Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20150925225553/@comment-24203813-20150927022554

RetroBowser wrote: Dekagamer7X9 wrote:

Straight out of BWB wrote: Well, sunflower has a lower suncost and as well has higher recharge, so you get an easier starting game, but a rougher late game, spike weed and melon pult I won't make excuses for, but just look at these plants, PP is seriously upgraded peashooter in every way, except for one thing, 25 extra sun, and PW is literally better than walnut in every way, unless his hidden trait sucks, which I don't see happening, and coldsnapdragon, while I can't prove so, is most likely looking to be somewhere around 150-200 sun, spike weed and melon pult had one big difference between their upgraded selfs, if you didn't feel like going 420 blaze it boosted sunshroom, you had a cheaper alternative, and spike weed in this game, is still used as much,and maybe even more than spike rock, (can't say the same poor old melon though), with these new plants people aren't even gonna look at the old versions (unless they're upgrades hint hint) but whatevs, I can't force you to agree with me, but I would like to still give you the facts as I see them. The problem with that though, is that like you said, all these plants are direct upgrades to their counterparts. The same goes with the previous upgrades. Twin Sunflower, Spikerock, and Winter Melon are literally direct upgrades to Sunflower, Spikeweed, and Melon-pult. the "They both have their pros and cons" argument doesn't apply here at all. Cold Snapdragon isn't a direct upgrade to Snapdragon, just like Snow Pea isn't a direct upgrade to Fire Pea. The upgrade plants were made regular plants because they were unnecessary as upgrades. It just adds an extra step that isn't needed. Yes, PP and PW are direct upgrades to Peashooter and Wall-nut, but that doesn't mean they're upgrade plants. There is no point in making them upgrades if Twin Sunflower, Spikerock, and Winter Melon aren't changed back to upgrades as well. (And using your logic, I could say Laser Bean, Guacodile, and Stunion should all be upgrades as well) the point of upgrade plants was to have plants that were direct upgrades at a higher sun cost.

And that's exactly what Twin Sunflower, Spikerock, and Winter Melon are. The ability to plant them on Sunflowers, Spikeweeds, and Winter Melons have just been removed for both convenience and so that you don't need to bring 2 plants.