A Plants vs Zombies Retrospective.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- haha funny vegetable vs corpses
I can't believe it's the 14th anniversary of Plants vs Zombies, let's take a look at the entire series, why don't we?
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - How I found out about pvz
1:42 - Quick summary of the series
2:42 - Plants vs Zombies 1
4:41 - Plants vs Zombies 2
9:06 - PvZ: Garden War- oops, I mean Adventures
9:29 - PvZ: Garden Warfare for real now
12:45 - PvZ: Garden Warfare 2
16:57 - PvZ: Heroes
18:53 - PvZ: Battle for Neighbourville
22:26 - Plants vs Zombies 3
24:33 - Plants vs Zombies 3 (the "better" version)
28:13 - After 14 long years...
29:56 - The almighty EDITOR GAMESFOUNDATION appears
30:32 - Why did I do this
32:41 - Credits
Credits
Music in chronological order:
Intro Theme from Reeds and Seeds by Ruscel Torres
• Reeds and Seeds, a Pla...
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Forest Interlude [Restored] by
Jammin' Sam Miller
• Donkey Kong Country 2 ...
Scallywag Graves (high) by J. Rivers
• Scallywag Graves | Wat...
Crazy Dave (Intro Theme) - Plants vs Zombies by Laura Shigihara
• Crazy Dave (Intro Theme)
Loonboon - Plants vs Zombies by Laura Shigihara
• Loonboon
Braniac Maniac (In-Game) - Plants vs Zombies by Laura Shigihara
• Brainiac Maniac (In-Game)
Metallic Wilderness by dashersbeatz
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: ...
Walking Overboard by Joaquín Senise - Canal Joaco
• Walking Overboard (Pir...
Boogie Your Brains Right Over Here - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Plants vs. Zombies: Ga...
Lobby & Results 1 - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Lobby & Results 1 - Pl...
Ultimate Battle - Ancient Egypt - Plants vs. Zombies 2 by Peter McConnell
• Ultimate Battle - Anci...
Lobby & Results 2 - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Lobby & Results 2 - Pl...
Thing of It Is - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Plants vs. Zombies: Ga...
Crainy Yum (high) - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Crainy Yum (High) - Pl...
Chewing Stem (medium) - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Plants vs. Zombies Gar...
Rigor Mormist (In-Game) - Plants vs Zombies by Laura Shigihara
• Rigor Mormist (In-Game)
Loon Skirmish (high) - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Loon Skirmish (Looped)...
The Final Gambit by Voup
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: ...
Fight! - Plants vs Zombies: Heroes by Becky Allen
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: ...
Rooftop Rumble by liledix4
• 🎵 liledix4 - Graze the...
Zombie Horde (high) - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Zombie Horde - Garden ...
Choose Your Seeds - Neon Mixtape Tour - Plants vs. Zombies 2 by Peter McConnell
• Choose Your Seeds - Ne...
Bug Zap (high) - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare by Peter McConnell
• Plants vs. Zombies: Ga...
Watery Graves (Horde) but without the main melody by Yellowbross Productions
• Plants vs Zombies - Wa...
Graze the Roof (Horde) but without the main melody by Yellowbross Productions
• Video
Ultimate Battle - Plants vs Zombies by Laura Shigihara
• Ultimate Battle (In-Game)
Campground - Plants vs Zombies 3 by I couldn't find it
• Plants vs. Zombies 3 O...
Grasswalk (A) - Plants vs Zombies 3 by I couldn't find it
• Grasswalk (A) - Plants...
Watery Graves from Reeds and Seeds by Ruscel Torres
• Reeds and Seeds, a Pla...
Plants Vs Zombies 2 | Zombies On Your Lawn (Instrumental) by
Manager owo
• Plants Vs Zombies 2 | ...
Gameplay footage taken from:
/ @zackscottgames
/ @eightbithd
/ @iulitm
/ @janneves
/ @axrorayt
/ @mrzebragamer
14th Anniversary Art used at the end was made by LizyliUwu
www.deviantart.com/lizyliuwu/... - เกม
okay fames goundation we at popcap think that's enough from you make sure you keep your doors unlocked and windows open at night so that we can send an armed Zombie Temp Worker to your house for no particular reason
uh oh.
@@GamesFoundationYT hello this is John PopCap speaking, founder of PopCap. i am going to hunt you down
I don’t think there will be a new vid after this
@@aleckinsella2805 there certainly won't
Awwww….
7:52 I can guarantee you that back in 2014-2016, PvZ2 wasn't never had those things at all. Leveling wasn't even added until 2017.
very true
another interesting thing is that pvz2ch leveling system is not only 100000x better, but also features zombie levels, which is pretty cool (int also has a zombie level system, but it's a lot more different, too).
Good thing there's Reflourished Mod that not only makes it a pre-2017 feel
But it would also add new worlds
yeah i remember people complaining about some of the plants needing to be bought
god, remember that? remember when THAT was considered a new low in terms of greed?
what the hell has this industry become..
People in 2016: premium plants suck
Us in 2023: laughs in lootboxes
@@mr.productions327 Us in 2023: *watches an ad after every level*
Finally a good PvZ rise and fall is not just EA bad, PopCap Good
YEESSS POPCAP GOOOOOOOD :)))))))))
@@mrcheesevr20No PopCap bad
@@noobgod6 WHY U JUST MAAD U DONT LIKE THE OG. U LIKE PAY TO GET PLANTS
@@mrcheesevr20 I love the OG, plus not every plant costs money
@@mrcheesevr20I love the OG too, but pvz2 is much better in my opinion
BFN was actually kinda sad considering alot characters are still unbalanced, some costumes haven’t been released and 2 new characters were scrapped
2 scrapped characters?
@@spamtong.spamton124 ice bloom and berry brigade
the new characters were such great designs and concepts, especially the multi-player characters
i think the marketing really screwed up the game, i wish it got updates because even though i don’t think it could ever surpass gw2 it has a great nintendo switch port and it could’ve been even better
I don't believe the balancing being bad is the reason for its downfall as garden warfare 2 has the same balancing issues it's more so the lack of variety and therefore replayability that The garden warfare shooters were known for that ultimately killed the game as the game seems closer to an OverWatch / TF2 clone then a PvZ game
"Zombies on your Lawn" made me cry. It was just... Everything. Beating the game, defeating the boss, being literally 5...
Finally, someone who shares the same memories as me.
I vividly remember playing Plants vs. Zombies 2 on my iPad throughout different intervals in my childhood, and not only did they provide countless hours of enjoyment and amusement, but they also found a place in my heart for themselves. No matter what, I will never forget these experiences.
It's truly tragic and heartbreaking to see this beloved series falter into the darkness, but we must take it upon ourselves to use our nostalgia to forever keep the old PvZ in our memories.
Pvz has the potential to add onto mechanics that could ultimately change the gameplay for the better, building on the fandom that they have now and make the game more recognised and brought back, but they’ve decided to change it into a money printing mobile game for the target audience of young kids.
6:17 A lot of the "core PvZ2 developers" that started work on this game originally no longer work on it anymore, with many of them either leaving or even being laid off.
Editing 9/10
Research 9/10
Humour 8/10
Presentation 8/10
Singing 11/10
Solid video 💪
Your wrong, how disrespectful, his singing is 100/10 😤
Nah my singing is a -993/10 don't know what ur talking about
@@GamesFoundationYT :(
@@GamesFoundationYTno
@@GamesFoundationYTNO IT'S NOT U DUMBO, IT'S SSS+++ TIER
the original team are absolute artists
BFN is a weird one because moving the microtransactions to be mainly cosmetic should have been a positive thing.
The problem was that they ended up scrapping a lot of the things that people loved about the second game in favor of making it more accessable. That's why it died. It went from being a niche shooter with more depth and variance in gameplay, to being a lesser, watered down version of more successful shooters at the time.
I get where they were coming from. I was one of the players who played a lot of GW2 when the game first launched, then stopped playing for a while and came back towards the end of it's livespan, feeling pretty overwhelmed and lost at all the new content. BFN was no solution, though.
That's really interesting. Like I said in the video, I haven't played the garden warfare games so it's really insightful to see what players say regarding the third person shooters. I think what you said sums it up pretty nicely, though.
dude really sing Zombies On Your Lawn for the outro 🤭
omg happy sunflower
I love this kind of retrospectives about mid / late 2000 gaming. It's an era that's really nostalgic for me, as it was quite literally my childhood.
The first plants vs zombies is a game that I hold quite close to my heart honestly, as it was the first videogame that I ever got into.
I remeber I was like 5 or 6 at the the time, and I'd never had that much contact with gaming as a whole. We didn't have any consoles at home, and I was only allowed to use my parents' computer for extremely short amounts of time, which I spent playing shitty flash games.
All that changed when one day we had a family reunion at my uncle's. After we had dinner the whole thing devolved into adults talking about adult shit while the other kids and I were dying of boredom. At one point my uncle took us all to his pc and showed us the game for us to play (they probably wanted to get rid of us for a moment so they could discuss more serious matters). And... I literally fell in love with it. I'd never gotten far into any videogame, let alone into one with a proper campaign, it blew me away.
Every time we went there afterwards, I asked my uncle to let me play it for a little while. And with a little effort, I ended up convincing my dad to install it on our own pc and let me play it. That was the first step towards my parents becoming more permissive with computer and videogame usage.
I genuinely think that if it wasn't for that game, I would have never gotten into games as much as I did. Hell, my life would probably be way different.
Great video btw, keep it up! You are sure to get more subscribers in no time!
You know you hit gold when this became your most viewed video in two weeks.
Yup, pretty happy about that. More effort and quality is in fact getting me more views
the singing at the end really sealed the deal for me, i was surprised by how little subs you have since this vid was amazing. Hope ur channel blows up asap
As a mobile player, most people that play hypercasual mobile games are just kids that got their parent's phones and secretly downloaded the first game they see at the google play store.
The playerbase of PvZ3 will be just toddlers.
Wont say its dead, the pvz2 mooding community is thriving nowdays and better than ever.
Cool vid btw, editing is actually insane.
i don't count modding community or even community as a whole when considering whether a series is dead
pvz will never have another good game, and i doubt it'll even have another good update, so the series is either dead or a rotten zombie itself
P.S the mods suck, it still shocks me how there hasn't been a single competent attempt at creating a pvz fan game, except that one guy who made it into 3D and never bothered to go the extra millionth of a step and make a campaign and then release it
@@fortnitesexmanreflourished (the only one i actually played) was pretty good imo
@@fortnitesexmandude the mods are amazing in so many regards have you even played any
@@mr.avocadoman1683 i haven't played any cause i haven't considered it worth my time
i have *seen* plenty of them tho
The modding community just nerfs plants that give you a chance and buffs already annoying zombies. The mods aren't as good as people say they are. PVZ2 is already hard. It doesn't need to be harder.
Certainly didn't expect so much info. Left me wondering bout the parts you left out. Great vid !
Man, that popped up on my recommendations, and glad I clicked.
Very good video my dude! keep it up 💪.
Damn, fantastic video and very good research, funny editing and informative input. You’ve earned my sub good on you fella
This is super underrated!! Really well made video and definitely agree with a lot of these points and it very sad how the series has slowly fallen from grace with every new game. I hope that the popcap team can make a successful sequel to the first 2 PVZ games but it’s not looking too good for the franchise as it’s up in the air if the third game will even ever fully release. This series was my childhood and I hope one day this series can reach the heights and charm the first game had! Again, great and informative video and you’ve gained a subscriber
This version of Zombies on your lawn is now my new favorite lol. I miss the good old PvZ, replayed the original game not long ago, enjoyed it even now.
i dont know how you dont have at least one thousand subs yet this video was amazing and the best part of it was the end i like how you actually sung the whole song not just a part of it
well, I'm almost there though, so that's pretty exciting
I am really enjoying watching your content keep it up!
I will never forget the level you have to scream into your ds to keep your plants alive.
i am immensely happy plants vs zombies had so many ports for the soul reason that it has allowed me to never forget it throughout my life. i still played pvz on my nintendo ds up until 2 years ago. and now i have moved over to playing it on my steamdeck with a ps3 emulator to get controller support. its a game thats important to me as i grew up with it as the only tower defense game i would ever play and i still feel that to this day. BTD was really cool and hectic in some ways but i just dont personally like tower defense games. however something about pvz just hits different. from its music and art to its lane style layout where every 0lant has its advantages for creativity not to mention the minigames and side content like walnut bowling and the garden. hell even on cosole ports like the version on my steamdeck i can dock it to a tv, plug in a second controller, and me and my gf can and do play it either together or versus mode. it was fun unlike anything else
the ds port of pvz is pretty damn impressive, and it's a shame people don't talk about it more
the soundtrack especially is really nice, with loonboon specifically holding up really well due to the original kinda just fitting the ds format better than the other tracks
This video gave me more hopes about pvz franchise especially ending, thank you.
This video was soo greatly made.i enjpyed every second of it,you got a new sub🎉🎉
1000 subscribers with this video quality is so impressive, well done
Nice work chief 🎉 I think I was around 9 when the game first came out? Truly defined our generation.
Pvz heroes actually still has an active community even though it isnt getting updates
Incredible video, genuinley great work! I've been a pvz fan since maybe 2013-14 i wanna say when i was young. Still love the franchise, shame about how it is now. But this is an incredibly well made video, so hats off to you. May I ask what you used to edit this?
I used Davinci Resolve. It's really good, comparable to premiere pro and it's FREE. Also, there's a lot of tutorials online if you need help
@@GamesFoundationYT oh thanks I might try that. Yeah you will get loads more subs and views for this vid lol. I have 1 popular PVZ video and trust me it carries lmao
290 SUBSCRIBERS? AINT NOO WAY bro you put in so much effort into these videos and deserve Soo much more. ❤❤
I really liked this. Well-executed, richly researched, everything you need for the right kind of documentary.
the only problem is that you missed one important spin-off/tower-defense hybrid, which is just like PvZ1, but instead of a homeowner, it's an octopus. And instead of plants, it's animals. And instead of zombies, it's vehicles and robots. And instead of "Animals vs. Vehicles and Robots", it's "Octogeddon"!
This is the first game I played on my PC and it's the reason I wanted a PC in the first place. Super replayable, with no paywalls aside from that of the game itself, all around really fun.
Seriously, how didju miss this? It's even mentioned at 12:34!
nice job on getting in the algorithm man! im so proud of you
Thanks man! It's crazy how long you've been following my channel
Great editing man! Also love the singing xD
The direction this series has gone on the past while has really saddens me, but I’m happy that people still pay it attention, keep it going and shine light on this series. Good video, I can tell you spent a long time on this.
The 4 worst things in pvz2. Fisherman zombie, octo zombie, THOSE DAMN CHICKENS, and the dinos
A very well made video! Great lovely job guy!
Woah! It's you, Viddy. Congrats on finding the jalapeno video. Now I can annoy my friends my comically mispronouncing it
@@GamesFoundationYT That's what I'm here for :)
Viddy!!!
tiddy
30:32 this put a big smile on my face, thank you for existing. ♥
You deserve more subs!! Dis video is AMAZING!!!
what on earth this vid is great??!! and the ending actually made me laugh??? dude i hope you will get the attention you deserve :D
i subed bcuz of the ending xd
great video keep going
I remember the other day i asked my 9 year old cousin if he had played any pvz games. The conversation went something like this:
"Hey have you played plants vs zombies"
"Yeah i have battle for neighbourville on my xbox"
"Oh nice have you ever played the original tower defense pvz game?"
"Aren't they all shooters?"
"........."
Never played any PvZ in my life but this video is crazy LOL very very good
Roblox,Pvz,Minecraft,Angry Birds and alot of Games from Arcade Games 2012 made my childhood so fun
how do u not have at least a thousand subs brah this is so cool
Great video, ungodly underated
Wait you have 487 subs?! How is this good of editing in such a small channel! Im subbing!
Ok the singing at the end was so good I cried 😂
Fun fact: when i was younger i thought that when peashooter shot his peas it hurt him so i never used him
Yoo no capp this is a really fun video! :D
Also, the ost is definitely one of the best ever.
A great video the final part made me tear up a little :')
I personally enjoyed BFN for what it was, yes I'm upset they stopped content updates on it since I spent full price on it when it was in Beta on PS4, I genuinely hope they one day go back to how it was, hopefully another 3rd person shooter since I've been dying to play a new one, GW2 is fun and all, but when you play it on PS4 it gets boring slowly, atleast we don't worry about hackers on it
After hitting max rank on gw2, almost unlocking every cosmetic, and having 800 hours on gw2. Gw2 is a bit boring
@@CoolCatNA I can imagine, since I'm friends with people who're max ranks on it, they know more than me in most things yet we're best buds, it'd be nice for us all in the least to get together on a new game
Underrated video, underrated character
You’ve been very brave for the outro 👌🏻
I really like the pvz3 art style and it's unique level layout. The potential for it to be great is definitely there if they fix some of its core issues
Ooh a video not just blindly blaming EA simply for what they are associated to be known for? Truly daring
Indeed, very daring
@@GamesFoundationYTI hope we get a new PvZ Shooter for PS5 and Xbox series X, It would suck if PvZ became nothing but a mediocre mobile franchise.
@@nickytembo4112idk why they couldnt just make bfn gw3
Amazing video I love it. I really do think popcap will revive the game but it is hard to tell. Not much news on any of the games for a while.
Really good video
Few things that would have been good to add.
1 GW 2 used to have 10 characters you couldn't pay to get, but then they slowly allowed you to buy them after they stopped updating the game, including the new charecters.
2 very big, the most recent PVZ 3 has been set for sunset. Sunset means they have stopped development.
3 the newest game in development is just candy crush with a PVZ skin.
Yeah I saw the match 3 game, but it seems like it's still in development. And also, does it mean that pvz3 just isn't gonna release at all?
Yes this is not the version of pvz 3 we are going to get sunset for an pop cap game is very bad. Basically meaning they are just dropping the game.
Great vid I love this
Oh the PvZ jazz remix OST in the background! I listened to that music so many times!
0:47 There's a zombie on your lawn...
plants vs zombies is my favorite game/franchise if all time I am never gonna quit no matter its the bestest game ever created. (to me)
but that singing and the explanation was beautiful as a 8 year pvz fan I don't want this series to end never ever
Less than a minute in and I wonder, why do you not have more than a thousand subscribers? HOW? Good video!!! 10/10, Banana Tom Approved.
Thank you Banana Tom, I really needed someone named Banana Tom to compliment my video, it made my day
Bros going into video game essays lets go, W content
your singing unironically gave me goosebumps lol (maybe due to surround sound headset or 1.5 speed idk)
I love pvz and I still play all the games whenever i get the chance
plants vs zombies was my introduction to video games and it kept being my favourite franchise ever now it saddens me to what has happened to it i still love returning to garden warfare 2 on steam
when he started explaining pvz 2 he sounded like a commercial for it
I only realized how small this channel is at the end. Quality is is what it should be.
9:35 RAHHH..
I LOVE THIS GAME!
0:30 doom and gloom was the original name for plants vs zombies great video
I remember when I was 4 or 3 year old i always play it even dinner time my mom feed me every morning to night I can finish the game in one day. A nostalgia
you shouldve mentioned Fryemup who has carried the entire pvz Heroes community and game for 7 years now
I've never seen his videos before but wow, I checked his channel and he's been uploading pvz heroes for SO long.
Such a underrated video👍
I do hope popcap (or ea whoever you think ) listens to the community again for Pvz3
This needs more views
Dude, YOU ONLY HAVE 400 SUBSCRIBERS!!!
WHAT!
You deaerve much more and you know it, such agreat channel and you still aren't recognized!
U got hella potential as a TH-camr man
nice editing
The video is why I came here, the singing is why I stayed
They better make a GW3 thats just like GW2 but more! More characters and their variants, new maps cosmetics and maybe game modes
The OG PvZ is the best its my childhood game i even still play it to this day
you probably should have talked a bit more about pvz adventures, i loved playing that game but it was removed really fast, one thing that i really liked about it is the game's visual, i think they managed to translate the pvz 1 plants into 3D very well
yeah i couild've probably talked more about it, but I literally knew nothing about it going in so i wasn't confident about how well I could cover it in depth
PVZ 3,The game where we summoned the power of the univurse to somehow make it worse than the copies -Popcap
Its kinda sad that pvz is clearly dead now but you deserve more sub 👍
underrated video.
So high quality with only 997 subscribers
What a Ending to this video
1:45 gw and gw2 have to be on my top 3 pv2 games.
If anything this just proves my point.
there will never be another good classic PvZ game again...
I remember watching fan theories about pvz 2 before it came out, I was disappointed with that and that's probably the next best thing since the original
I still come back to try set a new personal record on survival endless every now and then
Everyone always talks about the shrinking zombie level, but as someone who played on this game on the DS, that level was replaced with a mic section. You had to blow into your mic for your plants to power up and starting attacking the zombies again. So, you know, I think that's a pretty cool difference between the different platforms.
Oh I actually had no idea that was a thing
cool vid
I just want pvz back
Id love to see more pvz videos or even pvz2. TH-cam is stranded for good pvz content right now more then ever. 😊
Man i remember playing pvz mobile a lot in my tablet, i really like the leaderboard, when you reach certain zombie slain, it'll go very high and open a black hole
GIVE THIS MAN MORE SUBS
Liked just because of the ending song