Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
Arrowhead continues to lean into the Joel thing, with a brave studio member entering the containment unit where the Helldivers 2 game master is kept in order to capture footage of the strange and elusive creature.
It's a nice piece of commitment to the bit on the existence of a literal Joel, or Joels, the game master who helps coordinate the story of Helldivers 2's galactic war by setting up the branching arcs of story events players fight through and incorporating the successes and failures of players like a tabletop dungeon master., and he affirmed that the collaborative storytelling of tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons was a major inspiration for Arrowhead.
Now, though, it seems like Joel—or, J.O.E.L.—is becoming something else. Something stronger, more powerful… stranger. Which is to say that it's developing the same godlike metaphysical power and psionic abilities that the rest of us who run tabletop roleplaying games every week do. Try not to rub it in everyone's face, Joel.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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