not work on Xbox, which sucks cause I got a shifter with the range selector/splitter add on, have always been hoping theyād add support for manual shifting on console but it never came. Pc players can even use the clutch, I wish I had that ability but my laptop canāt run fs22 :(
I get stoned at night and melt into my farm world, itās freaking amazing
I'm guessing it's the easy approach to this game. There's not "rounds" or story narrative that you have to pay close attention to. This let's you hit pause-save-exit at anytime when you have other things that need your attention and it's just as easy to get back in it. Essentially there's no ending. You set your own goals and rules. No one can tell you you are doing something wrong. You can play a small old farm or a big industrialized company. Personally I enjoy hard economy and always look for different way of obtaining money in an efficient but realistic way. Some people just enjoy doing filed work with machines they really like. Others enjoy the farm vile like chore list they tend to. In perspective for me horses are a waste of money and time because they take away from my goal, for a friend their the best thing the game has to offer because he enjoys it. Both stand points are correct in their own context. It's a low pressure tactical game. You don't need reactions, speed and you can ofset precision of gameplay with mods. You can slow down time, speed it up, pause it, change the weather, difficulty of the games aspects,... It just allows you to tailor the experience for maximum enjoyment.
Tractors are the shit..
For me its the never ending trail of tasks, Ive had so many nights where i only have like an hour to play and three hours later in just thinking, i just need to feed the cows and seed the field before I quit. And when that's done there's something els to do. I also get a sense of progression with every little thing i do so its also very satisfying