We’re a little surprised that it needs to be said, but you know that you are the bad guys in Helldivers 2? Yes? If you didn’t know or still didn’t want to believe it, now the official confirmation comes from Arrowhead Game Studio’s chief creative officer and ex-CEO Johan Pilestedt.
First of all, Pilestedt drew a comparison to Star Wars and Stormtroopers, stating that Helldivers players are like soldiers of the Galactic Empire and states that it’s like they’re defending the Death Star every game. The statement came at a developer conference in Sweden.
Obviously we know that many understand the satirical side of Helldivers 2, inspired by the film Starship Troopers. Some, however, needed to think about it to understand it, as demonstrated for example by a post on Reddit from a few months ago in which a player – who was analyzing the lore – genuinely wondered if we were the bad guys in the situation.
Are We The Bad Guys?
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As you can see above, the user had asked: “I love this game and I’ve learned more about the history of Super Earth. And I have a question. Are… are we the bad guys? Why are we killing the Terminids? How did the cyborgs/automatons come about? Why did we start fighting the Illuminati? Are we the bad guys?”
To date, however, Arrowhead Game Studio had never officially responded to the question. Now we have official confirmation, for anyone who wants for some reason to believe that a galactic dictatorial regime indoctrinating its soldiers is the good thing about the situation.
