Are the automatons and bugs the good guys/justified in their resistance towards Super Earth in Helldivers 2? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

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[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago

Probably not. AFAIK the devs are Swedish. Which means they're too chickenshit to commit to the bit

[-] Magos_Galactose@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

Good? Not sure. Completely justified in their counteroffensive against Super Earth? Absolutely.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

Weirdo fascists seem to have taken a liking to the main characters so probably.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago

They can be entirely justified in their resistance without being the good guys. Hard to say given the limited information we have. Also the devs probably aren't going to do some deep geopolitical analysis of a fictional world.

[-] Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Automatons definitely are. Bugs seem to be just wild animals bred by super earth as resources. Bugs may get more coordinated and an actual society.

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Considering the Automatons' makers (the totally-not-space-Soviet Cyborgs of Helldivers 1) are canonically all now enslaved and locked up in the mines of Cyberstan... yes, the Automatons are 110% justified.

[-] dm_me_your_boobs@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Not the bugs?

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I have added "and bugs" to the title of this post

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Also them

[-] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago

I don't care to play or learn much about the game given it's fascist fan base but I thought the bug were representative of a reactionary's idea of communism.

[-] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

It’s a parody of what a fascist US would look like and it’s not subtle about it.

[-] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

It's not subtle but there exists a not insignificant group of fascists who take it totally at face value.

I am guessing the same group of people who watched Starship Troopers and thought the Terran Federation were awesome. (I would say the book too but let's be honest, they never read it)

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Automatons want to free cyborgs from being enslaved, bugs are like ISIS, super earth puts them in planets to justify attacking the planet

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Everyone is the bad guys, while simultaneously thinking they're the good guys.

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