There's only so much you can do to make a video about Farmville entertaining. The Fear Gauntlet has variety and some pretty great games mixed in there.
Farmville is fine, but Fear Gauntlet is better. There is simply more to do in them, and there's a nice variety. They should really be putting those on the main site.
Farmville is interesting. I like it as an anthropological study, as Kessler related it to one the last Internal Affairs, but it is rarely that funny or outwardly entertaining.
Fear Gauntlet on the other hand is an awesome idea, featuring tons of awesome (and a few not so awesome) games, Kessler's OOOOHHHH NOOOOOOs, and scary undead dogs jumping through windows so it's no contest really. Spook Look FTW!
I absolutely love the Fear Gauntlet, Matt and Steve are hilarious when playing games together. Steve sounds like he's having a heartattack with every encounter, and Matt is just plain bad at videogames, which only adds to the tension.
Not to say I don't love the Farmville stuff, but the only really memorable parts were the sabotage and the investor check-in episodes.
Fear Gauntlet fo' real. Farmville was OK to begin with, but it's now gotten pretty boring and it looks like there's close to nothing new or exciting to show. It's no wonder the episodes also keep getting shorter.
Fear Gauntlet has been more entertaining than actual Giant Bomb content lately. That's probably just because of the lack of interesting releases, but even the joke quick look on the Jerry Rice football game wasn't as funny as I had built it up in my mind ever since watching I love Mondays.
Fear Gauntlet is KILLING IT in this poll, and I approve. FarmVille has the occasional cool moment, like the investor check-in, or the shaky cam industrial espionage. But Fear Gauntlet is King!
@MattBodega: Whiskey should hire both you and Lemon and make you Endurance Run all the games on the list. Seriously, the Fear Gauntlet is the best new piece of content on Giant Bomb in a while. Love it!
Kessler kind of annoys me because he sounds like he is trying to copy Jeff. Maybe that is just him but whatever. Also, I don't like the fact they are still playing Resident Evil because that game is boring to watch.
Fear Gauntlet by a country mile. I started playing FarmVille and at level 28 (Where the guys are getting now) I just completely lost interest and stopped playing, think the Betting the FarmVille videos are suffering like this, you just realise there's no point.
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