>>2331 What even is this game?

>>2331 Agree plasma pea best pea >>2383 PvZ but hero shooter

First PvZ = best PvZ

>>2475 I really hate that the 2000's-early 2010's casual desktop game market got eaten up by smartphones. What remains of it is an endless deluge of shitty hidden object games played by God knows who. AA games on the desktop too have just disappeared from the market and indie games simply don't cut it.

WPWYF? The P in this instances stands for plant

>>2478 >AA games on the desktop too have just disappeared No they haven't Fucking Men of War 2 literally came out 2 days ago. I've been playing Terminator Defiance non stop. >>2481 The only real answer

>>2478 Also >The casual market on desktop is dead Nigger, the fuck is Bloons?

>>2493 I wouldn't say it's dead (there's the entire indie market, not to mention sites like itch.io and crazygames) as much as it's stayed the same size in comparison to the AAA and non-casual market, which has grown immensely since the early 00's.

>>2481 Green shadow

>>2493 It's dead in the same sense 8chan is dead. Sure we got some stubborn heads stuck here like us but it's nowhere near the expected numbers it should be getting. And theres zero influx of new players. And indie games itchio don't have the same freeware experience as flash era. They are trying to be full on game dev rather than doing things for fun

>>2563 Flash was real gamers, itch is bootcamp sars

>>2563 >>2567 Not sure what you anons are talking about, there are plenty of devs doing stuff for fun on Itch. Though it does have a very different vibe to Flash and nowhere near as popular. You probably wouldn't know this because Itch has a terrible search system.

>>2563 >>2567 >>2570 >making money is bad! kill yourselves, there was monetization in the 00s as well with flash games you're really extremely stupid, biased, and selective

>>2583 And the malware infested sites, there's a reason why the Adblocker has been invented.

>>2583 You seem to be rebuking an argument I never made

>>2583 there's nothing wrong with making money or chasing dev dreams, the problem comes when you're making generic flavor of the month for your target tumblr audience a game about lesbian trans robot who questions existentialism and charge $20 on patreon and join discord

This game looked legitimately cool and all but was it ever released on PC or just an Xbox exclusive?

>>2626 >Xbox >Exclusives Oh yeah Xbox used to have those It was released on PC in 2014

>>2583 >there was monetization in the 00s as well with flash games Not with the ones anyone cared about. Now you're expected to pay money for things that would have been free on Newgrounds in the '90s.

never encountered paid flash games in newgrounds era, they barely existed

>>2478 Zuma deluxe brings me back. Popcap games was the flash puzzle game goat.

oh god not $5 cried the hobo

>>2721 They had a game, Chuzzle, that reminded me of Yoshi's Cookie, but was better. I never saw anyone else talk about that one, Bejeweled is the one on everyone's lips.

>>2770 I completely forgot about Chuzzle. Popcap made so many great games throughout the 2000s, what happened? I'm guessing they were bought out and gutted like so many great studios from the era.

>>2779 They got bought out by EA in 2011, laid off 50 employees, and shut down their studio in Dublin a year later. They never did much since. OP's Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is probably their biggest game from the EA period.

>>2783 Damn, that's really sad. I have a lot of fond memories of playing Peggle back during my WoW days since some madlad made an entire game of it as a plugin. I wish there were more smaller studios like PopCap, instead of a few dozen absolutely horrendous AAA studios.

>>2795 Your wish has come true, AAA is collapsing as predicted.

>>2770 I played a version of Bejeweled with a puzzle mode, which I preferred to the normal Bejeweled. Did anyone else play that?

>>2814 no just you

>>2492 Pollenate the sunflower. Pump her full of Vitamin "D." Become a zombie then take her by force.