{"id":83126,"date":"2024-08-11T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/helldivers-2-is-flailing-and-more-of-the-weeks-gaming-takes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T19:18:56","slug":"helldivers-2-is-flailing-and-more-of-the-weeks-gaming-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/11\/helldivers-2-is-flailing-and-more-of-the-weeks-gaming-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 Is Flailing And More Of The Week&#8217;s Gaming Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 fuSEnv align--bleed js_marquee-assetfigure\" id=\"\" data-id=\"92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"false\" data-alt=\"An armored warrior wielding fire magic, a shirtless barbarian, a valkyrie, and a stealthy-looking rogue-like figure stand dramatically in official art from Abathor. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 fDJNBs has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-alt=\"An armored warrior wielding fire magic, a shirtless barbarian, a valkyrie, and a stealthy-looking rogue-like figure stand dramatically in official art from Abathor. \" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"false\" data-imagerights=\"other-license\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.3%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 hGpdBg\"><picture class=\"sc-epkw7d-0 jkuixZ\"><source media=\"(max-width: 49.94em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_965\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 63.69em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_1315\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 63.75em)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_1600\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An armored warrior wielding fire magic, a shirtless barbarian, a valkyrie, and a stealthy-looking rogue-like figure stand dramatically in official art from Abathor. \" data-chomp-id=\"92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-height=\"1080\" data-alt=\"An armored warrior wielding fire magic, a shirtless barbarian, a valkyrie, and a stealthy-looking rogue-like figure stand dramatically in official art from Abathor. \" data-anim-src=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,q_60,w_645\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879.jpg\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-7s1ndr-0 fPOdhF no-caption\">Illustration<!-- -->: <!-- -->JanduSoft<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/92e413f0a4aa59fb00fec884a0003879\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" data-lightbox=\"false\" data-alt=\"An armored warrior wielding fire magic, a shirtless barbarian, a valkyrie, and a stealthy-looking rogue-like figure stand dramatically in official art from Abathor. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"sc-r43lxo-1 cwnrYD\">\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">In a time of legend long past, when video games were still emerging from the primordial mists and magic still flowed through all things, there were games of ultimate power. These games didn\u2019t concern themselves with Italian plumbers or sad surrogate dads, but with fierce warriors who shirtlessly strode into battle, their muscles on glorious display, to cut down their foes with swords and prove themselves the strongest and manliest of all. I speak, of course, of barbarians. And though, in recent decades, games focused entirely on the heroic exploits of barbarians have been few and far between, we now find ourselves in the midst of a mini-renaissance of barbarian games! To quote the 1982 film <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em>, \u201c<span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/youtu.be\/Oo9buo9Mtos?si=ct8qc-L71YoFr2vb&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Oo9buo9Mtos?si=ct8qc-L71YoFr2vb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">That is good. That is good.<\/a><\/span>\u201d &#8211; Carolyn Petit <span><a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 erKGZM js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/kotaku.com\/abathor-volgarr-viking-barbarian-games-retro-1851614316&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/abathor-volgarr-viking-barbarian-games-retro-1851614316\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/helldivers-2-marvel-rivals-crush-house-1851618213\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration: JanduSoft In a time of legend long past, when video games were still emerging from the primordial mists and magic still flowed through all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}