When you leave a mission in Helldivers 2, in a squad, feeling exhausted, because the five minutes it took to extract were the most harrowing Benny Hill bullshit you've ever experienced, being relentlessly chased by a conga line of giant exoskeleton-sized Terminators with Chainsaws For Arms
I don't feel badass. I feel like we barely scraped through and it was hilarious. Getting mortar'd by my own men is fucking hilarious. Constantly walking into our own minefield. Getting squashed by drop pods. Ragdolling off a ridiculous dive. Instantly vaporizing the head of a squadmate because he strafed into my line of machine gun fire.
The punchline of the satire is in the gameplay, and I think it works.