Helldivers 2 Just Changed The Gaming Industry Forever!

So Helldivers 2 is insanely popular

right now. It's one of the top games

played on Steam and Twitch, and it's even

managed to overtake games like GTA 5 and

Counter-Strike because those games usually

dominated the top player base charts on

Steam. And now they've actually been

overtaken by Helldivers 2. And this game

is kind of a phenomenon in the gaming

industry because it basically came out of

nowhere. There was basically no hype

leading up to the announcement of this

game. I had no idea this game was being

released until it actually released. I saw

the first initial reviews and I was like,

the hell is this game? I never heard of

Helldivers before. Obviously there's a

Helldivers 1 since this is Helldivers 2,

and after gaming for nearly 30 years,

I have never heard of Helldivers in my

entire life. And one of the amazing

accomplishments of Helldivers 2 is the

fact that it's not a very AAA game. The

company that made it, the developers, are

not very well known. They're not like a

massive AAA budget company. They're kind

of like an indie company. And they've kind

of put to shame AAA games recently, games

like Starfield, which did have massive

marketing hype but still was a massive

letdown. And players were just very

disappointed and bored of Starfield and

the game just fell off very quickly. So

even massive giant companies like Bethesda

and Diablo 4 Blizzard, they're being put

to shame by these tiny small developers.

Palworld is another great example of just

basically an indie company that no one's

heard of before. Making an amazing game

that takes the internet by storm. And it

just kind of proves that you don't need

multi-millions for your budget to make a

good game. And actually, the smaller the

company and the smaller the resources they

have, it seems like they are managing to

make a better game than these big AAA

companies. So I checked out Helldivers 1

to see what was so great about it to make

Helldivers 2 so popular now. And

Helldivers 1 is basically the same game as

Helldivers 2 apart from one thing: the

camera angle. So in Helldivers 1, the

camera angle is top-down isometric, kind

of twin-stick shooter, and the gameplay is

the same. You go to objectives, you clear

out objectives, you fight off hordes of

enemies, you place stratagems, and it's

4-player co-op against hordes and hordes

of enemies. Literally the same exact same

kind of gameplay in Helldivers 2, just

that they changed the camera angle from

isometric top-down to now 3D. And to be

honest, if I played Helldivers 1, I don't

think I would have ever played it because

it looks kind of rubbish. It looks like a

game from 2000-something, like a

PlayStation 1 game. It looks pretty bad.

And if they release Helldivers 2 with the

same camera angle, I don't think anyone

would have cared. I think the main reason

why it's so popular right now is mainly

because of the 3D move to the 3D camera,

which has been great. The game looks so

much better, so much more immersive with

this new camera angle. And they really—

well, first of all, with the first game,

they really had a great idea and a great

concept for a good game. They just didn't

package it well in a good-looking way with

that rubbish top-down camera. But now that

they've repackaged it in a different way,

it's funny how basically you take the

exact same gameplay core mechanics concept

and you just change something as simple as

the camera angle, and now you've got like

a blockbuster smash-hit Helldivers 2 game

compared to Helldivers 1. Where barely

anyone even knew what it was. It's kind of

like YouTube in a way, where you can have

2 YouTube videos where basically the

content of the videos are the same, but

the first video can flop based solely on

things like the title or the thumbnail

wasn't as good as the second version of

it. And even though it's the exact same

video concept and content, just because

you tweaked the title a little bit it now

has hundreds of thousands of views instead

of just a couple thousand views. So it is

kind of funny how it works in a similar

way. So I would say one of the main

reasons that makes Helldivers 2 just so

damn addictive has to be the way that

there's loads of gear and armor. I mean,

look at this, all the different weapons.

There's so many weapons in this game.

Okay, most of them suck and you end up

just using the Breaker shotgun 99% of the

time, But there's so many cool-looking

weapons. Look at this, like the Plasma

Scorcher, the Dominator, and you got all

this secondary gear, grenades, you got all

this armor. Look at all this armor.

There's so many things in the game to

unlock, and it takes a lot of grinding to

unlock a bit— unlock all of it. And

there's all these war bonds. Look at this,

you got pages upon pages of unlockables.

And this— what this does is it creates a

very addictive gameplay loop where you

feel like, oh my god, I need to buy all

this stuff, I need all these resources.

And then you come to ship management and

there's just endless amounts of weapons.

You've got machine gun, anti-material

rifle, Stalwart, flamethrowers,

autocannons. You've got all these orbital

bombardments, all these Eagle airstrikes,

all of these gas things, Tesla towers

and sentries and supply packs. And then

you've got ship modules to upgrade. It's

like endless amount of stuff to do. Which

just makes you feel like you really need

to grind harder at the game. Also, the

gameplay is extremely addictive and easy

to jump into. Like, for this example, I

can just press R, join into a match that's

ongoing already, and hopefully hop into

some action. The co-op gameplay is really

outstanding, and when the bugs don't get

in the way of the game, the game is

extremely fun and streamlined. So you go

into a mission loadout, you've already got

some people to play with. So it's not only

a very addictive game that looks slick and

has cool action, it also has like this

social component to the game where you

feel like, yeah, I'm playing with these

people on the internet, I don't know who

they are, but we're kind of sharing a

moment here. And if you're lonely and

don't really know what to do, you don't

have any friends, it is a pretty great way

to socialize and and had a great time

whilst doing it. So as soon as you load

into the game, you drop into the planet,

and then you're just surrounded by these

massive, pretty cool-looking insects. The

design of the bugs is pretty cool. I

really like the design of these insects,

and they've, they've got a lot of variety.

Like, you've got these massive ones,

you've got these armored ones. They all

have unique attacks. You've got all these

orbital bombardments, and then you're just

trying to survive your team whilst calling

down extractions, calling down orbital

strikes, E-strikes, Eagle Strikes,

gas strikes— whatever you have, just throw

at the enemy. Also, things like the

ragdoll physics really make the game kind

of spontaneous and random, which leads to

some pretty funny moments in the game.

Yeah, the game is like really cool and

really immersive, and they've done a great

job at making this game. This game kind of

came out of nowhere and surprised everyone

when the whole internet was taken by storm

by Palworld, and it seems like everyone

was just non-stop talking about Palworld.

This game kind of came out of nowhere and

overtook Palworld, and it's now trending

and way more popular than Palworld was,

and that was just a week ago. It is really

just a fun game to hop into, and you can

play it however you want to. You can play

it solo, play with a group. You can take

it really seriously and try and challenge

yourself with a solo Helldive run without

dying, or you can just hop in, have fun,

blow up some stuff and nuke some stuff,

don't really care what you're doing, and

just have a good time. So it caters to all

kinds of players, and it's really easily

accessible. It's not really much depth to

it, and it's kind of a basic shooting

game, although there is some strategy like

weak points on enemies, certain weapons

that do better against certain enemy

types. There is a level of strategy and

depth to it if you are willing to dig for

it, but it doesn't mean it's like an

overly complex game with pages upon pages

of skill trees and talents. It's not an

RPG game where you're just buried and

drowning in stats and all that kind of

stuff, so it is very accessible to the

casual player. This game has really come

out of nowhere and surprised everyone,

and it's a nice refreshing take on video

games after all these recent AAA failures

like Starfield have just kind of

disappointed us video gamers.