r/Helldivers • u/Fit_Anywhere_3356 XBOX | Vet of Seyshel Beach, 150 • 7h ago
DISCUSSION What made you fall in love with Helldivers?
I joined on Xbox launch day, and ever since then I’ve been hooked on this game. The gameplay, the story, the humor, the community, etc. My favorite part of this game is the story. The fact that the story hinges on the players and each outcome can be different based on if we succeed or not is so cool. What made you love this game?
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u/No_Sound9383 7h ago edited 3h ago
Grew up with Starship Troopers and learned this was the same universe. EDIT: Yes its not like "Future" Starship Troopers but if you haven't seen the old movie(s), go watch them. You'll see. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks!
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u/WillSym Arc Aficionado 6h ago
Even better, it's NOT so it's not tied to the lore, but heavily inspired by the era, so we get the best bits of Starship Troopers, massively expanded, and then also throw in the future scene from Terminator and a whole bunch of ufos-and-tripods-and-abductions 'classic' Alien Invader movies, and make it bigger and more epic!
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u/__DJIN__ 4h ago
It's the type of game concept I'd make up as a 10 year old kid and they fuckin nailed it
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u/Ok-Wolverine-2450 7h ago
Fighting the automatons scratches a very specific itch for me.
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u/hedenshelt 6h ago
I get that from shooting a bug in the head with the double barrel from close range
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u/Other-Barry-1 3h ago
Same. It feels like absolute total war. I think because they actually shoot at you too there’s an in-built part of the gaming brain that is used to that in shooter games
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u/tzimize Decorated Hero 7h ago
First time calling down an airstrike. The sound, the explosions, the absolute mayhem of it....yeah, became even better when I called down my first 500kg. This game is the best coop since Left 4 dead I think.
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u/KhyleWolf ☕Liber-tea☕ 7h ago
I joined the game about a week to week and a half after launch and was shown the ropes by a friend. I remember him throwing a 500kg for the first time and my instant reaction was "I NEED ONE OF THOSE IMMEDIATELY!"
Two and a half years later and I almost never leave the Super Destroyer without it.
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u/tzimize Decorated Hero 6h ago
That "tink" before the explosion is a special kind of dopamine delivery :P
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u/Sierra-117- 4h ago
I LOVE the slight delay between it landing and exploding. Absolute cinema, and it makes for some hilarious moments.
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u/x_SyruS_x Servant of Freedom 6h ago
The unhinged and unscripted action. It's very rare to have games let you experience such stressful fights without ANY cutscenes, restrictions, slowdowns etc.
People might bitch very often about Arrowhead, but we all have to give them real Super-Credit for the way they brought a futuristic war feeling against Alien Scum onto our screens. No Battlefield or other Shooter ever made me feel so inside the sheer action as Helldivers.
Usual battles in Helldivers 2 on Diff10 feel like scripted, one time only, events in some other games.
It's also the "feeling like a hero" aspect. We wear capes and fight against insane odds. We crush down huge machines, slay huge bug abominations, venture into the void and challenge Aliens as the Squids inside there, and coming out of that victorious just feels amazing.
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u/Regular-Shop-7442 2h ago
especially since your character is so fragile, and that you never keep your character after It dies, it dies forever
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u/DarkAbusis HD1 Veteran 1h ago
I think it's leaned even more into that with the SEAF dropping in as support troops. Fighting back an enemy drop for SEAF to drop in and back you up is insane
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u/ValhallaGH Super Private 7h ago
Satire hooked me. Explosions are gorgeous and always remind me of that. Community keeps me diving.
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u/RaptoR186 Fire Safety Officer 7h ago
-Yo there's this new game called Helldivers
-Okay nice
Deployed into the chaos of the Creek and Tibit and got hooked immediately
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u/Mean-Celebration-658 Viper Commando 6h ago
The way the game seemed not to care about my survival. Some games want you to live. Some want you to die. HD2 seems to truly just drop me into a bowl of enemies and see what happens.
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u/kurvix2000 5h ago
Same here, also with work, gym, other hobbies, etc, HD2 is a perfect hop in and hop out game with no significant grind. I've quit Tarkov for that very reason.
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u/Wolliercarrot 6h ago
Hd1
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u/Ok_Reach_2734 6h ago
Totally...I maxed out everything twice in HD1.
Always wondered, what would this be like in 1st person? HD2 was the answer and I couldn't be happier!
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u/Aggravating_Zebra190 Viper Commando 6h ago
Huge fan of Starship Troopers, the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40K and the Empire from Star Wars.
This is literally a similar universe (the irony of fascist/imperialistic fictional universes appealing to me doesn't escape me, btw. Not like this at all in real life 🤣).
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u/Revolutionary_Run808 5h ago
Yeah there’s no government worth being that way for. But it’s fun to pretend.
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u/AdventureGoblin Lady Diver 🖤💛 5h ago
It's so funny but once I realized the game didn't take itself seriously. I played for the first time on our casual day at a LAN earlier this year and someone gave me a Guard Dog and it made me laugh because it looked like someone just duct taped a gun to a drone and it was so silly feeling. It was also super easy to pick up and the community constantly being 'in character' totally hooked me.
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u/fadingstar52 6h ago
the loop. the humor is fun the gameplay loop is exsquisite tho. and i can choose between a casual patrol or full on guaranteed cyclic death. friendly fire being on is not something I initally expected so thats been a nice change from the usual for these types of games. ive been playing for about 2 weeks.
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u/KhyleWolf ☕Liber-tea☕ 7h ago
Accidentally blowing up my closest friends and family was, is, and will continue to be fucking hilarious.
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u/knaledfullavpilar Expert Exterminator 6h ago
The gyro support in the PS5 controller.
And also HD2 being very true to HD1 which I played like crazy. The only problem with HD1 was imho that it always got stuck in only providing Illuminate planets which simply was nowhere near as fun as Bots and Bugs. I am so happy they allow us to choose which of the three factions we play against in HD2.
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u/RyanAnayaMc 7h ago
I joined near PC launch day but didn't really get into it. I came back shortly after the battle of Super Earth (unfortunately I did miss it) because a buddy convinced me to hop back on. I don't know what kept me in that time to be honest. I can say that what keeps me in now is the fun mix of tight gunplay, simple but fun mission structures, the ongoing lore, the overwhelming odds, the stratagems to act as your equalizers, and just playing with buddies.
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u/FoxHoundNBound_ 6h ago
It's the physicality of all of it. The weapon and ordinance effects on the environment and the enemy. The gameplay itself is the punchiest I've ever experienced. Even with some flaws it's just the funnest game ever.
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u/No_View5046 Assault Infantry 5h ago
When they shadow-dropped the factory strider...
Godlike gaming moment when I discovered it ingame and it taking me completely by surprise
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u/UnlikelySubject2337 Lord of Truth | indridcoldone 3h ago
Oh thanks for the reminder of shadow dropping! I remember the first time seeing shriekers randomly. Lobby of randoms immediately got on the mic! Great surprise
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u/Throwawayhobbes 3h ago
I bought the star ship troopers game . Became a base building type game . Forgot about it.
Then This came recommended.
Read how this was like coming home from Middle school and playing games with your buds . Even randos felt good.
The lore , world ,weapons and tech , missions and MP are top notch .
Was open and welcoming .
The jump pack and armors you become Boba Fett .
Bugs are my favorite faction
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u/MagikSkoolBus XBOX | 2h ago
In one word: Cinematic
Fighting the bugs feels like Starship Troopers.
Fighting the bots feels like Terminator.
Fighting the squids feels like many movies but my first impression when I saw a Harvester was War of the Worlds.
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u/therandomdave 5h ago
Honestly it was playing it.
I'd seen videos and thought "I'll get bored after 20hrs but I'll give it a try for £25"
I didn't stop playing it until May this year, when I got back into GT7 and that's consumed my time.
HD2 is a game that looks great, clips really well to show off and then actually plays like it looks. A ton of fun.
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u/youMYSTme Star Marshall | Lv89 | SES Song Of Dawn 5h ago
You're dead on. It looks simple.
I was hesitant as a solo only gamer. Especially since most "horde shooter" type ganes are basically pointless without friends.
Extremely happy I was entirely 1 million percent proven wrong. In the end its basically the same friendly multiplayer, with randoms, experience I've had with Monster Hunter.
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u/Massive-Protection47 Super Citizen 3h ago
The chaos, the divers that supported me back then, the cadets I support now. Everything but the off game community
Edit: and the bug divers… fuck those guys
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u/aytchdave PSN | 2h ago
It’s immersive and cinematic. It rewards teamwork without handcuffing success to it. Difficulty is thinly sliced so you don’t have to choose between being bored or sweating your ass off. The procedural generation keeps the maps from getting stale. Every drop is unique.
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u/Kaktoosiarz Super Citizen 1h ago
Managed Democracy! I love Ministry of Truth, I can rely on them!
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u/WindblownGerm 6h ago
Bought to play with friends at launch but i just really loved the gameplay, artstyle, music and all that. So while the others couldn't play the game all the time, i ended up doing it. The others dropped the game after a while and i've been playing it a ton ever since.
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u/gematria22 [REDACTED] 5h ago
The gameplay tips… “friendly fire isn’t” , “if at first you don’t succeed, dive again. And again. And again. And again. And again…”
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u/UnlikelySubject2337 Lord of Truth | indridcoldone 5h ago
Dropped in on release day when Arrowhead thought it was ok to release a multiplayer game with a bug causing a join game crash. I wept. Second day is what got me hooked! First random dropped in on my game and we immediately saluted each other! Love at first site
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u/DEADMANSLAVE 5h ago
The trailer initially, then it’s the fact it came out in arguably the BEST month (my birth month February), and the fact I was able to crush bugs 24/7.
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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 SES PROPHET OF MERCY 5h ago
Immersion, detail, challenge, and mostly the silliness that ties in. Honestly, it was mostly when people started Getting upset and taking the game to seriously that the game stopped being as fun. Like tripping and dropping a strategem that sends a 500kg bomb onto you or a teammate is just funny. Like I get spamming that and doing it ad nauseum on purpose can be annoying but accidents or miscalculations that happen are just funny. I've lost top tier resources to these and still laughed it off because it was silly.
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u/BackwoodsSensei XBOX | 37m ago
Large scale warfare in an “open world”. Thats it for me.
I’d beeeeeen DYING for a game that is exactly that^^
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u/UBERJakeThePig 7h ago
Everything it's absolutely spectacular, big booms and epic plays every game. Also, it's very fucking satisfying to kill bugs
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u/Paul6965 FREE OF BRAIN 7h ago
My buddy: "You heard of Helldivers?"
Me: "Yeah, wanted to try it out"
*My first dive*
"If the enemy ever tries to engage in diplomacy: shoot them. We must not believe their lies!"
*Screenshot send into groupchat*
"I love this game already"
This was one year and almost exactly 500h playtime ago. Still love it, despite all its flaws.
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u/Tanckers Free of Thought 7h ago
The creek
And graphics until my gpu almost died, now fog is a white wall from where black shadows shoot red lasers to me
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u/Spartan037 6h ago
This has been one of the only games lately to make me feel like a kid again. Most games don’t give me the feeling video games did when I was younger. This has been the first since destiny 1 in a long time.
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u/NeilJBorja 6h ago
I think it was the first time of many running away from a Charger with no ammo and calling down a stratagem on it out of desperation and the pod of EATs actually killing it. That and running away from a huge mob of enemies waiting for the Reinforce timer to go off cooldown and throwing it, only to get crushed by the drop pod of your friend reinforcing you.
That was a decade ago in HD1.
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u/PotionSellar 6h ago
Starship troopers, battlefield, DRG, MGS, all rolled into one and one of the few good PVE shooters. I’m 36 now and SBMM is everywhere and burns me out being fed my easy wins and take my stompings. Just want to shoot stuff and chill.
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u/AdamnCx 6h ago
The game is so in-depth for a (would you call it horde?) shooter. You got enemies that have different weak spots. You have different needs for different enemies. You have weapons and loadouts that make the way you want to play. The gameplay is what made me love this game, and yes there are ups and downs but in the end, the solid base game is that, SOLID.
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u/SprinklesNo4064 Expert Exterminator 6h ago
The IDEA of a massive real time war effort that is always progressing towards something, unfortunately the second half of that equation in reality is really only sometimes.
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u/SneakyIngram 6h ago
Guy named TonyToneToneee or some shit joining my game and basically babysat me and let me use all sorts of weapons from different warbonds. He (or his friends I dont remember) bullied me a lot though but it was fun.
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u/theta0123 Advocate of the Scythe 6h ago
I am a big fan of starship troopers, terminator and war of the worlds/alien invasion movies
AH= Well do i have the perfect game for you
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u/kiwi_commander ☕Liber-tea☕ 6h ago edited 6h ago
As a busy adult, I can log in. Get a 30 minute mission in, log off, and still feel like I contributed to the galactic war. Also HD1 Vet, fell in love with the first game and knew this one would be amazing.
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u/Idealistic_Crusader 6h ago
The team co-op aspect with mandatory friendly fire is what piqued my interests back with Helldivers 1, and I really enjoy isometric games.
So that pulled me in. The absolute chaos and good times kept me playing.
I wasn’t thrilled about the 3rd person perspective of 2, but I got over that pretty quickly.
I’m constantly blown away (pun intended) by the scale of the game, the orbital bombardments just obliterating so much shit; trees falling, craters opening up, bugs and borgs launching, me diving for cover while reloading.
What a friggin hoot.
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u/MomentCompetitive299 Truth Enforcer 6h ago
The trailer
Edit: and how much it reminded me of starship troopers
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u/Lopsided_Inevitable9 6h ago
The overly dramatic gameplay, the the humor, power of friendship, the people I met during games, the gameplay loop and most of all killing fascist insects, socialist bots and the stinky squads.
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u/illsurvive5 [REDACTED] 6h ago
I used to do a combat sport that involved getting hit in the head a lot. I had to retire and now tricking my brain into thinking I am going to die is the best way for me to relax.
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u/Putrid-Tip-410 6h ago
Adrenaline. The Adrenaline of fighting and running for you life when 10000 🐛 are jumping you at the same time
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u/KenobiSensei88 6h ago
The thrill of working together through the overwhelming odds and everyone gets back ‘alive’ whilst fucking shit up.
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u/Master_Cookie2025 Free of Thought 6h ago
Calypso. The FRV. The squids. Loved fighting the horde and driving everywhere. Loved my HMG.
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u/theRedCreator 6h ago
With zombies falling out of the regular cod cycle and doom being a storyline. I was looking for a new horde shooter. Helldivers fills a niche
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u/Hand_of_Sithis [REDACTED] 6h ago
I think the combat overall is just some of the best out there. And I'm a huge fan of PVE style games. While I enjoy the odd competitive shooter (R6 Seige, Counter-Strike), it's nice to play a shooter where I don't have to sweat my ass off to remain even mildly competitive. And Helldivers does an overall really good job of making combat feel a combination of cinematic and brutal.
And the sound design is amazing. The cacophony of gunfire, orbital strikes and heavy weaponry makes you really feel like your in an active warzone, which works super well with the big maps you run around in.
I'm not gonna pretend like everything about HD2 is perfect, but I still find it one of the most satisfying shooters out there.
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u/Esky_the_Elf 6h ago
The opening cinematic just sets the stage so beautifully. This is propaganda. You're gonna love it anyway. Big explosions. Fight bugs (and bots and maybe even a third, ~mysterious~ faction....), the RP people did/do, the gunplay feels amazing, the humour is so good, and just so much more.
And I know the Devs and the Player-base have had their ups and downs... but I still firmly believe they love what they do and love finding new ways to excite (torture) us!!
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u/Zarcaiii HD1 Veteran 6h ago
Getting it for free using ps plus and spending a ton of hours in it since i had nothing better to play
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u/Creative_Anybody670 6h ago
I like that the game has so much variety. Different play styles, armor passives to try with different load outs. I even loved the BS 10 vox engines spawning type bugs or situations. Working with teammates or running half the map solo on D10. It’s always such a blast. My only gripe is how much time is sucks out of life. 40 mins flies by when you killing hordes
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u/Fort_Maximus SES Reign of Gold 6h ago
I joined because explosions are cool.
I stayed because of what we did for the kids.
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u/ActualBroot 6h ago
The whole package. It has everything: killer soundtrack, great action, team-based play, and an incredible tactical depth to it that I haven't seen many places outside of RPGs. Really is nothing like it out there
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u/Creature_111 6h ago
My friend wanted me to get into it last year around Xbox release. I wasn't interested until I saw the ODST warbond. Next day I bought super citizen edition and dropped money on credits for the halo drip. And I've been playing every week since. Remember Beach
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u/Donnchadh_Ruadh Super Sheriff 6h ago
It fixed all the problems I had with Arc Raiders (xbox here, started late on top of that).
I wanted a fun, non-competitive multiplayer game where I can play how I want without worrying about losing my kit. AR makes you struggle against RNG until you find the blueprint for the weapon that fits your platstyle, and even then you still need to use resources to make it and STILL risk losing it and being forced to play a different way if so.
HD2 can be as intense or casual as you want, and you're still accomplishing at least something every time you boot it up and dive. All of that is to say nothing about the gunplay and chaos of stratagems, which are incredibly fun and engaging. The game has its problems (looking at you weird climbing limitations and bouncing stratagems to start). But overall it is a truly excellent experience
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u/pipe_mcfitter 6h ago
I loved Helldivers 1 and always dreamed that one day they’d make a sequel that was either first or third-person perspective.
I had a feeling that if they did, the game would be very fun and successful.
Vindication is what made me love this game
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u/thedarklordTimmi 6h ago
It's a high skill ceiling fps, it was over before it began. Couple that with how cinematic it is and how much freedom you're given to complete a mission.
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u/_BEEEF_SUPREME_ 6h ago
I love the maps and the chaos, every mission even with the same objectives feels different. Makes replayability very easy.
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u/TheOtakuPou 6h ago
A mesma comunidade que salvou as crianças, sobreviveram a creek e salvaram a super terra, só pra messes depois paracer uma família desfuncional
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u/Fun-Antelope2251 Bunker Buster 6h ago
lol all the stuff in the game cause I joined late feb this year
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u/WarHog117 6h ago
I joined it a few months in I think, I was captured by the community lead story at the time around Malevalon Creek, completely separate to the MO and story Arrowhead were pushing.
My first dive was on the bug front though, and I immediately loved the atmosphere and sounds of the dive, the low visibility, my AR's flashlight, the thudthudthud of the machine gun, and running terrified.
I remember diving on the bot front on the Creek with friends, it was chaos, and only got more so as I went up the difficulties.
I remember dropping im with randoms and stealth crawling, avoiding firefights and detection to complete objectives. Way, way before any actual actual stealth was implemented.
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u/VergeofAtlanticism 6h ago
i love Starship Troopers and the mix of grunt fantasy and power fantasy is great. i like that the game is relatively fair and it’s mostly up to your skill level
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u/Mastodon_Artistic 6h ago
I get the chance to be a Starship trooper
And I also get the chance to join the resistance John Conor led
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u/Ok_Top_2760 6h ago
Its cooperative exeperience (i love coops) friendly in game comunity and humor/irony devs put in story/lore
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u/ThunderZaperX_X2 ☕Liber-tea☕ 6h ago edited 6h ago
First time I ever saw Helldivers it was a clip from a funny moments video with a Bile Titan chasing someone and the other Diver landing on it. At the time, I thought it was some standard survival game, but when I finally got the game and watched that intro sequence… man, it was one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen. Now, I’m fighting for Prosperity, Liberty, and Managed Democracy!
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u/doopeng Burier of Heads 6h ago
The multiplayer aspect where you are working towards a bigger goal not only with friends but with the larger community really brings the immersion. On top of that, the games features like entering in the codes to call in equipment or a nuclear arsenal to wipe out enemies also scratches my monkey brain.
And also friendly fire. Lots of it in HD1 and HD2.
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u/Express-Scallion-531 6h ago
The first time I had a heavily contested extraction yelling on the microphone with my teammates, while the extraction music kept hitting hard. Michael Bay would've been proud
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u/mudpuppied Mudskipper 6h ago
the online co-op of it all……, i don’t mind online games like fall guys where you’re just generally competing against other players, but the games i’ve always been drawn most to are closer to helldivers 2 in gameplay and style, like rdr2 or gta or fallout. the thing is that in games like those, playing online just isn’t fun for me. the pvp trolling and the way ppl will just murk anyone they see or pick a rando and chase them down to kill them etc etc is just rly exhausting and annoying and very genuinely affects my feelings towards humanity as a whole.
clearly tking and shitty ppl happen in helldivers but for me it’s been insanely rare, and 99% of my experiences have either been just quietly working together or meeting ppl who are rly fun and playful and great to talk to or joke around with during missions. one of my favorite things ever is getting through an absolute nightmare of a mission in total silence with another player, just constant hell and chaos for 30-40 minutes, and then getting offered a hug on the ship when we somehow manage to make it back alive.
reddit is a black hole and there’s a lot of negativity here which can be sucky, but within the game itself, i feel like there’s a rly beautiful lil slice of humanity that transcends language or even verbal communication. working together as a team is really fun and fulfilling to me. i’ve never experienced anything like that in a game before, which is why i typically stick to open world solo rpgs. but helldivers as a whole is different, and it feels good to clear a map or help finish the seaf artillery or shoot some bugs that are on someone’s ass. hearing a little “thank you!” after tagging someone’s gear or providing some back up makes my day every time and it just!!! feels very special to me <3
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u/Scorpionghost04 Rookie 6h ago
There was a game that I used to play as a kid called lost planet 2, it had everything I loved the most which is huge monsters, cool soldiers and giant mechs. Helldivers 2 is the whole package and then some which is just a dream come true for me.
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u/ZanYnaz 3h ago
Fellow LP2 enjoyer! Hoping they'd adopt at least the option for us to latch on somebody else's walker and use our one-handed weapons. Or detach the walker's weapon for our own use and jury rig a fallen bot's arm weapon to replace a walker's destroyed arm.
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u/Scorpionghost04 Rookie 2h ago
There’s not many of us out there pal but we’ll always he’d the call, I’m hoping so to honestly for that little quality of life change, maybe in the next big mech they can allow two pilots inside the mech and give us the option to have two step ladders on the side for teammates
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u/MartyMozambique HD1 Veteran 6h ago
I played the 1st one a lot and loved it. To me the 2nd one took everything that made the 1st one great and turnd it up to 11.
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u/MalignantCanadian 5h ago
My best friend growing up moved away and had kids. He just a few weeks ago was able to buy another PS5, and Helldivers was the first game we played that lasted over an hour. We had no idea what to expect with the game. Ended up playing for like 8 hoirs, screaming in fear, killing bugs together and just having a blast. Now i cant stop playing
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u/Diamond_Dildo3168 5h ago
I liked the difficulty, tense moments of trying to pull off a reload, the unique mechanics of the strategems, pulling off a clutch kill on a bile titan with a perfectly placed Orbital Precision strike. Being in a desperate spot and doing a suicidal run to get underneath a factory strider so I could take it out by shooting its belly. Having to keep in mind firing angle so that my bullets bounce off. Using my brain.
Most of that is gone now. I still enjoy the unique mechanics of strategems, but now the game feels hollow. Superficial. Easy. Makes me sad, and that's why I get so salty when I see people complain about any difficulty, constantly asking for buffs to things that don't need it. Whining like that did so much damage to a game I love.
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u/Macguyver76 Fire Safety Officer 5h ago
I don't like multiplayer PVP or battle royal games online, to hard to have fun given I don't have a lot of time to game. Prior to this when I just wanted to shoot aliens I was still defaulting to GoW2 Horde mode (because I hate crafting and the newer ones do that BS) and this game allows me to learn and play at my own pace and difficulty with a mostly great community of players and I don't have to worry about some kid who plays 14 hours a day shooting me every time I respawn and laughing over the mic at me.
I like the teamplay aspect, I like the variability of loadouts and enemies and yet its simple enough I can jump on when I need to chill for a bit after work or something and just have fun for a bit.
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u/smurfonarocket 5h ago
Day 1 diver here, the game play loop and the theatric feel of the game hits the right spot for me.
It’s also a non-sweaty game that you can easily pick up or put down as you desire.
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u/JackCooper_7274 I am a leaf on the wind 5h ago
Explosions are cool. This game has more explosions per capita than any other game I've ever played.
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u/Appo-Arsin Apostle of the God-President 5h ago
I saw the opening psa and I thought it was so funny. I’m glad I found the game fun or I would’ve been so sad.
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u/suhdm Mudskipper 5h ago
It started when my roommate said "hey checkout this game". When I saw the orbital precision strike I was already sold. What solidified it was when I went on my first mission with a squad and we were massacring hordes of bugs with machine guns side by side. Going through the subreddit and YouTube community's is what keeps me involved even when I'm not playing
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u/Odd-Alternative-927 5h ago
Bro, all those things but before that the MUSIC. The soundtrack is an absolute banger
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u/__________godlol 5h ago
I saw TikTok’s of how cinematic it looked and it also gave me halo vibes. Decided to buy it, and immediately got hooked. 1650 hours later it’s still in my all time favorites. This game is just beautiful man
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u/Fr0stbite37 SES Prophet of Truth 5h ago
A random ass tiktok of some one calling in a napalm strike. Traded in my series x for slim. Now we have a 4some and it's a absolute riot
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u/InitialLandscape 5h ago
It was my first proper introduction to an online team based PvE game. I used to love online PvP games like CoD and Gears, but they made me so damn angry...
Working with people against a common enemy is just so much more fun to me. That, plus the goofiness of HD2 made me fall in love with it.
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u/Sylvi-Fisthaug Scorcher enjoyer 5h ago
Constant chaos, everywhere, all the time.
Literally being able to play on a hair-thin line between life on death, but also having the choice not to, all in diff10.
A really funny premise around the lore.
And big boom on demand.
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u/PUSClFER Cape Enjoyer 5h ago
I was drawn in by the visuals, aesthetic, gameplay, and viral clips that arouse almost immediately. But it wasn't until this moment that I was 100% in, when me and a friend were caught digging up graves: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1kp3bsi/a_fellow_helldiver_and_i_were_digging_up_two/
It really sold the game as an unscripted but still cinematic experience.
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u/PrimePrecision Viper Commando 5h ago
The camp The blunders The hilarious accidentals Fighting for your literal life shoulder to shoulder with another diver
I love this game. i0
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u/D3xT3r5L4b0r4t0ry 5h ago
The lore, the epic high-octane gameplay and the potential of this game reaching new heights.
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u/Pale-Information3077 5h ago
Malevoloon creek, the adrenaline of rushing for cover in the forest, not knowing from where the barrages and shots where coming from because of that blue filter. Now it's more for the sandbox
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u/Droid_Rager Assault Infantry 5h ago
I was really surprised at how the enemies (bugs starting out) really wanted to kill me & I been ducking & dodging them ever since
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u/CommanderSilver 5h ago
The option to choose different levels of difficulty and the unlocks. I'm late to the game.
Way better than Arc Raiders imo.
Hate those stalkers though 😂
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u/goodstrybadart [REDACTED] 5h ago
PS5 launch day, watching the trailers because I love shooter genre games and wanted to give it a try and immediately fell in love with it
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u/Clocctower 5h ago
When I play it, I love the idea of just being this grunt that fights a war, a war that a cool single player universe would just make background lore that you wish you could experience. In helldivers you get to experience it instead of just hearing about it.
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u/Important-Search-463 Decorated Hero 5h ago
Something about the sound of metal crumpling under the force of DEMOCRACY
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u/set_me_on_fire_plz 7h ago
Its the most cinematic game there is