I actually really liked the original Farmville. It killed a few minutes here and there; it was a nice little escape throughout the day. But then it started to rely too heavily on me needing to annoy my Facebook friends (the vast majority of whom did not play) in order for me to progress through the game, and it started to have too many elements (collect coins and stars and ovals and vertically-aligned ovals and whatever other BS we throw your way!) and I quit.
But I've been curious, on and off over the past several years, about what Farmville looks like now. I went to Zynga's website and found that I can't play Farmville without going through Facebook, which I'm not really willing to do right now, so I went with Farmville 2.
It took probably half an hour for me to actually get to the game, between allowing Flash to run and checking things like my adblock, and then finally just loading the darn thing. My DVD/Blu-Ray/etc. player was running Hulu and it froze up for a few minutes, which I don't think was a coincidence. I think this was a serious burden on our Wi-Fi. (To be fair, my phone was also simultaneously handling my fantasy hockey draft, so that probably didn't help.)
I planted some seeds, watered some crops, harvested some tomatoes, fed a chicken and a goat, turned tomatoes into feed, picked some lemons, sold some eggs and milk, turned down half a dozen prompts to invite friends to play, and finally got frustrated with the terrible load quality (jumpy graphics and that giant yellow arrow up there was leftover from the tutorial and never went away) so I quit.
Overall? I still kind of miss the original, but I have no desire to return to this game. Ever.
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