Betting the FarmVille: Part 04

YEEEHAW

I'm laughing so hard at the google image search for "pie charts"

Farming, eh?

IM BETTING.... ALL THE FARMS

Oh god the investor meeting is beautiful. Pie charts!

Oh my god this is so awesome! The investor call was the best thing ever!

Welcome to the Butt Barn! We harvest cats!

Saturday morning cup of coffee and some virtual farm work. Country living.

I fucking love that they just google searched pie charts.

I wished Ryan was wearing a suit with that bluetooth.

oh jesus....

This is probably the most sophisticated margin-call ever. Google Image searches on your projector. Things are getting serious.

So it seems that this is indeed our Endurance Run for 2011..

God damn Ryan was great. Pie charts mean business! 

This look at the 'game' is far better than the game itself. This is quickly becoming some of my favorite GB content.

@Legend said:

So it seems that this is indeed our Endurance Run for 2011..

It's almost as if they did this on purpose. "THEY WANT AN ENDURANCE RUN, LET'S GIVE IT TO THEM! BUT IT'LL BE INTERNS AND FARMVILLE! THAT'LL TEACH 'EM!" Good thing this is actually pretty interesting in digestible chunks like this.

This series is brilliant!

and now the devious plan is revealed, get your users to play farmville

These videos are a true testament to the talent at Giant Bomb/Whiskey Media. They can take a game like FarmVille and make a hilarious series out of it. I fucking love you guys. Keep up the good work!

@Legend said:

So it seems that this is indeed our Endurance Run for 2011..

Yip. But i'd rather see another installment of WUTANG instead.

Ok, so who is going to make/join the Kessler and Steve Farmville Guilds?

By far the best episode yet. Love the investor calls, and the beginning of Steve's turn was awesome. Matt needs to step his game up soon!

I am getting a serious Forrest Kaysen vibe from Kessler in that hat....

Opening 30 seconds this is already the best video on GiantBomb.

"Welcome to the Butt Barn" will be the tagline for when this becomes a feature film.

The football in Vinnys rundown was a nice touch, I also agree with others that this is one of the best produced video content released by Giant Bomb.

Long shots of serious Ryan drinking out of the cup is hilarious.

Kessler is becoming the pussy master..................sorry.

This is awesome. I love the fake/real investor calls.

Fuckin A MAN

What just happened?! Lemon pulled that out of his ass.

Not gonna lie. Lemon's farm is far more interesting than Bodega's.

Holy shit, man!

I thought it was a missed opportunity that Vinny wasn't in the background talking on his mobile, but the coffee shop thing worked great too.

This is some of my favourite video content on the entire web, let alone GB, keep it up!

Yes, it's official. Giant Bomb is the best video game website of all time. It's probably the best thing related to video games.

Glorious episode. Kessler is the min-maxing supercotton god, but it seems like steve's luck is changing in the form of a jolly british pilot. THE PLOT THICKENS. 
 
Looking forward to part 5.

Fuck yeah cmon steve

I laughed out loud at the GIS for pie chart or whatever terms they used. Great!

I love these features! Not only is the review and news stuff great, but original Giant Bomb content kicks ass.

This is getting sewious.

I love how behind him is a google search for pie charts. And how he has an obvious mic cord.

Great stuff.

Whoever pitched this idea is a genius.

if i werent so lazy id start an account to help crush kessler

The Google Image search of pie charts is amazing.

From what I understand , Money never sleeps.

These are quickly becoming my favorite thing

A great schism will form in the GB community when people start to take sides. Farmville will become serious business.

Today this has changed from cassualy mocking the Farm Ville to actively promoting it... people here will sign up for it and some portion even sink money in it. I enjoy these videos, but I think you shouldn't have opened it up.

Kessler has supercotton but Steve has an airship. I just don't know which side to choose.

Ok, that airship was kind of awesome. I'm starting to lean on Lemon ans his long term plans.

@Quipido said:

Today this has changed from cassualy mocking the Farm Ville to actively promoting it... people here will sign up for it and some portion even sink money in it. I enjoy these videos, but I think you shouldn't have opened it up.

At least they never actively asked people to help the interns. Who wants to do it may do it. I don't care at all, I just want to watch these videos.

Thoughts:

• I love that there's just a Google image search of "pie charts" being projected in the background for the investor call.
• Vinny ordering a coffee in the background and Ryan playing with the football were great.
• I'm intrigued to see how opening up the social element to the GB community will go and it's probably a good thing if this series wants to show what Farmville is really like.
• The curveball of an airship suddenly coming out of nowhere for Lemon was brilliant and spices things up with a crazy random element.
• How did Lemon get his farm up above 12x12?  This wasn't addressed but surely is a pretty big deal.
• No idea who's going to win :)
  

Vinny is totally selling it as an business man. Sounds eerily real.