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This is what publishers don't understand. The successful live service games all have one thing in common; *people enjoy them* Live service takes _some_ effot to get right.

The last time I had this much fun playing a multiplayer game was Halo 2. I thought I had outgrown the ability to enjoy a game this much. 300 hours in. I've taken sick days at work to play, I've ditched beer night with the boys to play. Its addicting.

Renn might be the most underrated content creator on this site

He is back! My favourite little boy in the whole wide world! never stop man!

Many ask why is this Live Service game better than any other. The reason couldn't be simpler. When they were building this thing, it was a video game from day zero. A video game with a tiny mtx shop on the side. But when you look at pretty much 90%+ of all other live service "games", they aren't actual games, oh no. Those other "things" are just microtransaction stores, and the "game" that's bundled with it serves as marketing for its mtx store. So in other words, you're paying $70 for an mtx store that tries its hardest to give you an illusion of being a video game. Its fucking pathetic, and absolutely everyone should be trolling those titles across all social medias until they shut them down. The absolute filth of the industry.

8:26 Darudest sandstorms... I... appreciated that!

Sony banned sales of Helldivers 2 in the countries where PSN is not available. So no win after all.

Bro has to be the editor; been depressed and hard to smile and shi but I watch his work and I can crack up. War… thunder

The 'no item inventory' is a huge point that I never considered. The game is just gameplay and lobby. Sure you need to set up every mission, especially on high-tier difficulty, but even if you have preference load out, it still can work out pretty well without much thought. Fuck inventory management, number go up doesn't give everyone a sense of satisfaction.

Our precious fella. Glad to see some of my friends made it into this video!

I think the bots are the biggest hurdle to new players because experimentation is hard to do when there are "safer" overall options. that one clip with you and the friend shooting spears at gunships was funny cuz you had the laser cannon, which I think is the best anti gunship weapon in the game. 1-2 seconds on the thrusters and poof they come crashing down.

I have all the warbonds and nearly all of the store armors without expending anything other than buying the game. We need to protect helldivers 2 at all costs. On the funny side, once I had a charger activating and throwing a gas tank in my hands, my Helldiver automatically grabbed the tank lol

For something that was such a success, Sony really decided they wanted to stick their other foot in the grave for their live service hopes and dreams

One thing I'm scared of is that while these warbonds can technically be acquired for free, I don't know how new or returning player in 1-2 years can get all these items. I played for 100 hours and I'm kinda done with the game for a while, I'll return next year to see what's going on and I'll probably have 12 different battlepasses waiting for me which could take me another year to grind super credits or 120 dollars which is not great. They should make every pass free except the latest 3 and when a new one releases, another becomes free and so on.

I love your opening gag wordplay. You have a great patter and a pleasant alliterative way of speaking that I just love.

Severely underrated channel. Keep up the work mr renn

I've actually always loved the concept of live service games, but so many drop the ball that I think it's poisoned the term. I'm just glad Helldivers 2 is showing people you can do it right.

Love your reviews man

Fantastic game

Thank you for sharing your joy!

Been waiting for this 1

44 seconds ago is wild. Nice to be an early bird for a Rennsreviews video!

The community manager didnt do jack THEY were the one attacking the playerbase AND banning them as they please

I love this game so much. I went out my way to buy a whole gaming PC just for it… it’s like the best of LEFT 4 DEAD, halo:odst solo or coop missions, metal gear solid V, starship troopers, & Terminator 2… with a tiny bit of war hammer sprinkled on top. what MORE COULD YOU WANT?!? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!?

Warframe can be fun...if you like a game that's just grinding and that's really it. Grinding for weapon levels, Warframe levels and grinding for materials to make more weapons and Warframes to then level. That's pretty much the entire game.

Just got this and I gotta say I’m loving it. You’re dead on about it being easy for a new player to pickup especially cuz I’m a dinosaur and pretty much the only online FPS I play is CS but I’m catching on pretty fast.

Ooooo my favorite little boy making a video about one of my favorite new games

Have you ever played a game were you killed your teammate with a huge bomb, gave him a hug and kept playing ? Welcome to Helldivers II.

mannn ur videos always go sooooo hard keep going pls thank you ! ! ! ! !

This is another video done right! 👍

Luke was just using corpo bs marketing speech. My old workplace did the same at some point. We are streamlining the login process, they said. Instead of just inputting your password and pressing enter, now we require you to use our vpn, which still requires you to use the login page. So, they streamlined by adding a step. You can't make this shit up.

Love the vid

That thumbnail is a BANGER

Fun fact about the bugs: all the spewers and bile titans all deal exclusively explosive damage with their vomit acid!!

I feel like the clip of them using the resupply to kill the bile titan isn’t getting enough praise

Your channel is so underappreciated

When I got to helldive, my solution for chargers was getting a bigger gun 😂

Honestly i find it amazing that renn's is incredibly skilled at video games in general

samples are only obtainable on the harder difficulties, anything less that difficulty 5 or 6 and you can only get 2 rare samples, and 10-20 of a rarity you don't need

I've found that Whitfield automatons, if you shoot in the gap where you can see their face, they will stagger and drop their shield so you can hit their body. At least if your using a shotgun

"Nobody is passionate about playing a bad game" *looks to the distance, where the F76 players live*

I personally think helldiver 1 is a much better designed game compared to helldiver 2. Especially in term of loadout and tactic, even if some weapon do outperform other.

The ad transition was so good lol feels like ur going to war....THUNDER 😂 ad aside well done video and 100% correct

Hulks and tanks you can also shoot out their legs/treads to slow/immobilize them. The Hulks die if you get both legs shot out.

Okay, this video has helped me understand a vital component about some of my favorite videogames that I've been wondering for over a decade. Why have I found that some games have a great online fanbase with very friendly players, while others have the most insane toxicity you can imagine in such common instances? Bear in mind I'm talking generalities and personal experience and there isn't a single theory that answers this question, but more like a bunch of reasons that gather to make more positive, kinder player bases and interactions. My long running theory was that PVP makes a game much more likely to be toxic for a start. I take monster hunter and deep rock galactic as good examples of fanbases where co-operation and advice has been common in my experience. Whereas online PVP shooters tend to be some of the worst environments online gaming has ever had to offer. A second one is that having good methods of communication and information sharing help hugely. Again, deep rock galactic has one of the best features for this in the laser pointer tool. Even without a mic, anyone can point at a rock that needs mining and say "look, over here!" or warn of a big enemy stomping around that others should focus on. It's not infallible, and doesn't compare to discord voice call outs etc, but it doesn't need to. I can jump into a game with randoms and expect at least some co-operation. Compare this to any team v team shooter where you get bullied in a voice call, and I think anyone can agree with me that deep rock's community is much more likely to be positive overall than a rainbow six siege, or overwatch. The new requisite your video has made me add on is about difficulty and AI. Difficulty and smart enemies that require inventive solutions have a habit of uniting a playerbase, even when co-op isn't really involved. Most people who fought malenia in elden ring when it released were playing solo, at least until they got tired of her and wanted to win. Everyone remembers the united frustration at her fight, and the memes that came out from it. I also have always remembered a sense of community in monster hunter since my first entry played, 3U. The player base at the time I played it was so small that I recognized randoms who were regular and had an informal group of people I would play with without ever using voice chat or discord. In my opinion, people who really love a game tend to have a respect for other players of the game, especially when you can see their hours and have similar time committed to the game like them. When you were at G-rank and doing endgame stuff, you knew how much time it took to get that account and every other person at that stage in the game had committed the same time to the game. The comparison I make is it's like a less serious form of getting your driving liscence. It's a time-consuming process, respect on the road should come naturally for most drivers because everyone else out there has made that effort to be able to drive too. Of course, the risk of death or accident helps inspire respectful driving too, but still. That respect breaks apart when the game doesn't have much detail or interesting play in it. People start to disrespect the game and see it as a waste of time, therefore not caring for the rest of players they meet and making their time worse too. Depth and interactivity are vital to keeping people engaged and the playerbase overall welcoming. You respect new players too for the fight they have ahead to learn to deal with specific difficult enemies or scenarios. AI emodies that. Players talk about specific enemies in games like they're people and sympathize with other players for having to put up with the same shit they've dealt with having to learn.

I am happy that the gaming community was able to make a big company change their mind for the best, also to avoid future worst and more impactful choices on the same line, but I also think people overreacted. I understand that the psn account linking was a problem and I don't want to be discriminatory in any way, but most of the countries without psn coverage are dictatorships, failed states or third world states where the population lives below the poverty line without internet connection. I think not being able to play Helldivers 2 is the least of their problems

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Solid review. Im not here for a solid review of a game thats been out this long.. you forgot to put in the funny stuff

Great video dude, was a ton of fun playing with ya! Can’t wait to see what’s next!

this game seems like it would be fun in small doses, if you're playing with friends.

Babe wake up, new RennsReviews.

Warframe has gotten better with guiding new players IMO. I started it in 2014 and had no clue what I was doing for a good 50 hours. Wouldn’t have played it if I had been “forced” to because of not being able to afford PS+.

I agree! Love the game more than anything

RENN! MY BABY BOY! I LOVE YOU!

I've played the first Helldivers a lottt and I loved to play it on my psVita, it was very wholesome to meet people there. So I'm happy the sequel has the same energy as the first one, hopefully I will try it soon when I get the budget to buy a ps5. For liberty, keep spreading democracy boys!

Great success story. Havnt played it, some videos look a bit cluttered and some areas are way too dark to see anything. But for an underdog to just go into live service and get compared to Destiny is a great W :) Lets see how long they can resist paywalling content...

5:12 I wouldn't call fortnite overwhelming. I love how much it changes if you do like a season just ignore it for a couple months. The main problem is the sweats/competitive players who play every day 5 hours straight which is an issue that happens to most pvp games.

My absolute favorite game

I have a friend that runs this in 800x600p on a rx vega 10just to spread democracy with the bois. Its that good!

i just cant get behind a game that wants to log my keystrokes

This is an awesome game. However, I feel like it would be better if you could press A to double jump. Never forget. Ok beyond that, I'd love to see a video on BG3 and (or) Dragon's Dogma 2. I feel like these were two hyped released that are similar, but are very different. I finished BG3 (finishing a game is a HUGE deal for me) and started dragon's dogma 2. And while Dragon's Dogma 2 is a bit rough sometimes, I LOVE the combat in it.

Helldivers 2 is fun but it’s content is just bland right now. They need to bring more variety. It’s not my favorite game but it’s definitely in my top 5.

Renny with a positive review yay! Love hearing ya gush about stuff ya love. Want more of this so I can check out new stuff 😌

Wasn’t this video called “a live service worth living for”? Or am I tripping?

Hi Renn

Renns should hit up Biggest Problem In The Universe!!

you GOTTA clean the pc spiders dont go in there

26:15 "my first crush"

there are 180 countries still unable to buy helldivers 2, yup sony add 3 more countries... maybe we should stick it to sony once again...

Exept you're wrong on the Spitz thing. He didn't do anything but be toxic. It's a good thing he got fired.

man this game is so good i wish majority of the fucking world can buy it

1:48 okay, that was actually incredible, no jokes, I am beyond impressed

The battlefield is too violent of an environment for a sweet baby boy like Renn.

I'm really curious about what your thoughts would be on Warframe.

DID I JUST WITNESS RENNS COMMIT THEFT

Damn i was excited af only to find out its not on xbox. Bruuuh. Great video tho as always

Nice ship name, mine is Lord of Benevolence

Posting a comment to boost up Renns positive reviews

War Thunder is the only live service I've enjoyed. And it does what all life services should do, not charge an upfront cost.

The war bounds (Season) stay that for ever.. are you taking notes destiny? ARE YOU?

I wanted to buy the games in late May, when i will have more free time. But now i cant even buy the game

DEPRESSTINY 2

Seems like Helldivers 2 has a lot in common with Genshin Impact. Though It does still seem like Genshin has a way higher rate of high quality permanent content release.

great video BUT the 180 countries are still unable to purchase the game on steam. o sit looks like our battle ins not over.

Welp, someone finally convinced me to buy this game. But only because it doesn't have FOMO if I can't play every second of the day to grind for levels or gear. Can't wait to try it out, thanks Renn!

I think sony still cut off the game from those countries anyways, Its been delisted off steam for those 170ish countries

29:50 Spitz's stink is a little bit over that. He escalated the situation in those first few hours stating players can obey or leave, and a PSN account is no more that 120 sec and people are crying (which he later kinda apologized that he didn't know other countries' players can't do that, interesting of him being CM), and this act of "go bomb bratha" happened afterwards. I don't know his left is a result of this or that, but either way he doesn't fit the job of CM well in all those acts he did before. It's still a little bit sad to see him kicked out instead of moved to other seats in AH.

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I love that thumbnail and title, they work so well together, and I'm not even going to watch the video, just came to comment this.

I think the reason Arrowhead can and has pushed out so much content so fast is a combination of advanced planning (i suspect they have a minimum of the first year's content completely planned out and ready/in-development), and not focusing to heavily on balance. Most stuff on release seems to have been developed from the point of view of "what would be FUN?" instead of "will this break the game?" which is both more fun for the players (the objective of a GAME) and also way easier. Destiny 2 constantly has to balance, rebalance, and re-rebalance ALL of its gear because of competitive PvP and PvE. Divinity is too strong and a must have for raiding? gotta nerf it. Warlocks only get to play Well because its the most unique and useful tool they have? nerf it. W-key + Shotgun is too strong in Crucible? You guessed it: NERF. having fun with bugged out loot rain? Can't have that, our play-time numbers will tank! Its all about balance and business, but last I checked, video games are GAMES. You don't play dodgeball with the Boys because it makes money or because Steve wants an ego boost, its because dodgeball is FUN. If games are fun, they will bring in money, and play-time, and new fans. Focus on that, and your game just might turn out like BG3, Warframe, Deep Rock, or Helldivers.

I love how teams cover eachothers weaknesses. Like I primarily have a shield pack and quasar cannon so I can get rid of chargers and damage bike titans, two of my buddies are light to medium control with flame throwing or air burst and the last one is for heavy artillery it makes it so everyone has their role and everyone has fun doing it

8:27 fork u renn

We should boycott playstation for firing spitz too

Love the enthusiasm, but I still do not support live service financially.

so good! highlighting ease of admission without worrying about being overwhelmed/unsure of what to do, variety of enemies and thoughtful/engaging combat changes with difficulty increase instead of the stale harder to kill/less damage done model, and awesome clip choices to show that your inventiveness is rewarded. Thanx renn.

took me 3 times to try to get into destiny... had to do so much god dam research, ultimately gave up, this is a looter shooter done right!

Sony was so nice giving you a weekend to work on your awesome video 😊

7:27 Minimal UI?