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Please be more respectful… my uncle died in a gang shootout in Neighborville

Even if Battle for Neighborville is a mess, I must admit that it had some good ideas in it. For example, Giddy Park. I think that large centers where players can interact with other players is something that garden warfare needed.

I love how almost all the footage was from the Story mode/offline mode, because very little people are actually playing the game

The "Subtle Foreshadiwing" sign like it was a cartoon made me laugh more than it should.

I found a loose copy of this game on the switch in a Walmart parking lot, alone and in mint condition, and I still didn't even take it

Fun Fact, The Crossbow Zombie Has A Glitch That Lets It Levitate Over Giddy Park From Spawn That Was Never Patched :]

"What did they do to Citron? HE LOOKS LIKE THE ROBLOX MAN FACE" LMFAO I JUST REALIZED THAT

That switch up is wild 💀

the reason why it was called a diffrent name was so that people didnt think it was gw3 and get disapoointed

all 3 paid classes can easily be unlocked. wizard is free if you complete quests during - saint patricks day

Maybe it’s just me, but the game just looks worse. Not just the change in artstyle, but it looks way too bright and giddy. What made PVZ so unique was its zany nature mixed with an unnerving touch of rigor mortis. Here, that is just gone

From a visual perspective the game is beautiful and clearly had SO much work put into it, but the character design department is kind of lacking imo. I like the stealth mushroom though that's pretty cute. Also, the abilies/weapons in terms of game design are REALLY cool.

I think that this game had serious potential. The added mobility makes the game feel much faster than having to slowly move through the backyard battleground and the pvp maps, and it can make every fight feel like you have more control in if you win or not than compared to gw2, at least in my experience

Yeah apparently alot characters were planned to be added in this game,each character have unique gimmicks and even elemental characters were planned to be added in this game aswell as adding more legendary upgrades (which are the same as varients) to switch up playstyles,this game would have became better if they didn't discontinue it and still developed it but sadly none of was planned made it to the game thanks to Popcap,EA and the community You look good by the way

BFN isn't bad. Its nowhere near the masterpiece that is GW2 but its not bad.

it’s such a shame this game never picked up it could’ve been so good

Bfn actually still has a large player base, surprisingly. Almost all of my lobbies were full.

tbh is not that bad, but gw2 and gw1 are just 100 times better

I unlocked the secret characters pretty fast, If you just complete like 2 story missions you should have enough.

Here's some information to clear up some misconceptions in the video. Garden Warfare 2's major updates were cut early in late 2016 and in early 2017, development on a Garden Warfare 3 began. During this time period, EA looked at the monetization scheme and variant system and streamlined it by switching from a Sticker Shop (loot-boxes) to Rux (Item Shop), and turning variants into upgrades. Due to the game not having upgrades and playing differently from Garden Warfare 2, PopCap renamed it to Battle for Neighborville. The game itself was going to have more marketing but nothing happened with it. It had multiple leaked release dates, like December 2019 and January 2020. There was an unused tie-in event with Garden Warfare 2 where you would log into the game to get special content in Battle for Neighborville.

They should have followed the Garden Warfare 1 and 2 formula with more stuff, but instead they tried to make this more like Overwatch and Team Fortress. Not only did they remove the class variants but they watered them down to their most basic form. The Snap Dragon was a class I wanted in the next Garden Warfare, but it’s basically just the fire or acid breathing variant of the Chomper.

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Im not here to start rambling about this as a BFN fan, but the main point is that this is NOT a GW3 as GW2 was perfect enough and trying to expand on it would be waste of more materials then just updating GW2. The most common thing is I see is when people talk about GW2 its always new varients/maps and it doesn't expand or give off a new feeling that GW2 has. That's what BFN tried to do, it gave the game actual teamwork and not some solo warfare gameplay, they gave more opinions for players to fight PvP, PvE, etc. The upgrades are basically variants but you make your own, and allows you to make your own playstyle and not being limited while giving almost every upgrade a purpose while some GW2 and GW1 variants are too broken or so bad no one uses them. So BFN fixed all those problems but no one likes change and that is ok. Lastly, the art style for the game feels like pvz as its always been goofing through the games, ads, and comics. They made it like that to make it feel like PVZ and even giving social interactions with text bubbles and giddy park to connect everyone compared to how isolated GW2 is.

I think they pulled the plug because the fan base cried so hard about no variants that they were like. Ok you get nothing 👍🏻

A funny note about Giddy Park: TV Head and Wildflower can go OUT OF BOUNDS with one of their abilities, with acorn and wizard needing a bit more setup to achieve this...

I saw the bow from the 80s action hero and the way you explained it made me say "I've seen this before" before the splatoon flashbacks came flooding back

I actually buyed neighborville 1 year after it came out full price irl,with the box and everything. Since i knew gw2 i trought "welp the sequel may be good aswell" And then the dissapointment came..... And it hitted like a truck. I was 10 at the time,so i was stupid and yeah,guess i paid the price....

Bro the Cheeto Chomper part had me dying 😭

This is weirdly enough, my favorite PvZ shooter… No wonder I have no friends :(((

It def could have worked. It's crazy how dense pop cap is tho. They needed a lot more characters and upgrades at launch to make it work. With each element from garden warfare as a playable on each team as well.

Ever since they patched Acorn's Sticky Sap Trap, he can sometimes be a mixed in certain situations. I remember how busted this ability is, and it can deal incredible damage during the early days of this game... and then there's Space Cadet Seriously, despite being Space Cadet lacking long range abilities, she is more capable in dealing with any plant, including Acorn and Oak, where she can easily wipeout the entire squad with her Space Station, especially when she is attacking from above (and has a ton of health and dps).

Isn’t snap dragon basically fire chomper

I am surprised to hear so many people dislike this game. I grew up playing all three games in the series and Battle for Nieghborville had always been my favourite of the three. The new classes where amazing and I loved the changes they made to the original classes. They all felt the most unique they had ever felt in the series. I really loved the new upgrade system instead of the variants. To me it never felt like most off the variants changed the way I played a class. The only difference between Fire Peashooter and normal Peashooter is that I now deal less damage than normal, but set a target on fire. The upgrade system of BFN gives you so much freedom in how you want to build a class and genuinely changes the way a class played. Depending on your upgrades Super Brains can be a lightning fast close ranges assassin, or a AOE damage dealer with crazy self healing. There are even unique upgrades that change the basic attack of a class. I understand that people might be worried about balance when you have to play a class to unlock their upgrades, but (at least to me) it never felt like I was unlocking better upgrades. I was instead unlocking different playstyles for a class I love simply by playing that class. The starting upgrades each class gets are also just really good, so I never felt at an unfair disadvantage against higher level players. I can not say the same about GW1 and GW2. You start with absolutely no upgrades on each class and each upgrade you unlocked just made you objectively better than those without it (like faster health regen or a slower overheat). I also really love the amazing single player content BFN has to offer. Most missions are just plain fun and their are a few missions that are downright unforgettable (the Dummy god fever dream mission for example). The single player worlds even include unique boss fights and there are a lot of secrets and collectibles to find in each area. The online player count is low, but in my opinion the single player content alone makes this game worth grabbing when it's on sale. TLDR: The more I think about this, the more I realize I love the tings most people seem to dislike about this game. I'm a little sad that BFN is probably the last Garden Warfare game we are going to get. These games hold a special place in my heart and I really think BFN could have turned into the best game in the series if it got more support. If they ever do make a GW 4, I'm really curious what people would like to be added into the 4th game.

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As someone who’s max ranked bfn and is getting close to max ranking garden warfare 2. I’ll give my thoughts. A lot of the problems everyone has with BFN is that it isn’t what Gw2 was. No variants, sprinting, etc… but I decided to look a this from both sides. The thing is that Bfn isn’t garden warfare, it’s in the title that it says it’s basically another spin-off. I don’t think they can make a garden warfare 3 because garden warfare 2 pretty much already did everything. Yeah there’s more characters but they aren’t gonna make Gw3 just to add more characters, Gw2 added so much off of Gw1 and did it perfectly. They really could’ve only made a spin-off from there, but the problem was that Garden Warfare had no support after that. If they wanted to make a spin off, I wouldn’t blame them but the problem is they ditched gw2 for Bfn. That’s a TERRIBLE idea for many reasons, but I won’t get into that. This is where the criticism drew. I say that BFN isn’t a terrible game, it was still really fun completing the prize map and the Pve was honestly really creative. Giddy park (as toxic as it may be) is super creative and can be pretty fun sometimes. However, right now it definitely sucks. They left the game with a drastic meta, and it’s filled with terrible bugs. My take is that BFN isn’t a horrible game, but bfn players have to stop lying to themselves, saying that the game is better than Gw2, despite never having played gw2 genuinely in the longest time. I used to be one of those people and it’s just not true. Sure, BFN had a ton of potential, and I don’t know anyone who thinks that BFN didn’t have potential. The problem was honestly both the community and the developers decisions. If they ever come back to develop pvz games, they’re better off updating gw2 if not both. I don’t really see how a gw3 could fit into the equation anymore, if it even could to begin with. Those are my thoughts.

IDK why you did not just get the Switch version since it fixes a lot of issues with the game like making it so you can do the battler pass at any time in any order, lowering the price of stuff in the shop, and removing microtractions

This brought me back traumatic memories when my dad got jumped by some zombies in the town center, unfortunately not even his morning oak could save him 😢

I was waiting this video

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BFN is a good game, the reason everyone was mad was because it wasn’t gw3

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I love how the most replayed part of the video is after the sponsor. XD

I might get shot for this but I absolutely love gw1 and gw2 but I personally have more fun playing bfn

Ngl I actually loved the PvE regions in this game, it’s the multiplayer and ops that I find to be the main downgrades compared to GW2. I think this game is decent but could’ve been so much better if it was just GW3. Look up PvZ 3 if you wanna see probably the most horrendous fall-off of a beloved franchise of all time, shits literally just a Gardenscapes clone and that’s it.

*sigh*... PopCap put the microtransactions in, NOT EA. And besides, you don't NEED to pay for the three new characters, you can unlock them with coins and rainbow stars, which are not hard to obtain. EA screwed over this game by cutting off its support right when it seemed like there was hope but the microtransactions were not their fault.

As someone who still plays the garden warfares, I wish I could've been there to pocket you as my mystic flower. You seem like a really cool guy and i'd love to give you a more in depth guide on the games lol

mewzer always makes me whip it out

Ngl, the way pop cap released the game is similar to how tiny build released Hello Neighbour search and rescue, totally not a plug for one of my videos

Whenever I started to try to play this game, it was overrun with nightcaps built for regening health instantly and having fung Foo on cooldown, or the same pair of guys sitting in thier spawn and spamming dandelions/ impsicles for the entire round. These guys would pick new players to camp and would CONSTANTLY bully anyone even vaguely engaging them, or would go on server wide pub stomp. Months later, they were still doing it and generally would ruin the experience. There was of course the weird balancing, like making Soldier the worst zombie, and the awful spam of "Every ability one shots you with the world's largest hit box". Hell, the only three Zombies that could survive fung Foo were All star IF You tackled the night cap, pirate IF you immediately jumped into your barrel, and Electric slide if you used her immunity ability. Outside of that, you'd get free kills all day.

Also what they did to the Garden & Graveyard Ops is utterly despicable.

Moral of the story: "If it ain't broke, dont fix it" Just to make sure, if I'm going to play a fps PvZ, the go to is GW2, right? Also that remix at 18:58 if fire.

2:05 what’s that face in the corner

A thing about oak is that with the super sap trap is that you used to be able to kill your teammates with it

now that we've gotten the trilogy of the garden warfare games can we get a cheese tierlist now?

I think BFN's name might be a reference to the comics (They take place in Neighborville a lot) Also, I quite love BFN, and I like it more than GW2.

anyone know what the song at the start is i know its a remix of gw main theme

A way that the upgrade system could've been better implemented would've been to give visual indicators for the upgrades and to parallel the variants in the GW games, that way there could've been builds that would function identically to previous variants or even combinations of multiple variants, making it the system easier to understand and allow making your ultimate load-outs

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I thought it was alright. Though I didn't play the first 2

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correct title: Battle For Neighborville: The Game That The Community Killed

I actually really like this game

All I'm saying about the acorn and space cadet is that there's a reason the z-mech has a cooldown

it took me a year to notice battle for neighborville

I remember all those games All Og

Srry matpat quit

It wasn't a garden warfare because it barely had what made the last two games, ruined the designs, removed the variations of characters which everyone loved, and overall just made less of an interesting story and hub world's.

An end to a series

I loved this game, ngl. People really overhated it bc of the lack of variants. Still one of my favorite pvp games.

People when a game isn’t GW: >:( Also, this is just another EA bad Popcap good video from a segment I just saw. you do realize that 1.5M isn’t that much… right? maybe if you had something known as PATIENCE, then you would’ve gotten them

3:42 still my favorite plant of all times,i dont think he is just a chomper,its not why it is close combat that is a chomper,he breaths FIRE,trow fire balls,have totaly diferent habilitys.

Why would they get rid of variants..... it's what made the game so unique and fun

Every single bfn review is the same

It baffles me people genuinely believe the reason BFN was shutdown was because the community bullied the devs into quitting...when it's been known their funding was cut due to poor sales for years...

i cant imagine someone actually putting microtransactions into a 40$ game 💀

I hate thinking about this game because it reminds me of the dark truth that we won’t be getting another shooter anytime soon. honestly if PopCap had a brain behind any of the execs they would have kept gw2 updating and let bfn truly spread its wings as a spin-off to the franchise to get some power behind the franchise. like imagine if the game got its full potential and in an eventual mainline follow up they get all of the good from both gw2 and bfn (and preferably use gw1 art style) and make that as the true finale of the shooter trilogy

The story is bad, and the game is not unique, and even the first game looks better, in my opinion

L video neighborville diffs your whole channel

4:54 To skip sponsor

Greed, lack of gameplay, being lesser in balance and replay ability than it’s previous instalments

this is like the bronx vs o-block but with plants vs zombies

First good video essay ever

The actual shooting felt amazing but removing variants absolutely killed it for me

14:58 The best and the funniest part of the video I mean just look at the way she flew after dying 😂❤!

11:17 I HEAR BANJO AND KAZOOIE MUSIC I LOVE THIS SOUNDTRACK SO MUCH

I’d like to point out that many of the new characters’ abilities are essentially reskins of old ones

I was a diehard Chomper main in GW2, and the absolute destruction of my boy in Battle for Neighborville was devastating, though my friends probably appreciated that they didn't have to deal with that anymore :/

5:58 hmmmmmm sounds quite a bit like a certain game about squid teens fighting each other’s main weapon for the release of their trilogy… 👀

15:01 bro wallace is going hard on those lyrics no cap.

I legit didn't even know this game was a thing until 1 week ago

I still enjoyed it. The story mode was so good and I became accomodated to the new graphic style really quickly. I have no idea what ur yappin about

The action hero reminds me of the tri-stringer from splatton that’s how you spell it right?

1:31 i agree with most of this video but... HOW THIS CUT THING LOOKS SCARY!?

This wouldn’t be a battle for neighborville review if you didn’t mention the iceberg lettuce

I think that acorn is a kernel corn type character where they add a character to get an equivalent to a zombie

8:53 i’ll sum it up for you. wizard is a character that can shoot Med Range Projectiles, and if you charge it up; bouncy balls around that hit people at the worst possible time, has a curse that drains your health, he has a get off me too and can get into Teamates and becomes a turret. TV head is one of if not the most fun character in the game. He can shoot DVDs from a tv remote cannon, put down a bucket that lets you respawn in a place you put it in, can throw down a tv dinner that works like a mine for a few seconds ( explodes on contact ) and can summon a yeti imp that can do big damage explosion. and also has a melee attack that can be used in a pinch. Wildflower is a Diet TV Head. same primary, same melee, has the bucket but its a pot instead, she has dandelion instead of a yeti imp that is floaty rather than fast ( fast is better ) instead of a tv dinner it throws out something like a grenade, exploding when it hits someone or the ground.