Helldivers 2

It ha- would have to be also be very, very good to have a similar arc.

And even then, it's not like Helldivers 2-

And-

... is this endless money maker.

A game I tried a little bit this week, and I could not wrap my head around it, and I deleted it right away.

Helldivers 2.

People love that game.

I saw you playing it.

I don't know if they knew what they were doing either.

Yeah.

I mean, Helldivers was supposed to be, like, inspired by, like, Starship Troopers and all that.

Yeah.

Unquote.

Between this Starship Trooper uniform and the Marines playing Helldivers 2 music during their 250th anniversary celebration, Baudrillard is rolling over in a one-to-one map of his grave.

They've got the E-Gum and everything here.

It's pretty astonishing.

We wouldn't have been able to do that.

Helldivers 2.

There was me on PlayStation, you on Xbox, Joey on PC.

I mean...

I think part of this conversation, like you can't have this conversation about why PlayStation has, quote unquote, broken up with Kojima on Fizint without acknowledging that This probably isn't just these issues.

If PlayStation wasn't having the issues they've been having for years now with their, I think it's hard to describe it as anything other than their failed games as a service push where basically every first party studio they have and even third party studios they work with have been pushed to make games as a service games and almost none of them have actually come to fruition most of them have been cancelled one even released and was cancelled a week later and the only actual success in their games as a service push has been Helldivers 2 which was developed by a third party studio and probably has, I would assume, some licensing agreements that makes it not quite as lucrative for PlayStation as it would be with a first party.

Like you can't tell me that those failures aren't part of why this is happening.

All of that wasted money and all of that time and all those resources that were put into that.

saying.

But Sony is doing the exact same thing, right? And then you had these surprise smash-out hits, like um helldivers 2 was fairly successful but also kind of died off i know there's still people out there playing it but for games as a service title right it's It's a nothing burger anymore.

And games as a service titles only make sense if you can keep them alive for years and years and years, right? Your Sea of Thieves, your Fortnites, your War Zones.

Those kind of level is what you need to reach for games as a service title to be successful.

So you're talking about the clothes.

What about in Helldivers 2? I know I've already spoken about them recently, but Helldivers 2, you obviously start off in a pristine outfit, and then by the end, your cape is in tatters, you're covered in blood, you just look an absolute mess.

Well, the first time I saw this was Batman Arkham Asylum.

So Batman Arkham Asylum, I don't think Batman Arkham Asylum does it dynamically, as in when you're betting beating fights, but as he goes through the night, his clothes, his cape, I'm sure gets more tattered.

Another thing, honestly, that might be it, at least on PlayStation also, is...

The Helldivers 2 just dropped as part of the PlayStation Essentials or whatever.

So there's folks like myself included who fired that up.

I just got through the tutorial, and I already don't think it's for me.