Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20160323074555/@comment-25180538-20160328211833

TheGollddMAN wrote: Starfruity wrote:

Also, why do most people lump worlds into AE-FF (classic) and DA-MD (modern)? No world is the same as the last, as they're all evolving slowly as time goes on. It's foolish to just say everything "classic" is great and everything "modern" sucks because you're lumping together a bunch of completely different worlds. Big Wave Beach will always be my favorite world because of it's unique concept and great difficulty in the levels that aren't unfair (there are some unfair ones but I can overlook that). But other "modern" worlds like Lost City and Jurassic Marsh are just mediocre. And for the "classics", Ancient Egypt is far too boring for my tastes, but Far Future is still my second favorite world.

Also, if you are going to do the lumping, I think Dark Ages is more of a classic really, because it was still yet to hit that "style" of the modern worlds. <snipped wall of text? I'm going to kind of corroborate here. DA is where the game's elements started going downhill. Here's a really quick rundown:

Level structure: Before DA, the levels weren't too set, because the levels from the old key gate design were just scattered. After DA, the levels go like this in almost every world:

1. intro levels 2. premium plant level 3. level with new non-premium plant 4. brain buster 5. level with new non-premium plant 6. brain buster 7. garg level 8. repeat 2-6 9. zomboss battle

Dialogue: Before DA, the dialog was okay - pretty good, since it was more like about how they were travelling through time and didn't seem like a scripted mess. Now, after FF day wherever-Magnifying-Grass-was-introduced, it's like this:

Penny: "My sensors have detected " Penny: "It can do " Dave: " "

or the same thing with zombies. And Zomboss' dialogue, whereas it was good before DA (the PS dialogue is the closest thing this game has ever had to a story) sucked after that. Whereas he would talk about stuff like Penny potentially being a Zombot before, or actually about the taco, afterwards he literally just started talking in whatever tone of the time period was in, and that just showed that whoever designed the dialogue before left.

Aesthetics: The map design was screwed with Lost City, we can all agree. But isn't it strange how conveniently Lost City is also when the trailers got screwed? Yes, Lost City is the first world with those copy-paste trailers with the plants in the middle, and then for NMT, JM, and MDP1 we saw the same design for the ending photo with the zombie coming from the left side with the microphone/bone/whatever, the imp on the right, the plants fending them off, etc. MDP2 proved they hired a new artist to work on that but of course by then PopCap had effectively proven that the guy doing the art before had left.

So if anyone has any doubt, this should prove them wrong.