As a veteran of the first game, it brings me so much joy that it’s getting the attention it deserves. People really slept on the original. Seriously looking forward to vehicles and mechs.
Honestly I’m just happy to see a game half the price of AAA games that A) is fun and B) not riddled with microtransactions/locked behind paywalls. Yes it has some server issues but that is expect whenever a new game releases. I am also loving all the parodies and references to popular space sci-fi movies
Just got back from a few rounds in the Creek. The first two were great. The last… we had done so well, but then we started dropping like flies right before exfil. We had one left, always reviving one before dying. Our last man was 20 feet away from the ship before getting nuked by a hulk.
Yesterday I had a moment which was really cool to me, but might not sound as cool written down. My buddies called in an extraction, while I was trying to close a few remaining bugholes. So the timer was counting down, and I had to run to the extraction site, when I saw that my buddies were shooting a lot of bugs in front of me. I was being chased by a few bugs, and I just couldn’t stop. I started shouting “Cease fire! Cease fire! Friendly coming in”, and my friends stopped shooting so I could squeeze in between them and arrive at the extraction site. It was such a cool moment as I saw my friends reloading their guns and covering behind a concrete block, waiting for me to pass to start shooting the bugs again. This game has so many cinematic moments, I love it!
Yeah my very first match I played by myself and got all the way to the end I was super excited and then I died to the f****** door opening up and crushing me didn't even know that was a thing
Helldivers 1 was a great game and I told people that if this game did exactly what the first one did but in third person then we were in for a treat. Then Arrowhead did exactly that and more with the actual gameplay. Now just wait until the content starts to expand the way it did in the first game with mechs and vehicles.
A perfect example of just make the game fun and it'll be successful! And to top it all off, everything including the "premium" pass can be earned for free. Who knew.
@@toptiertech7291 Take the tinfoil hat off dude. You'll live longer. (Plus, out governments and companies already get all the info they want, they don't need to do it through a game lol. With this attitude you should throw away your phone too.)
really didn’t think this would click for me but all the buzz made me interested. 3 days in and i’m addicted to delivering sweet democracy one bullet at a time
Sony owns the rights to Starship Troopers so I wouldn't put it past them. Can you imagine Arrowhead adding ST armor and the arachnids into the game as another faction and the final home world you invade is Klendathu !??
@@Sponce03The terminids are already this game's equivilant of the arachnids. Adding another bug race would be redundant. We'll likely get something similar to the Illuminate from the first game.
You know there’s a robocop game right? That’s like WAY more robocop than this? Not really sure about the terminator or even aliens comparison. Starship Troopers is the only accurate comparison
@@toptiertech7291 Terminator comparison is what happens after judgement day and the machines take over. Where in the movies they show a few clips before time traveling back in time. Or the 1 movie with Christian Bale that took place during the war in the future.
I know a lot of people are comparing it to Starship Troopers (rightfully so), but more than anything it feels like what if Earth Defense Force was made into a live service game today. Literally feels like when me and my brother would play Earth Defense Force split screen while sitting on the couch on the weekend.
I had no intention of getting this game when it was first announced. It wasn't that I didn't think I'd enjoy the game, it was more that I felt my money would be better spent on other stuff. Cut to a few days ago, I heard how popular the game was, I bought it, and I have had such a good time that I have been losing track of time while playing. Even after failing a mission my friends and I can still laugh and start a new mission FOR DEMOCRACY
The fact that this is the game to have PlayStation players saying they want Xbox players to get the game too so they can spread democracy through the galaxy together is just wild
HD2 is my first multiplayer game since Battlefield 1, and it's the first game my brother and I have played together since moving states away. Thank you Arrowhead for managing our democracy
Best things A) cinematics B) the explosions and just randomness of missions(how everything can be different even on same missions) C) the voice actors(specifically Yuri), lore, and just satirical patriotism
This was not at all on my radar until I saw the clips came out with hard rock music. I can only play this game listening to that now. Jetpacking onto a mountain and then throwing my friend’s respawn down into the biggest swarm of bugs was absolute chaos and I love it
My favourite thing about it, beyond never getting bored of the missions, is how it encourages that “Just one more!” mentality through the bonus medals and mission variety. If you’re in the mood for a short 5min mission, you can totally do that
Me and my friends played the first helldivers game. We played it for a long time and have always loved these horde shooters. We've played lots of Vermintide, darktide, and mostly Deep rock galactic; ROCK AND STONE! But we've actually said many times while playing those that while we love the way they play, the dream would be a Helldivers 2 with first person or over the shoulder, and the excitement we felt when it was announced was crazy. The atmosphere and the spectacle is something that sells the game so much and I think elevates it above many other horde shooters. So fun hearing your thoughts Jake, and been loving the FPS podcast!
The first Helldivers was very similar to what 2 is. It was also an excellent game but a bit more niche than 2. Obviously the major difference was that it was a top down, twin stick shooter with simpler graphics and was not a live service game but everything else was basically there. The call in system, the mission structure, the tone, the difficulty, the friendly fire, the "co-op play is essential" game design. They've very much taken that game and just made it look awesome, done it in 3rd person and added the live service elements in a thoughtful way. It's honestly wild how similar it is aside from those few fundamental core changes because I wasn't sure it would work but they just nailed it across the board
Also I’ll say the missions with your friends where you barely extract are more fun than if you have 5-10 reinforcements left. It’s awesome when the tension builds as you try and barely survive with 1 reinforcement and a 4 minute extraction timer
That’s any game. Think of a completely different game. You winning a warzone game with all your teammates left vs winning with you clutching it up. Even madden. Winning on a last second field goal is better than winning by 50
@@toptiertech7291 i disagree with your battle royale take completely. Winning in a BR is the same for me regardless of whether I clutch, my teammate clutches, or we face a final team that is worse than us. And with sports games nowadays games never get to that point lol. Everybody quits once they know they can’t win. You either win by 1-2 scores(madden) or the other person quits.
Hell drivers has this energy and it keeps this the energy for everyoment of gameplay. From the moment you step into the body with the mucus that is cue'd to your foot step into the pod.. chunking down and coming out of the pod like the baddest of asses in the world. The amazing voice acting of the characters. It's just so consistent.
I was a longtime player of Helldivers 1, and the evolution of the sequel while still maintaining just about everything from the original game in a weird way reminds me of returning to Shadow Moses Island in MGS4 and seeing all of those great classic environments rendered in beautiful modern day graphics
Since you asked, here's my favorite moment so far: Very early in the game, Lv5 or, I'm on a bug planet and need to destroy some eggs and kill a charger. Two man team, complete stragners.It's dark, there's a green fog further limiting our visibility, and camouflaged Stalkers are going through our reinforcement reserves like an anteater through a termite colony. Feels like we're in the first Predator movie and it just switched from mindless action to horror. It just doesn't look like we'll make it, but we somehow manage to squash the eggs and the Stalkers, as the last of them liberates my guts from my abdominal cavity. That's when the charger rears its uglry head and my teammate has a brilliant idea: he tags the huge bug and calls in a reinforcement. As the pod streaks through the skies like an oversized bullet, I can see the tag and can steer towards it. I pull hard on the left stick and ... KA-THUNK. Right through the charger's disgusting thorax! Mission accomplished!
Two things you said stood up to me: first that playing games should be for people having fun (not for getting a specific badge or achievement), and second emphasizing the effect of sounds and sound design in the experience (usually sound is ignored when commenting on a game experience and the focus is more on visuals and visual effects).
There’s a planet in a system bordering Sol (Super Earth sector) with the designation Klen Dauth II. I also love Starship troopers and almost jumped outta my chair when I found it!
I had a two sided VHS, one side was Starship Troopers and the other side was I'm in the Army now, and I would watch them every time I went to my dads house.
Seeing people play and talk about this game has made me go and watch starship troopers and I had a blast watching it. Now to do my part and spread it to my friends
Army of Two! A blast from the past. I should've been studying for finals, but me and my roommate played those games back to back instead. Good times lol
My favorite current story on Helldivers currently is when I respawned onto a tank and just was riding it as it was still active. I was so confused, but it worked out so well as nothing was shooting me on it.
The 1st game was and still is very fun. All of the weapons in the 2nd installment are the same weapons available in Helldivers. The only brand new weapon that the sequel introduced that the 1st game didn't is the Spear. In fact in terms of both stratagems and weapons the sequel has is a lot less then prequel but to be very fair the 1st game didn't start out with all of its content from the get go it was added over time and I am 100% sure this will get the same treatment. There are a number of major differences between how some of the stategems and equipment works though. For example a weapon/equipment strategems were a 1 time call down. If you lost your weapon due to death and your team mates don't help you to recover them you cannot call down another. A number of offensive strategems had limited uses as well the sentries being one of them. Once you used up all the charges that's it. similar to how you can only use the orbital laser only 3 times per mission. The biggest thing you could do in the 1st game was use multiple copies of the same strategem. It was a legit feature not some exploit that Arrowhead recently patched for Helldivers 2. Lastly there not only mechs but multiple vehicle types, ranging from a 2 man mortorbike with a mounted machine gun to a heavily armed APC with a main cannon and twin sponson mounted machine guns. Now that the new game is a 3rd person with large scale maps those vehicles will be a great addition as it will make it easier to traverse the maps in the game. Some missions and maps are so large that just moving around them can be tedious and since higher difficulties have so much more secondary and optional objectives to do just having a vehicle will make getting every single optional and secondary objectives doable for everyone. Sorry for the long post. I hope it was insightful.
Yesterday, tried a 2P Rescue Science Teams on Extreme. We managed to rescue ~20/40 before time ran out. For extraction, I had to navigate around two Automaton tanks to get to the shuttle. The shuttle was hovering over the helipad and not landing until I got close enough that I could board it. Easily my most exhilarating extraction to date. I might upload that gameplay to my YT later today.
Those classics you mentioned (socom,GOW,Army of two, Vegas) those are great callbacks to what we are diving into today..which is alot of fun..great vid
Feels like a throwback to win video. Games were fun and weren’t trying to present you with a message preach to you or biting off more than they could chew.
Starship Troopers was the first film I ever owned (on VHS!) I remember asking my mum and she must have just assumed it was a cheesey family action film, because I was WAY too young to see legs being ripped off! Such a classic. I think I'll be getting my wallet out and 'doing my part' this weekend after watching this 💪
One thing I do miss from Helldivers 1 tho is the local co-op. I remember back in highschool, me and my friends on the couch shouting at each other, that was fun.
I really love how satisfying everything feels, from the gunplay to the different animations of everything. People keep telling me to use the Railgun because it's really good but the satisfaction i get from picking up an Expendable Anti Tank shooting the biggest bug and chucking it to the ground is palpable. I can't wait for them to iron out the stability stuff and perhaps buff my favorite weapon the Spear :3
The servers are working great now! Hats off to Arrowhead for their hard work and getting the game fixed. It was a rare case of issues like this being very understandable and where the majority of the community remaind patient. Well done soldiers! For Democracy!
Was having so much fun playing and seeing the videos go viral about it that I had to rewatch Starship Troopers. Just as fun, funny, and biting as I remember, glad to see people giving good satire some love.
I'm loving the game, it's hilarious and epic at the same time! My favorite moment I've had so far was when we were fighting Automatons, and my friends had all died, and it was just me. The horde was closing in, the rain was pouring: the scene was set. I pulled out my orbital strike stratagem, yelled, "FOR DEMOCRACY!" and as I went to throw it, I got shot in the face which ragdolled me to the ground, dropping the orbital strike right at my feet, and when I stood back up, I was like, "OH CRAP!" as I got blown into smithereens! Best gaming moment of the year so far!
I only watched two VCD's in my life, and both pirated. One was Toy soldiers and the other was Starship Troopers. And the funny thing is, the VCD player was the stereo system. Yes I'm old.
I just want to say thank you for mentioning Army of Two and flooding my mind with memories. Sitting on the couch for hours and hours playing that game with my friend. What a masterpiece, I would love a remake of that game.
Helldivers 2 is like that one 3 dollar scratch card that you win 20 dollars from. It feels good in the moment, but you also spent 200 dollars on 3 dollar cards to get it, and now you'll spend 200 more. Live service games, people...
Life lately has been going to work, talking with my coworkers about Helldivers, then going home and playing Helldivers with my coworkers until we're all too tired for work the next day
I played the first game. First played it on playstation 3 because my friend had it and as someone who loved dead ops arcade in cod black ops that game resonated with me. Just the chaos and how easily just a simple mission could turn to a fight for survival if you didn't respect your enemy. I then bought it on pc and played for quite some time but couldn't get any of my friends to purchase it, but the community was diehard and the fact you could join anyone and mid mission made for some great RP scenes. I didnt know about this game until a week ago. Safe to say, I've been grinding since I downloaded it. This is the first game in years where I just had pure fun with a game. It was hilarious to be killed by and kill my friends. Like you said the tone, plays a huge part. While serious in retrospect it's hard to stay serious when your characters, and your friends have such a jovial and kid like attitude toward the game. This game has officially made me feel like a kid again in the best way.
The thing that comes to mind for me when I think of how awesome this game is, is it reminds me of prime battlefield, when you would have “battlefield” moments where it was like straight out of a movie (not stunts as it got skewed in meaning) but more cinematic.
I’ve had some of the most fun I’ve ever had playing this game with friends. At first it was just 2 of us, but the more the merrier, and it gets straight up crazy. This is my online game for a while, and I only play single player games. Also, I love that it is Starship Troopers! And Terminator! It’s the perfect meta set up for a live service game.
I called reinforcements and pinged the tank for my buddy to drop on. There was a loud BOOMF when he managed to do it. But, as he ascends from his hellpod, the second explosion from the tank catches him and he flies across the map. He was in the air, deemed as a traitor, before dying from impact. I wish I had recorded that lol
I loved the first one playing with my siblings and the chaos that ensued with friendly fire and terrible team coordination 😂 but I am really enjoying the sequel a lot
I love that you mentioned Army of Two, I feel like EA should give the Trilogy the Mass Effect Legendary Editon treatment. That and one more game with Alpha and Bravo.
Me and my wife are on PlayStation and we’re having trouble getting into lobbies together. We figured our way around that problem. And we’ve had 1 game crash during extraction. But other than that, have thoroughly enjoyed fighting for democracy.
Pro tip, if you hold the reload button it gives you options to change the scope range and some weapons can change from semi auto to automatic and so on. They don't show this in the tutorial so it makes the sniper much better by going from a 50m zoom to a 200m zoom
Starship Troopers as part of Verhoeven’s pentalogy is brilliant. Any time you want to discuss the films from Robocop to Starship Troopers, i will be there
There is a book series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith called Hell Divers - dystopian future with humanity in air ships above the planet and hell divers go to the surface as required. Pretty great series if that’s your jam. Think he’s up to 11 books now.
I played the first one, specifically on the Vita. And I loved it. I also have it on my Deck and it is the perfect game for that. It was such a fun game because I love that 'Top-Down' kind of game play. And it still had that goofy humor. This one is just that much better because I can play with my friends.
I’m doing my part!
I'm doing my part!
Im doing my part 👍🏼
I'm doing my part! 🫡
I'm doing my part!!!
I just logged off, someone go do their part!
Your cat's like. "Give us Stray Two!!" Before being carried away. 🐈
That cat had a great idea! 💡 🐱
Maybe next time they can try adding some gameplay
@@Scroolewse it's a puzzle game. If you mean harder puzzle, then I'm in.
LOL
“Jake, Ima let you finish but Stray was the greatest game of all time.”
As a veteran of the first game, it brings me so much joy that it’s getting the attention it deserves. People really slept on the original. Seriously looking forward to vehicles and mechs.
Now imagine after adding vehichles, they reintroduce the boss missions.
Man, fighting a giant Metal Slug esque tank would be amazing!
Ah, a fellow veteran of the last Galactic war. Keep spreading democracy Helldiver!
Honestly I’m just happy to see a game half the price of AAA games that A) is fun and B) not riddled with microtransactions/locked behind paywalls. Yes it has some server issues but that is expect whenever a new game releases. I am also loving all the parodies and references to popular space sci-fi movies
Bro, mechs are you kidding me, damn that's sick.
Dude... if we can go first person while in the mech thatd be sick. Seeing all the controls and UI elements
The only good bug is a dead bug. lol it literally rewatches starship trooper last night purely because of this game. Such a great 90’s movie.
Viewership of that movie has gone up 34%
Fantastic movie @@KenKaniff-dw4jw
@KenKaniff-dw4jw not even surprised. Shit I'd say this game probably introduced that move to new fans.
I need to rewatch the animated series
A moment of silence for the ones lost at Malevelon Creek o7
💪
Your daily allotted time of silence is over! Get back to it Helldiver, we have freedom to serve!
Just got back from a few rounds in the Creek. The first two were great. The last… we had done so well, but then we started dropping like flies right before exfil. We had one left, always reviving one before dying. Our last man was 20 feet away from the ship before getting nuked by a hulk.
I’ll tell my grandkids about the brave men I lost at the battle of Melevelon creek
o7
Yesterday I had a moment which was really cool to me, but might not sound as cool written down. My buddies called in an extraction, while I was trying to close a few remaining bugholes. So the timer was counting down, and I had to run to the extraction site, when I saw that my buddies were shooting a lot of bugs in front of me. I was being chased by a few bugs, and I just couldn’t stop. I started shouting “Cease fire! Cease fire! Friendly coming in”, and my friends stopped shooting so I could squeeze in between them and arrive at the extraction site. It was such a cool moment as I saw my friends reloading their guns and covering behind a concrete block, waiting for me to pass to start shooting the bugs again. This game has so many cinematic moments, I love it!
No it’s still cool because I’ve had moments like that. This game has so many little moments that are so badass.
My buddy survived our entire first mission together then fucking died to the thrusters on the extraction ship...i was in tears
Of laughter?
That shit is BRUTAL
My jaw dropped because OFC in this game it would happen
Yeah my very first match I played by myself and got all the way to the end I was super excited and then I died to the f****** door opening up and crushing me didn't even know that was a thing
@@gezblair yea I was laughing sooo fucking hard like bro wtf
For me is that me and my buddy were at the top of a little mountain, blowing shit up, all good… and then the extraction ship fucking shot me.
Helldivers 1 was a great game and I told people that if this game did exactly what the first one did but in third person then we were in for a treat. Then Arrowhead did exactly that and more with the actual gameplay. Now just wait until the content starts to expand the way it did in the first game with mechs and vehicles.
Can't wait!
You are 100 percent right
A joint, beer, and the boys is all you need for this type of experience
Hell yeah buddy
Some of that good za
Jake blazes confirmed
Also the game and a ps5 and a tv
For sure!
I’m not usually an online kinda guy - but I’ve had SO so much fun with this. I just wish they’d sort out the servers.
A perfect example of just make the game fun and it'll be successful!
And to top it all off, everything including the "premium" pass can be earned for free.
Who knew.
Nah this game was made to take your PC data 😂 that’s why it exists and you have to install rootkit on it
@@toptiertech7291What? You good?
@@toptiertech7291cool don’t care.
@@toptiertech7291 Take the tinfoil hat off dude. You'll live longer. (Plus, out governments and companies already get all the info they want, they don't need to do it through a game lol. With this attitude you should throw away your phone too.)
But true.
really didn’t think this would click for me but all the buzz made me interested. 3 days in and i’m addicted to delivering sweet democracy one bullet at a time
I love how your cat sounds like it’s saying “no!” when you took it off the desk at 3:16!
Playing Army of Two with my little brother is a core memory for both of us, what a game.
Remember that aggro combo back to back infinite ammo thing? Shit was amazing
Same man. Same.
I remember the insane minigun recoil
This game screams for a Starship Troopers collab or event.
Sony owns the rights to Starship Troopers so I wouldn't put it past them. Can you imagine Arrowhead adding ST armor and the arachnids into the game as another faction and the final home world you invade is Klendathu !??
@@Sponce03funny thing is, there's a planet on a sector right next to Super Earth that's named Klen Dahth II, an obvious parody to Klendathu 😂
@@skygrasper_47 That is amazing and I had no idea lol
@@Sponce03The terminids are already this game's equivilant of the arachnids. Adding another bug race would be redundant. We'll likely get something similar to the Illuminate from the first game.
Honestly they need to puy6out the starship trooper armour and gun for a special event
Helldivers 2 is scratching that aliens, starship troopers, terminator, robocop fighting itch i have
You know there’s a robocop game right? That’s like WAY more robocop than this? Not really sure about the terminator or even aliens comparison. Starship Troopers is the only accurate comparison
@@toptiertech7291 Terminator comparison is what happens after judgement day and the machines take over. Where in the movies they show a few clips before time traveling back in time. Or the 1 movie with Christian Bale that took place during the war in the future.
I know a lot of people are comparing it to Starship Troopers (rightfully so), but more than anything it feels like what if Earth Defense Force was made into a live service game today. Literally feels like when me and my brother would play Earth Defense Force split screen while sitting on the couch on the weekend.
Rewatched starship troopers for obvious reasons. I am amazed every time how well the cgi/practical effects hold up.
Right? It was really well done. Top tier CGI from the 90's is still some of the best imo. Jurassic park is another example.
I had no intention of getting this game when it was first announced. It wasn't that I didn't think I'd enjoy the game, it was more that I felt my money would be better spent on other stuff. Cut to a few days ago, I heard how popular the game was, I bought it, and I have had such a good time that I have been losing track of time while playing. Even after failing a mission my friends and I can still laugh and start a new mission FOR DEMOCRACY
I dont believe you. You did not think you would enjoy the game.
im doing my part!!!
this is the first game in a long time that captures that early Gears of war appeal
This is NOTHING like early gears 😂
To you maybe. 3rd person shooter where all my friends want to play? To me, yeah
As someone who’s never played Helldivers 1 or Helldivers 2 yet, this is definitely a great game
I’m so happy you mentioned Army of two. That game and the original Borderlands were the best local coop bonding moments for us.
Army of 2 was amazing the 2nd gane wasn't as good as the 1st. But if you had a buddy to go through the first game. It was a great experience .
The fact that this is the game to have PlayStation players saying they want Xbox players to get the game too so they can spread democracy through the galaxy together is just wild
HD2 is my first multiplayer game since Battlefield 1, and it's the first game my brother and I have played together since moving states away. Thank you Arrowhead for managing our democracy
You haven’t played a multiplayer game in 8 years?
@@toptiertech7291 Besides BF1, no I haven't.
@@Bubbaskadooshbased
Best things A) cinematics B) the explosions and just randomness of missions(how everything can be different even on same missions) C) the voice actors(specifically Yuri), lore, and just satirical patriotism
This was not at all on my radar until I saw the clips came out with hard rock music. I can only play this game listening to that now. Jetpacking onto a mountain and then throwing my friend’s respawn down into the biggest swarm of bugs was absolute chaos and I love it
DUDE, playing on hard challenge difficulty with my Rock playlist is CRAZY 😂🔥 like I'm in a movie
My favourite thing about it, beyond never getting bored of the missions, is how it encourages that “Just one more!” mentality through the bonus medals and mission variety. If you’re in the mood for a short 5min mission, you can totally do that
Sitting In Queue now...Love this Game. Been Playing since Day 1.
Amen brother
Great video, but that cat "Meow" was adorable, they just wanted to give us their thoughts on Liberty.
So the “Paul Verhoeven” winks are hard the last few month😂….”Starship Troopers” and “Robocop”😂😂
The music in the game was also ment to evoke the music in those movies too. It's so evident and the music is amazing!
im 42 and Ive only just discovered you. im loving it but feel like ive missed out so much. I will be watching from now though!
Me and my friends played the first helldivers game. We played it for a long time and have always loved these horde shooters. We've played lots of Vermintide, darktide, and mostly Deep rock galactic; ROCK AND STONE! But we've actually said many times while playing those that while we love the way they play, the dream would be a Helldivers 2 with first person or over the shoulder, and the excitement we felt when it was announced was crazy. The atmosphere and the spectacle is something that sells the game so much and I think elevates it above many other horde shooters. So fun hearing your thoughts Jake, and been loving the FPS podcast!
The first Helldivers was very similar to what 2 is. It was also an excellent game but a bit more niche than 2. Obviously the major difference was that it was a top down, twin stick shooter with simpler graphics and was not a live service game but everything else was basically there. The call in system, the mission structure, the tone, the difficulty, the friendly fire, the "co-op play is essential" game design. They've very much taken that game and just made it look awesome, done it in 3rd person and added the live service elements in a thoughtful way. It's honestly wild how similar it is aside from those few fundamental core changes because I wasn't sure it would work but they just nailed it across the board
Also I’ll say the missions with your friends where you barely extract are more fun than if you have 5-10 reinforcements left. It’s awesome when the tension builds as you try and barely survive with 1 reinforcement and a 4 minute extraction timer
I survived. All of my friends were dead. No reinforcements. We had zero time left. And it felt incredibly amazing for all of us
That’s any game. Think of a completely different game. You winning a warzone game with all your teammates left vs winning with you clutching it up. Even madden. Winning on a last second field goal is better than winning by 50
@@toptiertech7291 i disagree with your battle royale take completely. Winning in a BR is the same for me regardless of whether I clutch, my teammate clutches, or we face a final team that is worse than us. And with sports games nowadays games never get to that point lol. Everybody quits once they know they can’t win. You either win by 1-2 scores(madden) or the other person quits.
Hell drivers has this energy and it keeps this the energy for everyoment of gameplay. From the moment you step into the body with the mucus that is cue'd to your foot step into the pod.. chunking down and coming out of the pod like the baddest of asses in the world. The amazing voice acting of the characters. It's just so consistent.
I don't understand how this exact gameplay wasn't made in a 40k/Starship Troopers game already.
i loved the first Helldivers so much, and they absolutely took what worked and expanded on it in every single great way.
One cool thing I noticed, when you kill the big robots, their legs kick in a tantrum in the exact same way Ed-209 did in Robocop.
True 😂 I noticed
I'll have to look out for that! How awesome is that? 😂❤
Having a blast! Also, shoutout to that dope Alan Wake 2 shirt!
I was a longtime player of Helldivers 1, and the evolution of the sequel while still maintaining just about everything from the original game in a weird way reminds me of returning to Shadow Moses Island in MGS4 and seeing all of those great classic environments rendered in beautiful modern day graphics
Yessss, some of the extracts in Helldivers have me and my buddy recreating the “back-to-back” moments from Army of Two
I named my ship, Harbinger of Family Values.
A wonderful name for spreading Democracy.
That is goddamn GENIUS
Mine is "Fist of Family Values"
Hammer of family values! Lol
As someone who was named after a Starship Trooper character, it's all coming full circle (and I love it.)
Since you asked, here's my favorite moment so far:
Very early in the game, Lv5 or, I'm on a bug planet and need to destroy some eggs and kill a charger. Two man team, complete stragners.It's dark, there's a green fog further limiting our visibility, and camouflaged Stalkers are going through our reinforcement reserves like an anteater through a termite colony. Feels like we're in the first Predator movie and it just switched from mindless action to horror.
It just doesn't look like we'll make it, but we somehow manage to squash the eggs and the Stalkers, as the last of them liberates my guts from my abdominal cavity. That's when the charger rears its uglry head and my teammate has a brilliant idea: he tags the huge bug and calls in a reinforcement. As the pod streaks through the skies like an oversized bullet, I can see the tag and can steer towards it. I pull hard on the left stick and ... KA-THUNK. Right through the charger's disgusting thorax! Mission accomplished!
SOCOM!!! Bring it back baby
Love the cats doing cat stuff in the background
Just jumping on the trend and have a blast
Two things you said stood up to me: first that playing games should be for people having fun (not for getting a specific badge or achievement), and second emphasizing the effect of sounds and sound design in the experience (usually sound is ignored when commenting on a game experience and the focus is more on visuals and visual effects).
There’s a planet in a system bordering Sol (Super Earth sector) with the designation Klen Dauth II. I also love Starship troopers and almost jumped outta my chair when I found it!
A few planets to the left of that one, you’ll find “Zegema Paradise”. In ST, Rico wanted to go to Zegema Beach.
I had a two sided VHS, one side was Starship Troopers and the other side was I'm in the Army now, and I would watch them every time I went to my dads house.
3:15 awww what a sweetie!
Being a fan of the first Helldivers I am stoked that part 2 is getting this much love.
Seeing people play and talk about this game has made me go and watch starship troopers and I had a blast watching it. Now to do my part and spread it to my friends
Shout out to Army of Two co-op, had an awesome time with that
Army of Two! A blast from the past. I should've been studying for finals, but me and my roommate played those games back to back instead. Good times lol
My favorite current story on Helldivers currently is when I respawned onto a tank and just was riding it as it was still active. I was so confused, but it worked out so well as nothing was shooting me on it.
The 1st game was and still is very fun. All of the weapons in the 2nd installment are the same weapons available in Helldivers. The only brand new weapon that the sequel introduced that the 1st game didn't is the Spear. In fact in terms of both stratagems and weapons the sequel has is a lot less then prequel but to be very fair the 1st game didn't start out with all of its content from the get go it was added over time and I am 100% sure this will get the same treatment. There are a number of major differences between how some of the stategems and equipment works though. For example a weapon/equipment strategems were a 1 time call down. If you lost your weapon due to death and your team mates don't help you to recover them you cannot call down another. A number of offensive strategems had limited uses as well the sentries being one of them. Once you used up all the charges that's it. similar to how you can only use the orbital laser only 3 times per mission. The biggest thing you could do in the 1st game was use multiple copies of the same strategem. It was a legit feature not some exploit that Arrowhead recently patched for Helldivers 2. Lastly there not only mechs but multiple vehicle types, ranging from a 2 man mortorbike with a mounted machine gun to a heavily armed APC with a main cannon and twin sponson mounted machine guns. Now that the new game is a 3rd person with large scale maps those vehicles will be a great addition as it will make it easier to traverse the maps in the game. Some missions and maps are so large that just moving around them can be tedious and since higher difficulties have so much more secondary and optional objectives to do just having a vehicle will make getting every single optional and secondary objectives doable for everyone.
Sorry for the long post. I hope it was insightful.
Yesterday, tried a 2P Rescue Science Teams on Extreme. We managed to rescue ~20/40 before time ran out. For extraction, I had to navigate around two Automaton tanks to get to the shuttle. The shuttle was hovering over the helipad and not landing until I got close enough that I could board it. Easily my most exhilarating extraction to date. I might upload that gameplay to my YT later today.
Those classics you mentioned (socom,GOW,Army of two, Vegas) those are great callbacks to what we are diving into today..which is alot of fun..great vid
For the 1st Helldivers, every Oct 26th, Arrowheads releases something special for the fan base. So always exciting when that day rolls around!
Feels like a throwback to win video. Games were fun and weren’t trying to present you with a message preach to you or biting off more than they could chew.
I’m so excited, I just got the game 5 hours ago and been addicted playing the server capacity screen since
Starship Troopers was the first film I ever owned (on VHS!) I remember asking my mum and she must have just assumed it was a cheesey family action film, because I was WAY too young to see legs being ripped off! Such a classic. I think I'll be getting my wallet out and 'doing my part' this weekend after watching this 💪
One thing I do miss from Helldivers 1 tho is the local co-op. I remember back in highschool, me and my friends on the couch shouting at each other, that was fun.
For me there's something about calling in explosions and lasers from your big ship in the sky that never gets old.
I really love how satisfying everything feels, from the gunplay to the different animations of everything. People keep telling me to use the Railgun because it's really good but the satisfaction i get from picking up an Expendable Anti Tank shooting the biggest bug and chucking it to the ground is palpable.
I can't wait for them to iron out the stability stuff and perhaps buff my favorite weapon the Spear :3
The servers are working great now! Hats off to Arrowhead for their hard work and getting the game fixed. It was a rare case of issues like this being very understandable and where the majority of the community remaind patient. Well done soldiers! For Democracy!
The way enemies react to gun fire and the way pieces fly off adds so much. Nice and chonky, really good feedback.
Idk what you did with your hair, but it is working good sir👍🏽
I love how fighting the bugs is endless caos and lead storm and then you fight the automatons and all has to be super tactical and precise
love seeing you have so much energy for something, just having fun. also your hair looks great
Was having so much fun playing and seeing the videos go viral about it that I had to rewatch Starship Troopers. Just as fun, funny, and biting as I remember, glad to see people giving good satire some love.
I'm loving the game, it's hilarious and epic at the same time! My favorite moment I've had so far was when we were fighting Automatons, and my friends had all died, and it was just me. The horde was closing in, the rain was pouring: the scene was set. I pulled out my orbital strike stratagem, yelled, "FOR DEMOCRACY!" and as I went to throw it, I got shot in the face which ragdolled me to the ground, dropping the orbital strike right at my feet, and when I stood back up, I was like, "OH CRAP!" as I got blown into smithereens! Best gaming moment of the year so far!
I only watched two VCD's in my life, and both pirated. One was Toy soldiers and the other was Starship Troopers. And the funny thing is, the VCD player was the stereo system. Yes I'm old.
Wow you just reminded me of army of 2. That game ruled.
Jake- "I'd love some sort of bot mode."
Me- BOTS?! WHERE! *Instant Malevelon Creek flashbacks*
I just want to say thank you for mentioning Army of Two and flooding my mind with memories. Sitting on the couch for hours and hours playing that game with my friend. What a masterpiece, I would love a remake of that game.
Helldivers 2 is like that one 3 dollar scratch card that you win 20 dollars from. It feels good in the moment, but you also spent 200 dollars on 3 dollar cards to get it, and now you'll spend 200 more. Live service games, people...
Bro I supremely hope that you have massive success on this, your personal channel. Love the review and perspective 🤘🏾
When I can get into the servers I’m absolutely loving the game! It reawakened my childhood obsession with Starship Troopers
Life lately has been going to work, talking with my coworkers about Helldivers, then going home and playing Helldivers with my coworkers until we're all too tired for work the next day
"I'm general brash, I'm not easily impressed! Helldiver school is the toughest school ever, and you're not scared. That's impressive!!" 😂
I played the first game. First played it on playstation 3 because my friend had it and as someone who loved dead ops arcade in cod black ops that game resonated with me. Just the chaos and how easily just a simple mission could turn to a fight for survival if you didn't respect your enemy. I then bought it on pc and played for quite some time but couldn't get any of my friends to purchase it, but the community was diehard and the fact you could join anyone and mid mission made for some great RP scenes. I didnt know about this game until a week ago. Safe to say, I've been grinding since I downloaded it. This is the first game in years where I just had pure fun with a game. It was hilarious to be killed by and kill my friends. Like you said the tone, plays a huge part. While serious in retrospect it's hard to stay serious when your characters, and your friends have such a jovial and kid like attitude toward the game. This game has officially made me feel like a kid again in the best way.
The thing that comes to mind for me when I think of how awesome this game is, is it reminds me of prime battlefield, when you would have “battlefield” moments where it was like straight out of a movie (not stunts as it got skewed in meaning) but more cinematic.
I’ve had some of the most fun I’ve ever had playing this game with friends. At first it was just 2 of us, but the more the merrier, and it gets straight up crazy. This is my online game for a while, and I only play single player games.
Also, I love that it is Starship Troopers! And Terminator! It’s the perfect meta set up for a live service game.
I called reinforcements and pinged the tank for my buddy to drop on. There was a loud BOOMF when he managed to do it. But, as he ascends from his hellpod, the second explosion from the tank catches him and he flies across the map. He was in the air, deemed as a traitor, before dying from impact.
I wish I had recorded that lol
So much fun playing solo! I had sessions with my friend and randoms and it was A TON OF FUN 😂
I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits.
I loved the first one playing with my siblings and the chaos that ensued with friendly fire and terrible team coordination 😂 but I am really enjoying the sequel a lot
The music the g's you up before you depart your ship also never gets repetitive.
I love that you mentioned Army of Two, I feel like EA should give the Trilogy the Mass Effect Legendary Editon treatment. That and one more game with Alpha and Bravo.
Love to see Jake being a 3rd person over 1st person kind of guy ❤😁
Me and my wife are on PlayStation and we’re having trouble getting into lobbies together. We figured our way around that problem. And we’ve had 1 game crash during extraction. But other than that, have thoroughly enjoyed fighting for democracy.
Pro tip, if you hold the reload button it gives you options to change the scope range and some weapons can change from semi auto to automatic and so on. They don't show this in the tutorial so it makes the sniper much better by going from a 50m zoom to a 200m zoom
Starship Troopers as part of Verhoeven’s pentalogy is brilliant. Any time you want to discuss the films from Robocop to Starship Troopers, i will be there
i love this game so much
The DualSense triggers are awesome. You can tell when you clip is getting low on ammo with the double click in the triggers 🔥🔥
Army of Two! Remember when you triggered the duo power up thing and they would yell, “back to back!”
There is a book series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith called Hell Divers - dystopian future with humanity in air ships above the planet and hell divers go to the surface as required. Pretty great series if that’s your jam. Think he’s up to 11 books now.
Thanks for the heads-up. The first book is free on audible right now so i’ll check it out.
I played the first one, specifically on the Vita. And I loved it. I also have it on my Deck and it is the perfect game for that. It was such a fun game because I love that 'Top-Down' kind of game play. And it still had that goofy humor. This one is just that much better because I can play with my friends.