@Iron_Guard8 Thank you for adding to some of your points. Well, I mean I didn't want to say GW's style is objectively wrong or anything. I know I did, but that isn't my opinion but the one of a few people I know who play other shooters like Battlefield and COD. I, in part, could understand that. Previous PvZ games had a cartoony style and appealed to all age groups, while gw1 and 2 looked more realistic. There seems to have been a disconnect between most of the original PvZ player base and the GW style and player base.
As I said before, I liked GW1 (including most of the designs, except peashooter. He looks like he spent to much time in the microwave, in my opinion). I only disliked GW2, although it objectively said has more content and fixed some of GW1's problems.
Now they made the PvZ shooters look more mainstream friendly, which didn't work, as the mainstream never noticed it (as you and I have said many times before) due to the lack of marketing. And to many gw2 players the change in art style was weird at first. Some never bothered giving the game a chance and the change in art style contributed to that, alongside the bugs. Many never played long enough to get use to the new looks.
And as for taking GW2's mechanics: Well, I mean BfN's mechanics were perfected until the final updates, weren't they. I think everything is fine with the mechanics now. They would only have to add drop-off.
In conclusion, I also like GW and BfN. I realize BfN had a lot of problems in the beginning that were objectively bad (just look at the archived section of the Trello Tracker - there are like 10 entries of aiming issues being investigated). I know drop-off would still be nice, but I have fun in BfN without it. Again, I realize that just because I have fun with it despite the flaws, others might not. The same thing can be said about gw2 players, though. The flaws and darker art style made me quit it a month in, while BfN had me hooked. To be fair, that was mainly due to the free roam regions. I hadn't tried multiplayer until the most drastic balancing problems were fixed.
P.S. I know about the many posts splash_damage made, I really liked them. I remember laughing about his post were he was so happy about the Marie Antoinette skin for Cactus 🙂. That was just my style, I feel like I would have made posts about every new Acorn Outfit if I were active on the forums at the time. I wonder why it took so long for him to get the champion rank, and why other people like you who gave so much crucial feedback never received it.
