PopCap Games Appreciation Thread - The greatest casual game developer to have ever graced gaming.

[Mister Qwerty]

Rocket Mania was my favourite. I wish I could still play it.

 

[William Afton]

PVZ is peak.

 

[delerious?]

Anyone here remember Pogo.com? It was PopCap/EA's browser based game offering. I remember playing the really shitty risk game on there with friends back in the day. It was basically frozen in time until recently. Now caters towards tech literate Boomers/Gen X.

EDIT: Found a Screen Recording of the original Risk game on YouTube, thought I'd share :-)

 

[Coolio55]

Posting this video of a Peggle mod because it's a smorgasbord of pretty much the entire modding community.
There's shit in this that made me choke with laughter but there's also the usual suspects putting in their lame OCs and referencing stuff that easily identifies them.
If you can only watch one chapter of this, check out the Zelda YTP bit. It's genius.

Yeah, most are stored as MO3 files, which are like MODs on crack. Pretty much any XM-compatible tracker can play them, personally I'd recommend XMPlay, though iirc VLC supports them, too.
PopCap hired some veteran demoscene composers back in the day, so it's no big surprise, lol.

IIRC the BASS Sound Library which is the origin of the format is actually a demoscene production.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Bejeweled soundtrack.

Bejeweled Twist's soundtrack is catchy as fuck. The Blitz mode song is top tier gold.

Yeah, most are stored as MO3 files, which are like MODs on crack. Pretty much any XM-compatible tracker can play them, personally I'd recommend XMPlay, though iirc VLC supports them, too.
PopCap hired some veteran demoscene composers back in the day, so it's no big surprise, lol.

Or you can use OpenMPT, which allows you to view the instrument for each channel and allows you to save them so you can make your own remixes

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Those games on my iPod touch got me through a lot of ISSs

 

[Big Fat Frog]

I love Bejeweled and Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies. I’m not even going to lie, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and its sequel were the last times I’ve had fun in an online game. I didn’t even buy it for myself, I bought it for one of my younger cousins and I practically stole it. It was definitely the last two good games EA put out in my opinion, and I’m utterly disappointed that they tried to cash in on the hero-shooter craze with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville when Garden Warfare was already a solid class shooter. Playing as Foot Soldier and his subclasses was incredibly satisfying.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Insaniquarium was the best thing in the world when I was a kid. Then I got it on Steam, played a bit, was like, "Wow, this is kind of boring."

Plants vs Zombies was GOAT

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

I’m not even going to lie, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and its sequel were the last times I’ve had fun in an online game.

The mad lads turned a casual top-down tower defense game into a third-person shooter and actually managed to make it work.

I love the Garden Warfare games, they've very underrated and one of the last bastions of class-based shooters.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Which peggle ghost is getting the best head?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Found the collection on archive. I forgot they also made Diner Dash. I love that game.

 

[WinRAR Free Trial]

Crazy Dave is my spirit animal.

 

[libRT]

Rocket Mania was my favourite. I wish I could still play it.

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[Pepe Cortisona]

Also, the PS Vita also had Bejeweled.

The DS got it's own version of PvsZ too. It has very noticeable slowdown at each horde, it was also on the DSi shop.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I like trying and failing to get Bookworm to accept that ass is a word.

 

[spacko]

Favorite PopCap Game / Franchise?​

Bookworm
Votes: 3
2.8%

bookworm adventures is an S-tier franchise and it's criminal they haven't made more of them. you faggots lack class and you all sicken me except for

I like trying and failing to get Bookworm to accept that ass is a word.

it's not perfect. but it comes close

 

[SIMIΔN]

Are there any official or 'unofficial' version of PvZ2 with the micro transactions removed

 

[tofudelivery]

Anybody remember Pizza Frenzy?

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

PVZ is getting a remaster based on the 7th generation console ports:

I love the associated animation, it feels like something straight from the peak of PVZ in the early 2010s. Needless to say, I'm fucking excited bros.

 

[piombo]

PVZ is getting a remaster based on the 7th generation console ports:

I love the associated animation, it feels like something straight from the peak of PVZ in the early 2010s. Needless to say, I'm fucking excited bros.

the ps port is a proper expansion to the og pvz1 and i can't hate it
but what i do hate is having this cold reminder instead