Betting the FarmVille: Part 01

Dammit Kessler! Stealin you benefactors money the first chance you get.

The music...  the music...

This is the best worst thing ever

I watched only the first 5 minutes. Fuck farmville.

BADA-BE-BOOOOOOOOOOOO. I hate this music.

Awesome, I love the idea! :) Don't know who will turn out to be the better farmer yet. Good luck, guys!

Oh no... They answered our prayers, it's a new Endurance Run, but it's a Farmville Endurance Run!!!!

At least I can creepily date fake women in Harvest Moon. I wouldn't want to date anyone that seriously played Farmville. 
 
I'm a Kessler sympathizer! Kessler or bust! 
 
Edit: DAMN IT! Kessler practically already lost!

Man, those interns are poor. Not even $10 on the cc...

This is great stuff!!

So dumb and great.

Hmm, if those crops grow in real time and they can play 1 hour per day - maybe buy some seeds that produce stuff in 24 hrs?

Oh man this is a great idea. Keep it up Giant Bomb!

The introduction scene is amazing!

So...watching someone play farmville is not entertaining at all.

I'm sorry if I just blew anyone's mind.

Farmville *SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH*
Love how crazy dumb this is, not going to be watching this religiously but I will deffo be checking in.
Now do a Demon's Souls race between interns, I want to hear the frustration.

Ryan's going to drop dead from 10 hours of Farmville a week.

The Boss, Underboss, and the Cooler(Hitman). Great Picture.

Man this was GREAT, like so funny and the actor on the interns side to begin with was funny as hell and really crazy.

THEN: I had to watch FarmVille. I don't know how long I can keep this going...

Couldn't have hoped for a better start to this adventure.

You guys... I don't want to play Farmville anymore!

The Endurance Run Is Back?

Its Farmville, its boring no matter who is playing it.

By the way, fake Facebook accounts are against Facebook rules so don't be surprised if the accounts get suspended/banned

I'm into this; only at Giant Bomb will I ever have the audacity to casually watch someone play Farmville. Who's gonna win:  The man that already unevenly tilled his land, or the man that spent his sponsored investment before he even played the game he's supposed to use the investment toward?  Tsk tsk. 

I don't think there is any actual return on this game :|

Other than pageviews on the site

The music... it's in my head... it won't go away... I want to claw my ears out...

I would like to invest in Bodega's Butt Barn.

This is kind of topical for me. I was just watching a lecture Jonathan Blow gave about ethics in game design. Basically, he called games like FarmVille evil. It's a rather long video, but interesting and worth a watch, in my opinion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU

The beginning was pushing it a bit. I do love Endurance runs.

What a great idea haha :D

I already know more about Farmville than I ever cared to and I'm only 10 minutes in.

This seems like a test to me. Giant Bomb wants to know if they can literally film anything and put it up on the site and get everyone to watch.

I had no interest in Farmville before now, and even less after i've seen more of it.

Stay away from facebook games guys, you're better than this! (even the interns..)

..whatever, at least they're not covering iphone games just yet..

This is kind of topical for me. I was just watching a lecture Jonathan Blow gave about ethics in game design. Basically, he called games like FarmVille evil. It's a rather long video, but interesting and worth a watch, in my opinion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFu5O-oPmU

It's great that the Giant Bomb guys found a way to keep those damn interns in check. I feel like this was sufficiently soul-crushing for them. Maybe it would have benefited from being a bit more degrading though.

Awkward acting hooray!

That FUCKING music!!!! I'm gonna shoot myself.

Guys.  
 
No! 
 
No. 
 
yes?

Oh my god, it's like they've never played a video game before. Strategize people, it's just Farmville!

Can they mute that music next time?

Farmville is pure milky evil that I try to avoid. I don't want content on Giantbomb that I don't want to watch :(

This is for everyone begging for another Endurance Run. Hope you are happy now.

@BadOrcLDR said:

More Steve, less Kessler.

This.

I would mock at them playing Farmville, but then I remember I check into Empires & Allies and Cityville daily.....

@dvdhaus said:

@BadOrcLDR said:

More Steve, less Kessler.

This.

I found Kessler more engaging than Steve in this video.

Considering the amount of money that Zynga makes from this stuff, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that music actually WAS something that fell out of Randy Newman.

@BadOrcLDR said:

More Kessler. All the time. 

This.

Yeah, the main problem they are going to have is only being able to check their farm for an hour a day.  That game is made to make you come back to it as often as possible. 

Well ok