Am I the Only One Who Doesn't Like Any of the Helldivers 2 Factions?
Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions for the people here. I don't really play Helldivers 2 that much (I only have about 45 hours in the game). I really like HFY sci-fi and, in general, the idea of "humanity first" in sci-fi. That's what initially got me interested in Helldivers 2. The idea of a game where you can fight alongside your friends for humanity and "democracy" and establish human supremacy seemed interesting to me, even though I could tell from the trailer and the overall atmosphere that it was probably satire.
When I started playing and getting deeper into the lore, I realized that SE is just a fucking awful faction. There isn't even really any moral gray area here. It's pretty obvious that all the factions are bad, but SE is just the absolute bottom of the barrel. RP is fairly important to me in games, and I have absolutely no desire to play as SE because, ironically enough, they are basically an entirely anti-humanity faction. They literally kill their own people and have caused more harm to their own population than anyone else.
On the other hand, I don't really have any sympathy for the other factions either, except maybe the bugs. The Cyborgs absolutely annoy me and I have zero sympathy for them whatsoever (and no, it's not because they're supposedly socialist. They were never actually socialist, if I remember correctly, and in any case, that's never how I've viewed them). I feel similarly about the Illuminate. I understand that they're basically taking revenge on SE, but that doesn't make me support them or even feel sympathy for them. So I don't particularly like them either.
So in the end, I find myself not liking any of the factions at all. They're all pretty terrible, especially SE, which somehow manages to sink to an entirely new low. What especially puts me off are the people who unironically support SE and make these fucking unfunny jokes and spam things like "face the wall." So my question is: am I the only one who has run into this problem, or are there other people who feel the same way?
(Just to clarify, if you like any of these factions, I absolutely don't mean to offend you. This is purely my personal opinion, and I hope we can keep the discussion civil. Thank you.)