• Blizzard@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.

    As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft. So no one is really “replicating Helldivers narrative” here.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      5 months ago

      This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.

      spot on

      As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft.

      !?? I read Heinlein’s Starship Troopers in the early 80s lol, not sure you meant that the way it reads. ST the book and subsequent verhooven movie were not inspired by Starcraft.

      • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 months ago

        Holy shit! I had no idea it was based on a book! The movie really looked like StarCraft without the Protoss. So the rabbit whole goes even deeper, good to know.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 months ago

          the book is fantastic but doesn’t really emphasize a lot of the fun themes you’ll find in the film. worth a read, it’s short af.