Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-18464102-20180706151054/@comment-27385163-20180706180649

i think this is mostly popcap's fault. not like EA is completely innocent, but i'm sure EA gave theimpression popcap was this hotshot company, and they kind of floundered around this last decade. they had a promising start, pvz was a phenomanon and extremely famous, and the sequel?...

its probably an unpopular opinion but old pvz2 doesnt live up to pvz1 that well, i felt like if more was added to make the experience better, it could have worked, but the devs and honestly artist for that matter didn put much work into this game.

if you want me to be completely honest, this game was pretty bad a start, it got somewhat better later in its lifespan but was genuinely not that great. the art for plants and zombies, ooof. it looked so cheap, the animation was passable but the art/redesign is abysmal work, and the far future character design was also abysmal as well. just a terrible job on the artists'  part when it came to the game, and the score wasn't good, AE-FF was probably the more lesser parts of the osts ince the game had just started and the composer was probably doing it since the game was a cash grab, whats the point in putting effort.

like i said on unpopular opinion, i think modern pvz2 is pretty decent compared to its earlier incarnation. not at all a good game, it's a shitty cash grab in my eyes, it fucking amazes me it took them 5 years of actively updating this game to come to the conclusion that the game needed a new feature that wasnt reused from the first game or wasnt produced in an afternoon.

but as an experience, it's what it is. it's just plants vs. zombies 1 with some mobile enhancements. it's seriously nothing special and i dont know what some people see in this game that over in discord thought was worth bombing their offices. but like i said, i dont think EA is to blame completely, i feel like popcap was already going in that freemium direction. pvz adventures was a game that had nothing with EA and it had a bunch of freemium tactics that were to be reused so i fully believe that a majority of this microtransaction bullshit was on popcap's part.