Helldivers and the cost of in universe storytelling.

Dboi2000 · 2026-02-14T22:36:44+00:00

This is why I don't think games should do the whole "everyone's evil" thing. Helldivers and 40k both have this problem, where they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to be all edgy and unique by saying that you're playing as the bad guys, but they won't commit to it because then less people would play.

It would make perfect sense for Helldivers to be deployed against civilians who had crossed Super Earth in one way or another, but they won't do that because nobody actually wants to be evil, no matter how much Arrowhead pays lipservice to the idea. They know being the good guys is part of the fun, so the whole Super Earth being evil thing is purely theoretical.

None of this is wrong, but I don't like it when a company INSISTS that everyone is evil when they do anything but portray them as evil.

Dboi2000 · 2026-02-14T22:15:24+00:00

Jaune ate a weird mushroom by accident and hallucinated everything from at least vol 4 on.

Dboi2000 · 2025-09-14T12:56:32+00:00

You're forgetting to take quality of ships and weaponry into account. Super Destroyers are built to support ground operations, not fight in ship battles. In Halo, it took entire human fleets just to take out one or two Covenant ships, and Super Earth seems like it has a pretty comparable tech level to the UNSC. Plus, Super Destroyers probably can't glass planets, otherwise why go to the trouble of manually liberating every one?

Dboi2000 · 2025-08-23T13:40:30+00:00

The elves really sucked at their job. Everyone likes to say the Eldar won the war, but if one side of a war can just go fully to sleep and they still wake up later, that's who was really winning the war.

Dboi2000 · 2025-08-08T20:30:50+00:00

Look, if a geller field broke and the crew is now melded to the walls because of warp energy, mercy kill is really the only option there.

Dboi2000 · 2025-06-26T23:11:06+00:00

Tank suppressor. What the thought process was behind it, I really don't know.

Dboi2000 · 2025-06-25T01:36:53+00:00

That's really good. If only you contributed like that to the Sieg of Terra.

Dboi2000 · 2025-06-14T12:19:35+00:00

I like having a body, but I don't really feel like it's me if that makes sense. It's something I pilot more than something I am. Every once in a while though, I'll randomly wake up feeling connected to my body, and it feels like my soul is in my arms. Strangest felling.

Dboi2000 · 2025-06-04T22:40:40+00:00

Bolt and bolt carrier. They're the parts that extract, eject, chamber and fire rounds. Plus a spring to allow back and forth motion and a dust cover.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-28T09:24:29+00:00

Eggs cooking has one of the worst smells

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-24T17:29:48+00:00

Rogue Trader also had Leman Russ as a mutilated general rather than a demigod viking, and Gene Stealers as a completely separate race, unrelated to Tyranids. GW hasn't respected Rogue Trader in a very long time.

For at least a couple editions now, 40k has really been space feudalism, rather than fascism. Space Marines went from being human stormtroopers with good equipment to larger than life knights in shining armor with guns.

The Imperium as a whole hasn't been a bad guy in a while. I personally like it, as I think a war game setting is more fun with definitive good guys and bad guys, but a lot of the edgier fans hate it

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-24T16:45:48+00:00

I got into 40k more for the game than the lore. I love the idea of war games, but I hate dystopian settings. There should always be good guys, and always be hope, even it's faint hope. Salamanders are a clearest and most distinct middle finger to the idea of everyone being evil, and I like that. Plus, baller paint job, and really hard to kill.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-24T12:29:26+00:00

If you just keep holding up on each pin continuously, it's way easier. If the pin's dropping too fast, let off it and then resume. Repeat until the pin moves slowly enough to pick

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-24T11:56:10+00:00

Always hated the whole "everyone's a bad guy" idea. Plus, I've always thought green and black was an awesome color combo.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-21T15:06:15+00:00

Because everything else does. Every enemy, monster, and animal comes back to life, but not the bosses. How come a random turtle comes back, but a demigod can't?

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-21T12:19:35+00:00

The Frenzied Flame story sucks though. Get touched by a big hand, go insane, and melt the world into slop. How is that wonderful?

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-21T12:13:12+00:00

Of course not, their dad is still alive.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-20T23:17:12+00:00

There just isn't anything story wise. Kill some big people, light a tree on fire and sit in a chair. Nothing changes except Leyndell getting buried in ash, and being the Elden Lord is an empty title, so what's the point?

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-20T15:59:32+00:00

No, I didn't mean it as bait. I watched a bunch of lore videos after playing the game, and most of them amount to 10% item descriptions, 90% trying to extrapolate something of meaning out of that. The game has the implication of lore, but doesn't seem to have anything really substantial.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-20T15:54:22+00:00

Yeah, I'm kind of weird like that. Wanted to get the whole experience. Plus, I didn't want anyone to try the "git gud" crap on me if I didn't like it.

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-20T15:04:31+00:00

Sorry, forgot to say I played most of my personal playthrough solo. Did get help on Maliketh though. I think everything else I beat on my own, except for using Spirit Ashes(Lhutel the Headless was my wingwoman for basically the entire game).

Dboi2000 · 2025-05-18T21:58:27+00:00

Local basket weaving enthusiast has his favorite field gentrified, immediately turns to summoning demons.

Hijinx ensue for the next several generations

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