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Right
I like the game because it's chaotic, one second you're pouring napalm into a bug nest and the next you're being slammed into a brick wall at 60mph by a charger
The problem is, it's a product designed to make money, so despite the inherent satire, Arrowhead appeases the reactionary parts of the fanbase
The moment I knew they were never really going to make it as biting as they could was the whole "Save the Children's Hospital" MO
I thought it was funny at first because why was there a children's hospital on the frontline of a war zone in the first place?
But they played it completely straight and convinced the loudest worst chunk of the fanbase that even if Super Earth was bad, Helldivers themselves can be good people
Even when they made fun of that with the MO to save the hospital for spindly 20-something men, it was cooked
Well, There's that and the fact that i'm convinced that most of the people who play the game can't/won't read
It's a cool action game and as a antifascist I enjoy the satire but it's not going to educate the chuds.
Definitely
Arrowhead is selling a product and their behavior in doing so definitely defangs the satire
but I am glad they refuse to put cowboy hats into the game
Nothing froths up the chuds more than being denied their western wear