We need a new PvZ shooter
It's been too quiet for too long. BfN lost new content support over a year ago now, and the playerbase is mostly focused on GW2 from what I can see from playing online, the video content on YouTube, ...
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@Iron_Guard8 The satire of modern shooters was what made gw1's advertising and atmosphere so great as you can see it's clearly mocking the ultra dark and cynical atmospheres of modern day shooters with its own aesthetic and overall idea while not bordering into full on cartoon like bfn did (funny as we almost got that ultra edgy version that had soldier with a gun chained to his hand!).
Gw1 being on a small budget makes since given that there was no guarantee it would succeed by changing a 2d TD to a 3d 3rd person shooter and it instead happened to be a success.
Bfn however is the third game down the line after the budget clearly was improved between gw1-2 and it clearly shows that there seems to be less design and time put into it.
PvZ 3 is in a weird spot tbh. They're hardly advertising it despite its massive improvement over the version they had over a year ago that is still sadly burned into people's memories. The overall changes were nice but it also still feels lacking in the animation department on the zombies alongside a few weird balancing changes.
It would make financial sense to do a gw3 but at the same moment they also probably lost a lot of money on bfn so they would be reluctant to put more money into a series they view as a failure despite the fact that bfn's failure was their own fault for messing with the formula in the first place.
Gw1 being on a small budget makes since given that there was no guarantee it would succeed by changing a 2d TD to a 3d 3rd person shooter and it instead happened to be a success.
Bfn however is the third game down the line after the budget clearly was improved between gw1-2 and it clearly shows that there seems to be less design and time put into it.
PvZ 3 is in a weird spot tbh. They're hardly advertising it despite its massive improvement over the version they had over a year ago that is still sadly burned into people's memories. The overall changes were nice but it also still feels lacking in the animation department on the zombies alongside a few weird balancing changes.
It would make financial sense to do a gw3 but at the same moment they also probably lost a lot of money on bfn so they would be reluctant to put more money into a series they view as a failure despite the fact that bfn's failure was their own fault for messing with the formula in the first place.
When I first heard of GW back in early '14, I was wondering how it would work with the plant players being unable to move! Then I saw a trailer and picked it up immediately as it was on PC by then and it became my favorite multiplayer shooter until GW2 came out in 2016. I have played others of course; Paladins, TF2, OW, Gigantic, and a couple others, but none have been as fun as the PvZ ones and I have more hours in GW2 alone than any MMO I've played and those things are designed to drain your time away!
I never liked CoD and it's only gotten worse. I did play BF:1942 a lot but only with friends and bots, but generally, I don't enjoy real world style shooters at all as I find them boring and mundane, they have to have some kind of twist or be fantastical like Doom, Heretic, Dusk, or Hexen. This puts the PvZ shooters right up there and I while I used to play a lot of TF2 for similar reasons, I haven't played it all that much since GW2 launched. It's hard to enjoy other shooters after being a Sunflower with an ice cream sandwich on my head, shooting lightning at a zombie foot soldier with 3D glasses and a big foam finger hat while we battle over a taco place and Crazy Dave proclaims that he once lost a game of checkers to a sandwich.
